Fergal Connolly and his team at Valiant Stud have had a busy first day of inspections on Tuesday at Riverside Stables and with all the horses settling well into their new surrounds are primed for a big few days ahead of the sale beginning on Sunday.
The draft features 14 youngsters by a wide variety of promising young sires and proven favourites with highlights below and inspect them at stable G26 - 41:
Lot 270 Colt Star Turn x Rock Me Baby, by Rock of Gibraltar (IRE)
From the second crop of promising sire Star Turn and is a half-brother to four winners from Group II ATC Light Fingers Stakes winner Rock Me Baby. A big powerful chestnut, stamped in the image of his sire and grand-sire Star Witness.
Lot 82 Filly Deep Field x La Speciale, by Choisir
First living foal of a winning full sister to stakes-winner Scorpio Queen and bred on the exact same cross as Deep Field’s brilliant stakes-winning filly Isotope, the nick has had three runners all winners!
Lot 144 Colt Impending x Mianina, by Ocean Park
From the first crop of Lonhro’s Group I winning son Impending and is the first foal of a winning half-sister to Group I ATC Champagne Stakes winner Pasadena Girl.
Lot 477 Colt Sooboog x Ballychine, by O’Reilly
From the second crop of promising Snitzel son Sooboog and is the second foal of a winning daughter of Group III winner Crepe de Chine going back to the family of Group I winners Vison and Power and Glamour Puss. This colt is bred on the very successful Snitzel x O’Reilly nick that is 100% winner to runner, nine winners headed by Group II winner Splintex and stakes-winner Snitzkraft.
Lot 539 Colt Spieth x Coconut Dream, by Denman
From the first crop of Group I placed sprinter Spieth and is first foal of an unraced daughter of Group III placed Snitzel mare Sweetener, a three-quarter sister to Group I winner Secret Agenda and to the dam of boom 2YO Enthaar.
Lot 569 Colt Epaulette x Dilemmas, by Lonhro
By a well proven sire of winners and stakes-winners in Epaulette. Half-brother to Group II winner Morton’s Fork, a winner of over $900,000 in prizemoney and is from a half-sister to Group II winner Pied a Terre.
Lot 676 Filly Nicconi x Mrs Bloom, by Lonhro (Consigned by Bella Lodge, but prepared and presented by Valiant)
First foal of winning daughter of stakes-placed Audacious Amber and is bred on a successful nick, five winners from five runners by Nicconi from Lonhro mares including stakes-placed Niccolance.
