Benvenuto Cellini is the second foal, and second winner from as many runners, of Newspaperofrecord (Lope De Vega), a dual Grade 1 winner in the US. Her wins include the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf in 2018, and she was also third in the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes. Her first foal, Giselle (Frankel), a full sister to Benvenuto Cellini, won the Listed Oaks Trial Fillies Stakes at Lingfield, was placed at Group 3 level and finished fifth in the Gr.1 Oaks.

Second dam Sunday Times (Holy Roman Emperor) won the Gr.3 Sceptre Stakes and was second in the Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes. Her four other winners include Classical Times (Lawman), winner of the Listed Cecil Frail Stakes and placed at Group level.

Third dam Forever Times (So Factual) won six races at up to 7f and produced four winners. She is a half-sister to Welsh Emperor (Emperor Jones), winner of the Gr.2 Hungerford Stakes and placed at Group 1 level.

Sunday Times is a half-sister to the Listed-placed Question Times (Shamardal), second in the Listed Bosra Sham Stakes and the dam of the 2018 Gr.1 Irish Derby winner and sire Latrobe (Camelot) and his full sister Pink Dogwood, a Listed winner in Ireland who was multiple Group 1-placed, including second in the Gr.1 Oaks, as well as of Diamond Fields, a Group 3 winner in Ireland. Pink Dogwood is in turn the dam of Giant Sequoia (Frankel), winner of the Gr.1 Futurity Trophy Stakes, and Question Times is the grandam of Aikhal, a Group 3 winner in Ireland.

Newspaperofrecord has an unraced 2-year-old full sister to Benvenuto Cellini named Sweetly, a yearling by Justify and a colt by Justify foaled on 28 April 2026.