Diamondsareforever winning on debut© Photo Healy Racing
Breeze-up consignor Willie Browne has sold horses since 1978 but was disappointed to lose two flag-bearing fillies recently, as Listed winner Spirit Gal and promising Diamondsareforever have moved to champion trainers.
Browne, who runs his Mocklershill breeze-up business, recorded a first blacktype success with withdrawn breezer Spirit Gal in September's Listed Star Appeal Stakes, two months before the filly disappointed in the Breeders Cup.
Browne reports “I haven't ran many for owner Charles Fipke and we had great fun with Spirit Gal but unfortunately she is not with me anymore. She has gone to Andre Fabre in France, which probably makes sense — not to me but to the owner.
“She was something different and I've never had anything like her before. It was a great thrill to get to America for the Breeders Cup but maybe we might have been better off if we stayed in Europe as I might still have her, but there you go.
“We didn't have the jockey we wanted in the Breeders Cup, it didn't go right and the jockey didn't get on with her. She is not straightforward and isn't innocent to train but is very talented.”
Regarding Diamondsareforever, an impressive December Dundalk debut winner, he added “John Magnier and the breeder (Richard Henry's Premier Bloodstock) were half shareholders and she has gone to Aidan O'Brien. It is a little bit disappointing, but we know where we are in life. We had our day in the sun."
