A SHAKE-UP continues in Steve Parkin’s Clipper Logistics ownership vehicle as five horses from the operation will be dispersed at the Goffs Spring Horses-In-Training/Point-To-Point Sale at Doncaster on May 22nd and 23rd.
The prominent grey silks have enjoyed top-level success under both codes, including with last season’s Moyglare Stud Stakes heroine Fallen Angel, but it is the National Hunt wing of Clipper that is involved in this sale.
Recent Fairyhouse Easter Festival runner-up in Grade 2 company, Mossy Fen Park, was a £200,000 point-to-point recruit and remains a five-year-old of high potential. The Walk In The Park gelding won a maiden hurdle at Down Royal last Christmas.
Western Diego, an impressive point-to-point and bumper winner who finished seventh in last season’s Champion Bumper at Cheltenham, was also placed in a Grade 2 at Fairyhouse last month when third to Mirazur West over two miles. The seven-year-old by Westerner had won a maiden hurdle at the same track by seven lengths in January.
Sporting Glory finished half a length behind Western Diego in that Easter Festival Grade 2 and had previously shown plenty of promise in bumpers. He gave Champion Bumper runner-up Romeo Coolio a mighty scare in January before winning a bumper of his own at Fairyhouse a month later.
Champagne Admiral showed plenty of ability when winning a competitive novice handicap hurdle at the Leopardstown Christmas Festival and currently holds a mark of 123. Bumper winner Special Cadeau, a six-year-old out of 1000 Guineas winner Speciosa, remains a maiden over hurdles but showed some progression last time at Naas when second.
Entries for the Goffs Spring HIT/PTP Sale are being taken now and can be made online before April 26th, with the catalogue available online from May 3rd.