First stakes winner for Hot Streak as Flaming Princess scores in Deauville

Hot Streak has become the latest of this year's European freshman sires to supply a debut stakes winner, with his classy daughter Flaming Princess taking the Listed Prix Cavalassur over five furlongs at Deauville on Saturday.

Trained by Richard Fahey for the Cool Silk Partnership, Flaming Princess won a Nottingham maiden on debut and then ran seventh in the Queen Mary Stakes and eighth in the Princess Margaret Stakes.

She relished the drop in class in France to defeat the Richard Hannon-trained Kemble (by Kodiac) by one and a half lengths.

Flaming Princess was bred by Linacre House Stud and is the first foal out of the placed Marju mare Qatar Princess, who achieved a best Racing Post Rating of 71 for finishing third in a six-furlong Windsor maiden.

What Qatar Princess lacked in racecourse performance she made up for in pedigree, though, as Marju has proved an influential broodmare sire – other daughters have produced the likes of Canford Cliffs, Marsha and Ribcheseter – and she is a half-sister to German 1,000 Guineas winner and US Grade 1-placed Hawksmoor.

Qatar Princess and Hawksmoor's dam Bridal Dance has also produced Duchess of Cambridge Stakes second Magical Fire and recent Richmond Stakes third Royal Dornoch. Bridal Dance is in turn a Danehill Dancer half-sister to Grade 1 Manhattan Handicap runner-up Millennium Dragon.

Sadly, Qatar Princess has no yearling as her 2018 offspring by Vadamos died, but she has a filly foal by Gutaifan.

Flaming Princess is a fine flagbearer for Tattersalls Ascot sales, as she was sold by Linacre House Stud to Daniel Benson for £20,000 at the venue's yearling sale, and returned there to be sold by Dunsany Stables at the company's breeze-up sale, with Stroud Coleman Bloodstock the purchaser for £60,000 on behalf of Cool Silk on that occasion.

Hot Streak, a son of Iffraaj, was a rare high-class sprinter from the Height Of Fashion dynasty. He was a five-length winner of the Cornwallis Stakes and a half-length second in the Middle Park Stakes at two, and landed the Temple Stakes and ran third in the King's Stand Stakes at three.

He joined the Qatar Racing stallion roster at Tweenhills Farm and Stud at Gloucestershire upon retirement, and stood his fourth season there this year at a fee of £7,000.

Hot Streak has delivered six winners so far, with his other leading performers including close Anglesey Stakes fourth Between Hills and Windsor Castle Stakes fifth Illusionist.

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