Half-brothers Bayside Boy and Lord Of Biscay combine for cross-card double

Ballylinch Stud broodmare Alava had an afternoon to note on Wednesday by supplying two winning half-brothers within less than an hour.

Of most significance was the Listed success of Bayside Boy, by Ballylinch's New Bay, in the Chasemore Farm Fortune Stakes at Sandown.

The three-year-old, owned in partnership with Teme Valley after reaching 200,000gns as a yearling at Tattersalls Book 2, won the Champagne Stakes this time last year before being placed in two juvenile Group 1s.

His sights were lowered after some stiff assignments this year and was perhaps helped by first-time blinkers to win cosily.

A little earlier on at Yarmouth, the Ballylinch green silks were carried by the year-younger Roger Varian stablemate Lord Of Biscay. By the stud's leading light Lope De Vega, the newcomer had been withdrawn from the 2021 Book 2 catalogue.

Sweet Believer, by another Ballylinch resident in Make Believe, made a bold move from the front and only had to settle for second in the closing stages to Bayside Boy.

View the Sandown race replay here

Alava, by Anabaa, was bred by Chevington Stud and raced in France, winning the Listed Prix Occitanie at La Teste De Buch.

Her earliest foals were bred by Yeguada De Milagro and made a fine start, with her first offspring, Home Cummins a decent Listed-placed stager for Richard Fahey. Fahey also trained her half-brother by Lawman, the Group 2 Huxley Stakes winner Forest Ranger for Norman and Helen Steel.

Ballylinch has changed tack this time around and will offer the next in line, a filly by its newer resident Waldgeist, as lot 320 in the Goffs Orby Sale. Alava has subsequently produced a filly foal sister to Lord Of Biscay.

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