Viadera is the first Gr1 winner for Bated Breath with her victory in Sunday’s Matriarch Stakes (8f) for fillies and mares on turf at Del Mar.
Viadera settled towards the rear and was still well back into the lane, swinging widest of all and then finishing with intent to get up and edge Blowout (Dansili) by a nose with Juliet Foxtrot (Dansili) a half-length away in third. (pic: Del Mar/Benoit)
A Listed winner in Ireland where she was trained by Ger Lyons, the Juddmonte-homebred Viadera is now the winner of six of her 13 races, four of them at stakes level.
She is a half-sister to three winners including dual UK Listed winner Crossed Baton (Dansili), also Gr2-placed in France.
The dam Sacred Shield (Beat Hollow) won twice in England and a three-quarter sister to Clepsydra (Sadler’s Wells), the winning dam of four stakes winners including Gr1 winners Timepiece (Zamindar) and Passage Of Time (Dansili), the dam of Gr2 winner Time Test (Dubawi).
Sacred Shield is a half-sister to Lingfield Oaks Trial winner Double Crossed (Caerleon), the dam of four-time Gr1 winner Twice Over (Observatory).
The granddam Quandary (Blushing Groom) won the Listed Jane Seymour Stakes at Newmarket and a half-sister to three stakes winners including All At Sea.
Bated Breath (Dansili) stands at Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket where he is advertised at £12,500 in 2021.