First Runner, First Winner For Starman

Dundalk's gossip was red-hot about the debutante Lady Iman (Ire) on Friday and the 4-6 favourite did not disappoint to get her Tally-Ho Stud-based first-season sire Starman (GB) off to a flyer. Happy to stalk early, the Ger Lyons-trained half-sister to the G2 Blue Point Sprint and G3 Nad Al Sheba Turf Sprint winner West Acre (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) took control two out and despite running green was the authoritative 3 1/2-length winner from Stop The Nation (Ire) (Sioux Nation).

“We thought she was a nice filly and she is,” jockey Colin Keane said. “You'd imagine she'd be better going another furlong and she's a typical Tally-Ho, very professional and she ticks a lot of boxes.”

Trainer Ger Lyons added, “She has a temperament to die for and she should improve for that, so hopefully she's a stakes filly in the making. That stakes race in Naas [the G3 Fillies' Sprint Stakes] is always on my agenda. I've three of these [Starman juveniles] at home and the one thing they have in common is their temperament, so congratulations to Tally-Ho. They've found another one.”

Off to a flyer 👊

Lady Iman gets off the mark in dominant fashion on debut, providing first-season sire Starman with his first winner.@ctkjockey | @DundalkStadium pic.twitter.com/IsAcksPuLU

— Racing TV (@RacingTV) March 28, 2025

The winner is the third foal out of the dam, who was runner-up in the G3 Dick Poole Stakes and whose aforementioned West Acre is threatening to become one of Europe's leading sprinters in 2025. A half to the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes runner-up Union Rose (GB) (Stimulation {Ire}) related to the G2 Gimcrack Stakes second Taajub (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) and the Listed Spring Cup scorer Iconic Moment (Ire) (Harry Angel {Ire}), she has a yearling colt by Persian Force (Ire) to come.

4th-Dundalk, €25,000, Mdn, 3-28, 2yo, 5f (AWT), 1:00.05, st.
LADY IMAN (IRE) (f, 2, Starman {GB}–Lady Aria {GB} {GSP-Eng}, by Kodiac {GB}) Sales history: £185,000 Ylg '24 GOFFUK. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $16,203. O-Anthony F O'Callaghan; B-Tally Ho Stud (IRE); T-Ger Lyons.