Race run in memory of much loved, dearly missed member of Irish bloodstock community from Tipperary

The 2024 renewal of the Gain Marble Hill Stakes was run in the memory of the late Theresa Marnane.

The Group 3 contest took place last Saturday as part of the Tattersalls Irish Guineas Festival at The Curragh.

Theresa was a hugely popular member of the racing and breeding industry alongside her husband Con and daughters Amy and Olivia.

The family’s Tipperary-based Bansha House Stables was very successful at the breeze-up sales, with graduates including top-level winners Rio De La Plata, Sands Of Mali, Fleeting Spirit and Amadeus Wolf.

Racing Post Trophy (Group 1) winner Palace Episode and last year’s Gain Marble Hill Stakes (Group 3) winner Givemethebeatboys were among the horses to have carried the Marnanes’ yellow and black silks to group race victories on the track.

Different League also carried the silks when beating Alpha Centauri in the Albany Stakes (Group 3) at Royal Ascot in 2017.

Brian Kavanagh, Chief Executive of The Curragh said, “Theresa was a much loved and dearly missed member of the Irish bloodstock community.

“The Curragh, in association with Gain, was delighted to be able to run one of our most prestigious races for juveniles in her memory, a race which was won last year by the Marnane family-owned Givemethebeatboys”.

Theresa (née Sweeney), of Bansha House, Bansha, and formerly New Inn, passed away on December 2 last at the age of 61.