Jet Away feels the love at Fairyhouse as Brandy lands Grade 1 triumph

Brandy Love came with a late, wide run under Paul Townend to capture the Grade 1 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares' Novice Hurdle Championship Final at Fairyhouse and give her sire, Jet Away, a first success at the highest level.

The six-year-old is trained by Willie Mullins for Claudio Michael Grech and had finished second to stable companion Allegorie De Vassy in the Grade 3 Solerina Mares' Novices Hurdle at the end of January.

Bred by Kieran Ryan and Tim Nolan out of the Saddlers' Hall mare Bambootcha, a Grade 3 Punchestown handicap hurdle winner for Colm Murphy, Brandy Love was sold by Peter Nolan Bloodstock to Maria Byrne for €15,000 at the 2019 Goffs Land Rover Sale.

Successful on debut in a Cragmore maiden for Colin Bowe, Brandy Love was bought by Willie Mullins and Harold Kirk for £200,000 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale of 2020.

Her sire, the Group 3 Easter Cup winner Jet Away, stands at Eoin Banville's Arctic Tack Stud in Wexford and is a member of the illustrious Juddmonte dynasty founded by Sookera.

The son of Cape Cross is out of Kalima, an unraced Kahyasi sister to the blue hen Hasili, dam of leading sire Dansili and five individual Group/Grade 1 winners. Kalima is also a sister to the Listed winner Arrive, dam of Group 1 winner Promising Lead and a half-sister to the dam of the Grade 1 Citation Handicap winner and sire Leroidesanimaux.

Another of his dam's half-sisters is the Listed-placed Skiable, dam of Del Mar Grade 2 winner Three Valleys and second dam of Fillies' Mile winner Quadrilateral.

Jet Away was bred by Juddmonte and trained by Sir Henry Cecil for whom he won six races and was second in the Rose of Lancaster Stakes and third in the Listed Pontefract Castle Stakes.

With his classy staying performances and outstanding pedigree, it was no surprise he fetched 200,000gns to Blandford Bloodstock when offered at the 2012 Tattersalls Horses in Training Sale.

He made the journey to Australia where he was trained by David Hayes and was fourth, beaten less than two lengths, in the Caulfield Cup.

Brandy Love is from his first crop and was the first black type performer for her sire when third in the Grade 2 mares' bumper at last season's Dublin Racing Festival.

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