AIDAN Byrne bred the Grade 2 hurdle winner Mossy Fen, a five-year-old son of Milan (Sadler’s Wells) and the Supreme Leader (Bustino) mare Inch Native. He sold him as a foal to Nina Carberry and Ted Walsh for €18,000 and they turned a small profit when he realised €30,000 at the Derby Sale a few years later.

Donnchadh Doyle was the purchaser then and he more than doubled his money 10 months later when the gelding was purchased by Willie Twiston-Davies and part-owner Carl Hinchey for £60,000 at the Cheltenham April Sale last year. The gelding had days earlier made amends for a fall on his debut to win a Loughbrickland maiden.

Inch Native had won a mares’ beginners’ chase at Listowel and a pair of point-to-points for Aidan Byrne and patience paid off as these successes were gained at the age of eight. Now her first runner is a smart performer and he comes from a female line well accustomed to breeding top-class runners.

Inch Native’s grandam Frankford Run (Deep Run) is the dam of the dual Grade 1 Tingle Creek Chase winner Sound Man (Kemal), grandam of the smart chasers Pairofbrowneyes (Luso) and Master Of The Hall (Saddlers’ Hall), and third dam of Samcro (Germany).