Sisters to queens of the turf set to clash at Naas on Monday

Urban Sea's influence on the breeding programmes of the world's leading bloodstock operations is clear to see in the pedigrees of some blue-blooded newcomers at Naas on Monday evening.

The Race And Stay Fillies' Maiden (6.45) sees sisters to top-class performers begin their own racing careers over ten furlongs and the genes of the 1993 Arc heroine are writ large in their DNA.

Aidan O'Brien's Champagne is a daughter of Galileo and the Matron Stakes and Lockinge winner Red Evie, which makes her a full-sister to the brilliant Found. That mare led home an unprecedented 1-2-3 for her sire in the Arc, 23 years after Urban Sea's own triumph. Her Chantilly success was one of three at the highest level in an astonishing career that included a defeat of Derby winner Golden Horn in the Breeders' Cup Turf and 12 Group 1 places.

Red Evie is also the dam of Divinely by Galileo who was third in last season's Cazoo Oaks to Snowfall, out of another daughter of Red Evie and Galileo - the Group 3 Give Thanks Stakes winner Best In The World. Another of Red Evie's dalliances with the late super sire produced the Group 3 C L Weld Park Stakes winner Magical Dream.

Champagne, a sister to Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Found, makes her debut at NaasCredit: Edward Whitaker

Sea The Stars emulated his dam with a triumphant climax to his wonderful unbeaten three-year-old season in the 2009 Arc and he is the sire of Fennela, who makes her debut for Jessica Harrington and owner-breeders Vimal and Gillian Khosla.

A May foal, she was bought back by vendors Ballylinch Stud at the 2020 Goffs Orby Sale for €775,000 which is a fraction of what her three-parts sisters made in the Kildare Paddocks sale ring in the preceding two years.

Do You Love Me topped the 2018 Orby Sale when bringing €3.2m from Phoenix Thoroughbreds while a year later it took MV Magnier a bid of €3m to secure Espania, both of those fillies by Galileo.

Dam Green Room has an excellent record as the Theatrical mare has foaled three Group 1 winners; Lord Shanakill who was successful in the Prix Jean Prat, and the Galileo pair of Forever Together and Together Forever.

The 20-year-old Green Room is an unraced half-sister to Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes winner Spanish Fern and to Rusty Back, dam of Grade 1 winner Heat Seeker.

Fennela holds an entry in the Irish Oaks while Champagne is entered in the Oaks as well as the Curragh Classic.

Believeinmiracles is related to Ulysses (third from left) and Cloth Of Stars (fourth from left)Credit: Edward Whitaker

Believeinmiracles doesn't yet have Classic entries but the Frankel filly could prove up to Group 1 company if her pedigree is anything to go by.

Willie McCreery's charge is a Niarchos homebred and the second foal out of Mosuo, an Oasis Dream half-sister to Group 1 winner and Cheveley Park's exciting young stallion Ulysses, by Frankel's sire Galileo. Mosuo and Ulysses are out of the Oaks winner Light Shift and the family also includes Group 1 winners Shiva, Cloth Of Stars and Main Sequence close up on the page.

Of those with experience, the Ballydoyle first string appears to be EmilyDickinson, a daughter of Dubawi and Irish Oaks winner Chicquita, with Ryan Moore booked for the ride. She was fifth on her seasonal reappearance in a Leopardstown maiden, and the third that day - Hymn Book Too, a Teofilo sister to Dawn Approach - came out and won her maiden at Tipperary last Thursday.

Donnacha O'Brien's Red Azalea, by Galileo and out of Group 3 winner Music Box, split Hymn Book Too and Emily Dickinson at Leopardstown and re-opposes.

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