Ballyhane Stud

Joe Foley stands four sires for 2020, the well-established Dandy Man and newcomer Soldier’s Call among them. His other sires are both standing for €4,000, Elzaam (Redoute’s Choice) and Prince Of Lir (Kodiac). The latter has his first crop of runners, including a colt who sold for 260,000gns, while among those who will train his stock is the juvenile wizard Wesley Ward. Could he turn up at Royal Ascot with the colt he bought at Goffs, trying to emulate Prince Of Lir himself who beat the Group 1 winning two-year-old The Last Lion when he landed the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes over five furlongs?