Best On Breeding

Mark Smith - Friday July 8

A great-granddaughter of one of the incomparable Miesque making her career debut qualifies this filly for the Best On Breeding on Saturday.

The Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock-trained Ameerati faces off against a talented group of two-year-olds in the Take It To The Neds Level Handicap (1100m) at Caulfield.

There is not much love for her in betting. The daughter of Pride Of Dubai looks likely to go off as the outsider of the 13 acceptors.

Pride of Dubai

Ameerati carries the colours of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, who has invested a fortune in this family since purchasing the stakes-winning Woodman filly Moon Is Up through Tim Stakemire at Tattersalls in 2006.

Moon Is Up is a three-quarter sister to champion racehorse and sire Kingmambo and a half to Champion three-year-old filly East Of The Moon. The winner of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, Prix de Diane, Prix Jacques Le Marois, East of moon is the granddam of 4-time Group 1 winner Alpha Centauri.

Monevassia, a sister to Kingmambo, was a rare non-winner for Miesque, but she did not let the side down.

 The daughter of Mr Prospector is the dam of Rumplestiltskin (Danehill), European champion two-year-old filly of 2005 who won Moyglare Stud Stakes, Prix Marcel Boussac and is the dam of Group 1 winner Tapestry.

Monevassia is also the granddam of former Arrowfield shuttler Real Steel (JPN) and Yoshito Yahagi's extraordinary Loves Only You (JPN).

Ameerati is a half-sister to $1.1million Deep Impact colt Alzamee (image Gorge Sal/Racing photos)

Moon Is Up had six foals in Europe before arriving in Australia in foal to Pivotal in 2008.

Her first foal, Sun Is Up (Sunday Silence), failed to place in four starts, but she would gain international acclaim as the dam of Karakontie (Bernstein), winner of the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, Poule d'Essai des Poulains (2,000 Guineas), and Breeders' Cup Mile.

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Moon Is Up produced a Pivotal filly that raced in South Africa as Amanee. She was the most accomplished performer of her dam's 13 named foals, winning the Group 1 Thekwini Stakes at Greyville before retiring.

Sheikh Khalifa has given Amanee every chance to succeed at stud.

The daughter of Pivotal first visited Frankel, then Deep Impact twice before foaling Saturday's debutant Ameerati.

The Frankel filly Omneeya ran three thirds in five starts in England for Marco Botti and is now at stud in Australia, where she foaled a Kingman colt last spring before visiting Pride Of Dubai.

The first of the Deep Impact's, Abr Al Hudood (JPN), also raced in Europe, placing in two of her four starts for Hugo Palmer. She had a Sooboog colt last spring before slipping to North Pacific.

Amanee was off the mark with her third foal, the $1.1million Easter yearling Elzamee. A winner at Newcastle and Caulfield, the son of Deep Impact showed glimpses of top form for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace. He finished fourth in the Group II Alister Clark Stakes and fifth in the Group II Autumn Classic before failing behind Hitotsu in the ATC Australian Derby at Randwick.

Deep Field x Almanee yearling filly

Following Ameerati, Amanee produced a Deep Field filly that was bought by Arrowfield Training from the Coolmore draft for $170,000 at the Magic Millions in January.

 After foaling an American Pharoah (USA) filly last spring,  Amanee slipped to Wootton Bassett (GB).

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