Euro Trip Fruitful for Solis/Litt

Euro Trip Fruitful for Solis/Litt… 
By Emma Berry
The first yearlings of Zoffany (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) have been the subject of high praise this sales season, but it was the Group 1 winner’s sister who stole the show on Tuesday when selling for 700,000gns from the draft of Croom House Stud. The charms of lot 107, a late May bay filly, were enough to convince American agents Jason Litt and Alex Solis to make her the top-priced female of the day, with Solis first seeing off Demi O’Byrne then Fiona Craig, who was the under-bidder on behalf of Moyglare Stud. 

First-time visitors to the October Sale at Tattersalls, Solis and Litt are making the most of their European sojourn and bought three yearlings in Ireland last week before taking in the Arc weekend in Paris en route to Newmarket. 
“We were after a good-looking filly and we think we’ve found it in her,” said Litt, who was acting for an undisclosed American client. 

“Dansili has done so well both here and in the States, and Zoffany going so well is a huge bonus.” 
As well as Zoffany, the filly’s dam Tyranny (GB), a daughter of Machiavellian and Group 3 winner Dust Dancer (GB), has produced the G3 Angelesey S. winner Wilshire Boulevard (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) and two other winners. Her 2-year-old Galileo (Ire) filly was bought back for 600,000gns at Tattersalls last year and, named Knocknagree (Ire), she is in training in Ireland with Jim Bolger for Croom House Stud owners Denis and Joan Brosnan.