David and Lavinia Aykroyd

In a rare diversion from the domination of the breeding superpowers this season, the Dante Stakes was a triumph for David and Lavinia Aykroyd, English owner-breeders with four broodmares at their disposal. And for the second year in a row, Yorkshire's key Derby trial went to a colt raised in the county at Copgrove Hall Stud. The Ralph Beckett-trained Pride Of Arras is out of the Oasis Dream mare Parnell's Dream, who is also an Aykroyd homebred and a boarder at the Harrogate farm formerly owned by Guy Reed, which...