Catalogue updates galore through Group 1 glory for Blackbeard and Lezoo

Both of Britain and Ireland's top two sales companies could add Group 1 updates to their flagship yearling catalogues after the successes of Lezoo and Blackbeard on Newmarket’s Cambridgeshire card.

It was Lezoo who began proceedings in the Juddmonte Cheveley Park Stakes as she claimed a first-top level success from the first northern hemisphere crop of Zoustar, the classy Australian sprinter who has already made his mark at Widden Stud before his shuttling to Tweenhills began in 2019.

Lezoo was last knocked down to Kelsey Lupo’s Atlas Bloodstock at this year’s Arqana May Sale for €110,000, breezed by Tally-Ho Stud after Hamish Macauley signed her up at 77,000gns from the previous year’s Tattersalls Book 3.

She was bred by Chasemore Farm out of Roger Sez, a speedy filly herself who won the six-furlong Group 3 Firth of Clyde Stakes at Ayr.

Newstead Breeding's Blackbeard added the Middle Park to his Group 1 tallyCredit: Edward Whitaker

Roger Sez changed hands again last year and Highclere Stud will be offering Lezoo’s half-sister by Territories at Tattersalls Book 1 early next month.

Blackbeard, who doubled his Group 1 tally in the Middle Park Stakes following his earlier victory in the Prix Morny, was adding to the delight of bloodstock agent Jamie McCalmont, who was representing Lezoo’s owners Andrew Rosen and Marc Chan at Newmarket.

McCalmont had bought the Coolmore partners' Blackbeard as a foal from Tattersalls for 270,000gns when he was offered by Norelands. His dam, the winning Born To Sea mare Muirin, has a full-sister by Coolmore’s high-achieving sire to be offered by Glendale Stud at Tuesday’s first session of the Goffs Orby Sale.

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