3,100,000gns Frankel half-brother to Golden Horn among newcomers on Saturday

There is a veritable banquet of blueblooded newcomers to tickle the taste buds of pedigree connoisseurs on Saturday.

Main course will likely be the debut of Dhahabi in the seven-furlong maiden at Newmarket (1.40).

The colt, trained by Charlie Appleby for Godolphin, is a Frankel half-brother to Derby and Arc hero Golden Horn and cost connections 3,100,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

Dhahabi is also a three-parts brother to the three-year-old Galileo colt Arrow Of Gold, a 450,000gns Book 1 buy who won on debut last month but was well beaten in the Glasgow Stakes recently, and a half-brother to Listed winner and Grade 2 runner-up Eastern Belle.

The siblings' unraced dam Fleche D'Or is a Dubai Destination half-sister to Coronation Stakes winner Rebecca Sharp from a great Hascombe and Valiant Studs family that has been in good form once again this season, through the Group-winning fillies Dame Malliot and Frankly Darling.

Dhahabi, who was the second most expensive yearling sold in Europe last year, faces tough opposition on his first start, including from New Mandate, a New Bay gelding who ran third on his debut, and Wild Lion, a son of The Last Lion who finished second on his initial outing.

The Last Lion sibling ready to roar

Speaking of The Last Lion, the first-season sire's half-brother State Patrol is set to make his debut against last-time-out winners Final Voyage and Henrik, by Yeomanstown studmates Camacho and Gutaifan, in the seven-furlong novice median auction stakes at York (12.20).

State Patrol is entitled to be precocious as he is by Zoffany, a tried and tested source of high-class juveniles, and The Last Lion won the Brocklesby Stakes on debut and later scored in the Dragon Stakes, Sirenia Stakes and Middle Park Stakes at two, as well as running second in the Norfolk Stakes, Molecomb Stakes and Flying Childers Stakes and third in the Gimcrack.

State Patrol could be a fine flagbearer for older mares as his dam Mala Mala, a Group 1-placed daughter of Brief Truce, was 20 when he was foaled.

Mala Mala, a half-sister to Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Tarascon, is also the dam of Listed-winning sprinters Contest and Russian Rock.

The Richard Fahey-trained State Patrol looks a typically shrewd purchase by Joe Foley, snapped up on behalf of Steve Parkin's Clipper Logistics outfit for €50,000 at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale.

Frankel fillies abound in hot race

Dhahabi is not the only beautifully bred Frankel two-year-old set to be unleashed on Saturday as Richard Hannon is also taking the wraps off Snow Lantern for owners and breeders Rockcliffe Stud.

She is the third foal out of connections' four-time Group 1 winner Sky Lantern.

The grey filly (just like mum) is a sister to three-year-old Noonday Gun, who finished fourth behind the exciting Darain on his second start at Newmarket on Friday, and a half-sister to last year's Cork maiden winner Gentile Bellini.

Snow Lantern, whose parents both stormed up the Rowley Mile to win the Guineas, has been declared for a seven-furlong fillies' novice stakes at Ascot (1.15).

The race also features the debuts of two other Frankel fillies – Light Refrain, whose dam Light Music won the Listed Radley Stakes for the Queen; and Zabeel Queen, out of Dubai Queen, a winning Kingmambo half-sister to Dubawi.

In what looks like it will be a red-hot contest, the opposition also includes Godolphin newcomers Creative Flair, a daughter of Dubawi and the Listed-winning Shamardal mare Hidden Gold – a relative of Galileo, Sea The Stars and Masar – and Renaissance Rose, a Shamardal filly out of Sahraah, a daughter of Kingmambo and Irish Oaks victress Lailani.

Dark Angel dazzlers in Crocker Bulteel

The Crocker Bulteel Maiden Stakes for two-year-old colts and geldings over six furlongs earlier on the Ascot card (12.40), won by Mums Tipple, Piping Rock and Moohaajim in the last decade, has also attracted a typically strong turnout.

Inveigle, bred by Godolphin and trained by Michael Bell for the Queen, is a Dark Angel colt out of Sand Vixen, who became Dubawi's very first stakes winner when she took the St Hugh's Stakes in 2009.

The mare has already produced Dream Castle, winner of the Group 1 Jebel Hatta.

In opposition is the Roger Varian-trained colt Hamoudi, also by Dark Angel. He is a half-brother to Listed-winning sprinter Mrs Gallagher and Chasing Dreams, who beat subsequent Group 3 winner Good Vibes by five lengths on her debut for Godolphin last year but has presumably had her problems as she did not run for six months after that stunning victory and her form has tailed off this year.

Varian secured Hamoudi, whose Listed-placed dam A Huge Dream is a Refuse To Bend half-sister to Xtension, for 220,000gns at Book 1.

Likely favourite for the Crocker Bulteel will be yet another Dark Angel, the William Haggas-trained colt Mayaas, who finished an encouraging fourth on debut at Haydock this month.

A 425,000gns Book 1 purchase by Shadwell, he is out of Queen Mary and Lowther Stakes winner Best Terms, an Exceed And Excel mare from the Barnett family's brilliant Time Charter clan.

Athers could bowl them over

The smorgasbord of well-bred two-year-old newcomers continues to Doncaster later in the afternoon, when the Dubawi colt Athers makes his debut in the seven-furlong novice stakes (4.20) at the South Yorkshire track.

Trained by Varian for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum, he was a 320,000gns purchase from his breeder Watership Down Stud at Book 1.

He is a brother to the versatile Aljamaaheer, winner of the Group 2 Summer Mile and three-times Group 1-placed – when runner-up in the Queen Anne Stakes and third in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes and Lockinge.

Athers' stablemate Raadobarg also makes his debut in the race. He is by hotshot second-season sire Night Of Thunder and is a half-brother to July Stakes winner Classic Blade and the durable sprinter Captain Dunne.

The £200,000 Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale graduate carries the colours of up and coming operation Amo Racing.

Mouthwatering Muhaarar fillies

Finally, there are still some wonderfully well bred three-year-olds who have not had the wraps taken off them but who will finally be seen in the mile novice stakes at Newmarket (2.50).

Bizzi Lizzi, trained by John Gosden for Meon Valley Stud, is out of the famed Hampshire nursery's Group 1-winning Pivotal mare Izzi Top, whose first three foals Dreamfield, Willie John and Prince Eiji have all recorded Racing Post Ratings of at least 110.

Izzi Top is in turn a daughter of Prix de l'Opera winner Zee Zee Top, a Zafonic half-sister to Group 1 winners Kayf Tara and Opera House out of Irish Oaks heroine Colorspin, from Meon Valley Stud's amazingly prolific Reprocolor dynasty.

Bizzi Lizzi's rivals include another Muhaarar filly with strong credentials in Zahratty, a three-parts sister to Listed-winning sprinter Naadirr and half-sister to Listed scorer Beach Belle out of the Group 1-placed High Chaparral mare Beach Bunny.

Zahratty is trained by John Gosden for Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum after being bought by Shadwell from breeders Skymarc Farm for €500,000 from the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale.

The Newmarket novice stakes also features the debut of Miss Mulligan, a daughter of Gleneagles and dual Group 2 winner and Irish Oaks runner-up Banimpire. She is trained by George Scott for Christopher Hanbury.

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