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A Pivotal Acquisition… Luke Lillingston made headlines at this sale last year when selling Immortal Verse (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) for a record-breaking 4.7 million guineas through his Mount Coote Stud, and Lillingston was to the fore as a buyer late yesterday afternoon when signing for another Pivotal mare, Map Of Heaven (GB) (lot 1528), on...
Skiffington Wins The War… La Conquerante (GB) (Hurricane Run {Ire}), third in the 2012 G2 Prix Royallieu, failed to sell for €85,000 off the track at Arqana’s December sale a year ago, and the decision to hold on to her and breed her to exciting first-season sire Declaration of War proved a profitable one when...
TRADE SOLID AT TATTS MARE OPENER By Emma Berry and Kelsey Riley The Tattersalls December Mare Sale kicked off its four-day stand in Newmarket yesterday, and while the opening session lacked the ammunition of last year, when the 4 million-guineas Dancing Rain (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) led a parade of six 500,000gns-plus transactions–compared to one...
Strawbridge-Breds South Bound… Lots 1391 and 1393 are both bound for the Southern Hemisphere after being bought by Raffles Farm and Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock, respectively. Lively Sprite (GB) (1391) is an unraced 3-year-old Dansili (GB) half-sister to dual Group 3-winning stayer Gatewood (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), who was 12th in this year’s G1 Melbourne Cup and whose previous victories include...
Caddy Buys Into The Dream… The progeny of Oasis Dream have been highly sought after at this year’s yearling and foal sales, and indeed mares in foal to the Juddmonte resident were popular yesterday, and thus Mike Caddy of the Berkshire’s Heatherwold Stud had to dig deep to secure Morzine (GB) (Miswaki), in foal to...
ALL EYES ON MELBOURNE By Emma Berry The 154th G1 Melbourne Cup gained an exciting entrant for the home team after an emphatic victory for Signoff (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) in the G3 Lexus S. on VRC Derby day at Flemington yesterday. The ‘win-and-you’re-in’ status of the race ensures it garners enormous interest on a day...
AN ADMIRABLE MISSION Admire Rakti (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}) took on the role of favorite for the A$6 million G1 Melbourne Cup after storming on the Australian scene to take the G1 Caulfield Cup Oct. 18, and the 6-year-old firmed into $5.00 favoritism after last night’s barrier draw, which saw him land favorably in post eight....
ONWARDS AND UPWARDS Stall Donna’s Dartagnan D’Azur (Fr) (Slickly {Fr}) recorded a career high when taking the G3 Prix Andrew Baboin at Lyon Parilly two weeks ago, and the 5-year-old entire will look to continue to climb the ladder when shipping to Italy for the first time in today’s G1 Premio Roma GBI Racing. The French resident...
PUCA (by Big Brown) 1st Dam: Boat’s Ghost, by Silver Ghost 2nd Dam: Rocktheboat, by Summer Squall 3rd Dam: Native Boat, by Native Royalty Click for the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. After watching Lady Eli (Divine Park)’s powerful performance in Sunday’s GIII Miss Grillo S. at Belmont Park, Donegal head Jerry Crawford and Hall of Fame...
The scientific method can only go so far when you have a crowded field of 20, most of them multiple Group 1 winners, over a mile and a half, where one false move can destroy the chances of the best horse, as was the case of Orfevre (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn} in the 2012 G1...
As often is the case in early-season handicaps, the lighter weights can take it to their more-accomplished rivals with greater imposts. And so it proved Wednesday at Sha Tin, as G1 Al Quoz Sprint winner Amber Sky (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) and G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen hero Sterling City (Aus) (Nadeem {Aus}) were relative no-shows in the National...
STARS SHINES AT ORBY FINALE By Emma Berry Yet another seven-figure yearling–a €1.1 million daughter of Sea The Stars (Ire)–graced the ring during the final session of the Goffs Orby Sale, which ended yesterday with an 11% gain in aggregate to €38,450,500, and a clearance rate of 87%. While the sale’s overall top price of...