RECENTLY I wrote about the cheaply purchased Group 1 French Oaks winner Channel, the daughter of Nathaniel having been bought from Pat O’Kelly’s Kilcarn Stud for just €18,000 as a yearling. Buying from such a famous nursery is far less risky than doing so from an unknown or unproven source, even when the price appears to say otherwise.

The same might be said about the weekend’s Listed Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Rose Bowl Stakes winner Shadn (No Nay Never), a €16,000 Goffs foal purchase who was successfully pinhooked for £42,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Yearling Sale last year. She is the eighth winner for her Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer) dam Amethyst, who was herself a listed winner and ran second to Crimplene in the Group 1 Irish 1000 Guineas.