Month: April 2023

Horowitz On OTTBs Presented by Excel Equine: Thoroughbred Influence At Kentucky’s Biggest Equine Sporting Events

The next two weekends will bring out the best qualities of the Thoroughbred breed — the last weekend of April for the Thoroughbred sporthorse at the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event and then the first weekend of May for the Thoroughbred racehorse at the Kentucky Derby.

The Kentucky Derby in Louisville is about showcasing the horses that will represent the breed in the national spotlight. Each year, there are special qualities to these Thoroughbreds and their connections that draw the most coverage and biggest audience that horse racing receives in the United States. The safest bet of the Kentucky Derby is that there will be something memorable, and maybe even legendary, about the winner.

The week before the Kentucky Derby is the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. This event showcases the qualities of the breed that allow the Thoroughbred to excel in the ultimate sporting test for equine athletes. It draws international competition and an international audience. Here's how the Olympic website describes the challenges eventing presents horse and rider:

“Eventing is the most complete combined competition discipline and demands of the competitor and horse considerable experience in all branches of equitation. It covers every aspect of horsemanship: the harmony between horse and rider that characterizes Dressage; the contact with nature, stamina and extensive experience essential for the Cross Country; the precision, agility and technique involved in Jumping.”

Although the breed was developed for racing, Thoroughbreds make excellent event horses because they possess a combination of the athleticism, bravery, and precise movement that the sport requires.

Here are the fascinating backgrounds and accomplishments of the racehorses that are now competing at the highest level of eventing.

SOROCAIMA: 12yo bay gelding bred in Kentucky (Rock Hard Ten – Sankobasi)

Sorocaima and Buck Davidson en route to a third-place finish in the 2021 Morven Park Fall International CCI4*-L

When Sorocaima made his CCI5*-L debut (the highest level of eventing) at the 2022 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, one of only seven “five-star” events in the world, he became the first Thoroughbred to complete all three phases with the most starts on the racetrack since Irish Rhythm (JC: Daniel Alexander) did so in 2014. Sorocaima and Irish Rhythm both raced 43 times.

The bay gelding sired by Rock Hard Ten out of the Pulpit dam Sankobasi held up well over a racing career that spanned four years. Following one start as a 2-year-old in December 2013, he ran 14 times in 2014, 15 times in 2015, and 13 in 2016 before his final career race as a 5-year-old in November 2016.

Sorocaima's best season was as a 4-year-old in 2015 when he won four races and finished in the top-two in nine of his 15 starts. This included consecutive wins at Presque Isle Downs in Pennsylvania nine days apart. However, after only hitting the board once in 13 starts the following year, Sorocaima's racing connections decided to retire him.

“The key for OTTBs — if they have the talent and they have the soundness and they have the athleticism, if you stop before they're injured, their careers can be spectacular,” said Carrie Brogden of Machmer Hall, who bred Sorocaima together with Poindexter Thoroughbreds.

Sorocaima, who goes by the barn name of “Cam,” quickly took to eventing. His first USEA-recognized event was at the Training level of 3'3” with Nilson Moreira Da Silva in January 2018. After Da Silva piloted Cam in his first eventing season and Karli Wright for his second, Buck Davidson began competing the horse in 2020. Jill Henneberg — who was a member of the U.S. eventing team that won a silver medal at the 1996 Olympics, the trainer for Wright, and a friend of Davidson's — reached out to Davidson about how he and Cam would be a great match.

“I have this horse you need to have” and “this has your name written all over it” is how Davidson described what Henneberg said about Sorocaima. Henneberg went so far as to bring Cam from Georgia to Florida to try out and left him with Davidson for a week.

“I just didn't have the guts to call her [to say no],” Davidson said. “It just seemed easier to buy the horse, and I'm glad I did. I absolutely love riding him.”

Cam did his first FEI events with Davidson and made it to the five-star level in 2022 at Kentucky and then at the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill only four years after his first USEA-recognized event.

“He keeps improving,” Davidson said. “He's just the ultimate trier. He's the reason that I love Thoroughbreds. He's sort of old-fashioned. He's by Rock Hard Ten. He's not crazy tall, but that sort of European horse you'd see at Cheltenham for the Gold Cup. He's got big bones, and he's not the little wiry speed horse. He looks like he'd excel on the turf, and honestly he should have been a Maryland Hunt Cup horse. He would have won that for sure. He's an absolute joy to ride every day. We teach him something new, and he learns it.”

