Star siblings set to shine at Newbury on Friday

Newbury's final Flat meeting of the 2022 season has been chosen as the launching pad for the careers of siblings to Group 1 winners, with the second division of the Hot To Trot Racing for 2023 Novice Stakes (2.00) looking decidedly competitive.

Ralph Beckett unleashes Davideo, a Galileo half-brother to not one, but two Group 1 winners, and bred by Kirsten Rausing's Lanwades Stud which has enjoyed a stellar season with Group 1 winners across the globe.

Davideo is a half-brother to Time Warp and Glorious Forever who both were victorious in the Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Cup and finished one-two in the 2018 Group 3 Ladies' Purse. They were first and third in the 2018 Longines Hong Kong Cup, won by Glorious Forever and the pair were separated by the Nassau Stakes winner Deirdre. The sons of Lanwades' late sire Archipenko won 18 races between them with four at the highest level.

Their dam Here To Eternity by Stormy Atlantic is the dam of three winners from four runners, with her four-year-old Oasis Dream daughter Heat And Dust successful twice this season for the Alpinista team of Kirsten Rausing, Sir Mark Prescott and Luke Morris.

Here To Eternity was a winner at three and is out of the Lear Fan mare Heat Of The Night who won the Listed Bremer Stute Meile.

Davideo was sold by Staffordstown Stud, the Irish branch of Lanwades Stud, to Alex Elliott for 230,000gns at last year's Tattersalls Book 1 sale.

Mimikyu is one of three Group winners out of MontareCredit: Edward Whitaker

Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak winner Montare has been a star on the track and in the paddocks for her owner-breeder George Strawbridge. The 20-year-old daughter of Montjeu won four Group and two Listed contests and has gone on to produce three horses who have carried Strawbridge's white silks with a green hoop to Group-race victory.

The best of them so far is Journey who was successful in the Group 1 British Champions' Fillies and Mares' Stakes. A ten-year-old daughter of Dubawi, she was also second in that race and the Prix Vermeille.

Journey is a full-sister to Indigo Girl, who won the Group 2 May Hill Stakes and was second in the Group 1 Fillies' Mile of 2020, and to Mimikyu, winner of the Group 2 Park Hill Stakes at Doncaster last month.

Montare is also the dam of the Group-placed Travelling Man by Oasis Dream. Her latest offspring to take to the track is Torito, a son of Kingman and the 11th foal out of Montare. He runs for owner-breeder Strawbridge and trainers John and Thady Gosden.

Ballylinch Stud has enjoyed a purple patch recently with New Bay adding two new Group 1 winners on Champions Day, to his already impressive list of achievements, with Ballylinch co-owners of both Bay Bridge and Bayside Boy.

The Kilkenny farm are also breeders and co-owners along with OTI Racing of Banderas, a son of Lope De Vega who makes his debut at Newbury. Trained by Michael Bell, he is a year-younger brother of Glam De Vega, who has won both of his starts this season for Roger Varian.

They are the first two foals out of Glamorous Approach, successful in the Listed Zetland and Silver Stakes, and she is a New Approach three-parts sister to last season's 2,000 Guineas and St James's Palace Stakes winner Poetic Flare who took up stallion duties in Japan this year.

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