The good times continue to roll for our shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain with his first crop Northern Hemisphere representatives breaking new ground.The multiple Group 1-winning son of Kodiac is the only freshman sire in Europe to have produced a brace of Group winners following the latest success of Electrolyte.It was a richly deserved victory for the colt in the G3 Prix Eclipse at Chantilly after his narrow defeat in the G2 Royal Ascot Coventry Stakes.It was another close call for Electrolyte, but this time he was on the right side of a tight finish.They were taking their time with the camera angles and I thought poor horse, if he’s been done again,” trainer Archie Watson told the Racing Post.He deserved that and I think we’re learning more about him. We stepped him up to seven furlongs at Goodwood, but I think he showed there that coming back to six furlongs was the right thing. I think six furlongs on good ground is going to be his thing.Watson is now considering a return to France in three weeks for the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte.If the ground was good, that would be our aim. If he doesn't go there, I would imagine he'll be put away for next year and hopefully he can be a Commonwealth Cup (G1, 1200m) horse, as we know he likes Ascot,” he said.Should Electrolyte take aim at the Maisons-Laffitte, he would be chasing a notable family double.The 1200 metre feature was claimed in 2018 by his sire, whose son Beau Gars also won in France at the weekend.He has now produced 12 winners in Europe from 31 runners and a tally that features the G3 Prix Des Chenes victor Misunderstood.Meanwhile, Hello Youmzain’s first Southern Hemisphere crop of two-year-olds are up and running and includes the Darryn and Briar Weatherley-trained Bulgari, a winner at his first trial outing at Rotorua last week.The colt was sold by breeder Jamieson Park at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for $220,000 to Weatherley Bloodstock and is a son of the stakes performed O’Reilly mare O’Naturelle and the family of the stable’s G1 2000 Guineas winner Pier.

Quality staying mare Positivity has booked her spot in a spring major with a determined second-up display.The Andrew Forsman-trained daughter of our resident sire Almanzor finished second when resuming in the Listed Heatherlie Handicap and went one better in the G3 Foundation Cup to seal her berth in the G1 Caulfield Cup.“That’s a pretty incredible feeling,” Forsman’s Flemington stable representative Chloe Cumming said. “She's been super in her work coming into this and she looks amazing, so to see her get it on the line is pretty incredible.“She’s come a long way since she came over in the autumn. She’s acclimatised and she’s been thriving since she’s been over here. She’s been loving it.”Positivity was given an economical run in third spot on the fence by Harry Coffey who angled the four-year-old into the clear 300 metres from home and she rounded off strongly to earn a $17 quote for the Caulfield Cup.“She’s a real scopey, lengthy type. I don't reckon she actually knows what’s going on fully yet, still a lot of raw ability there, but it’s good for her to win this race,” Coffey said.“I suppose she’s going to get into the Caulfield Cup with no weight. “I might have to get on the brown rice diet to ride her, but all you can do is win and that’s what she’s doing, so she’s going the right way.”Positivity also enjoyed a lucrative three-year-old season and won the G3 Sunline Vase and finished runner-up in the G1 New Zealand Oaks before claiming the G3 South Australian Fillies’ Classic.She was bred by Sir Patrick and Justine Lady Hogan with Peter Walker and was purchased out of Woburn Farm’s draft at Karaka by Ben Kwok for $160,000.The filly is a daughter of the stakes-winning O’Reilly mare Pussy O’Reilly, who also finished runner-up in the G1 Makfi Challenge Stakes.

Luberon earned a gold medal for bravery following her impressive return to competition at Ellerslie.Our game daughter of Embellish was making her first appearance since January, but trainer Lance Noble presented her in terrific order to resume in Rating 75 company over 1200 metres.However, Luberon had no favours in the running and was caught three wide without cover from an outside barrier.She dug deep under her 58.5kg to answer every call from rider Warren Kennedy in the straight to get in the deciding stride.“That was a very good first-up performance, she’s always shown a lot of ability, and we thought she had come back in good order this time in,” Noble said.“For her to show the ticker that she did, find the line so strongly and get the win, it was a very pleasing way to start her season.”Noble said there were not specific targets in mind for the mare, although the G3 Counties Bowl in November might be an attractive option for ore black type.Luberon was a winner and ran third in the Listed Challenge Stakes as a two-year-old and added two further victories last season and placed in the G2 Auckland Guineas after finishing fourth in the G1 1000 Guineas.We bred the mare who is a daughter of the unraced Fastnet Rock mare Elegant Achiever and her pedigree page features the European Group winners Wunder’s Dream, Grecian Dancer, Muffri’ha, Asymetric and Mill Stream.Also the dam of the multiple winner Ellmaknifico, Elegant Achiever has a juvenile sister to Luberon named So We Go and is due to foal to Almanzor.