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Click here<\/a> to add us to your Google preferred sources or find out more here<\/a><\/p>\n The high-class Green Sense<\/a> topped the Goffs London Sale in Kensington Palace Gardens on Monday evening at \u00a3700,000. The filly initially went unsold at \u00a3675,000 but a private deal was struck at the sales-topping price soon after.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Group 2-winning two-year-old, who was offered by Joseph O\u2019Brien\u2019s Carriganog Racing, was signed for by Brittany Linton, chief executive of US outfit Boyd Racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re very excited about her and looking forward to her running in the Jersey Stakes on Saturday,\u201d said owner Randy Boyd, who credited David Redvers with helping bring the transaction together. \u201cAfter that she\u2019ll probably come back to the US and run in Saratoga and be a turf horse there. We have a trainer in mind but I\u2019d better wait to tell him first!<\/p>\n \u201cBoyd Racing’s strategy is to buy fillies who will go on to have great, successful careers and then be broodmares. Right now we have eight fillies and two colts. Most of them are up in Saratoga, and we have two older mares with Bob Baffert, Seismic Beauty and Splendora, who won the Breeders\u2019 Cup Filly & Mare Sprint last year. We also bought Vahva at Keeneland in November and she was just bred to Not This Time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He added: \u201cWe want to keep it small and have high-quality horses. We don\u2019t expect to be the biggest, but we want to be the best.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Green Sense has won two of her seven starts for O\u2019Brien and previous owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede. Her biggest triumph came when landing last year\u2019s Group 2 Prix Robert Papin at Chantilly.\u00a0<\/p>\n That effort came on her fourth juvenile start, and her next outing saw her add Group 1 form to her record when finishing third to Power Blue in the Phoenix Stakes. The pair were separated by subsequent 1,000 Guineas heroine True Love. Green Sense was last seen finishing sixth in the Prix de Sandringham.\u00a0<\/p>\n Richard Ryan of Teme Valley Racing signs for Green Sovereign at \u00a3200,000<\/p>\n The three-year-old has been to the sales on one previous occasion when bringing \u20ac90,000 from Highflyer Bloodstock\u2019s Anthony Bromley during the 2024 edition of the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale.\u00a0<\/p>\n She is the eighth foal out of the Street Sense mare Big Boned. This makes her a sibling to four winners, including K Club, who struck in a Hamburg Group 3, and Back To Brussels, who reached the podium in three Listed contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n She was not the only horse that Munir-Souede team sold on Monday, as they also saw six-length Pontefract maiden winner Green Sovereign<\/a> bring \u00a3200,000 from Richard Ryan, agent for Teme Valley Racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n The son of Lope Y Fernandez, who is due to take up an engagement in Wednesday\u2019s Windsor Castle Stakes, was picked up for \u00a340,000 at last year\u2019s Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale. Green Sovereign was sold through Harry Eustace\u2019s Highfield Stables.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled with the sale,\u201d said Bromley. \u201cThey\u2019re both scopey horses, Green Sovereign and Green Sense, and we felt there was still plenty of racing ahead of them. They had to make their money and they have; I\u2019m thrilled with the results.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Asked about the decision to send Green Sense to the London Sale, Bromley said: \u201cJoey Cullen [Goffs\u2019 marketing director] was very persuasive! I wasn\u2019t sure if it was the right time to sell her off her French run but we know she\u2019s trained on, even though things didn\u2019t quite go right in France.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI know she\u2019s working well so we put her in with a proper reserve, and if someone bid it, fair do\u2019s. They didn\u2019t bid it in the ring but we didn\u2019t budge and they\u2019ve given it fair do\u2019s afterwards. We weren\u2019t taking anything less, but we shook hands afterwards and we can\u2019t argue with that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Anthony Bromley keeps a keen eye on the actionCredit: Goffs<\/p>\n Bromley also turned buyer late in the piece when going to \u00a3170,000 for progressive middle-distance performer Baltic Fleet, who was offered by George Boughey\u2019s Craven House Stables.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI bought him for Andy Bell and Fergus Lyons,\u201d said the Highflyer Bloodstock man. \u201cWhile he could make a jumper in time, we\u2019ve bought him to be a staying Flat horse and to work through the handicaps. I think he wants a mile and six furlongs, he\u2019s a horse for races like the Melrose and Mallard handicaps. Next year he might improve enough to sneak into the Ebor. He could end up being a jumping horse down the line. He\u2019s going to move yards to Ian Williams.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Coincidentally, Green Sense was bred by Nicky Hartery, chairperson of the board at Horse Racing Ireland, as was Baltic Fleet, who Boughey picked up for \u20ac75,000 at last year\u2019s Arqana Breeze-Up Sale.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kentucky Rain repays connections\u2019 patience<\/p>\n Amo Racing will be cheering on Ghostwriter when last year\u2019s \u00a32,000,000 London Sale top lot lines up in Tuesday\u2019s Wolferton Stakes. Kia Joorabchian\u2019s outfit will also have another London Sale recruit to look forward to later in the week after going to \u00a3380,000 for the once-raced Kentucky Rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n The filly has been something of a sales ring regular despite her relatively tender years. She first appeared at last year\u2019s Goffs Orby Sale, where she was knocked down to Arthur Dobell, part of the Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock team, at \u20ac18,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n She then made a swift reappearance at the BBAG October Sale just 17 days later but was bought back by her vendor at \u20ac24,000. Her next trip to the sales came at the Doncaster Breeze-Up Sale, where she went unsold at \u00a358,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n Owner Stephan Vogt took the decision to send the filly into training with Lemos de Souza, which she repaid in spades with a promise-filled effort on her debut in a Goodwood novice event.