The rich bay filly is from the Gone West mare, No Reserve, who is owned by Mr Phillip Freedman of the United Kingdom.

Mr Freedman is the owner of Cliveden Stud in England and is the upcoming president of the English Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association. Cliveden Stud is renowned as the breeder of English Derby winner Reference Point among many other successful racehorses.

Bloomsbury Stud (NZ) manager Ric Wylie is not surprised by the quality of the filly given the extremely good reports he has received from Europe on Montjeu’s first crop of northern hemisphere-bred foals.

"My source in Europe told me that the Montjeu foals born there were as good a line of foals that they had seen from any of the Coolmore Stud stallions this year," Wylie said.

"And the filly born at Bloomsbury today is an absolute quality foal. She has lived up to all of the reports I’ve had from overseas on Montjeu’s foals,’ Wylie said.

Montjeu, a six-time Group One winner, is the highest rated son of champion sire Sadler’s Wells. He stood his first southern hemisphere season at Windsor Park Stud in Cambridge last year, covering around 120 mares.

He will be returning to Nelson and Sue Schick’s farm this year and will be among the Windsor Park Stud stallions scheduled to be paraded at the stud later in the month.