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Outstanding mare Jameka has cemented the standing of shuttle sire Myboycharlie has an accomplished Group One sire following her historic win in Saturday’s $3 million Caulfield Cup.

Myboycharlie, a G1 Prix Morny winner by Danetime, started his shuttle career in 2009 and has since sired G1 winners Peggy Jean and Euro Charline in both hemispheres and added a third when Jameka won the VRC Oaks at Flemington last spring.

To date Myboychjarlie is credited with 199 winners from 382 progeny to race earning of over $18 million. They include 13 stakes winners including his Australian stars Jameka, Peggy Jean, Charlie Boy, Blueberry Hill and Zelady’s Night Out.

He is enjoying a strong season in Europe where he is top of the 2YO sires’ table in France with 12 individual winners while his Irish-based 2YO Landfall won the G3 Golden Fleece Stakes at Leopardstown last month.

His influence has also spread to the US where his European-bred colt Royal By Nature maintained his unbeaten record in the recent Listed Sunday Silence Stakes at Louisiana Downs.

Jameka, a $130,000 Melbourne yearling purchase in 2014 by her trainer Ciaron Maher from the draft of her breeder Gilgai Farm, is the first mare to win a Caulfield Cup in the season after an Oaks victory at Flemington.

However she adds to an excellent record by mares in the Caulfield Cup, being the 12th of the sex to win the race since 1970. Her aim is to now join Rivette, Let’s Elope and Ethereal as the only mares to complete the Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double at Flemington on November 1.

If Jameka wins the $6.2 million Melbourne Cup she become the fourth-highest earning mare in Australasian racing history behind Makybe Diva, Sunline and Black Caviar..

Maher said Jameka was the yearling he wanted when he attended the 2014 sale.

"She was exquisite the way she moved,” said Maher. "I wasn't concerned what she was by or out of. I just had to have her.

“I didn’t have the $130,000 to buy her but I kept going as it was all on credit.”

Jameka (Myboycharlie x Mine Game by General Nediym) has now won five times with eight placings in her 19 starts for prize money totalling $3,670,725.

Her dam Mine Game won over 1400 metres and has produced three winners from as many foals to race including the G2 placed Nikitas (Snitzel).

Mine Game is a half-sister to seven winners including the G1 Canterbury Guineas winner Jymcarew (Danzero) and the stakes placed Born To Rule (Hennessy).

Jameka’s second dam Aperto is by Grosvenor and her third dam Pathos is by The Minstrel, both noted classic winning sires.

Gilgai Farm, breeders of Black Caviar and All Too Hard, has a Mine Game yearling filly by Snitzel’s WS Cox Plate winner Shamus Award that will be retained and also handed to Ciaron Maher to train.

The mare missed to getting in foal to Redoute’s Choice in 2015 but she was covered last month by Myboycharlie.