'A-list is a pretty apt description for the Gestut Schlenderhan lineage of this colt' - names to note at the Orby

Lot 47

Bay filly New Bay - Wrood (Invasor)

Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment

This filly, who comes quite early in the piece on Tuesday, is a half-sister to Going Global, winner of ten of her 21 races and who commanded $2.5 million at the 2022 Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

Those ten wins featured a Grade 1 score in the Del Mar Oaks, plus four at Grade 2 level. Going Global is by Mehmas.

Wrood’s brood also includes Group 2 winner Mitbaahy, by Profitable. It is not out of the question he could upgrade that in the British Champions Sprint at Ascot next month, such is the open nature of the division.

The dam has also produced Group 3-placed Finans Bay, by Kodiac.

As for Ballylinch sire New Bay, his three-year-old son Persica won the Listed Doonside Cup at Ayr's Western meeting, while unbeaten two-year-olds Bay City Roller – winner of the Group 2 Champagne Stakes – and Anno Domini are also among those doing him proud.

Andrew Scutts

Lot 110

B f Starman - Big Boned (Street Sense)

The Castlebridge Consignment

This filly is a half-sister to black-type winner K Club, who landed the Group 3 Grosser Preis von Lotto Hamburg in Germany, and is also a winner in France and Britain. 

The daughter of Kodiac sold for €85,000 in Goffs Orby in 2017. Her first foal, a colt by Sea The Stars, made €82,000 at last year’s Orby Sale, where Kilronan bought him. She also has a Sea The Stars filly, lot 287, in this year's Orby Book 1, likewise among The Castlebridge Consignment's draft.

The pair are half-sisters to Back To Brussels, by Starspangledbanner, who won twice and placed a few times in Listed races. She sold for €105,000 at Goffs Orby in 2018.

Back To Brussels and Chris Hayes win at NavanCredit: Patrick McCann

In all, Big Boned is the dam of seven previous foals, four of them winners.

Starman, meanwhile, had a good start to the yearling sales season, finishing top of the first-season sires leaderboard and second overall at Tattersalls Ireland. His 19 lots sold averaged €36,000, a good return against his initial covering fee of €17,500.

Miriam Doran

Lot 117

Br f Mehmas - Bocca Baciata (Big Bad Bob)

Baroda Stud

Last November's Goffs Breeding Stock Sale provided a rare opportunity to buy into some cherished Niarchos families and this daughter of the classy and consistent Bocca Baciata is another, though you don't have to look very deep into the pedigree to spot the hand of another hugely respected owner-breeder in Gerry Oldham, and further back that of Luca and Sara Cumani's Fittocks Stud.

Bocca Baciata, whose daughter by Mehmas is lot 117 at the Orby SaleCredit: Patrick McCann

Bocca Baciata was acquired by the Niarchos team as a yearling from the dispersal of stock from Oldham's Citadel Stud in 2013 for €230,000, 18 months after her Whipper half sister, Topeka, had provided a poignant tribute to her late owner's breeding programme when adding third place in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches to her victory in the Prix Miesque at two. 

More recently the family has thrown up Primo Bacio, another very talented miler who flew the flag for David Ward and Ed Walker, while the broodmare career of Bocca Baciata – herself a four-time stakes winner – has got off to a flying start; her daughter by Galileo, Foniska, struck at Listed level on her penultimate start in the famous blue crossbelts before selling to Bassingham Equine for €775,000 here last November, and her yearling filly by Kingman was knocked down to major US owner Mike Repole for €400,000 at the 2023 Orby Sale. 

The Hong Kong Jockey Club gave €500,000 for Kellsgrange Stud's colt by Mehmas at this sale last September, but that record price for the Tally-Ho resident's progeny looks almost certain to be revised upwards in the coming days and weeks as yearlings conceived at a fee of €50,000 go through the ring. 

Scott Burton

Lot 267

B c Sea The Stars - Holy Amaretta (Holy Roman Emperor)

Norelands

A-list is a pretty apt description for the Gestut Schlenderhan lineage of this colt, which hits the target time and again over the generations. Although Holy Amaretta did not race, she is a daughter of German Oaks winner Amarette.

