'We’ve been going to Galileo with her and she might benefit from more speed'

Moyglare Stud has an enviable band of young broodmares ready to take on the mantle from the likes of the prolific Polished Gem, the dam of current star Search For A Song, Free Eagle and proven producer Sapphire, and it is full steam ahead for the operation this coming breeding season.

On the track, dual Irish St Leger winner Search For A Song stays in training with Dermot Weld, while there are also progressive sorts to look forward to, such as Group performer Federica Sofia and the well-regarded Harzand filly Port Sunlight, while Moyglare's bloodstock adviser Fiona Craig additionally had plenty of news on the current broodmare talent stud owner Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner can call upon.

The 16-year-old Majestic Silver is one of the older mares but still a force to reckon with.

An unraced Linamix half-sister to the stud's multiple black-type winner Profound Beauty, Majestic Silver is the dam of Group winner Carla Bianca, the Group 2-placed True Solitaire and stakes winner Joailliere. She was barren to Blue Point and returns to the Kildangan stallion this term.

Craig said: "Majestic Silver has been a great producer for Moyglare and has a horse in training called Ciel D'Afrique, who was placed in a couple of big handicaps last year.

"He’s a big son of Sea The Stars who hopefully has one of those premier handicaps in him; hopefully he wins one."

Majestic Silver's Danehill half-sister Profound Beauty will also visit a Kildangan Stud resident in Night Of Thunder - she was barren to him in 2021.

Profound Beauty's daughter, the dual stakes-winning Rose De Pierre, meanwhile, is due to foal to Kingman and goes to Camelot.

Craig said: “Rose De Pierre is a mare who lost her first foal and then had a problem with her second, but her Frankel is nice. She’s not very big, but the Frankel is nice and very solid. She goes to Camelot, who hopefully should suit her.”

Carla Bianca, winner of the Dance Design Fillies Stakes and Meld Stakes among four black-type wins, has foaled to Wootton Bassett and will visit Sea The Stars.

Craig said: “She’s doing great, her first foal, Emilie Gray, was a winner and stays in training, while her second foal [Sassofortino] has gone off to be a stallion at Gurteen Stud.

"Sadly we lost her Sea The Stars filly, but her No Nay Never yearling is also a filly, and is lovely."

Her Dubawi half-sister Joailliere is set to visit one of the season's most exciting first-season sires in St Mark's Basilica.

Craig reported the ten-year-old to have a "lovely" Frankel yearling, while she is also the dam of the Listed-winning Reve De Vol and the promising Homeless Songs.

She said: “Joailliere's first foal was Reve De Vol and her second foal was Homeless Songs, who will be a good filly this year, and she has a very nice two-year-old Sea The Stars in training as well as a full-brother to Homeless Songs."

Sapphire bids to continue the remarkable legacy of Polished Gem and, having foaled a Dubawi filly last year, is in foal to No Nay Never and is booked in to champion miler Palace Pier.

Sapphire winning the Fillies' And Mares' Stakes at Ascot in 2012Credit: Edward Whitaker

The daughter of Medicean is the dam of two black-type performers in Federica Sophia and Kiss For A Jewel.

Craig said: "I thought there were two outstanding horses who retired to stud this year, which were Palace Pier and St Mark’s Basilica.

"I went to see Palace Pier in October and thought he was gorgeous. We’ve been going to Galileo with Sapphire and she might benefit from a bit more speed. Her Dubawi filly is very nice."

Kiss For A Jewel was Group 2-placed in the Kilboy Estate Stakes and the daughter of Kingman is down to be covered by Dark Angel, having produced a Frankel filly this year.

Craig said: "She was one considered for sale, but then she’s a Group 2 performer and is out of Sapphire, she was also sex-checked and found to be carrying a filly, so we decided to keep her."

Another daughter of Kingman, All Our Tomorrows, a product of Ballymacoll Stud and a 1,700,000gns purchase by Moyglare from Ballymacoll's dispersal in 2017, has been booked in to Lope De Vega.

“She’s had a very nice Dubawi filly," reported Craig. "She made all that money at the sales but rather got tripped up by her stable companion on her debut at Cork, and unfortunately it just didn’t happen for her on the racecourse.”

While Search For A Song remains in training, with connections hoping for more Group 1 success, her Galileo sister Amma Grace has been retired and will tread a familiar path to the great Dubawi.

“She was a Listed winner and Group-placed and is totally physically different to her sister Search For A Song," says Craig. "Search For A Song is tall and rangy while Amma is more like her mother and should be suited to Dubawi."

Another mare new to the Moyglare ranks is Sonaiyla, who was picked up from the Aga Khan Studs for 900,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale in 2020.

The daughter of Dark Angel remained in training last year, winning the Ballyogan Stakes as well as placing third behind Glass Slippers in the Flying Five Stakes for Paddy Twomey.

Fiona Craig: outlined plans for Moyglare's blue-blooded broodmaresCredit: Laura Green

Craig said: “She was going to go to Frankel last year and then Eva put her back into training and she won a Group 3. Sadly she then picked up a relatively minor injury, but will now do what she was bought to do, which is to go to Frankel."

Other notable mares heading to prominent stallions include Espoir D'Soleil, a well-bred Galileo half-sister to Tattersalls Gold Cup winner and dual Derby-placed Casual Conquest, who is in foal to Pinatubo and goes to Starspangledbanner, and Ribblesdale Stakes heroine Princess Highway, a Street Cry half-sister to Irish St Leger winner Royal Diamond and herself a daughter of a Ribblesdale winner in Irresistible Jewel, who is due to Too Darn Hot and heads next to Gleneagles.

Craig said: "We brought Princess Highway back from America as she’s been struggling a little bit. That family is very big and she was barren to Uncle Mo, so we went to Too Darn Hot and she’ll now go to Gleneagles because his stats are good and he probably should suit her physically."

Princess Highway's Indian Ridge half-sister Mad About You has a yearling filly by Showcasing, an Invincible Spirit filly foal and will now head to New Bay.

The 17-year-old has produced the winning Silver Flash Stakes third A Ma Chere, a daughter of Kodiac.

Also of note are Acapella Blu, a winning daughter of Dubawi and a Listed-winning sister to Breeders' Cup Turf winner Red Rocks, who has produced a filly by the recently retired Le Havre and visits Study Of Man, and Love In The Sun, a Kodiac close relation to four-time Hong Kong Group 1 winner Designs On Rome and the top level-placed Sights On Gold, who has a colt foal by Saxon Warrior and visits another Lanwades Stud sire in Sea The Moon.

Sorelle Delle Rose, a winning sister to Group 2 scorer Sovereign Debt, is in foal to Camelot and will next head to his studmate Australia, while Es Que - whose Moyglare-bred Sea The Stars filly Eclat De Lumiere showed serious promise last year, breaking her maiden at the Curragh in impressive fashion - is among Sea The Stars' harem of mares, and Listed Flat winner and Grade 1-winning hurdler Unaccompanied visits Make Believe after foaling to Australia.

Craig said of Unaccompanied's juvenile filly: "She has a Tamayuz two-year-old in training who is probably the best she’s had. She shows a bit of edge, but unfortunately Unaccompanied then lost her Camelot before slipping to Australia. Make Believe has shown he can get a good horse."

Among the mares who are due to foal late, and therefore will be rested, are Colour Bright, Liber Nauticus, Terrific, Midnight Sunshine, Titanium Sky and Chateau La Fleur.

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