Group 1 glory for Gleneagles and New Bay in quick succession

Within the space of a few moments on Saturday, not only had two new sires joined the Group 1 honours board but two yearlings with imminent sales dates had just received the most valuable of catalogue updates.

First to ring the changes was Gleneagles, whose third season with runners on the track has been a revelation. Loving Dream, already one of an impressive seven Group 2 scorers for the Coolmore sire after winning the Ribblesdale at Royal Ascot, raised her bar in what was not exactly an amicable battle with the similarly romantically-named Believe In Love in the Prix de Royallieu.

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Owned and bred by Trevor and Libby Harris's Lordship Stud in Newmarket, she is out of the Danehill Dancer mare Kissable, who is from the family of St Leger winner Brian Boru and the great mare Eva Luna.

Kissable, who has also produced the American Oaks third Amandine and unbeaten juvenile Five Stars, has a colt by Camelot set to be consigned by New England Stud at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

New Bay captured more immediate attention than Gleneagles with his first crop last year, so his breakthrough in the Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes was expected to be only a matter of time.

Ballylinch Stud's resident, the French Derby-winning son of Dubawi, had delivered not only Royal Lodge scorer New Mandate in his freshman year but had another potential Classic type in Saffron Beach, who had taken the Oh So Sharp Stakes this time last season and was viewed with excitement by trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam.

Saffron Beach vindicated connections with a second to Mother Earth in the 1,000 Guineas and, back on the Rowley Mile, stretched out her rivals with an outstanding performance under William Buick.

Ballylinch will play a further part of this story as soon as this Tuesday. The County Kilkenny nursery sold Saffron Beach, out of winning Raven's Pass mare Falling Petals, as a foal for just 55,000gns to Liam Norris and Lord Huntingdon. Next week, at Book 1, her Australia half-sister will be offered by Ballylinch as lot 15.

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