James Litt

"Racing revolves around pedigrees. That’s what it all goes back to and how it all goes forward, and to me it’s the most important bit." RM

[James Litt @Jimblitt]

@MichaelTK1973 Yeah I would expect CO’s sr to be better and especially on this decent ground.

[James Litt @Jimblitt]

Snow Sky — From his last 12 runners (since beginning September) 6 winners.

A double today at Punchestown with Chanceawetmorning & Fiveandahalf. 👀

Likes the nice ground. 🌱 ☀️

[James Litt @Jimblitt]

@ChrisGartner2 He’s gonna go through the card!!

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2.10 Maiden Hurdle Punchestown

Some noteworthy pedigrees going forward.

Fiveandahalf
Snow Sky x Dr Massini
Brother to Sixandahalf

Whiskey Lads
Joshua Tree (Montjeu) x Getaway
Bred by Con O’Keefe, real Kilbarry Way has black-type and relatives to Racing Demon. €80k

Silken Thomas
Harzand (Sea The Stars) x Laveron
Out of G2 Chase winner Camelia De Cotte and half-brother to 5/10 winner La Note Verte. €90k. My pick ⭐️

Two Grand Sweeney
Crystal Ocean (STS) x Definite Article
Dam earned black-type and is sibling to six winners two of won graded honours.

[James Litt @Jimblitt]

Affinisea, one of my favourite stallions especially on good summer ground, has a splendidly bred daughter running in the 5:40 bumper at Punchestown today. Hilly Filly, trained by Ross O'Sullivan, is out of the Presenting mare C'est La Mode, bred by Charles Persse, and is a sibling to three winners, including black-type earner Fascile Mode. She is already a bumper winner and holds a great chance today.

[CORRUPT JAY @barlowjacob]

WELL WELL WELL @Carra23 😂😂😂😂

[Liam Broady @Liambroady]

“I hope Man City fans do the right thing and protest their owners”… Meanwhile Man City fans… 🤣🤣🤣

[Andy Milne @rockandrollmag]

Man City haven’t ruined football. Man City haven’t ruined the premier league. Football and the Premier league has been ruined by a handful of teams who have too much say as to how the league is run. It’s been ruined by the Anti Competitive rules that have been put in place

[Coolmore National Hunt @CoolmoreNH]

3YO WALK IN THE PARK filly We're Out Of Aces gets off the mark over Hurdles the second time of asking @WorcesterRaces for @gelliott_racing and owner @AOryan. Bred by Jessica Finnegan.

#CoolmoreNHSires #HomeOfChampions

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Worcester (2:35 Juvenile Hurdle)
Sainte Colombe (FR) 
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By Saint Des Saints ex Bal Celtique (Ballingarry). Full sister to 160-rated star Saint Segal and half-sibling to 3 other pattern winners.
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Out of blue hen Bal Celtique, dam of 160-rated Saint Segal and 149-rated Celtic Dino. 4 foals and 4 with black-type.
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Sufficient speed for 2m as a 3yo, but her class-laden French bloodline will flourish over further with age. 
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Breeder: Haras Du Mondant, Bernard & Jean-Marie L | Trainer: Jane Williams | Owner: Culverhill Racing Club III | Jockey: Ciaran Gethings 

Full sister to Saint Segal with elite residual broodmare value from a proven blue-hen damline.

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@UncleErniesTips Love these 😂

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Galway (5:15 Bumper)

Birdie Conway (IRE) 

🧬 By Jet Away, a sire proven to throw relentless gallopers. Out of Show Me The Monet (Well Chosen), giving her a deep stamina backbone built on proven Irish National Hunt blood. 

🏆 Grandam Lobinstown Girl (Luso) is a proper blue-hen broodmare. She’s the dam of The Mourne Rambler (132 RPR), who put this family on the map by taking the G1 Champion Bumper. She’s also produced 152-rated chaser Sixshooter and 134-rated She's A Star. 

🌧️ The Jet Away x Well Chosen/Luso cross is pure staying pedigree through and through. This profile is strictly about distance and ground. On today’s Good-to-Yielding ground, she’ll have the top-of-the-ground pace to stay in touch over 2m 1/2f, but the stiff Galway uphill finish will really allow her stamina line to take over in the closing stages. She’ll only improve as she gets stepped up to 2m 4f+ over obstacles. 

🏡 Bred by Ballybrennan Stud | Trainer: Noel Meade | Owner: Jack Singleton | Jockey: Mr Finn Tegetmeier 

A 4yo filly backed by a G1 Champion Bumper grandam. Eye-catching late progress on debut at Punchestown. Good-to-Yielding ground gives her plenty of speed, but it's that stiff Galway finish where her family's relentless stamina will count.

