Marbaan is the latest star for Barronstown's matriarch Tanaghum

Tanaghum had already earned a deserved reputation as a top-class broodmare with four Group winners among her offspring and a champion grandson in Ribchester, but events of the past five days have cemented the status of Barronstown Stud's 22-year-old daughter of Darshaan.

Last Friday evening, her three-year-old Churchill filly Perotan won the Listed Her Majesty's Plate at Down Royal for Aidan O'Brien, Masaaki Matsushima, Coolmore and Westerberg just three weeks after making a winning debut at Bellewstown.

Perotan is her dam's tenth winner from 11 runners and the sixth of her progeny to earn black type. She is a half-sister to the Group 1 winner Matterhorn and closely related to Group 2 and Group 3 winner Bangkok by Australia, who stood his first season at Chapel Stud this year. She is also closely-related to Group 3 Curragh Cup winner Tactic, a son of Sadler's Wells, and the French Listed winner Yaazy by Teofilo.

Perotan's Nayef half-sister Zahoo was second in the Listed Gillies Stakes and she registered her second Group winner as a broodmare on Tuesday when her Oasis Dream son Marbaan won the Vintage Stakes at Goodwood.

The two-year-old son of Oasis Dream is closely related to Convergence by Cape Cross, who won the Group 3 Ballycorus Stakes and a pair of Listed contests for Ger Lyons.

Bred by Shadwell Stud, he was originally entered in the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale as part of the Shadwell dispersal through Derrinstown Stud last November but was withdrawn from the sale.

Simon Davies' new sire Bangkok is a son of TanaghumCredit: Chapel Stud

He sports the famous yellow silks with black epaulettes of Mtoto and is one of three juvenile colts sent by Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum to Charlie Fellowes this season.

Marbaan was completing a hat-trick of victories with his Group 2 success and a step up in class looks next on the agenda for the promising young colt who is the latest star to emerge from this outstanding pedigree.

It is a branch of the Fall Aspen family which had been cultivated by Shadwell Stud prior to the death of Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum but Tanaghum herself was offloaded by the operation at the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale in 2014 and the €250,000 spent by David and Diane Nagle to secure her in foal to Raven's Pass becomes a shrewder investment with every passing season.

They bred Bangkok, who made 500,000gns to Sackville Donald on behalf of King Power Racing at Book 1 in 2017, and Tanaghum has a two-year-old full brother to Perotan. He was bought by the same connections for 440,000gns at last year's Book 1 sale and has been named The Foxes. Tanaghum foaled a Churchill filly in April of this year.

Shadwell has been selling off members of her family over the last couple of years and Double First Stables picked up Marbaan's dam, Zahoo, in foal to Muhaarar for 65,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

Unfortunately Zahoo died last year at the age of 14 and a mare who had appeared to be the latest conduit for her outstanding genetics has left a yearling three-parts sister to Marbaan named Sarvashi to carry on that legacy.

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