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BEL MER, winner of the Group I Robert Sangster Stakes. BLACK CAVIAR, unbeaten star, a winner at Group II level and destined for Group I glory. These top class females share the same sire, BEL ESPRIT.

Blinding speed would be an applicable term to describe BEL ESPRIT’s career, with the stallion good enough to win the Group I Blue Diamond Stakes as part of a juvenile season in which he tasted defeat once in six starts. BEL ESPRIT raced and beat top class gallopers such as successful stallions DELAGO BROM, CHOISIR and DASH FOR CASH as well as superstar mares such as PRIVATE STEER and SPINNING HILL.

BEL ESPRIT won stakes races at two, three and four, culminating with a gritty win in the Group I Doomben 10,000. BEL ESPRIT has sired eight stakeswinners with four of his progeny greeting the judge at Group level, all of them being fillies.

This filly is out of the Yeats mare INNOCENT GYPSY, the dam of four winners from five progeny to race including the city winners MY CHINESE KING and NOTHIN’ LEICA KING as well as HUMOR KING who won two of his three starts in Hong Kong. INNOCENT GYPSY is a half-sister to INNOCENT KING (AJC Australian Derby) and ROYAL SNACK (Sandown Cup and four Moe Cups). This filly boasts a 3 x 3 cross of NIJINSKY II, the sire of 47 stakeswinners and 73 stakes wins all over the world, including stars such as CAERLEON, FERDINAND, LAMMTARRA, ROYAL ACADEMY and SKY CLASSIC. This outstanding type is also bred on the same Nijinsky II / Northern Dancer cross as BLACK CAVIAR.
 

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