WHAT joy Dysart Dynamo (Westerner) must have brought to her owner-breeder Eleanor Manning when he sauntered to victory on Sunday in the Grade 2 Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle at Punchestown, the race being over as a contest at least a mile from the finish.

Unbeaten in all four career starts, his performance rivalled that of Bob Olinger on the day, and you could hear the phrase ‘a star is born’ being murmured in many quarters.

Dysart Dynamo and his year younger half-sister Dysart Diamond (Shirocco) are spearheading the revival of a branch of a renowned family that has produced more than the average number of high-class National Hunt runners and winners.

The Willie Mullins-trained six-year-old son of Westerner (Danehill) first came to real notice when he was part of his trainer’s incredible haul of winners at the Punchestown Festival last year. His bumper victory then was doubling up his score in that division. Last weekend Dysart Dynamo added the Grade 2 feature to a maiden hurdle win in Cork, on both occasions coming home 19 lengths ahead of the rest.

Dysart Dynamo is the second foal and winner for his dam, Dysart Dancer (Accordion). That mare was thrown in at the deep end when she made her debut in the 24-runner Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Fillies’ Scheme Premier Bumper at the Punchestown Festival 12 years ago. She finished sixth and then transferred to Willie Mullins.

She won her first four starts from Closutton for Eleanor, at the age of seven and eight, and she was partnered by a different pilot each time; Patrick and Emmet Mullins, Paul Townend and Katie Walsh. Dysart Dancer pulled up on her sixth and final outing.

The mare’s first offspring, Dysart Diamond, is a five-time winner for the Eleanor/Willie axis, consisting of a bumper and four hurdle races, and she has shown her class with victories in a Grade B hurdle race at Listowel and the Listed Grabel Mares Hurdle at Punchestown. Next in line is the unraced five-year-old Dysart Dasher (Flemensfirth) with Willie Mullins, a three-year-old son of Flemensfirth (Alleged) and a two-year-old son of Walk In The Park (Montjeu).

Penny Downes

Dysart Dancer and Native View (Be My Native) were the two winners from Judys View (Kings Ride), a Navan bumper winner for the Kiernan family. That mare was bred by Penny Downes in Westmeath and was one of a trio of successful offspring from the unraced Happy View (Royal Buck). One of the non-winning daughters of Happy View was Ring Road (Giolla Mear), though she was placed five times over fences. At stud Ring Road is the dam of a pair of Grade 2 National Hunt winners, chaser Gales Cavalier (Strong Gale) and bumper horse Dantes Cavalier (Phardante).

Go back to Dysart Dynamo’s fourth dam, Rare View (Grand Inquisitor), and you will find that she was a winning chaser and point-to-pointer and she is the taproot of a number of good horses.

Her best son was Highway View (Royal Highway) who won the Galway Hurdle for trainer John Cox and jockey Pat Black, and four years later added the Leopardstown Chase when trained by Cox’s son Bunny and that day was ridden by Mouse Morris.

Descending from Rare View have also been the likes of Grade 1 Ascot Chase and Grade 1 Ryanair Chase winner Our Vic (Old Vic), the Grade A Connolly’s Red Mills Thyestes Chase winner Siegemaster (Lord Americo), and Grade 3 Welsh Grand National hero Emperor’s Choice (Flemensfirth).