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Huntingdon (3:06 Mares' Handicap Hurdle)

Rhythm Of Life (FR) 

🧬 Sired by German-bred stayer Bathyrhon, who passes on tremendous size and stamina. Out of Rime De Boitron (My Risk). Talk about left-field German and French stallion crosses—her half-brother Shuttle Diplomacy is sired by Dschingis Secret and is already a 144-rated 3x winner over hurdles/fences. 

🏆 Bred by E A R L Elevage Des Loges. This family pedigree is absolute quality over deep ground and fences. Grandam Pondiki (Sicyos) produced the late-maturing stayer De Boitron (152-rated chaser, 8 wins) and French Flat star Tac De Boistron (119 RPR, back-to-back G1 Prix Royal-Oak winner).

🌧️ Everything about this lineage shouts "give me distance and fences." Bathyrhon over My Risk/Sicyos is an out-and-out staying profile. While she’s stepped up to 2m 3 1/2f over hurdles at Huntingdon, hurdles might just be an afterthought—she's practically screaming out for a fence and 3m+ on a soft winter surface where her family's endless engine comes alive. 

🏡 Bred by E A R L Elevage Des Loges | Trainer: Tom George | Owner: Mrs Georgia Morgan | Jockey: Mr James King

A quirky, left-field French recruit with a family loaded with stayers and chasers. Her half-brother Shuttle Diplomacy looks top-class, and once this mare gets sent over larger obstacles over a trip, we'll see her true colors.

[James Litt @Jimblitt]

Graded honours for the son of Walk In The Park! Easily. An exciting season ahead

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Sapphire Jewel didn’t blow the doors off on debut today, but the family gets an immediate chance for redemption tomorrow!
The Crown Jewel’s 139-rated son Frankie John (Walk In The Park) goes in the G3 Like A Butterfly Novice Chase at Gowran (3:40).
Came off a 4th in the G1 Sefton to make a winning chase debut at Galway—open to tons of progress over fences as the trips step up!

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Killarney (2:45 Hurdle)
Celtic Alliance (IRE) 

🧬 By Order Of St George, who is making a massive name for himself by pumping raw stamina and relentless attitude into his NH progeny. Out of Colleen Donnoige (Beneficial), giving her a rock-solid, old-school broodmare sire anchor to balance the flat staying class up top. 

🏆 Her dam Colleen Donnoige is turning into a goldmine of a broodmare—she's already 3-for-3 with winners from all three of her runners, headlined by the top-class Grade 1-placed Absolute Notions (142 RPR) and Colleen Danu. Go back to grandam Colleen Donn (Le Moss) and you’re looking at an absolute blue hen. She threw 15-time winner Macgeorge (164 RPR) and Grade 1 Stayers' Hurdle legend Chief Dan George (156 RPR). 

🌧️ Order Of St George over a Beneficial/Le Moss family is pure, unadulterated National Hunt staying power. Dropping back to 2m 1f around Killarney might test her sharp gears, but as trips get stepped up towards 2m 4f+ on testing winter ground, this pedigree will start motoring. 

🏡 Bred by Brian & Mrs Bronagh Lawler | Trainer: Gordon Elliott | Owner: Mrs Judith Matthews & Mrs Sheila O'Ryan | Jockey: Jack Kennedy 

A 4yo filly already off the mark with an RPR of 119. Disappointed last time at Perth, but with a blue hen grandam and a dam proving to be a genuine winner-machine, she's a massive broodmare prospect for the future once the distances stretch out.

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Uttoxeter (1:26 Novices' Hurdle)
Gentle Ocean (IRE) 

🧬By Crystal Ocean out of Nouvelle Ami (Scorpion). The dam is an unraced half-sister to the legend The New One (171-rated, 20-time winner), The Newest One (131-rated), and Shimmer's Rock (124-rated). The Twiston-Davies team knows this family inside out, having trained The New One to 20 wins. 

🏆 Out of grandam Thuringe (Turgeon) who produced stable icon The New One. Gentle Ocean is a 50,000-pound buy who showed solid maiden promise when 2nd in an Irish point back in January. 

🌧️ Crystal Ocean’s progeny generally appreciate sounder surface, so today's Good ground at Uttoxeter is right in his sweet spot. Crossing Crystal Ocean with Scorpion gives him pure staying power, and starting out over 2m 7 1/2f means he won't be caught out for tactical speed on the quick surface. 

🏡Bred by The Beeches Stud Ltd | Trainer: Nigel & Willy Twiston-Davies (flying at a 55% strike rate) | Owner: J Fyffe | Jockey: Sam Twiston-Davies 

A £50k point runner-up starting over nearly three miles for a yard that made his family famous. With the good ground playing straight to his sire's strengths and the yard in red-hot form, he’s a huge player on rules debut.

[James Litt @Jimblitt]

Sapphire Jewel didn’t blow the doors off on debut today, but the family gets an immediate chance for redemption tomorrow!
The Crown Jewel’s 139-rated son Frankie John (Walk In The Park) goes in the G3 Like A Butterfly Novice Chase at Gowran (3:40).
Came off a 4th in the G1 Sefton to make a winning chase debut at Galway—open to tons of progress over fences as the trips step up!

