TWO years ago Balnaslow was third to Road To Riches in the Galway Plate. This year his younger full-brother Lord Scoundrel made amends and landed the Tote Ireland sponsored feature at Ballybrit. Keeping the family in the picture at the summer festival meeting, their half-sister Shandon Star, a daughter of Priolo, was runner-up in the Galway Hurdle some years ago.

All of these winners are out of Noble Choice and she was a useful racemare when trained by Sean Treacy. She won three times on the flat and the same number of times over hurdles and she got blacktype when finishing third to Hi Handsome in the Lartigue Hurdle at Listowel. She was a daughter of Dahar, one of the four Grade 1 winning offspring of the brilliant racemare Dahlia.