Beyond his athletic ability, Cam also has the looks.

“I always like a horse that I can look in the eye,” Davidson said. “He has the most big, beautiful, calm, relaxed, eye that you would ever want in a horse. He's got the most beautiful classical head. His answer is always yes.”

In addition to competing Thoroughbreds at the highest levels of eventing, Davidson advocates on behalf of the breed as a board member for the Retired Racehorse Project.

“I love Thoroughbred horses; you're not going to beat a good Thoroughbred horse,” he said. “Cam is the epitome of a Thoroughbred.”

That's a feather in the cap for Sorcaima's breeders.

“The one thing I cherish on our farm and the land on our farm is soundness,” Brogden said. “He had bone like tree trunks. He had size and mass. He had a great brain. So to me, I love that they're getting that kind of soundness. He's been at the elite level for several years now, which is pretty amazing.”

PALM CRESCENT: 17yo dark bay gelding bred in New York (Quiet American – Edey's Village)

Palm Crescent's longevity and success as an eventer is matched by the longevity and success of his siblings on the racetrack.

In terms of longevity, Palm Crescent's dam, Edey's Village, also foaled the following warhorses:

  • Seamans Village (by Maria's Mon), a 2004 chestnut gelding, raced 47 times with 2 wins.
  • Parkinson Field (by Strategic Mission), a 2007 dark bay gelding, raced 46 times with 5 wins.
  • Echstein Village (by Freud), a 2008 chestnut gelding, raced 71 times with 8 wins.
  • Itsallaboutyou (by Harlington), a 2011 bay gelding, raced 97 times with 22 wins.

In terms of success, Watts Village (by Forestry) was a stakes winner in Japan and Korea. He made 19 starts, won eight of them, and finished in the top-three 15 times. He became the first Korean-trained horse to win a race outside of the country when he won the 2013 Japan-Korea Interaction Cup at Ohi Racecourse in Tokyo.

Palm Crescent's half-brother Watts Village won the 2015 Munhwa Ilbo Cup in Seoul, Korea, in the final race of his career

“Watts Village was a bit of a trailblazer with his win in Japan,” said Alastair Middleton, who works for the Korea Racing Authority's (KRA) international simulcast in various roles, including as a race caller and blogger.

Like Watts Village, Palm Crescent has been a trailblazer in the sport of eventing, and like his other brothers, he's been quite the war horse. On the track, Palm Crescent was a frontrunner like Watts Village. His one victory in 12 starts came when he led the entire way of a maiden race at Charles Town in West Virginia in December 2009.

After retiring from racing in April 2010, Palm Crescent, who goes by the barn name of “Palmer,” competed in his first USEA-recognized event in February 2011 with Jennifer Simmons. Then, Jan Bynny began competing Palmer in March 2011 and brought him up to the Preliminary level of 3'7”.

“He has a great mind; he's a beautiful type,” Bynny said. “You can't ever tell how good they're going to be, but I loved everything about him. His gallop was to-die-for, and I thought he was going to be good enough for the flat.”

When Bynny sold Palmer to a client, Chase Shipka, she said, “This horse will be your Kentucky horse. I guarantee he will go to Kentucky one day.”

After Shipka started focusing more on competing in dressage, Meagan O'Donoghue took over the mount and has campaigned Palmer since 2015.

O'Donoghue previously competed at the five-star level with the OTTB Pirate (JC: Pirate's Gold Star), who was bred and raced in Illinois, the same state where O'Donoghue grew up. She and Pirate competed three times in Kentucky in 2013, 2014, and 2015 and went over to England for Burghley in 2014. This will be Palm Crescent's third Kentucky five-star, plus he's competed at the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill and at Burghley.

“I'm so grateful for the two Thoroughbreds that I've had in my life to fly me all over the world,” O'Donoghue said. “I got to know the breed in general and appreciate them for their trainability and their heart and how useful they can be beyond the racetrack—whether it is making them up to be a top-level event horse or someone's amateur dream horse. They fit into so many different boxes.”

