The family
Injury incurred while racing restricted Charmaine Wood's jumping
career to just the two seasons, but during that time under the care
of Alan King, she won a bumper, and two hurdle races.
Stainsby Girl is her second foal, the first Jumpsuit (by Tobougg) is
in training with Ian Williams and has run a couple of times. There's also
Ballyatty, born 2015, a colt by Kayf Tara.
Charmaine Wood's dam Forest Pride has a lengthy list of
winning sons and daughters over jumps to her credit. And being by
excellent NH broodmare sire Be My Native, she certainly was built
for the job.
Forest Pride's winning family contain graded hurdler/chaser Our Ben
& hurdler/chaser Scavenger (Grade 3 placed), full siblings to
Charmaine Wood in Double Pride & Pairtree, plus racemare Countess
Camilla.
And success hasn't stopped on the racecourse for Forest Pride by any
means, as
several of her daughters have proved to be successful broodmares
too. Countess Camilla (dam of 5 winners), Pairtree (3 winners) and Dara's
Pride (2 winners) are just a few who have maintained the strong winning tradition in
this excellent NH family.
About the sire
The German bred Shirocco (bay horse, 2001) was unraced as a 2yr old
but, trained by Andreas Schultz at 3, he won the Group 1 German
Derby. Transferred to the care of Andre Fabre at 4, he won the 2005
Breeders Cup Turf at Belmont Park. Campaigned for a final season at
5, he won 3 pattern events, including the Jockey Club Stakes & the
Coronation Cup.
Retired in 2007 to Darley's Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, Shirocco
struck gold with his first crop siring multiple stakes winner Brown
Panther. In his last 2 seasons with Darley, Shirocco was promoted as
a dual purpose stallion, and in 2014 re-located to stand at Glenview
Stud.
Having that increasingly influential NH sire, Monsun, on his top
line, Shirocco is now very popular with breeders and regularly
covers between 150 - 200 broodmares each year.
Of course, his NH success has been spearheaded by that famous
chestnut mare Annie Power (Champion
Hurdle winner 2016), while graded hurdles/chase winners such as Minella Rocco
(Gold Cup runner up 2017), and Red
Sherlock have kept his profile
strong.
Season 2021-22 outlook
Stainsby Girl is another mare who has been here at Dodlands since
joining the yard as a newly educated 3 year old in 2017. A bumper
winner as a 4 year old, she followed up several fine runs over
hurdles by winning a novice hurdle - final career win for Callum in the saddle - in March 2020.
With her novice status extended by a couple of months, she won a mares' only novice hurdle first time out last
season - carrying a winner's penalty - at Hexham in November. Below par next time but she ran well
when later placed in a couple of good class handicaps before the ground
dried up.
Stainsby Girl does need some give in the ground and has been effective at 2
miles but we may give her another go at 2½ miles before too long.
Starts on a mark of 120, she is another of our mares who might possibly take in a novice chase.
A lovely, neat, athletic filly, and a fairly useful hurdler with an excellent NH pedigree full to the brim with winners.
Previously....
In early 2014, Al Duncan was at Doncaster NH foals of 2013 NH sale and was taken by a couple of progeny of Tobougg. He thought he had secured one in particular
(subsequently named Jumpsuit), a first foal of winning hurdler Charmaine Wood until he was usurped by a bid in overtime.
Each November, the Tattersalls Ireland sales ring at Ratoath, near
Fairyhouse, plays host to the largest consignment of National Hunt
bloodstock in the world. Held over 6 days, the first 5 of these are
dedicated to foals (and a smattering of yearlings) with jumps-bred
broodmares offered on the final day.
Whether planned or unplanned, Al found himself at Tattersalls Ire NH sale in
November '14
for a couple of the days, one of which saw Clarendon Stud consign the half sister (by Shirocco)
to the colt he tried to buy a few months earlier. Al was fairly familiar with the pedigree - and this
was before the Shirocco mare Annie Power had won the Champion Hurdle
- but the filly caught his eye in looks too and this time
he was the successful bidder.
‘Nell’ spent her formative years at nearby Eildon Hill Stables before being moved over to Gary Rutherford in early Spring 2017 to complete her education and undergo a little pre-training.
She was very easy to handle and educate and Gary was glowing in his
regular updates.
Stainsby Girl then joined the Dodlands Steading yard for a few weeks in June
that year before spending the summer with
Tomahawk Wood out at Southfield.
She then spent the autumn in a field adjacent to the yard prior to coming back into training
in December ’17, where once again she impressed our team with her maturity, good nature, and ability in working upsides the older horses in the yard.
She wasn't quite ready to make a debut in the Spring of 2018, but
she had a good summer at grass, maturing & strengthening, and delighted
connections when winning a bumper on debut at Carlisle in December
'18
by 17 lengths. A solid 3rd place at Musselburgh a couple of months
later paved the way for a tilt at the Nickel Coin Grade 2 bumper at
the April 2019 'National Festival, where she ran creditably enough
to finish in mid division.
2019-20 proved to be an excellent first season hurdling for Stainsby
Girl. Five runs, never out of the first 3 and after some near misses
a deserved victory in a mares novice over 2 miles at Newcastle in
March '20.
Season | win | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | other | |
2018-19 | NH Flat | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
2019-20 | Hurdles | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
2020-21 | Hurdles | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
2021-22 | Hurdles | 2 | 1 | 1 |