FOLLOWING a four-season sojourn at Knockhouse Stud in south Co Kilkenny, the Monsun stallion September Storm has moved back into the northern half of the country but is now standing in Co Mayo, some way distant from his former base of the Ballyash Stud in Co Down.

The 19-year-old German-bred horse, who gets only bays and browns, will be the first stallion to stand for thoroughbred mares at the Derryronane Stud near Swinford where owner, Liam Lynskey, spotted the own-brother to Shirocco when spending two evenings viewing Irish Thoroughbred Marketing’s virtual stallion trail.

“I liked the stallions Sean Kinsella had on the trail and I just took a chance and rang him to see if he had any colts he might sell.

“When Sean offered me September Storm, I jumped at the chance of buying him and I was like a kid in a candy shop when I went down to collect him and bring him back up the road to Co Mayo. He has a lovely temperament and is fitting in nicely with the set-up here.”

On the track, September Storm’s list of winners is headed by Mia’s Storm, whose eight victories included a listed mares’ hurdle and a listed mares’ chase, Longhouse Sale, who has won 11 of his 15 career starts and the Grade 3 handicap chase winner Storm Control.

Breeders of sport horses would be attracted to the fact that he is the sire of two-star eventers, including the Lucca Stubington-ridden pair, Quingenti and September Son (both thoroughbreds).

At Derryronane, September Storm will be standing alongside the Irish Draught stallions Moylough Bouncer and his son, DS Ballagh Bouncer; the Connemara pony Black Shadow; the Dutch Warmblood pony Hans; the Holstein DS Are You With Me; and, new for this season, the homebred warmblood DS Shotgun.