The family
Kinnegads Pride ran a few times in Irish bumpers and hurdles without
any real success but being by excellent NH broodmare sire Be My
Native was always going to have a second career. She has bred 3
winners to date, the best being the Old Vic gelding Cavite Beta who has won 5 races.
In 2016, Kinnegads Pride produced a colt foal by Scorpion.
The grand dam Derrella was unraced but has bred a couple of winners in the high class Trabolgan (RSA Chase, Hennessy Gold Cup) and seven-time winner Huka Lodge who you may remember racing around the Northern circuits for first Lenny then Kate Walton.
Slightly further back in the pedigree, the 3rd dam Kessella bred 6 winners including Victor Ludorum Hurdle winner Rathconrath and seven-time winner Kesslin (a full brother to Derrella).
A smashing National Hunt family.
About the sire
Oscar (bay horse, born 1994) was lightly raced in his 2 seasons when
trained at Chantilly in France by Patrick Bary, winning once over
10f as a 3yr old and then next time finished runner up in a Group 2
event. His subsequent, and last, outing came in the French Derby at
Chantilly at a time when that was still a 12f race. He ran a cracker
to be second to Peintre Celebre, showing top class form.
Oscar was soon retired to stud and he stood at one of Coolmore's NH
bases at the Grange Stud in Ireland from 1998.
As well as around a dozen winners on the flat, Oscar has proven
himself as a high class Jumps stallion. He has been the sire of
numerous top grade jumpers with the likes of Rock on Ruby, Peddlars
Cross, Gods Own, Oscar Whiskey and 2017 Irish 'National winner Our
Duke among his progeny.
Oscar finished second in the leading jumps sires’ list for the
fourth year running in 2014-15, and still covered a large book of
mares in his final season at stud (2014).
Oscar is a National Hunt sire long admired by the team at Dodlands Steading, but we've
never really been in the correct place and the right time to buy any
of his progeny without breaking the bank to do so.
Oscar has the reputation of siring tough, plain-looking traditional
jumping types, and 'Reeva' took our eye as such at the Tattersalls
Ireland August NH Sale in 2016 (Lot
157). She is not overbig but has a real
racey look about her, and we imagined that she would be the first
of our Tatts Sales purchases of that year to be ready.
But we gave this filly the requisite time last season to develop and mature after her initial exposure to morning gallops in the Autumn, boxed up for the Winter, and back in exercise in the Spring of '17. With her fellow fillies and mares out at Southfield, Reeva has grown and thickened out well during the summer break, looking ready for the exciting training regime for fillies in place at Dodlands!
'Reeva' has a fine national Hunt pedigree with an immediate family
that is still very much active, and will have residual value as a
broodmare after racing. (You can't take her page away from her, as
those auctioneers are wont to say).
But we certainly look for this Oscar filly to be competitive in
bumpers and hurdles well before that day arises.
| Season | win | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | other | |
| 2017-18 | NH Flat | |||||
