As we kick off the 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ Breeding Season, we want to give away some Ballylinch merchanidse to one of our followers! For your chance to win 5️⃣ of our stallion caps, ❤ & retweet!
Winner will be picked on Monday 21st!
🐎𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐘🐎
🌟G1 winning son of NEW BAY
🌟Top Class 2yo
🌟Explosive winner of the QEII
@Ascot
at 3
🎅🏼𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲!!🎁
For a chance to win a limited Bayside Boy gilet & beanie hat, make sure you are following
@BallylinchStud
,♥ & 🔃this post
The roster at Ballylinch is burgeoning with proven talent and outstanding potential. Our MD John O’Connor thinks there are exciting times ahead for the farm...
✨The most precocious son of New Bay, Group 1 QEII winner 𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐘 has settled in well and is enjoying life back at his birthplace in Ballylinch. He is available for viewing to breeders - please contact the office to make an appointment. Ph +353 567 724217✨
🇬🇧🇮🇪🇫🇷LOPE DE VEGA is the best stallion in Europe standing for less than £350,000!
In 2023 only Frankel and Dubawi had:
✅more Blacktype Horses
✅more Stakes Winners
✅higher Progeny Earnings
✅higher Tattersalls Book 1 Average
LOPE DE VEGA also had the most winners and
🤩A Classic performer in New Bay's first crop🤩 An outstanding effort from Saffron Beach to finish a close 2nd in the 1,000 Guineas for
@JaneChappleHyam
👏👏 Bred by
@Chinahorseclub
🐎
🏇BAYSIDE BOY is getting some beautiful foals!
⬅️Colt ex Illumined - dam of Snellen, winner of last year’s Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot, from the immediate family of Novellist & Magical Lagoon
@YardHighland
➡️Filly ex Elas Ruby - Listed Winner and G2p, from the immediate
🌍LOPE DE VEGA is on top of the world!
🥇No stallion has more Stakes Winners or Group 1 horses in 2024.
🥇Lope de Vega is also the Leading Sire in Europe in 2024 by Prizemoney, Winners and Stakes Winners.
🤩Incredible performance from Make Believe's Mishriff to add the $20,000,000
@thesaudicup
to last year’s French Derby triumph!! What a horse!! Congratulations to Prince AA Faisal,
@JohnGosden1
@tedvoute
👏👏🍾
📚 As 2020 draws to a close, we would like to send one of our followers a copy of the beautiful limited edition Ballylinch 100, a book which delves into the colourful history of the stud. Follow
@BallylinchStud
& retweet this post and we will pick a lucky winner! 🙃
Martyn McEnery one of Ireland's foremost breeders was laid to rest today in Kilmoganny, within sight of his birthplace Rossenarra House.He will forever be remembered as the breeder of Red Rum, but he also bred Remittance Man, Bachanal, Treble Bob, among many others. May he R.I.P
🧚♀️Forest Fairy made a sparkling impression on debut in a hot race featuring expensive sons of Frankel and Dubawi!
📣This daughter of WALDGEIST could be something special - here's what they said about her:
@Timeform
- 88p, "looked something out of the ordinary"
@RacingPost
-
🩰"She moves like a ballerina" - her breeders Vimal & Gillian Khosla
🐴This BAYSIDE BOY filly is out of Caroline Herschel, a 93 rated 2yo debut winner, sister to 2yo Gr.3 winner Stella Star, and out of a sister to Gr.1 winner One Master
🐴Athletic, scopey foal by BAYSIDE BOY!
🏝️This handsome colt is out of Sherkin Island - a winning daughter of Listed winner & Gr.2 placed Galvaun, a full-sister to Gr.1
@BreedersCup
Turf winner Red Rocks.
#RPFoalGallery
🌟First foal for WALDGEIST arrives at Stephanie Von Schilcher’s Carrigbeg Stud🌟
A filly foal out of Not Misbegotten, a half-sister to Group 1 winner Nahoodh. According to Steph she is "a beautiful strong filly, standing up and moving as if she’s already 2 weeks old.” 💖😊
🚀 Watch this WALDGEIST filly surge home on debut!
