WHEN Henry Cleary paid €6,000 for a three-year-old Arakan filly at the recent August Sale in Tattersalls Ireland, little could he have known that the pedigree would get such an important update as it did just over a week ago.

The filly’s half-brother Portrade won the Grade 1 New York Writers’ Cup Handicap Hurdle over two miles and three furlongs, with another Irish-bred, the Scorpion seven-year-old Scorpiancer, back in third.