ThoroughBid February Sale Topped By Shirocco Mare

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Wildcard Crystal Lightning (Ire) (Shirocco {Ger}) (lot 41) topped the ThoroughBid February Sale at £36,000.

Sold to TS Equine, the mare was consigned by William Twiston Davies. She is out of an unraced half-sister to dual Grade 1 winner Guitar Pete (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}).

Topping the Racehorse Ownership Club dispersal was the Dandy Man (Ire) gelding Last Outlaw (Ire), who sold to Apollo Horses for £16,500. The gelding (lot 6) is a full-brother to Royal Ascot listed winner and G1 Nunthorpe Stakes third Extortionist (Ire). He will move from Michael Wigham to Michael Keady.

Apollo Horses' Daniel Tuckwell said, “We were looking for a horse that we could potentially improve through the turf campaign and target something towards the end of the season, possibly on the Ayr Gold Cup card, and we felt he was the standout lot of the sale. At Apollo Horses, we've got owners who are based up in Ayr, so while it's a long way off, that's the idea.

“He's won over five furlongs and the cadence data suggests he'll benefit from running over seven furlongs or a stiff six, while his action tells us he probably like a bit of cut in the ground. He's lightly-raced, his form stacks up pretty well and we think Michael Keady can improve him. Michael started up in December and enjoyed his first win, which was actually also his first ever runner, with an Apollo Horses runner called Currumbin. It's a forward-thinking operation with a hunger to do well.”

Of the 38 lots offered, 22 sold (58%) for a gross of £141,600. The average was £6,436 and the median was £3,500. For the full sale results, please visit the ThoroughBid website.

James Richardson, CEO of ThoroughBid, said, “Dispersals always attract plenty of interest and the 14 lots offered by the Racehorse Ownership Club certainly contributed to a busy session of bidding. Apollo Horses came out on top to secure Last Outlaw, who looks like the pick of the horses from the dispersal, and we look forward to following his Flat campaign for new trainer Michael Keady.

“Away from the dispersal, we're really pleased to have sold a nice horse of Robcour and Gordon Elliott's again, this time to Jerry McGrath in the shape of the lightly-raced Paul Collins (Ire) (Pillar Coral {GB}) (lot 15) [for £14,000], while sales were also made for the likes of Ben Pauling and Gavin Cromwell. A clearance rate of 58% is pretty strong in the current climate and we look forward to our next sale, which is on Mar. 27.”

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