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Sons Of Dubawi Shine As Ghaiyyath Colt Leads The Way At Goffs

Sons of Dubawi (Ire) shot the lights out at Goffs on Tuesday as a colt by first-season sire Ghaiyyath (Ire) topped the November Foal Sale at €185,000 followed by a Night Of Thunder (Ire) colt who made €180,000.

Ghaiyyath himself was sold at this sale in 2015 for €1,100,000 before proving himself a world-class performer on the track for Godolphin and the Kildangan Stud-based sire has enjoyed a good start at Goffs this week.

The Ridge Manor Stud-drafted colt was sold to Pier House Stud, whose Brendan Morrin revealed that any hopes of nabbing lot 474 cheaply soon dissipated when Tony O'Callaghan appeared ringside.

But it was Ridge Manor who fought off a strong drive from the Tally-Ho Stud boss to secure the colt who will be offered for resale as a yearling.

Morrin said, “I was talking to the people at Darley about him and I thought he was the best horse in this sale here today. He's by a son of Dubawi–sire of New Bay (GB) and Night Of Thunder –so for me, those Ghaiyyaths were all very much to type.

“He's a grand big scopey horse for the first foal. We didn't think we'd have to pay €185,000 to get him but we were anxious to get him all the same. He's coming from a good farm.”

The Tuesday sale topper is out of three-time winner Cross My Mind (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}), whose dam Zaaqya (GB) (Nayef) has produced Group 3 scorer One Voice (Ire) (Poet's Voice {GB}).

Morrin added, “Ghaiyyath was the highest-rated horse in the world at one point and we've bred to the horse twice ourselves. We bred to Space Blues (Ire) as well. You couldn't have enough Dubawi in any family.

“He's the best sire in the world. The horse spoke for himself and Tony O'Callaghan was the runner-up on him. To tell you the truth, I was disappointed when I saw Tony there because I knew he was going to make him expensive on me. I try to buy them as cheap as I can and sell them as dear as I can. This lad will come back to the yearling sales.”

Three foals by Ghaiyyath sold on Tuesday for an aggregate of €314,000 and an average of €104,667.

 

The Night Of Thunder colt (lot 516) was consigned by Airlie Stud and signed for by Brendan Holland of Grove Stud. He is out of the black-type performer Good Place (Street Cry {Ire}) and Holland is hoping that his luck continues with the sire whose progeny is in high demand.”

He said, “Night Of Thunder is a super stallion. There are not a lot of them on the market and there's only three for sale at Newmarket next week. He's out of a black-type mare who's produced a 2-year-old winner this year. He's just a nice horse by a nice stallion.”

Holland added, “I've been lucky with the sire with the few that I have had by him. I sold a black-type winner [Lady Penelope (Ire)] and a 2-year-old winner this year.”

The aggregate on day two was €8,316,750 which represents a 10.5% rise on last year's figures. The average of €38,863 was also up 12.6% and the median was up 7% to €30,000. Of the 257 foals offered, 214 were sold, equating to a 83% clearance rate.

 

New Bay And Mehmas: The Emerging Powerhouses

The progeny of New Bay and Mehmas (Ire), the emerging powerhouse stallions in Europe, went down a bomb at Goffs and made up €850,000 of the day's trade.

If Saffron Beach (Ire) laid the groundwork for a memorable season for the Ballylinch-based New Bay, well then Bay Bridge (GB) and Bayside Boy (Ire) cemented his status as a top tier stallion when storming to Group 1 triumphs within the space of an hour on British Champions Day.

Mehmas had a similarly productive season, highlighted by Group 1-winning sprinter Minzaal (Ire), who was introduced at €15,000 for his first year at Derrinstown Stud.

And it was a colt by Mehmas, whose 2023 fee at Tally-Ho Stud has been set at €60,000, who first broke the €100,000 barrier at Goffs on Tuesday, eventually selling to John Rowe for €115,000.

Rowe, a graduate of the Darley Flying Start programme, was signing for the colt (lot 365), consigned by Dermot Kilmartin's Kildallan Farm, on behalf of Lilly Bloodstock.

He later went on to buy a New Bay colt consigned by Ballylinch Stud for €145,000 on behalf of Spirnac Bloodstock and revealed the plan for both acquisitions will be to return to the yearling sales.

Speaking about lot 424, the New Bay colt, Rowe said, “We really liked him and thought he was the nicest foal here today. New Bay is absolutely killing it and he ticked all the boxes. The sire is going in the right direction and this colt is just a king. He had everything; the walk, the physical and great strength. We loved him.”

