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She is from the only crop of the
Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Iceman, who was also placed in the Group 1 Middle Park, the Dewhurst Stakes and the Group 2 Champagne Stakes for owner-breeder Cheveley Park Stud.
He was a Polar Falcon three-parts brother to the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes winner Virtual from the family of Entrepreneur and Exclusive.
Dijarvo is a half-sister to Baileys Applause, a winner by Royal Applause and the dam
of the Group 2 Lowther and Duchess of Cambridge Stakes third, and Group 3 Grangecon Stud Stakes third Mamba Noire (Iffraaj).
His second dam Thicket is a daughter
of Wolfhound, a winner at two, the dam of eight winners and out of the Listed St Hugh’s
Stakes third Sharpthorne, whose two wins were at 6f.
She is a Sharpen Up daughter of Abeer and a half-sister to the Listed winner Cloud Forest.
It is a Juddmonte family up to Thicket, who was bred and raced by Prince Khalid Abdullah’s operation.
Showcasing’s best offspring represent a number of sire lines with the Polar Falcon branch of Nureyev appearing the best so far with Soldier’s Call and Advertise, who is out of a Pivotal mare.
The Inchinor branch of Ahonoora’s
line has also provided Showcasing with
2019 Group 3 Greenham Stakes winner Mohaather, as well as full-sister Prize Exhibit, who won at Grade 2 and 3 level and was Grade 1 third in the Del Mar Oaks. So mares by Inchinor and Indian Ridge could work and Soldier’s Call would bring speed to daughters of Notnowcato.
The Group 1 Commonwealth and Haydock Sprint Cup winner Quiet Reflection is out of a Haafhd mare, while the Group 2 winner and sire Tasleet is out of a mare by Cadeaux Genereux.
Showcasing’s son Capella Sansevero, winner of the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes, third in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes and second in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes, sired the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Pierre Lapin from his first crop.
He is out of a Royal Applause mare and Royal Applause’s son Acclamation, is out of a mare by Ahonoora, so his daughters would look ideal candidates for Soldier’s Call.
€/£10,000>>€/£5,000
Crystal Ocean
Sea The Stars – Crystal Star (Mark Of Esteem)
Coolmore Beeches Stud
€8,000
A fascinating recruit straight to the NH stallion ranks, Crystal Ocean displayed talent, class and heart during a 17-race career in which he never once finished outside of the first three.
Despite butting heads with Cracksman and Enable, the Sir Michael Stoute-trained son of outstanding champion and leading sire Sea The Stars earned an official rating of 129 and a Timeform mark of 131.
He made one start at two finishing second in a 7f maiden beaten just a neck. At three he broke his maiden on his first start winning over 1m2f and then followed up with a pair of Group 2 thirds in the Dante Stakes and the
King Edward VII Stakes.
He made the Group race break-through on
his next start in the Group 3 Gordon Stakes and then failed by just half a length to win the St Leger finishing second to another new Coolmore NH stallion, Capri.
Behind him that day at Doncaster was paternal half-brother and brilliant stayer Stradivarius, the subsequent Group 1 Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling and the future Group 1 winners Coronet and Defoe.
He won his first three starts at four taking in the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes and
Group 3 Gordon and Aston Park Stakes.
On his second Group 1 attempt he finished half a length second to Poet’s Word in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes before finishing second to Enable over 1m4f at Kempton and then filling the same position behind Cracksman in the 1m2f Group 1 Champions’ Stakes.
Kept in training as a five-year-old he won back-to-back renewals of the Gordon and Aston Stakes before gaining a deserved first Group 1 success defeating Magical in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.
He gave Enable 3lb in the 2019 King George and went down by just a neck, giving his all in a thrilling battle up the Ascot home straight. He then attempted to give 7lb to Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris winner Japan in the Group 1 Juddmonte Stakes losing out by just a head to his younger rival, again giving everything.
That would prove to be his final start as he suffered a career-ending injury on the gallops while training for the Arc and Champions’ Stakes.
He is one of 12 Group 1 winners by the wonderful Sea The Stars who is operating
on a 12 per cent lifetime stakes winners to runners ratio and a brilliant 68 per cent of his runners so far have won.
Crystal Ocean is the highest-rated of his progeny so far, but he is also the sire of the star stayer Stradivarius, Star Catcher, who won a trio of Group 1 races in 2019 – the Irish Oaks, the Prix Vermeille and the British Champions’ Fillies and Mares Stakes – after her Ribblesdale Stakes win.
Along with Crystal Ocean and Stradivarius, she was one of three Royal Ascot Group winners for Sea The Stars in 2019.
Of particular note for breeders is the success Sea The Stars has had with daughters of Sadler’s Wells – Taghrooda, who on ratings is the second best by her sire, leading a list of Group winners that includes Storm The Stars, Knight To Behold, Almodovar and Raa Atoll, while Star Catcher is out of a mare by Horse
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