Palace Pier's sister set to debut for the Coolmore team at the Curragh on Sunday

Our resident bloodstock experts profile the well-bred eyecatchers and expensive purchases set to grace the track.

Win Me Over

Alkumait at Capital Stud Fillies and Mares' Maiden (3.10 Curragh, Sunday)

What's the story?

Three of racing's global superpowers will have their lenses firmly trained on the Curragh including on Win Me Over, who makes her debut for Aidan O'Brien with Ryan Moore in the saddle.

Obviously she's owned by the Coolmore partners, which explains their interest. Win Me Over is a daughter of Juddmonte's leading sire Kingman and is a full-sister to Darley stallion Palace Pier, who has his first runners this season.

How's she bred?

She is the seventh foal out of the unraced Nayef mare Beach Frolic, who was acquired by MV Magnier in foal to Blue Point for 2,200,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares' Sale from Highclere Stud.

That was the year Beach Frolic's son Palace Pier defeated Pinatubo to win the Group 1 St James's Palace Stakes and Alpine Star in the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois. The following year the Kingman colt would add a second triumph in the Deauville Group 1 to his resume, as well as victories in the Lockinge and Queen Anne Stakes and end the year with a narrow defeat to Baaeed in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

Palace Pier was retired to Dalham Hall Stud for the 2022 breeding season at a fee of £55,000 and his first crop of runners are due on the track this season.

Beach Frolic had foaled an Almanzor colt before her purchase by Coolmore and he grew up to be the Group 3 Bahrain Trophy winner and Group 2 Great Voltigeur runner-up Castle Way.

Both Palace Pier and Castle Way were bred in partnership by Highclere and the tenth Duke of Roxburghe, and Beach Frolic was sold during a partial dispersal of his breeding stock after his death.

The Blue Point colt she was carrying at the time of her sale was named My Cloud and sold by Mocklershill to Stroud Coleman for €325,000 at the Arqana Brezze-Up Sale. He is trained by Roger Varian for KHK Racing and has run three times, winning once and finishing second on his other two starts.

Beach Frolic strikes a pose on the Park Paddocks sales groundCredit: Laura Green

Win Me Over is the product of her first Coolmore-planned mating and she returned to Kingman in 2023 and 2024 with just one foal resulting from those matings – a yearling full-brother to Palace Pier and Win Me Over. 

Beach Folic stayed at Coolmore to be covered last year and is due a foal by Wootton Bassett.

Who does she face?

A lot of fillies with 20 declared runners and two reserves.

The best-bred of them is another debutante: Bint Queen Kindly, a Night Of Thunder three-parts sister to Group 2 Lowther Stakes runner-up and Group 3 Firth of Clyde Fillies' Stakes third Queen Me. 

They are daughters of Lowther Stakes winner Queen Kindly, who herself is the daughter and granddaughter of winners of that race in Lady Of The Desert and Queen's Logic, who would go on to be crowned European champion two-year-old filly. 

Jaber Abdullah raced Queen's Logic, who is a half-sister to champion Dylan Thomas and Classic winner Homecoming Queen, dam of Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Shale, and bred Lady Of The Desert, Queen Kindly and this filly.

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