Sweet Solera Success For Bahamian Bounty’s Blue Bayou

Saturday, Newmarket, Britain
GERMAN-THOROUGHBRED.COM SWEET SOLERA S.-G3, £50,000, NEW, 8-8, 2yo, f, 7fT, 1:26.91, g/f.
1–#@BLUE BAYOU (GB), 126, f, 2, by Bahamian Bounty (GB)
1st Dam: Oshiponga (GB), by Barathea (Ire)
2nd Dam: Ingozi (GB), by Warning (GB)
3rd Dam: Inchmurrin (Ire), by Lomond
O-Mrs M D Stewart; B-Wellsummers Farm (GB); T-Brian Meehan; J-Dane O’Neill. £28,355. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-1, $62,149. *1/2 to Hatta Fort (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), GSW-Eng & US, GSP-UAE, $510,836. Werk Nick Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Fireglow (GB), 126, f, 2, Teofilo (Ire)–Fading Light (GB), by King’s Best. O-Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum; B-Darley (GB); T-Mark Johnston. £10,750.
3–Marenko (GB), 126, f, 2, Exceed and Excel (Aus)–Safina (GB), by Pivotal (GB). O/B-Cheveley Park Stud Ltd (GB); T-Richard Hannon. £5,380.
Margins: HF, HF, 3/4. Odds: 1.75, 3.00, 12.00.
Also Ran: Opal Tiara (Ire), Squash (GB), Hawksmoor (Ire), Bint Al Reem (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the brisnet.com PPs. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
Off the mark at 20-1 on debut over six furlongs at Haydock June 10, Blue Bayou was that price again a month later when outrunning market expectations and finishing just a neck behind Illuminate (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) and the subsequent G3 Princess of Margaret S. winner Besharah (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) in this track’s G2 Duchess of Cambridge S. at that trip. Staying on strongly but running out of real estate on that occasion, the chestnut received due respect from the punters this time as she covered a more suitable distance and rewarded that faith to open her black-type account in tenacious fashion. Anchored in rear early by Dane O’Neill after being hampered at the start, she was delivered with her telling surge out wide to gradually wear down the positively-ridden pair of Fireglow and Marenko passing the furlong marker. “I’m delighted with her, this race was the natural progression from the way she ran in the Duchess of Cambridge,” trainer Brian Meehan said. “She’s missed the break twice now, but that seems to suit her. She’s a lovely filly who will just keep getting better. I can say she’s as good a filly as I’ve trained, she’s a proper filly and was very good today. She’s a class performer and has the right temperament. There’s more to come from her, she has the potential to be a Guineas filly. She’s in the G2 Rockfel S. [at Newmarket Sept. 25] and the G1 Moyglare Stud S. [at The Curragh Sept. 13] and she will get a mile. We’ll take stock next week and take a view where we go next.”