SUMMUS Equus Inc is not a name I am familiar with and at last year’s Goffs November Sale they invested €12,000 in a filly foal by Excelebration offered from her breeders John and Michelle Weld’s River Downs Stud. She was their sole purchase at the sale.

This price was some way behind the €75,000 paid a year earlier at the same venue for her own-brother when he was bought by the O’Callaghan’s Tally-Ho Stud. Reoffered last August at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale he sold for £62,000 to Peter and Ross Doyle, and not surprisingly ended up with Richard Hannon.