THE Gavin Cromwell-trained Malina Girl has more than repaid the trainer’s investment of €7,500 in the daughter of Malinas (Lomitas). He gave that amount for the then three-year-old at the Tattersalls August Sale two years ago, and thankfully the William Kelly-bred filly was nominated to the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association’s valuable fillies’ scheme.

In addition to picking up almost €40,000 in prizemoney for her three victories to date, she has also won three ITBA bonuses, amounting to a further €15,000. Not bad money for this Wexford bumper, Bellewstown maiden hurdle and Roscommon beginners’ chase winner, and it would be icing on the cake should her canny trainer manage to find some blacktype for her.

Everything she does is also helping with the prospective sale values of her two-year-old gelded full-brother, and their own-brother who was born this spring.

Their sire Malinas covered this year at his new base, David Stack’s Coolagown Stud in Fermoy, and the Group 1 German Derby runner-up moved there after spells in France, England and the nearby Glenview Stud. He is sire of the Grade 1 winner Master McShee, Scottish Grand National winner Mighty Thunder, and Grade 2 winners Mister Malarky, Touch Me Eden, Medinas and Union Dues.

Malina Girl is the first winner for the unraced Western Cowgirl (Westerner), a half-sister to Grade 2 Galmoy Hurdle and Grade 3-winning chaser Alpha Ridge (Glacial Storm), and he was runner-up to Pandorama in the Grade 1 Drinmore Novice Chase.