Blue-blooded Toy set for Curragh debut in latest You'resothrilling chapter

Another chapter in the tale of mighty broodmare You'resothrilling is set to be told as her latest offspring, Toy, is set to debut for Aidan O'Brien and the Coolmore partners at the Curragh on Tuesday (12.40).

The two-year-old may not have seen a racetrack yet but she already holds immense residual value being a full-sister to four individual Group 1 winners from seven black-type performers, namely Gleneagles, Marvellous, Happily and Joan Of Arc.

Remarkably, all seven of You'resothrilling's foals to have made the track have picked up black type, with four Group 1 winners and six Group winners. The only one not to have won a Group race, Vatican City, was second in last year's Irish 2,000 Guineas to Siskin.

Gleneagles is arguably the daughter of Storm Cat's chart topper, having won the National Stakes at two before victories in two Guineas and the St James's Palace at three.

Now standing at Coolmore, the son of perennial champion sire Galileo had a breakthrough Group 1 winner this term when Ribblesdale Stakes heroine Loving Dreams struck in the Prix de Royallieu. Gleneagles is responsible for 27 stakes performers overall, including nine individual Group scorers.

Happily: dual Group 1 winnerCredit: Edward Whitaker

Marvellous proved more then up to her name with success in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, while Happily's brace of top-level triumphs came in the Moyglare Stud Stakes and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. She was also placed in the English and Irish 1,000 Guineas.

Joan Of Arc added further to family honour this year when winning the Prix de Diane, while multiple Group winner Taj Mahal was also second in the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes.

Toy's other siblings are Coolmore, a Group 3 winner who was also third in the Belmont Oaks, and the aforementioned Vatican City.

You'resothrilling was also no slouch on the track, winning the Cherry Hinton Stakes and placing second in the Albany Stakes for O'Brien and Coolmore.

The 16-year-old is a full-sister to the late 'Iron Horse' and Ashford Stud resident Giant's Causeway, as well as further black-type placed performers in Freud, Tumblebrutus and Tiger Dance. She is also a half-sister to the Group-placed Hanky Panky and Butterflies.

Among Toy's rivals are stablemate Ark, a Galileo full-sister to the black-type placed pair of High Heels and Facade, Hotter Than Hades, a Make Believe half-sister to the top-class Youmzain, Lockinge Stakes scorer Creachadoir, and Lavarack & Lanwades Stud Fillies Stakes winner Shreyas, and Scarlet Angel, a Mineshaft half-sister to Nell Gywn winner and 1,000 Guineas third Qabala.

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