WITH half of his eight winners getting blacktype, there could hardly have been a better start at stud for Galileo Gold (Paco Boy).

As this column has mentioned previously, his fee has dropped at Tally-Ho Stud from €15,000 in his first season to a third of that figure in 2021, but that will be the last time it falls surely. His three stakes winners are Oscula, Ebro River and System, while his daughter Hellomydarlin was placed in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin.

Breeder Padraig Williams sold Oscula, through Kilpatrick Farm, for just 4,000gns in Book 4 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last year to Michael Aguiar. Now she has given third-season trainer George Boughey his first pattern success, capturing the Group 3 Prix Six Perfections, a step up from her third-place finish in the Group 3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Oscula is the second foal, and first named produce, of Bisous Y Besos (Big Bad Bob) who was bred by Sharon Fitzpatrick. Once-raced, the Jessica Harrington-trained filly sold as a three-year-old to Tally-Ho Stud, and last year the O’Callaghans bought Oscula’s now yearling half-brother at Goffs for just €7,500. He is by their young sire Kessaar (Kodiac).

Oscula is not the only star of 2021 to emerge from his female family. She and the Michael Browne-trained Logo Hunter (Brazen Beau) share the same third dam, Refined (Statoblest). The sprinter Logo Hunter has two stakes wins among his four victories this year.