Siblings to National and Gold Cup heroes up for grabs at Doncaster

So high was demand from vendors for this year's Goffs UK Spring Store Sale, which begins at noon on Monday, that it has been extended to become a two-day event.

With the market for exciting point-to-pointers - who will be shown off later in the week - remaining robust, organisers will hope that this will be reflected a little further up the production line in almost 300 three-year-old National Hunt prospects

In 2018 a Kayf Tara gelding now known as Centurion Steel, who got off the mark at Downpatrick a few days ago, was the most expensive store sold at Doncaster in more than a decade when reaching £140,000. Goffs UK managing director Tim Kent's assertion that this year's catalogue had "arguably the finest selection" assembled should transfer into further six-figure transactions.

Lot 100

Ch g Presenting-Gaye Future (consigned by Futurerate)

Last month's Irish National victory of Freewheelin Dylan was not only welcomed by trainer Dermot McLoughlin and those who managed to find the 150-1 chance, as he has given a lovely old family a shiny new update.

Vere and Clea Phillipps' operation picked him up for €20,000 as a foal, his dam being a half-sister to John Spearing's former runner Simon, winner of the old Racing Post Chase. Gaye Future is out of a sibling to both Mercy Rimell's brilliant Gaye Brief and to Black Humour, a mainstay of elite chases for Charlie Brooks in the early 90s.

Lot 138

B g Telescope-La Perrotine (Elms Bloodstock)

Sold by breeder Bryan Mayoh for £40,000 as a yearling, he has a pedigree which has become anything but a one-hit wonder. The principal attraction at the time had been that La Perrotine was responsible for Sizing John, who achieved a clean sweep of major chases including the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2017.

Latterly the page has been bolstered by the exploits of another sibling, Anythingforlove, who claimed the Grade 2 Jane Seymour Mares' Novices' Hurdle at Sandown in February.

Lot 145

B g Walk In the Park-Lady Rene (Rathmore Stud)

Walk In The Park's progeny have proved in exceptional demand as foals and weanlings, and the Coolmore stallion has 15 entries in the catalogue.

This individual's dam has already produced two black-type earning mares in Myztique and Annie Angel, the latter winning an Irish point as well as over fences. Lady Rene, who was unraced, is a sibling of not only Tony Martin's smart staying chaser Dun Doire but the dam of Belfast Banter, the rapidly-improving winner of the County Hurdle and the Grade 1 novice at Aintree.

Lot 234

B g Dunaden-Rosita Bay (PW Mason)

The late Melbourne Cup-winning sire has had some encouraging results with his early National Hunt runners and this is one with genuine scope within the sphere, being a grandson of the Supreme runner-up Lemon's Mill and out of a winning hurdler.

He was bought for only £6,000 as a yearling, just at the time the most significant and current member of his family was emerging. A couple of months afterward, Thyme Hill finished third to Envoi Allen in the Champion Bumper and has subsequently added the Challow, Long Distance and Aintree Stayers Hurdle to an impressive CV with Philip Hobbs.

Lot 294

B g Soldier Of Fortune-Whisky Rose (Baroda Stud)

A succession of decent performers have come out of this Old Vic mare, first advertised by black-type hurdler and recent winning chaser One For Rose and Harry Fry's standing dish Air Horse One.

The line produced by Distillery Stud has produced several other current recruits, with Fry placing the Stowaway sibling Misty Whisky to win a Listed bumper, two hurdles and to finish second in the Lanzarote. The younger Grumpy Charley has also shown great promise for trainer Chris Honour, notching three consecutive wins at Chepstow during the winter.

Credit: Goffs UK

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