Power Blue

The catalogue for the Goffs November Foal Sale, which has 998 lots, was released on Friday. Recent past graduates include the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas/G1 St James's Palace Stakes hero Field Of Gold (Kingman), G1 Phoenix Stakes winner Power Blue (Space Blues) and G1 Prix du Cadran winner Caballo De Mar (Phoenix Of Spain). Some of the choicest lots on offer include: lot 553, a son of Gleneagles who is a half-brother to G2 Gimcrack Stakes hero Lifeplan (Kodi Bear); a State Of Rest half-brother (lot 565) to G2 Prix...

DONCASTER, ENGLAND - The training ranks in Ireland could be set for a massive shake-up with Robson Aguiar, widely regarded as one of the sharpest minds in bloodstock, confirming that he hopes to join Adrian Murray on the licence later this year.  The Brazilian native is due to sit the trainers' course in September and, in anticipation of being granted the licence by the authorities [IHRB], he has been busy searching for the next big-name star in Doncaster ahead of the Goffs Premier Yearling Sale.  It is at this sale...

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...

Group 1 winner Power Blue is aiming toward the seven-furlong G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien National Stakes next month, according to trainer Adrian Murray. The son of Space Blues ran second in the G3 Marble Hill Stakes in May before a fifth-place run at Royal Ascot in the G2 Coventry Stakes. Back in the frame with a third in the G2 Railway Stakes to True Love (No Nay Never) at the Curragh in July, the colt defeated that filly in the Phoenix Stakes earlier this month. "I'm looking forward to the...

Twenty years ago, Dubawi claimed his third Group 1 victory in the Prix Jacques Le Marois. On Sunday, Sajir, his third-generation male-line descendant, claimed his own first top-level win, also in Deauville, when lowering the colours of hot favourite Lazzat in the Prix Maurice de Gheest. In TDN on Friday, Ted Voute told Adam Houghton how the team behind Prince Faisal and his homebred Sajir were "quietly quite excited" in the build-up to a race which could seal Sajir's place at stud. Well, they can be loudly very excited now,...

The furore surrounding the changes to the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes shows no signs of abating, but for this year at least the six two-year-old races at Royal Ascot remain much as they've always been, which is beneficial for trends followers studying the data in an attempt to find winners next week. We lost one of the so-called bankers when Albert Einstein, last seen winning the G3 Marble Hill Stakes at the Curragh, was ruled out of the meeting due to a sprained joint, but his absence shouldn't detract too...

Coventry Stakes-bound Power Blue (Space Blues), a horse Robson Aguiar describes as Adrian Murray's best chance of a winner at Royal Ascot, will be offered under the hammer at the Goffs London Sale.  Meanwhile, a deal has already been brokered by bloodstock agent Ben McElroy for Murray's recent Curragh maiden winner Ipanema Queen (Sands Of Mali), who will line out for the Albany Stakes at the royal meeting for new connections.  "We are going to the London Sale with Power Blue," Aguiar, the assistant trainer to Murray, said. "He ran...

Monday, The Curragh, post time: 16:10, COOLMORE STUD CITY OF TROY IRISH EUROPEAN BREEDERS FUND MOORESBRIDGE STAKES-G2, €72,000, 4yo/up, 10fT Field: Galen (GB) (Gleneagles {Ire}), Los Angeles (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), Sons And Lovers (GB) (Study Of Man {Ire}), Sunchart (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}), Trustyourinstinct (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}) and White Birch (GB) (Ulysses {Ire}). TDN Verdict: Off since bringing up this track's Alleged-Mooresbridge-Tattersalls Gold Cup treble last term, White Birch has last year's G1 Irish Derby hero Los Angeles to deal with but both could be vulnerable on their seasonal debuts. Galen...

We're off. Well, sort of. In a manner reminiscent of the sputtering start to the Flat turf season, Seven Days returns this week but is immediately taking a short break before promising to be back in time for the Lincoln and the Brocklesby. So, for those of you still in a post-Cheltenham/St Patrick's Day slump, here's a little look back on the week that was. We'll mention Cheltenham only briefly here to reiterate the point that we may well see the 100/1 Triumph Hurdle winner Poniros (GB) back in action...