Success across the Channel for Newsells Park's Nathaniel

Some smart fillies continue to lead the line for Nathaniel as he claimed his third female Group 1 winner so far in the Prix de Diane Longines at Chantilly.

The undoubted flag-bearer for the Newsells Park Stud stallion so far has been Enable, who has provided the English and Irish Oaks as well as two Prix de l’Arc de Triomphes while God Given allowed trainer Luca Cumani to sign off on a fine winning note in the Premio Lydia Tesio last November.

Channel, who was completing the Oaks clean sweep for Nathaniel by a head in the French version, as well as continuing her trainer Francis-Henri Graffard's rise into the major league, has another point to note in her back story.

Now a winner of three of her first four starts, she has been through the ring twice already, first for €18,000 as a yearling at Goffs Orby and again last year in the Arqana May Breeze-Up, where she was picked up for €70,000 by agent Bertrand Le Metayer.

It means that the Arqana event has French Classic-winning graduates from the two consecutive renewals, with Teppal taking the 2018 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches.

Channel hails from Pat O’Kelly's Kilcarn Stud in County Meath, the famed nursery which has produced the likes of Flame Of Tara, dam of Irish Derby winner Salsabil.

Her dam is the Dansili mare Love Magic, winner of a Kempton maiden for Sir Michael Stoute, who was bought by Kilcarn for 170,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sale in 2015. She is out of Cheveley Park winner Magical Romance and from the family of dual Oaks heroine Alexandrova.

Channel is the mare’s second foal with her first, the Dutch Art-sired Paint, also a winner. An Invincible Spirit two-year-old filly named Jam And Mam, is registered with trainer Henri Devin in France. A filly foal by Sea The Stars, bred in partnership with the Tsui family's Sunderland Holding Inc, was born in February.

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