French Stakes-Winner for Starspangledbanner

Tara Madgwick - Sunday July 31

Back at Coolmore Australia this spring, Starspangledbanner featured overnight with a new stakes-winner in France where four year-old mare Silver Rainbow took out the Listed Prix du Cercle at Deauville.

Sent out favourite for the five furlong sprint, the Charles Hills trained mare proved much too good in cruising clear to win by a length and a half.

Starspangledbanner

Silver Rainbow has won five of 12 starts and is the first Black Type winner for her dam Enchanting Way, a Linamix half-sister to US Group I winner Ashkal Way and US Group II winner Sentiero Italia.

She is the fifth stakes-winner worldwide for Starspangledbanner, who stands this spring at a fee of $24,750.

Despite his well-documented fertility issues, Starspangledbanner has put together some impressive statistics.

He has 72% winners to runners and 9.2% stakes-winners to runners, stats that mark him as a seriously good sire.

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