THE successful training partnership of Kim Bailey and Mat Nicholls is seeking to lease a couple of Irish horses with form on the track or in point-to-points.

Based near Cheltenham, Bailey has trained the winners of the Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle and Grand National in his long career. He brought Nicholls on to the licence in 2025 and the yard has enjoyed something of a resurgence. White Noise gave them a Cheltenham Festival winner last March.

Bailey told The Irish Field: “I have two clients who wish to lease rather than buy their next horse. One is new to the sport and the other is long-standing. We’re happy to consider mares and geldings of all ages and all levels of ability.

“The arrangement might be ideal for an owner-breeder who would rather not have to pay training fees for their promising mare before taking her back to breed from her. A few years ago we leased Emily Gray from Timmy Hyde. We won four races with her, including a Grade 3 race at Fairyhouse, before giving her back to Timmy.”

White Noise was bought privately by Bailey and Nicholls from handler Sean Doyle following a single point-to-point outing in early 2025. She won three novice hurdles for her new yard last winter before winning the Grade 2 Dawn Run Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham at 40/1.

Bailey said: “She has been schooled over fences but we might give her a run over hurdles first next autumn and if she were to win that impressively then she might stay over hurdles.”

In the meantime the yard could have a Galway Festival runner. The Kemble Brewery, winner of a Kelso handicap hurdle last Sunday, is being considered for the Galway Hurdle. Bailey said: “He’s a very nice horse, very fast, but he did not take to fences. He has won his last two hurdle races easily and if the owners want a big day out with him then maybe Galway will be the plan. It’s not set in stone.”