Bynny continues to follow the successes of her former horse and her former student. When it comes to Thoroughbreds, Bynny explained about O'Donoghue, “That's her jam, and that's a little bit my jam,” and said, “It's like a fairytale you would want to hear for a second career because the horse became exactly what I thought he would be.”

WABBIT (JC: MOLINARO KISSING): 13yo grey gelding bred in Ontario, Canada (Line of Departure – No Kissing

Wabbit and Jessica Phoenix at the 2022 Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill

You don't have to be a successful racehorse to succeed at the top levels of the sport of eventing. Known as Molinaro Kissing through five races at Woodbine in his home province of Ontario, Canada, in the summer of 2013, his best finish was a fifth-place in his debut.

The grey gelding has made more of a name for himself eventing under the name of Wabbit with Canadian Olympian Jessica Phoenix. This will be their third trip to the Kentucky Horse Park. In 2021, they finished 10th in the CCI4*-S held in conjunction with the CCI5*-L. Then, they moved up to the five-star level in Kentucky in 2022 but suffered a fall on cross-country. They completed their first five-star in the Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill last October.

THE UNRACED THOROUGHBREDS AND THE THOROUGHBRED CROSSES IN KENTUCKY

Twilightslastgleam and Jennie Saville at the 2022 Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill

Campground (Forest Camp – Kneel) and Twilightslastgleam (JC: Twilightslastgleem | National Anthem – Royal Child) initially trained for a racing career but were unraced. Both Campground, ridden by Erin Kanara, and Twilightslastgleam, ridden by Jennie Saville, made their five-star debuts at the 2022 Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, finishing 15th and 16th, respectively.

In addition to these horses representing the Thoroughbred breed, other five-star entrants at the Land Rover Kentucky-Three Day Event have Thoroughbred influence through their dams.

Covert Rights is out of the OTTB dam Let's Get It Right. Let's Get It Right's sire is Covert Operation, thus the connection with the name Covert Rights. After three races at Pimlico in 1994, Let's Get It Right partnered with Colleen Rutledge up to the Advanced level of 3'11”, the highest national level offered under the governing body of the United States Eventing Association. Rutledge bred the chestnut mare to the Clydesdale-Thoroughbred stallion BFF Incognito. Now, she and Covert Rights will be competing in their seventh five-star, having first competed in Kentucky in 2015.

At 9 years old, Nemesis is the youngest horse in the Kentucky five-star field, and he's out of the Thoroughbred dam Sara's Muse by the showjumping stallion Novalis 46. His rider, James Alliston, has previous experience with OTTBs at eventing's highest level. He rode the gelding Parker (JC: Eastside Park | Marquetry – Hello Mom) at Kentucky. After starting to work with Nemesis, he and his wife, Helen Alliston, thought so highly of him that they reached back out to breeder Danielle Burgess in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, to see if she had any more horses available out of the same Thoroughbred dam. They bought Flinterro Z, who is one year younger than Nemesis. The brothers both won FEI levels at the 2023 Twin Rivers Spring International this month.

Overall, the Thoroughbred influence in eventing is strong, and the biggest races and events bring out the best in the breed.

“It's a special thing,” O'Donoghue said, “to see a horse go through the rigorous training of being a racehorse at such a young age and withstand that and then have this heart and open mind to learn a new trade and also fall in love with it because at some point in any discipline at some level they really have to love what they're doing.”

Announcing horse races inspired Jonathan Horowitz to become an advocate for off-track Thoroughbreds, as well as to learn to event on OTTBs and to expand his announcing of and writing about equine sports to horse shows around the United States. He also works for the United States Eventing Association and runs the Super G Sporthorses eventing barn with his wife, Ashley. He can be reached on Facebook and Twitter at @jjhorowitz.

 

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“He Was Always A Class Horse” – Roger O’Callaghan On £500,000 Harry Angel Colt At Goffs UK Breeze-Up

DONCASTER, UK-It had felt like an apt morning to start a breeze-up sale: find a sunny nook away from the north wind, and it was a glorious spring day; find yourself exposed, and you felt a bitter parting shot of winter. That kind of polarity is pretty standard in this sector, but a stunning Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale –headlined by a £500,000 Harry Angel colt from Tally Ho who became the most expensive Flat horse ever sold in this ring–allowed many vendors to bask, almost dazed, in their own personal sunbeams.

