AIDAN Byrne bred the Grade 2 hurdle winner Mossy Fen, a five-year-old son of Milan (Sadler’s Wells) and the Supreme Leader (Bustino) mare Inch Native. He sold him as a foal to Nina Carberry and Ted Walsh for €18,000 and they turned a small profit when he realised €30,000 at the Derby Sale a few years later.

Donnchadh Doyle was the purchaser then and he more than doubled his money 10 months later when the gelding was purchased by Willie Twiston-Davies and part-owner Carl Hinchey for £60,000 at the Cheltenham April Sale last year. The gelding had days earlier made amends for a fall on his debut to win a Loughbrickland maiden.