SOMETIMES the stars align and success comes from a modest beginning. Such was the case of Glass House, the two-year-old winner of the valuable Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sale Race at the Curragh this year.

This daughter of Showcasing is from that sire’s second crop and his reputation is growing daily. By the time however that she hit the sales ring his first crop were still a year off running and many did not foresee the strides he would make at stud. Consequently the breeder of the filly received just 3,000gns for her foal, the first offspring of a winning Orpen mare.

The foal was bought by the O’Neill family in Knocklong House Stud and they sent her to Tattersalls Ireland where she sold for €35,000 to JC Bloodstock – a handsome profit on their investment and with her sire starting to make people take notice.

That was not the filly’s last time in a sales ring and she was back at Tattersalls for their Breeze-Up Sale and she left Kilminfoyle House Stud with another juicy profit when she sold for 65,000gns to David Redvers. He sent her to Ger Lyons to be trained for Qatar Racing and Pearl Bloodstock and her win and two places from three starts netted her owners more than £100,000.

This week Glass House visited a sales ring for the fourth time and by virtue of her racecourse prowess and the fact that she was placed in a listed race behind the Breeders’ Cup winning juvenile Hit It A Bomb she sold and this time her value soared again, to 205,000gns. It looks like Wesley Ward will now train her.

Her dam Unasuming has a yearling filly by Foxwedge and then appears to have missed a year, before being covered this time by Harbour Watch. Unasuming is one of three winners out of the Yorkshire Oaks winner Untold and she was placed in three classics – the Epsom and Irish Oaks and the St Leger at Doncaster. Untold was not the only member of her family to land the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks as her half-sister Sally Brown did so too.