Pivotal Popularity Continues

Pivotal Popularity Continues… 
Cheveley Park Stud resident Pivotal is currently Europe’s leading living broodmare sire, and thus it should have come as no surprise that a well-related daughter of Pivotal in foal to leading sire Invincible Spirit would be popular at Tattersalls yesterday. The mare that fit that description was Swingland (GB) (lot 1687), and was hammered down to Richard Frisby for 290,000gns. 

Frisby was bidding on behalf of BBA 2010, an enterprise investment scheme that was launched four years ago with Lanwades Stud’s Kirsten Rausing to continue the legacy of the British Bloodstock Agency. Michael Goodbody and Guy Heald later joined the scheme. BBA 2010 trades principally in breeding stock, selling most of its foals at the foal sales, and Frisby noted that is the likely fate for the Invincible Spirit Swingland is carrying. 

“She’ll go to Lanwades Stud and we’ll work out a mating for her,” he said. “[The page] keeps on coming up, and I think Invincible Spirit will suit her.” 

He added, “Normally we sell as foals; Sometimes we keep fillies back and sell them as yearlings.” 

Swingland, a winner as a 2-year-old, produced her first foal, a Henrythenavigator colt, this year. Swingland is out of the stakes-winning Farfala (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}), a full-sister to Group 1 winners Fragrant Mix (Ire) and Alpine Rose (Fr), and is a half-sister to the stakes winner Under the Rainbow (GB) (Fantastic Light). Pivotal is the broodmare sire of three Group/Grade 1 winners: Mayson (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Winsili (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and this year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Turf and four-time Grade I winner Main Sequence (Aldebaran).