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Brightwells Cheltenham Festival Sale Top lots
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or a candidate for the following day’s JCB Triumph Hurdle come to mind. Given the results achieved, that sort of horse might well be attracted in future to add glamour and enhance publicity, although the novelty of the inaugural sale ensured it did not go under the media radar. In the final analysis, almost everyone that Brightwells would have wanted to attend did so. JP McManus had already landed two of the Festival’s championship races with Jezki and More Of That, and while it is hard to believe a man of his wealth was buoyed by their winnings to invest in more stock, he was a major player on the night, taking the top lot, Minella Rocco, for £260,000, and Blackthorn Prince, via Highflyer Bloodstock, for £200,000. Both are four-year-olds who had won an Irish point-to-point just before their sales-ring engagement, and the top lot had a notably good page, being by in-vogue Shirocco out of a sister to top broodmare Eva Luna, the dam of Brian Boru and Sea Moon, and grandam of Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Workforce. McManus, whose son Kieran signed for this exciting prospect, may well have been involved in other transactions, too, while the powerful Gigginstown House team were also present. They did not make an apparent investment, but were noted bidding on at least one occasion. Had the sale been held 24 hours later they might have been more adventurous, for Michael O’Leary was to step onto the Festival’s winner’s podium no fewer than four times on the final day. Gearoid Costelloe, whose partner, Rebecca Curtis, includes McManus among her owners, bought three horses, while happy vendors included Colin Bowe of Milestone Stables, who brought four Irish pointers to the ring, and sold them all. No less pleased was Tom Lacey, the only vendor offering British pointers and happy to part with both for £55,000 and £140,000. Lacey is doing more than anyone to ensure
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Vendor
Price (ÂŁ)
Buyer
Minella Rocco (Shirocco-Petralona (Alleged))
John Nallen
260,000
Scorpiancer (Scorpion-Janebailey (Silver Patriarch))
Millwood Stables
200,000
Gearoid Costelloe
Blackthorn Prince (Black Sam Bellamy-Quark Top (Perrault))
Milestone Stables
200,000
Highflyer Bloodstock
King’s Odyssey (King’s Theatre-Ma Furie (Balleroy))
Keeper’s Stables
170,000
Evan Williams
Saint Charles (Manduro-Tropical Barth (Peintre Celebre))
Cottage Field Stables
140,000
Highflyer Bloodstock
Westend Star (Old Vic-Camlin Rose (Roselier))
Towerview Stables
125,000
Donald McCain
Ballagh (Shantou-Go Along (Saddlers’ Hall))
Camas Park Stud
125,000
Vintage Vinnie (Vinnie Roe-Bobby’s Jet (Bob’s Return))
Milestone Stables
75,000
Kieran McManus
Kevin Ross Bloodstock Gearoid Costelloe
Veripek (Robin Des Champs-Attualita (Master Thatch))
Milestone Stables
65,000
Gearoid Costelloe
Gold Man (Presenting-Mama Jaffa (In The Wings))
Ballyboy Stables
60,000
Aiden Murphy
Figures Year
Offered
Sold
2014
22
16
Agg (ÂŁ)
Avg (ÂŁ)
Mdn (ÂŁ)
Top Price (ÂŁ)
1,688,000
ÂŁ105,500
70,000
260,000
Barretts Select Sale of Two-Year-Olds Top lots Sex/Name/Breeding
Vendor
Buyer
Price ($)
C Giant’s Causeway-Dixie Dreamer
SGV Thoroughbreds
Demi O’Byrne
1,150,000
F Malibu Moon-In the Ghetto
Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds Todd Pletcher
950,000
F Galileo-Adoration
Wavertree Stables Inc
Diamond 100 Racing
625,000
C Malibu Moon-Rosy Humor
Kings Equine
Todd Pletcher
550,000
F Malibu Moon-Necessary Evil
Wavertree Stables Inc
Demi O’Byrne
450,000
F Pioneerof The Nile-Lady Lapuma
Kings Equine
Gary S Board
320,000
C Pulpit-Patti O’Rahy
Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds T B Bloodstock
C War Front-Remember The Keg
Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds West Point Thoroughbreds 300,000
F Dunkirk-Flirtatious Miss
SGV Thoroughbreds
Narvick International
300,000
C Into Mischief-Preludes Of War
Wavertree Stables Inc
Dennis R O’Neill
285,000
C Curlin-Upcoing Story
Sequel Bloodstock
Stonestreet Stables
285,000
300,000
GEORGE SELWYN
David Minton had his bidding boots on
Name/Breeding
Inspections of the 22 lots on offer were carried out in the pre-parade ring
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