GER Lyons has a stable full of quality, headed by the Group 1 winning two-year-old, Siskin. Another of that age group is Justifier, a €60,000 Goffs Orby Yearling who now has the distinction of being the first stakes winner in the first crop of the Irish National Stud’s Free Eagle (High Chaparral).

The colt was bred by Tally-Ho Stud from the five-time winner Pale Orchid, a daughter of Invincible Spirit (Green Desert). Failing to make the frame in five starts as a juvenile, Pale Orchid was offered for sale as a two-year-old by her breeder and sold to Tally-Ho for €26,000. At the time she was a half-sister to a stakes-placed runner and a daughter of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes winner Chelsea Rose (Desert King).