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Nine Added to Goffs September

Wednesday's Goffs September HIT Sale at Doncaster has added nine supplementary entries to the previous catalogue of 121 lots, the auction company announced Monday. In addition to the 13 2-year-old NH stores, the sale will offer the second part of Gigginstown Stud's annual dispersal and a number of Group 1 performers.

The Goffs September HIT Sale begins at 10:00 a.m. and the catalogue can be viewed online.

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Tattersalls Somerville Looking to Continue Upward Curve

NEWMARKET, UK–The third European yearling sale within eight days gets underway as Tattersalls pulls the curtain up on its yearling season with its increasingly popular Somerville Sale.

It will be a frenetic day at Park Paddocks on Tuesday with more than 300 horses to go through the ring, but the sale is riding high on the back of some decent results, with Bradsell (GB) (Tasleet {GB}), the star of the inaugural edition in 2021, adding the G1 King's Stand S. to his previous Royal Ascot success in the G2 Coventry S. for Archie Watson and Victorious Racing.

In recent weeks, last year's graduates Indian Run (Ire) (Sioux Nation) and Relief Rally (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) landed the G3 Acomb S. and G2 Lowther S. at York, while Anisette (GB) (Awtaad {Ire}) won the GI Del Mar Oaks.

It took a total of 206,000gns to buy these four horses, a figure that was barely two-thirds of the average price of a yearling at Tattersalls October Book 1 last year, so it is easy to see why this auction, which has taken a strong lead from the Doncaster playbook of precocity and speed, is catching on. The emphasis on youth also extends to the marketing for this sale, with its snappy video featuring the younger members of the Tattersalls team.

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One of those, auctioneer Matt Hall, was looking particularly dapper in a jaunty Panama as he inspected the yearlings he will be selling on Tuesday, but he played down his leading role in the sale. “It's been very busy over the last few days, with plenty of footfall, so let's hope that transfers to the ring,” was all he could be drawn on as he conferred with Jenny Norris.

There's been a good name game taking place in the Norris Bloodstock draft for the filly by Harry Angel (Ire) out of Meghan Sparkle (Ire) [Lot 213]. Netflix (GB) has been suggested, along with the less flattering Ginge N Whinge (GB), which would work better if she was a chestnut. Either way, the neat bay is a smart and racy-looking filly, quite typical of the kind on offer here this week.

On Monday morning, as British politics limped back into action after the summer recess, Angela Rayner was named Shadow Levelling Up Minister in a Labour reshuffle. I've no idea what that actually means, but there is a good deal of levelling up underway at Tattersalls on 'Catholic Hill' which will presumably be ready for its unveiling at the October Sale. In the meantime, it's a little discombobulating trying to find some consignors away from their usual spot, but plenty were enjoying the shade of the trees in the Highflyer paddocks on a roasting hot September day.

There are unconfirmed rumours that the July Sale ice-cream man could make a return to Park Paddocks on Tuesday, and even bigger rumours about the money being offered by various stallion farms from around the world for Havana Grey (GB). The rising star of Whitsbury Manor Stud claimed his Group 1 in the Flying Five on Irish Champions Weekend five years ago, and since then both he and his offspring have continued to fly. From £8,000 to £18,500 his fee has already climbed, and TDN's Brian Sheerin selflessly stayed up into the wee small hours the other night in Doncaster specifically to listen to the gossip on where his price will be pitched next year.

It is unclear whether or not Brian fell asleep in the bar of the Earl of Doncaster, but we still don't know the magic number. We just hope that Havana Grey stays in England. Sixteen of his yearlings are in the Somerville Sale, including two from his breeder Mickley Stud, who sold Havana Grey as a foal at Tattersalls back in 2015.

From an opening average of 21,345gns and median of 16,250gns for the first Somerville Sale as the world started to right itself after the Covid pandemic, those figures climbed significantly to 30,377gns and 26,000gns last year. It would be folly to expect such extravagant percentage gains this time around, but the sale has taken root. And there have been enough people in action during the inspection days of Sunday and Monday for plenty of consignors to be feeling quietly confident as they tucked into their burgers at the pre-sale barbecue on Monday night.

Selling begins at 9.30am, and a 12-hour session is likely, but it makes sense to have kept this relative newcomer to the sales scene to its one-day boutique format.

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Breeders’ Cup Ambition For Mansa Musa

The Breeders' Cup is calling for the connections of Mansa Musa (Ire) (Ten Sovereigns {Ire}) after the Diego Dias-trained colt acquitted himself well in Group company at the Curragh.

Mansa Musa was last seen finishing a good second in the G3 Round Tower S. and now Barry Irwin, who heads Team Valor, the part-owners of the speedy juvenile, is dreaming of a tilt at the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.

Irwin said, “I think six furlongs for him at this moment is just a little too far against the really good horses. The horse that beat him [Letsbefrankaboutit (Ire) (Sioux Nation)] the other day looks pretty smart.

“We're going to run him back one more time going six furlongs at Fairyhouse on September 18 because that is the most suitable race and if he performs well enough we will send him over to America for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (Turf) Sprint.”

He added, “That is five furlongs around a turn and it is one of those races where if you get the right draw, then he is a very speedy horse and I think he could do something in a race like that.

“In his first race he showed a ton of speed and it just caught up with him in the last furlong, he went from first to last in a heartbeat. But he has a tremendous amount of early speed for a horse of his size.”

Mansa Musa was bought back at the Goffs Dubai Breeze-Up Sale earlier in the year and is another success story for Dias and Star Bloodstock on the track with the horses they failed to sell.

Geanari (Ire) (Inns Of Court {Ire}), who Dias also bought back for just £3,000 at the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale this year, has not managed to win in six starts this term but has achieved black-type and climbed to a rating of 99.

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Connections Of Believing And Mill Stream Supplement For Sprint Cup

Believing (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) and Mill Stream (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) have been supplemented at a cost of £20,000 to take on Shaquille (GB) (Charm Spirit {Ire}) in the Betfair Sprint Cup at Haydock on Saturday.

A total of 23 speedsters are in contention for the six-furlong Group One, with the Julie Camacho-trained Shaquille very much the star attraction as he looks to add to his previous top-level wins this summer in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot and the July Cup at Newmarket.

The George Boughey-trained Believing and Jane Chapple-Hyam's Mill Stream are two interesting contenders after their respective connections decided to add them to the field.

Believing has won two Listed races and a Group 3 this season and is one of two potential runners for the Highclere Thoroughbred Racing team along with Karl Burke's Spycatcher (Ire) (Vadamos {Fr}), who was beaten a short head by King Gold (Fr) (Anodin {Ire}) in the Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville last month.

Mill Stream won a Listed race and a Group Three at the French track in August and fully merits his place in Group One company.

“Mill Stream has come out of his Deauville race in good order, so we have decided to take the opportunity to run him again while he is good form as there are no other options for him until Champions Day,” said Chapple-Hyam.

Ralph Beckett has left in both Kinross and Lezoo after on Sunday suggesting he is likely to rely upon the latter, while Aidan O'Brien could run Aesop's Fables and The Antarctic.

Other hopefuls include Ed Bethell's Regional, the William Haggas-trained Sacred and July Cup runner-up Run To Freedom from Henry Candy's yard.

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