Another Approach for Jim Bolger with debut of Classic winner's sibling

It is one of Jim Bolger’s most estimable achievements as a breeder and a trainer that he won Classics as well as a string of Group 1s with a stallion and his son.

Twelve years ago now, New Approach was in the middle of his brilliant and unbeaten two-year-old streak, which was to see him land the Dewhurst, Derby and two Champion Stakes further down the line.

Five years later, he was at it again with New Approach’s son Dawn Approach, produced from Bolger’s US-bred mare Hymn Of The Dawn, who had raced with little success for the stale.

Dawn Approach was similarly unbeaten as a juvenile and took 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace honours the following year. He has been followed by full-brother Herald The Dawn, another Group 2 winner in the Futurity Stakes now standing at Haras de Tierce.

Hymn Of The Dawn continued to deliver for the Bolger broodmare band and has visited the same stallion a few times more.

A 2014 full-sister Dawn Of A New Era was highly tried without reward and her latest progeny, another sister called Sweeping Approach, is ready to make her debut in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden at Gowran Park on Thursday.

The familiar figure of Kevin Manning will be in the plate as she takes on 12 rivals including Heaven Of Heavens, the Galileo sister of the gilded Magical and Rhododendron who must step up from last month's debut at the Curragh.

Another Galileo newcomer, the Jessica Harrington-trained Celestial Object, is of interest. She is Coolmore-bred daughter of multiple Australian Group 1 winner Sea Siren.

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