Gr3 Mermaid Stakes (2000m) at Hanshin winner Summer Scent is SW18 for Harbinger.
Raced by Godolphin and bred by Darley’s Japan arm, Summer Scent defeated Centelleo (Deep Impact) by three-quarters of a length to post her fourth win from 12 starts.
Summer Scent is a half-sister to five winners including Sun Lane (Oasis Dream). Their dam Primrose Lane Sunday Silence) won three races in Australia including one at Flemington.
She is a sister to Gr3 Princess Elizabeth Stakes at Epsom winner and Gr1 1000 Gns runner-up Sundrop, the dam of French Listed winner Nature’s Colors (Poet’s Voice) and Champion 2YO Trophy at Ripon winner Whitman (Poet’s Voice).
The granddam Oenothera (Night Shift) won the Listed Robert Pferdmenges Rennen at Hoppegarten and a half-sister to Gr1 winner.
Gr1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Harbinger (Dansili) has enjoyed good success with mares by Sunday Silence including Gr1 Persian Knight, Gr2 Dreadnoughtus, Gr3 Beruf and Figlia Pura.
His Gr1 winner Deirdre is out of a mare by Special Week (Sunday Silence) and he has Gr1 winner Normcore with Sunday Silence as her maternal grandsire.
Harbinger stands at Shadai Stallion Station on Hokkaido where he is advertised at ¥6,000,000 in 2020.