Madam Dancealot continues to fly the flag for Sir Prancealot

Madam Dancealot's win in the Group 3 Dick Poole Stakes last September helped her freshman sire, Sir Prancealot, to top the 2016 season's European first-season sires' table. Just ten days after her Group 3 win, she was purchased at the Goff's Champions sale on behalf of the US-based Slam Dunk Racing for €260,000.

Her win in the Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap at Del Mar on Sunday becomes the latest in a series of notable up-turns in fortune for the filly that was bought back by Tally-Ho Stud for £5,000 at the Ascot Breeze-Up Sale. The victory also makes her Sir Prancealot's first Grade/Group 2 scorer, and his third US winner.

Given a patient ride by Jamie Theriot, the three-year-old produced an unanswerable turn of foot - coming from last to first on the rattling Del Mar turf - to circle the field and win by just under two lengths. The War Front filly Lull was back in second, with the previously unbeaten Sircat Sally, a daughter of Surf Cat, finishing a further half-length away in third.

The road has, however, been bumpy since Madam Pracealot's relocation to California, and after Sunday's run trainer Richard Baltas admitted he had struggled to get the filly to settle, but that her latest effort demonstrated a developing level of maturity.

On her first start for Baltas she produced a lacklustre performance in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Fillies Juvenile, running thirteenth of fourteen behind New Money Honey. It took her until her third run of this season to break her US duck, winning an allowance race at Santa Anita in the middle of May. A second in a Listed event over 6½f proved the perfect sharpener for Sunday's win over a mile.

Madam Dancealot is one of four runners for her sire in the US. He has also been represented by the former Adrian McGuinness-trained filly Beau Recall, who has been placed at Grade 2, Grade 3 and Listed level since boarding the plane to British ex-pat Simon Callaghan's Santa Anita stable.

In addition to being European champion first-season sire, Sir Prancealot also provided Listed winner Sir Dancealot and was fourth on the British and Irish two-year-old sires' table in 2016. That position placed him ahead of the likes of Scat Daddy and Exceed and Excel, with a mammoth 28 winners and well over £535,000 in prize-money.

He has supplied six two-year-old winners to date this season.