THERE is nothing quite like a timely catalogue update to ease the nerves as the sales season approaches. When Society Red ran out a near three-length winner on his debut over seven furlongs at Thirsk on Tuesday, it was music to the ears of Jerome and Lisa Hulin at Acorn Stud in Co Wicklow.
On the first day of the upcoming Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale at Fairyhouse they will be offering for sale an Equiano half-brother to Society Red.
Perhaps by then trainer Richard Fahey will have aimed the son of Arcano a bit higher, and it is interesting to note that the colt has an entry in the 2017 Epsom Derby.
Society Red was a real bargain, costing the trainer and Aidan O’Ryan just 5,000gns at last year’s Tattersalls December Yearling Sale.
The colt was sold through Keith Harte as agent and he, together with his wife Eileen, operates from the famous Woburn Estate.
At the same company’s foal sale Acorn Stud offered his Equiano half-brother for sale but found no takers at 3,500gns.
Hopefully that disappointment will be well forgotten next month.
The yearling which the Hulins will offer for sale is an Irish-bred son of the French-bred Equiano, while the colt’s Canadian-bred dam Idonea was a stakes winner at two years in Germany.
A daughter of Swain, Idonea was the only offspring of her graded stakes-placed dam Ivastar to race. This is a family that has no shortage of stakes winners on the page and they have strutted their stuff all around the world.
Conquer, for example, was a Group 1 winner in Chile, while Tightend Touchdown was runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.
One of the best known names on the page is Alywow and she was the champion filly of her age at three in Canada. She is the dam of Century City, a Group and Grade 2 winner and runner-up in the Group 1 Irish 2000 Guineas, and the grandam of Grade 2 winner Speaking Of Which.
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