Medaglia d'Oro colt sets Goffs auction record

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.