Another Top Class Filly for Myboycharlie

Mark Smith - Sunday July 22

After surviving the ebbs and flows of the stallion market for nine years, covering as high as 196 mares in 2012 and as low as 52 in 2016, Myboycharlie (IRE) will not be returning to our shores this year.

The son of Danetime sure knows how to get a top filly.

Look no further than the triple Group 1 winner Jameka who is back in training with Ciaron Maher after Col McKenna bought her back for $2.6 million at the recent Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.

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Then there is Triple Crown's Group 1 Champagne Stakes heroine Peggy Jean who was sold to Widden Stud for $1 million before her tragic death last year shortly after foaling a colt by Medaglia d'Oro (USA), having left a filly by I Am Invincible the previous year.


In the northern hemisphere there's the remarkable Euro Charline who rose from humble beginnings in England to win the Grade 1 Beverley D Stakes and finish runner-up in the 6 million Dubai Turf, the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes and the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes.

At Saratoga on Saturday, Myboycharlie's daughter Sistercharlie (Ire) added the Grade 1 Diana Stakes at Saratoga to her previous win at the highest level in the Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland back in April.

Coming from well back in the field under John Velazquez, Sistercharlie overpowered Ultra Brat in the final few strides.

Laid up after contracting pneumonia after finishing second in the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes last July in her United States debut, the Chad Brown-trained mare was coming off a narrow defeat in the Grade II New York Stakes at Belmont.

A bargain basement 12,000 euro purchase the 2015 Arqana Sale, Sistercharlie won the Group III Prix Penelope and was runner-up in the Group 1 Prix de Diane before continuing her career Stateside.

Brown said the daughter of Myboycharlie had made a remarkable recovery from a possible career ending sickness.

"She was pretty sick with a lung infection. Fortunately, we were able to overcome it with an excellent team of veterinarians," Brown told The Blood-Horse.

"You needed patience, and (owner) Peter Brant is a veteran in this game. He understands patience. He's seen all aspects of it. We gave her all the time she needed and developed her along the way.

"This isn't her ideal distance, nor was the mile and a sixteenth in the Jenny Wiley. But just with sheer class, heart, and ability, she can do it."

Sistercharlie advances her overall record to 5 wins and 3 seconds from 9 starts with earnings of $US1,126,403.

A half-sister to the stakes-paced Sister Nat (Acclamation), Sistercharlie is out of the Galileo mare Starlet's Sister who is a sister to Group III Prix Cleopatre winner Leo's Starlet and a half-sister to Anabaa's Creation (Anabaa), a stakes-winner in France who placed in the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes and Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary.

Starlet's Sister foaled a Fastnet Rock filly this year.

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