AS July turned into August, there was plenty to celebrate at Bluegate Stud in Co Kilkenny, home of Nicky Teehan’s thoroughbred enterprise and partner Louise Lyons’s Dartans event and show horse team. Last Wednesday week, Shanahan’s Turn, who was bred by Nicky, won the thetote.com Galway Plate by five and a half lengths. The seven-year-old Indian Danehill gelding landed his only point-to-point, a maiden at Dawstown in May 2013, by a distance in Teehan’s own colours after which the Eugene O’Sullivan-trained bay was sold privately to leading National Hunt owners Alan and Ann Potts.

At Galway, Shanahan’s Turn was winning his fourth race for the Henry de Bromhead yard and his third under jockey Johnny Burke. On Sunday at Crecora, Nicky’s daughter Charlotte won the EI90P class to record her third success at this level and her second on Louise’s pure-bred Connemara Railway Boy. This was the 12-year-old’s first competitive outing since breaking her wrist earlier in the summer, Becky Tandy having partnered the five-year-old Linsfort Barney gelding in two EI100 classes in the interim.