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[email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU RACING REVIEW | OBS SALES TALK | STAKES RESULTS | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES STALLION NEWS FIRST FOALS FOR BELARDO AND ROCK The first foals by the dual Gr.1 winners Belardo and Fascinating Rock have arrived and both are fillies. The Belardo filly was born at Ferdlant Stud in Newmarket on Tuesday, and is out of the five-year-old Acclamation mare Mayberain, she was described as “a cracking stamp of a foal, very correct and with good bone” by Ferdlant Stud’s Lianne Barrett. Mayberain was lightly raced, but hails from the superb family of Rain Flower, dam of both the Gr.1 Oaks heroine Dancing Rain (Danehill Dancer; dam of the Gr.1-placed juvenile Magic Lily) Fascinating Rock’s first-born daughter with her well-related and Mayberain’s Listed-winning second dam Sumora (Danehill), dam, Serenity Dove (Harbour Watch), pictured at Ringfort who produced the Gr.1 Moyglare Stud Stakes heroine Maybe Stud. (Galileo), herself dam of Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy winner Saxon Warrior and the Gr.3 Silver Flash Stakes winner and Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac runner-up Promise To Be True (Galileo). At three, he finished second to the Champion Solow (Singspiel) Belardo (Lope De Vega) was an outstanding juvenile when in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, before adding another Gr.1 trained by Roger Varian, winning his maiden and following up in win to his tally in the Lockinge Stakes as an older horse.