Poet's Word (Ire)

Largy Go (Ire) (Poet's Word {Ire}) (lot 8) caught the eye of O'Neill Racing, and was knocked down for a sale-topping £305,000 at the Goffs Aintree Sale on Thursday. Consigned by Newlands Farm, the bay made a winning start to his career with a stylish victory Loughbrick over three miles on March 29. Gordon Elliott was the leading buyer of the next two lots for £250,000 apiece--first Lemmy Caution (Fr) (Tunis {Pol}) (lot 5) and With Nolimit (Fr) (Bande {Ire]) (lot 21)--for a combined £500,000. He also shelled out another...

Richard Frisby added a third Walk In The Park (Ire) foal to his purchases at the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale on Tuesday when going to a sale-topping €92,000 for the Ballincurrig Stud-consigned colt out of the Astarabad mare En Vedette (Fr). A Listed winner over hurdles in France, En Vedette is the dam of five winners from six runners, including two black-type performers in Sabrina (Ire) (Yeats {Ire}) and Lady Adare (Ire) (Sholokhov {Ire}). Her 2020 gelding by Flemensfirth made €140,000 at the Derby Sale in 2023, bought...

Geldings by Joshua Tree (Ire) (lot 463) and Poet's Word (Ire) (lot 535) shared topper honours when selling for €45,000 to lead the way during Part 2 of the Goffs Arkle Sale on Thursday. Consigned by Liss House, lot 463 was purchased by Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins. His dam, Tropical Lilly (Ire) (Saddler's Hall {Ire}) is responsible for Grade 3 chase winner Embittered (Ire) (Fame And Glory {GB}), who was also placed in the G1 Future Champions Novice Hurdle. He was a €5,000 Goffs December National Hunt Sale graduate...

Boardsmill Stud's first-season sire Poet's Word (Ire) (by Poet's Voice {GB}) is off the mark after his daughter Zabbie (GB) took Thursday's William Hill Build Your Odds Racing League Nursery H. at Doncaster. Placed three times before a disappointing ninth in a Southwell maiden July 29, the Richard Hannon-trained 9-1 shot raced towards the fore of the main group uder Sean Levey before earning the lead with half a furlong remaining and beating X J Rascal (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) by a head.