Klawervlei Stud’s inform stallion Twice Over hails from a family which continues to produce high-class stakes winners, and this female line got another boost when Twice Over’s close relative Sacred Bridge won the Listed Goffs Irish EBF Polonia Stakes at Cork on Friday.

Colin Keane was always prominent towards the near side on the Bated Breath filly Sacred Bridge, a full-sister to G1 Matriarch Stakes winner Viadera, who was a solid 5/6 favourite in the five-and-a-half furlong contest.
The champion jockey sent his mount into a narrow lead a furlong-and-a-half from home and she answered every call inside the final furlong.
Ladies Church pressed hard in the closing stages but was held by neck at the line by the Juddmonte filly.
Assistant Shane Lyons said:- “She is very honest and Colin said she got lonely and would have loved a lead. He had to do it all on his own and and there was more speed on the far side as it turned out. The ground walks good but rode very slow for her.We’ll go home and digest everything – she is in all the big races, the Group 2 Sandy Lane at Haydock and the Commonwealth (at Royal Ascot) but we’ll talk to Barry (Mahon, racing manager) and the team.”

Sacred Bridge, now a five time winner from just seven starts including the 2021 G3 Heider Family Stables Round Tower Stakes, is out of the Beat Hollow mare Sacred Shield -a half-sister to Twice Over’s Listed Lingfield Oaks Trial winning dam Double Crossed.

Twice Over has had a fantastic season with his three-year-olds in 2021-2022 headed by G1 Cape Guineas winner Double Superlative, G2 Senor Santa Stakes winner Smorgasbord and unbeaten Zimbabwe star Call The Wind.