🏇 May It Be is an easy 2 length debut winner of the 9.5f Maiden at Le Mans for
@LGadbin
&
@BachelotT
🎊 Congratulations to owner/breeders Thierry Storme & Thierry Lohest.
🚀 Fast Spirit sprints home from last-to-first for an easy victory in the Listed Premio Gino E Luciano Mantovani for 2yo fillies.
She is the 5️⃣th Stakes winner of 2024 for MAKE BELIEVE - that's the same as top sires Wootton Bassett & Teofilo, and even more than Siyouni.
👀Searching for the next American Turf sensation? Look to LOPE DE VEGA!
🇺🇸The sire turning European yearlings into US Champions!
2024 Leading European Sire in USA by:
🥇Winners
🥇Blacktype Horses
🥇Stakes Wnrs
🥇Group Wnrs
🥇Group 1 Wnrs
🥇Earnings
Source:
🎉🏆A second Breeders' Cup winner for Lope de Vega!! Another sensational wire to wire performance from Aunt Pearl bred by
@BallylinchStud
& Ecurie des Charmes🏆🎉 Congratulations to all connections!!
@LCrow11
@bradcoxracing
@BreedersCup
🌊BAYSIDE BOY stands his second season at Ballylinch in 2024!
✅Won Gr.1 QEII from Modern Games & Inspiral
✅Group 1 2yo that won the Gr.2 Champagne Stakes- just like Too Darn Hot & Chaldean
✅Exceptional Precocity- recorded
@Timeform
's best 2yo debut performance of 2021
💥Watch this daughter of MAKE BELIEVE blow away her rivals!
🏇Hopeful cruises to a 5.5l victory in the 8f Novice
@NewcastleRaces
over Bystander, who went into the race off an RPR of 92. It was another 5l back to the third.
🥳Congratulations to owner/breeder Prince AA Faisal.
🌍 LOPE DE VEGA is on top of the World!
🥇He has the more 2024 Stakes Winners than any other stallion!
Lope de Vega is also the:
🥇Leading Sire in Europe by Prizemoney & Winners
🥇Leading Sire of 3yos in Europe by Prizemoney
@theTDN
❓Did you know BAYSIDE BOY covered the highest proportion of Blacktype mares of any First Season Sire standing in Ireland last year❓
On his book were the dams of 5⃣2⃣ Stakes horses including 2023's top 2yos:
🥇Shuwari - LW & 2nd Gr.1 Fillies' Mile
🥇Ghostwriter - won Gr.2 Royal
🔥Sire on Fire!🔥 Make Believe's daughter 🌹Rose of Kildare🌹 strikes again in the G3
@Tattersalls1766
Musidora Stakes
@yorkracecourse
! Now a winner of three Group races from 6f - 10.5f and Classic placed! The toughest and most versatile filly around!!!
@Johnston_Racing
🇬🇧🇮🇪 MAKE BELIEVE is a standout value stallion in GB & Ireland!
In 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣, he ranks as one of the most consistent sires of both 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 & 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 among stallions standing at £50k/€50k or less.
🤑All at a fee of just €10,000 - proving his
Impressive!
Lucky Vega travels like a winner all the way and scoots to Group 1 glory in the
@keeneland
Phoenix Stakes for Shane Foley and
@Jessica_Racing
👏
Results & free replays ➡
🎅🏼🎄It has been quite a year for us at Ballylinch Stud! We hope that this year has been just as memorable for you, your colleagues, and your loved ones. We want to wish each of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 🎄🎅🏼
🌍LOPE DE VEGA is on top of the world!
One month into 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ and he is Europe's Leading Sire by:
🥇 Group Winners
🥇 Stakes Winners
🥇 Blacktype Horses
Source:
@theTDN
🤩Another BAYSIDE BOY foal with an exceptional action!
🐴This stunning colt is a half-brother to Jubilation, a fast 2yo that won over 6f & ran 2nd in the Gr.3 Prix de Cabourg. His dam Fairy Dancer is a sister to 4 SW inc. Gr.1
@BreedersCup
Turf winner Red Rocks.
#RPFoalGallery
🔥NEW BAY's 2yos are on fire!
Already racking up 1⃣9⃣ juvenile winners, NEW BAY is cementing his place among Europe’s top 2YO sires.
