THERE were several blacktype events held in Ireland last weekend and one of those, the Grade B Tara Handicap Hurdle, provided one Danehill (by Danzig) stallion with a first big race winner from his first crop.

Mountain High, a Group 1-winning half-brother to the Group 1 stars Islington (by Sadler’s Wells) and Greek Dance (by Sadler’s Wells), was among the best horses to go straight to a National Hunt base when joining the team at Beeches Stud in 2008.