Our new purchase is a classy and very athletic-looking son of first-crop sire Minzaal, out of the Lope De Vega mare Summer House. We secured the colt for 72,000 guineas, and you can click on the link below to watch a video of him.

He was originally catalogued for the Goffs Orby Sale back at the end of September, but after spiking a temperature at the sale he was unable to go through the ring. Fortunately, we had already seen him before he became unwell and liked him a great deal. That opinion was very much reaffirmed yesterday, and both Harry and ourselves are delighted to have been able to buy him.

He is by Owen Burrows’ dual Group 1-winning sprinter Minzaal, whose first yearlings have made a strong impression across the autumn sales. His dam, Summer House, is a daughter of the outstanding sire and broodmare sire Lope De Vega, out of a Listed-winning sister to Epsom Derby runner-up Walk In The Park—now a top National Hunt sire. The grandam, Classic Park, won the Irish 1,000 Guineas, so this is a pedigree of real depth and quality.

He is a lovely colt who looks likely to be a second-half-of-the-season two-year-old, with all the scope to develop into an even better three-year-old, perhaps over a mile.

Luke Lillingston commented:  “Hey, good looking! Having secured a lovely group of yearlings who have proved extremely popular, our last purchase of the year might just be the best looking of the lot. Good looks don’t guarantee anything, but this boy has plenty of other things to recommend him. Firstly, he is from the first crop of Minzaal, Europe’s highest-rated sprinter of 2022 and, according to Owen Burrows, much the fastest horse he has ever trained. His dam is by Lope De Vega—the leading stallion in the world this year by black-type horses and an increasingly influential broodmare sire. Minzaal is by Mehmas who, when crossed with a Lope De Vega mare, produced the outstanding Persian Force—the sire of the great chestnut yearling you saw at our yearling parade. Additionally, he comes from the highly respected breeder John Tuthill of Owenstown Stud, from where such stars as Gordon Lord Byron, Excelebration, Persuasive, and Art Power have emerged. I’m very confident you will like what you see.”

Shares are on sale on a first come first serve basis – for more information please get in touch now…

sam@kvsyndicates.com

The share price includes all costs relating to the horse for the first year. This includes the purchase price, training fees, vets fees, budgeted racing/entry costs, insurance, buyer commission, and a management fee.

The management fee includes all administration, guaranteed badges when the horse runs, additional racecourse hospitality where possible, communication and event management, hospitality at the various trainer open mornings, and invitations to various other Kennet Valley events during the year. We always try to go the extra mile to give our owners the best possible experience!