THE top races at the recent Galway Festival were under National Hunt rules, although its flat contests included the Listed Arthur Guinness European Breeders Fund Corrib Fillies Stakes over seven furlongs, which Laviniad won in a three-way photo-finish.

The Willie Mullins-trained five-year-old is yet another blacktype scorer to carry the famous Ballylinch Stud colours, she is homebred, and also a daughter of the team’s classic-winning stallion Lawman (by Invincible Spirit), sire of the Group 1 stars Just The Judge, Law Enforcement, and Much Improved.

His 14 stakes winners, up to Monday night, also include this season’s Group 2-placed French stakes winner La Berma, and his star son Most Improved, who is a member of the Coolmore team, will have his first foals on offer later in the year.

Laviniad is the second foal out of the dual Italian stakes winner Iuturna (by Intidab), and that granddaughter of Phone Trick (by Clever Trick) is also responsible for the Willie McCreery-trained three-year-old Fact Or Folklore (by Lope De Vega), who won a 10 and a half furlong Dundalk maiden in April.

The mare’s juvenile is the Richard Hannon-trained Spanish Boy (by Lope De Vega), who cost £80,000 at the Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale in April and finishes forth on his debut at Salisbury on Tuesday.

Iuturna is out of Samut (by Danehill), a winning full-sister to the Group 3 Queen Mary Stakes runner-up Ah Ihsas and half-sister to several of note, including the Group 1-placed pattern scorer Windsor Palace (by Danehill Dancer) and also Anna Karenina (by Green Desert), who is the stakes-winning dam of Battle Of Marengo (by Galileo).

He won the Group 2 Beresford Stakes as a two-year-old, added the Group 2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial Stakes and the Group 3 Ballysax Stakes at three, and has now completed his first season at Ballyhane Stud.

His siblings also include Attasliyah (by Marju), who is the dam of the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes scorer Rabatash (by Johannesburg), and his dam Simaat (by Mr Prospector), the third dam of Laviniad, is out of a stakes-placed full-sister to the 1979 US juvenile champion Rockhill Native (by Our Native).

He won the Grade 1 Futurity Stakes, the Grade 1 Sapling Stakes, and the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes, and the races in which he was placed included the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes.

There are plenty of other blacktype horses in the various branches of these first five generations of Laviniad’s pedigree, and her prospects of eventually becoming a successful broodmare look better now that she has a listed victory to her name.