CYRIL O’Hara’s Ennel Bloodstock sold the Grade 1 winner Champ Kiely on behalf of the gelding’s breeder, but the Mullingar man has also enjoyed quite a few successes of his own in recent seasons, notably with the Grade 1 winner Monkfish.

This week, at Fairyhouse, he will offer a newly-turned yearling by Crystal Ocean (Sea The Stars), and this colt has Grade 1 written all over him. Only two generations of the family will fit on the catalogue page, and it contains three Grade 1 winners, one of these being his half-brother Captain Cutter (Westerner). What a good young horse he was, and what a loss for his owner JP McManus and trainer Nicky Henderson.