Roy and Gretchen Jackson, the owners of Barbaro, received some heartening news when a half brother to classic winner George Washington (Ire) and multiple Group 1 winner Grandera was born on February 3 at Roundhill Stud in Ireland.

The Tiger Hill colt is the ninth foal out of the Jacksons’s Alysheba mare Bordighera.

“[The colt is] a big foal with a lot of quality, great bone, and his hocks are perfect,” said Roundhill Stud’s Honora Corridon. “Looks like Group 1 is stamped all over him.”

The Jacksons purchased Bordighera privately in 2001. They bred her to Danehill in 2002, and the resulting foal was George Washington, whom Demi O’Byrne purchased for $2,050,335 in the 2004 Tattersalls Ltd. October yearling sale.

George Washington won four Group 1 races, including the 2006 Two Thousand Guineas (Eng-G1). He will stand his first season in 2007 at Coolmore in Ireland.

The Jacksons sold Grandera to Godolphin Racing in 2002, and he subsequently won three Group 1 races and earned more than $2.8-million. The Grand Lodge horse stands at the Darley Japan Stallion Complex.

Bordighera also is the dam of an unplaced three-year-old full brother to Grandera named Wyeth and an unnamed two-year-old colt by Pivotal.