Bidding is now open for the “Cloudy Dancer Flash Sale,” a one-horse online auction on Fasig-Tipton Digital.
Cloudy Dancer (GB) is the dam of Shareholder (Not This Time), the impressive winner of the G2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot this past Thursday for Wathnan Racing and trainer Karl Burke.
Bidding on Cloudy Dancer (GB) will close this Friday, June 28, at 2 PM ET.
A two-year-old colt by leading sire Not This Time, Shareholder is now undefeated in two career starts. He won his debut on June 8 at Beverley, and then subsequently captured the Norfolk, powering home to a one-length victory at Royal Ascot 12 days later. He was purchased by agent Richard Brown for Wathnan Racing for €460,000 at the Arqana May Breeze-Up Sale, after selling at Keeneland September for $62,000.
A possible next target for Shareholder is the G1 Sumbe Prix Morny Aug. 18 at Deauville, said Burke immediately following the Norfolk.
Shareholder's victory also earned him a guaranteed start in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint via the Breeders' Cup Challenge “Win and You're In” Series.
Eight-year-old Cloudy Dancer is a daughter of prominent European sire Invincible Spirit (Ire). Her stakes-winning dam Ronaldsay (GB) has also produced Gale Force Ten (GB), winner of the G3 Jersey Stakes and second in the G1 Irish Two Thousand Guineas, as well as stakes winner Rousay (Ire). Her immediate family includes Irish Champion Bianca Nera (GB) as well as international graded/group stakes winners Pickle (GB), Beauly (GB), and Missed the Cut.
“This is a unique opportunity to purchase a young mare that is the dam of a recent Royal Ascot group stakes winning two-year-old,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. “She was not bred this year, so she is ready to be bred early on Southern Hemisphere time or at the start of the 2025 breeding season in the Northern Hemisphere.”
Shareholder is just the second foal from Cloudy Dancer, who is consigned by Frankfort Park Farm, agent for Skyfall Thoroughbreds LLC.
Skyfall's principal, Geoffrey Von Honste, told the TDN on Thursday after the win that he had been on the brink of selling off his remaining assets in horse racing to concentrate on his cattle farm in South Africa, but that he may reconsider.
Prospective buyers may view the entry and register to bid at digital.fasigtipton.com.
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