Last year, this auction produced 17 six-figure sales from 158 lots. This time round, as many had been recorded by the halfway stage of an admittedly expanded offering of 184. By the end of proceedings, no fewer than 33 lots had made £100,000 or more. At one stage there were three £200,000-plus sales–as many as were achieved from the whole catalogue last year–in the course of just seven lots into the ring. The average duly soared from £48,989 to £63,396 (+29%). The median rose 11% to £40,000.

In the circumstances, it could be no surprise that the principal protagonists in the record sale should be those namesakes, and mutual stalwarts of this auction, the O'Callaghan family of Tally-Ho Stud and trainer Michael O'Callaghan.

With typical acuity, Tally Ho had bought the record-breaking colt as a €38,000 foal, at the Goffs November Sale of 2021-not as a potential yearling pinhook, but expressly as a long-term play for their breeze-up division. He was out of Go Angellica (Ire) (Kheleyf) (lot 191), who promised to double down the speed as a stakes winner at two.

“Yes, when we bought him the plan was always to breeze,” confirmed Roger O'Callaghan. “He was always a class horse, a natural: unbelievable temperament, just easy, so simple. When you asked him, he delivered. And when you didn't ask him, he didn't!”

Michael O'Callaghan will already have had his eye drawn to the page, having bought dual group winner Twilight Jet (Ire) (Twilight Son {GB}) from the same vendors here two years ago: he was out of a half-sister to Go Angellica. But then the colt breezed a tick off the quickest time of the sale on Monday.

 

“I thought him the best horse here by a long way,” the trainer declared. “Obviously I've been extremely lucky with the vendors, and he's from the same family as a very good horse for us. Trade has been very strong so we kept our powder dry for this lad, we didn't want to leave without him.”

His model has often been to trade on breeze-up graduates, but the stakes for this one are plainly high.

“Please God, he needs to be a Group 1 horse,” he conceded. “He could potentially be traded, down the line, but he has to go and do it. But if he can get to a high level by midsummer, who knows? He certainly looks ready to go, hopefully we'll be getting the top hats out.”

Tally Ho have been selling here annually since the inauguration of a first European breeze-up sale here, way back in 1977, and there could be no more fitting holder of the new record.

“We've always sold good horses here, so why not bring another one?” Roger O'Callaghan said. “Between Tally Ho, 'Donny', Mike and Blandford [Bloodstock], there have been a lot of good horses sold here. It's been very strong today, so fair dues to Donny, they got it right.”

Anthony Stroud, who topped the purchasing averages with three at £710,000, noted the strength of the market after a rather patchy start to the breeze-up circuit last week.

“There's lots of middle, which is very encouraging, and I'm sure the clearance rate is good, it certainly feels like it,” he said. “Last week I felt it was very selective and I questioned whether you could have this amount of breeze-up horses, and if there were enough clients, but I think today has really underlined that things are going in the right direction.

“Of course it makes buying more difficult, but you want the best for the industry. These guys work so hard and it's such a difficult job preparing a horse for a breeze-up, so while you want to buy them at the right price it's important that everyone gets rewarded for their efforts.”

