HRI chairman’s Group 2 winner

THE leading first season sire of 2016 in Ireland, Power (Oasis Dream) was sold to New Zealand, where he won the same title in that country, and last year he sold again to Oaklands Stud in Australia. While he has yet to sire a Group 1 winner, a feat he achieved twice himself when he won the Goffs National Stakes at two and the Irish 2000 Guineas at three, he had his third Group/Grade 2 winner when his son Laws Of Indices gave trainer Ken Condon a day to remember at the Curragh as he swooped to victory in the Group 2 Railway Stakes. This was his second win in three starts and he has won almost seven times his purchase price of €8,000.

Laws Of Indices was bred by Horse Racing Ireland chairman Nicky Hartery and he is one of four winners from Sampers (Exceed And Excel). She was something of a Dundalk specialist, winning three and being placed numerous times there in Hartery’s colours when trained by Michael Halford. While this family traces back well, Laws Of Indices is the first blacktype horse in a couple of generations. His third dam Privity (Private Account) won the Group 2 Prix de Malleret.