Exciting prospect Sayidah Dariyan adds to late Dariyan's legacy with slick York display

Sayidah Dariyan is looking as if she might end up as the star representative of her late sire judged upon a power-packed performance in the Group 3 William Hill Summer Stakes at York.

The filly's father, Dariyan, died aged 12 just over a year ago after suffering from an illness. An Aga Khan homebred, he won the 2016 Prix Ganay and spent seven seasons at the operation's Haras de Bonneval before a brief switch to Haras du Mont Goubert.

The Shamardal stallion was out of Hong Kong Vase winner Daryakana, who is also responsible for one of the continent's most exciting new names in Daryz, the unbeaten winner of the Prix Eugene Adam by Sea The Stars, who is being considered for a shot at next month's Juddmonte International.

Sayidah Dariyan, a winner at up to conditions level prior to this in a valuable event at Chelmsford in April and fourth last time and just over a length behind Time For Sandals in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot, has risen above Group 3 Prix la Force winner Mister Saint as the stallion's best performer to date.

Bred by Yeomanstown Stud, she was bought for only £35,000 by her trainer Richard Hughes at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale and carries the colours of Jaber Abdullah. In accelerating clear in the last half furlong of the six under Billy Loughnane, the three-year-old has already taken her career earnings close to £140,000.

Sayidah Dariyan is closely related to French Group 2-winning sprinter Finsbury SquareCredit: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)

Yeomanstown acquired her dam, Tencaratrubieslace, for 45,000gns four years ago at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale when she was carrying this filly. She is a winning Siyouni sister to her owner-breeder Berend Van Dalfsen's crack French sprinter Finsbury Square.

Clive Cox trains Sayidah Dariyan's Supremacy two-year-old half-sister named Supreme Diamond, a €45,000 yearling buy from Tattersalls Ireland September who inched closer to her first success with a third at Salisbury last month.

Yeomanstown has repeated the cover with its resident Middle Park winner Supremacy and the mare has a yearling filly by him.

Dream win for Cinderella in Falmouth

Memories of the late Shamardal were even closer to hand in the Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes as Cinderella's Dream added a major European prize to her strike in last year's Belmont Oaks Invitational.

There were believed to be only 17 members of the final crop of the talismanic Kildangan Stud-based sire, who had been covering reduced books by the time he died in the spring of 2020 aged 18. He is the sire of Godolphin stars who have also taken their places at stud such as Blue Point, Pinatubo and Earthlight.

Cinderella's Dream is one of them and is of even more importance as she is one of one of two foals out of the winning Dubawi mare Espadrille, an 800,000gns purchase through John Ferguson at the 2015 Tattersalls December Foal Sale.

Cinderella's Dream (William Buick,right) beats January (Ryan Moore) in the Tattersalls Falmouth StakesCredit: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)

Espadrille was sought after as a daughter of Oaks third and St Simon Stakes winner High Heeled but had only one other foal, the winning Farhh filly Blue Laced, before her death in 2023.

Group 1 goals for Venetian Sun

A Group 1 winner for a first-season sire remains a possibility with Venetian Sun doing just enough to hold on in the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes.

The Tally-Ho Stud-bred daughter of its resident sire Starman is already her father's leading light and was adding a Group 2 to her Group 3 Albany Stakes win last month.

The once-raced Royal Fixation caught the eye with a late run to finish just a neck in arrears. The 180,000gns Opulence Thoroughbreds purchase is by Darley's star miler Palace Pier, who awaits a first black-type winner but has been delivering some promising two-year-olds over the last few weeks.

Later in the card in the seven-furlong maiden there was a debut victory for Distant Storm, the son of Night Of Thunder and Date With Destiny bought by Godolphin for €1,900,000 at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale in May. He was an extraordinary piece of business for consignor Cormac Farrell as a 90,000gns Tattersalls Book 1 purchase.

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