Laws Of Indices

One of the youngest consignors in the business, Fearghal Hogan has enjoyed some brilliant pinhooking results under his own Churchland Stud banner and at just 33 years of age, he can boast something that the majority in this business can only ever aspire to achieve, through his joint-ownership of Group 1 winner Laws Of Indices.  The County Carlow native is refreshingly honest about the fact he found the going tough at the yearling sales in 2024, opens up about some of his biggest touches in the game and shares plans...

Twenty-five yearlings have been supplemented to the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale at Kildare Paddocks on Nov. 2 and 3. The yearlings include progeny of the likes of Gleneagles (Ire), Sioux Nation, Australia (GB), Make Believe (GB), Mehmas (Ire), Starspangledbanner (Aus), Harry Angel (Ire), Territories (Ire), Galileo Gold (Ire) and El Kabeir. Click here for the catalogue. The Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale has produced 2021 Group 1 winner Laws Of Indices (Ire) (Power {GB}) and G2 Queen Mary S. winner Quick Suzy (Ire) (Profitable {Ire}).

One horse overshadowed all other news items of the past week as the bloodstock world came to terms with the death of Galileo (Ire) at the age of 23.  Fulsome tributes have been paid to him from across the globe with the overwhelming feeling being that we will never see his like again. It is worth bearing in mind, however, that many of us felt the same when his own extraordinary sire Sadler's Wells died 10 years ago. That colossus of the breeding world appeared in the third or fourth...