FRENCH-BREDS were very much to the fore at this latest Punchestown Festival and won seven Grade 1 races. Apple’s Jade is mentioned elsewhere, while the other half dozen were Bacardys, Bapaume, Cilaos Emery, Disko, Fox Norton and Great Field.

The dual Grade 1 winner Bacardys is the best produce of his dam Oasice and she is by the Rathbarry Stud stallion Robin Des Champs who sired Punchestown winner Woodland Opera. Bacardys added the Tattersalls Ireland Champion Novice Hurdle to an earlier Grade 1 success in the Deloitte Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown. He was bred by trainer Eric Vagne and Jose de Silva.