TOUGHNESS is a word that you can easily attribute to the recent Grade A thetote.com Galway Plate winner Clarcam. The French-bred eight-year-old was making the 47th start of his career when he won the Galway feature, recording his 10th success in the process.

The son of Califet (Freedom Cry) is one of the star performers for his sire who stands at William and John Flood’s Boardsmill Stud near Trim. Califet won at up to Group 2 level on the flat and was given a chance at stud in France, an opportunity he grasped and from which he has developed into a leading sire of jumpers, with surely the best yet to come. His initial years in France were at Haras du Chene Vert and he had his first season in Ireland in 2014, so his first Irish crop are just three-year-olds.