The Cape Cross effect is already slipping through the generations: 20 of his first-crop daughters have three-year-olds, and two of them have already won at the very highest level. G1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Serious Attitude is out of a Cape Cross mare as is the magnificent G1 Japan Derby hero Logi Universe, who went through an unbeaten juvenile season on his way to classic glory.
In winning the Cheveley Park Stakes, Serious Attitude (pictured) was maintaining her spotless juvenile record and became the first top-flight winner for Cape Cross as a broodmare sire. Her dam Zameyla is a member of Cape Cross’s first crop and was twice a winner at three for Sheikh Ahmed before the paddocks beckoned.
Serious Attitude, by pensioned Darley stallion Mtoto, has added the G3 Summer Stakes at York to her record this year and is still unbeaten over six furlongs.
Meanwhile in Japan, Logi Universe, a grandson of Sunday Silence by his son Neo Universe, has been setting pulses racing with a four-length strike in the Japan Derby following up several wide-margin Stakes wins during his own unbeaten juvenile campaign. His dam Acoustics, also a member of Cape Cross’s first crop, is a grand-daughter of dual Falmouth Stakes winner Sonic Lady.
The Miniver Rose is another highly respectable performer from a Cape Cross mare. The daughter of High Chaparral is out of Sheikh Mohammed’s two-year-old winner Bloemfontain. The Miniver Rose is her first foal and she also won at two before finishing runner-up in the Listed Swettenham Stud Fillies’ Trial Stakes and fifth in the Oaks.
And, of course, we await the next chapter in the Ouija Board story with excitement. Her yearling colt by Kingmambo, already named Voodoo Prince, is set to make the short trip along Newmarket’s Snailwell Road from Stanley House Stud to Ed Dunlop’s La Grange Stables to start his training later this year. A top-class win for this particular individual would not be just another feather in Cape Cross’s cap but also a result cherished by all racing fans.
