Threeunderthrufive another smart winner on the scorecard for Didinas

Threeunderthrufive, who helped his trainer Paul Nicholls reach a personal best tally for a National Hunt season with his 172nd winner of the campaign, was also extending an impressive record for breeder James Dunne at Perth.

His easy victory in the Listed British EBF William Hill Gold Castle "National Hunt" Novices' Hurdle meant that the gelding became the third black type scorer from five runners out of Dunne's mare Didinas.

Her first came through her first foal Bordini, who had looked an extremely smart prospect in bumpers for Willie Mullins in taking a Listed event at Naas but was pulled-up in the Champion Bumper and ran only once more.

Didinas, an unraced Kaldou Star mare from a family of useful French hurdlers, was imported to Ireland in 2010 - the year in which Bordini was born. She is also the dam of Benruben, who landed the Grade 3 Kilbegnet Novice Chase at Roscommon last September for Henry de Bromhead. Another half-sister, Silk And Sand, won a Thurles bumper in Dunne's colours, while Sister Saragh got her head in front in an Irish point-to-point.

Threeunderthrufive, a son of Burgage Stud's Shantou, was sold by Dunne through Larch Grove Stud to Nicholls and Tom Malone for €120,000 as a three-year-old store at the 2018 Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale.

Running for Max McNeill and family, he has now won five of his seven starts and was sixth in last month's Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham.

He has a five-year-old full sister named Shantou Shipper while Didinas also has a three-year-old daughter by Milan and a two-year-old El Kabeir colt.

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