Havana Grey

4.10 Newmarket, Novice, 2yo, f, 5fT CROWNBREAKER (IRE) (Minzaal {Ire}) is a significant debutante for Amo Racing and Kevin Philippart De Foy, being a half-sister to the July Cup hero Mill Stream (Gleneagles) and the Richmond winner and Prix Morny-placed Asymmetric (Showcasing). A  550,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 purchase, she meets Victorious Forever's fellow newcomer Efsixteen (GB) (Havana Grey {GB}), a George Scott-trained 350,000gns Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up buy.   3.10 Salisbury, Novice, 3yo, 6f 213yT DREAM VEGA (IRE) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) is engaged a week after her intended...

Kia Joorabchian has outlined shopping plans for this week's Goffs Breeze-Up Sale, where he says the focus will be on securing colts that Freemason Lodge-based trainer Kevin Philippart de Foy can point towards Royal Ascot.  The Amo Racing boss was a high-profile absentee from the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale last week. Instead, he elected to make the trip to Ocala for the OBS breeze-up sale.  His no-show at Tattersalls, where he spent over £3 million on seven horses last year, was keenly felt by a market that returned to 2024...

Tattersalls has released the catalogue for the Craven Breeze-Up Sale, which features 182 juveniles and takes place between April 13 and 15. High-profile graduates from the Craven Breeze-Up Sale include multiple Group 1-winning sprinter Vandeek, 1,000 Guineas heroine Cachet, Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint winner Believing and more. Commenting on this year's catalogue, Tattersalls Managing Director Matthew Prior said, "Al Quoz Sprint winner Believing was the sale's fifth individual Group 1 winner since 2022 and crowned another excellent year on the racecourse for the Craven Breeze-Up Sale, Europe's leading breeze-up...

Galileo and Dubawi, two titans of the sport whose fates have been so entwined for the past two decades that the marrying of their superior bloodlines to one day give us a champion sire was perhaps as inevitable as it is satisfying for us bloodstock nuts. On 12 occasions, in 2008 and then every year between 2010 and 2020, Galileo topped the end-of-year sires' table in Britain and Ireland. On four of those occasions Dubawi filled the runner-up spot, before the Darley stalwart finally enjoyed his day in the sun...

Stephen Byrne of Knockgraffon Stables has quickly established himself as one of the sharpest young breeze-up handlers on the circuit. A former amateur jockey, Byrne built up a good relationship with Jim Will Fix It, and guided that horse to win a Grade 2 bumper at Leopardstown back in 2010. He also spent time working with Joseph O'Brien before returning home to Knockgraffon Stables. From under that banner, Byrne has sent out many high-class runners, including the 103-rated Hammer The Hammer along with recent Dundalk juvenile scorer Sovereign Cry (Ten...

For this first of four parts of our annual Value Sires series in Europe, we will be dealing with the elite tier of stallions standing for a fee in excess of £50,000, which is approximately €57,000. The names in this bracket don't change that much, except for when a grandee retires or a young upstart bounces his way in. In 2025, we lost an increasingly prolific member of this cohort when Wootton Bassett died in Australia from pneumonia at the age of 17. The consequences of his passing will doubtless...

Oh to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond. Coming in at 170,000gns, West Moor Stud's Havana Grey colt didn't just stand out on the final day of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, he towered above the opposition. Bought on behalf of Yeomanstown Stud by bloodstock agent Hamish Macauley, the Havana Grey colt was said to have stacked up well even against the Friday foals.  "The best foal here today and he would have stood up well yesterday," Macaulay said shortly after signing the docket. "He has size and...

If Tuesday's opening session of the December Foal Sale at Tattersalls was all about Dragon Symbol, then Wednesday was the day that the young upstart received a sharp warning should he wish to assume the throne as Whitsbury Manor Stud kingpin, with the present incumbent, Havana Grey, taking his turn to play the starring role on a day of fierce trade at Park Paddocks. By the close of play, Havana Grey accounted for five of the day's top 18 lots, headlined by lot 650 from the Whitsbury Manor draft. The...

There are many ways to celebrate breeding a Classic winner, but Ed Harper must be in the minority in having selected a betting shop on Newmarket High Street as his first destination after departing the town's Rowley Mile, the landmark achievement of his family's Whitsbury Manor Stud still barely having sunk in. As it was, little more than an hour after the homebred Chaldean had skipped to glory in the 2023 edition of the 2,000 Guineas, Harper found himself in front of a wall of screens, ready to watch the...

Taller ladies need not apply for a date with Havana Grey in 2026 as Whitsbury Manor Stud has confirmed that the star stallion will continue to cover mares with a height restriction in place for next year. His fee remains private while Showcasing has been dropped by £5,000 to £30,000 and newbie Elite Status introduced at £8,000. Dragon Symbol and Sergei Prokofiev will operate at that same fee. Joe Callan, Head of Bloodstock and Sales at Whitsbury, commented, "Havana Grey will once again have his fee listed as private. This...

TATTERSALLS, NEWMARKET - Almost 200 million gns changed hands between Book 1 and 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale but there was no sign of the money drying up at Park Paddocks as Book 3 got off to a rip-roaring start with turnover climbing by a massive 19% to 7,680,500gns. Whitsbury Manor Stud was rewarded for targeting the Book 3 with four horses selling for 371,000gns - which included a 160,000gns Havana Grey colt that was only knocked off his perch by the last lot into the ring, a...

The catalogue for the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale, featuring 401 mares and fillies, is now online. The dams of Group 1 standouts Precise (Starspangledbanner), Porta Fortuna (Caravaggio), Romantic Warrior (Acclamation), Excellent Truth (Cotail Glory) and Lush Lips (Ten Sovereigns) were all sold at the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale in the past. In 2025, the sale will be held on November 21-22 immediately following the four-day Goffs November Foal Sale. Some of the 2025 catalogue highlights include: Ceistiu (Vocalised) (lot 1183), the dam of the highly regarded G3 Gordon...