Michael O'Callaghan | Sarah Farnsworth/Goffs UK

The Main Talking Points

  • Tally Ho had already enjoyed another excellent day even before topping the sale and duly ended as leading consignor, banking £1,340,000 for a dozen sold. Federico Barberini/Apple Tree Stud gave £200,000 for a son (lot26) of Kodiac (GB), who has had some of his finest hours in this ring, out of a mare bought by Tally Ho for 35,000gns back in 2015. In the meantime she has gained fresh distinction as a half-sister to the mother of Alcohol Free (Ire) (No Nay Never).
  • Fillies were in conspicuous demand and Longways Stables processed two with nice pedigrees within five minutes for a total of £550,000. Jake Warren gave £340,000 for a Dark Angel (Ire) filly (lot 167) (a €52,500 private purchase at Arqana) specifically because his clients Bermuda Racing would ultimately want to breed from “a beautiful filly who did a phenomenal breeze-and whose half-sister has already bred a top-class horse” in G2 May Hill S. winner Powerful Breeze (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}). Then two lots later Oliver St Lawrence gave £210,000 for a Dubawi (Ire) filly (lot 169) out of a group-placed mare.
  • Havana Grey built on his Newmarket triumph by fuelling another tremendous pinhook, Knockanglass Stable banking £200,000 from Al Mohamediya Racing for a son (lot 46) found in this ring last August as a £27,000 private sale to Kilronan.
  • The Blue Point bandwagon was another to keep on rolling, with five lots changing hands for an aggregate of £690,000. Katie Walsh of Greenhills Farm had been hoping to ride the wave with the colt (lot 37) she had found in Book 2 at Tattersalls last October for 42,000gns, and was delighted as he soared to £220,000 for Arthur Dobell of Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock in the company of trainer Roger Varian. “The sire's on fire,” Walsh enthused. “With all the chat about them, I felt lucky to have one. They're just so consistent and straightforward. I'm not sorry that I can't be at Punchestown now!”
  • The Sioux Nation filly (lot 35) presented by Gary Bloodstock clocked one of the fastest times on Monday and that completed an impressive salvage operation after she was returned unsold for €15,000 at Fairyhouse last September. A £160,000 docket from Avenue Bloodstock/Paddy Twomey was not just due reward for keeping the faith, but for John Nagle's discovery of her young dam for just €2,800 at Goffs in February 2020. Another hit for Sioux Nation was the colt from Mocklershill (lot 204) that brought £210,000 from Anthony Stroud.
  • One of the fastest times had set more parochial shoppers a challenge as a daughter of Lane's End rookie Catalina Cruiser out of a mare (aptly named Quizzical) by the obscure Cindago. She'd been purchased by Glending Stables for $50,000 at Keeneland last September, but while Roderick Kavanagh could not quite match his eye-watering triumph at Tattersalls last week, £140,000 from Najd Stud was another highly satisfactory increment on his ledger.
  • Another profitable Keeneland pinhook was lot 101, a son of the late Claiborne stallion Flatter picked out by Bushypark Stables for just €25,000 last September. Out of a sister to Grade I winner Capo Bastone (Street Boss), here he elevated his value to £195,000 as Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock sought to enhance his brilliant record at this sale.

 

 

 

A Following Breeze For Tradewinds

Tradewinds Stud celebrated a tremendous coup with a Twilight Son (GB) filly found at the Tattersalls Somerville Sale for just 30,000gns and brought here as lot 141. Reportedly the quickest through the demanding conditions in Monday's breeze show, she also made £360,000 from sale specialist Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock.

Shane Power and his brother Alex are only in their second year as a breeze-up consignors, having diversified from foals and yearlings more or less by accident after finding themselves with a couple of yearlings “left over”. One of those turned out to be Bright Diamond (Ire) (El Kabeir), whose success on the track encouraged the Powers to acquire five yearlings specifically for this job-and also sustained Brown and his patrons through a protracted duel with Conrad Allen.

Now Tradewinds will have the ammunition to raise the stakes afresh. “Though we're in the middle of building a new barn at home, so this will help with that as well,” Power said. “When you do a breeze like she did, you spend the whole day hoping that all the right guys will pitch up. And when she came into the ring it was, 'Okay, everyone's here.' But you can't expect [money like] that.”

Recalling his impressions of the filly from Rosyground Stud at Tattersalls, he said, “I just thought she was a very nice individual. We wouldn't focus as much on the stallion as others might. She was very athletic, very light on her feet, looked a nice and early type we could kick on with.

“A special mention goes to 'Flash' [Gordon Power] who rode the breeze. He's top-class, and there have been a lot of cold wet days riding on the Curragh in February and March. There's been a lot of hard work gone into this, but now the most important thing is that the filly goes on and does well for them on the racetrack. We had the two last year and Richard bought one and was underbidder on the other. To be fair, he's very straightforward to deal with and takes you at your word. And repeat business is everything in this game.”

Sure enough, Brown stressed that a good experience with Bright Diamond had encouraged him to keep going, albeit he was now sinking exhausted into his chair. He also had the self-deprecating grace to bring up his comments in Tuesday's TDN about the folly of spending big at the breeze-ups purely on the clock.

“There I was on the front page saying that's how you do really badly!” he said with a smile. “And yes, she was the quickest, on how we do it. We handicap it all, take everything into account, but it does mean she beat all the colts and it was a phenomenal breeze. That was significantly more than we expected, I have to say, a real war of attrition. But this market is phenomenal and we're very excited to get her.”

