Last year's €1.85m Goffs Orby sale-topper set for Cork debut on Tuesday

Our resident bloodstock experts profile the well-bred eyecatchers and expensive purchases set to grace the track.

MINNIE HAUK

Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies' Maiden (3.40 Cork, Tuesday)

What's the story?

On the opening day of the Goffs Orby Sale, the Frankel filly who topped the 2023 renewal of the auction makes her debut for Aidan O'Brien and the Coolmore partners as €1,850,000 purchase Minnie Hauk goes up against stable companion Win Me Over, a full-sister to Palace Pier.

Both fillies carry the purple and white silks of Derrick Smith, and although Win Me Over is a Coolmore homebred, the Kingman filly is out of Beach Frolic who brought 2,200,000gns from MV Magnier at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2020.

MV Magnier said after Minnie Hauk's purchase: "We’ve had a long history with the Sangster family and we’ve been very lucky buying off them in the past, and more recently with Luxembourg. 

"She’s a very nice filly and Frankel is doing exceptionally well. She’s very well bred, she has everything, so let’s hope she’s good. I’m just delighted for Ben and all the guys. A Frankel filly with that pedigree, it’s a lot of money but it was probably a fair price for her."

How's she bred?

Very well, as her price tag would indicate.

She is from one of Juddmonte's most prolific stallion-producing families as her dam Multilingual was acquired by Ollie Sangster for $525,000 at the 2019 Keeneland November Sale in foal to Noble Mission.

The following year Multilingual's three-year-old colt Tilsit made his debut and the son of First Defence defeated My Oberon in the Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes for Charlie Hills and Juddmonte. He would go on to win the Group 2 Summer Mile and finish second to Skalleti in the Group 1 Prix d'Ispahan.

By Dansili, Multilingual is also the dam of Decipher, the Noble Mission filly she was carrying when purchased by Sangster, and Multiple Choice who made 780,000gns at Book 1. Now three, the daughter of No Nay Never ran once last season for Gestut Schlenderhan and Francis-Henri Graffard.

A quiet moment between filly and handler Fionn Cleary after the €1.85m sale on the second day of Goffs Orby Book 1 Credit: Sarah Farnsworth

Multilingual is a full-sister to Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes winner Remote and a half-sister to multiple Group 1 winner and sire Kingman. They are out of Poule d'Essai des Pouliches winner Zenda, a Zamindar half-sister to the great Oasis Dream, while their dam Hope is a Dancing Brave full-sister to Irish Oaks winner Wemyss Bight, in turn the dam of Beat Hollow.

The family is also that of New Bay, Martaline, Coastal Path and Reefscape so there is some record of producing stallions in those genes.

Minnie Hauk was bred by Ben Sangster and sold through Camas Park Stud at Goffs last year. They offer her No Nay Never half-sister as lot 370 on Wednesday.

Who does she face?

Well there's the aforementioned Win Me Over who is by Multilingual's half-brother Kingman and out of the Nayef mare Beach Frolic, which means she is a full-sister to five-time Group 1 winner Palace Pier, who has seven members of his first crop catalogued in Orby Book 1.

Also making her debut is Moyglare's Saxon Warrior filly Restful who is out of Love In The Sun, a Kodiac close relation to Hong Kong Group 1 winner Designs On Rome and a half-sister to the dam of Irish 2,000 Guineas and Prix Jacques le Marois winner Romanised.

Joseph O'Brien saddles Mveve, an American Pharoah half-sister to Grade 1 Garden City Stakes winner Alterite, who was also placed at the highest level in the Prix Marcel Boussac, Prix Saint-Alary, Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf and the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup. Bought by her trainer for $130,000 at Keeneland last September, she too is making her debut at Cork.

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