WHILE the records show that Highflyer Bloodstock purchased the Cheltenham Festival winner Une Artiste, a daughter of Alberto Giacometti (Sadler’s Wells), for €85,000 at the Munir and Souede dispersal held at the Arqana December Sale in 2018, in fact she was retained on behalf of the partnership.

Still in the early days of her second career as a broodmare, the decision has proven to be a lucky one, as her son Intense Raffles provided the leading owners with victory in the Grade 3 BoyleSports Irish Grand National, and what a dream start this has been to the association Simon Munir and Isaac Souede have forged now with Co Meath trainer Tom Gibney.