ANTHONY Stroud did a fine bit of business for Ballyhimikin Stud’s James Hanly in 2017 when he purchased the Dansili (Danehill) mare Syndicate for 25,000gns. She had run six times, was a winner and twice runner-up at two, and had a very solid dam side.

Hanly did not head to stud immediately with Syndicate, and instead raced her in his wife Charlotte’s name, and she won again, trained in Ireland but travelling to Ffos Las to get her second success. She had a filly as her first foal, American Belle (Starspangledbanner), who was sold as a yearling to, you guessed it, Stroud Coleman. She won twice for James Fanshaw.