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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Coolmeen Farms shelled out €190,000 for lot 133, a son of No Risk At All, who topped the first day of the Goffs Arkle Sale on Tuesday. Consigned by Sluggara Farms, the 3-year-old gelding is out of a full-sister to stakes winner Bonne Gargotte (Poliglote) and a half-sister to Trait De Genie (Diamond Prospect). Trainer Ellmarie Holden bought the half-brother to Flat listed winner Syrita (Siyouni) with her father Paul under the Coolmeen banner. They previously pinhooked two-mile chaser Jonbon and sold him to JP McManus for £570,000 at the Goffs Yorton Sale. “Everyone here seemed to be mad about him, and we were in love with him too,” she said. “He walked beautifully – he tuned out and was so laid back – and he has a lovely pedigree too. He's just a smasher. Please God now he'll do the job for us. “Derek O'Connor will break him in, and then we'll get him going around September time and take it from there. Hopefully we'll get him to win a maiden point-to-point and bring him back to market. We did it with Jonbon but the pressure is back on.” Overall, 15 lots made €100,000 on the first day of the store sale. The clearance rate was 84% for 188 lots sold from 223 offered. The aggregate was €10,306,500 (+12%), while the average was €54,822 (+9%) and the median was €50,000 (+12%). The post No Risk At All Gelding Leads The Way At Goffs Arkle Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Bloodstock agent Mike Ryan has picked out dozens of Grade I winners over the years. He has also bred Grade I winners, most notably Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming (Bodemeister) and his half-sister Hot Dixie Chick (Dixie Union), and he's even raced a few, including 2008 GI Spinaway Stakes victress Mani Bhavan (Storm Boot) and 2019 GI United Nations Stakes winner (Tiz Wonderful) But this year's GI Gamely Stakes marked a particularly special victory for Ryan when 'TDN Rising Star' Be Your Best (Ire) (Muhaarar {GB}), a horse that he bred and races, scored her first win at the elite level. “It doesn't get any better,” said Ryan, who watched the Santa Anita race from back home in Kentucky. “It's the pinnacle, when you've had patience and are lucky enough to make some good decisions along the way. It was a very thrilling win and very exciting because of her being a homebred and still having the mare and the siblings.” One of Be Your Best's siblings is poised to further bolster his family's credentials. 'TDN Rising Star' Postmodern (Too Darn Hot)–whom Ryan sold for 270,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 1 last year–is pointing toward the G2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 17. Under the moniker St. Croix Bloodstock, Ryan runs a commercial breeding operation with around 35 broodmares. Some are owned in partnership, including the mare he co-owned with his late friend Gerry Dilger that produced a Kentucky Derby winner. He boards the majority of his mares at Indian Creek Farm in Paris, Kentucky, though he also keeps a few at Ballylinch Stud in his native Ireland. Most of his stock goes to auction, but Ryan is not shy about retaining a filly for his own racing program. Such was the case for Be Your Best, who was foaled and raised at Ballylinch. By the time the filly was a yearling, her sire Muhaarar had fallen out of commercial favor and was moved from Shadwell's Nunnery Stud to France. Kamakura at Indian Creek Farm | Katie Petrunyak “She wouldn't have brought $25,000 at a sale,” Ryan predicted. “She was a nice yearling but we knew we would be overlooked at the sales and understandably so. If it had been a colt, I probably would not have kept him. But she had enough quality about her that I said, 'Let's bring her back to America and see what we can do.'” After earning the 'Rising Star' nod in her Saratoga debut and collecting a stakes win in the P.G. Johnson Stakes under the tutelage of trainer Horacio de Paz, Be Your Best has raced almost exclusively in graded company over her four years on the racetrack. She was transferred to Saffie Joseph last fall and has since made four trips to the winner's circle, including a gutsy score in the GII Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational Stakes. Ryan said that one of the keys to the now-millionaire's recent success has been figuring out her affinity for firm turf. In between her wins in the Pegasus and the Gamely, Be Your Best put in a disappointing last-place effort in the GI Jenny Wiley Stakes during a particularly soggy Keeneland meet. “We finally understand now that she doesn't want anything but fast, firm ground and since Saffie has had her, she's won four of six races, all graded stakes,” said Ryan. “She has been a remarkable filly. She's very sound, very low maintenance and she's been very consistent.” From here, Ryan reported that Be Your Best