Tiffany sparkles in Baden Baden as Elite Racing unearth another diamond

Elite Racing Club have unearthed another diamond from a family that is as prolific at producing top-class winners as the seams in the Golconda mines. Tiffany, who won the Group 2 T von Zastrow Stutenpreis at Baden-Baden on Saturday is out of a half-sister to the brilliant Soviet Song and related to Group 1 winners Marsha and Ribbons.

The four-year-old Farhh filly is trained by Sir Prescott and has won a stakes race on each of her three trips to Germany with Saturday's Group 2 contest the highest level she has won at to date, although her owner-breeders have hopes of further glory for her.

"We've had great success with our homebreds and we very much hope that she will become our fourth individual homebred Group 1 winner," said a spokeperson for Elite. "Her main aim is the British Champions Filly and Mares Stakes at Ascot on Champions Day and nobody is better at carving out a path to that than Sir Mark Prescott, and we are fabulously excited about her."

If she were to be successful in her seasonal aim, the Farhh filly would become the fifth individual Group/Grade 1 winner from her immediate family, which has been a rich source of success for Elite Racing Club for more than two decades.

Her dam Affinity is a Sadler's Wells half-sister to the champion Soviet Song, victorious five times at the highest level including when defeating a field that included Nayyir, La Vie Dei Colori, Refuse To Bend and Haafhd in the Sussex Stakes 20 years' ago.

Tiffany is a homebred winner of the Group 2 T von Zastrow Stutenpreis for Elite RacingCredit: Racing Post/Aisling Crowe

Affinity is also a half-sister to Penzance, who won the Triumph Hurdle of 2005 for Elite and Alan King.

Another of her half-sisters, Sister Act, is the dam of Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet winner Ribbons while Affinity's Barathea three-parts sister Baralinka is the dam of Listed Prix des Reves d'Or winner Marlinka. Like Soviet Song and Sister Act, Marlinka is by Marju and she produced Marsha who provided Elite and its customers with their best day in the sales ring.

The Acclamation mare, who was trained like Tiffany by Sir Mark Prescott, was sold to MV Magnier for 6,000,000gns at the 2017 Tattersalls December Mare Sale following her victories in the Prix de l'Abbaye and the Nunthorpe Stakes.

Sadly Marsha died last year aged just ten but her two-year-old Frankel filly Tea Rose made her debut earlier in August for Aidan O'Brien and Coolmore and holds entries in the Fillies Mile and the Rockfel Stakes.

Affinity wasn't one of Elite's best on the track but she is turning into a reliable producer of black type performers for her owner-breeders. 

A winner at three for the late Sir Henry Cecil, she is the dam of five winners from six runner to date. In addition to the Group 2, Group 3 and Listed winning Tiffany she has foaled the Listed Fleur Du Lys second and Snowdrop Stakes third Zest by Duke Of Marmalade and the Italian Listed third Harmonica, who is by Fahh's sire Pivotal.

Affinity has a two-year-old daughter by Calyx named Petula and a yearling Bated Breath colt. She was covered by Mehmas this year.

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