LORD Of Biscay won snugly on his racecourse debut at Yarmouth on Wednesday, and he is an intriguing future classic prospect, and maybe even a stallion prospect for his breeders.

The colt also provided a further boost for his Waldgeist (Galileo) half-sister who sells on the second day of the upcoming Goffs Orby Sale.

Owned and bred by Ballylinch Stud, this two-year-old son of Lope De Vega (Shamardal) was not even named when the catalogue went to press for the Orby Sale, but he is now an eighth runner and sixth winner for his French listed-winning dam, Alava (Anabaa).

Lord Of Biscay was successful on the same day that his year-older half-brother Bayside Boy (New Bay) won the Listed Chasemore Farm Fortune Stakes at Sandown, and that colt carries the colours of Teme Valley.

Both colts are trained by Roger Varian, so little wonder that John O’Connor sent Lord Of Biscay to that Newmarket handler. Last year Varian sent Bayside Boy out to win the Group 2 Champagne Stakes and finish in the frame in both the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes and Group 1 Futurity Trophy Stakes. Bayside Boy traded for 200,000gns as a yearling.

Forest Ranger

Bayside Boy is not the only group winner out of his dam. He was preceded by Forest Ranger (Lawman) and that 26,000gns yearling bargain won more than £350,000. His six wins included four pattern races, the Group 2 Huxley Stakes at Chester twice, and a pair of Group 3 races at Newmarket, the Earl of Sefton Stakes and the Darley Stakes.

In addition to being from a blacktype family, this is a multiple winner-producing line. Alava, as mentioned above, is the dam of six winners but she has a bit of catching up to do with her forbears. She was one of eight winners from the stakes-placed Cerita (Wolfhound), her grandam Tanapa (Luthier) was a Group 1-placed dam of 11 winners, while her third dam, the unraced Trelex (Exbury), bred 10 winners.

How special would it be for Ballylinch to develop their own successor to Lope De Vega, though that 15-year-old is going nowhere soon, other than skywards in terms of success. He is responsible for 16 Group 1 winners, 14 Group 2 winners, 28 Group 3 winners and a further 42 blacktype winners. The dual French classic winner commanded a fee of €125,000 this year.