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Returning to the scene where past glories were first conceived proved a running theme at a record-breaking edition of the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale, no more so than when Michael O'Callaghan capped a headlining day for Tally-Ho Stud by swooping for a £210,000 (US$292,503) Twilight Son colt.
The sale's joint top lot comfortably eclipsed the amount that the upwardly mobile Kildare trainer laid out 12 months ago on a £28,000 ($34,722) son of Clodovil, who would be named Steel Bull. He was to take the Markel Insurance Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood on only his second start and was bought privately within the yard by Chantal Regalado-Gonzalez
Lot 118's dam, My Lucky Liz, has produced several winners already but, more significantly, the offspring of a stallion who proved a bit of a sleeper hit with his first crop looked a well-tutored and ready-to-run type.
That figure was equaled by the very last lot in the ring, from the same consignor. A son of first-season sire Galileo Gold, he had the most current of pages as his half brother Acklam Express, a smart juvenile for Nigel Tinkler last term, was third in the Al Quoz Sprint Sponsored By Azizi Developments.