New boys Adaay and Twilight Son off to the perfect start in Milan

British-based stallions Adaay and Twilight Son both sired winners from their first runners on Saturday at Milan.

Doctor Strange won a 5f race for newcomers, making all by four lengths. A £16,000 Tattersalls December foal purchase, he sold at last year's Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale.

Standing at Whitsbury Manor Stud for a fee of £5,000, Adaay won two Group 2s beating Limato in the Sandy Lane Stakes and Coulsty in the Hungerford Stakes.

Rated 110, Adaay was precocious, making 240,000gns as a breeze-up before winning his first two races in May and June of his two-year-old season. He boasts plenty of speed in his pedigree through his sire Kodiac and damsire Royal Applause. He is also a half-brother to fellow sire Mullionmileanhour, who was placed at Royal Ascot as a juvenile.

Adaay, whose yearlings made up to £210,000 and averaged £22,000, has 94 two-year-olds to run for him this year.

The next race on the Milan card saw filly Aria Importante post an impressive debut over the same trip for unraced fillies. Like Doctor Strange, she made all the running to win by a wide margin, and never came off the bridle.

Aria Importante is the fifth winner out of the Italian Listed-winning mare Aria Di Festa, who also placed in the Group 2 Prix de Sandringham at Chantilly.

Standing at Cheveley Park Stud for £7,000, Twilight Son won the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock and Diamond Jubilee, as well as finishing runner-up to Muhaarar in the Qipco British Champion Sprint Stakes for Henry Candy. He achieved a peak RPR of 120.

Like Adaay, Twilight Son has been numerically well supported with a crop of 122 two-year-olds, who made up to 130,000 guineas as yearlings, averaging nearly 30,000 guineas.

By Kyllachy, Twilight Son is a half-brother to Group-winning sprinter Music Master and Listed winner Spring Fling, who Candy also trained.

Twilight Son and Adaay will be represented by multiple runners in two-year-old races in Britain this week, with the Kevin Ryan-trained Aish (Twilight Son) declared at Newcastle on Tuesday and Archie Watson's Ocean Star (Adaay) due to run at Yarmouth on Wednesday.

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