[James Litt @Jimblitt]

Gowran Park (Fri, 1:21 Mares Maiden Hurdle)

Sapphire Jewel (IRE) 

🧬 A proper grey beauty homebred sired by the cheat-code stallion Walk In The Park, who just prints speed, engine, and effortless jumping. Out of The Crown Jewel (Stowaway), marrying serious sire gears with pure, old-school National Hunt staying muscle. 

🏆 Full sister to Frankie John (139-rated 3x winner) and half-sister to 145-rated proper stayer Shearer (Flemensfirth). Look down the page and it’s absolute royalty—Grade 1 legend Monalee (G1 Flogas, 2nd RSA, G1 Christmas Chase) and Albert Bartlett star Monty's Star. Dam is an unraced daughter of G2 Lismullen Hurdle winner Rose Of Inchiquin, who also churned out G1-placed chaser Empire Of Dirt. 

🌧️The Walk In The Park x Stowaway cross is essentially high-end cruising speed meets a tractor engine. Debuting over 2m 1/2f on softish Gowran ground will test her, but this family doesn't really get warm until the trips stretch out and the winter mud arrives. 

🏡Bred, owned, and trained by the Motherway clan (Mrs E M Motherway) | Trainer: Colin Motherway | Jockey: Darragh O'Keeffe.
With a page like this, you can bet the house the long-game is nicking some precious black-type over hurdles/fences before she gets retired to live like a queen in the Motherway breeding shed. 

A homebred grey making her hurdling debut with a pedigree deeper than a winter ditch. Pure family labor of love—get her in the tracker early. 🟣👑🏇📈

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Gowran Park (Sat, 1:35 Mdn Hurdle)

Witches Familiar (FR)

🧬 By top-tier Flat stallion Zarak, who injects electric gears and tactical speed into his jump progeny. Out of Buck's Babe (Nickname), who is a half-sister to four-time World Hurdle legend Big Buck's and top French jump stallion Buck's Boum. It is pure French jump-racing royalty at the bottom of the page.

🏆 Unbeaten in two starts (2-for-2, achieving a 129 RPR). Her dam Buck's Babe is being visited by absolute heavyweight sires (Saint Des Saints, Kapgarde, Authorized, Nirvana Du Berlais, Moises Has, Doctor Dino). Every single one of her progeny to race has won—it feels like a pure matter of time before this production line cracks black-type territory.

🌧️ The Zarak x Nickname cross gives a lethal mix of Flat turn of foot and French National Hunt toughness. Having already proven her engine over 2m 1/2f, the testing Gowran Park layout will play right to her French stamina lines, while her sire's natural pace gives her a massive tactical edge when the sprint is turned on late.

🏡 Bred in France by H Poulat | Trainer: Willie Mullins (yard coming off an 11-winner Listowel harvest)

A 2-for-2 French recruit boasting a lineage linked straight to Big Buck's. With a dam line covered exclusively by elite stallions, she looks destined for pattern company before long.

[James Litt @Jimblitt]

Gowran Park (Fri, 1:21 Mares Maiden Hurdle)

Sapphire Jewel (IRE) 

🧬 A proper grey beauty homebred sired by the cheat-code stallion Walk In The Park, who just prints speed, engine, and effortless jumping. Out of The Crown Jewel (Stowaway), marrying serious sire gears with pure, old-school National Hunt staying muscle. 

🏆 Full sister to Frankie John (139-rated 3x winner) and half-sister to 145-rated proper stayer Shearer (Flemensfirth). Look down the page and it’s absolute royalty—Grade 1 legend Monalee (G1 Flogas, 2nd RSA, G1 Christmas Chase) and Albert Bartlett star Monty's Star. Dam is an unraced daughter of G2 Lismullen Hurdle winner Rose Of Inchiquin, who also churned out G1-placed chaser Empire Of Dirt. 

🌧️The Walk In The Park x Stowaway cross is essentially high-end cruising speed meets a tractor engine. Debuting over 2m 1/2f on softish Gowran ground will test her, but this family doesn't really get warm until the trips stretch out and the winter mud arrives. 

🏡Bred, owned, and trained by the Motherway clan (Mrs E M Motherway) | Trainer: Colin Motherway | Jockey: Darragh O'Keeffe.
With a page like this, you can bet the house the long-game is nicking some precious black-type over hurdles/fences before she gets retired to live like a queen in the Motherway breeding shed. 

A homebred grey making her hurdling debut with a pedigree deeper than a winter ditch. Pure family labor of love—get her in the tracker early. 🟣👑🏇📈

[At The Races @AtTheRaces]

Very smart! 🤩

Alice's Saga, out of Grade 1-winning mare Paul's Saga, makes it three from three over hurdles in great style...