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Family profile
The Lightning Breeze family
Best known: Yorkhill (IRE), Ballygunner Castle (IRE)
- Founding mare
- Lightning Breeze (IRE)
- Winners
- 4
- Descendants ran
- 6
- Black-type winners
- 2
- G1 winners
- 1
- Generations
- 2
- Prize
- £272,858 GB · €265,676 IRE
Tree
Name winnerG1 Group 1 winnerBlack type black-type winnerW wins · R runs
Founding mareLightning Breeze (IRE)
Hear The Thunder (IRE)Generation 1 · 0W · 1R
Broodmares
- Lightning Breeze (IRE) 4 runners · 3 winners
- Hear The Thunder (IRE) 2 runners · 1 winners
Winners
Black-type winners
- Yorkhill (IRE)Generation: 1 · Sex: gelding · Foaled: 2010 · Dam: Lightning Breeze (IRE) · Sire: Presenting (GB) · Runs: 24 · Wins: 11 · Best OR: 164 · Black-type wins: 6 · Black type: Grade 1 winner (6 black-type wins) · Best win: JLT Novices' Chase (Grade 1), Cheltenham 2017 · Prize GB (£): 251540 · Prize IRE (€): 104773 · Last run: 2020-11-28
- Ballygunner Castle (IRE)Generation: 2 · Sex: gelding · Foaled: 2019 · Dam: Hear The Thunder (IRE) · Sire: Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) · Runs: 14 · Wins: 4 · Best OR: 138 · Black-type wins: 1 · Black type: Grade 3 winner · Best win: Guinness Kerry National Handicap Steeplechase (Grade 3), Listowel (IRE) 2026 · Prize GB (£): 0 · Prize IRE (€): 160903 · Last run: 2026-09-23
Highest level first.
All winners
- Yorkhill (IRE)Generation: 1 · Sex: gelding · Foaled: 2010 · Dam: Lightning Breeze (IRE) · Sire: Presenting (GB) · Runs: 24 · Wins: 11 · Best OR: 164 · Black-type wins: 6 · Black type: Grade 1 winner (6 black-type wins) · Best win: JLT Novices' Chase (Grade 1), Cheltenham 2017 · Prize GB (£): 251540 · Prize IRE (€): 104773 · Last run: 2020-11-28
- Ballygunner Castle (IRE)Generation: 2 · Sex: gelding · Foaled: 2019 · Dam: Hear The Thunder (IRE) · Sire: Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) · Runs: 14 · Wins: 4 · Best OR: 138 · Black-type wins: 1 · Black type: Grade 3 winner · Best win: Guinness Kerry National Handicap Steeplechase (Grade 3), Listowel (IRE) 2026 · Prize GB (£): 0 · Prize IRE (€): 160903 · Last run: 2026-09-23
- Dutch Corner (IRE)Generation: 1 · Sex: gelding · Foaled: 2021 · Dam: Lightning Breeze (IRE) · Sire: Getaway (GER) · Runs: 7 · Wins: 1 · Best OR: 118 · Black-type wins: 0 · Best win: South West Rail Solutions Ltd. "National Hunt" Maiden Hurdle, Newton Abbot 2026 · Prize GB (£): 15282 · Prize IRE (€): 0 · Last run: 2026-10-09
- Hope Hill (IRE)Generation: 1 · Sex: gelding · Foaled: 2018 · Dam: Lightning Breeze (IRE) · Sire: Sageburg (IRE) · Runs: 10 · Wins: 1 · Best OR: 81 · Black-type wins: 0 · Best win: Going Is Good Novices' Handicap Hurdle, Bangor-on-Dee 2025 · Prize GB (£): 5068 · Prize IRE (€): 0 · Last run: 2025-07-19
By black type, then wins.
Stats
Family record by code
No records available.
Runners counted in each code they ran in.
Stallions that worked with this family
- Presenting (GB)Sire: Presenting (GB) · Runners: 2 · Winners: 1 · Black-type winners: 1 · G1 winner: 1 · Runs: 25 · Wins: 11 · Win %: 44.0 · Prize GB (£): 251540 · Prize IRE (€): 104773 · Best runner: Yorkhill (IRE)
- Soldier Of Fortune (IRE)Sire: Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) · Runners: 2 · Winners: 1 · Black-type winners: 1 · G1 winner: 0 · Runs: 17 · Wins: 4 · Win %: 23.5 · Prize GB (£): 967 · Prize IRE (€): 160903 · Best runner: Ballygunner Castle (IRE)
- Getaway (GER)Sire: Getaway (GER) · Runners: 1 · Winners: 1 · Black-type winners: 0 · G1 winner: 0 · Runs: 7 · Wins: 1 · Win %: 14.3 · Prize GB (£): 15282 · Prize IRE (€): 0 · Best runner: Dutch Corner (IRE)
- Sageburg (IRE)Sire: Sageburg (IRE) · Runners: 1 · Winners: 1 · Black-type winners: 0 · G1 winner: 0 · Runs: 10 · Wins: 1 · Win %: 10.0 · Prize GB (£): 5068 · Prize IRE (€): 0 · Best runner: Hope Hill (IRE)
Sires of the family's descendants, most black-type winners first (max 40).
Record by generation
No records available.
Current
Descendants in training
- Dutch Corner (IRE)Generation: 1 · Age: 5 · Sex: gelding · Foaled: 2021 · Dam: Lightning Breeze (IRE) · Sire: Getaway (GER) · Runs: 7 · Wins: 1 · Best OR: 118 · Black-type wins: 0 · Prize GB (£): 15282 · Prize IRE (€): 0 · Last run: 2026-10-09 · Trainer: Dan Skelton
- Ballygunner Castle (IRE)Generation: 2 · Age: 7 · Sex: gelding · Foaled: 2019 · Dam: Hear The Thunder (IRE) · Sire: Soldier Of Fortune (IRE) · Runs: 14 · Wins: 4 · Best OR: 138 · Black-type wins: 1 · Black type: Grade 3 winner · Prize GB (£): 0 · Prize IRE (€): 160903 · Last run: 2026-09-23 · Trainer: Willie Mullins
Ran in GB or IRE in the last 12 months, latest first.
Founding mare
Generation 1
Hear The Thunder (IRE)
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