Kingman filly Sulaiyma tops Goffs Online sale of Aga Khan septet at €150,000

Four-year-old Kingman filly Sulaiyma headlined the Goffs Online Sale of seven Aga Khan horses when making €150,000 to Tally-Ho Stud on Thursday afternoon. 

Sulaiyma and the other six horses had been due to sell at the Goffs February Sale last week but were withdrawn after the death of their owner-breeder, His Highness the Aga Khan, on the eve of the sale.

Sulaiyma, trained by Dermot Weld, made one start last season over a mile and a half at Galway, finishing unplaced. Her family is one with which the Tally-Ho team is very familiar, having bought Sunniyra, her older half-sister by Zoffany, for €68,000 as a three-year-old at the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale in 2020. 

Sunniyra's first foal, a colt by Mehmas, brought €40,000 from Iain Jardine and Compas Equine at last autumn's Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.

The six-figure sum commanded by Sulaiyma is dwarfed by that of her Siyouni half-sister Suwayra, who was sold by the Aga Khan Studs in foal to Sea The Moon for €410,000 at Goffs last November to Jill Lamb and Childwickbury Stud.

The trio are half-sisters of Sea The Stars filly Sumiha, who was successful in the Group 3 Munster Oaks last summer for Weld.

Their dam Summaya was trained by Weld to finish second to Success Days in the Group 3 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial and is an Azamour half-sister to the Group 3 Amethyst and Kevin Heffernan Stakes winner Sinawann, who is also by Kingman.

Listed Loughtown Stakes winner and Group 3 Vintage Crop Stakes third Silwana is a Peintre Celebre half-sister to the pair and they are out of Simawa, who was third in the Listed Martin Molony Stakes and is an Anabaa half-sister to the Aga Khan's outstanding champion Sinndar.

Summaya is the dam of two winners from four runners and has an unraced daughter from the first crop of Pinatubo, named Sulya, a two-year-old filly by Night Of Thunder and a Zarak yearling colt.

Twice fourth in Listed races Kayhana made €65,000 in the Goffs Online SaleCredit: Aga Khan Studs/Goffs

Six of the seven lots on offer met their reserve during the two-hour timed auction and breeding prospects fetched the highest prices, with the three horses to make in excess of €50,000 all in this category.

Five-year-old Harzand mare Kayhana attained a peak official rating of 91 and, with two fourth places in Listed contests on her page, she made €65,000 to Thoroughbred Investments.

Successful on her debut in June of her juvenile season for Weld, Kayhana had to wait until her final two runs as a four-year-old to contest stakes races. She ended up as the winner of one of her 11 starts, with her four placings also including a third in the Sovereign Path Premier Handicap during the Irish Champions Festival as a three-year-old.

Kayhana is the first living foal out of Katouna, a placed Dutch Art half-sister to the Group 3 Killavullan Stakes third Katiba. Her second dam, Katiola, is a winning Oratorio half-sister to the Group 2 Blandford Stakes and Listed Hurry Harriet Stakes winner Katiyra, who was also third in the Oaks and Prix de l'Opera for John Oxx.

Middlelane Farm, breeders of Classic winners Bachir and Speciosa and the Grade 1-winning half-siblings Ocean Road and Wigmore Hall, secured Muzina for €55,000.

The unraced four-year-old Teofilo filly is inbred 3x3 to the great Urban Sea as her dam Muniza is a winning Sea The Stars half-sister to the Group 1 Sydney Cup winner Mourayan, whose Group 1 placings include a third in the Irish Derby.

She is also a half-sister to the Listed March Stakes winner Mourilyan, who was also third in the Melbourne Cup, and to the multiple Grade 2-winning hurdler Mourad.

Muniza's first foal, the five-year-old Camelot gelding Mirzann, was a winner at three for Francis Graffard, while Murkala, her three-year-old daughter by Too Darn Hot, ran three times last season for Johnny Murtagh. She also has a yearling filly by Sottsass.

Unraced Teofilo filly Muzina is inbred to Urban Sea

Gleann Ard went to €30,000 for Habari, a three-year-old Churchill gelding who was fourth over a mile at Dundalk late last month for Tracey Collins and the soon to retire Michael Halford.

Habari's dam Hazaraba is a winning Oasis Dream half-sister to Harzand, the late Aga Khan's final Derby winner, and to the Group 3 winner Harasiya, who is the second dam of new Haras de Grandcamp sire Big Rock, successful in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

Karazhal, a winning Profitable three-year-old gelding, brought €26,000 from Girodin Garazs, while €10,000 was enough for Burnwood Stables to secure four-year-old Lilya, an unraced daughter of the Aga Khan's leading sire Siyouni.

The half-dozen to sell generated turnover of €336,000, with the average €56,000 and the median €42,500. 

Unraced four-year-old Siyouni filly Alyouna was bought privately by John Rooney for €2,500.

Pat Downes, Aga Khan Studs manager, said: “I thought the sale went well and we're more than happy with the results. The Goffs Online process was highly efficient and well-run so I can envisage us making more use of it in the future.”

Henry Beeby, Goffs group chief executive, said: "Goffs was pleased to accommodate the wishes of the Aga Khan Studs by conducting a special one-off online sale of their February Sale draft and are delighted with the results, headed by a top price of €150,000 and a perfect clearance rate of 100 per cent. 

"The bloodlines His Highness nurtured with such skill and care over the last 65 years are always highly prized, and we wish the new owners the best of luck with their purchases."

Beeby also hinted at developments the company has planned for their online sphere and added: "Today’s sale went seamlessly and clearly demonstrated the customer-friendliness of Goffs Online. We've been relatively quiet in this space recently but are working on something a little different, about which more in due course."

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