BY the time you read this, Whytemount Stud’s Debbie O’Neill will hopefully have sold her three-year-old Affinisea (Sea The Stars) gelding well in Part 2 of the Goffs Arkle Sale, and don’t be surprised if the name of Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins is listed as the purchaser.

Should that happen, it will be down to the fact that Mullins trains the gelding’s full-sister Just For Love, and that five-year-old races for Niall Glynn. Last September in Galway, Just For Love ran on well for Patrick Mullins to win the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares’ INH Flat Race on her debut, beating 13 others, and her starting odds of 4/9 would suggest that her ability was well known.