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Angel’s full-sister and that relationship is raced the sire who was the champion not her only attraction. The yearling is the European juvenile and went through his third foal of her dam Folga and the second career unbeaten in five starts. His stud ca- offspring is also a group winner by Dark reer has also seen him sire , Angel. He is Markaz and having sold for and Loch Garman, all Group 1 200,000gns as a yearling he is now a Group winners for the Bolgers. 3 winner for Hamdan Al Maktoum and Barry is the second foal and first Hills. The dam of these two group winners runner for her dam Toirneach (the Irish word is Folga, an amazingly tough racemare for thunder) who won a couple of races at who went to post no less than 35 times, two and three years of age. She had been winning six and finishing second to Enticing purchased as a yearling in the USA for is a listed race. She in turn is a daughter $110,000 and won in the colours of televi- of Desert Dawn who won the Group 2 Prix sion presenter Grainne Seoige. david o’callaghan,yeomanstown stud and d’Arenberg at two and was second in the JIM BOLGER Toirneach is the daughter of a winning doc bloodstock Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot. She also won half-sister to the American stakes-winner a listed race at three and was trained by the ■■ Pleascach (Ire), 2012 f. by Teofilo out of Drina. She has become an outstanding ■■ Mecca’s Angel (Ire), 2011 f. by Dark Angel recently deceased Lord John Fitzgerald. Toirneach, by broodmare and her four stakes winners are out of Folga, by Atraf Mecca’s Angel was bred in partnership by headed by the outstanding racemare Spain, Gay and David O’Callaghan and is another Jim Bolger combined with his wife Jackie winner of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff and over Victory for Mecca’s Angel in the Group 1 star performer for Dark Angel whom they and son-in-law to add an- $3.5 million. She sold more than a decade Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes was richly de- stand at Morristown Lattin Stud. Darley other Group 1 success to the CV of Pleas- ago for well over $5 million. served and the Michael Dods-trained four- recently bought into the son of Acclama- cach (the Irish language word for explosive) Jim Bolger is twice a winner of the Con- year-old has now won or finished second in tion who is also the sire of Group 1 sprinter when she landed the Darley nolly’s Red Mills/The Irish Field Breeder of 11 of her 14 starts, earning £340,000. This Lethal Force. by a neck from . In May she won the Year Award. is some return on the mere 16,000gns the the Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas at the filly cost as a yearling. Curragh. Her record now reads four wins One of the most anticipated lots on VOTE FREE ONLINE: from eight starts and £450,000. VOTE FREE ONLINE: the second day of the Tattersalls Book 1 www.TheIrishField.ie/vote This family production has the stamp of www.TheIrishField.ie/vote Yearling Sale next month will be Meccas’s Breeder 1 Jim Bolger all over it as he also bred and Breeder 2

Prix Morny at Deauville, bringing his earn- prize money of £570,000. ings to £320,000 and his value to millions. cost 460,000gns as He is the best of the winners to date a yearling and he is the second stakes- for his dam Ghurra who cost his breeder performer from his dam. The other was 320,000gns and her first three runners the Australian-bred Valdemoro and that have all won. The dam was graded-placed daughter of Encosta De Lago was twice in the USA and her five stakes-performing runner-up in Group 1 races. Their dam brothers include the Group 1 Middle Park Hveger was placed in the Group 1 Austral- Stakes winner Hayil. Her half-sister Abyat is asian Oaks and she is a full and half-sister also the grandam of the Group 2 winner and to two outstanding runners in Elvstroem and Group 1 National Stakes runner-up Dragon Haradasun. Pulse whose first yearlings have been selling Elvstroem is a son of and he was well. a champion in Australia and won the Dubai MARK GITTINS, Mogeely Stud With a High Chaparral filly foal on the Duty Free in the UAE. His major victories in ground, Gittins sent Ghurra to Charm Spirit, FRANK TAGG, GARRY MOFFITT & FRANK MEDURI Australia include the Caulfield Cup. Hara- ■■ Shalaa (Ire), 2013 c. by Invincible Spirit a son of Shalaa’s sire and she is in foal to dasun was a champion in Australia and out of Ghurra, by War Chant him. The Al Shaqab-owned Shalaa has been ■■ Highland Reel (Ire), 2012 c. by out Europe, winning the Queen Anne Stakes at described by Frankie Dettori as the best of Hveger, by Danehill Royal Ascot and races such as the Don- On his debut run Shalaa finished last of two-year-old he has ever ridden, good news caster Handicap and George Ryder Stakes eight runners in a conditions race at New- for Mark Gittins and Aisling Kinane at their A smart juvenile last year when he won in Australia. Hveger’s yearling filly by Galileo bury won by Birchwood. When you look at Castlefarm Stud from where they sold their the Group 2 Vintage Stakes, Highland Reel will be offered in Book 1 of the Tattersalls the records of the eight runners now you will star colt for 100,000gns as a foal. He resold showed his class when running second to Yearling Sale next month. Her year old full- find that all are winners and four of them as a yearling for 170,000gns. New Bay in the French Derby, the Prix du brother was sold at the same venue last are stakes winners. It was a hot race to Jockey Club. Only fifth in the , he year for 750,000gns to MV Magnier and is make your debut in. went back to Goodwood and annexed the now named Idaho. Since then the colt has not looked back, Gordon Stakes before travelling to the USA winning a maiden and the Group 2 July VOTE FREE ONLINE: and gaining his first Grade 1 success in the VOTE FREE ONLINE: Stakes at Newmarket, the Group 2 Vintage www.TheIrishField.ie/vote 10 furlong Secretariat Stakes on turf. He is www.TheIrishField.ie/vote Stakes at Goodwood and the Group 1 Darley Breeder 3 now a winner of half of his eight starts with Breeder 4

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