This filly will also run in the colours of Sheikh Rashid Dalmook al Maktoum, just like Bright Diamond and indeed Perfect Power (Ire) (Ardad {Ire}), the multiple Group 1 winner Brown found in this same ring a couple of years ago for £110,000. Her trainer, however, could not yet be confirmed.

“Bright Diamond won her maiden at Newmarket by nine and then ran third in the [G1] Fillies' Mile,” Brown noted. “So we've had success buying off Shane. Obviously we've had a lot of luck at the breeze-ups, particularly in this ring, and [Sheikh Rashid] was very determined. This filly obviously looks a faster type, so I'd imagine she will be pointing to Ascot.”

 

All's Well That Ends Well for Holland

Brendan Holland of Grove Stud is a man of many talents but nonetheless appeared here in an unusual capacity as breeder, as well as consignor, of the Starspangledbanner (Aus) filly who made £350,000 from Anthony Stroud (for Bahrain interests) as lot 102. She was out of a Shadwell cull, Sulaalaat (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), picked up for just 36,000gns at the Tattersalls July Sale of 2017.

“I only have a share in four mares,” Holland said. “While this one didn't have an extremely strong pedigree close up, she had some really good speed figures when she was running. She was a bit inconsistent but had a lot of speed for a New Approach (Ire). Her first foal was average, and her second one was born this size.” Here he held his hand unfeasibly low. “And stayed this size! It's amazing that the same mare could produce a filly as nice as this.”

This was a classic example of the axiom that you never know, in racing, when your good luck may prove your bad luck-and vice versa.

“Unfortunately all mine got sick and I had no horses in Book 3 [at Tattersalls last October],” Holland explained. “I kept this one because she always had lovely balance and action. I thought this had come too early for her, but she produced on the day because she's just got loads of quality.”

 

 

To be fair, Sulaalaat (GB) could summon some outstanding genes through her own mother, a half-sister to Group 1 winners Compton Admiral (GB) (Suave Dancer) and Summoner (GB) (Inchinor {GB}) as well as to the dam of champion The Fugue (GB) (Dansili {GB}).

“She breezed well but she's not an immediate type of 2-year-old, I think she'll be better over seven furlongs,” said Stroud. “She looks all New Approach and I think she's a horse with a future. Brendan does a terrific job.”

Strong Statistics Across The Board

Goffs UK Managing Director Tim Kent said, “What an incredible day at Europe's Oldest Breeze-Up Sale. A record top price; record turnover; record average; record median; four horses selling for £300,000 or more; 10 horses selling for £200,000 or above and 33 horses realising £100,000 or more.

“That is an incredible achievement for any sale and accurately sums up today's trade but there is so much more that goes into today and we must thank all our vendors and purchasers who have supported this record-breaking event. When we started to visit vendors in the early part of the year, we knew they were planning to target this sale with some of their better horses and the fact that there was a healthy increase in their purchase price compared to last year was a positive way to start. We then began to hear many positive reports after vendors had started to work these horses and the momentum continued to Town Moor where some sensational breezes led to some breath-taking prices.

“But it's not just the top end that has been a success. Indeed, the success of any sale relies on buyers at every level of the market, and we made a concerted effort to ensure that everyone was encouraged to participate at a sale which has a long history of winners being bought at all levels of the market.  This obviously meant that we focussed on all domestic buyers, but we also worked closely with GBRI to ensure that we had an increased participation from overseas clients with many new faces visiting Doncaster for the first time including those from Australia, Denmark, Dubai, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Sweden. All of this led to a healthy 86% clearance rate which is the envy of any recent sales of this kind.

“Today's results graphically illustrate how this sale is capturing the attention of buyers from across the globe and this is purely down to the unrivalled success on the racecourse. Seven Royal Ascot winners in seven years is an incredible accomplishment for any sale and this 'royal dream' is a large part of what has attracted so many people to Doncaster today and helped to fuel this breath-taking trade. We are certain that vendors have provided the ammunition to continue this incredible success story and we look forward to welcoming these horses to the winner's enclosure in the coming weeks. Roll on Royal Ascot!”

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