THREE visits to the sales in a 12-month period for Shimmer’s Rock as a foal and yearling eventually resulted in her sale by breeder Ronald Brown for €19,000 at the 2013 Tattersalls Ireland November Sale to Tower View Stables. The next, and last, time she appeared in a sale ring was as a three-year-old when she sold for £35,000 to Alan Harte Bloodstock.

Last Saturday she opened her winning account at Gowran Park, landing the concluding EBF Ronan Lawlor Memorial Mares Flat Race for trainer Pat Fahy. The five-year-old daughter of Westerner and the Turgeon mare Thuringe was runner-up on her only two previous outings in point-to-points and she was certainly race fit.