Goffs Million Sale Opens; 609 Cataloged

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The three-day Goffs Million Sale opens Oct. 1 at Kildare Paddocks, Kill, Ireland, with a strong line-up of 609 yearlings cataloged.
 
The inaugural sale in 2005 produced last season’s European champion juvenile filly Finsceal Beo. Purchased by Al Eile Stud for 340,000 euros, the Mr. Greeley filly landed both the English and Irish 1,000 guineas this spring.
 
The 2006 Goffs Million Sale saw Finsceal Beos trainer Jim Bolger buy this season’s unbeaten group I-winning juvenile colt New Approach and Parknasilla Hotel Fillies Million heroine Lush Lashes, both by Galileo, for a combined total of 510,000 euros.
 
Prolific stakes producer Storm Cat has one yearling in the catalog. Offered by Camas Park Stud, lot 517 is an impeccably bred colt out of champion French filly Coup de Genie, from the Niarchos family line that has produced Machiavellian, Exit To Nowhere, Denebola, and Bago.
 
Danehill Dancer is one of Coolmore’s more popular stallions and has the largest numerical representation of any sire with 35 youngsters scheduled to go through the ring, including a bay filly out of the Royal Academy mare An Mosey, an unraced half-sister to 1995 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Thunder Gulch  .
 
Sadler’s Wells is in the twilight of his career but the dominant European sire of the past two decades is well represented, with the eye-catcher among his 11 lots being a grey filly offered by Staffordstown out of triple group I winner Albanova, from the family of last year’s sale-topper.
 
That high-priced Sadler's Wells filly, out of Alakananda, made 2,000,000 euros, and Airlie Stud is also offering an Indian Ridge colt from the prolific family. Lot 414 is out of Doncaster Cup (Eng-III) heroine Alleluia and is a half-brother to triple group II winner Allegretto.
 
Coolmore stallions dominate the sale in terms of yearlings offered, with Hawk Wing responsible for 29 cataloged. Rock of Gibraltar has 22 offered, Montjeu has 21 and first-season sire One Cool Cat has 19.
 
Darley’s most high-profile representative, Cape Cross, has 11 yearlings cataloged, including lot 342, a bay half-brother to Moyglare Studs Canadian International (Can-I) victor Relaxed Gesture.
 
Denis Brosnan’s Croom House Stud will be hoping for a pinhooking triumph with Lot 98, a Galileo colt out of Lunar Lustre. Brosnan’s Epona Bloodstock went to 160,000 guineas for the then foal at the Tattersalls December sale in 2006, making the youngster the most expensive of all the lots being re-offered.
 
With 17 lots primed to pass through the ring, Ballylinch Stud has more yearlings cataloged than any other vendor.
 
Henry Beeby, group chief executive of Goffs/DBS, said, "We’ve got a good catalog and kept it to around 600. We decided, let’s not go for numbers, let’s keep the numbers right and keep the quality."
 
The three-day Goffs Million Sale will be followed by the Goffs Sportsman Sale on Oct. 4-5.

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