Treble top! Modern Games completes terrific spell for broodmare Modern Ideals

Modern Games added the Emirates Poule d'Essai des Poulains to last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf success, completing a remarkable week for his dam, the New Approach mare Modern Ideals.

The chestnut colt had struck on his second start at Newmarket in July last year before adding a handicap event at Doncaster and then the Tattersalls Stakes back at headquarters before his adventures at Del Mar last November.

A Godolphin homebred through and through, Modern Games is out of Modern Ideals, a mare who was unplaced on her sole start for Andre Fabre but has proved an absolute revelation in her second career.

Her gelded Shamardal son Modern News added a first stakes success to his name with a clear-cut victory in the Royal Windsor Stakes on Monday, making it six wins from ten starts for Godolphin and Charlie Appleby.

The pair's half-sister Mawj then made an impressive winning debut for Saeed bin Suroor at Newmarket on Saturday, pulling clear to score by nearly five lengths, with the trainer indicating a trip to Royal Ascot could be on the agenda for the two-year-old daughter of Exceed And Excel.

Another half-sister, the winning Shamardal filly Feminism, sold to Jill Lamb for €370,000 at last season's Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale.

Modern Ideals is out of the placed Nashwan mare Epitome, making her a half-sister to Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere scorer and Haras du Logis sire Ultra, as well as Prix Minerve winner Synopsis.

Her dual top-level winning son is yet another flagbearer for Darley's supersire Dubawi, the stallion already responsible this season for the Newmarket 2,000 Guineas hero Coroebus.

Modern Ideals has a yearling filly by the late Mastercraftsman.

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