Tally-Ho Stud

Well, that was good. The jam-packed car parks at Kildare Paddocks translated into rip-roaring trade on the opening day of the November Foal Sale as the momentum gathered up towards the end of the yearling season carried over into what proved a memorable Monday for vendors at Goffs.  And the €90,000 top lot by Blue Point (Ire)? It came at a time where the vendor needed it most. Rob Tierney might be best known as the face of Noel O'Callaghan's Mountarmstrong Stud. Together, the pair have enjoyed many good days....

Another manic sale season is upon us. Goffs kick-starts what promises to be an exciting few weeks with the November Foal Sale getting underway on Monday followed by the mares sessions on Friday and Saturday before the action rolls on to Tattersalls at Newmarket before concluding at Arqana next month.  So where does the value lie over what is usually a helter-skelter few weeks of trade? Gwen Monneraye of the La Motteraye Consignment, Mimi Wadham of WH Bloodstock and Tally-Ho Stud's Roger O'Callaghan weigh in on the big topics ahead...

In what must be the understatement of the year, Tally-Ho Stud boss Tony O'Callaghan has described himself as "quietly delighted" to see Mehmas (Ire) make history for the number of two-year-old winners recorded in a season when Naughty Eyes, who was bred by the County Westmeath operation, delivered winner number 62 for the stallion at Wolverhampton on Monday.  The previous record had been set by the daddy of Tally-Ho, Kodiac (GB), who O'Callaghan was keen to state is far from finished.  But what Mehmas has achieved in setting the record...

Mehmas (Ire) will head the Tally-Ho Stud roster for 2025 at €70,000 while Kodiac (GB), the horse Tony O'Callaghan often refers to as the stallion who helped build the County Westmeath outfit, will stand for €25,000--down from €35,000 in 2024. Mehmas has jumped by €20,000 following a memorable year on the track with his progeny. A statement from the stud released on Friday read, "Mehmas will stand for €70,000 following another outstanding season on the track. Europe's leading 2yo sire by winners with 60--and counting--Mehmas is responsible for eight 2yo...

Group 1-winning two-year-old Bucanero Fuerte (GB) has been retired to stand at Tally-Ho Stud next season, owners Amo Racing announced in partnership with the County Westmeath operation on Thursday. Bucanero Fuerte, who was bred by Gestut Zur Kuste AG from the Elusive City mare Frida La Blonde (Fr), was bought by Robson Aguiar for €165,000 at the Arqana August Yearling Sale and subsequently won four of his nine career starts for trainer Adrian Murray. Following a successful debut at the Curragh when winning the first two-year-old race of the Irish Flat...

Top sprinter Big Evs (Ire) will stand at Tally-Ho Stud next season. The son of Blue Point will retire following his run in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar, a race he is a general 8-1 chance for.  Big Evs is the leading sprinter of his generation, a Group 1-winning two-year-old who has beaten some of the best older horses in a series of top-class efforts this season at three for trainer Mick Appleby. Sourced by Conor Quirke on behalf of Paul and Rachael Teasdale's RP Racing...

Amo Racing's King Of Steel, who provided Frankie Dettori with a fairytale ending to his riding career in Britain by winning the G1 Champion Stakes this time last year, has been retired to Tally-Ho Stud in Ireland. "It was one of the most memorable moments of my racing career," Dettori said. "King Of Steel excelled and gave me the perfect Ascot finale. I have no doubt he'll become a stallion to be reckoned with, and I'm deeply grateful to him for helping me close my Ascot career in such an...

A son of Mehmas (Ire) and Sagely (Ire) (Frozen Power {Ire}) (lot 389) became the latest yearling to reach the seven-figure mark when selling to 1,000,000gns to Godolphin during the third and final Book 1 session at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Thursday. The Tally-Ho Stud-consigned colt is a half-brother to three-time Group 1 winner and young sire Perfect Power (Ire) (Ardad {Ire}) and the stakes-placed Golden Mind (Ire) (Galileo Gold {GB}). Tally-Ho also bred the bay. This is the extended family of Saganeca (Sagace {Fr}), the dam of...

Group winner Symbol Of Strength (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) has been sold to race in Hong Kong, trainer Adrian Keatley confirmed on Tuesday. The juvenile colt was originally raced by Keatley Owners Group, Finneran and Moore. A winner at second asking at Ayr in July, the son of Symbol Of Love (GB) (Shamardal) ran third in the G2 Gimcrack Stakes a month later, before a half-length triumph in the G3 Sirenia Stakes over six furlongs at Kempton on Sept. 7. "Symbol Of Strength has been sold," said Keatley. "There was always...

Hugo Palmer trainee The Waco Kid (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}--Catchingsnowflakes, by Galileo {Ire}) served a three-race stakes apprenticeship after graduating over six furlongs at Newbury in July and made a black-type breakthrough with a pillar-to-post triumph in Thursday's G3 Tattersalls Stakes at Newmarket. The January-foaled bay bettered an Aug. 2 fifth in Goodwood's G2 Richmond Stakes with a fourth in the Aug. 21 G3 Acomb Stakes at York in his penultimate start and arrived here off the back of a third in this month's Listed Flying Scotsman Stakes at Doncaster. Quickest...

Respect. It really is that simple. If we want to be involved with horses in sport we must treat those animals who give us either our pleasure or livelihood - or both - with decency and dignity. There are rogue elements, of course, but it is how the majority of people involved in horseracing feel and act, be they breeders, owners, trainers, jockeys or fans. Perhaps the most touching embodiment of this was witnessed during a recent visit to Sapporo racecourse in Japan, where there is a shrine alongside the...

Wathnan Racing's Aesterius (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}--Jane Doe {Ire}, by Hallowed Crown {Aus}) registered a second stakes success in ParisLongchamp's G3 Prix d'Arenberg at the beginning of this month and embellished his record with a game victory in Friday's G2 Carlsberg Danish Pilsner Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster. The £380,000 Goffs Breeze-Up graduate and 7-2 third choice broke swiftly and raced on the front end throughout this five-furlong dash. Coming under pressure at halfway, he refused to buckle in the closing stages and was driven out to deny familiar foe Big...