No Nay Never half-sister to Group 1 winner Harlem to debut at Newmarket

No Nay Never's blistering season with his most expensively bred crop of two-year-olds could have more in store even at this late stage with the well-related Reconsider Me set to debut at Newmarket on Saturday.

The Barronstown Stud-bred two-year-old was not sold at Arqana's August Yearling Sale last year when consigned by Haras d'Etreham, but she went on to make 75,000gns to Badgers Bloodstock at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale the following spring.

Reconsider Me is the ninth foal out of the Nayef mare Casual, a three-time winner for owner-breeder Khalid Abdullah before selling to Barronstown for 130,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2017.

Casual, a half-sister to stakes winner Rich Coast, is in turn out of the Sadler's Wells mare Costa Rica, a full-sister to the dam of dual Listed winner Mirror Lake, the dam of this term's Tattersalls Stakes winner and Dewhurst third Nostrum, as well as Australian Group 2 scorer Imaging and another Australian black-type winner in Super Titus.

Costa Rica is also a half-sibling to the prolific Group 3 Criterion Stakes scorer Vortex and two other Group winners in Danefair and Prove.

Reconsider Me is from the current family of the exciting NostrumCredit: Edward Whitaker

Casual's best progeny to date is the Champs Elysees gelding Harlem, a Listed winner and Group 2-placed performer for Andre Fabre and Juddmonte before selling to SackvilleDonald and Astute Bloodstock for 520,000gns from the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale in 2016.

Sent into training with David Hayes and Tom Dabernig, Harlem landed his first win down under in a Group 3 handicap in September 2017 before taking out the Group 1 Australian Cup the following March and then the same race 12 months later.

Casual is the dam of three-time bumper winner and Listed Pontefract Castle Fillies' Stakes third Shearling, as well as two further minor winners on the Flat and another one in a bumper.

Reconsider Me faces 12 rivals in the seven-furlong contest (1.38), a race in which this year's Prix de Diane and Nassau Stakes winner Nashwa finished third in 12 months ago.

Among those in opposition are Cheveley Park Stud homebred Medici Chapel, an Iffraaj half-sister to prolific campaigner Duke Of Firenze and out of Coronation Stakes and Fillies' Mile winner Nannina; Lordship Stud's Glowing Sky, a Sea The Stars half-sister to German Group 1 victor Aspetar; and Warren Hill, another by No Nay Never and from the family of Grade 2 winner and Kentucky Derby second Eight Belles.

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