Glending Stables Ring the Bell with €1m Sioux Nation Filly

Roderic Kavanagh and Cormac O'Flynn's Glending Stables, famed as the breeze-up vendor of dual Group 1 winner Vandeek, hit the jackpot again at Arqana on Saturday when selling a daughter of Sioux Nation (lot 25) for €1 million.

As with Vandeek, the buyer was Anthony Stroud on behalf of KHK Racing.

The filly's price represented a remarkable pinhooking coup. Out of the stakes-placed Pivotal mare Brioniya, she had been bought at Arqana's V.2 Sale last August for €48,000 and was named as 'Buy of the Day' in the TDN by sales editor Brian Sheerin.

 

Moments of disbelief and joy for the Glending Stables team as their Sioux Nation filly sells for €1 million to KHK Racing.
She had been bought as a yearling for €48k at Arqana's V.2 Sale and that old shrewdie @BrianSheerin91 named her as TDN's Buy of the Day. How right he was. pic.twitter.com/mmS6opRkko

— Emma Berry (@CollingsBerry) May 10, 2025