Rare visitor to Windsor on Monday the start of things to come

Racing returns to Windsor on Monday where first-season sires Alhebayeb and Bungle Inthejungle are both represented in the 5f novice stakes (5.40).

Dark Thunder, a grey son of Alhebayeb, would appear to hold the better chance of the pair, have been purchased for £42,000 from the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale.

Kg Passion, meanwhile, bids to become the fifth winner for Bungle Inthejungle, who has got his second career off to a flying start. He was picked up by Martin Wanless and David Evans for €20,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.

But perhaps the most intriguing runner in the contest is the Australian-bred Starspangledbanner colt Anthem Of Peace - the Racing Post previously reported how, bred to northern hemisphere time, the colt found his way to last year's Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale, where a filly bred in the same way also came under the hammer.

Rosemont Stud principal Anthony Mithen has also stated his intention to target the Royal Ascot meeting with Australian-bred juveniles, so Monday's contest at Windsor could just be the start of things to come.

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Racing

Thirsk (first race 1.50)

Salisbury (2.00)

Wolverhampton (AW) (2.10)

Kilbeggan (5.00)

Windsor (5.10)

Southwell (AW) (5.20)

ANZ Bloodstock News

In today's issue: the rapidly progressive Ivictory led home a John Size-trained 1-2-3 in the Group 1 Chairman's Sprint Prize over 1200m at Sha Tin on Sunday as he gave his Vinery Stud-based sire Mossman a sixth Group One winner.

First-season sires with runners

Windsor 5.40

Alhebayeb Dark Thunder

Bungle Inthejungle Kg Passion

Plus 10 races

Salisbury 2.00

Wolverhampton AW 2.10

Windsor 5.40

Southwell 5.50

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What to watch

Final thought

A look at past winners of race can often indicate the strength of a particular race, and Heeraat's first winner, Cotubanama, looks sure to have entered plenty of notebooks having won the same conditions stakes won by the likes of Illuminate - who went on to score at Royal Ascot - and Tiggy Wiggy.

You can read about her success here.