De Bromhead’s new star Turn

Horses like Sizing Europe certainly don’t come around too often and when the veteran performed poorly at Clonmel recently his trainer, Henry de Bromhead, must have wondered, at least momentarily, if he might ever be lucky enough to come across one like him again.

But no sooner had that door closed, perhaps only temporarily, but another opened in the shape of the impressive de Bromhead-trained Shanahan’s Turn.

It would, of course, be more than premature to say Shanahan’s Turn is the next Sizing Europe, but you couldn’t blame anyone for thinking it is at least very much a possibility.