Best maites doing the talking for their dam and Roy Bowring

Misu's Maite may not have struck in two ordinary appearances on the racecourse but as a broodmare she can now boast two winners from as many foals of racing age, with a one-three for her progeny at Southwell this month.

Trained by Roy Bowring, the daughter of Free Handicap winner Misu Bond – also a Listed winner at two and fifth to George Washington in the 2,000 Guineas – was seventh and fourth at Nottingham and Southwell in 2013. Her second career has taken on more significance thanks to the Bowring-bred, owned and trained pair of Jeans Maite and Hiya Maite.

She is the sole broodmare for Bowring, whose racing strike-rate reads an impressive 67 per cent thanks to Hiya Maite's near four-length score at Southwell on Tuesday. At that same track the previous Friday, the four-year-old had finished third to his older half-sister.

On how he came to breed from Misu's Maite, the trainer said: "We were originally looking for a companion for the mare we'd got, but he got her and raced her and then bred from her after she got a leg.

"She's bred those two and we've got three more, one is a two-year-old who won't run until he's three, while she's also got a yearling filly and a foal."

Hiya Maite in winning form at Newcastle in NovemberCredit: Grossick Racing

Her first foal, Jeans Maite, is already the winning-most progeny by the Shadwell-bred Burwaaz with seven wins to her name after her victory last week. The Group 2-placed son of Exceed And Excel now stands at Longford House Stud in Ireland and has sired a handful of winners from few runners, although his daughter has flown the flag with three scores alone in 2022. She could attempt to make that four as she is entered back at Southwell on Tuesday.

Jeans Maite's half-brother, the two-years younger Hiya Maite, is another by a cheaper-priced stallion, this time the Swedish-based Heeraat who started duties at Mickley Stud in 2015 after a racing career that included a win in the Hackwood Stakes for William Haggas and Hamdan Al Maktoum.

The Nottinghamshire-based Bowring said of the duo's characters: "They're good to deal with, although Jeans Maite can sometimes sweat up a bit, but she's won seven races now.

"I'm not too happy as she won by half a length the other day [under apprentice Jordan Williams] but for me it was a neck and she was then put up four pounds. If you'd put a non-claiming jockey on it would be nine pounds, it kills you but that's the way handicapping works."

Despite Jeans Maite's misfortune at the hands of the handicapper, Bowring is looking to continue the family's dynasty and now plans to cover her this upcoming breeding season.

He said: "We're probably going to breed from Jeans Maite this year and we're looking for a suitable stallion. Hiya Maite beat not a lot over three and a half lengths last time but he'll be put up quite a bit after that."

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