AS HAS been well documented by now, when Bean Feasa won the Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown on Sunday, she was winning it 16 years after her dam Speirbhean won it. Both trained by Jim Bolger, both maidens going into the race, a listed race in 2001, a Group 3 race on Sunday.

Interestingly, while Jackie Bolger’s filly Speirbhean beat the Godolphin filly Najah into second place, her daughter Bean Feasa (say: Ban Fassa, means fortune teller or wise woman or, literally, woman of knowledge) is owned by Godolphin. You couldn’t have foretold that 16 years ago.