BONNY Kate made all to beat Baie Des Iles by six lengths in the Grade C racinguk.com/freetrial Grand National Trial Handicap Chase over three and a half miles at Punchestown last Sunday.

A €45,000 graduate of the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale, Patricia Hunt’s mare was bred by Robert Guiry and she is yet another high-class performer to represent the late Knockhouse Stud stallion Beneficial (by Top Ville).

She is the third foal out of an unraced mare called Peppardstown, who is by the sire of Grand National heroes Comply Or Die (by Old Vic) and Don’t Push It, and that makes her a full-sister to the dual Grade 2-winning hurdler Mala Beach.

That Gordon Elliott-trained eight-year-old is also a capable chaser, he was runner-up to My Murphy in the Grade A Thyestes Chase at Gowran Park last month, and he is, at the time of writing, available at around 12/1 for the Grade 3 Betfred Grand National Trial at Haydock, a three miles, four and a half furlongs contest in which one of his most famous relations was placed in the not too distant past.

Peppardstown is a half-sister to Aztec Warrior (by Taipan), a hurdles and triple chase winner who was runner-up in the Grade 1 Scilly Isles Novice Chase at Sandown in 2007 and who has also notched up seven wins in point-to-points.

Their dam Eurocurrency (by Brush Aside) was unraced, as were two of her notable sisters, one of whom is Rare Currency (by Rarity), dam of the multiple chase scorer Shekels (by Orchestra) and grandam of the triple chase and 12-times point-to-point winner Current Exchange (by Beneficial), whom Guiry also bred.

The other sister is Deep Dollar (by Deep Run).

Her six winners include the Grade 2-placed chaser Another Dollar (by Supreme Leader), but her unraced daughter Ten Dollar Bill (by Accordion) is the dam of the horse who is most famous chaser in these first few generations of the family.

Monbeg Dude (by Witness Box) was twice placed in that afore mentioned Haydock Grade 3 chase.

More notable, however, is that he beat Teaforthree by half a length in the Grade 3 Coral Welsh National three years ago and, last April, was only beaten by one and three-quarter lengths and six lengths when third behind Many Clouds and Saint Are in the Grade 3 Grand National at Aintree.

If you go back one more generation then you find two more notable chasers as Floating Dollar (by Master Owen), the unraced third dam of Bonny Kate, was a half-sister to Fifty Dollars More (by Deep Run), whose 13 wins over fences featured the Mackeson Gold Cup at Cheltenham, and also to Floating Pound (by Even Money) who won the Embassy Premier Final Chase at Haydock.

Bonny Kate, who is trained by Noel Meade, is only six years old and has run just four times over fences, but with how she performed on Sunday, combined with her pedigree, she looks like one to be taken seriously should she turn up for the famous marathons at Aintree, Fairyhouse, Chepstow and/or Ayr in the future.