Half-sisters to Limato and Debussy set for Windsor showdown

Monday's mile maiden at Windsor at 8.35pm is due to be contested by 13 three-year-old fillies, including several well-related types who may well prove capable of bettering the form they've already shown.

Jantina may not have shown a great deal on her debut, trailing home eleventh of 16 behind Snow Moon at Nottingham, but she was unable to recover from a slip on the bend four furlongs out on that occasion.

There have been a couple of interesting updates to the daughter of Dutch Art's page since that debut effort, with her half-sister Spangled going on to claim a Leicester conditions race, a success that leaves her with an official mark of 100.

Her two-year-old Invincible Spirit half-brother Jumira Bridge has since made his own debut, finishing a promising second in a Yarmouth novice stakes.

Jantina is out of the Pivotal mare Zykina, an unraced sister to the Listed-placed 7f winner Safina and a half-sister to the useful 7f-1m winner Russian Realm.

Jantina's second dam is the four-time Group 1 winner Russian Rhythm, who carried the famous red, white and blue silks of Cheveley Park Stud to victory in the 1,000 Guineas, Coronation Stakes and Nassau Stakes and brought the curtain down on her career with victory in the 2004 Lockinge Stakes.

In opposition is the John Gosden-trained and Godolphin-owned Laugh Aloud, a daughter of Darley's flagship stallion Dubawi.

The three-year-old filly has recorded progressive RPRs in her three starts to date, and having been beaten only by subsequent Listed runner-up Wilamina on her most recent outing in a Newmarket maiden looks the one to beat.

Laugh Aloud is the eighth foal produced by the Singspiel mare Opera Comique, which makes her a half-sister to Gosden's Grade 1 Arlington Million winner Debussy and Entertainment, who finished second to subsequent Group 1 winner Diamondsandrubies in last year's Cheshire Oaks.

Opera Comique was a 1m1f winner on debut at two before finishing third in a Group 3 at the Curragh. She is out of the Top Ville mare Grace Note, whose other produce includes the Listed-winning Dowland and Belmez, who landed the 1990 King George for Sheikh Mohammed and Sir Henry Cecil.

Another runner out of a Singspiel mare is the Henry Candy-trained Limonata, whose dam Come April's second foal is the Group 2 Park Stakes-winning Limato, who has twice finished runner-up at the highest level, in last year's Commonwealth Cup - when behind Muhaarar, and Prix de la Foret - when beaten by Make Believe.

Come April, a 1m2f winner, is out of So Admirable, an unraced sister to Compton Admiral - who pipped Xaar by a neck in the 1999 Eclipse. She is also a half-sister to Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Summoner and Twyla Tharp, who finished second in the Ribblesdale before going on to produce four-time Group 1 winner The Fugue when bred to Dansili.

Despite the fact Limonata is yet to trouble the judge on either of her two starts, her pedigree remains an ongoing recommendation, as does her price tag with Candy parting with 90,000gns to secure the daughter of Bushranger from Book 2 of the 2014 Tattersalls October Sale.