FOUR White Socks won the Group 3 feature at Gowran Park on Thursday and few will have cheered her home the winner as loudly as Michael Shefflin (pictured) of Annshoon Stud. He is the registered breeder of the winner’s yearling half-sister by Sepoy (Elusive Quality), just the sixth offspring of the Green Desert (Danzig) mare Peppermint Green.

The mare was sold carrying her Sepoy daughter for 4,000gns at the Tattersalls December Sale and she comes from one of the famous female lines at Meon Valley Stud. The price was quite the bargain, given that Four White Socks, a daughter of Lope De Vega (Shamardal), sold for 110,000gns as a yearling and was in training with Luca Cumani.