Clare Manning's Boherguy Stud supplied the Day 1 session-topper of the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale on Wednesday in the shape of a Dawn Approach (Ire) colt who was knocked down to Alex Elliott for €80,000.
Lot 458 is a brother to the Group 3-placed Strapped (Ire) and was not the only big result Manning enjoyed on the day.
Another son of the 2000 Guineas winner, lot 441, made €50,000 to BBA Ireland while Boherguy Stud would have collected a clean sweep had the Castlebridge Consignment not sold its Sea The Stars filly (Ire) [lot 408] for €60,000 to MC Bloodstock.
In the end, Boherguy Stud had to settle for filling three of the top four slots on the day after selling a Due Diligence colt [lot 257] to BBA Ireland for €46,000.
Boherguy Stud sold 12 yearlings for an aggregate of €250,500, averaging out at €20,875 per lot, and ended the day as the leading consignor.
Manning said, “Dawn Approach is not the most commercial sire but it's great to see that granddad [Jim Bolger] is being rewarded for having faith with him. He had Poetic Flare last year (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}) last year and getting a sales-topper today. Dawn Approach stood in Kildangan for a few seasons but granddad took him back to Redmonstown and it's paying off.
“I know we always say that you need to have sire power but, if you don't have the physical, you are going nowhere. Today's top lot is a beautiful horse, very athletic and he'd a great walk. We would have had no problem taking him home if we had to. He's definitely going to be a racehorse.”
She added, “Placing them in the right sales is half the battle. This sale was very strong last year and there were a lot of foreign buyers there, which is great for the bottom end of the market. But at the same time, you had all the good judges there today as well, and Alex Elliott bought our top lot while Mick Donohoe bought the other.”
The successful trade capped an emotional few days for the Manning family after Kevin Manning, Clare's father, announced his retirement after riding Vocal Studies (Ire) (Vocalised) to victory at Galway on Monday.
“Dad's retirement was big news on Monday,” Manning concluded. “I know it's a bit of a cliche, but it was great for him to go out in one piece first and foremost and for him to ride a winner was even better. It was a fairytale ending and even better that he did it for Granny and Grandad and it being by Vocalised was just the icing on the cake.”
There were 191 lots sold on Wednesday for an aggregate of €1,813,400 and trade continues on Thursday at 10am.
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