WOULD you take a chance on a three-parts sister to a Group 1 winning two-year-old for €1,000? Of course you would.

Now, in fairness, when Luke Comer paid that amount for Luminize at Goffs last November he could not have imagined the jackpot he would hit less than a year later. At the time the then four-year-old daughter of Vocalised (Vindication) had been well beaten on a single start for Jim Bolger and her dam, the stakes-placed Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) mare Luminous One had not produced a winner, and been sold on to India.

On the plus side, Luminize was in foal to the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes winner Intense Focus (Giant’s Causeway) and carrying her first produce, a colt born at the start of the year.

On Sunday the Jim Bolger-bred (in partnership with John Corcoran), trained and Jackie Bolger-owned Verbal Dexterity thrust himself into the classic limelight with an impressive display, capturing the Group 1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes in style. A maiden winner on his debut at the same course, he was then runner-up in the Group 2 Gain Railway Stakes before adding a first stakes win at the weekend.

I wrote earlier this year about Vocalised after the sire’s three-year-old daughter Vociferous Marina won a listed race at Navan. He has been standing at Jim Bolger’s Redmondstown Stud in Wexford where his fee is listed as private. On the track he made a very good start to his racing career for the Bolgers and John Corcoran, finishing fourth on his debut before running up a sequence of four victories. They included the Greenham Stakes at Newbury, where he beat Cityscape, and the Tetrarch Stakes at the Curragh, both Group 3 races.

The son of Vindication (Seattle Slew) is bred in the purple and he offers breeders in Europe a rare opportunity to access Bold Ruler bloodlines. Vocalised has been primarily used by Jim Bolger and the Wexford native is reaping the benefits of doing so. He has trained all three stakes winners by the sire, the other being Steip Amach who won a pair of Group 3 races and was placed in the Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet and Prix Rothschild.

Vocalised is a son of the stakes winning Mr Prospector (Raise A Native) mare Serena’s Tune and she is out of the Rahy (Blushing Groom) mare Serena’s Song, winner of 18 races and almost $3.3 million in the USA where she was the champion filly at three. Vocalised is a half-brother to the stakes-winning Storm Cat (Storm Bird) mare Serena’s Cat and the best of her winners to date is the rig Honor Code (A P Indy). He was rated the champion older horse following victories in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap and Whitney Stakes and he won six of his 11 starts. He was also placed in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Verbal Dexterity is the second foal and first runner for his dam Lonrach. That daughter of Holy Roman Emperor (Danehill) ran 14 times for Bolger and finished in the first six 12 times. She was always knocking on the door of victory and came closest to winning on her final start, beaten less than a length at Dundalk into third place. Holy Roman Emperor is also the damsire of Group 1 winning two-year-old Johannes Vermeer (Galileo).

Lonrach has an unraced three-year-old colt Renewed Focus (Intense Focus) and a yearling filly by Vocalised. She herself is the first foal out of Luminous One who was listed placed and is now in India where she has a two-year-old colt by Teofilo (Galileo) and a yearling filly by the Group 1 Prix de la Foret winner Varenar (Rock Of Gibraltar).

Smaoineamh (Tap On Wood), the third dam of Verbal Dexterity, was trained by Jim Bolger and made her racecourse debut as a two-year-old 29 years ago. She won four times, including a pair of listed races, and was group-placed. Four of her seven winners earned blacktype and the best of them was Luminata (Indian Ridge) who was a stakes-winning juvenile and runner-up, beaten a head, in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes.

Smaoineamh is also grandam of a number of a number of Group 1 performers, including a trio of Group 1 Galileo siblings, Cuis Ghaire (2nd 1000 Guineas), Scintillula (2nd Moyglare Stud Stakes) and Gile Na Greine, runner-up in the Coronation Stakes and third in the 1000 Guineas.