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Saffron Beach lands Oh So Sharp Stakes

The Jane Chapple-Hyam-trained Saffron Beach (2 f ex Falling Petals by Raven's Pass) took the step into stakes company in her stride as she produced an impressive performance to win the Oh So Sharp Stakes (Gr 3, 7f) at Newmarket on Friday and in the process handed first-season sire New Bay (Dubawi) with his second stakes winner.

Last seen making a winning debut over course and distance on September 26, the two-year-old filly beat Thank You Next (No Nay Never) by half a length, while Shine For You (Siyouni) was a further length and a quarter away in third.

Purchased by Norris / Huntingdon for 55,000gns at the 2018 Tattersalls December Foals Sale, the only winner out of winning mare Falling Petals (Raven’s Pass). 

Falling Petals is a half-sister to Continua (Elusive Quality) - the dam of dual Group 3 winner and now sire Cotai Glory (Exceed And Excel) and Listed scorer Permission (Authorized). 

The filly’s third dam is Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Eternal Rave (Diesis) and her six winners are headed by Listed scorer Moquette (Maria’s Mon), while she is also the grandam of New Zealand Listed winner Sweet Treat (Ekraar). 

An Exceed And Excel (Danehill) half-brother to Saffron Beach will be offered by Baroda Stud at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale which gets underway in Newmarket on Monday. The colt is catalogued as Lot 769.

Saffron Beach joins New Mandate as New Bay’s other stakes winner and he stood at Ballylinch Stud for a fee of €15,000 in 2020.

Saffron Beach makes it two out of two, winning the Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes at @NewmarketRace #ITVRacing pic.twitter.com/ZWhEpyVvU6

— ITV Racing (@itvracing) October 9, 2020