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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Returning to racing action in Dubai months after finishing fifth in the Preakness Stakes (G1) and sixth in the Belmont Stakes (G1), Heart of Honor romps in the one-mile Nakheel Stakes at Meydan.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Bear with me now, but parallels could be drawn between the Irish football team's World Cup qualification campaign and the Goffs November Foal Sale. Last year's sale was akin to the boys in green thumping Portugal 2-0 in the Aviva Stadium. Nobody saw it coming. One swallow doesn't make a summer, though, and it would all have been forgotten had Ireland come up short in Hungary. Well, Troy Parrott didn't read the script, and neither did Henry Beeby. A last-minute winner in Budapest gives Ireland a fighting chance of making the 2026 World Cup in America. This week's November Foal Sale at Goffs was the equivalent of Ireland backing up that Portugal win with an even better 3-2 triumph against Hungary as few people saw it coming. More fool them. 1 – We need to talk about Awtaad. At a time when smaller Irish breeders are bemoaning the lack of affordable stallions whose progeny stay a mile or further, Awtaad produced a performance that many will undoubtedly stand up and take note of. Awtaad was responsible for 13 foals who sold at an average of €55,039 this week. That average was obviously propped up by Ethical Diamond's brother, who sold to Peter and Ross Doyle for €380,000. However, even when you take out the brother of the Breeders' Cup winner from the statistics, Awtaad averaged a hugely respectable €26,291 from 12 foals sold. All of that was achieved from a €5,000 covering fee, which has to go some way in bolstering the Derrinstown Stud-based stallion's reputation as being one of the value plays for Irish breeders. It would be remiss not to give an honourable mention to Phoenix Of Spain here, too, because his €25,334 average for 30 foals sold is similarly impressive. All told, the Irish National Stud resident was responsible for six foals that sold for €48,000 or more. In fact, one of the best-walking foals in the entire sale, lot 155, went the way of renowned pinhooker Mick Fitzpatrick for €52,000. Similarly shrewd pinhookers like the Gleeson brothers of Aughamore Stud, Tally-Ho Stud [who bought two] and Tradewinds featured among the buyers' sheet for the progeny of Phoenix Of Spain. 2 – Speaking of pinhookers, they well and truly put any notion of the idea that they would play the market with caution in the bin and played a massive role in setting Kildare Paddocks ablaze all week. Philipp Stauffenberg was one of the many pinhookers who, on the eve of the sale, spoke openly and honestly about navigating what many agreed was a tricky yearling sale season across Europe. Yet, Stauffenberg was one of the many pinhookers who stuck their chest out this week, with the legendary German-based operator accounting for the most expensive lot all week, a New Bay half-sister to Group 1 scorer Dreamloper at €650,000. What you could say about Stauffenberg's performance is that he was definitely more selective as his €960,000 spend was completed by a well-bred Lope De Vega filly. Tally-Ho Stud were the busiest buyers all week [€1,443,000 spent on 20 foals] while Yeomanstown Stud, Eddie O'Leary, Jamie Railton and Flash Conroy were just a number of other leading pinhookers who contributed to the market. 3 – What more can you say about Starman that hasn't already been said? Quite a lot, actually. Okay, we get it, he's a bloody brilliant stallion who has more than justified his bump from a fee of €10,000 the past two years up to €40,000 next year. The most uplifting part of his success story has to be the amount of small breeders who benefited this week by supporting him before he was famous. David Bourke, an accountant by trade who only keeps a handful of mares, summed it up brilliantly when he netted €120,000 for his Starman filly out of Evie Be Kool (Jeremy) on Monday. “You need to land on sires like Starman because it gives you such a boost when you go to the sales,” he said. That was not an isolated comment and even the most expensive Starman sold all week – a colt offered by Abbeyleix Stud who netted €225,000 to Tally-Ho themselves – was produced out of a mare the connections sourced for just €3,000 at this sale two years ago. These are the types of stories that keep smaller breeders going. It just goes to show what can happen when you get in early on a stallion that happens to catch fire. 4 – This week provided us with the opportunity to get the first glimpse of the younger stallions coming through and, of those with good representations, Tally-Ho's Good Guess and Darley's Native Trail fared best. In fact, hardly anything split the two stallions in terms of averages posted – Good Guess finished the week with a €43,477 average for 44 foals sold while the 35 Native Trails brought in an average of €40,771. 5 – You've heard about the luck of the Irish, but maybe we should start making more about the pluck of the Irish after what played out this week. The appetite for foals, particularly among the younger generation, is something that really ought to be celebrated in Ireland. There are plenty of young pinhooking groups in England, and the touch young Charlie and Oliver Vigors enjoyed with their Minzaal filly was one of the best stories of the entire year. However, you just don't get the same volume of younger people rocking up to the foal sales in any other country than you do in Ireland and there were even some stories of foals getting north of 300 shows this week. It provided a fascinating dynamic to the whole foal section and, who knows, perhaps we had the next Mick Fitzpatrick or Barry Mahon within our midst. The post Beeby Or Parrott? Five Talking Points From A Frenetic Foal Sale At Goffs appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
Therefore under that assumption most tracks around the country should only own up to outside rail , utter madness the sale of land for profit or not it"ll be one of the biggest reasons the racing industry descends into oblivion. -
I thought he had shares in about 10 TA syndicates you're telling me he only has one?
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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this Sunday running at Tokyo Racecourse: Sunday, November 23, 2025 4th-TOK, ¥14,250,000 ($90k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600m FULMINE BLU (c, 2, Bolt d'Oro–Thundering Sky, by Sky Mesa), a half-brother to the multiple graded-placed middle-distance turfer Corruption (Medaglia d'Oro), was bought back on a bid of $120,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton July Sale, but was knocked down to Northern Farm's Katsumi Yoshida for $200,000 at this year's OBS March Sale after breezing an eighth of a mile in :10 1/5. The April foal's dam was victorious in the 2016 Pebbles Stakes and was placed no fewer than seven times at the graded level on multiple surfaces before selling to Spendthrift Farm for $500,000 at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Fulmine Blu, who debuts in the colors of Silk Racing, is the mount of visiting Frenchman Alexis Pouchin. O-Silk Racing Co Ltd; B-Spendthrift Farm LLC (KY); T-Naoto Chiba The post Nicely Bred Bolt d’Oro Colt Gets Going at Tokyo appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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