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The exciting rise of sophomore stallion Dutch Art continued on Monday when his first crop star Caspar Netscher won the Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen (German 2000 Guineas) in Cologne.

The Alan McCabe-trained Caspar Netscher won the Greenham Stakes on his seasonal reappearance followed by a ninth in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket won by Camelot.

Caspar Netscher, one of Dutch Art's 33 individual first-crop winners, won last year's Gimcrack and Mill Reef Stakes and was placed in the Richmond, Rose Bowl and Windsor Castle Stakes.

He was bred by Meon Valley Stud out of the unraced mare Bella Cantata, a daughter of Singspiel and a three-parts sister to Prince of Wales's Stakes winner Stagecraft, out of Prix de l'Opera winner Bella Colora.

Bella Colora was out of Meon Valley matriarch Reprocolor, ancestress of numerous high-class performers including Cezanne, Kayf Tara, Opera House and Lyric Of Light.

Caspar Netscher represents a notable pinhooking success for jump jockey Katie Walsh, who bought the colt as a yearling for 25,000gns and resold him to Alan McCabe as a two-year-old for 65,000gns.

Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes winner Dutch Art, a son of Medicean, stands at Cheveley Park Stud.