Daughter of Hveger set for much-anticipated debut at Chantilly

Andre Fabre is set to unleash an unraced sister to Highland Reel and Idaho in the 1m3f Prix du Pavillon de Manse for unraced three-year-old fillies at Chantilly on Monday (2.25pm BST).

Cercle De La Vie, who holds an entry for the Prix de Diane in a month's time, is one of 12 debutantes set to line up in the contest, although three of the entrants do have previous experience in schooling races. She will be ridden by Pierre-Charles Boudot.

Bred by the Hveger Syndicate, the daughter of Galileo is a sister to both Highland Reel, who landed the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Breeders' Cup Turf last season, and Idaho, who won the Group 2 Voltigeur Stakes and placed in the Epsom and Irish Derbys last year, out of the Danehill mare Hveger.

Cercle De La Vie was sold at the 2015 Tattersalls Book 1 sale for 460,000gns to Mayfair Speculators and Peter and Ross Doyle, and will race in the colours of Markus Jooste.

Hveger herself finished third in the Australasian Oaks, and has also produced the Crown Victoria Oaks and Storm Queen Stakes second Valdemoro in the southern hemisphere.

She is a sister to the prolific Group 1 scorer Elvstroem, winner of both the Caulfield Cup and Dubai Duty Free, and a half-sister to the 2008 Queen Anne Stakes hero Haradasun, out of AJC Oaks scorer Circles Of Gold.

Hveger also has a two-year-old Galileo filly named Via Condotti - a 625,000gns Book 1 yearling for De Burgh Equine and James Hannon Bloodstock at Tattersalls last year - and a yearling Galileo colt.

Idaho (right): wins the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes at YorkCredit: Alan Crowhurst (Getty Images)

One of Cercle De La Vie's more eye-catching opponents is the Aga Khan homebred Baiyouna, a daughter of Sea The Stars. She is trained by Alain de Royer-Dupre, who also trained her half-brother Bayrir, a son of Medicean, during the earlier part of his racing career to win the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam at Maisons-Laffitte and the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes at Arlington.

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