Amralah won a 10-furlong listed contest at Newbury on Saturday, and Simba was a three-length winner of a nine furlong listed race at Hoppegarten on Sunday. The latter event occurred around 40 minutes after Jim Bolger’s homebred five-year-old Parish Hall won the Group 3 Meld Stakes (For The Defence Forces Cup) over 10 furlongs at the Curragh.

This was a third pattern success for Parish Hall, and the horse who beat the subsequent classic star Power in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes of 2011, represents the first crop of his Kildangan Stud-based sire.

Teofilo (by Galileo) already has five other Group 1 scorers to his name, including last year’s Irish Derby hero Trading Leather and last month’s Queensland Derby scorer Sonntag.

Three of his Group 1 stars, Havana Gold, Trading Leather, and Voleuse De Coeurs, along with his Grade 1-placed Grade 2 scorer Amira’s Prince, represent mares from the broad Danzig (by Northern Dancer) sire line, but Parish Hall is out of Halla Siamsa (by Montjeu), and so inbred 3x3 to Sadler’s Wells.

The mare won once, over 10 furlongs, and as she is a daughter of the dual scorer Siamsa (by Quest For Fame), she is a half-sister to Light Heavy (by Teofilo), whom Bolger also bred and trains.

A three-parts brother to Parish Hall, Light Heavy finished fourth in a one-mile listed contest at Leopardstown on his only outing so far this year, and he ran just twice in 2013, but he was a high-profile three-year-old.

He kicked off that campaign with defeat of the tragically ill-fated subsequent classic-placed colt Furner’s Green over a mile at Leopardstown, then took both the Group 3 Ballysax Stakes and the Group 2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial before finishing third behind Camelot and Born To Sea in the Group 1 Irish Derby.

Siamsa is one of several winners for her dam Amoura (by Northfields) and those siblings include Amanta (by Sanglamore).

That filly won twice in France, and although she has a low strike rate as a broodmare, she is the grandam of the pattern-placed seven times scorer Billyford (by Lil’s Boy), of the 99-rated stakes placed handicapper Bancnuanaheireann (by Chevalier), and, most notably, of the pattern-placed stakes winner An Ghalanta (by Holy Roman Emperor).

That filly was among the speedier Irish juveniles of 2011, winning the Listed Curragh Stakes, over five furlongs, and earning placings in the Listed Tipperary Stakes, the Listed Blenheim Stakes, and in the Group 3 Go And Go Round Tower Stakes.

She is now a young broodmare whose first born is a yearling Lawman (by Invincible Spirit) filly, followed by a daughter of Makfi (by Dubawi), who arrived in mid-March.

As for Halla Siamsa, she has a two-year-old full-brother to Parish Hall, who has been named Hall Of Fame and also a yearling full-sister to her star son.

These are the highlights of the first few generations of the family, but if you go back further you will find that the fifth dam of Parish Hall is Evisa (by Dan Cupid), a mare whose greatest legacy has been through her granddaughter Ebaziya (by Darshaan).

A Group 2-placed triple listed scorer, Ebaziya secured a prominent place among the great broodmares of all time by producing four individual Group 1 stars, Ebadiyla (by Sadler’s Wells), Edabiya (by Rainbow Quest), Enzeli (by Kahyasi), and Estimate (by Monsun).

Those standout performers come from a different branch of the family than the one that represents Parish Hall and his close relative Light Heavy, but their connection will likely not be missed whenever the time comes for those two talented colts to go to stud.