Read all about it! Newspaperofrecord has a fine European pedigree

A strong European contingent contested the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Churchill Downs on Friday but the race stayed at home as Newspaperofrecord made all and stormed to a wide-margin victory in the mile contest.

None of the Chad Brown-trained filly's rivals mounted a realistic challenge and East, the Frankel filly who topped the Goresbridge Breeze-Up Sale at €315,000 in May, ran on from the back of the field to finish second at a respectful distance.

Newspaperofrecord – who is now unbeaten in three starts, winning by a street each time – may have an American trainer and owners, but she holds an Irish suffix and has European roots.

She is by Ballylinch Stud flagbearer Lope De Vega, a son of Shamardal who landed the Poule d'Essai des Poulains and Prix du Jockey Club in his racecourse pomp and has supplied 50 stakes winners in his stallion career.

Newspaperofrecord becomes his seventh offspring to strike at the highest level, after Belardo, Capla Temptress, Jemayel, Santa Ana Lane, The Right Man and Vega Magic.

She was bred by Allan Belshaw's Times of Wigan operation and is the third foal out of Sunday Times, a daughter of Holy Roman Emperor who won the Group 3 Sceptre Stakes at three having finished a close second to Lightening Pearl in the Cheveley Park Stakes at two.

The dam has also produced this season's Listed Cecil Frail Stakes winner Classical Times – who started racing for Belshaw but became an ultra-rare in-training purchase by Juddmonte Farms – and the placed gelding Sportswriter. She also has a yearling filly by Gleneagles, was barren to Oasis Dream the following year and is back in foal to Churchill.

This family has been in flying form, as Sunday Times is a half-sister to the Listed-placed Question Times, the dam of this season's Irish Derby hero Latrobe.

Sunday Times and Question Times are out of the winning So Factual mare Forever Times, a half-sister to the prolific and high-class mudlark Welsh Emperor and the classy sprinters Brave Prospector and Majestic Times.

Forever Times and Welsh Emperor were among ten winners produced by Times of Wigan's foundation mare Simply Times, a daughter of the Mr Prospector stallion Dodge bought in the US on the advice of Bill O'Gorman – who had trained the owners' Timeless Times to win a record-equalling 16 races at two.

Belshaw's stock is housed at Richard and Sally Aston's Goldford Stud, an operation better known for its exploits with jumps stock having had the likes of Cue Card, Inglis Drever and Rule The World through its gates.

It was Goldford Stud that consigned Newspaperofrecord to Book 1 of last year's Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, when she was sold to Brown, on his first trip to the Newmarket auction house, and owner Klaravich Stables for 200,000gns.

Newspaperofrecord is a third winner at the highest level for Holy Roman Emperor as damsire, after Johannes Vermeer and Verbal Dexterity.

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