WEXFORD breeder John Roche is hoping to bring up a broodmare championship five-timer next Wednesday at Balmoral Park, where he has entered the reigning titleholder, Assagart Faithfully, and his 2023 Dublin champion, Assagart Fairytale.

Being away from home means that John has to send a couple of his broodmares to others to foal, among them Give Me A Dollar, an eight-year-old unraced Fame And Glory half-sister to Its On The Line who, for the second year running, landed the Champion Hunters’ Chase at Punchestown last Friday.

Unfortunately, while he had hoped to be at the Kildare track, John was working as he was when Its On The Line won at Aintree. “I did get to Cheltenham where (for the second year running) the horse was just beaten,” said Roche. “I spoke afterwards to Derek O’Connor, who’s a tailor-made rider for the horse, and he was kicking himself that they were beaten, but they have made up for it since.”

Also on Friday, but slightly earlier at Cheltenham, the Frances Hatton-bred A Jet Of Our Own, won the extended two-mile hunters’ chase. The seven-year-old Jet Away gelding is the second of four foals registered with Weatherbys out of Satalda’s Lady. That 2010 Grand Plaisir mare also has three foals registered on CapallOir, a 2021 filly by Slyguff Sky Fall and a filly (2022) and colt (2023) by Gibeon.