Siskin shows the depth and quality of Juddmonte Farms breeding

Siskin might have provided both his trainer Ger Lyons and jockey Colin Keane with a first Group 1 success in Ireland when triumphant in the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh on Friday, but he is just the latest in a long line of stars owned and bred by Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms.

The colt, now unbeaten in four starts, demonstrates the depth and quality of Juddmonte bloodlines. He is by a Juddmonte homebred in First Defence and out of another in Bird Flown. The dam also has two Juddmonte homebred parents in Oasis Dream and Silver Star, while Silver Star is by the Juddmonte icon Zafonic out of one of the operation's foundation mares, Monroe.

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Siskin is the third Group/Grade 1 winner by First Defence, after his near relation Close Hatches and another Juddmonte colour bearer in Antonoe. The sire – by Unbridled's Song out of Honest Lady, a Grade 1-winning half-sister to celebrities Chester House and Empire Maker – was sent out by Bobby Frankel to a wide-margin win in the Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga in 2008.

First Defence formerly stood at Juddmonte Farm in Kentucky but was sold to Saudi Arabia at the end of 2016, so Siskin hails from his last US-bred crop.

Siskin is the second foal out of Bird Flown, who won over seven furlongs on soft at Clairefontaine as a two-year-old for Andre Fabre. The dam is a half-sister to Listed Buckhounds Stakes winner and Hardwicke Stakes runner-up Barsanti and to Rising Tornado, who produced Close Hatches, a five-time Grade 1 winner in the US, and Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Lockdown.

Close Hatches in turn has got her broodmare career off to an almost perfect start as her first foal is this year's Tampa Bay Derby and Wood Memorial Stakes winner Tacitus, who also finished placed in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.

Bird Flown is out of Silver Star, a Listed-placed sister to champion two-year-old Xaar and fellow stakes winners Diese and Masterclass; Diese is the dam of dual Grade 1 scorer Senure.

Silver Star, meanwhile, is out of Monroe, a Group 3-winning daughter of Sir Ivor and blue hen Best In Show.

Best In Show features as ancestress of numerous top-class runners. Her Kentucky Oaks-winning daughter Blush With Pride founded a fruitful family that includes the Belmont Stakes-winning siblings Jazil and Rags To Riches, as well as Peeping Fawn and her half-brother Thewayyouare.

Best In Show's daughter Minnie Hauk is the taproot of a family that includes Group/Grade 1 winners Aldebaran, Aviance, Chief Contender, Chimes Of Freedom, Denon, Good Journey, Lizzie L'Amour, Pathfork, Saddex, Spinning World and War Of Will.

Another of Best In Show's daughters, Sex Appeal, produced champions El Gran Senor and Try My Best and is ancestress of Almond Eye, Chinchon and Domedriver.

Best In Show's daughter Show Lady has proved highly influential in Australasia thanks to her daughter Dancing Show, who the likes of Al Maher, Hurricane Sky, Manhattan Rain, Redoute's Choice, Shoals and Umatilla all trace back to.

Besides Siskin, Close Hatches and Xaar, the Monroe tribe also includes the high-class half-brothers Bated Breath and Cityscape and Grade 1-placed Requete.

Behind Siskin in the Phoenix Stakes were two Aidan O'Brien-trained colts who become first Group 1 podium finishers for their Coolmore-owned first-season sires: second-placed Monarch Of Egypt, by American Pharoah, and third home Royal Lytham, by Gleneagles.

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