First-season sire Epaulette added a new winner in convincing fashion on 20 July when his son Doublet led from pillar to post to land the 1400m maiden at Epsom.
Breaking smartly and sent straight to the front under Franny Norton, the Mark Johnston-trained colt was asked for his effort 400m from home and found plenty inside the final 200m to win authoritatively by two lengths.
Doublet was bred by T & B Jones and was a €150,000 yearling. He is out of the winning Araafa mare Biaarafa, herself a daughter of G1 Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Bianca Nera – granddam of Dubawi’s four-time G1 winner Postponed.
Epaulette, a dual G1 winner at three, is also sire of first-time-out winners Chookie Dunedin and International Man, plus Fas le Fios, successful at Maisons-Laffitte earlier this year.
He stands at Kelvinside at a fee of $22,000 including GST.