will likely make an appearance in the GI Diana Stakes at Saratoga on July 12, although the Beverly D. Stakes at Colonial and E. P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine are also under consideration. “If it's not firm ground, she won't run,” he said. “She'll have two more races hopefully before the Breeders' Cup. We think she'll like that firm turf [at Del Mar]. When we give her the time between races, on the right surface, she always runs well.” While awaiting Be Your Best's next start, Ryan has plenty more to look forward to from other members of his star homebred's family. Just four days before Be Your Best's Gamely score, her half-brother Postmodern stamped his ticket to Royal Ascot after an eye-catching five-length debut win at Yarmouth on May 22 for owner Wathnan Racing and trainer Hamad Al Jehani. “He has a blend of terrific speed, but he should be able to get a mile to a mile and an eighth and possibly a mile a quarter like Be Your Best,” said Ryan. “Too Darn Hot is one of the most exciting young stallions in Europe. I'm a huge fan of Dubawi (Ire) and he's one of Dubawi's best sons. Postmodern has gotten a lot of media attention. The manner of his win was super impressive and we're really looking forward to seeing him run in the Coventry, but he better be good because Aidan O'Brien has got a couple of nice Wootton Bassetts that are going to be there as well.” With both Be Your Best and Postmodern showing sky's-the-limit potential for the latter half of the year, their dam Kamakura (Medaglia d'Oro) is well positioned to cement her status as a top-class broodmare for Ryan. Ryan purchased Kamakura from Godolphin for 150,000gns at the 2016 Tattersalls July Sale. The 3-year-old was unraced, but came with a pedigree that was too good for Ryan to pass up. “This was one the greatest pedigrees of Mr. [William] Farish, with Up the Flagpole (Hoist the Flag) and Flagbird (Nureyev),” Ryan described. “Those kinds of pedigrees are hard to access and when you have the opportunity, I prefer really good bloodlines over a mare that was a good race mare but doesn't have much pedigree.” Already, Kamakura has had three winners from four to race, starting with her first foal Komachi (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) who sold for 625,000gns as a yearling back in 2019. Ryan is hoping for more fireworks from the family this fall when the latest Kamakura yearling hits the sales ring. The mare's Baaeed (GB) filly was foaled and raised at Indian Creek, but recently sent to Ireland where she will point toward the Tattersalls October Sale. Kamakura and her Cody's Wish foal | Katie Petrunyak “She is very impressive,” Ryan noted. “She's a big, strong, powerful filly with a lot of Medaglia d'Oro in her. She's much bigger than Be Your Best.” With Be Your Best's growing reputation in the U.S., Kamakura is here to stay for the time being. This year she produced a Cody's Wish colt and has since checked in foal to Nyquist. “The family goes both ways,” explained Ryan. “There is a lot of dirt and grass in this pedigree, so it seems very versatile from that perspective. We don't have a half-sister right now except for the yearling filly that is going to sell at Tattersalls, so if she were carrying a Nyquist filly we would lean pretty heavily towards keeping her and racing her ourselves. The mare is only 12 years of age, so hopefully we'll have a few more years to get another filly out of her.” Ryan said he has around 20 horses in his racing program. He is excited about several 2-year-old homebreds set to debut in the coming months, especially a half-sister to stakes winner Saddle Up Jessie (More Than Ready) named Give Your Best (Ire) (Too Darn Hot), as well as a filly he owns with his friend Jeff Drown called Sweet Little Lila (Ire) (Palace Pier {GB}) who is the first foal out of the partners' Grade I-placed mare Sassy Little Lila (Artie Schiller). For Ryan, watching a mare like Kamakura make an impact on both sides of the Atlantic is the validation of a long-term vision. And he is confident that there is still more to come. “She's on her way to becoming a blue hen like her great-grandmother Up the Flagpole,” he said. “It's a lot of fun. Believe me, we're enjoying the ride.” The post With Star Broodmare Kamakura, Mike Ryan Bringing Out the Best appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
1/ Who is todays winning horse and driver in photo ? Yulestar & Tony Shaw 2/ 2nd home was a double heat winner bred in NZ , out of mare RAIN GIRL, who raced in a grand Final herself behind Gammalite at Auckland. 3rd home was a NZ trained and driven horses by a Pair of Famous Brothers . Attitagain & Pocket Me Can you name the Brothers ? Clue = they won the Trotting Grand Final very easily this same night. Who might that trotter of been ? n.b NZ trained trotters ran a terrific trifecta in a dominant display Timothy & Anthony Butt, Take A Moment 3/ Name the 4th horse ? sorry he only got his nose in the photo 😁 . clue = a NZ champ who was series hot favourite and I think this stallion was undefeated in NZ , and won a swag in Aus after. This was as close as he got in 3 Grand Finals attempts though, which damaged his reputation a bit , trying to Win the greatest race there is for his CV. Courage Under Fire aka Mighty Mouse -
