AMONG those who brought horses to Goresbridge last Wednesday week was racehorse trainer and RTÉ racing pundit Ted Walsh whose Greenhills Stud was selling the Plot Blue filly Kells Bay (Lot 277).

The three-year-old, who was knocked down to Austria’s Georg Wels for €5,000, was consigned on behalf of Ted’s daughter Katie.

A former leading amateur jockey herself, Katie bred the bay out of Derrynane Lady on whom she finished fifth in the five-year-old young event horse championship at Dublin in 2008 when she competed under the name Wagamama.

Afterwards, as Derrynane Girl, the Cruising mare jumped for the Army Equitation School with the Minister For Defence being the registered breeder of her first foal, the 2012 Lux Z gelding Port Magee.

Katie bred the mare’s other three progeny, the 2013 Ricardo Z gelding Knight Of Kerry, the 2015 Plot Blue filly Gorm (who was entered at Goresbridge but is being retained for the present) and then Kells Bay.

Derrynane Lady was out of the thoroughbred mare Missing Lady (by Gleason) who won six point-to-points and was a half-sister to Stoneybrook.

That 1994 Cruising gelding, who was bred by Ted, competed at Pau (CCI4*) in 2007 under Sue Shortt but, before then, was partnered by Katie at the European young riders’ championships in Portugal (2004) and Poland (2003) and the European junior championships in Belgium (2002) and Germany (2001).

Missing Lady and Stoneybrook were out of the Bahrain mare Ostend on whom Ted won an amateur chase at Galway while, as he would say himself, he also rode her mother, the Rabirio mare Shurio, to land a bumper at Wexford in 1969 providing Ted with one of his earliest wins in his stellar career as an amateur jockey.