SUCCESS is hard to achieve, but some families do it with such regularity that you might wonder why we all cannot breed winners easily.

When success comes to a family, and it is properly cultivated, then it is amazing how a pedigree can throw up good winners all the time.

At the November Sale in Tattersalls Ireland in 2020, Jayne McGivern paid €85,000 for the bumper winner Jelan (Milan), in foal to Getaway (Monsun). The mare’s foal that year, a filly by Walk In The Park (Montjeu), was snapped up earlier in the sale by the renowned judge Michael Tallon for €25,000. The foal Jelan was carrying later realised £43,000.

Both McGivern and Tallon will be delighted now with the Fairyhouse debut success for Jelan’s first foal, the four-year-old Jetara (Walk In The Park). She is owned and was bred by Gerry McGrath, who has had so much success with this family. It is interesting to see that Jetara has an entry at Punchestown this week in a Grade 3 mares’ bumper. Will that come too soon for her?

Whatever happens next week, Jetara would seem to have a bright future, and hopefully she will enhance a remarkable pedigree even further. Jelan is an own-sister to the Grade 1 Champion Hurdle winner Jezki (Milan) and Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Jenari (Milan). She is a half-sister to Grade 1 winners Jered (Presenting) and Jetson (Oscar), and the Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Jett (Flemensfirth).

That is some record, and many of those big race winners were standing dishes at the Punchestown Festival.