Sunday’s G1 Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Amusingly (No Nay Never) is out of the dual stakes winning Oasis Dream mare Joyeuse, who is a half-sister to Kikkuli (Picture: Sky Sports Racing)
Cape Breeders
Paardeberg Stud’s regally bred new stallion Kikkuli gained another handsome boost to his stellar pedigree on Sunday.
Kikkuli’s close relative Amusingly showed her class when she defeated males in Sunday’s G1 Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (1400m) at ParisLongchamp. Francis-Henri Graffard surprised many when switching his Juddmonte-owned filly from the Prix Marcel Boussac against her own sex, but the decision was well and truly vindicated. Colin Keane dropped Amusingly last in the early stages and she tracked the odds-on favourite Folsom Blues, with both travelling ominously well.
Joseph O’Brien’s National Stakes winner had no answer to the finishing burst of Amusingly, though, and the daughter of No Nay Never pulled away to win in tremendous fashion.
Winner of two of just three starts, the regally bred Amusingly is out of the dual stakes winning Oasis Dream mare Joyeuse, which makes her a full-sister to G2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Array.
Joyeuse (whose sire is very closely related to Kikkuli’s outstanding sire Kingman) is in turn a half-sister to three group winners headed by legendary racehorse and sire Frankel.
Joyeuse also numbers G3 Jersey Stakes runner up and exciting young sire Kikkuli as a half-brother, while her half-sister Chiasma is the dam of 2026 G3 Tattersalls Musidora Stakes winner and G1Betfred Oaks runner up Legacy Link.
