Pedigree

Season 2021-22 outlook
Stainsby Girl is another mare who has been here at Dodlands since joining the yard as a newly educated 3 year old in 2017. A bumper winner as a 4 year old, she followed up several fine runs over hurdles by winning a novice hurdle - final career win for Callum in the saddle - in March 2020.
With her novice status extended by a couple of months, she won a mares' only novice hurdle first time out last season - carrying a winner's penalty - at Hexham in November. Below par next time but she ran well when later placed in a couple of good class handicaps before the ground dried up.
Stainsby Girl does need some give in the ground and has been effective at 2 miles but we may give her another go at 2½ miles before too long. Starts on a mark of 120, she is another of our mares who might possibly take in a novice chase.
A lovely, neat, athletic filly, and a fairly useful hurdler with an excellent NH pedigree full to the brim with winners.

Previously....
In early 2014, Al Duncan was at Doncaster NH foals of 2013 NH sale and was taken by a couple of progeny of Tobougg. He thought he had secured one in particular (subsequently named Jumpsuit), a first foal of winning hurdler Charmaine Wood until he was usurped by a bid in overtime.
Each November, the Tattersalls Ireland sales ring at Ratoath, near Fairyhouse, plays host to the largest consignment of National Hunt bloodstock in the world. Held over 6 days, the first 5 of these are dedicated to foals (and a smattering of yearlings) with jumps-bred broodmares offered on the final day.
Whether planned or unplanned, Al found himself at Tattersalls Ire NH sale in November '14 for a couple of the days, one of which saw Clarendon Stud consign the half sister (by Shirocco) to the colt he tried to buy a few months earlier. Al was fairly familiar with the pedigree - and this was before the Shirocco mare Annie Power had won the Champion Hurdle - but the filly caught his eye in looks too and this time he was the successful bidder.
‘Nell’ spent her formative years at nearby Eildon Hill Stables before being moved over to Gary Rutherford in early Spring 2017 to complete her education and undergo a little pre-training. She was very easy to handle and educate and Gary was glowing in his regular updates.
Stainsby Girl then joined the Dodlands Steading yard for a few weeks in June that year before spending the summer with Tomahawk Wood out at Southfield. She then spent the autumn in a field adjacent to the yard prior to coming back into training in December ’17, where once again she impressed our team with her maturity, good nature, and ability in working upsides the older horses in the yard.
She wasn't quite ready to make a debut in the Spring of 2018, but she had a good summer at grass, maturing & strengthening, and delighted connections when winning a bumper on debut at Carlisle in December '18 by 17 lengths. A solid 3rd place at Musselburgh a couple of months later paved the way for a tilt at the Nickel Coin Grade 2 bumper at the April 2019 'National Festival, where she ran creditably enough to finish in mid division.
2019-20 proved to be an excellent first season hurdling for Stainsby Girl. Five runs, never out of the first 3 and after some near misses a deserved victory in a mares novice over 2 miles at Newcastle in March '20.