🏆 With 6⃣ unbeaten runners, including Gr.2 Champagne Stakes star Bay City Roller, the future looks bright!
🌟Of the 15 3yo Group winners in Europe this season, MAKE BELIEVE accounts for 2️⃣ of them!
🥇No sire has more!
🏇At €10,000, MAKE BELIEVE offers outstanding value, proving that greatness doesn't always come with a hefty price tag.
⬅️Sajir wins the Gr.3 Prix Sigy over 5.5f
Last season NEW BAY was one of the Leading Sires of 2yos
🥇Shuwari-LW & 2nd Gr.1 Fillies Mile
🥇Alcantor-France's Leading 2yo colt & G3WG1p
🥇Devil's Point-4l Maiden wnr & 2nd Gr.1 Futurity
And these were from his last crop before his first runners, bred off his lowest fee!
❓Did you know❓
🏇MAKE BELIEVE has 4⃣% Group Winners/Runners, that's the same as:
Siyouni-€200k
Dark Angel-€60k
Havana Grey-£55k
⚡️and higher than:
Showcasing-£45k
Kodiac-€35k
Churchill-€30k
Acclamation-€25k
💰and MAKE BELIEVE's fee? Just €10,000 - now that's value!
Normandel was very game for her first Group win today in the race named after Lodge Park Stud's great mare Park Express who was also trained by Jim Bolger.
🥊Punching above his weight!
LOPE DE VEGA has the most Stakes Horses of any stallion standing for less than £250,000 in Europe.
11 more than Kingman
13 more than Sea the Stars
17 more than No Nay Never
20 more than Siyouni
👀 Seeing is Believing!
🇮🇪🇬🇧 MAKE BELIEVE is having a prolific 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣, boasting one of the highest strike rates in Stakes races among stallions standing for £50k/€50k or less in GB & Ireland.
🌊🐴Another winner for NEW BAY🐴🌊 New Emerald Bay continues her sire's incredible start to become his 9th winner
@punchestownrace
for
@JohnnyMurtagh
and
@jackcantillon
's
@SyndicatesHQ
NEW BAY is now 64% Wnrs/Rnrs in GB&IRE, the next best 1st season sire is 32% 🔥🔥🔥
Wild Bluebells in the woods in Ballylinch. We named a daughter of Ingabelle after them and she went on to win a Group 3 for us.
# natureatit'sbest.
@AntoinDeLeis
A sensational performance by
@ballylinchstud
Lope De Vega's daughter Newspaperofrecord in the Gr1 Just a Game Stakes at Belmont Park. She is right back to her brilliant best.
"I am delighted with our first Waldgeist foal. He is an excellent individual with great movement and conformation which is exciting as we are supporting him with some of our best broodmares." Dietrich von Boetticher, Gestüt Ammerland.
👀Seeing Is Believing!!👀
🏇💨 Filly by MAKE BELIEVE records the fastest breeze time
@tatts_ireland
Goresbridge Breeze Up 🏇💨
Lot 47 offered by Shinnick Brothers 🏇
✨Congratulations to
@newsellspark
& Gestüt Ammerland on their double today! Waldgeist's 4yo brother, Waldkonig, wins easily
@ponteraces
& Wildfeder, his 3yo full-sister, breaks her maiden at Saint Cloud!✨
Congratulations to Gill and Vimal, our good friends and long time clients on their Broodmare of the Year Award for Green Room
#ITBAwinners
@ITBA_Official
Wow Wow Wow! Newspaperofrecord bolts up in the
@BreedersCup
Juvenile Fillies by an eased down 6 3/4 lengths giving Lope de Vega his 7th individual Gr. 1 winner! This is followed up by Feliciana De Vega winning on debut
@NewmarketRace
by 8 lengths!
#StopThePress
#ItIsOnlyBeginning
Thank you to everyone who came to view our stallions this weekend. 🙏 We hope you enjoyed your visit as much we enjoyed having you here! A very special thanks to our hard working teams who helped make the weekend a great success and without whom none of it would be possible! 💚
👀Searching for the next American Turf sensation? Look to LOPE DE VEGA!
🇺🇸The sire turning European yearlings into US Champions!
