Regally-bred newcomers put Friday focus on Doncaster

Molly Hunter
October 24, 2024 2:57 pm

Queen Of Thieves and Kaleido are bred in the purple.

A full-sister to the mighty Cracksman will be in action at Doncaster on Friday as Queen Of Thieves makes her racecourse debut.

Cracksman, who now stands at Dalham Hall Stud, is an eight-time winner with four Group Ones on his CV including the Prix Ganay, the Coronation Cup and two renewals of the Qipco Champion Stakes.

He is by Frankel and out of the mare Rhadegunda, making him a full sibling to British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes entrant Queen Of Thieves.

Both Cracksman and his younger sister are owned and were bred by Anthony Oppenheimer, with John and Thady Gosden’s Clarehaven Stables the base responsible for both.

The Gosdens have used the race to good effect in the past, winning with subsequent Oaks heroine Soul Sister in 2022 and French Oaks winner Star Of Seville in 2014.

Oppenheimer has enjoyed a victory in the Town Moor contest also as Domino Darling took first place in 2019.

The owner said of Queen Of Thieves: “It will be an exciting day.

“She is a full-sister to Cracksman, and I have another Cracksman running on Saturday at Newbury, Danielle, though that meeting may be cancelled but we’ll see.

“We have won this race before and it has produced an Oaks winner (Soul Sister), so that’s quite something.”

Another Doncaster debutant with a notable pedigree, again for the Gosden team, is Kaleido in the Join Century Racing Club Today EBF Maiden Stakes.

Owned by Prince Faisal, the colt is by Make Believe out of Contradict and is therefore a full-brother to Mishriff – winner of the Prix du Jockey Club, Saudi Cup, Sheema Classic and the Juddmonte International.