The grandson of Galileo was knocked down to Bert Kerr at €140,000 and he will be staying in Ireland. Unsurprisingly, the sale’s other six-figure transaction was also offered by Derrinstown and the lot in question was a Teofilo colt out of Rawaaq who landed the Group 3 Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial Stakes for Dermot Weld and Sheikh Hamdan back in 2013.
The agent was acting for a client who is looking to establish a broodmare band and this filly, who hails from the family of Nathaniel, is another who will begin her career across the Irish Sea. IN a sign of what was to come over the course of the sale, the seventh lot into the ring on Tuesday morning was a Shadwell-owned daughter of Shamardal who cost John Kilbride €170,000. Both horses were bought on behalf of an existing client of Driver’s who will put their purchases into training in England. Driver also went to €155,000 for a Dark Angel filly from Shadwell and whose dam is the Queen Mary Stakes winner Maqaasid. THE star of the sale was a Shadwell-owned son of Dark Angel and he fell to Newmarket-based agent Adam Driver whose online bid of €180,000 proved sufficient to secure this grandson of Kevin Prendergast’s Moyglare Stud Stakes runner-up Shimah.
