DEPENDING on which currency conversion you use, True Self has won in or about €1 million for connections. That is some amount of money for an eight-year-old daughter of Oscar (Sadler’s Wells) who failed to find favour with buyers at the Tattersalls Ireland Cheltenham December Sale in 2016.

She had finished second, beaten a short head, in a three-year-old bumper for her breeder, owner and trainer, Don Cantillon. True Self was unsold that day for £18,000. Next time she appeared it was from the stables of Willie Mullins and she ran up a sequence of victories, bumpers at Galway and Down Royal, and a maiden hurdle at Thurles.