On the Mehmas colt, a full-brother to Mehmar (Ire), who sold for €200,000 to Michael O'Callaghan at the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale in April, Rowe added, “He will come home to the farm and he'll come back to the sales next year. He's a lovely colt with a great walk and great presence about him. He had the page and ticked a lot of boxes for us.”

That sale cemented a productive opening two days to the sale for Kilmartin's Kildallan Farm after they sold a Saxon Warrior colt (lot 231) for €88,000 to Ballyhimikin Stud on Monday.

Kilmartin said, “He is a cracking colt. All the right people were on him and we're delighted with the price that he made. We kept it local going to Tally-Ho Stud and it worked. The mare is back in foal to Starman (GB).”

Tally-Ho also supported their star stallion when going to €145,000 to secure Amy Marnane's Mehmas colt (lot 446) out of the three-time winner and black-type performer Azagba (Fr) (Deportivo {GB}).

 

However, it was the sale of another New Bay colt, lot 401, for €140,000, that supplied one of the more emotional stories of the day at Goffs.

Sold to Camas Park Stud, the colt was consigned by Oghill House Stud, who recently mourned the death of Hugh Hyland, the head of the family dynasty, at the age of 72.

John Hyland said, “My father passed away about six weeks ago and he would've loved to have seen that today, so it's a little bit emotional. We're going to enjoy it and we'll raise a glass to my father this evening. This is his legacy and we're going to continue it on for him and make sure we do him proud.”

“It's a brilliant result. This is a tremendous colt and from the day he was born we've been really fond of him. New Bay has gone from strength to strength and has had a great season, you can see that with his new fee, which is well deserved because he's a phenomenal stallion.

 

Wheeler Dealer Does It Again

English football manager Harry Redknapp famously stormed off a television interview when a sports reporter labelled him a “wheeler dealer”. One assumes Jerry Horan would not take such offence to a similar appraisal.

In fact, Horan, well-known for being adept with sniffing out a bargain, would take pride in his ability to get deals done, which was thrown sharply into focus with the sale of his Dark Angel (Ire) filly (lot 352) for €72,000.

Under the banner of Paragon Bloodstock, Horan secured the dam Scotch Bonnet (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) for 5,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2020.

After securing a foal-share with Yeomanstown Stud to Dark Angel, the resulting foal was on Tuesday offered by Fearghal Hogan's recently-formed Churchland Stud, with the hammer falling Peter and Ross Doyle's way.

Hogan was full of praise for Horan afterwards and said, “Jerry owned her and gave her to me to prep six weeks ago. Everything went very straightforward with her and she is a lovely filly with a good page.

“She is a good physical and we're delighted with what she made. Jerry took a chance on the mare and it has worked out. She was an older mare but, in fairness to Jerry, he's a serious dealer and he was clever enough to get a foal share to Dark Angel after he found the mare. He deserved to get well-paid for her as she was a lovely filly.”

Hogan added, “He's just top-class at that kind of stuff–an unbelievable operator and I'm lucky he sent her to me to prep. I'm only after setting up on my own at Churchland Stud a year and a half ago and I've been lucky that people have sent me a few nice foals to consign. She was up there with some of the best of what was here today.”

All told, it was a productive day for Dark Angel, with Yeomanstown signing for two colts for the sire–lot 394 for €98,000 and lot 409 for €75,000–for a combined €173,000. Eight foals from the Classic-producing sire sold for an aggregate of €430,000 which averaged out at €53,750.

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Morrin Optimistic About Orby Draft

The Morrin family’s Pier House Stud has been doing business at Goffs for decades and the Curragh-based farm’s current custodian Brendan Morrin is continuing the family tradition by sending a strong draft of seven yearlings, a mixture of homebreds and pinhooks, to the Goffs Orby Sale on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Buyers can be spurred on by the fact the farm is a proven producer of quality, high-class racehorses such as Group 1 winner Capla Temptress (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) and multiple stakes winner Shamwari Lodge (Ire) (Hawk Wing).

The first of the Pier House draft that will enter the ring at Doncaster will be lot 58, a colt by Le Havre (Ire) who is a full-brother to a stakes winner in Havre De Paix (Fr), who was a 230,000gns broodmare purchase two years ago by Deerpark Stud. The colt was purchased by Pier House for €72,000 at Goffs last year and Morrin said, “He is a lovely big, scopey horse with great action. There are only a handful by the sire in the sale so hopefully he might stand out a bit. His full-sister is a stakes winner so the mare is a proven producer and this is a very good individual.”

