Listed success for Megallan

Kingman posted a new stakes winner yesterday (2nd April) when three-year-old Anthony Oppenheimer homebred Megallan scored in the Listed Burradon Stakes.

Taken from European Bloodstock News, 3rd April 2021:

Defeated by a short head in the Listed Spring Cup last time out, Megallan gained handsome compensation yesterday with the son of Kingman triumphing in the Listed Burradon Stakes at Newcastle.

Only four runners went to post for the 1m contest, but there was good form on the line, with three of them coming into the race off the back of a win – ironically, that trio did not include them eventual winner, who holds Classic entries.

Ghost Rider (Dark Angel) set the pace, tracked by Final Voyage (Camacho), with Megallan just on their heels. With two furlongs to go, the quartet formed a line across the track but Legion Of Honour (Wootton Bassett) and Megallan soon quickened past their rivals and settled down to battle it out to the line, with Megallan staying on well to score by half a length. The pair were eight and a half lengths ahead of the third-placed Final Voyage.

The winner, another stakes success for the newly-minted training partnership of John and Thady Gosden, is a homebred for Anthony Oppenheimer’s Hascombe and Valiant Stud. The three-year-old is out of the Listed Lord Weinstock Memorial Stakes winner Eastern Belle (Champs Elysees), who went on to be Gr.2-placed in the US. She is a half-sister to the outstanding middle-distance performer and sire Golden Horn, out of an unraced half-sister to the Gr.1 Coronation Stakes heroine Rebecca Sharp (Machiavellian), from the storied Hascombe family descending from Lora (Lorenzaccio).