Fox Chairman a four-length maiden winner on debut for Kingman

Exciting second-season sire Kingman has a potential new star player on his team in the shape of Fox Chairman, who ran out a four-length winner of the first division of a mile three-year-old maiden at Newbury on Saturday.

The colt, trained by Andrew Balding for King Power Racing, was slowly into stride under the owners' new retained rider Silvestre De Sousa but soon recovered and took up the lead two furlongs home before scooting clear.

Migration, a David Menuisier-trained son of another sophomore sire in Alhebayeb, got closest to the winner, with Just The Man, a son of Rajsaman representing Clive Cox, back in third.

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Fox Chairman was bought on behalf of King Power Racing, founded by the late Thai businessman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and now being continued by his family, by Sackville Donald for 450,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale in 2017.

The colt had been consigned to the auction by Luke Barry's Manister House Stud, who bred him from the unraced Galileo mare Starfish. The dam has already distinguished herself at stud by producing six previous winners including Phoenix Stakes and Matron Stakes heroine La Collina and Listed Lyric Stakes scorer Entsar.

Starfish is a three-parts sister to Chester Vase second Icon Dream and is descended from the Classic-placed Busted daughter Sorbus, a foundation mare for Juddmonte Farms who features as ancestress of Khalid Abdullah's Group 1 winners Wemyss Bight and son Beat Hollow, New Bay, Reefscape and the siblings Oasis Dream and Zenda.

Zenda is the dam of none other than Kingman, meaning Fox Chairman is inbred 5x4 to Sorbus.

Starfish has a two-year-old filly by Zoffany named Astadash and a yearling colt by the same sire, while she visited Caravaggio last year.

Kingman, who stands at Banstead Manor Stud at a fee of £75,000, ranks as one of Europe's most in-demand young sires as his first crop has also yielded Coventry Stakes victor Calyx, Autumn Stakes winner Persian King and Listed scorers Look Around, Poetry and Sangarius.

Fox Chairman is the third promising last-time-out maiden or novice stakes winner bred on the Kingman-Galileo cross in Europe after Crimson King and Nausha.

Galileo also featured as damsire of the wide-margin winner of division two of Saturday's mile maiden for three-year-olds at Newbury.

Raise You – also saddled by Balding, this time for Jonathan Palmer-Brown – made all the running to score by six lengths from the Charlie Hills-trained New Approach filly Ocean Paradise.

A son of Ballylinch Stud big-hitter Lope De Vega, Raise You was bred by Brucetown Farms out of Hikari, who was once a dazzling maiden winner at three herself, when she hosed up by 15 lengths over an extended 1m3f at Wexford for Dermot Weld.

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