IMAGINE the pleasure at the weekend in Joe Fogarty’s Kilfeacle Stud when news came through that the five-year-old Iffraaj (Zafonic) gelding Ikerrin Road won the Grade 2 Kennedy Road Stakes at Woodbine in Canada. Bred by Gerard Kerin, this was the gelding’s first win at this level, though he previously landed a Grade 3 and was runner-up last year in the Kennedy Road Stakes.

Why such delight in Tipperary? Just days before Ikerrin Road recorded his biggest success, his dam Fantastic Spring, by Fantastic Light (Rahy), was sold in a private deal to Kilfeacle Stud at Goffs for just €15,500 through Skara Stud.