No limit to Jim Bolger's achievements with homebred one-two in Curragh Classic

We might have thought Jim Bolger had surpassed himself three weeks ago with the feat of producing almost every aspect of a Classic winner's pedigree - but one of the industry's most celebrated figures went even further on Saturday.

A one-two in the Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas was not only remarkable for Bolger training both Mac Swiney and Poetic Flare. He also bred the two colts, saddled their sires to big-race glory and had nurtured their female lines.

Poetic Flare, who went down by just a short head with the two tones of Bolger's wife Jackie's striped colours involved in a famous encounter, had been a first Classic strike for Dawn Approach when emulating his sire by taking the Guineas at Newmarket.

Mac Swiney, meanwhile, is by Dawn Approach's sire New Approach, the chestnut Galileo who the trainer bought for €430,000 as a yearling at the Goffs Million Sale in 2006. He was touched off in both the Newmarket and Irish Guineas - a race which had astoundingly eluded the long-standing trainer until this weekend - but won the Derby at Epsom.

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Mac Swiney, who was already one of the Dalham Hall stallion's nine Group 1 winners having taken the Vertem Futurity, exemplifies Bolger's position as an iconoclast, being inbred 2x3 to Galileo.

He goes back several generations on the dam's side. Although the winner's mother, Halla Na Saoire, did not race, she is a Teofilo sister to Irish Derby third Light Heavy and a half-sister to Halla Siamsa, the dam of the trainer's Dewhurst winner Parish Hall. He bought Halla Na Saoire's granddam, the Northfields mare Amoura, from Mill Ridge Stables in the United States.

The only hiccup in Bolger's masterplan seemed to have been that he discarded Poetic Flare's dam Maria Lee in 2018.

He still has Halla Na Saoire, who most recently visited Make Believe, although Mac Swiney's two-year-old Vocalised half-brother, named Quavering, was sold to Alex Elliott for £50,000 at last year's Goffs Orby and is in training with Ralph Beckett.

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