Orange is the colour for Expert Eye at Leicester

Juddmonte's homebred Breeders' Cup Mile winner Expert Eye is the latest first season sire to register his first winner with Sunny Orange making a successful debut in the famous green and pink silks at Leicester.

The two-year-old colt is a rare foal sale purchase for the global breeding and racing behemoth, who purchased him for 70,000gns from his breeders Ringfort Stud at the 2020 Tattersalls December Sale.

Sunny Orange is trained by Ralph Beckett and was a comfortable length-and-a-quarter winner over five furlongs in the Madri Excepcional Maiden Stakes.

Watch Sunny Orange make a winning debut at Leicester

His sire Expert Eye was also successful on his career debut and followed that initial win with victory in Goodwood's Vintage Stakes for Sir Michael Stoute.

At three, he was a scintillating winner of the Jersey Stakes and was placed in both the Sussex Stakes and Prix du Moulin before capping his career with that Churchill Downs triumph.

Expert Eye is one of five individual top-level winners by Acclamation whose stallion sons include Dark Angel and Mehmas. His dam Exemplify is a Dansili half-sister to Special Duty, who earned two Classic wins in the stewards' room.

Second dam Quest To Peak is a Distant View sister to seven-times Grade 1 winner Sightseek and a half-sister to Tates Creek, twice victorious in Grade 1 contests.

He retired to Juddmonte's Banstead Manor Stud for the 2019 season, strengthening a line-up that is headed by Frankel and Kingman. He stood for a fee of £20,000 and his first crop numbers 97 registered two-year-olds. Expert Eye's current fee is £10,000.

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