BOANN won a maiden at the third time of asking when she ran out a clear winner of a five-furlong novice race for fillies on the all-weather at Southwell this week.

While she might be a relatively modest winner to date, she did credit her Kildangan Stud, Darley sire Blue Point (Shamardal) with his 30th individual winner in his first crop (and that number has grown since).

Boann shares with the listed winner Action Point the distinction of being by the triple Royal Ascot Group 1 winner, and out of a daughter of Exceed And Excel (Danehill).

A 50,000gns purchase by Ollie Sangster in Book 1 of last year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Boann’s yearling half-brother by Dark Angel (Acclamation) is being offered by Cooneen Stud at the upcoming October Sale, though perhaps somewhat surprisingly in Book 3. He is sure to attract interest, and more so now that his half-sister is a winner.

Boann is the second offspring of her dam Paradwys, and she was an €80,000 yearling, €100,000 breezer, and sold for just 20,000gns as a winning three-year-old.

Cooneen Stud in Co Tipperary is owned by Gerry and Maura O’Sullivan, and they bred Boann. This year they welcomed a filly foal out of Boann’s dam Paradwys, and this latest produce is by Ardad (Kodiac). When the couple purchased Paradwys, she was one of six winners out of First Of Many (Darshaan), and one of these was the Curragh listed winner and group-placed Many Colours (Green Desert).

Little could the couple have known how successful Many Colours would become in a short space of time.

In 2019, Many Colours’ daughter Night Colours (Night Of Thunder) won the Group 2 Premio Dormello as a juvenile. That was bettered when her next offspring, Mother Earth (Zoffany), became a dual Group 1 winner, breaking into the big time with victory in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket. Mother Earth added the Group 1 Prix Rothschild last year, and all four of her successes have been gained at pattern level.

Quality

Now, Many Colours has done it again, and her current three-year-old Ocean Jewel (Sioux Nation) won the Group 3 Ballycorus Stakes at Leopardstown in June. This is a family that has become a byword for precociousness and quality.

Boann’s grandam First Of Many failed to win, being placed a couple of times, but eight of her siblings won, with her half-sister Patience Alexander (Kodiac) being a listed two-year-old winner who placed in the Group 3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Those eight winners are out of the winning Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer) mare Star Profile, and she was a daughter of Sandhurst Goddess. A stakes winner at the Phoenix Park, Sandhurst Goddess bred the dual Group 3-winning juvenile Lady Alexander (Night Shift), and she was the dam, in turn, of the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes winner Anthem Alexander (Starspangledbanner) and the Group 1 sire, Ballyhane Stud’s Dandy Man (Mozart).

Blue Point’s 31 winners (at the time of writing) includes one group winner, three stakes scorers, and five juveniles who have earned blacktype. There is plenty mote to come.