Magical Memory keeps Cadeaux Genereux on a roll as damsire

A commanding performance from Magical Memory in the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes at Newbury on Saturday gave Mark and Elaine Clarke's Wardstown Stud in County Meath their second Pattern success as breeders this year.

Their €15,000 gamble on Tamayuz in 2011 resulted in Blond Me, and the five-year-old mare was a comfortable winner of the Group 2 Middleton Stakes at York in May - just five days after the sire had registered his first Classic success through Precieuse in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches.

Magical Memory, of course, is no stranger to Pattern success - having established himself as arguably Zebedee's most accomplished performer with a Racing Post Rating of 118, 1lb ahead of Ivawood. He won the Group 2 Duke of York Clipper Logistics Stakes last year and finished second to Tasleet in the same race this time round.

His conqueror that day shares the same damsire, in Cadeaux Genereux, who has since been on quite a roll in that capacity. In the meantime he has been responsible for Out Do in the Wokingham Handicap and Harry Angel in the July Cup.

In that race Harry Angel was emulating not only Dream Ahead, another winner out of a Cadeaux Genereux mare in 2011, but also Cadeaux Genereux himself - who set a new record in the 1989 running before retiring to Whitsbury Manor Stud the following year. Here he stood at a career-high fee of £25,000 in 2005.

Stud career

Among his best sons were the Prix Morny-winning pair of Hoh Magic and Bahamian Bounty, the latter following up in the Middle Park Stakes which earned him the title of champion two-year-old in 1996. But Cadeaux Genereux also sired the popular triple Melbourne Cup runner-up, Red Cadeaux.

But perhaps Cadeaux Genereux, who died in 2010, will achieve his most lasting impact through his daughters' offspring. Dream Ahead was relocated to Haras de Grandcamp in France this year at a fee of €12,000. Though yet to supply a top-flight winner, he has knocked on the door with the Classic-placed Al Wukair and Prix Maurice de Gheest second Donjuan Triumphant.

Gregorian, third in the 2014 July Cup and winner of the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes, is also out of a Cadeaux Genereux mare (Three Days In May) and is due to have his first juveniles this year.

Meanwhile Notnowcato - a three-time Group 1 winner over 10f, including in the 2007 Eclipse - supplied his first Group 1 winner on the Flat when Redkirk Warrior won the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington in March.

The son of Inchinor is now serving National Hunt breeders, having stood the past four seasons at Sean Kinsella's Knockhouse Stud in County Kilkenny.

Nonetheless his good recent run in sprints has emphasised the speed Cadeaux Genereux can pass on through his daughters - and has placed him sixth in the broodmare sires' table in Britain and Ireland, behind only heavyweights Dansili, Danehill, Pivotal, Sadler's Wells and Galileo.