WHILE just four went to post for the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Future Champions INH Flat Race at Navan, a race that in the past decade has been won eight times by Gordon Elliott, it is safe to say that we will be hearing a lot more about the latest winner, On My Word (Poet’s Word). He was following up his debut win at the Co Meath track four weeks earlier.

In 2016, Elliott won the listed bumper with Samcro, and his winners since include Envoi Allen, Sir Gerhard, American Mike and The Enabler, while Joseph O’Brien broke the sequence with Uhtred. Tom Cleary trains Oh My Word for his owner/breeder Seamus Ross, and the gelding is the second winner for his dam Mulleady (Definite Article). The first was Wat Ua Doin (Dylan Thomas), and she was also the first produce of her talented dam.