Ten Sovereigns' year-older half-brother to start off in bumper

The concluding bumper at Fakenham on Friday could easily be mistaken for a Flat maiden as among the entries are two siblings to Group 1 winners on the level.

Both are four-year-old geldings, with Ed Vaughan sending out Trailboss, a High Chaparral half-brother to the reigning Middle Park Stakes winner Ten Sovereigns, and Dean Ivory saddling The Cruix, a Galileo full-brother to Belmont Derby Invitational scorer Deauville.

Trailboss - who is bred by Camas Park, Lynch Bages and Summerhill - was snapped up by Alex Elliott for the relatively small sum of 40,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, while the Fitri Hay-bred The Cruix was acquired by Graham Thorner for 5,000gns as last year's Tattersalls July Sale.

Friday 4.55 - Fakenham Maiden Open National Hunt Flat Race

The catalogue page for Trailboss in 2016 showed two placed siblings under his Listed-placed dam, the Exceed And Excel mare Seeking Solace.

Since then, Ten Sovereigns has burst on to the scene, winning a 25-runner maiden at the Curragh by seven lengths on debut last August and following up in the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes at the same course and the Middle Park at Newmarket. The son of No Nay Never is currently among the leading market fancies for the Qipco 2,000 Guineas.

A full-sister to Ten Sovereigns subsequently went the way of MV Magnier for 600,000gns at Book 1 last year.

The Cruix, meanwhile, changed hands as an unraced three-year-old half-brother to Deauville and Group 3 winner The Corsican, out of Grade 3 runner-up Walklikeanegyptian.

While Ivory and Vaughan are yet to saddle a bumper winner, Trailboss shares his sire High Chaparral with the Champion Chase winner Altior and The Cruix is by the same sire, Galileo, as Stayers' Hurdle hopeful Supasundae.

The pair will be joined in the race by Mr Stan, an unraced four-year-old Scorpion gelding trained by Nigel Twiston-Davies.

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