Whispering Dream (IRE)

First foal; dam Group-placed 7f 2yo winner (RPR 103), closely related to French 1m winner Karkhov out of 1m winning half-sister to 6f 2yo Group 1 winner Dutch Art and 1m2f Group 2 winner Up; promising second (clear of third) from poor draw at Kempton (7f) in October 2022; duly off the mark over same C&D the following month; switched from Charlie Appleby to Henri-Alex Pantall in June 2023 and won first start for new trainer at Saint-Malo (5.5f) in July; won again at Tarbes (7f) two starts later in August and followed up at Fontainebleau (6f) in September; held in Group 3 at Chantilly (6f) next time (eased when beaten); fair fourth in Listed race at Deauville on next start in December but held at Chantilly (6.5f) when next seen in March; back to form with third place in 5.5f Listed race at Deauville in April and followed that with close-up fourth at Hanover (6.5f) in similar event in early May; maintained decent run of form with close second at Longchamp (6.5f) in June and built on that by winning at Saint-Cloud (7f) at the end of the same month; followed up in Listed race at Munich (7f) in July and also ran well when runner-up in Group 3 at Baden-Baden (6f) after that; virtually refused to race in Group 3 at Cologne in September.