STILL settling into their new home, in the company of builders, carpenters, etc, Roland and Lois Eadie took time out to the watch the racing at Gowran Park on Saturday and were delighted when the John Joe Walsh-trained Danali justified favouritism in the mares’ maiden hurdle.

The six-year-old Presenting grey, who won a point-to-point maiden and a bumper in April and May last year, is the second of eight foals, and first runner, out of Lois’s Linamix mare Dabiyra, a half-sister to Dabiroun (by Desert Prince), who won twice on the flat, once over hurdles and was Group 2-placed.

The mare’s 2013 produce, a gelding by Gold Well, was purchased, as Lot 1, at this year’s Goffs Land Rover Sale by leading British point-to-point trainer and young horse producer Tom Lacey. That bay was followed by fillies by Shantou (2014) and Doyen (2015) while this year Dabiyra had a colt by Kalanisi.

In recent years, the best horse bred by Lois has been the 2013 Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Bobs Worth and she and Roland attended the Bob Back gelding’s official retirement at Sandown in April. “They put on a great show that day and Bobs Worth looked super,” said the Co Fermanagh breeder who was present to enjoy many of the gelding’s 11 victories.