Nina Carberry excited to be sending first homebred to the sales

Top former amateur Nina Carberry - who rode the 2011 Irish Grand National winner Organisedconfusion - has expressed excitement at sending her first homebred to auction after Tattersalls Ireland released the catalogue for the second May Store Sale.

The Fame And Glory filly will be offered as lot 99by Katie Rudd's Busherstown Stud Farm, and is out of the Hawk Wing mare Jeunopse, a Flat winner in France who was raced by Carberry in Ireland to place numerous times over jumps.

"My mother Pamela and I bred her," said Carberry. "I'm delighted I kept her until now as Fame And Glory's progeny have obviously turned out to be pretty good and she's a lovely filly.

"We're hoping she'll sell well - she's a good stamp and nearly 16.2 hands high. It's exciting to be sending our first homebred to the sales and hopefully we'll do okay.

"I had the mare myself and probably should have won on her twice, but she won on the Flat and placed a good few times over obstacles. She was well able to jump but unfortunately I wasn't able to get her head in front!

"She has a good back page with both Beneficial and the Melbourne Cup winner Jeune, so I'm hoping that ability will come through again."

Carberry has also played her part in the building up the reputation of the late Fame And Glory as a jumps sire, having ridden his first winner under rules when guiding Young Ted to a wide-margin success in a Thurles bumper in March 2018.

The son of Montjeu sired his first Grade 1 winner in February, when Commander Of Fleet won in novice hurdle company at Leopardstown before going on to finish second to Minella Indo in the Albert Barlett Novices' Hurdle last month.

Smiles all round for the Carberry family after Young Ted's Thurles bumper successCredit: Patrick McCann

And while fillies may find favour among buyers a little harder to come by than geldings, it should be noted that Telmesomethinggirl was sold for €39,000 at last year's inaugural May Store Sale and went on to win one of the first four-year-old maidens this season.

Carberry and her husband Ted Walsh jnr have also enjoyed success in the pointing sphere with Mossy Fen, who won his Loughbrickland maiden for Donnchadh Doyle last weekend to earn a slot in the Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale on Friday.

Carberry and Walsh pinhooked the son of Milan as an €18,000 foal and sold him on to Monbeg Stables for €30,000 as a store, when also offered by Busherstown.

"Ted's a big cog in the wheel," said Carberry. "He helped me a lot a couple of years ago, when I was busy riding out and going racing. Ted was able to keep the show on the road, going to the sales and buying youngstock for resale.

"He went and bought Mossy Fen, so we were delighted with him when he went and won his point at the weekend. It would be great to see him go on to bigger and better things.

"Katie [Rudd] consigns all my horses and it's great to have her on our side. She's a big help and has got so much experience."

Jeunopse is also the mother of a two-year-old Yeats colt, who sold for €17,500 to Blackcastle Stud at the 2017 Tattersalls Ireland November Sale, and a yearling filly by Champs Elysees.

"We were delighted with how the Yeats sold," said Carberry. "He was a lovely foal and Yeats is really starting to do it.

"We'll probably see how we're going with the Champs Elysees around September time - we might break her in as her sire is Flat-oriented, but we'll keep our options open. She's a nice filly."

There is more for Carberry to look forward to later in the year as well, with a Shirocco half-brother to Grade 2 mares novice chase winner Daisy's Gift destined for the summer store sales and an Awtaad filly bound for the yearling sales.

"Ted and I are working more and more as a team and pinhooking youngsters from foals to stores is what we want to get into," said Carberry. "We'd also like to start selling a few Flat breds down the line."

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