LEAD by example, and that is what William Flood has done with Caravation. The Boadsmill Stud master is one of the architects and promoters of the Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association National Hunt Fillies’ Scheme, designed to encourage more fillies and mares in training. Now he owns a racemare with whom he has won a point-to-point, a bumper, a couple of hurdle races and now a chase. Hats off to the winning owner-breeder.

Having earned some blacktype when she was third in a listed bumper at Navan, Caravation’s connections will surely be scanning the programme now for an opportunity to fill the only gap on her CV before she eventually goes to stud – winning a blacktype race. With no inbreeding in the family for five generations, Caravation will be so easy to mate when that time comes.