First-season sires Coulsty and Markaz off the mark with debut winners

Budget option first-season sires Coulsty and Markaz supplied their debut winners on Sunday.

Coulsty got off the mark with son Enduring building on his debut fourth to subsequent Norfolk Stakes winner The Lir Jet by landing a six-furlong maiden auction stakes at Kempton.

The colt was sent out by Eve Johnson Houghton for owner Marc Middleton-Heath, having been bought by the trainer with Highflyer Bloodstock for £10,000 when he was the first lot under the hammer at the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale.

He was bred by Bearstone Stud out of the placed Byron mare Yearbook, making him a half-brother to Solario Stakes third Mr Wizard and two other winners.

Yearbook is a half-sister to ten winners including the stakes-placed trio Day By Day, Day Of Conquest and Thought Is Free, and also to Alexander Ballet, the winning dam of Group 1 Gran Criterium hero Hearts Of Fire.

Coulsty – a son of sire of the moment Kodiac, responsible for three Group winners at Royal Ascot on Saturday – won five times in his own racing career, including in the Prix de Meautry, King Charles II Stakes and King Richard III Stakes.

He stands at Rathasker Stud at a fee of €4,000 and has 45 first-crop two-year-olds to go to war with.

Markaz broke his duck with son Snash scoring in a six-furlong Wolverhampton maiden by a length and a quarter on his second start for trainer Charlie Hills.

Runner-up Bodak Yellow and third-placed Funky Bear are both sons of fellow first-season sire Kodi Bear.

Snash had run a promising sixth on debut in a Newmarket maiden that has been working out well, with runner-up Imperial Force running third in the Norfolk Stakes and the third and fourth that day, Saieqa and Dark Lion, going on to fill the same positions in the Coventry Stakes.

Co-owned by Charlie Hills' legendary trainer father Barry, Snash was signed for by BBA Ireland at just €14,000 at the Goffs Sportsmans' Yearling Sale last October.

Snash was bred by Shadwell out of Wardat Dubai, a daughter of Mawatheeq trained by Barry Hills to win a Beverley maiden and Wolverhampton handicap.

Wardat Dubai is in turn out of Efisio's Star, an unraced Efisio half-sister to dual Group 3 winner Lady Gloria.

The eye-catchingly named Chancer Stables will be hoping Snash goes on to win more races, as they bought Wardat Dubai back in foal to Markaz for just €1,000 at Tattersalls Ireland in November.

Markaz was also trained for most of his career by Barry Hills until he handed over the reins of Kingwood House Stables to Owen Burrows.

He won three races, including the Chipchase Stakes, but much of his stallion appeal lies in his pedigree as a Dark Angel brother to the brilliantly fast dual Nunthorpe winner Mecca's Angel.

Markaz, who stands at Derrinstown Stud at a fee of €5,000, has 78 two-year-olds in his first crop.

Another among that cohort, the Rod Millman-trained filly Greycious Girl, ran second in a Kempton maiden auction stakes later in the day.

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