FEV Rover, the three-year-old daughter of Gutaifan who won the Group 2 Prix du Calvados and was third in the Group 1 1000 Guineas, is heading to the USA after her purchase by Lincoln Collins with Joe Miller on behalf of US racehorse owner and breeder Tracy Farmer. She cost her new owner 695,000gns after bidding opened at 600,000gns.

Bred by Manister House Stud, she was bought as a yearling for £20,000 by Howson and Houldsworth, sent in to training with Richard Fahey, and is another talented filly owned by Nick Bradley and partners. “We are happy to get her, we thought she was the best racing prospect in the sale and she should have plenty of residual value as a Group 2 winner and classic-placed,” said Miller. “She will go to Florida to Mark Casse.”

Farmer may or may not add her to his broodmare band in Kentucky. “It is a possibility that the client will breed from her in future; he has a broodmare band,” said Collins. “He has had success with horses he has bought, but his Belmont winner of a few years ago, Sir Winston, is a homebred. We have also had significant success with a filly we bought, Perfect Alibi. She won the Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes.” Perfect Alibi sold at Fasig-Tipton a couple of weeks ago for $2 million.

Worked hard

Successful consignor Nick Bradley said: “Three fillies that have grossed the best part of two million guineas between them, and bought for an average of £20,000 each, should give people out there the confidence to get involved. I’ve studied, worked hard and learned, learned, learned. Every year I get better and now we’ve have five stakes winners in a year.

“We’re based in Lincolnshire where we have a couple of farms, and last week we sold 500,000gns worth of foals that we bred. We had 30 two-year-olds in training last season and next year we’ll have a few more.”