Mark Usher

A promising two-year-old type by the dual Group Two winning Kodiac stallion, Adaay. Out of a winning Barathea Mare from the high-class Ballymacoll Stud family of Hellenic and Islington and who was placed in the Group Two Park Hill Stakes (de facto the Fillies St Leger).

Closely related to our successful staying handicap mare, Bird for Life, and by the same sire Delegator, Bird To Love is a consistent performer and should do well again this season.

She’s a fast filly to follow. She had one or two issues with the scary stalls, which resulted in her being withdrawn from a race at Sandown in July, but she made a satisfactory start to her career on the track in a six furlong Maiden Auction at Wolverhampton at the beginning of September; she then found the improvement that we hoped she would in six-furlong Novice at Kempton at the end of September. A second at Wolverhampton over five, a fourth and a third in two Kempton Nursery’s over six followed before she deservedly got off the mark over six in another Kempton Nursery at the end of November.

Perthshire is a promising prospect. His sire Gleneagles was an absolutely top-class racehorse winning both the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas as well at the St. James’ Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. This gelding’s dam Destalink is from a wonderful Juddmonte family.

A promising two-year-old type colt by the Prix Jean Prat winner, Havana Gold, out of an unraced daughter of Dansili whose dam won the Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville.

We put him on the track in a competitive Handicap Hurdle at Kempton in the middle of January where he ran well until just getting tired after the third last; we refitted a hood for his next start, at Newbury on the 20th of January, and he showed the improvement we hoped he would by finishing an excellent fifth, having led from the start to over the second last; he should be highly competitive in similar races over this season.