Matiya (horse)

[2] She was sired by Alzao, a son of Lyphard who never won above Group Three level, but became a successful breeding stallion,[3] with his progeny including Second Set, Shahtoush, Capricciosa, Pass the Peace and Alborada.

[5] She was a distant descendant of the British broodmare Spicebox (foaled 1923) who was the female-line ancestor of numerous major winners including Herbager, Detroit, Zabeel and Gildoran.

[7] A month later she was brought back in distance for a minor stakes race on good to firm ground at Pontefract Racecourse and finished third of the four runners behind Defined Feature.

After tracking the leaders, she stayed on well in the latter stages to finish second of the thirteen runners, one ad a half lengths behind the odds-on favourite Bosra Sham.

Ridden by the 53-year-old Willie Carson Matiya took the lead at half way and kept on strongly in the closing stages to win by three lengths from Dance Design with My Branch taking third place.

After being hampered early in the race she recovered to take the lead 300 metres from the finish but was overtaken and beaten into third place behind Sil Sila and the Prix Marcel Boussac winner Miss Tahiti.