First Foals For Bolshoi Ballet

The first foals by dual Grade 1 Belmont Derby and Grade 1 Sword Dancer Stakes winner Bolshoi Ballet are now arriving.

Two quality fillies out of well-related mares were born at The Beeches in the past week.

One is out of Moon Over Thefirth (Flemensfirth), an own-sister to last season’s star novice hurdler Ballyburn, now a short-priced favourite for the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham next week.

The other is out of Roses Of Summer (Gold Well), a half-sister to Graded-winning chaser Emily Gray and to the dam of recent Thyestes and Bobbyjoe Chase winner Nick Rockett (Walk In The Park).

“They’re two outstanding fillies with plenty of size and strength,” said Robert McCarthy who has nine more mares due to Bolshoi Ballet including a half-sister to the aforementioned Nick Rockett and a half-sister to Grade 1 winners Thisthatandtother and Carlingford Lough who has already produced blackytype hurdler Miss Fairfax.