First black type winner for Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Lancaster Bomber

Drakenstein Stud's late Lancaster Bomber, the winner of the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup for Aidan O'Brien and Coolmore, had his first stakes winner when two-year-old filly Rascova struck in the Listed Summer Juvenile Stakes at Kenilworth on Met day. 

The first of the first-season sires in South Africa to sire a black-type winner, Lancaster Bomber's daughter was bred by Cheveley Stud and is owned by Itssa It & Business Solutions. She is out of a Western Winter full-sister to top-level winner. 

Lancaster Bomber was a seven-furlong winner on his second start at two, while he was also second to stablemate Churchill in the Dewhurst and runner-up to Oscar Performance in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf that November. 

At three, the consistent son of War Front's best efforts came when second to Barney Roy in the St James's Palace Stakes and when runner-up to World Approval in both the Woodbine Mile in Canada and the Breeders' Cup Mile at Del Mar. He was also fourth to Churchill in the 2,000 Guineas.

His second start at four saw him again finish in the runner-up spot to Rhododendron in the Lockinge Stakes, before he deservedly shelved his Group or Grade 1 maiden tag when making all in the Tattersalls Gold Cup, setting what looked like such a strong pace that it was remarkable he was able to maintain it. 

That effort proved to be his last on the racetrack and he subsequently retired to Drakenstein Stud for the 2019 breeding season.