The Group I Moyglare Stud Stakes (7f) at the Curragh overnight was expected to be won by the hot favourite Sun Goddess and the Sioux Nation filly did not disappoint.
She thrashed her rivals to win by six and a half lengths for Ryan Moore taking her overall to five wins and two seconds from seven starts.
Her trainer Aidan O’Brien declared the filly a freak and her season may not be over yet either.
Sun Goddess runs for the Coolmore partners and was purchased at the Goffs Premier UK Yearling Sale for £120,000 by Avenue Bloodstock for MV Magnier.
She is the first winner from Etoile Bleu, an unraced half-sister by Starspangledbanner to South African Group II winner Gibraltar Blue and Group III winner Scream Blue Murder, the grand-dam of this year’s Group I winning 3YO Thesecretadversary.
The family has an interesting offshoot in Australia with Iiex Excelsa (IRE), a Group III placed half-sister to the dam of Sun Goddess now at stud here.
She produced four foals for Coolmore, none of which have raced yet and was sold through Inglis Digital in June this year for just $13,000 in foal to Storm Boy to Nathan Hebbard.
Iiex Excelsa has foaled this spring producing this filly by Storm Boy, so Mr Hebbard might have gotten a bargain with not only Sun Goddess, but also another Group I winner Thesecretadversary, also popping into the pedigree.
Sun Goddess is the second Group I winner among 27 SW’s for Scat Daddy stallion Sioux Nation, who shuttled to Swettenham Stud in Victoria in 2019 for one season and interestingly his first Group I winner was produced from that one Aussie crop with Socks Nation winning the Group I BRC Queensland Oaks.
Sioux Nation stands at a fee of €37,500 at Coolmore Ireland and has his biggest ever foal crop out running this year as 2YOs and it has already produced 34 winners with Sun Goddess one of five SW’s.
Sun Goddess is a history maker as the first Group I winner as a broodmare sire for Starspangledbanner.
