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Date Course
Conditions
Race
Jockey Weight
ORClass
Date
Sale
Consignor
Purchaser
Price
Nov 2019
Autumn Sale, Deauville (Arqana)
Cercy
Purchaser: TJ BLOODSTOCK
€85,000
Lots Sold: 470
Prices
Avg: €23,489
Median: €11,000
Maximum: €420,000
Reports in which Hgranca De Thaix (FR) was mentioned
Henry de Bromhead heads into next week’s Cheltenham Festival with his team back in decent form and Champagne Mahler further bolstered confidence when landing the €45,000 Holden Plant Rentals Shamrock Handicap Chase at Gowran.
Sat 08th Mar
Willie Mullins and Paul Townend are certainly no strangers to feature race success at Galway and they teamed up to collect the main prize of the afternoon at Ballybrit as Four Clean Aces landed the W.B. Gavin & Co Handicap Hurdle.
Sat 26th Oct
Only eight of the 17 starters completed the course in the EMS Copiers Novice Handicap Chase with 16/1 chance Hgranca De Thaix coming out on top for owner/trainer Barry Connell and Michael O'Sullivan.
Fri 03rd May
Owned and trained by Barry Connell, Hgranca De Thaix just got the better of the front-running Dancing Jeremy in the Follow Limerick Races On Instagram Handicap Chase.
Sun 24th Mar
Barry Connell's Hgranca De Thaix powered clear on the run-in to record an impressive victory in the Ryans Cleaning Handicap Hurdle at Galway.
Tue 04th Oct
Emmet Mullins' Carrarea has been backed in the opening 4-year-old novice hurdle at 4.35.
Thu 29th Jul
After race at Punchestown Fri, 3rd May, 2024 (1st)
All his form was on soft ground and I wouldn't have liked to run him on Wednesday on the rattling ground,. Lets Go Champ was second to him in Limerick and he won the equivalent race on Wednesday so the form was there in the book. He's been progressing away all season. He won his handicap in Galway and he got in off 131 which was a nice weight. His jumping was super and just kept taking him there without using any petrol. The first two pulled well clear. That will be his last run of the year. I want to give him a break as he's had five runs now. He's only seven and he could be a Munster National horse or one for the Paddy Power.
Barry Connell
After race at Galway Tue, 4th Oct, 2022 (1st)
He’s had three or four runs in handicaps and was taking on horses coming out of maiden hurdles so I was pretty confident coming down that he had the experience under his belt. We left him out for the summer and he’s done well. He’s only a five-year-old and is after strengthening up. He jumped great apart from one he fiddled down the back. I’d say he’d have no bother jumping a fence in due course. I’d say he’ll end up being a three-mile horse and when he hit the hill he picked up and got going. He’s a nice one. There is a two-and-a-half-mile novice handicap hurdle in Leopardstown at Christmas and whether he runs between now and then I’m not sure. He’ll stay hurdling this season and if he keeps improving he might win a nice staying pot, maybe one of those three-mile races in Navan.
Barry Connell
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Hgranca De Thaix (FR)
All his form was on soft ground and I wouldn't have liked to run him on Wednesday on the rattling ground,. Lets Go Champ was second to him in Limerick and he won the equivalent race on Wednesday so the form was there in the book. He's been progressing away all season. He won his handicap in Galway and he got in off 131 which was a nice weight. His jumping was super and just kept taking him there without using any petrol. The first two pulled well clear. That will be his last run of the year. I want to give him a break as he's had five runs now. He's only seven and he could be a Munster National horse or one for the Paddy Power.
Barry Connell