2024 Leading European Sire in USA by:
🥇Winners
🥇Blacktype Horses
🥇Stakes Wnrs
🥇Group Wnrs
🥇Group 1 Wnrs
🥇Earnings
Source:
@BloodHorse
🥇LOPE DE VEGA reigns as the Leading European Sire of 3yos by Group Horses!
🌟Meanwhile, MAKE BELIEVE stands tall among the top sires of 3yos this season, offering unmatched value at just €10,000.
🇦🇺 SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE BREEDERS 🇦🇺
🐴Sire sensation LOPE DE VEGA is available to cover a limited number of mares on Southern Hemisphere time here at Ballylinch.
📞Contact us today to book your mare in to the sire of Santa Ana Lane, Gytrash, Vega Magic and Vega One.
😶🌫️ MAKE BELIEVE is having a dream season!
🌟With🔟Stakes horses already in 2024, Make Believe is outperforming many higher-priced stallions.
Highlights include:
🏆 3yo Group winners Making Dreams and Sajir
🏆 Listed winners Hope and Believe & Makram
🏆2 Blacktype 2yos
Another impressive debut winner for New Bay as Jumby shows a lovely change of gear to win comfortably for Eve Johnson Houghton in the 7f Novice at Ascot today with another New Bay firster New Mandate highly promising in 3rd.
🌊Impressive Group winner for NEW BAY
🏇Bay Bridge triumphs by 5 lengths in the Gr.3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes with an exceptional performance, leaving a field of 4 SW including 2 G1W in his wake.
📈Earning an exceptional provisional
@Timeform
Rating of 128
Another high price for MAKE BELIEVE at
@tatts_ireland
September Yearling Sale!
Amanda Skiffington goes to €75,000 for the
@Aughamorestud
consigned colt.
Make Believe's five colts through the ring have sold for an average of almost €50,000, with others making €70,000,
😟Worried about a May cover for your mare?
🏇Lope de Vega's Gr.1 winner Program Trading was conceived on May 14th.
🏇Make Believe's Gr.3 winner Making Dreams was conceived on June 7th.
💥Don't let the date deter you from breeding a future Group winner!
2.2 million guineas for Waldlied
G2-winning half-sister to Waldgeist sells to Jill Lamb, sitting with the Newsells Park Stud team. Mare is in foal to
@JuddmonteFarms
Kingman
🗣"The pair are miles clear" -
@RacingTV
🏆LOPE DE VEGA has the first 2 home in 7f
@NewmarketRace
3yo Maiden.
🥇Rolica beats Vicario with the rest of the field over 5.5 lengths behind.
👏Congratulations to
@JaneChappleHyam
& Peter Harris.
🐴Cracking Foal by BAYSIDE BOY!!
🏇This colt is out of Dame d'Honneur was bred by
@StudAbbeville
📘He has the pedigree to match his good looks, as a half-brother to two Stakes Horses and from the
family of Gr.1 winning 2yo Kingston Hill.
🌟HOMELESS SONGS🌟 produced a smart performance to win the 𝔹𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕙 𝕊𝕥𝕦𝕕 ℙ𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖 𝟙,𝟘𝟘𝟘 𝔾𝕦𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕒𝕤 𝕋𝕣𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝔾𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕡 𝟛
@leopardstownrc
for Dermot Weld,
@MoyglareStud
&
@chrishayes24
👏🏼
Congratulations to all connections! 🏇🏼
⭐Sales topper for WALDGEIST!
🐴 This colt out of Modeeroch is the top priced weanling at the
@Goffs1866
February Sale after selling to Ronald Rausher for €85,000.
The brilliant Newspaperofrecord headlines the outstanding crop of 2 year olds by Lope De Vega.
This is the first of his strong crops that followed his First Season European Sire Championship in 2014.
Watch this space ! The crops that follow are even better bred.
2️⃣ runners 2️⃣ winners🌟 Fantastic to have a double at our local track
@gowranpark
with 𝐁𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐥 trained by
@williemccreery1
& 𝐒𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐯 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 trained by
@paddytwomey
. Congratulations to
@wjlee24786
on his four-timer, delighted to be a part of it!! 🙌🏼🎉