Darley shuttler Pinatubo (IRE) will have a great chance in the $1million Group III MRC Thoroughbred Club Stakes (1200m) at Sandown on Saturday with 3YO filly Sequinned and overnight in France he added a new stakes-winner to his tally.
Trained by Paddy Twomey and ridden by Pierre-Charles Boudot, Churchill Bond ran out an easy winner of the Listed Critérium du Languedoc (1600m) at Toulouse.
Mercredi à Toulouse : ?????????????????? ???????? (P. Twomey) frappe d'emblée ! ??? Pour sa première tentative dans l'hexagone, la fille de Pinatubo repousse les assauts dans le Critérium du Languedoc - Prix Bernard de Marmiesse (Listed), sous la selle de @PCBOUDOT https://t.co/hc4z0rhg1a
— Equidia (@equidia) November 11, 2026
With two wins from six starts, Churchill Bond is the first stakes-winner among three winners from Belle D’Or, a stakes-winning half-sister by Medaglia D’Oro to Group I winners Footstepsinthesand and Pedro the Great.
She was purchased for €300,000 by her trainer on behalf of Bond Thoroughbred Ltd at this year’s Arqana May Breeze Up Sale.

She is the 15th stakes-winner for Pinatubo, who has had G1 winners in both hemispheres this year and is back at Darley NSW this spring at a fee of $27,500.
Pinatubo has 11 entries for MM 2027.









