Goffs Releases Breeding Stock Catalogue

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This year’s G2 Ribblesdale S. winner and dual Group 1 runner-up Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who was a €1.4-million yearling and is a 3/4 sister to champion Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), is one of 477 fillies and mares-and a few high profile offerings with Coolmore/Mayfair Speculators connections-set to be offered at the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale on Nov. 22 and 23.

The 3-year-old Magic Wand is catalogued as lot 966 through The Castlebridge Consignment, and is offered alongside the stakes-placed Hence (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) (lot 965), a 3-year-old full-sister to Alice Springs (Ire) and the filly that made €2-million at this year’s Goffs Orby sale. Hence was herself a 2.1-million gns yearling and, like Magic Wand, signed for by MV Magnier and Mayfair Speculators.

Hazariya (Ire) (Xaar {GB}), the 16-year-old dam of dual Derby winner Harzand (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and three other stakes winners, was bought by MV Magnier and Mayfair Speculators at this sale two years ago just months after her best son’s Classic victories, and she is offered again as lot 963.

Castlebridge also offers South African champion 2-year-old filly Cloth of Cloud (SAf) (Captain Al {SAf}) carrying her first foal, by Galileo (Ire) (lot 964). Cloth Of Cloud was raced by Mrs Paul Shanahan and Markus Jooste.

The Aga Khan Studs sold Hazariya for €480,000 at this sale in 2014, and that ever-popular draft this year includes the likes of Simawa (Ire) (Anabaa) (lot 977), a stakes-placed half-sister to Sinndar (Ire) in foal to Gleneagles (Ire). Another typically popular consignment, that of Jim Bolger’s Redmondstown Stud, this year includes numerous stakes producers, like Something Graceful (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) (lot 992), the dam of this year’s listed winner and Group 3-placed Sometimesadiamond (Ire) (Vocalised). Something Graceful is in foal to Dawn Approach (Ire).

“We are delighted to have such outstanding mares among this year’s catalogue, which will follow three days of world-class foals,” said Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby. “The Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale is renowned as a source of Group 1 producers and the international success of its graduates year- after-year is a great advertisement for Irish bloodstock and for Goffs.”

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