HAVE More was bred by Paul Green and put into training by him with Brian Meehan. The daughter of Haafhd (Alhaarth) was unusually bred, being by a classic-winning miler but from a French female line that had shown a prowess to breed leading runners over jumps.

At the age of two, Have More ran three times. She lined up against a total of 38 opponents and saw the rear end of 34 of them! She did manage to beat four of them home. Little wonder then that she was pretty friendless when she went to the sales at Doncaster eight years ago and was picked up for a mere £1,800 by bloodstock agent Bobby O’Ryan.

She joined the broodmare band at Grange Stud where there was a great range of stallions to choose from as potential mates. Her first two years saw her covered by Milan (Sadler’s Wells), the 2001 Group 1 St Leger winner and runner-up in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf. Those coverings resulted in two colts, and both are now winners.

The younger of the pair is Terry The Fish, a five-year-old with Jonjo O’Neill, and he ran up a sequence of three hurdle wins at Uttoxeter during the summer. He has been outshone though by his year-older brother Davids Charm as he won the Grade A Bar One Racing New Stand Hurdle at Fairyhouse last weekend, his third success too. The gelding is trained by John Joe Walsh and was another big race win for rider Rachel Blackmore.

Since the birth of this duo Have More has not missed yet at stud, She has a four-year-old filly by Flemensfirth (Alleged), three-year-old and two-year-old sons by Fame And Glory (Montjeu), and a yearling filly and a filly foal, both by Leading Light (Montjeu).

You might ask why Grange Stud would have wanted a £1,800 two-year-old castoff as a broodmare. Well, she was a half-sister to a gelding called Junior (Singspiel) and he had won the Grade 2 Winter Novices’ Hurdle at Sandown Park and been runner-up in the Grade 1 Challow Hurdle. After the filly was bought he went on to win the Listed Rehearsal Chase at Newcastle also.

Junior is the best of five winners from the Sanglamore (Sharpen Up) mare For More and she was a multiple winner on the flat and over jumps in France. She was one of no fewer than 11 winning offspring from For Kicks (Top Ville) and seven of them earned some blacktype during their racing careers, four over jumps and three on the flat. The best of them were the Grade 2 Rising Stars Novices’ Chase winner Celtic Son (Celtic Arms) and the listed hurdle-winning mare Lunar Path (Night Shift).

For Kicks is a three-parts sister to Summit (High Top) who won the Grand Steeplechase d’Enghien in 1988 and was runner-up in the same race three years later.

This is also the female line that produced a runner familiar in recent years in Ireland, Alelchi Inois (Night Tango).

Milan is one of the stars of the National Hunt stallion roster under the Coolmore banner. His leading winners include the Champion Hurdle winner Jezki (now an eight-time Grade 1 winner), Apache Stronghold (Grade 1 novice chase winner), Darlan (Grade 1 Christmas Hurdle), Beat That (Grade 1 Punchestown Festival winner), Martello Tower (Grade 1 Cheltenham Festival winner) and Sizing Granite (Grade 1 Aintree Festival winner).