TEN years after her Rio Olympics team bronze and individual fourth-place result, Paulank Brockagh is now an equine grandma after her Centennial daughter, Paulank Symphony, produced a Jumbo colt at Woodloch Stable in Minnesota.

‘Brocks’ proud breeder Paula Cullen shared the news about the new arrival, bred in the purple for eventing. Jumbo is the sire of Badminton-Burghley double winner Headley Britannia and also Avebury, the triple Burghley champion. Bred by the late Archie Smith-Maxwell, Jumbo is the most successful sire in British Eventing’s sire rankings.

Paulank Brockagh, by James Kernan’s great Touchdown, won Badminton CCI5*-L in 2014 with Sam Griffiths, now the Irish eventing team manager.

Paula sold the in-foal Symphony last year stateside to Ingvill Ramberg and has a couple of other Brocks’ offspring at hers and her husband Frank’s Wicklow base.

“We have retained her younger siblings, of which we have two. Paulank Calla Rose (Rosey, by Rosier) and Paulank Rio a lovely big two-year-old filly by Emerald who, hopefully, will be produced for the three-year-old sales in 2027.”