Pedigree Watch – UK, France - Sea the Stars

Tara Madgwick - Wednesday May 18

Galileo’s champion half-brother Sea the Stars was making his presence felt overnight siring one new stakes-winner for Godolphin and also the dam of another new stakes-winner, both of them 4YO mares with big pedigrees.

The Listed Prix Urban Sea (2000m) at Le Lion-D’angers  was won by Godolphin homebred 4YO mare Sundoro, a half-sister by Sea the Stars to Champion 2YO and 3YO Colt Pinatubo.
 



Trained by Henri-Alex Pantall, she was stakes-placed last year, and this was her third win from 10 starts.



She is the 91st stakes-winner for Sea the Stars and is the second stakes-winner from stakes-=winning Dalakhani mare Lava Flow,  whose third dam is blue hen Eljazzi, whose descendants include champion sires Invincible Spirit and Kodiac as well as Group I winners Rafha, Pride of Dubai, Mishriff, Nayarra, Chinese White and Uni.

The Listed Rothesay Stakes (1m2f) at Ayr was won in spectacular fashion by 4YO Lope de Vega mare My Astra trained by William Haggas.

 



The lightly raced mare bolted in by 12 lengths with connections now looking at Group I targets for My Astra, who had been stakes-placed twice previously and has now won three of five starts and place in the other two.
 


A homebred for Sunderland Holdings, My Astra is the 94th stakes-winner for Lope de Vega and is a half-sister to Group III winner My Oberon from Group III winning Sea the Stars mare My Titania.

My Astra is the 14th stakes-winner for Sea the Stars as a broodmare sire.

Foaled in 2006, Sea the Stars is a younger half-brother to Galileo, who was foaled in 1998. He stands at the Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud in Ireland at a fee of 150,000 euros.


 

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