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.

Speirbhean raced just once after her Guineas Trial win, she was well beaten in Imagine’s Irish 1000 Guineas, but obviously she is better-known now as Teofilo’s dam than as the Guineas Trial winner. Bean Feasa could do better in the Irish Guineas.

More coincidences. Horseplay, winner of the Pretty Polly Stakes at Newmarket on Sunday, is by Cape Cross, as is Ouija Board, who won the Pretty Polly in 2004 before winning the Oaks.

Taghrooda also completed the Pretty Polly/Oaks double in 2014, and Taghrooda is by Sea The Stars, who is by Cape Cross, like Ouija Board and Horseplay. Talent completed the Pretty Polly/Oaks double in 2013, and Talent is by New Approach, who is by Galileo, a half-brother to Sea The Stars. But that’s not why Horseplay is a genuine Oaks contender.