FOLLOWING a four-season sojourn at Knockhouse Stud in south Co Kilkenny, the Monsun stallion September Storm has moved back into the northern half of the country but is now standing in Co Mayo, some way distant from his former base of the Ballyash Stud in Co Down.

The 19-year-old German-bred horse, who gets only bays and browns, will be the first stallion to stand for thoroughbred mares at the Derryronane Stud near Swinford where owner, Liam Lynskey, spotted the own-brother to Shirocco when spending two evenings viewing Irish Thoroughbred Marketing’s virtual stallion trail.