IT will have only warranted a line in race reports, the unfortunate death of the multiple winner Freescape at Killarney. While some will know the horse’s name, most will not know what this gelding meant to the David Marnane team, where he was a stable favourite, or the almost incredible story of a clandestine owner.

Following on is a tribute penned by this female owner, a member of the syndicate who owned Freescape, but first here are some facts about the nine-year-old. Bred at Overbury Stud where his sire Cityscape (Selkirk) stood, Freescape sold as a foal for 3,500gns, and the following September he was back in the ring at the Tattersalls Ireland Yearling Sale where Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock spent €20,000 to get him.