REMEMBER Tamure, the son of Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer) who was runner-up to Lammtarra in the 1995 Derby at Epsom? You will be forgiven if you don’t, but his name was popping up quite a bit last weekend.

Originally raced by Sheikh Mohammed and trained by John Gosden, Tamure’s runner-up finish in the Derby, with Presenting back in third, was the highlight of a racing career that spanned four seasons, two trainers, John Gosden and Luca Cumani, 17 starts and five wins. Though be stood for many years as a National Hunt sire in England, he was poorly supported and, hence, is largely forgotten.

Elsewhere you will read about the Grade 2 chase win at the weekend for The Changing Man, a son of Tamure’s best runner, Bitofapuzzle.

Well, he was not the only Grade 2 winner over the weekend out of a daughter of Tamure. Battle Born Lad (Califet), bred by Jonathan Saxby who still retains part-ownership, won the Grade 2 Prestige Novices’ Hurdle at Haydock, and he is out of the dual hurdle winner Cute N You Know It (Tamure). In time, this duo could be joined as a blacktype winner by Jackie Hobbs (Jack Hobbs), still unbeaten in three starts and an impressive Ascot bumper winner on Saturday. She is another out of a Tamure mare.

Recent winners

The Worlds End and Lisnagar Oscar are two of the recent winners of the three-mile and half a furlong feature won by Battle Born Lad, and this improving six-year-old is likely to go on and take higher order in time.

Placed on all his three starts in bumpers, he won his only previous outing over hurdles last October, over two miles, but the extra mile seemed to play to his strengths. With this win, he becomes the first blacktype winner in the first four generations of his family.

A 6,000gns buy as a store at Doncaster, Cute N You Know It won just twice, but her 13 placed efforts came in bumpers, over hurdles and fences.

Two of her first three foals are winners, the other being Dillarchie (Sulamani), and that mare won a bumper before scoring twice over hurdles. Cute N You Know It is a full-sister to a hurdle winner, while two other successful siblings include Gumley Gale (Greensmith). His nine victories were split between wins over hurdles and fences.

Prolific winners

If this female line has been devoid of blacktype winners, it has nevertheless enjoyed its fair share of success, and Battle Born Lad’s third dam was the four-year-old flat winner Richest (Richboy). She had three winning sons by Rathbarry Stud stallions, and they included the prolific winning full-brothers, Full Strength (Strong Gale) and Wind Force. Full Strength was runner-up in a Grade 2 chase at Ascot, and all of his 10 victories were over fences. Wind Force visited more winner’s enclosures, twice after point-to-points, once after winning over hurdles, and 11 times following chasing successes.

Califet (Freedom Cry) may have been just short of Group 1 class, but he was a most admirable and tough performer. Group 2 wins at Saint-Cloud and Longchamp at up to a mile and a half were among his nine career wins over three seasons, but he was a Grade 1 stallion with the likes of Cilaos Emery, Adrien Du Pont and Clarcam winning at the highest level over hurdles and fences in Ireland and England.

His French crops also included the outstanding Blue Dragon, a dual Grade 1 hurdle winner, and Carriacou. The latter’s two wins at Grade 1 level over fences included the Grand Steeplechase de Paris.

Bloodstock agent Matt Coleman, a partner with Anthony Stroud in business, is equally at home buying high-class flat and National Hunt winners. One of his relatively inexpensive store purchases won the Grade 2 Rendlesham Hurdle at Haydock Park last weekend.

Bred by Joyce Marsh, the seven-year-old Gwennie May Boy (Mahler) was sold as a three-year-old at the Tattersalls Ireland July Store Sale four years ago for €20,000. An 80/1 winner first time out over hurdles when trained by Jonjo O’Neill, the gelding is now with Dan Skelton, and his six career wins, all over the smaller obstacles, include last year’s Grade 3 success at Aintree. His winnings now stand at a healthy £160,000 or thereabouts.

Gwennie May Boy has ensured that the first four dams in his family have each had at least one blacktype winner, quite a feat in National Hunt pedigrees. He may not be the only one, as his dam is still a very young mare. She is the unraced Samsha (Robin Des Pres), and her first three foals are all winners. Joining Gwennie May Boy in that group are Cast’s Tasha (Westerner), a three-time winner, and last year’s four-year-old point-to-point scorer Modern Man (Milan). Samsha’s fourth foal is Best Trump (Walk In The Park), an unraced four-year-old bought by Kieran McManus last year for €72,000.

Samsha is a full-sister to Winter Escape (Robin Des Pres) and half-sister to North Lodge (Presenting), and all were produced from their Saddlers’ Hall (Sadler’s Wells) dam Saddleeruppat.

Winter Escape won seven times over hurdles and fences, notably capturing the Grade 2 Dovecote Novices’ Hurdle at Kempton and a pair of Grade 3 chases. He was placed in the Grade 1 Powers Gold Cup at Fairyhouse. North Lodge was successful at Grade 2 level over hurdles, the second of just two wins, and placed in a Grade 1 at Aintree. He made just five lifetime starts.

Saddleeruppat was a dual bumper winner at Punchestown and Fairyhouse when trained by Joanna Morgan, having been purchased for IR13,500gns as a foal from her breeder Ned Morrissey. She is also the dam of the bumper and dual hurdle winning mare Lughnasa (Westerner), bumper winner Notawordofalie (Presenting), and the point-to-point winning mare Scarlet Feather (Flemensfirth), the last named now also being a winner producer.

Cailin Supreme

Saddleeruppat is one of a trio of winners from the smart racemare Cailin Supreme (Supreme Leader), and both of her two winning siblings were above average. They were both sons of Oscar (Sadler’s Wells). Apache Jack showed great promise initially when third in the Grade 1 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham, and his five career wins encompassed success in a bumper, over hurdles and fences.

However, it was his older brother Black Ketchum, born nine years earlier, who achieved most fame, winning that same Cheltenham race that his brother was placed in (but then a Grade 2 contest), as well as capturing the Grade 1 Sefton Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree.

All of the above are far from being the only stars in this family. Cailin Supreme, winner of three bumpers, three hurdle races and placed in a couple of listed hurdle races when trained by Paddy Mullins for Morrissey, was a full-sister to Grade 1 Punchestown Champion Novice Hurdle winner Castlekellyleader (Supreme Leader), while that cross also worked when Cailin Supreme’s half-sister Mary Kate Finn (Saher) bred the Grade 2 winner, Cheltenham and Aintree Festival hero and Grade 1 Champion Chase runner-up Fota Island (Supreme Leader). Fota Island was runner-up four times in Grade 1 chases, and placed in the Grade 1 Irish Champion Hurdle.

Mary Kate Finn is also the grandam, through her daughter Notsophar (Phardante), of the Grade 1 bumper runner-up Luska Lad (Flemensfirth) who went on to win a trio of Grade 2 hurdle races.