Pinhook success supreme

PHILIPP Stauffenberg sold a No Nay Never filly, pinhooked by him last autumn for €260,000 from Ballintry Stud, for 825,000gns. It is the best result ever for Stauffenberg Bloodstock in the sales ring.

Cheveley Park Stud’s Chris Richardson was the successful bidder, standing with Patricia Thompson and her son Richard, and they got the better of Juddmonte Farms’ Simon Mockridge. “She was the one we really wanted,” said Mrs Thompson. “She is a beautiful filly. She was first on the short list; we were looking for a filly for the broodmare band. We will get her broken in and make some plans.”

The filly is a full-sister to the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner and Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes runner-up Arizona, and to Nay Lady Nay, a Grade 2 winner in the US. “I bought her because she is an outcross and would be attractive for the big farms, and that exactly what the case was. She was a top horse for every breeder, it didn’t matter who,” said Stauffenberg.

He added: “She still needed to be a good physical, otherwise I wouldn’t have bought her. The racecourse is the primary goal, today is just one step. Hopefully she will prove that she is worth what Cheveley Park have spent. It is wonderful that Mrs Thompson goes on and spends something like that. All the sales companies wanted to have her, but she has done so well I think she deserved to be in the top sale. This is the top sale.”