"Horses have to come within budget as cost is the enemy of profit"

Myself and Jeremy Brummitt are responsible for sourcing yearlings for Seven Hills Bloodstock, an Enterprise Incentive Scheme run by Eamonn O'Connor which aims to buy yearlings who will then be sold on at the breeze-up sales. We've turned a profit in our first two years, and now that we're into our third year we're aiming to expand our horizons a little bit.

However, when you're looking for a good horse you're always going to be looking through a very narrow window as there are so few of them about. There was 750 horses in Book 2 last year but there's only three of them on the cover of this year's catalogue.

The broad criteria that covers what we're looking for is a horse that can gallop two furlongs in 20 seconds but has the scope to stay a mile plus as a three-year-old. It's important our horses progress as what we really want is to become an established and recognised vendor of good-quality horses.