Tally-Ho Stud enjoys a thrilling ten minutes’ trade and gets the new top lot
Goffs UK Premier Sale
Lot 278 and Lot 280 give Tally-Ho stud a golden ten minutes’ trade – the first up, a filly by Night Of Thunder, becomes the new sale-topper when making £240,000, bought by Stuart Boman of Blandford Bloodstock.
Second up, Lot 280, the Galileo Gold half-brother to The Platinum Queen and out of Thrilled (Kodiac), is bought by trainer Richard Spencer for Phil Cunningham for £170,000. The new owner has already thought up his name for the colt – Thriller Knight after the Michael Jackson lyrics in Thriller.
Of the two lots, Roger O’Callaghan of Tally-Ho Stud said: “The Night Of Thunder is a lovely filly with a great temperament. We bought the mare from Willie McCreery privately in-foal – Willie rang us wondering if we’d buy her, and we said we would and we went up the next day. She has a Kodiac foal at foot.
“The Galileo Gold is a very good horse, he is a beaut. We bought the grand-dam Fuerta Ventura 20 years ago and the family has been very lucky for us for a long time.”
Boman’s purchase, the docket signed for on behalf of Mr Jurgen Sartori, said: “My client particularly likes Night Of Thunder. I thought she is an outstanding filly, she behaved impeccably the whole time over the three of four days I have seen her.
“It is a family I have a strong connection with, I bought Red Sea in the second dam and the family has just exploded. Night Of Thunder is doing a fantastic job, he seems to have a new stakes winner every week. She has been bought as a breeding prospect.”
Richard Spencer said of Lot 280: “He was the one we wanted today. He is a nice-looking two-year-old type, who hopefully can go on and do the job.
“I said to Phil yesterday and said he was the one that I really liked. We have been lucky out of this sale, hopefully he can be another.”
The colt will be the first by Galileo Gold to join the Spencer yard, and he said: “Obviously he was trained by Hugo [Palmer] when he was in Newmarket so we saw plenty of him, he was a tough horse.”
Thrilled had a colt by Galileo Gold this spring.