Welcome to the Bansha House Stables Website

Bansha House Stables is based in Bansha, County Tipperary between the towns of Cashel and Tipperary at the foot of the Galtee Mountains.

Since starting his business 10 years ago, Con Marnane has become a major player at the European two-year-old-in-training sales. Con buys yearlings in America England, France, Germany, Italy and of course Ireland, and presents them as two year olds at the major European Breeze-Up sales.

Our aim at Bansha House Stables is to try to pick out a bunch of yearlings that look like sound athletes, buying only what we really want. Our efforts in choosing carefully our yearlings has led to phenomenal success, as between 2005 and 2007 we have consigned no less than 6 Group 1 horses, three individual winners and three individual seconds.

When the yearlings arrive at Bansha House Stables from the sales they are lightly broken and are then turned out into rich limestone paddocks. We love letting the horses out into fields as they go back to nature and unwind after the stress of the yearling sales. The horses are well fed outside and are turned out together to mature on our rich grassland.

At the end of November the horses are brought in and the preparation for the sales begins. They are trotted for several miles a day until Christmas time to build up muscle slowly. From January onward they do a lot of slow cantering to continue the important build up of muscle. Their preparation is not rushed and over the years we have built up top class facilities to assist in the preparation of our young horses.

We are very proud of our horses and our fantastic team of people here at Bansha House Stables who work so hard to produce our continuous flow of Group and Listed performers. Our success is owed greatly to them without whom there would be no winners.

Our horses will be sold as two-year olds at major European Breeze-Up sales and we have horses for every budget.

If you have a genuine interest in purchasing a potentially top class two year old we extend to you an open invitation to come and view our consignment of horses for 2008.

Our aim is to continue to produce high class winners on the racetracks of the world. In 2008 it could be you!