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her he sold the mare on to a friend. He also races and a listed success. Last year he was sold the foal at Goffs where she realised runner-up in the Tattersalls Gold Cup. €7,000. She raced as a two-year-old from His dam Miss Polaris won a couple of rac- Richard Hannon’s yard and then was sold es and was sold through Jacqueline Norris’ at the Tattersalls Horses In Training Sale for Jockey Hall Stud at the Tattersalls Decem- 12,000gns. ber Sale in 2006 for 50,000gns to Maurice Placed in a listed race in France on her and Patricia Regan who own Newtown Anner fi rst start for new connections, she started Stud in Co Tipperary. She has well rewarded her three-year-old season with a victory in the Regans as she is also the dam of the a maiden at Cork and then she improved Galway Hurdle winner Quick Jack. to take a Group 3 classic trial at Leopard- Miss Polaris is an own-sister to the Ger- stown. Next start was the 1000 Guineas at man stakes winner Euro Falcon and two PETER KELLY Newmarket where she fi nished ninth, but MAURICE AND PATRICIA REGAN, NEWTOWN other winners, and a half-sister to fi ve more she repaid the faith of connections next ANNER STUD winners, three of them stakes horses. Their ■ Jet Setting (Ire), 2013 f. by Fast Com- time out at the Curragh. dam Sarabah was a winning half-sister to pany out of Mean Lae, by Johannesburg She is the second foal and fi rst winner ■ Fascinating Rock (Ire), 2011 c. by Fast- Gothenberg who was a stakes winner in for her winning dam, and she is followed net Rock out of Miss Polaris, by Polar Falcon Ireland, England, Italy and Germany and THERE can be few better stories of 2016 by a pair of full-sisters. Mean Lae is one of also runner-up in the Group 1 Prix de la than that of Jet Setting. Bred at Ballybin a pair of winners from the stakes-winning VICTORY for Fascinating Rock in the Group Foret in France. The fi rst three foals out of Stud near Ashbourne in Co Meath by Peter Pivotal mare Plume Rouge and her grandam 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh was Miss Polaris have won and her fourth foal is Kelly, the Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas was the Ribblesdale Stakes winner Miss the second such triumph at the highest level a three-year-old colt by Cape Cross, named winner was sold last Monday at the Goffs Boniface. She was in the frame in the Group for the Dermot Weld-trained fi ve-year-old. Newcross, in training with Weld. Last year London Sale for £1.3 million. She remains 1 Prix de la Salamandre at two. Last year he rounded off his season with a she had her fi rst daughter, a fi lly by Rock Of with her trainer Adrian Keatley. win in the QIPCO Champion Stakes and he Gibraltar. Peter bought her dam from Jim Bolger for VOTE FREE ONLINE: has earned more than €1.4 million now for VOTE FREE ONLINE: just €3,000 and sent her to be covered by owner/breeder Newtown Anner Stud. the then Rathasker Stud-based Fast Com- www.TheIrishField.ie/vote His record of eight wins from 14 starts www.TheIrishField.ie/vote pany. Having bred the classic winner from BREEDER 1 also numbers victories in four Group 3 BREEDER 2

Field Breeder of the Month award, Belardo year, won the was also responsible for Jenny Howes pick- and the Dubai Fillies Mile, both Group 1 ing up the Breeder of the Year title for the events. She began her second season with Co Kilkenny farm. The four-year-old is the a stunning success in the QIPCO 1000 best son of his sire who stands at Ballylinch Guineas at Newmarket, but had to settle and was himself winner of the French Derby. for second best to Jet Setting in the Irish Though she did not win a stakes race, Be- equivalent. This month she bounced back lardo’s dam Danaskaya was rated the cham- with an Oaks win at Epsom. pion juvenile fi lly in Ireland and she was Now the earner of more than £1 million, Group 1 placed in the Cheveley Park Stakes. she is the second foal of her dam and a In addition to Belardo she is the dam of full-sister to last year’s group winner Kissed the Group 3 winner Berling, by Montjeu, By Angels. The fi rst four offspring from Lillie JOHN O’CONNOR, BALLYLINCH STUD and his Group 2-placed full-sister Diamond Langtry are fi llies and all by . Minding Sky. A daughter of . Danaskaya is a , AND DERRICK has fi nished fi rst or second in all her eight ■ Belardo (Ire), 2012 c. by Lope De Vega half-sister to the stakes-winning Mozart fi lly SMITH starts to date. out of Danaskaya, by Danehill Modeerach. Lillie Langtry won half of her 10 lifetime This is a female line that has a long as- ■ Minding (Ire), 2013 f. by Galileo out of starts and she was one of the best three- BELARDO’s victory in the Group 1 Lockinge sociation with Ballylinch, who sold Belardo Lillie Langtry, by year-olds of her generation, winning the Stakes was his fi rst at the highest level as a yearling for €100,000 at Arqana. at Royal Ascot and the since he took the Dewhurst Stakes as a Grandam Majinskaya won a stakes race in THE potent combination of John Magnier, at Leopardstown. She was juvenile. Bred at Ballylinch Stud when it was France and she is out of the mare Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor enjoyed placed at two in the Moyglare Stud Stakes. owned by Jenny Howes and her family, the Makarova. great success on the racecourse with their She is the best of three winners from the son of Lope De Vega has now earned more yearling purchase Lillie Langtry, but they mare Hoity Toity. than £900,000 and this week was second have done even better with her second off- to Tepin in the opening race at the royal VOTE FREE ONLINE: spring, the now dual classic winner Minding VOTE FREE ONLINE: meeting. www.TheIrishField.ie/vote which they jointly bred. www.TheIrishField.ie/vote Winner of a Connolly’s Red Mills/The Irish BREEDER 3 The best two-year-old fi lly in Europe last BREEDER 4

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