Horses

Un-named 3 year old bay gelding
(2007 Oscar - Shanesia)

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"This fella's a great mover from a young family, and his half sister is already a winner. Oscar has been very lucky for me having sired our Champion Chase winner Big Zeb and this horse is a handy size so we have plenty to look forward to", Colm Murphy

Our latest recruit, pictured right, is a smashing son of leading sire Oscar out of four time winning black type mare Shanesia. He cost the Winning Ways Momentum syndicate €23,000 at the 2010 Tattersalls Derby sale and is a half-brother to a winning hurdler. Standing at 16.1 hands, he's a handy type and is a similar type to our other purchases who are first or second foals. Let's hope he's as lucky.

Syndicate now SOLD OUT

 Brave Inca ==> CHAMPION HURDLER
(1998 Good Thyne – Wigwam Mam)

“Like Muhammad Ali said, you've got to have the will and the skill and the desire and this fellow's got it all”, Tony McCoy

Brave Inca has provided Winning Ways Syndicate Manager Oran Crean with many thrills over the last seven years. Bought by Colm Murphy on behalf of the Dublin based Crean and O’Tierney families for €18,000 at the Goffs Land Rover sales in June 2001, Brave Inca was the Novices syndicate’s first foray into racehorse ownership.

Synonymous with Cheltenham, Brave Inca has shown his battling qualities on many occasions, winning 15 of his 33 races including ten grade ones. These include two Irish Champion Hurdles, the English Champion Hurdle, Punchestown's Champion Hurdle, Hattons Grace Hurdle and the Letheby and Christopher Supreme Novice Hurdle as well as being placed in two more English Champion Hurdles. Brave Inca was also crowned Anglo-Irish Horse of the Year 2006.

After a disappointing run in the Champion Stayers Hurdle at Punchestown in April 2007, Brave Inca was found to be suffering from a damaged near fore tendon. Following treatment, Brave Inca made a full recovery and returned to the winners enclosure by storming home in the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown in January 2009. This return to the topflight has proved Colm Murphy's training mastery.

Now retired in Colm's yard, Brave Inca has been retrained and competed in the "Racehorses to Riding Horses" at the RDS in August 2009 where he picked up his first rosette!!

For further details on Brave Inca, click here.

Kimberlite King ==> FOUR TIME WINNER
(2002 Good Thyne – Daraheen Diamond)

“a really nice horse”, Nina Carberry
“No doubt this horse is held in very high regard by his connections and they’ll have a great deal of fun with him”, Racing Post
"He's potentially a very decent horse when getting his ideal conditions", Racing Post

Following the success of Brave Inca in the 2004 Supreme Novices Hurdle at Cheltenham, Winning Ways Syndicate Manager Oran Crean formed a new racing syndicate, the eleven member Aspirations Syndicate, in early 2005. Colm Murphy acquired a three year old son of Good Thyne, sire of Brave Inca, for €26,000 at that years Tattersalls Derby sales.

A tall, leggy individual that needed time to develop into his 16.3 hands frame, Kimberlite King has won two bumpers, a maiden hurdle and in Febraury 2010 won his beginners chase at Fairyhouse by 5 lengths.

Kimberlite King will now be campaigned in novice and open handicap chases and he's a horse to look forward to over the next two years.

For further details on Kimberlite King, click here.

To view Kimberlite King's current entries, click here.

Raise The Beat ==> WINNER
(2005 Beat All – Autumn Leaf)

On 11 June 2008, the Winning Ways Enigma syndicate acquired this pacey individual for €22,000. A great mover, his sire was placed in the 1999 Epsom Derby while his dam is a lightly raced full sister to high class chaser Billygoat Gruff and has already produced a dual winner in Star Beat, also by Beat All.

Raise The Beat made his racecourse debut at Killarney in May 2009. A tall individual, he travelled well to the home turn but was unable to sustain his run. We gave him plenty of time to develop into his frame and produced him at Down Royal in May 2010, where he was a three length winner of a bumper.

For further details on Raise The Beat, click here 

 

Tropical View ==> UNRACED
(2006 Definite Article - Glenview Lake)

 "A real racey type and I love the way he moves. There's plenty of speed in the family, one I know well as I train his graded winning cousin Megan's Joy", Colm Murphy

Tropical View, pictured right with Colm Murphy, was acquired at the 2009 Goffs Land Rover sale for €24,000 on behalf of the nine member Winning Ways Dream syndicate. A lovely chestnut by Definite Article out of the lightly raced Glenview Lake who is a full sister of I Remeber It Well, dam of Megan's Joy, and a half sister to Grade 1 hurdler Tropical Lake, dam of graded performer Tropical Lady. So a pedigree to die for and he has gone on a Summer break and should be back in training in July.