20th Group 1 winner for Frankel as Inspiral cements star status in Fillies' Mile

Inspiral not only cemented her credentials for the 2022 Classics but added another layer of icing to Frankel's phenomenal year when maintaining her unbeaten record in the bet365 Fillies' Mile at Newmarket on Friday.

Cheveley Park Stud's homebred had previously sauntered to success in a Newmarket maiden before her first stakes win in the Star Stakes at Sandown - defeating subsequent Canadian Grade 1 winner Wild Beauty by three and three-quarter lengths - and then adding another easy win in the May Hill Stakes at Doncaster last month.

The two-year-old is the 20th individual Group/Grade 1 winner to date for Banstead Manor Stud's dual world champion and an eighth top-level winner this year for her sire. Her victory in the Fillies' Mile added an extra £283,550 to Frankel's standing at the top of the British/Irish and European sires' tables.

The son of Galileo has been responsible for English and Irish Derby winners in Adayar and Hurricane Lane, who went on to win the King George, Grand Prix de Paris and Leger between them - as well as Falmouth Stakes scorer Snow Lantern, dual German Group 1 heroine Alpinista, Australian Oaks heroine Hungry Heart, Australian juvenile winner Converge and the aforementioned Wild Beauty.

Frankel: Banstead Manor Stud superstar leads the way in the sire standingsCredit: Darren Tindale

Frankel's latest Group 1 winner is the second to have landed the Fillies' Mile for the champion sire-in-waiting, having also produced Juddmonte homebred Quadrilateral to win the race in 2019.

Other top-level scorers by Juddmonte's supersire include European and joint-world champion Cracksman, Japanese Oaks winner Soul Stirring, fellow Japanese star Mozu Ascot, St James's Palace Stakes winner Without Parole, Falmouth Stakes winner Veracious and top French stayer Call The Wind.

Inspiral is the fourth foal out of the winning Selkirk mare Starscope, who was second in both the 1,000 Guineas and Coronation Stakes for Inspiral's joint-trainer John Gosden in 2012.

Starscope, who has produced three further winners in the Listed-placed Dansili colt Celestran, Intello mare Astrologer and Dansili filly Lunar Corona, is a half-sister to stakes winner Solar Magic and is out of a half-sister to Medicean, winner of the Coral-Eclipse and Queen Anne Stakes and former Cheveley Park Stud resident.

The 12-year-old Starscope produced a colt by Siyouni this year and was subsequently covered by Cheveley Park's promising first-season sire Ulysses.

Gosden said of Inspiral: “She is one to put away for next year. It is great for the owner-breeders with Pat Thompson [of Cheveley Park Stud] here. It is very fulfilling for owner-breeders to have fillies of this quality.”

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