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Bred by Paddy Behan, won on his the same company’s 2010 August Sale to debut for before running Gerry Griffi n for €23,000. third to Barters Hill in a listed bumper. His Simply Ned made a promising start to his career total is now 17 wins from 19 starts, racing career. Trained all through his career earning nearly £840,000. He is certainly by Nicky Richards, he was beaten a neck in one of the most popular horses to grace his only bumper. He then went on to win his the turf in recent times. fi rst three starts over hurdles and added a Altior was sold at the 2013 Goffs Land further success over the smaller obstacles Rover Sale for €60,000 from Michael before turning his attention to chasing. Carty’s Kilmoney Cottage Stud to Highfl yer His second win in the Grade 1 Paddy’s Re- Bloodstock. He is the second blacktype wards Club Chase at Leopardstown, on the winner for his dam Monte Solaro who was disqualifi cation of Min in 2017 and defeating trained for Paddy Behan by Francis Flood the favourite Footpad this time, was his sixth PADDY BEHAN and won a Grade 3 hurdle race at Tralee. IRENE HATTON over fences and his second blacktype win. She is also dam of the Old Vic Grade 2 He has also been knocking at the door a ■ Altior (Ire), 2010 g. by out Fairyhouse hurdle winner Princess Leya ■ Simply Ned (Ire), 2007 g. by Fruits Of number of times in such races was placed in of Monte Solaro, by Key Of Luck and another multiple winner, and she has a Love out of Bishops Lass, by Marju the Grade 1 Maghull Novices’ Chase at Ain- number of young stock to follow. tree (to Balder Succes), the Grade 1 Paddy ALTIOR remains unbeaten in 16 starts over Paddy, together with his wife Rose, is a IRENE Hatton bred the Leopardstown Power Chase (to Flemenstar) and the Grade hurdles and fences and last year he won previous winner of a Connolly’s Red Mills/ Grade 1 winner Simply Ned, and her nomi- 1 Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase at Leopard- at the for the third The Irish Field National Hunt Breeder of nation again for the Connolly’s Red Mills/ stown (to ). He has been a consistent year running when he captured the Grade the Year award and a couple of monthly The Irish Field monthly award will make up visitor to Irish racecourses. 1 Queen Mother Champion Chase, to add awards. for the fact that she sold the dam, in foal to previous victories in the Grade 1 Arkle to Darsi, for just €1,000 in the year that Chase and Supreme Novices’ Hurdle. His Simply Ned was foaled. She did better with other successes at the highest level were VOTE FREE ONLINE: the foal, getting €11,000 for him at the VOTE FREE ONLINE: gained in the at Sandown www.TheIrishField.ie/vote Tattersalls Ireland November Sale. www.TheIrishField.ie/vote and recently in the . BREEDER 1 Simply Ned re-sold three years later at BREEDER 2

Verdana Blue was bred and raced by Ed- over for €22,000 a year later. The next time mond Kent and won a bumper at Killarney as he appeared in a ring was at the Goffs Land a four-year-old before being sold to Highfl yer Rover Sale where he sold to Denis Leahy Bloodstock at the Tattersalls Ireland Chelten- there for €30,000. ham November Sale for £65,000. She joins The best of fi ve winners from his unraced Blues And Twos, by Presenting, and Wilde dam Top Her Up, Quick Grabim’s three-year- Blue Yonder, by Oscar, as winning offspring old Leading Light half-sister was surely a of Blue Gallery, and she is the best of that bargain buy now. She sold as a foal to Ste- successful trio. ven Kelly for just €4,200. Among the other Blue Gallery was pinhooked by Joanna winners produced by Top Her Up was the Morgan, being purchased for IR£4,000 as multiple chase and point-to-point winning Su- EDMOND KENT a foal at Goffs and sold for €10,000 as a preme Leader gelding Having A Cut. yearling at Fairyhouse. She won as a two- OLIVER LOUGHLIN Top Her Up is a half-sister to Grade 2 ■ Verdana Blue (Ire), 2012 f. by Getaway year-old for trainer Paul Blockley and was hurdle winner Paddy The Piper, by Witness out of Blue Gallery, by Bluebird sold on that same year for a mere 2,600gns ■ Quick Grabim (Ire), 2012 g. by Oscar out Box, Grade 3 chase winner Love And Porter at Doncaster. That investment looked wise of Top Her Up, by Benefi cial by Sheer Grit, and Grade 3 Grand National VERDANA Blue landed the biggest suc- when, subsequently, her half-sister Dyrick Trial Chase winner Tell The Nipper, a son of cess of her career when she upset the hot Daybreak won the Grade 2 Lartigue Hurdle OSCAR has been a hugely successful sire Riberetto. Love And Porter is also the dam of favourite Buveur D’Air to capture the Grade 1 at Listowel. That mare has gone on at stud under National Hunt rules, siring something Scorpion’s Grade 3 hurdle winner Give Me A Christmas Hurdle at Kempton. She is the fi rst to produce this year’s Grade 2 winning hur- in the region of 25 winners at the highest Break. This is also the family of the Scottish top-level winner for the sire and comes from dler Mr Whipped who is also trained by Nicky level over jumps. The most recent to join that Grand National winner Godsmejudge. his fi rst crop. She is also winner of the Grade Henderson. list is the -trained Quick Grabim 2 Elite Hurdle and has visited the winners’ who won the Grade 1 Royal Bond enclosure eight times over hurdles, once in VOTE FREE ONLINE: Hurdle at Fairyhouse in early December. a bumper and once on the all-weather. She Bred by Oliver Loughlin, Quick Grabim was VOTE FREE ONLINE: www.TheIrishField.ie/vote www.TheIrishField.ie/vote prepped for her biggest win by running sec- BREEDER 3 sold as a foal at the Tattersalls Ireland No- ond in a 12-furlong listed race on the fl at. vember Sale for €18,000, and he was turned BREEDER 4

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