New Grade 1 winners for Oscar and Network at Fairyhouse

A slick round of jumping saw Quick Grabim make his Grade 1 breakthrough in the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Sunday, continuing a purple patch for the progeny of Oscar.

Trained by Willie Mullins and ridden by Ruby Walsh, Quick Grabim stuck to the rail and travelled smoothly up the home straight, running out an almost four-length winner.

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Quick Grabim was bred by Oliver Loughlin out of the late Beneficial mare Top Her Up, meaning he is bred on the same cross as useful chaser Ozzie The Oscar, and was sold by Loughlin to Francis Woods as a foal for €18,000.

Top Her Up has produced five winners from six runners and was a half-sister to the smart chase mare Love And Porter, who is better known as the dam of dual Foxhunter Chase winner On The Fringe, as well as Tell The Nipper and Paddy The Piper.

The mare - who died in 2017 - also shared her granddam Divine Drapes with Scottish Grand National hero Godsmejudge.

, who held court at Grange Stud in County Cork until 2015, has sired a slew of Graded winners in recent weeks, with God's Own leading home Ozzie The Oscar to give the sire a one-two in the Grade 2 Haldon Gold Cup at Exeter, and Bags Groove winning a Grade 2 novices' chase at Wincanton.

The son of Salder's Wells was also on the scoresheet last weekend with Paisley Park landing the Grade 3 Stayers' Handicap Hurdle at Haydock.

Quick Grabim's success capped a wonderful weekend for the Loughlin family, with Oliver's son Eoghan having bred Posh Trish, winner of the Listed mares' novices' hurdle at Newbury on Saturday.

Network - sire of the hugely popular Sprinter Sacre as well as the likes of Rubi Ball, Rubi Light and Saint Are - went one better when siring the first two home in the Drinmore Novice Chase.

Delta Work was travelling the best of him and Le Richebourg when meeting the last fence on a half-stride but kept up to his work by Davy Russell, who lost his left iron on the run-in, was able to rally and see off that rival by a half-length.

The winner, who won the Pertemps Network Final Handicap Hurdle at this year's Cheltenham Festival, looks a likely candidate for the JLT or RSA Insurance Novices' Chase next March.

Delta Work was bred by Charles and Jean-Francois Magnien out of the Video Rock mare Robbe, meaning he is bred on the same cross as Saint Are who placed twice in the Grand National.

The five-year-old also shares his fourth dam Tafaraoui with the Imperial Call Chase scorer Toner D'Oudairies.

Robbe also has a two-year-old filly by Lord Du Sud and a colt foal by Doctor Dino - whose Graded winners in the past fortnight include La Bague Au Roi, Sceau Royal and Sharjah.

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