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Thrice Lucki At Goffs UK August Sale

Head and shoulders above his compatriots during the Goffs UK August Sale on Wednesday, Third Time Lucki (Ire) (Arcadio {Ger}) (lot 85) brought a sale-topping £190,000 from Fergal O'Brien.

The dual Grade 2-winning chaser was offered by the Jamie Railton Sales Agency and was part of the Mike Newbould Dispersal.

Two other members of the dispersal featured among the top lots, with the unraced 4-year-old Lathan (Fr) (Doctor Dino {Fr}) (lot 18) bringing £60,000 on the bid of J P McGrath Bloodstock; and lot 46, Goonhilly (Ire) (Mount Nelson {GB}), was knocked down to Dan Skelton Racing for £40,000.

Peter Niven bought Quintus Arrius (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) (lot 36) for £50,000 from Kevin Ryan's Hambleton Lodge Stables, to round out the top four lots.

Of the 126 offered, 105 sold (83%) for a gross of £1,247,100. The average was £11,878 and the median was £5,500.

Goffs UK Managing Director Tim Kent said, “Today has been another successful day at Doncaster and we would like to extend a special thank you to Mike and Eileen Newbould for their support in sending their partial dispersal to this sale. Third Time Lucki came into the sale as the highest rated chaser offered anywhere this year and it was very rewarding to see him sell so well.

“Today marks the start of a busy month for the Goffs team as we hold our £300,000 Harry Beeby Premier Yearling S. at York's Ebor Festival and our Premier Yearling Sale at the end of the month. We look forward to seeing everyone on the racecourse, and at Doncaster, over the coming weeks.”

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“Different Class” Little Big Bear Retired Due To Injury

Almost a year to the day since his electrifying G1 Phoenix S. victory, last year's European Champion Two-Year-Old Little Big Bear (Ire) (No Nay Never) has been retired due to injury.

After disappointing in the G1 2000 Guineas, the 'TDN Rising Star' made light work of the opposition in the G2 Sandy Lane S. at Haydock before running second to Shaquille (GB) (Charm Spirit {Ire}) in the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot.

However, after trailing home behind Shaquille in the G1 July Cup at Newmarket, it emerged on Wednesday that the classy colt has been retired after suffering a condylar fracture on the right front fetlock.

“Little Big Bear is a super horse; that's the long and the short of it,” said his trainer Aidan O'Brien. “Different class, different gear and matured very early for a big horse. He's big, scopey, strong, clear winded and very, very fast–a class sprinter.”

Bred by Tim Hyde senior and junior of Camas Park Stud and Summerhill, Little Big Bear realised €320,000 as a yearling at Arqana.

Out of Longchamp listed winner Adventure Seeker (Fr) (Bering {GB}), Little Big Bear traces to the brilliant All Along (Fr) (Targowice) who notched up a tremendous sequence of victories in top races on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Mansa Musa Set to Head to Hong Kong

Goodwood maiden winner Mansa Musa (Ire) (Ten Sovereigns {Ire}) looks poised to continue his career overseas, according to his Irish-based trainer Diego Dias.

“I was going to supplement him for the Phoenix S. at the Curragh on Saturday, but I think we have sold him and he is probably heading to Hong Kong,” he said.

Bred by the Cullen family's Middlelane Farm, the juvenile was offered at the Goffs Dubai Breeze-up Sale in March but was bought back by his partners in Star Bloodstock, who had given 55,000gns for him as a yearling.

“It's nice to work with horses like him,” said Dias, a former jockey who now operates as a breeze-up consignor as well as being a licensed trainer.

Mansa Musa made his debut at Naas on July 8, finishing almost seven lengths adrift of the winner when taking sixth place. He got up by a short-head at Glorious Goodwood to win the British EBF-sponsored six-furlong maiden from Juddmonte's Array (Ire) (No Nay Never) at odds of 20-1.

“He was showing plenty at home and we thought he was a proper little horse who could win first time out,” Dias added.

“He improved a lot at Goodwood and the form is good. The second horse is a nice horse who they think a lot of and it was a hot maiden.

Dias still hopes to be represented in the G1 Keeneland Phoenix S. by the dual listed-placed Gaenari (Ire) (Inns Of Court {Ire}). A £23,000 yearling, she was bought in at the Goffs UK Breeze-up for just £3,000.

He said, “She was second in Deauville last time, but she came back home and she's fresh and happy and we will probably give her a run in the Phoenix. She looks fine and the race at Deauville did not take much out of her, so she's in great form.

“She's been unfortunate not to get her head in front yet, she's been second three times now and two times in listed races.”

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Coolangatta Joins Coolmore; Will Visit Home Affairs

Coolangatta (Aus), the winner of the G1 Black Caviar Lightning S. on her final start on home turf at Flemington, has been acquired by Coolmore Australia. The daughter of Written Tycoon (Aus) will visit her fellow Lightning S. winner Home Affairs (Aus) during Australia's forthcoming breeding season.

Bred by Highclere Stud and trained by Ciaron Maher and David Eustace for a partnership which included Ozzie Kheir, Coolangatta was an exciting prospect from the outset. She was the decisive winner of the G3 Keeenland Gimcrack S. on debut at Randwick before adding another pair of stakes victories to her record and finishing third in the G1 Golden Slipper.

At three, she landed the first of her two Group 1 victories under Jamie Kah in the Moir S. at Moonee Valley, in which she beat a select field of older horses, including her stable-mate and fellow Group 1 winner Bella Nipotina (Aus) (Pride Of Dubai {Aus}).

“Coolangatta is one of the premier sprinting fillies seen in Australia in recent times. She was brilliantly fast and has an extremely attractive pedigree,” Tom Moore, Coolmore Australia's head of marketing and nominations, told TTR AusNZ.

“We found her an extremely appealing prospect and we feel she will be perfectly suited to Home Affairs, both of whom were Lightning Stakes winners down the straight at Flemington as 3-year-olds, both of whom are extremely fast and good-looking. We think she's the perfect mare for one of the most exciting young stallion prospects to retire to stud in a long time.”

A trip to Royal Ascot was teed up following Coolangatta's win in the Lightning in February and, on what would transpire to be her final outing, she finished six and a half lengths behind Bradsell (GB) (Tasleet {GB}) when 11th in the G1 King's Stand S. on her sole start outside Australia.

Moore added, “She will head up to Coolmore in the near future and prepare for her life as a broodmare. Tom Magnier and Ozzie [Kheir] have a good relationship and we have had plenty of luck together through Yes Yes Yes and Sir Dragonet, who was bought out of Ballydoyle before coming to Australia and winning the Cox Plate. We hope Coolangatta can continue to be lucky for the association and we thank Ozzie and his partners for entrusting us with the next stage of her career.”

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