PUNCHESTOWN could be on the agenda for the Grade 2 Goffs UK Nickel Coin Mares Bumper winner Ashroe Diamond, though it could come too soon for the five-year-old daughter of Walk In The Park (Montjeu).

So said the winning trainer Willie Mullins in the aftermath of the mare’s second win in four starts, and in the hands of the trainer’s son Patrick.

That is not the only Mullins connection either, as the mare was bred by the trainer’s wife Jackie. She has owned the dam, Saine D’Esprit (Dom Alco), since her purchase for just €15,000 as an eight-year-old by Willie.

Buying her wasn’t that much of a gamble to be honest. After all, she was a half-sister to the Mullin’s Grade 1 Hennessy Gold Cup winner Quel Esprit (Saint Des Saints), and she was in foal to Flemensfirth (Alleged).

Now Saine D’Esprit is the dam of three winners, the foal she was carrying being the bumper winner Take Tea, while Sneezy Foster has won twice over hurdles this year with another daughter, Memory Of Youth (Yeats).

When she was purchased in 2014, Saine D’Esprit had a lot to recommend her, and since then her half-sister, the unraced Reflexion Faite, is dam of the dual Grade 3 winner Aux Ptits Soins (Saint Des Saints), one of those victories gained in the Coral Cup at the Cheltenham Festival.