That'll Do Moss

That’ll Do Moss is a hugely exciting daughter of Black Sam Bellamy, based with Gr.1-winning NH trainer Fergal O’Brien at his Ravenswell Farm yard in the heart of the Cotswolds.

The five-year-old mare impressively won a Brocklesby Park point-to-point in February for renowned jockey/trainer John Dawson, who rode Sine Nomine to a famous triumph in the Hunter Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

Moving to Fergal’s yard shortly afterwards, That’ll Do Moss made her debut in a bumper at Uttoxeter in mid-June. Sent off a 4/1 shot against six rivals, she was held up in last by Johnny Burke and made steady headway up the straight, before quickening into the lead approaching the final furlong. She galloped on to a four-length success and looked a very smart prospect.

The world is her oyster after such a fabulous start to her career, and the second has boosted the form by subsequently finishing runner-up in a maiden hurdle.

That’ll Do Moss also has high-class prospects when her pedigree is taken into account. She is a half-sister to the 135-rated dual hurdles winner Ballymillsy, the chase and hurdles winner Midnight Moss and the Sedgefield novice hurdle winner Miss Tara Moss.

Their dam is a half-sister to the Gr.3-winning Irish hurdler Barnahash Rose (dam of the promising Barnahash Primrose, who won a Limerick bumper by 7.5 lengths in December and then finished third in the Gr.2 mares’ bumper at the Dublin Racing Festival), the Gr.2 River Don Novices’ Hurdle third Ask The Gatherer, plus the dam of the Gr.2 Rendlesham Hurdle winner Donna’s Diamond.

The extended family also includes Willie Mullins’s dual Gr.1-winning novice chaser Cooldine and the Gr.1 bumper scorer and Gr.3-winning hurdler Blow By Blow, who also landed the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle at the 2018 Cheltenham Festival.

The covering sire Black Sam Bellamy was a Gr.1-winning full-brother to the incomparable Galileo, and carved out a superb reputation as a NH sire prior to his untimely death in 2018. Still a constant fixture in the top 50 of the British and Irish Sires’ table, his best runners to date include the Gr.1 Long Walk Hurdle winner Sam Spinner, the multiple Gr.1-winning French hurdler Galop Marin, the Gr.2-winning chaser and twice Gr.1 Cheltenham Gold Cup-placed The Giant Bolster, and the Gr.2-winning chaser Sam Brown.

In addition to his prowess as a sire, Black Sam Bellamy is also broodmare sire of Reserve Tank, twice a Gr.1-winning novice hurdler, which suggests that a well-related individual such as That’ll Do Moss possesses residual value as a potential breeder, in addition to her exciting on-track credentials.

We can’t wait to see what the future holds for this fantastic prospect.