Success for Black Sam Bellamy

Over the Christmas period it have been some great results by our former stallion Black Sam Bellamy, with no fewer than eleven different winners in the month of December. This is becoming quite a pattern in the winter months, as “when the going gets soft the Sams get going”.

Galop Marin gained his third successive victory in the Grand Prix D'Automne, the Grade 1 3m hurdle race at Auteuil on 28th Nov, when he reversed a previous defeat by two outstanding fillies, Paul's Saga and the hot favourite L'Autonomie, making most of the running and galloping on courageously to gain an incredible treble Grade 1 success. Galop Marin was bred by Martin Fleming and M Molloy from their mare Great Jane. He has now won 12 races and over £1 million in prize money.

Another good win was by Molly Olly's Wishes, bred by K. & D Pugh, who is now a TBA Elite Mare after achieving a rating of 130 when winning a competitive handicap hurdle last week. Congratulations to owners West Mercia Fork Trucks Ltd, although we hope when she finishes racing you will use her as a broodmare rather than retraining her as a Fork Lift Truck driver. Billam's Legacy looked a promising mare for the future when impressively taking her bumper at Wetherby for the 'Cod and Chips Twice' Syndicate. She was bred by C.F.C. Jackson from the Alflora mare Liqueur Rose, sister to our own Amaretto Rose, who the Jacksons also bred. Then Took The Lot produced a fine Novice Hurdle win at Bangor, his second in succession, he was bred by G. Wheildon and looks a fine prospect for trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies.

Two of Sam's winners came on the 1st Dec and they are particularly close to home. One, the bumper winner Without A Doubt, was bred by us from our mare Solid Land; and the other, out of Sizing John's dam La Perrotine, was bred by Bryan Mayoh and spent her first year here. The second was Anythingforlove, who won easily now the jockey was racing with his stirrups! (the very first hurdle she ran in without her jockey's stirrups which happened at Uttoxeter), then she appeared again at Catterick on the 28th, producing another stunning win by 9 1/2 lengths.

We're so proud that the Black Sam’s offspring are doing so well, we bet he is cantering around up there in all his Glory, telling his mates about his babies.