de Burgh Equine

Just a handful of lots after the €1.7-million Burgarita (GB), Times Square (Fr) (Zarak {Fr}) (lot 180) joined the seven-figure club at €1,250,000. The Christophe Ferland-consigned filly was bought by De Burgh Equine and James Harron. A winner of the Listed Prix de Saint-Cyr, the 3-year-old has been Group 1-placed as a juvenile and in the G1 French 1000 Guineas this term. She is also a half-sister to G3 Prix Thomas Bryon third Times Boulevard (Fr) (Shalaa {Ire}).

As sales-goers return to Deauville in August for the first time in two years, the bloodstock community shares some of their favourite memories of the town. TDN: Away from the sale, what is the one thing/place you enjoy most when you're in Deauville in August? HDB: Probably visiting Le Brok cocktail bar, which I normally remember arriving at but seldom remember leaving. TDN: Who's your favourite travelling companion(s) for the sales and why? HDB:There are plenty of those but over the years I have to say Angus Gold for his...

Martin Buick will join Hubie de Burgh's De Burgh Equine in mid-August in advance of the upcoming Arqana yearling sale Aug. 14-16. Buick joins de Burgh after 5 ½ years assisting Alan Cooper at the Niarchos Family's Racing Office. "Hubie approached me recently to see if I would consider joining forces with him," said Buick. "It was a very tough decision to leave the Niarchos Family racing office, but I am really looking forward to the new chapter and challenge ahead. I cannot thank Maria Niarchos-Gouaze & Electra Niarchos and...

Last weekend, OTI Racing and partners' Quick Thinker (Aus) (So You Think {NZ}) provided a timely advertisement for Inglis's Easter Yearling Sale, where he had been bought 24 months' previously for $100,000 by Hubie de Burgh, when winning the G1 Australian Derby on the first day of The Championships at Royal Randwick. The Easter sale of 2018, when Quick Thinker went through the ring, looked much different than its latest renewal earlier this week, and the horse is perhaps appropriately named when considering the efforts that Inglis's personnel-as well as...