Seven-year-old Green Manalishi has been a wonderfully consistent campaigner for his connections with 11 wins and nine places throughout his admirable career. He returned to Chester on Saturday, scene of last year's victory in the Listed Queensferry Stakes, and he clearly thrives on the track's notably tight turns as he was triumphant again at Listed level, this time outgunning another popular sprinter, Borderlescott, in the City Wall Stakes over five furlongs.
The son of Green Desert was bred by Eddie Aldridge from the Hallgate mare Silca-Cisa, with whom he has enjoyed so much success through Green Manalishi's winning half-siblings Golden Silca, Silca's Sister, Silca Chiave and Silca Legend, all of whom are black type perfomers.
Green Desert has also become celebrated as a sire of sires and his son Kheleyf is doing him proud with his first crop of runers, which numbers among them 16 individual winners, including G3 winner Percolator and G2 runner-up Sayif, making him leading sire of two-year-olds and leading first-season sire in Europe.
