HENRY de Bromhead is renowned for the top-class National Hunt winners he produces with great regularity. A few years ago he won a listed flat race with Gorane, but this past weekend he broke new ground when he trained his first group winner on the flat.

On just her second outing, having been runner-up on her debut, Minaun claimed the honours in the Group 3 EBF Marble Hill Stakes in Cork. The €8,000 yearling buy at Goffs has won more than four times her purchase price and finally given her dam, the stakes-placed Bee Eater (Green Desert), a stakes winner. Minaun was bred by Sir Edmund Loder, owner of the famed Eyrefield Lodge Stud which has just come on the market after more than 120 years in Loder ownership.