Lope de Vega Colt Makes Waves At Kempton

2nd-KEM, £5,000, Mdn, 9-2, 2yo, 8f (AWT), 1:40.43, st/sl.
BAY OF POETS (IRE), c, 2, Lope de Vega (Ire)–Bristol Bay (Ire), by Montjeu (Ire), a €190,000 GOFNOV foal and 400,000gns TATOCT yearling, disappointed when last of five on soft ground over seven furlongs on his debut at Haydock July 16 and was steadied after a quick break to race in mid-pack. Cruising to Election Day (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) on the bridle inside the last quarter mile, the 2-1 favourite gained the lead with a furlong remaining and was shaken up soon after to register an authoritative 1 3/4-length success. Bristol Bay, who also has a full-sister to the winner, is a half to the G3 St Leger Italiano winner and G3 Deutsches St Leger runner-up Burma Gold (Ire) (Java Gold) and also to the dam of one of Lope de Vega's classier performers in the G3 Killavullan S. winner and G1 Irish 2000 Guineas third Blue de Vega (Ger). The third dam is Britannia (Ger) (Tarim), whose achievements on the track included success in the G2 Deutsches St Leger and a second in the G2 Preis der Diana but it was as a broodmare that she truly made waves. Her daughter Borgia (Ger) (Acatenango {Ger}) captured the G1 Deutsches Derby, G1 Grosser Preis von Baden and G1 Hong Kong Vase and was also second in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf and third in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, while her best son proved to be the fellow Deutsches Derby and G1 Coronation Cup hero Boreal (Ger). Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $4,291in . Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Godolphin; B-Ammerland Verwaltung GmbH & Co KG; T-Charlie Appleby.