A NEW name appeared among the list of winning sires over the weekend following the head success in the older geldings’ maiden for novice riders at Largy last Saturday of the Paul Rothwell-trained Chelate.

The seven-year-old is by the Mon Tresor stallion, Nigrasine who won 10 races for the Les Eyre yard between June 1996 and May 2002. The majority were over six furlongs, two were over a mile and one was the Listed John O’Gaunt Stakes over seven furlongs at Haydock.

Nigrasine retired to stand with Des Noctor at the Tara Hill Stud outside Gorey where the vast majority of the mares he has covered are sport horses. He has had many champions in the show ring and is sire of the good eventers Timpany Night and Danceing Fox. Chelate was bred near Saintfield, Co Down by Anthea Smyth and is the second of just two foals out of the Anshan mare Cistercian who comes from the family of Lantern Lass. The first was the 2008 Dr Massini mare Izzini who won three bumpers and a hurdle for the Stuart Crawford yard.