Another Six-Figure Pointer By Order Of St George

Exciting prospect Skerry Hill (4g Order Of St George – Angel Lopez, by Flemensfirth) will join the Gordon Elliott stable, after the trainer and agent Aidan O’Ryan went to £205,000 for Cormac Abernethy’s debut winner.

The imposing bay was sent off a short-priced favourite in a four-year-old maiden at Farmaclaffley and lived up to expectations when drawing eight lengths clear under Oran McGill. Then owned by Wilson Dennison, the Liam Queally-bred gelding was bought by Ian Ferguson as a foal for €40,000.

He hails from the second crop of Order Of St George, whose first point-to-point winners resold for up to £350,000. As a result, the Castlehdye Stud sire’s second crop sold for up to €110,000 at the store sales.