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Rose Iland, the seven-year-old mare who won last season’s Jockey Club Mares’ Maiden Series, goes under the hammer at Doncaster today.

The Jim Collett-owned mare (pictured above under James King) is being offered as Lot 134 at Goffs UK’s two-day August Sale, and is one of several British pointers in the catalogue. Trainer Jake Slatter says: “Jim won’t be giving her away and if she doesn’t make her reserve she will come back to point-to-pointing. He likes a target and is looking for another young mare to do the same job.

“Rose Iland has been nothing if not consistent and while it was a little frustrating to be beaten at first, she was unlucky on occasions. We roughed her off after her win, but she’s been back on the walker and hacking on the road just to keep her ticking over for the sale.”

A daughter of top sire Fame And Glory and from the family of Grand National winner Rubstic, Rose Iland has yet to finish out of the first three in six point-to-points – she was second on her only start in the truncated 2019/20 season, then last season she was placed five times before winning in good style at Chaddesley Corbett, a victory which clinched her victory in the Jockey Club-sponsored series. That triumph earned Collett and his wife Sue a bonus of £500, while any prize money she earns in her first start at a Jockey Club racecourse will be doubled, a handy carrot to put before potential buyers at Doncaster.

In a change to next season’s Jockey Club series a final will be run at the Berkeley’s Woodford meeting. It will be open to any filly or mare who finishes in the first four in a Jockey Club qualifier, and any filly or mare who wins a maiden. Penalties will be applied for subsequent victories in restricted races or above, and there will be enhanced prize money.

Other Doncaster entries include the Georgina Nicholls-trained Granny Mags (Lot 127), who finished fourth in Stratford’s Champion Point-to-Point Bumper, and Garthorpe Flat race runner-up Fishing For Likes (Lot 130), who is being offered from Louise Bevin’s stable.

Herefordshire-based Clive Boultbee-Brooks offers Guinness Village (Lot 66), who was third at Chaddesley Corbett, and also Milfolhas Has (Lot 27) who was pulled up at the same meeting, while Oxfordshire-based Chris and Fran Marriott are selling an unraced three-year-old gelding (Lot 197) from their ‘Apple’ family of pointers. First dam Apple Days was a half-sister to the Marriotts’ outstanding pointing mare Dabinett Moon.