WE reported here some weeks ago about the eventing win in England for the Woods Rosbotham-bred Irish Sport Horse mare Cooley Rosalent who last Sunday, at Le Lion d’Angers in France, finished her season as the silver medal-winning six-year-old at the world breeding championships for young event horses.

Partnered by Britain’s Oliver Townend, the grey completed on her dressage score (30.3 penalties) as Germany’s Ingrid Klimke claimed gold on the Trakehner bay Cascamara (27.4).

Although there are no sex allowances in eventing, the top five horses were all mares. Without the prefix, Rosalent was first produced on the young event horse scene here by Colin Halliday under whom she finished second at the 2018 Dublin Horse Show after which she was sold to Cooley Farm.

At Dublin, Rosalent appeared in the ownership of Woods’s daughter Lisa who owns the grey’s sire, the Dutch Warmblood stallion Valent. The six-year-old is out of the 1999 Roselier mare Bellaney Jewel who won a point-to-point, twice over hurdles and five times over fences. Her only winning thoroughbred produce to-date is the 2010 Marienbard gelding Bellaney Knight but Woods, and trainer Stuart Crawford, will be hoping that Bellaney Jewel’s 2013 filly by Doyen, Bellaney Gem, will step up on her second-place in a handicap hurdle at Punchestown this month.

Bellaney Jewel had just one other thoroughbred foal, a 2018 filly by Kalanisi, who was a favourite of Lisa’s but sadly broke her leg in the field last year. The mare has had three other ISH produce (this year’s filly by embryo transfer) and the eldest of them, the 2012 gelding Jewelent, finished eighth and 12th on his two visits to the world championships where he was ridden by Hillsborough Olymian, Clare Abbott.

Woods was delighted to see the line being represented in France for the third year in a row last and is looking forward to further successes by the mare’s progeny, eventing and on the racecourse.