Amarette's other daughters have nearly all produced stakes horses, including Amazona with Aguirre, Assisi with a heap headed by Group 1 winner Alson, and Amazone behind Ralph Beckett's current smart mare River Of Stars. The last-named, whose half-sister produced this year's Coventry winner Rashabar, shares the same sire as this individual.

River Of Stars wins at York last year under Rossa RyanCredit: GROSSICK RACING

It's a dynasty that tends to stay very well and Holy Amaretta was purchased by the Tsui family's Sunderland Holding for €130,000 at this sale in 2019, making the mating with the Tsuis' decorated sire no surprise. 

Holy Amaretta is a young mare and this is only her second foal. The February-born colt might not make a record-breaking figure but few have more reliable credentials.

Tom Peacock

Lot 307

B c Camelot - Lady Lara (Excellent Art)

The Castlebridge Consignment 

This colt received an important black-type update to his page when half-sister Chantez struck in the Listed Ingabelle Stakes at the Irish Champions Festival, and he was already a half-sibling to the high-class Changingoftheguard.

That son of Galileo won the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes and Group 3 Chester Vase for Aidan O'Brien and the Coolmore partners.

Ger Lyons, trainer of Chantez, considers her an exciting prospect for next year. 

The trio are out of Grade 2-winning Excellent Art mare Lady Lara, whose further family includes 2,000 Guineas winner and sire Footstepsinthesand, Irish 2,000 Guineas hero Power, and Phoenix Stakes winner Pedro The Great. 

Kitty Trice

Lot 513

Ch c Space Blues –Sweety Dream (Dream Ahead)

Oghill House Stud

Sweety Dream was a talented two-year-old, winning the Group 3 Prix Miesque for Pascal Bary and Guy Pariente, and although she is only nine and the dam of three foals, she has outdone herself as a broodmare.

Sweety Dream's peak Racing Post Rating (RPR) was 100 but her first two offspring have exceeded that mark; her first runner, the Kendargent mare Are We Dreaming, won the Listed Brigid's Pastures Stakes over six furlongs at three, which earned her an RPR of 103, while her second is even better.

That daughter is the Group 3 Prix Imprudence winner Romantic Style, who defeated Ramatuelle in that Deauville contest at the start of this season before going on to be fourth in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches for Charlie Appleby. A Listed winner at two, she was awarded an RPR of 110 for her Deauville success.

Sweety Dream's third runner, Earthlight filly Town And Country, won her maiden in late August for Henry de Bromhead.

This is her first colt from four foals and the April-born chestnut is closely related to Romantic Style, as he hails from the first crop of Dubawi's Breeders' Cup Mile, Prix Maurice de Gheest and Prix de la Foret-winning son Space Blues.

Romantic Style in the winner's enclosure at Deauville after her Group 3 winCredit: Scott Burton

Retired to Kildangan Stud at a fee of €17,500, Space Blues has 109 yearlings in his first crop. His fourth dam Sun Bittern, in addition to being the second dam of In The Wings, is Dubawi's fourth dam.

Space Blues has averaged €44,077 at the yearling sales so far, with his most expensive sale a colt out of Star Alexander who made £150,000 to Peter and Ross Doyle from Mountarmstrong Stud at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale.

Sweety Dream has been quite the money-spinner for everyone connected to the mare, who is a half-sister to the dual Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 Frank E Kilroe Mile second Easter.

She was sold carrying Are We Dreaming for €140,000, and that filly made 220,000gns at the end of her three-year-old season. Romantic Style was a brave but successful pinhook for Philipp Stauffenberg, who paid €240,000 for her at the Goffs November Foal Sale and sold her for 550,000gns as a yearling, while Town And Country made 160,000gns last year.

Sweety Dream is one of the leading lights for Dream Ahead as a broodmare sire. The Group 1-winning sprinter, who is now at Bearstone Stud, is also the damsire of Poptronic, Lightsaber and Cold Case, among others.

Selling just four lots from the end of the catalogue, this colt is definitely one worth waiting for.

Aisling Crowe

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