The joy of a Juddmonte mare purchase advertised again by Daahyeh

Juddmonte drafts at horses in training and breeding stock sales are always a popular port of call for other breeders, as they know fillies and mares from Khalid Abdullah's operation carry high-class bloodlines carefully nurtured by experts over several generations.

In recent years the likes of Oaks heroine Forever Together, whose dam Green Room was originally bought from Juddmonte for 20,000gns, and dual Australian Cup winner Harlem, whose dam Casual was a 130,000gns cast-off, have advertised the approach and on Friday it was showcased once again on the biggest stage in Flat racing as Daahyeh ran out a decisive winner of the Group 3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

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Daahyeh, trained by Roger Varian for Sheikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, was being carried in-utero when former Oakgrove Stud manager Tim Lane bought her dam Affluent for just 35,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale of 2016. The nature of the bargain is magnified by the fact that the cover by Bated Breath that produced the exciting filly was worth £10,000 on its own.

Juddmonte's reasons for culling Affluent are not hard to see, as she had been of little luck to them, with her first foal Aspirant (by Rail Link) winning a low-grade handicap and two sellers and her second and third foals, a colt by Zamindar and a filly by Pivotal, both dying at two.

However, Lane – now director of the National Stud – clearly felt the mare's top-notch pedigree made her worth taking the gamble on. Her catalogue page showed she is an Oasis Dream half-sister to three stakes winners in Deportivo, Irish Vale and So Beloved, with Deportivo also scoring at Royal Ascot in the Balmoral Handicap.

Bated Breath: Banstead Manor Stud sire is now source of seven stakes winnersCredit: Juddmonte

Those siblings are out of Valencia, a placed Kenmare half-sister to four black-type winners including Wandesta, who landed three Grade 1s in the US, and Group 2 scorer and Coronation Cup third De Quest. Valencia is a maternal granddaughter of Juddmonte foundation mare Peace, ancestress of elite winners Byword, Continent, Midships, Proviso, Temida and Zambezi Sun.

Oakgrove Stud made a quick profit on its purchase by selling Daahyeh, whose foaling was overseen by Lane's successor David Hilton, to Oliver St Lawrence for £75,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale and John Deer's operation owns an Al Kazeem yearling colt and a Ribchester colt foal out of the mare, who now obviously holds significantly higher value.

Daahyeh becomes a seventh stakes winner for Bated Breath, who stood this year at Juddmonte's Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket at a fee of £10,000, and a second scorer at Royal Ascot this week after Biometric mowed down Turgenev to take the Britannia Stakes.

Bated Breath's other stars include Group 2 winners Beckford and Worth Waiting and Listed scorers Feel Glorious, Maid In India, Simply Breathless and Vik The Billy.

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