A great advert for racing jumps mares as Put The Kettle On lands the Arkle

The Racing Post Arkle at Cheltenham on Tuesday provided the perfect advert for racing jumps mares, as Put The Kettle On toughed out victory over her male rivals Fakir D'Oudairies and Rouge Vif.

Furthermore, the winner – trained by Henry de Bromhead for the One For Luck Racing Syndicate – is out of a mare who also showed talents over jumps.

Put The Kettle On, last seen taking the Racing Post Arkle Trophy Trial Novices' Chase at Cheltenham in November, was bred in Ireland by Butlersgrove Stud out of Name For Fame.

The dam, a daughter of Derby hero Quest For Fame, was originally trained by Maurice Zilber for her owner and breeder Khalid Abdullah and won a ten-furlong maiden at Lion d'Angers.

She was sold as a four-year-old to Geoffrey Howson for 8,500gns at the Tattersalls December Breeding-Stock Sale and joined trainer Dick Donohoe for a jumps career. She went on to win a Cork maiden hurdle and to finish third to French Accordion in a Grade 3 novice hurdle at Tipperary.

Name For Fame has produced just the two winners since being retired to paddocks in 2006 but both are black-type performers; besides Put The Kettle On, the other is Carningli, who ran second in a Listed bumper at Cheltenham.

The 21-year-old mare – out of Prix de Royaumont winner Berceau, a half-sister to high-class miler Wixim – also has a three-year-old colt by Valirann and a two-year-old filly by the same sire, and was covered by Diamond Boy last year.

Put The Kettle On provides another feather in the cap for the late Whytemount Stud stallion Stowaway, a Group 2-winning son of Slip Anchor whose previous Cheltenham Festival winners include Champagne Fever – beaten a head into second by Western Warhorse in the 2014 Arkle – and Champagne Classic.

Put The Kettle On was presented by Butlersgrove Stud at the Goffs Land Rover Sale of 2017, where she was bought by Keith Phelan for the bargain price of €22,000.

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