First-season sires represented with chances for first top-flight success at HQ

Britain's first two juvenile Group 1s of the season at Newmarket on Saturday provide golden opportunities for new sires to make a breakthrough into the big time.

Richard Fahey's likely favourite Perfect Power is bidding to cap an excellent first season for Overbury Stud's freshman sire Ardad in the Middle Park Stakes, having already registered at the highest level in the Prix Morny, while his first-season peers Caravaggio and Profitable could yet make their mark in the grade with a chance apiece in the preceding Cheveley Park.

Kildangan Stud resident Profitable is another to have got off to a fine start, with Queen Mary Stakes heroine Quick Suzy and Curragh Stakes winner Head Mistress among his 23 individual scorers to date, and would seem to have an outside chance of producing an even bigger third black type winner courtesy of Thunder Love.

Bred by Mickley Stud, Thunder Love was picked up for just 13,000gns by Joanna Morgan from the Tattersalls December Foal Sale before selling to Robson Aguiar for £18,000 at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

A two-time winner for Amo Racing and trainer George Boughey, she was not beaten far on her most recent start when fifth in the Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster.

Profitable: represented by Thunder Love in the Cheveley Park StakesCredit: Darley Europe

Caravaggio's representative, Tenebrism, is an eyecatching inclusion despite not being sighted since her encouraging debut win at Naas in March.

The March-born filly was the first winner for her sire, who relocated to Ashford Stud from Ireland last October and has been responsible for three black type winners this term including Debutante Stakes victress and Moyglare Stud Stakes second Agartha among a healthy supply of first-crop winners.

Bred by the Merriebelle Stables, Orpendale, Chelston and Wynatt, and owned by a Coolmore partnership, the filly does not lack for pedigree either given she is out of the two-time winning Group 1 miler Immortal Verse, a daughter of Pivotal who subsequently sold for a cool 4,700,000gns to BBA Ireland at the 2017 Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

Second-season sires out for glory

A handful of second-season sires chasing that landmark win are represented too, among them are Derrinstown Stud's Markaz, whose Cheveley Park runner and value purchase Corazon bids to add further Group-race lustre to the pair's fledgling CVs.

Picked up by the shrewd Nick Bradley for £11,000 from Cooneen Stud at last year's Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale, Corazon provided her sire - who has been standing for a fee of €3,000 - with his first Group winner in the Prix d'Arenberg before following up with a fine third in the Flying Childers and is already his highest-rated product to date.

Albany and Duchess of Cambridge Stakes scorer Sandrine is at the opposite end of the scale in showcasing the diversity of this year's fields.

A homebred of Kirsten Rausing's Lanwades Stud and the daughter of Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint scorer Bobby's Kitten and Seychelloise, a winning daughter of Pivotal and the Group 3-winning Oasis Dream mare Starlit Sands, she sits alongside Juddmonte's leading contender Sacred Bridge as a product of the leading owner-breeder operations.

Sandrine: dual Group-winning daughter of Lanwades Stud resident Bobby's KittenCredit: Harry Trump

Whitsbury Manor Stud resident Adaay is another sophomore sire who stuck his name on the Group-winning scoresheet when Con and Theresa Marnane's Have A Good Day was another to enjoy the French seaside in the Prix de Cabourg.

The French-trained raider journeys across for the fillies' showpiece while recent Champagne Stakes third Twilight Jet would be providing Cheveley Park's respected speed source Twilight Son with a second Group winner and fourth black type scorer overall if he defied his outsider odds in the Middle Park.

Kodi Bear has proved a revelation with two Group 1 performers this season in the Cazoo Oaks second Mystery Angel and Phoenix Stakes third Go Bears Go, the latter aiming to go two better in the Middle Park to provide Rathbarry Stud's son of Kodiac with a top-level success that will surely come at some stage.

The Micheal Ryan-bred colt was picked up for £50,000 by Aguiar Bloodstock from Al Eile Stud at Tattersalls Ireland as a yearling and was subsequently knocked down to Alex Elliott and Amo Racing for 150,000gns at the Craven Breeze-Up Sale.

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