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Adrian Keatley trainee Chairmanfourtimes (Nando Parrado) had annexed one of six prior starts heading into Friday's Listed British EBF Stallions Harry Rosebery Stakes at Ayr and became his freshman sire's first black-type winner with a determined victory in the five-furlong contest. "I'm delighted for Andy [Finneran] for this horse to win today," said Keatley. "The owners had a bad day yesterday [with the fatal injury of Flying Finn], so this will give them the lift they require. We think he's probably a proper five-furlong horse even though he was a...

Grade 2 scorer Allegorie De Vassy (No Risk At All) is one of several mares trained out of Willie Mullins's Closutton Stables confirmed for the Goffs December NH Sale. The Rich and Susannah Ricci runner is in foal to Jukebox Jury and won twice over fences at Grade 2 level. She is also out of a half-sister to six-time Group 1 winner Laurens (Lawman). Other mares set to go through the Goffs ring include G1 Triumph Hurdle fourth Lady Vega Allen (Saint Des Saints), who is also Grade 1-placed; Jet...

Following a one-year break, the Goffs Yorton Sale returned on Thursday with a 100 per cent clearance rate, with a gelding by Doctor Dino fetching £105,000 from Paul Cowley's Vanquish Bloodstock to headline the sale of 33 National Hunt-bred two-year-olds. The top lot is already named Doctor Green (lot 20), while another Doctor Dino gelding named Fauchil (lot 13) was the pick of the remainder when sold to to Dai Walters for £95,000, ahead of a Nathaniel filly (lot 12) at £65,000 and a Walk In The Park filly (lot...

The slimmed-down Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale resulted in meaty rises in the median and average on a day when Jenny Norris, consignor of Windsor Castle Stakes winner Havana Hurricane at this sale 12 months, backed up those exploits by sending out a Havana Grey filly [lot 39] to command joint top-lot status at 160,000gns to Rabbah Bloodstock.  Norris Bloodstock shared the spoils with Guy O'Callaghan's Grangemore Stud, who sold a Dark Angel colt [65] out of Listed-winning speedster Measure Of Magic to Highflyer's Anthony Bromley on behalf of owner Phil...

After getting the yearling sale season up and running in style when selling two colts for significant profit at the Premier Yearling Sale at Goffs UK, Hetty Spencer is optimistic about keeping the momentum going at Baden-Baden, where the young consignor will offer one of the biggest drafts at BBAG.  The English native, who is now based in Ireland, set up her own consignment last year. Things have gone from strength to strength throughout the past 12 months for Spencer Sales and the 30-year-old is relishing the opportunity to sell...

Tally-Ho Stud put in a dominant display at this year's Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale by selling 24 yearlings for a combined £1,743,000, which included the £150,000 day two session-topping colt by Mehmas, who went the way of Jason Kelly on behalf of Bond Thoroughbreds just minutes before the final whistle was blown on Thursday.  To illustrate how strong Tally-Ho's performance was this week, the Westmeath-based outfit finished the sale over £1 million clear of their nearest pursuer in the consigning ranks which was Baroda Stud, who sold 13 horses...

DONCASTER, UK -- For the third year in succession, Highflyer's Anthony Bromley and owner Phil Cunningham dominated the Goffs Premier Yearling Sale, coming away from day one with six horses bought for a combined sum of £717,000. That spend included one of the most expensive horses sold on Wednesday - a Showcasing half-brother to high-class sprinter Washington Heights - at £180,000. It was at this sale in 2023 when Cunningham enlisted the services of Bromley, widely regarded as one of the best judges of equine talent there is. The pair...

DONCASTER, ENGLAND - Tilly and Hannah Marley, the daughters of renowned pinhooker, breeze-up consignor and pre-trainer Roger, are the newest names on the consigning block at Goffs and will be bidding to get MG Bloodstock [Marley Girls] off to a flying start with its three-strong draft at this week's Premier Yearling Sale. The Marley girls have already proved themselves a chip off the old block when their Ubettabelieveit pinhook turned a profit of 50,000gns when selling to Richard Hughes on behalf of Jaber Abdullah at last year's Somerville Yearling Sale.  That...

We've seen ebullient yearling markets in Japan, America and France so far this year and now Britain enters the fray with what for many is a favourite sale of the year.  No matter how long it has now been Goffs UK, the sales company formerly known as Doncaster Bloodstock Sales (DBS) will always be Donny. More confusingly for those who are not aware of its history, it will always have its roots in the Scottish Borders rather than Yorkshire, but that's a story for another day. Donny is Donny, and...

Jenny Norris, one of the leading consignors in Britain, runs through her draft of 'Donny rockets' The Goffs Premier Yearling Sale is riding the crest of a wave but so too is one of the leading British-based consignors, Jenny Norris, who will offer what she says is arguably one of her strongest-ever drafts at this year's sale.  That is saying something as Norris is already responsible for six individual two-year-old winners this season from just over 40 yearlings that passed through her consignment last year.  Among them features Windsor Castle...

A Naval Crown colt and a Ten Sovereigns filly have been supplemented to next week's Goffs Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale. Set for Doncaster on Wednesday, August 27 and a Thursday, August 28, the sale features over 400 yearlings with sessions beginning at 10 a.m. The colt, consigned by Coulonces Sales as lot 191A, is out of the Shamardal mare Glamour Queen, herself a daughter of the Group 1 winner Be Fabulous and a full-sister to listed winner and multiple group-placed Sublimis. Lot 354A, offered by Baroda Stud, is a half-sister...

Clive Cox's love affair with York's Harry's Half Million By Goffs showed no signs of abating after Middleham Park Racing's Song Of The Clyde (Sergei Prokofiev) delivered a third straight edition of the valuable contest for the trainer. "Harry Beeby was a good friend of mine, it's such a good incentive and even better to win it three times running," said Cox. "He had a bit of size and scope as a yearling and we've always liked him. He's got a wonderful mind and it was really pleasing when he...