\u00a0<\/p>\n She could be seen travelling consciously well as the race entered the latter stages, but had to wait until deep inside the final furlong before getting clear sailing. She flew home to be beaten just a length and a quarter, arguably rating an unlucky loser given how much running she appeared to have left.\u00a0<\/p>\n She is set to sport the purple silks of her new owner in Wednesday\u2019s Queen Mary Stakes, where she will line up against fellow Amo-owned runners Lover Girl and Crownbreaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kia Joorabchian: set to be well represented in the Queen Mary Stakes after securing the \u00a3380,000 Kentucky Rain<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s a very nice filly,\u201d said Amo talent scout Alex Elliott. \u201cKia\u2019s speaking to Lemos de Souza, who he knows well, and he\u2019d been speaking to him before the sale too, obviously. It was a very eye-catching performance on debut. I\u2019d say she\u2019ll get further in time and she\u2019s potentially the kind of filly we could send to the States.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIf she doesn\u2019t win at Ascot she\u2019s still a maiden and she can go run in those maidens on either coast. It was Americans who were second and third to us in the bidding and she was a very obvious horse for them. She\u2019ll be a third runner for Amo in the Queen Mary on Wednesday and we\u2019re pleased to get her.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Kentucky Rain\u2019s previous connections revealed the six-figure trade might not be the only big result they enjoy this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dobell said: \u201cIt\u2019s a great result. We never expected it but it\u2019s fantastic. Stephan had offers at the [breeze-up] sale but he was the one who believed, he kept at it and he\u2019s been rewarded today. It\u2019s hard to keep them and run them and pay the training fees, but I\u2019m so glad he did. We\u2019ve had a lot of interest after she got into the Queen Mary, so we were hopeful about today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Alex Elliott: “She\u2019s potentially the kind of filly we could send to the States”<\/p>\n Vogt picked up the thread, saying: \u201cWe had interest, but I thought she\u2019d either explode here and sell for a high price or we\u2019d take her home. We wouldn\u2019t have been unhappy with that because she\u2019s a very good contender for the Queen Mary. She’s probably the fastest horse I\u2019ll ever own.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI actually backed her this morning at 80-1! I came to the sales and thought we either get the price I had in mind, which we exceeded by miles, or we take her home, we don\u2019t cry and we go to Royal Ascot and we\u2019ll have a cracking day out watching her perform. The speed figures she produced are fantastic and the piece of work she did on Saturday was phenomenal, unbelievable. I wish Amo the best of luck and hope she brings her home work to the track.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Asked if he\u2019ll still head to the track to cheer Kentucky Rain on, Vogt said: \u201cWell I\u2019ll probably have to go to cash out my betting slip!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Kentucky Rain is from the third crop of Irish National Stud resident Lucky Vega and was bred by Pegasus Bloodstock from the Exceed And Excel mare Equanimity, making her a half-sister to the Listed-winning sprinter Son Of Corballis.\u00a0<\/p>\n Shawn Duggan on Song<\/p>\n Naas winner Your Song is another who will be seen sporting new silks on her next outing after going the way of Shawn Duggan at \u00a3300,000. Duggan, who was working with Emmanuel de Seroux of Narvick International, said plans were still being finalised as to whether the daughter of Coulsty would line up in Wednesday\u2019s Queen Mary Stakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll decide within the next 12 hours whether she\u2019ll take up her engagement at Royal Ascot,\u201d Duggan said. \u201cShe could, as she’s been bought for Marsha Naify, and she became a registered owner in Britain this week. Marsha is a major owner in America and is one of Emmanuel and Laura de Seroux of Narvick International\u2019s clients, and I work closely with Emmanuel and Laura.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMarsha is based in California but she\u2019s here for the week, having never been before. We also bought the filly on Tattersalls Online last week [the 100,000gns River In Paradise]. We’re having fun!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Your Song sells to Shawn Duggan for \u00a3300,000Credit: Goffs<\/p>\n Your Song had appreciated markedly in value since her last appearance at the sales having fetched just 32,000gns at last year\u2019s Somerville Sale. She was trained by Robson de Aguiar for owners Kerri Radcliffe, Arthur Hoyeau and Giselle De Aguiar.\u00a0<\/p>\n Several of the offerings failed to meet their reserves, including the Greenham Stakes winner Alparslan, who was a vendor buyback at \u00a31 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n All told, 11 of 19 offered lots found a buyer for a clearance rate of 57 per cent. Turnover hit \u00a32,970,000, which was down 63 per cent compared to 12 months ago. The average price was \u00a3270,000 (down 33 per cent) and the median \u00a3250,000 (down 17 per cent).\u00a0<\/p>\n More to read:<\/p>\n An unfortunate outcome to the sales ring popularity contest as I go inside the Goffs-o-sphere<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Richard](\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/_next\/image\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com%2Fprod-media-racingpost%2Fprod%2Fimages%2F169_1008%2Fcc5314760b5b-london-sale-31.jpg&w=3840&q=75\"\/)
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