Sydneyarms Chelsea raises a toast to Sioux Nation in Prix Six Perfections

Filly was the first-season sire's maiden stakes winner

Sioux Nation now has a Group winner on his first-season recordsCredit: Coolmore

Sioux Nation, who is Havana Grey's nearest pursuer among British and Irish first-season sires, now has his own stakes winner on the board through the victory of Sydneyarms Chelsea in the Group 3 Prix Six Perfections at Deauville on Tuesday.

With 20 winners around the world so far, the Coolmore stallion is ticking along quite nicely as a top-class two-year-old talent himself who took both the Norfolk and the Phoenix Stakes for Aidan O'Brien.

A Newbury maiden scorer who was fifth in the Albany at Royal Ascot for Charlie Hills and a partnership between Cornthrop Bloodstock and her eponymous smart London pub, Sydneyarms Chelsea is also something of a bargain buy.

She was picked up for just £9,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale by Blandford Bloodstock from Grange Hill Stud.

Sydneyarms Chelsea is the second foal out of maiden-winning Tamayuz mare Wedding Dress, a half-sister to the French Listed-placed Delhi.

Ante-post favourite to be this year's leading first-season sire with 161 two-year-olds, Sioux Nation was off the mark at the first attempt in late March through Ocean Quest at the Curragh and had already had three stakes or Group-placed progeny in Kinta, Matilda Picotte and Lakota Sioux. He has been standing for €10,000 this season.

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Published on 2 August 2022inNews

Last updated 14:25, 2 August 2022

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