Medaglia d’Oro colt sets Goffs auction record
There was a new record price at Goffs’ fledgling Ready-to-Run Sale at
Kempton, England, Tuesday when a son of Medaglia d’Oro sold for
£130,000 to Maurice Sines. Consigned by
Willie Browne’s Mocklershill Stables, Hip No. 9 is out of Dancingonice (Robyn
Dancer), winner of the 2000 Fiji S. and runner-up in the following year’s Las
Palmas H. (G2). She has already produced the 2006 Del Mar Debutante (G1) third
She’s Included (Include).
Six lots later, breeze-up regular Bobby O’Ryan paid
£70,000 for a colt from the first crop of
Cheveley Park Stud’s Dutch Art. From Harefield Lodge Stud, the March-foaled
chestnut is a half-brother to the useful Gold Post (Alhaarth), who was runner-up
to the subsequent Group 1 winner Zoffany (Dansili [GB]) on debut, and is a
descendant of the renowned Ack’s Secret (Ack Ack). Another to represent a
pinhooking triumph, he had cost only 15,500 guineas at Tattersalls as a foal
before failing to meet his reserve at 19,000 guineas back there the following
October.
Late in the session, T.G. and B.B. Mills of Lorretta Lodge Stables paid
£65,000 for Hip 84, a son of Marju whose dam
is a half to the top-class distaffer Summitville (Grand Lodge) from the draft of
Suirview Stables.
At the close of the session, the average was up by 54 percent and the median
was up 60 percent on last year. Full results are at
www.goffs.com.