Billy Mangan keeps step with brother Jimmy with two unbeaten festival fancies

Grand National-winning trainer Jimmy Mangan is having a rare old time of it as a breeder, he and his wife Mary having reared Joseph O'Brien's Listed bumper winner Uhtred and a Churchill yearling colt who topped the first session of the Goffs February Sale at €82,000.

Not to be outdone, his brother Billy has bred two unbeaten five-year-olds who hold significant promise for the spring festivals – The Big Breakaway, who has barely broken into a sweat winning both starts for Colin Tizzard by wide margins, and Your Darling, sent out by Ben Pauling to an easy victory in a Newbury bumper on his debut last month with the equally exciting Flinteur Sacre in second.

The Big Breakaway was sold by Mangan as a foal to MCC Farms for €17,000, and was resold to Monbeg Stables for €55,000. That outfit's Donnchadh Doyle saddled him to a ten-length success in a point-to-point at Quakerstown and topped last year's Goffs Punchestown Sale when trading him on to Tizzard for €360,000.