Epsom Classic double for Urban Sea puts mare in exalted company

13 Jun 2014

Epsom was a fine illustration of the ever increasing influence of Urban Sea, who is the granddam of both Australia and Taghrooda through her sons Galileo and Sea The Stars. By the law of averages, it is naturally more difficult for a mare to exert the same level of influence on a race, which makes Urban Sea’s domination last week all the more remarkable.

 

The daughter of Miswaki, a FF280,000 yearling purchase by Jean Lesbordes, who would train her to win the 1993 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for David Tsui, was already part of a select Epsom band as the dam of two Derby winners.

 

Urban Sea can boast three Group 1-producing sire sons in Galileo, Black Sam Bellamy and Sea The Stars, which places her in even further exalted company. Adding further lustre to the record of her immediate family and dam, Allegretta, is the fact her half-brother, King’s Best, sired the 2010 Derby winner Workforce.

 

Given the unrelenting dominance of Galileo and increasing success of Sea The Stars, it is not inconceivable the name of Urban Sea who died in 2009, will be behind another Classic double in the future.

 

No doubt more breeders will soon take the opportunity to inbreed to the mare, a path Jim Bolger has already trodden, but in the meantime there is also the prospect of watching her final foal, Born To Sea, find his way at stud.

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