WILLIE Mullins saddled the first of his two graded winners at Limerick on Sunday when Kate Appleby Shoes took the honours in the Grade 3 Kerry Group EBF Shannon Spray Mares Novice Hurdle. The daughter of Flemensfirth was bred at the McCarthy’s The Beeches Stud and she is out of Gotta Goa, an unraced daughter of the Kris S stallion Publisher.

This is a female line that has spawned many good winners. Gotta Goa is a half-sister to six winners, the best of them being the Rashar gelding Spirit Of Park and the Durgam mare Stoned Imaculate. The former won the Grade 2 Wensleydale Juvenile Hurdle at Wetherby, a race in which his half-sister Stoned Imaculate was placed. Spirit Of Park was also Grade 1 placed.