OVERBURY Stud stallion Kayf Tara (by Sadler’s Wells) has been having a great season and he added to his blacktype tally when Ballyandy took the Listed Tap Tap Boom Bumper at Newbury on Saturday.

This nine-length victory impressed Timeform, who noted him as “the one to beat in the Champion Bumper” in their ratings update on Monday, and it is a second listed success from four starts for the five-year-old.

Ballyandy was bred by Pleasure Palace Racing, he made £16,000 at the Doncaster December Sale as a foal, and he is among six winners out of the bumper-placed hurdles scorer Megalex (by Karinga Bay).

His full-brother Megastar won the Grade 2 bumper at Aintree in 2010, a few weeks after finishing fifth behind Cue Card in the Grade 1 Champion Bumper at Cheltenham, and the best of his subsequent form was when chasing home Minella Cross in the Grade 1 Tolworth Novices’ Hurdle at Sandown nine months later.

He was trained by Gary Moore and so is another full-brother, Stonegate, who won a bumper at Sandown almost 16 months ago and was fourth on at Plumpton on his hurdling debut in November.

Moore also trained their full-sister Megasue whose two bumper wins and single hurdle race score were achieved by an aggregate margin of 48 lengths.

Her first foal is a Schiaparelli (by Monsun) filly born four years ago, her two-year-old is that one’s full-brother, and the pair have a three-year-old half-brother by the Group 1-winning miler Proclamation (by King’s Best).

PROGENY

That latter stallion’s progeny include the four-times flat scorer Bert The Alert who is another of the son of Megalex.

Another full-sister to Ballyandy is Zhakiera Spirit, who although unplaced in a pair of listed contests, the lightly-raced mare won bumpers at Wetherby and Newcastle, the latter an odds-on success achieved by 34 lengths.

Megalex is out of Flaming Rose (by Roselier), who was unplaced in bumpers and over hurdles, and she is a half-sister to the Hexham bumper scorer Luccombe Down (by Primo Valentino).

Although there is only a single winner in the third generation of the family – the lightly-raced one-time hurdles scorer Majestic Sound (by Executive Perk) – there is a blacktype horse on the lower half of the page.

That is the Slaney Hurdle winner Miflame (by Milan), a triple flat, triple hurdles and dual chase winner whose full-sister Some Flame is the unraced fourth dam of Ballyandy.

That success came a very long time ago, and there are no details available of the ancestors before fifth dam Hyflame II (by Hyacinthus), but those uncertain roots are a distant memory with no bearing on Ballyandy’s potential.

He is the son of a leading sire, the second notable winner out of a winning grand-daughter of Ardross (by Run The Gantlet), and he is a young horse who could be the best this family has ever produced.