Commissioning continues red-hot run for Kingman in Rockfel Stakes

Results have been coming in at just the right time for vendors of Kingman yearlings in the autumn sales with Juddmonte's stallion responsible for both juvenile Group winners in the first two days of Newmarket's Cambridgeshire meeting.

Juddmonte's strapping homebred Nostrum was the first to show his promise, maintaining his unbeaten record for the Sir Michael Stoute yard in Thursday's Tattersalls Stakes.

It was the turn of the fillies in the Al Basti Equiworld, Dubai Rockfel Stakes on Friday and Commissioning, trained by John and Thady Gosden, also now has flawless form from two starts so far.

They are the 31st and 32nd Group winners from Kingman's five crops of racing age, with Kinross (Park Stakes) and Mrs Fitzherbert (Prix Bertrand de Tarragon) also on the mark for him this month.

Group 1 targets have been mentioned during the autumn for the pair and, with the Classics in mind, both ought to have claims for Kingman to add another keynote victory to his name following the French Guineas triumph of Persian King two years ago.

Nostrum had looked a high-end prospect in the Tattersalls StakesCredit: Edward Whitaker

Nostrum is the third black-type earner to have emerged from his dam, Mirror Lake, who was a very smart middle-distance mare trained by Amanda Perrett. She has already produced Group 2-winning Australian miler Imaging, by Oasis Dream.

Commissioning, meanwhile, has plenty of durability in her pedigree too if she is to follow illustrious past Rockfel winners such as Speciosa, Finsceal Beo and Just The Judge. She is a homebred for Shaikh Isa Salman and Abdulla Al Khalifa out of the Galileo mare Sovereign Parade, a 480,000gns Tattersalls Book 1 purchase by John Warren.

Although a maiden in two starts, Sovereign Parade is a full-sister to the Irish Derby and St Leger winner Capri as well as the likes of Passion and Cypress Creek, from a family that features the top miler Diamond Green.

Highclere Stud had a half-brother to Commissioning by Fastnet Rock engaged in Book 2 next month but he has been withdrawn.

A busy day of black type racing around the world had ramifications for another European giant in Sea The Stars.

The Gilltown Stud resident reached the mark of 100 individual stakes winners through a double kicked off by Desert Icon, a 210,000gns Tattersalls purchase out of the William Haggas yard by Chris Waller two years ago, claiming the Group 3 Steamatic JRA Cup at Moonee Valley in Australia.

His three-year-old daughter, Godolphin homebred Life In Motion, later lifted the Listed Prix Coronation at Saint-Cloud.

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