Morrin’s draft lacks nothing in sire power and next up is lot 71, a homebred daughter of No Nay Never from the family of champion 2-year-old filly Damson (Ire) (Entrepreneur {GB}). The catalogue states the dam Castle Cross (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) has yet to breed a winner but that omission was rectified very recently when her Zoffany (Ire) 2-year-old Minsky (Ire) landed a novice event at Yarmouth in impressive fashion.

“She is a nice filly and the half-brother winning was a good boost to get just before the sales,” Morrin said. “He looks like he could go on to better things too so that augurs well for the filly, who is a good type and moves well.”

Morrin was even more effusive in his praise of lot 165, a filly by first-crop stallion Ribchester (Ire) from a family replete with black-type performers. The dam, Galley (GB) (Zamindar), has already bred two stakes winners in Portage (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) and Cape Magic (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and the €100,000 Goffs pinhook hails from a family that has already been kind to the Morrin.

“We sold her half-brother by Sea The Stars (Ire) last year to Richard Hannon and did well out of him so we decided to go back to the same source,” Morrin said. “The colt last year was a big horse and while he hasn’t been out yet the reports are good. We sold a Ribchester at Goffs UK and we like what we’ve seen of them so far; they have lovely temperaments. This is a proper filly with a great big stride to her and we really like her.”

Day two of the Orby sees Pier House kick off with a Gleneagles (Ire) colt (lot 265). The sire has been represented by some smart looking 2-year-olds this year including Star Seeking (Ire), who earned ‘TDN Rising Star’ status earlier this month. Bought for 62,000gns as a foal at Tattersalls last year the chestnut is out of dual winner Magic Art (Ire) (Nayef) from the extended family of Group 1 winners Kirklees (Ire) (Jade Robbery) and Mastery (GB) (Sulamani {Ire}). “This is a big horse so he may not be a typical 2-year-old type,” Morrin said. “That said, he doesn’t lunge like a backward horse. He moves lovely and whatever he does as a juvenile he should make up into a lovely 3-year-old.”

Fans of Starspangledbanner (Aus) will be keen to hear that Morrin’s lot 365, a son of the Coolmore stallion, is built very much in the mould of his father.

“This is a very strong colt, a real bull of a horse, just like his sire,” Morrin said. “He wasn’t over big when we bought him but he has grown into a fine horse and we are very pleased with him.”

Pier House offers a filly from the first crop of Irish National Stud stallion National Defense (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) as lot 437, and Morrin said he could not be happier with how the homebred out of Thames Pageant (GB) (Dansili {GB}) has developed.

“She’s probably one of the best-looking yearlings on the farm,” he said. “The National Stud actually took a video of her to use to promote the stallion and she’s an absolute queen to look at. We think Invincible Spirit is a very interesting sire of sires; you just have to look at how the likes of Kingman (GB) and Cable Bay (Ire) are doing and the Profitable (Ire) yearlings look nice too, so we thought National Defense was worth supporting. This filly looks fast and there has been very little prepping on her; she just looks a natural racehorse.”

With a Kodiac (GB) filly withdrawn, the Pier House draft is completed by lot 440, a homebred filly by Caravaggio out of a half-sister to G1 Al Quoz sprint winner The Right Man (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}). “She wouldn’t be quite as big as the previous filly but she is a nice type, a good mover with a lovely temperament; she should be an early 2-year-old,” Morrin said. “We have a few by Caravaggio to sell this year and they’re nice horses. They look fast and my late father used to say you can never have enough speed in a family and that is something we strive for when breeding.”

Pier House Stud is very much a family affair, something that is quite evident at the foal sales when there could be three or four members of the Morrin clan following one into the ring.

“I live on the home farm here which is 120 acres and my brother Ger, who used to manage Swordlestown Stud for the late Cathal Ryan, has his own farm near Ballymore Eustace,” Morrin explained. “He keeps all the mares and foals and the foals then come over to me when they’re weaned. I have another brother, John, who helps out here and invests in the business while my other brother, Tom, is a vet and he does all our work. He also does the veterinary work for Ballyhane Stud.

“It’s a big enough enterprise and everyone does their bit, but we all get on well together and it runs quite smoothly. My partner Carol is also a huge help and ensures everything runs smoothly when I’m away at sales.”

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