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Daughter of former star Aussie sprinter wins at Royal Ascot.
Former star Australian sprinter Sea Siren was not able to win at Royal Ascot as a racehorse, but she has left her mark on the revered strip of turf as a broodmare.
Coolmore celebrated on Day 3 when the triple Group 1 winner's daughter Warm Heart made it three wins on end in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes (2405m).
Warm Heart is the first Group winner for Sea Siren, a daughter of Fastnet Rock whose four to race have all been by champion stallion Galileo.
"She's out of a great mare and usually those fillies with good pedigrees do improve and physically she's doing great," trainer Aidan O'Brien said after Warm Heart's win.
Warm Heart is the fourth to race from Sea Siren, who won the BTC Cup, Doomben Cup and Manikato Stakes at Group 1 level in 2012 and was sent to Ireland after her second placing to Epaulette in the 2013 Doomben 10,000.
She could manage only eighth placing in the 2013 Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes, won by Lethal Force, at Royal Ascot but bounced back to win the Listed Belgrave Stakes (1207m) at Fairyhouse in Ireland before Group 3 minor placings to round out her career.
Sea Siren's first to race was Celestial Object who won one of 11 and was placed at Group 3 level, while her other winner was Arbutus, who won on debut but was pulled up at his second start and did not race again.
Sea Siren returned to Australia after being covered by Camelot to Southern Hemisphere time in 2021, producing a colt, and she was last spring put to Coolmore's boom first-season sire Home Affairs.
