NOBLE Yeats was a wildcard entry for the Tattersalls February Sale in 2021, but the record shows that he was unsold at 290,000gns. There must have been times when his owner Paul Byrne and trainer Emmet Mullins wondered if retaining him had been a great idea.

At the time he was a 19-length Thurles bumper winner and placed, and he was sold with an entry for a Grade 2 bumper at the Dublin Racing Festival.