Wide-margin Auteuil Grade 1 winner for Glenview Stud recruit Blue Bresil

Glenview Stud's acquisition of Blue Bresil ahead of next year's breeding season has been endorsed by the wide-margin victory of the sire's daughter L'Autonomie in a prestigious Grade 1 hurdle for four-year-olds at Auteuil on Sunday.

Trained by Francois Nicolle for her owner and breeder Catherine Coiffier, the filly made all the running in the Prix Renaud du Vivier and drew clear to win by 18 lengths unchallenged from Cotee Sud, a daughter of Lord Du Sud.

This was the fourth impressive Graded success at Auteuil for L'Autonomie on the bounce, as she took the Prix Questarabad by four lengths in June, the Prix de Maisons-Laffitte by five and a half lengths in September and the Prix Pierre de Lassus by 15 lengths last month.

She has now won seven of her ten starts and also finished third in France's premier three-year-old hurdle, the Prix Cambaceres, last November.

L'Autonomie is the fifth foal out of the Kahyasi mare L'Automne and her sole winner, with two previous runners having 19 starts without success between them. The dam's lone victory from 18 starts for Tony Clout came in an ordinary ten-furlong handicap at Maisons-Laffitte.

Although L'Automne's racing career was nothing to shout about, and nor was her progeny record before the emergence of L'Autonomie, there are traces of talent in her pedigree.

As well as being by Kahyasi, the dual Derby hero who supplied high-class jumpers such as Kalahari King, Kasbah Bliss and Paddy's Return, she is out of L'Authie, a daughter of Linamix who won six races – three on the Flat and three over hurdles – and actually finished third in the Prix Renaud du Vivier herself ten years ago.

L'Authie is a half-sister to Clety, a Listed scorer who finished third at the highest level on the Flat in the Prix Royal-Oak, and to Listed-winning hurdler Hurtevent.

It is also the family of Saint Palois, a Grade 2-winning and multiple Grade 1-placed chaser at Auteuil, and Label Des Obeaux, successful in the Grade 2 Winter Novices' Hurdle for Alan King.

JD Moore gave €30,000 for L'Autonomie's three-year-old half-brother L'Autodidacte, by Diamond Boy, at last year's Arqana Summer Sale.

Blue Bresil, a son of Smadoun who was Group 2-placed on the Flat and Grade 2-placed over hurdles, retired to Haras de la Croix Sonnet in 2010 and was switched to Yorton Farm in 2016, where he has spent the last four seasons.

He has emerged as a handy jumps sire, with his best runners on Racing Post Ratings being dual Grade 2 winner and Grand Annual Chase victor Le Prezien and Leopardstown Grade 1 hurdle scorer Mick Jazz, both with career-high marks of 160.

Blue Bresil is also responsible for prolific Auteuil winner Saint Goustan Blue, last season's Scottish Grand National fourth Blue Flight and another Cheltenham Festival winner in Ibis Du Rheu, who took the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys Handicap Hurdle.

The stallion, whose first five crops comprised between only 31 and 62 foals each, has also enjoyed a fruitful few years in the sales ring.

Tom Malone and Paul Nicholls teamed up to buy his three-year-old gelding out of Maralypha for €200,000 at this year's Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale, while Donnchadh Doyle sold Big Bresil, a runner-up to Papa Tango Charly on his only start in a Liscarroll maiden, for £170,000 to Roger Brookhouse at the Aintree Sale in April.

Such success resulted in the stallion being snapped up to stand at Glenview Stud, the jumps arm of Rathbarry Stud in County Cork, from 2020.

The operation's Catherine Cashman said when the arrangement was made public in August: “What he's done so far, he's done it from very limited crops.

“We're hopeful the best is yet to come, especially when those bigger crops start coming through.”

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