MOORTOWN House Stud near Navan is home to Joe and Edel Banahan. It is also home to the Manduro mare Empowermentofwomen and the retirement home to her 29-year-old grandam Almaaseh. The latter is currently ‘minding’ a pair of yearling fillies, one of which is a daughter of Cape Cross and Empowermentofwomen.

What is the significance of this? Well, Empowermentofwomen is a half-sister to Big Orange, the brave and popular winner of the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup. She is at the start of her own career as a broodmare, her first foal being an unraced two-year-old filly by Choisir. She is named Greengage and in training in Cork with John Murphy. This year Empowermentofwomen has a Teofilo filly foal and is now safely in foal to Mastercraftsman.