LOT 1 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale last March was a once-raced five-year-old daughter of Jeremy (Danehill Dancer) named Ard Abhainn.

A few days before the sale the Jim Mernagh-bred won a mares’ maiden at Lingstown in Wexford by a length but this was enough to persuade Aidan O’Ryan and Gordon Elliott to part with £80,000 for her.