Siblings to stakes winners aplenty as maidens are order of day on Newbury card

There are just the four maidens to start Newbury’s Sunday card, and arguably they get progressively more interesting from a pedigree perspective as we go along.

The ten-furlong maiden for three-year-olds fillies (3.21 - a ridiculous time really but there you go) contains several newcomers of note, and one could nose on any number of them.

Atlantis is something a bit different at least, as she races in the colours of Craig Bernick and Harry McCalmont.

Bred by Kirsten Rausing and the Tsui family’s Sunderland Holding, she was a 260,000gns buy from the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale of 2020, signed for by De Burgh Equine and Norelands Stud,

The filly is by the Tsui family’s great Sea The Stars out of Rausing’s Alla Speranza, winner of the Group 3 Kilternan Stakes on the track and producer of Group 2 winner Shine So Bright (to Oasis Dream) and to the Listed-placed Amboseli (Kingman). Atlantis is trained by the Gosdens and the mount of Frankie Dettori.

Likely market leader, purely based on the Charlie Appleby-William Buick powerhouse, is Life Of Dreams, a Godolphin homebred by Dubawi out of seven-time winner Endless Time, whose victories featured the Lancashire Oaks and Lillie Langtry Stakes. The filly is her first foal.

Others who catch the eye are Philip Newton’s homebred Flora Macdonald, a close relation to Mekong, Anthony Oppenheimer’s Pawapuri, a half-sister to the Group-placed Sicilia, and our most esteemed reader’s homebred Perfect Alibi. The Queen’s filly is by Le Havre out of her Listed River Eden Fillies’ Stakes winner Daphne.

In the second division of the seven-furlong fillies’ maiden for three-year-olds (2.46, no comment), Lady Eros takes the eye as a $345,000 purchase from the Keeneland January Mixed Sale in 2020.

The filly has been subsequently withdrawn from the Book 1 yearling sale and the Arqana breeze-up at Doncaster, and finds herself carrying the colours of the emerging David Howden.

By War Front out of Speightstown’s unraced daughter Agreeable Miss, she is with the Gosdens and the mount of Cieren Fallon.

In the first division (2.11), Lady Bamford’s homebred One Morning, by Gleneagles out of prolific producer All’s Forgotten, is closely related to Gan Amhras, who was third to Sea The Stars in the 2,000 Guineas, Group 3 Bahrain Trophy winner Shantaram, and Listed winners Forever Now and To Eternity - all four of those by Galileo.

Another who catches the eye, as much for her name, is The Notorious Rbg. We know about The Notorious BIG but whether Rachel Hood’s homebred filly has any talent will become a little clearer on Sunday afternoon.

By Iffraaj, she is out of Mainstay, which makes her a half-sister to Hungerford Stakes winner Richard Pankhurst and Horris Hill winner Crazy Horse.

Switching codes, and also worth noting in the bumper at Fairyhouse (5.25), is Instant Tendance, whose half-brother Earlofthecotswolds, by Axxos, was one of the most notable winners on Good Friday. He scored at Newcastle for the very much jumps-oriented Twiston-Davies yard to spark thoughts of going for the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot.

Dam Sissi Land, by Grey Risk, is a good one for she has also produced Good Risk At All, to No Risk At All, a smooth winner at Ascot in February who can do better at Grade 1 level than he managed at Aintree this month.

Her latest offspring to race is by Joshua Tree and is trained by Gordon Elliott for Caren Walsh, having been bought by Bobby O’Ryan for €125,000 at the Derby Sale last June, when offered by Brook Lodge Farm.

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