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The Weatherbys British EBF Agnes Keyser Fillies' Stakes at Goodwood always attracts some exciting three-year-old fillies and it consequently boasts a glittering roll of honour that features the subsequent top-level winners Sea Of Class, Speedy Boarding and Great Heavens.

I’m The One is aiming to follow in the footsteps of recent Oaks winners Light Shift, Enable and Minnie Hauk by warming up for Epsom with victory in the Weatherbys Cheshire Oaks.

Broodmare Game Of Legs will have eight legs running for her in Grade 1 races at The Festival this week as her two sons by Maxios, the eight-year-old Gaelic Warrior and her four-year-old Our Trigger, are both set to take on the best of the best at Prestbury Park.

Weatherbys is pleased to announce the appointment of John O’Reilly as Chair of the Board, effective immediately.

Entries for this year’s Weatherbys Champion Bumper – which, fittingly, will be run in the memory of Sir Johnny Weatherby – closed on Tuesday and there were few surprises.

Although we have still yet to identify a clear standout performer in the bumper division, the Champion Bumper picture is becoming a little clearer, with Willie Mullins – the dominant force in the Festival contest – having introduced a clutch of nice youngsters since the turn of the year.

Sands Of Mali’s impressive second season with runners in 2025 – headlined by the Commonwealth Cup victory of Time For Sandals and a Nunthorpe second for Ain’t Nobody – combined with the sire having a small third crop of yearlings conceived at Ballyhane Stud at a fee of just €5,000 created the perfect storm for the small number of breeders who kept the faith in him in 2023 to make some gigantic profits.

Coulsty has proved himself a firm friend of breeders on a budget, supplying a decent number of fast, early winners while standing at Rathasker Stud at chicken-feed fees.

Starman’s second crop of yearlings sold like hot cakes after he dazzled in his freshman season, delivering 45 winners and five black-type scorers in Europe – including Prix Morny heroine Venetian Sun – all at very creditable strike-rates.

Havana Grey is so popular that he figures highly in this list even though last season’s yearlings were conceived when his covering fee was more than trebled to £18,500 in the afterglow of his excellent freshman season. 

Minzaal’s first crop took the yearling sales by storm last season, selling for an outstanding average of €86,841 (68,352gns). No fewer than 19 lots changed hands for six-figure prices, hitting a high of 550,000gns for a half-sister to Asymmetric and Mill Stream sold by Redpender Stud to Amo Racing.