BEL ESPRIT - YOU'RE SO VAIN

Anyone who remembers the early 70s (and yes, we’re a dwindling breed) would surely recall the Carly Simon tune, You’re So Vain.

“Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won …” was one of the lines from the song and while it’s debatable Bel Esprit will ever have a runner at Saratoga, you’d want to get on if said starter had Vain in the bottom half of his/her pedigree.

This is proving to be an incredible nick with four of Bel Esprit’s six stakeswinners having Vain in the damline, while Bel Esprit himself is out of the Vain mare Bespoken.

Well, the trend continued at Narrandera yesterday (22 June) when the appropriately named Belvain scored easily over the 1000m: her third cheque from four starts.

Out of the Acecay mare Aces in Vain, Belvain was bred by Mick Stacey, who also races the filly out of the Brett Cavanough stable.

A half sister to city winners The Take and Carry on Mate, Belvain is out of a half sister to Parramatta Cup-LR winner Kenquest, while her granddam is the Group Two winning Vain mare, Better Vain.