BALLINA’s Tiernan Gill has purchased around 80 foals over 25 years attending Dutch Sport Horse auctions and has no reason to regret buying a son of Calvino Z in the Netherlands in 2021.

As Flogas Syb, the grey won in Dublin as a yearling and as a two-year-old but, more pertinently, he won his medium/heavyweight three-year-old geldings’ class at last week’s Balmoral Show where he went on to be crowned the Bluegrass youngstock champion, a first for his delighted owner.