MYSELF and my brother Laurence’s breeding story began over 50 years ago, when we bought a Blue Cliff mare on the advice of our good friend, Joe Rohan. We bought her locally from Jimmy Duffy in Castledaly and were particularly interested in her because of her breeding. She was bred by Dick Vaugh, The Island, Ballycumber.

A few years later, we bought a second mare, Dolly 23, from my wife Maura’s brother Sean Mahon, in Cloghan. Both those mares are the bloodlines we breed from to this day and we’ve have had many success stories from both.