THIS has been a memorable racing year for Co Clare owner and breeder Gerard Kerin. He bred the high-class juvenile filly Besharah who won two group races including the Group 2 Lowther Stakes and ran third in the Group 1 Connolly’s Red Mills Cheveley Park Stakes. She will be vying for some classic glory in 2016.

Besharah is the first foal of the Dixie Union mare Dixieland Kiss and she was quite a bargain when she was snapped up for 33,000gns at the Tattersalls July Sale four years ago. This was quite a comedown from her yearling purchase price of $500,000 at Keeneland. Though she never ran, two of her half-sisters were stakes winners in the USA and they are all out of the Grade 3 winner Kiss The Devil, by Kris S.