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Blinkers for Asfoora at Royal Ascot? www.racing.com Trainer Henry Dwyer is considering applying blinkers to Asfoora for the Australian mare's defence of the King Charles III Stakes at Royal Ascot next week. Asfoora turned in a pleasing gallop in blinkers on the July Course at Newmarket on Monday as Dwyer prepares her for her first assignment of this year's overseas campaign. "We threw a set of shades on her," Dwyer told RSN's Racing Pulse on Tuesday, talking about the gallop. "I've always wanted to but it's a bit hard to change things when they are going really well. Not that she's not going well, but I just feel like we're nearer the end than the start and I've got a bit of an itch to scratch with the blinkers, I think. "I reckon they'll help her find a length or two, so we threw them on in trackwork just to make sure she'll be OK with them, and she was. "So I dare say at this stage we'll put them on when she runs next Tuesday." WATCH: Asfoora's 2024 Royal Ascot win Dwyer said he had long thought Asfoora would improve with blinkers but had been reluctant to change given how well the flying mare has continued to race. But he feels now might be the time to try the sprinter in the headgear on race day. Asfoora stormed to victory in Adelaide first-up this preparation in the RN Irwin Stakes (1100m) in April, before finishing seventh in the G1 Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) two weeks later in her final start before her trip back to the UK. "She won well first-up," Dwyer said. "I just thought she probably was entitled to go a bit better in Adelaide (in the Sangster), despite the fact it was 1200m and despite the fact she was a bit flat second-up, maybe. "I just thought she was probably a bit below her best and then she trialled at Flemington before she left and once again I just thought she probably didn't do as much as she should. "And just her recovery has been a lot better this prep. I think it's a legacy of her reserving her energy a bit more. She used to get very wound up, whereas now I think she's just being a bit complacent. "I think she's in good order and she's going well but I just think there's one little key missing and I'm hoping it's the blinkers." WATCH: Asfoora's Sangster run Oisin Murphy, who rode Asfoora during her UK campaign last year, including her Royal Ascot win, was aboard the mare in the gallop over 800m with a workmate. "We strode off from the five-furlong marker and we used the one-furlong mark as our winning post," Dwyer said. "It's sort of downhill, the Newmarket July course but the last 200m is pretty stiff uphill and I didn't think she needed that strong a workout uphill. "They went evens for the first furlong, Oisin just sat off a workmate there and I didn't want him doing too much on her, but I said 'Just make sure you get your head in front on the line', so he just squeezed up the inside, inside the workmate and put paid to him pretty quickly. "As he said after the work, he said 'I had to break her jaw to pull her up, she was charging through the line'." Dwyer revealed Murphy was suitably impressed by the way Asfoora is going leading into her Royal Ascot defence. "Initially he just said 'She gave me the same feel as last year' and then I pressed him and he said 'She's absolutely flying' and that she's going better than last year, he thought," Dwyer said. "He's probably galloped her five times, last year and today, and he said it's the best she's ever galloped, so I'm hopeful that he's a good judge." While Dwyer expects she is shaping as one of the main contenders again for the King Charles III Stakes, he also feels Asfoora has some improvement to come in her coat, having arrived in the UK summer later this year as compared to 2024 when she raced at Haydock in late May ahead of the Royal Ascot meeting. "I still only think she looks probably a seven out of 10, maybe. The work was still fantastic, but I just feel like there's room for improvement in her looks," Dwyer said. He said Asfoora still looked a bit 'wintery', having come from the cool Ballarat weather. "She'll catch up and she'll reacclimatise but it just hasn't happened yet," he said. "It will happen between Ascot and Goodwood, so still looking at those races at Goodwood and York as better chances for her to win races because she will be more acclimatised, but off what we saw in her gallop this morning, you'd be hard pressed to think she won't be right there."
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