Under the Radar: Heiress (GB)

In the latest of this “dark horses” series, the subject is the John Gosden-trained Newmarket maiden winner Heiress.

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Twenty years on from the G1 Epsom Oaks victory of the dam, Trevor Harris's Lordship Stud just might have something to look forward to this summer. The half-sister to the 2006 G1 St Leger hero Sixties Icon (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) looked every inch a potential class act when beating a subsequent winner decisively over seven furlongs at Newmarket in November. Love Divine, who shared a similarly unexposed profile at the end of her 2-year-old career before making up ground quickly prior to the Oaks, has only produced one filly to have lived long enough to become a broodmare and this one has real potential on the track and residually for the Newmarket establishment. The second dam La Sky (Ire) (Law Society) was one of Harris's foundation mares and having been second in the G3 Lancashire Oaks also produced the listed-winning Floreeda (GB) (Linamix {Fr}) and Dark Promise (GB) (Shamardal), as well as the dam of the triple Hong Kong Group 1 winner Dunboyne Express (Ire) (Shamardal). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.