Wertheimer et Frere homebred Underway boasts an oustanding American pedigree, being by Giant's Causeway out of the Affirmed Stakes victrix Alchemilla, hence closely related to the likes of Bertolini, Bayern and further back to Arch and Green Desert. Such stellar bloodlines didn't go unnoticed and the three-year-old filly, who was placed twice from three starts this season in the care of Freddy Head, is set for a return trip across the Pond after Robert Nataf of Horse France prevailed over BBA Ireland at €130,000.

She is for an existing client and will probably be covered in France before being exported back to America, commented the agent.