After another good effort under rules by a horse campaigned during the point-to-point season there are further opportunities to buy a pointer at Goffs UK’s Summer Sale.
Castadrift, who won a maiden race for Alan Hill’s stable at Chaddesley Corbett’s Bank Holiday meeting in late May, turned out at Uttoxeter on Tuesday for trainer Rosemary Gasson and ran a fine race when fourth, beaten a length, in his first bumper. The winner, Cloudy View, was bred by owner Chris Dawson Snr at Nunstainton Stud in Co Durham, and broken in by his son John, Yorkshire’s leading point-to-point rider.
Three further winners from that same Chaddesley Corbett card are being offered at Doncaster. Steal The Moves (Lot 63) and Lady Fortune (Lot 2) won Divisions 1 & 2 of the Flat race and are being offered by Katie Croft and Max Comley respectively. Steal The Moves is a four-year-old gelding who had finished runner-up at Godstone ahead of his victory, while Lady Fortune’s dam Topless, a half-sister to the Gr.2 winner Our Katie, won a point-to-point for owner Steven Astaire. She also scored over hurdles and has produced a winner over hurdles. Lady Fortune’s stablemate, maiden point-to-point winner Get Cracking (Lot 86) is also going through the ring.
Scarlet Jet (Lot 102) is the winner of his only race, a division of the three-mile maiden run at Chaddesley Corbett, and is being put through the ring from Fran and Charlie Poste’s Station Yard.
Hill’s Woodway Farm is selling Our Brother John (Lot 9), who won a restricted race at Larkhill in December and has since been placed in intermediate company, while James Cookson is offering Slaney Opera (Lot 15), a maiden who was second at Hornby Castle in April.
Jump Tiep (Lot 16), form the family of high-class Pomme Tiepy, came fourth at Charm Park on his sole start for Dale Peters, who also offers Peacocks Secret (Lot 17), a point-to-point and hunters’ chase winner who scored in a point at Fakenham in April and more recently was third of eight in a handicap chase at Bangor.
State Of Fame (Ed Vaughan), one of seven horses being offered by Tim Vaughan (Photo: Tim Holt)
Tim Vaughan, who lifted Britain’s leading point-to-point owners' trophy at the recent national dinner and awards ceremony, is putting seven horses – including a number of winners – through the ring. The septet, which includes Imaginaire (Lot 55), Maska Du Morvan (Lot 57) and State Of Fame (Lot 60), who all won in the final weeks of the season, were contributors to a record novice riders’ tally by Vaughan’s 16-year-old son Ed.
Another Tim, this one being Tim Dennis, is offering maiden Atlantic Lad (Lot 61), a four-year-old who was second at Cherrybrook in late May, while Foran Equine champion trainer Josh Newman is selling maiden See You Kauto (Lot 77) and Donny’s Fortune (Lot 78) who was placed in intermediate company at Stafford Cross on his latest start.
G & T Racing, aka Tom and Gina Ellis, are consigning Schiapars Magern (Lot 90) on behalf of owner/breeder Sarah Dawson. The five-year-old ran a cracker on debut at Kimble in March when third of nine runners.
The Summer Sale – formerly known as The August Sale – takes place at Goffs UK’s Doncaster sales complex on Monday, July 22. Start time is 10am and one highlight is a dispersal of horses owned by Chris Giles and including Cheltenham Festival winner Stay Away Fay.