Higher Leaves

Tara Stud might be yet to find a buyer, but there has been a significant sale to report among the equine inhabitants of the historic farm, with Derek Iceton confirming on Thursday that star producer Dettoria has been sold to Brighton and Hove Albion owner/chairman Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy. Already the dam of the G3 Prix Fille de l'Air winner Higher Leaves (Golden Horn) and GIII Honeymoon Stakes heroine Selenaia (Sea The Moon), Dettoria has come good again this year with the two-year-old Do Or Do Not. Though yet...

There may still be Punchestown to come of the major jumps festivals this year but on Sunday the focus of Henry de Bromhead will be firmly on the Flat and a possible first Group 1 triumph. Higher Leaves (Ire), one of six horses confirmed for the G1 Prix Ganay at the latest stage, returns to Longchamp where she won the Listed Prix de Liancourt last September before following up in the G3 Prix Fille de l'Air in Toulouse.  The four-year-old daughter of Golden Horn (GB) was just one of a...