Initially Ambition (GB), a colt by Invincible Spirit (Ire) and the initially foal of the six-time Team 1 winner Laurens (Fr) (Siyouni Fr), is between a sizeable quantity of horses owned by John Dance’s Coverdale Stud to be catalogued in the Castlebridge Consignment draft for an prolonged Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up and Horses-in-Training Sale.
A report variety of 195 lots in the horses-in-schooling area implies that the auction will now commence with an evening session on Wednesday, May perhaps 1 at 5pm. The sale continues on Thursday morning at 9.30am with the breeze-up section to follow.
Close to 50 horses from the Castlebridge draft are from Dance’s operation, with some of them owning raced previous yr underneath the names of Coverdale Stud or Titanium Racing Club and some others even now unraced.
Andrew Mead, a director of the Castlebridge Consignment, said, “The Castlebridge Consignment have 71 entries in the Tattersalls Guineas Horses-in-Instruction Sale, now scheduled for the 1st and 2nd May, a selection of which are becoming bought by Coverdale Stud. While various of the horses are tested higher-class performers, none of the horses have raced not too long ago owing to the private situation of the proprietor. The the greater part are effectively-bred, unraced or lightly-raced horses with considerable untapped opportunity and all from this operator will be bought as ‘out of training’. Castlebridge will be consigning from the Highflyer barns at Tattersalls and welcomes inspections and vettings at the sales.”
Proprietor and breeder John Dance was arrested final April and is involved in an ongoing Fiscal Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation into allegations of fraud and funds laundering involving his organization WealthTek LLP. Below the identify of an associated firm, Vertem Asset Management, Dance sponsored the G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy at Doncaster among 2018 and 2022.
Subsequent his arrest and the subsequent freezing of his assets, Dance’s horses had been in the beginning not authorized to be entered for races, but in Might the British Horseracing Authority granted authorization for them to run below the name of Coverdale Stud or Titanium Racing.
1st Ambition (good deal 151) is among the the unraced a few-year-olds for sale at Tattersalls, though Tribal Rhythm (GB) (Ulysses Ire) (whole lot 118), a 50 percent-brother to Team 1-winning sprinter Bradsell (GB), was placed two times in 3 begins for Dance’s previous coach James Horton previous calendar year and is also entered for the sale.
Between the 202 juveniles catalogued for the breeze-up section is a Mocklershill-consigned colt by Wootton Bassett (GB) out of the former winner 3-calendar year-aged filly Peeping Fawn (Danehill) (whole lot 353). The mare’s four profitable offspring include things like September (Ire) (Deep Affect Jpn), who was crushed a nose by Laurens when runner-up in the G1 Fillies’ Mile.
Willie Browne’s Mocklershill operation will also supply a High-quality Road colt out of treble Team 1 winner Alice Springs (Ire) (Galileo Ire) (great deal 232).
Among the main graduates of the Guineas Breeze-up Sale is the leading-course stayer Trueshan (Fr) (Planteur Ire), who was acquired by Highflyer Bloodstock for 31,000gns and went on to acquire three Team 1 races for Alan King.
The catalogues for the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up and Horses-in-Schooling Sale are now obtainable on the web.
