GEORGE Boughey is a name to note. From a farming family in Dorset, his family’s racing roots revolved more around National Hunt horses. His first roles in the bloodstock business were working for Luke Lillingston and then for Tom Goff of Blandford Bloodstock.

After university he travelled to Australia where he worked for Gai Waterhouse in Sydney and for Lloyd Williams in Melbourne. He returned to work for Hugo Palmer in Newmarket where he spent six years as assistant trainer. On July 1st, 2019, George was granted a licence to train in Newmarket.

Now, more than 120 winners later, he is making waves thanks to last year’s Group 3 winning two-year-olds Oscula and Corazon, and the Group 1-placed juvenile Cachet. Boughey looks to be a man with the Midas touch, and another example of this is the three-year-old Party On Girl, a daughter of Awtaad (Cape Cross), who is catalogued for sale at next month’s Tattersalls February Sale as Lot 478.

Bred by Shadwell, Party On Girl was sold at last October’s Tattersalls Horses In Training Sale as an unraced two-year-old, being knocked down at just 15,000gns to Sam Haggas’s Hurworth Bloodstock. She made an encouraging debut the week before Christmas, finishing fourth on the all-weather at Kempton, and has now built on that and won twice over a mile at Lingfield. The question now is, what multiple of 15,000gns will she bring if she goes under the hammer next month?

Ejadah

Shadwell bought Party On Girl’s dam Ejadah, by Clodovil (Danehill), for 170,000gns as a yearling. That was the year that the filly’s half-brother First Cornerstone (Hurricane Run) won the Group 2 Galileo EBF Futurity at the Curragh. Their older sibling, Buxted (Dynaformer) was a listed winner in both Britain and Australia.

On Saturday I attended the ITM Stallion Trail and the first horse I saw on my tour of four stud farms was Awtaad at Derrinstown Stud.

With six stakes winners in his first two crops, the oldest of which have just turned four, he has made a very solid start, and his Royal Ascot winning daughter Create Belief was among those to draw attention to his ability as a stallion. Cormac McEvoy was rightly proud to show Awtaad, an eye-catching individual, to breeders and at a fee of just €5,000 this season he is real value for commercial breeders.