Where Did They Come From: Coventry S.

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The G2 Coventry S. offers the first opportunity for the freshman sires to get their name on the Royal Ascot roll of honour. Kingman (GB) has a good chance with Calyx (GB) while No Nay Never has three first-crop sons in the mix. Four of the field were offered for sale less than 24 hours ago via the Goffs London Sale at Kensington Palace.

Advertise (GB) (Showcasing {GB})
A £60,000 Goffs UK Premier Sale yearling bought by Dermot Farrington. B-Cheveley Park Stud

Alfie Solomons (Ire) (Acclamation {GB})
Also from the Goffs UK Premier Sale, this colt was an £85,000 purchase by Bobby O’Ryan and Rebel Racing. B-Rathbarry Stud

Barbill (Ire) (Zebedee {GB})
Bought from his breeder’s Croom House Stud draft at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale for €30,000 by Gill Richardson. B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd

Blown By Wind (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire})
Homebred by Godolphin who inherited his grandam Divine Dixie (Dixieland Band) when Sheikh Mohammed bought Stonerside Farm and its stock. B-Godolphin

Boa Nova (Ire) (Zebedee {GB})
Originally bought by Timmy Hillman as a foal for €19,000 as a foal at Goffs and then reoffered through his Castedillon Stud at the Goffs UK Premier Sale, where he was bought for £68,000 by Sam Sangster. His third sales appearance came last night at the London Sale where he RNA’d for £240,000 from the Manton Lodge consignment. B-Zalim Bifov

Burj (GB) (Dansili {GB})
Another Godolphin homebred, this half-brother to Soliloquy (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) hails from the operation’s Australian wing and a family once owned by Bob Ingham before he sold his Woodlands Stud to Sheikh Mohammed in 2008. B-Godolphin

Calyx (GB) (Kingman {GB})
The Juddmonte homebred, tabbed a ‘TDN Rising Star’ when he became the first winner for his sire at Newmarket on June 9, is out of a sister to G1 Sprint Cup winner African Rose (GB) (Observatory {GB}). B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd

Cosmic Law (Ire) (No Nay Never)
Representing the G1 Prix de Diane-winning owner John Dance, he was bought for £90,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Sale by Dance in association with Daniel Creighton and SackvilleDonald and is a second runner in the field for Denis Brosnan’s Croom House Stud. B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd

Dubai Legacy (Discreet Cat)
The first foal of Afsana (Tiznow) who was sold by Godolphin for $55,000 at Keeneland’s November Sale last year. B-Godolphin

Fox Champion (Ire) (Kodiac {GB})
A three-time sales graduate sold as a foal at Tattersalls by Amy Marnane to J R Bloodstock for 75,000gns, then as a yearling at the Goffs UK Premier Sale from Grove Stud to the Hong Kong Jockey Club for £260,000, and finally in April from Church Farm & Horse Park Stud to SackvilleDonald for 420,000gns at the Craven Sale. B-Con Marnane

Gee Rex (Ire) (Requinto {Ire})
Did not meet his reserve when bidding stalled at £140,000 last night at the Goffs London Sale having raced twice for John Byrne. B-Dr A Calnan

Getchgetchagetcha (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB})
Sold  by Whatton Manor Stud as a foal for 19,000gns to Grove Stud. Later resold for €60,000 to Kevin Ross at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale. B-Mrs James Wigan

I Am A Dreamer (GB) (Dream Ahead)
Bought at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale for 62,000gns by his trainer Mark Johnston. B-Bearstone Stud Ltd

Indigo Balance (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire})
Sold at the Goffs Orby Sale by his breeder for €155,000 to BBA Ireland. B-Irish National Stud

Kuwait Station (Ire) Swiss Spirit {GB})
Another from the Irish National Stud, this colt graduated from the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale, bought by Richard Knight for €60,000. B-Irish National Stud

Midnight Sands (Speightstown)
Unsold at $70,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, he was sold privately for €90,000 after again failing to sell in the ring at Arqana’s Breeze-up Sale when offered by Brown Island Stables. B-Flaxman Holdings Ltd

Ninetythreetwenty (Ire) (Dragon Pulse {Ire})
Sold by his breeder from Kellsgrange Stud for €21,000 at the Goffs foal sale, he was reoffered by Ardo Farm at the Goffs UK Premier Sale and was bought by Bobby O’Ryan and Middleham Park Racing for £35,000. Another of the field to be offered last night at the London Sale, the Musley Bank Stables lot RNA’d for £170,000. B-Dermot Dawn

No Needs Never (Ire) (No Nay Never)
Bought privately by trainer Joseph O’Brien at the Orby Sale for €65,000, he was a £300,000 buyback from the Carriganog Racing draft last night at the Goffs London Sale. B-Summerhill & Lynn Lodge

Pogo (Ire) (Zebedee {GB})
A €10,500 foal purchase by Mags O’Toole, he fetched £32,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Sale when offered by Lynn Lodge Stud and bought by SackvilleDonald. B-Thomas Foy

Sergei Prokofiev (Scat Daddy)
The most expensive of the field to pass through a sale, the subsequent ‘Rising Star’ was bought from his breeder at Keeneland September by MV Magnier for $1.1 million. B-Anderson Farms (Ontario) Inc.

Shaybani (Ire) (Kodiac {GB})
A €55,000 Orby yearling sold by his breeder to Kilronan Stud who sold for 55,000gns at the Tattersalls Craven Sale from Knockanglass Stables to owner Sheikh Abdullah Almalek Alsabah. B-Knocklong House Stud

Shine So Bright (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB})
Pinhooked by Rathakser Stud for 57,000gns as a foal from his breeder’s St Simon Stud and sold on to Aidan O’Ryan and Nick Bradley for €27,000 at the Orby Sale. B-Miss K Rausing

The Irish Rover (Ire) (No Nay Never)
A 150,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 graduate, sold by Glenvale Stud to MV Magnier and Mayfair Speculators. B-Lynch-Bages & Longfield Stud

Vange (GB) (Iffraaj {GB})
Unsold at 28,000gns when offered by breeders Bill and Tim Gredley as a yearling at October Book 2. They bought his grandam Melodist (The Minstrel) from Darley at the 1998 Tattersalls December Sale. B-Stetchworth & Middle Park Studs Ltd

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