Newmarket debut for Belardo's half-brother

With buyers flocking to Deauville for the Arqana August Yearling Sale this weekend, it seems appropriate that a six-figure graduate from last year's sale will make his debut on Friday.

Global Style, however, will be running on the other side of the Channel at Newmarket and there is much to like about him on paper.

Take his breeders Ballylinch Stud, they enjoyed the success of two Pattern winners last weekend when Al Wukair landed the Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville on Sunday and Frankuus took out the Group 3 Rose of Lancaster Stakes at Haydock the day before.

He is also by Nathaniel, the second-season sire whose daughter Enable is the clear early favourite for the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly in October after she blitzed clear of her nine rivals in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in July.

Global Style will face nine opponents in the mile novice stakes for two-year-olds (6.20), and holds an early entry to next year's Derby, suggesting the colt is held in high regard by his trainer Ed Dunlop.

A look at his page

Global Style is a half-brother to Lope De Vega's highest RPR-rated son Belardo, the dual Group 1 winner who took out the Dewhurst at two and the Lockinge at four, before covering his first book of mares at Kildangan Stud in Ireland this year.

They are out of the Danehill mare Danaskaya, who was second in the Lowther Stakes at York and who has also produced Berling, a dual Group 3 winner in Scandinavia, and the Group 2-placed Diamond Sky, the latter two both by Montjeu.

Danaskaya is a half-sister to Modeeroch, who, like Diamond Sky, placed in the Debutante Stakes at the Curragh.

Remarkably, neither Belardo, a €100,000 Arqana yearling, or Global Style, a €250,000 purchase for Charlie Gordon-Watson at the 2016 edition, are the most expensive yearlings out of Danaskaya, as Berling sold for 650,000gns at Book 1 at Tattersalls in 2008.

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