Mare Of The Moment: Anna Law

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Mare Of The Moment is a TDN feature that highlights the success of a broodmare and gives her and her owner recognition for those achievements. In association with the Irish National Stud the mare will receive a personalised headcollar and this month Anna Law (Ire) (Lawman {FR}) is the recipient of Mare Of The Moment.

Around the world there are many breeders who deserve respect and admiration, and among those are Paul and Marie McCartan of Ballyphilip Stud in Ireland. In a short space of time, and from a relatively small band of broodmares, the McCartans have bred a number of champions which include Tiggy Wiggy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), Harry Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}). It is for the latter that Paul and Marie as well as the mare Anna Law are being recognised as August’s Mare Of The Moment.

Although Anna Law was no superstar on the racetrack–she raced a total of four times never entering the fray–she has certainly produced a horse who simply burns up the course whenever he does battle in Battaash. When she went through the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale she may have proved of little interest to those looking for a racing prospect but to the shrewd members of Ballyphilip Stud the 14,000gns price tag is looking like extreme value.

Anna Law was quick to repay Paul and Marie as upon her first cover with Dark Angel she produced a colt who went on to sell for 200,000gns and who then went on to become Battaash, the horse who recently crumbled Dayjur’s track record in the G1 Nunthorpe S. during York’s Ebor meeting-a record which had been steadfast for 29 years. Among his other accomplishments for trainer Charlie Hills and owner Sheikh Hamdan of Shadwell Stud, Battaash has won 10 of his 19 starts including the G1 Prix de l’Abbaye, where he heads next, and the G2 Qatar King George S. three times.

On a mating with Gutaifan (Ire) Anna Law produced a filly who brought 180,000gns at the 2018 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Book 1, from Phoenix Thoroughbreds which no doubt saw her value as a broodmare as well as a racehorse. The filly is in training with John Quinn and has been named Valletta Gold. With the 2019 edition of that sale to happen in a few weeks’ time we can only wonder what the full-sister to Battaash, who is catalogued as lot 166, will bring when she walks into the Park Paddocks sale ring.

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