WHEN Colreevy won the Grade 1 Champion Bumper at Punchestown on Wednesday, she was one of just a pair of mares in the 10-runner field. She was the second of her sex to win the race in three years, the ill-fated Fayronagh landing the spoils, again for Jamie Codd, two years earlier.

Colreevy joins Apple’s Jade and La Bague Au Roi as the three mares in Ireland this National Hunt season to land a Grade 1 in open company; Honeysuckle won a Grade 1 for mares only at Fairyhouse last month.