Atlantis Star and Behkabad gave their sire Cape Cross (pictured) a cross-Channel double on Wednesday when winning at Pontefract and Deauville respectively.
Atlantis Star, out of the Dubai Millennium mare Ladeena, made an impressive winning debut for Godolphin to run out the six-length winner of the six-furlong maiden. He is the second wide-margin two-year-old maiden winner for the stable in less than a week following the easy victory of Poet’s Voice, by Dubawi, at Newmarket on Friday.
The Aga Khan’s homebred Behkabad is now unbeaten in two starts after landing a conditions race at Deauville. Out of the Group Two winner Behkara, he is a half-brother to Listed winner Beheshtam.
Also in winning action on Wednesday was Jutland, a colt by Halling out of the Darshaan mare Dramatique. Having won the seven-furlong maiden at Brighton by a length and a half, the Darley-bred colt has the G2 Royal Lodge Stakes as a potential engagement later in the season. Dramatique has since produced a yearling fill-brother to Jutland and has a Cape Cross colt foal.
Halling could find himself double-handed in the Royal Lodge Stakes as another of his sons, the 98P-rated juvenile Layali Al Andalus, also holds entries for that race along with the Champagne Stakes and the G1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes.
