BOBBY Guiry at Peppardstown Stud in Fethard bred the latest winner of the Grade 2 Ladbrokes Troytown Chase in Mala Beach. The nine-year-old gelding did something his younger own-sister Bonny Kate failed to do as she has now finished third in the two most recent runnings of the Navan feature.

Named after the stud farm at which she was bred, Peppardstown, a daughter of Old Vic (Sadler’s Wells), did not race but she has done well at her career as a broodmare. She has also performed exceptionally well when mated with the former Knockhouse Stud stalwart Beneficial (Top Ville), who was responsible for another graded winner in recent weeks in Forge Meadow.

Mala Beach is the first foal of Peppardstown and he is also a dual Grade 2 winner over hurdles. Among his placed efforts have been finishing in the frame in both the Grade 1 Christmas Hurdle and the Thyestes Chase. Bonny Kate was born two years after Mala Beach and she too is a winner at Grade 2 level over fences and, like her brother, was placed in the Thyestes Chase.

Squeezed in between the pair of blacktype winners is the four-year-old point-to-point winner Midnight Thunder (Beneficial) and his career was cut short when he died the following year. The fourth born of Peppardstown is Jack Dillinger (Westerner) and he will surely win in time, having finished in the first four on six occasions to date.

Call A Cab is the next offspring and he is a four-year-old unraced full-brother to Mala Beach. He was bought as a foal for €44,000 by John O’Byrne. All the good judges go for Peppardstown’s progeny and at this year’s Derby Sale Kevin Ross paid €43,000 for a three-year-old son of Yeats (Sadler’s Wells). The remaining progeny to date are a yearling filly by Leading Light (Montjeu) and a filly foal by Fame And Glory (Montjeu), the latter being snapped up by Nick Skelton last month at Tattersalls Ireland for €30,000.

Mala Beach and Bonny Kate come from a family that has a long and distinguished association with Bobby Guiry. Peppardstown’s third dam Slanestown (King Of The Jungle) bred a pair of notable runners in Fifty Dollars More (Deep Run) and Floating Pound (Even Money).

The latter numbered the Embassy Premier Chase Final at Haydock and the Heinz Chase at Ascot among his seven wins.

That paled however when compared to the 17 career wins amassed by Fifty Dollars More, and 13 of these were over fences. He enjoyed Cheltenham where his victories included the Mackeson Gold Cup and he was runner-up to Wayward Lad in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park and to Hartstown in the previous year’s Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.

Another notable winner to emerge from this family in more recent years is Monbeg Dude (Witness Box) and this staying chaser numbers the Welsh Grand National in 2013 among his trio of Grade 3 chase victories, and he ran with distinction when third in the 2015 Aintree Grand National.