Sibling to Blackbeard and Charles Darwin Stars at Goffs Orby with €1.9 Million Sale to MV Magnier

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There was a sense of deja vu at Kildare Paddocks on Tuesday as Glenvale Stud's No Nay Never filly out of Muirin (Born To Sea) stole the show at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale, with MV Magnier having to stretch to €1.9 million – the highest price of the sale so far – to outpoint Jacob West.

Whilst perhaps best known for producing the dual Group 1-winning juvenile Blackbeard and this year's G2 Norfolk Stakes winner Charles Darwin from her previous trysts with No Nay Never, Muirin also made headlines at the Orby three years ago when her filly by the Coolmore stallion fetched a sale-topping €2.6 million. Later named Run Away, she made a winning debut as a three-year-old and finished placed at Listed level the following year when in training with Andrew Balding.

As for this filly, she is set to follow in the footsteps of Blackbeard and Charles Darwin by heading into training at Ballydoyle, with Magnier keen to extol the virtues of No Nay Never in a year when Saturday's G1 Cheveley Park Stakes heroine True Love and G1 City Of York Stakes winner Never So Brave have also put the stallion's name in lights.

“She is a lovely filly and all of the lads liked her,” said Magnier. “Again, No Nay Never is having another brilliant year. He's a very good stallion. Blackbeard was a very good two-year-old and, to be fair to him, he's making very good stock and they are all selling very well. He has had a good sale here and there are a few nice ones heading to Newmarket, so that will be exciting.”

He added, “Aidan [O'Brien] thinks that Charles Darwin is a very good horse. I'm not saying he is as good as Albert Einstein, but he's a very good two-year-old and we will see the best of him next year. Listen, the family works well and she [lot 280] is a very valuable filly, regardless of what she does on the racetrack.”

Muirin, who won one of her seven racecourse starts for Eddie Lynam, has been mated exclusively with No Nay Never since retiring to the paddocks, with a colt foal by the son of Scat Daddy still to come.

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