VICTORY for Harry Senior (Oscar) in the Grade 2 Ballymore Classic Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham means that every one of his first four dams has bred a graded National Hunt winner. That is some unbroken sequence in the family of the gelding who was bred by Cian Warren and sold through Coolroe Stud as a foal at Goffs for €28,000,

Harry Senior is the first foal of the once-raced Surf Like A Lady and her second produce, the unraced four-year-old Coolroe Lady (Milan), was unsold at €14,500 when she was offered at last year’s Tattersalls Ireland August Sale. How fortuitous that has now proven to be. Surf Like A Lady’s third produce is a yearling filly, also by Milan (Sadler’s Wells).