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Rises at delayed Goffs UK Breeze Up Sale
A colt by Juddmonte Farms-based sire Kingman (Invincible Spirit) topped the Goffs UK section of the combined Goffs Arqana Breeze Up Sale in Doncaster on Thursday when bought for £290,000 (approximately $515,000) by Meah Lloyd Bloodstock.
Offered as Lot 31, the colt was sold by Gaybrook Lodge Stud and is out of the stakes placed Royal Applause (Waajib) mare Asaawir who has produced four winners to date including the stakes placed pair Marsh Hawk (Invincible Spirit) and Hairy Rocket (Pivotal). The colt’s third dam produced the dam of Group 2 winner Carlton House (Street Cry) who placed in both the Ranvet Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) in 2014.
The colt, who had been bought at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale last year for £130,000, will be trained in California by Richard Baltas on behalf of owner Calvin Nguyen.
The second most expensive lot during the session was a son of Dandy Man (Mozart), Lot 97, who was bought by Nicholas de Watrigant on behalf of Al Shaqab Racing for £200,000.
The colt is out of the once-raced Lope De Vega (Shamardal) mare Light Glass whilst his fourth dam is Helen Street (Troy), dam of multiple Group 1 winner and leading sire Street Cry (Machiavellian).
A colt by Coolmore Australia shuttler American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile) was another to sell well when bought for £175,000 by Blandford Bloodstock. Catalogued as Lot 69 and sold by Star Bloodstock he is out of the multiple Listed winner Gitcheee Goomie (City Zip). The colt had been bought for US$90,000 last year and will now head into training with David Simcock in Newmarket.
Overall during the session 89 of the 99 lots offered were sold for £3,975,400 at an average of £44,667 (down two per cent) and median of £28,000 (up eight per cent). At the 2019 Breeze Up Sale 111 lots were sold for £5,078,250 at an average of £45,750 and median of £26,000.
‘We couldn’t have predicted that!,” said Goffs UK managing director Tim Kent.
“It’s been a very long journey to enable us to hold this sale and there have been many twists and turns along the way but we are absolutely delighted with what has been achieved today. To deliver those results is way beyond what we could have imagined, and the timing could not be better with the yearling sales not far away.
"It has been a huge team effort to get to this stage and it has been a real joy working with Arqana to hold this event. The original (Doncaster) and the best (Arqana) have come together to outperform any similar sales in Europe this year but none of this could have been done without the huge support of the BHA, Doncaster Racecourse and Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.
“All three of these organisations have been extremely proactive during the planning of this sale and a special mention must go to Roderick Duncan and his team at the racecourse who have prepared some of the best ground ever offered. We must also mention the local hotels who have opened especially for our clients and we could not have held the sale without them.”
