Havana Grey ex Dolly Colman colt
Shares Available - 52.5%
The following share prices include: Purchase price, sales house & bloodstock agents commission, 'GBB Bonus' registration (if applicable), vetting, transport and training fees until 28 Feb 2023:
25% share available @ £21,250 upfront and £734 per month from 1st March 2023
15% share available @ £12,750 upfront and £454 per month from 1st March 2023
10% share available @ £8,500 upfront and £309 per month from 1st March 2023
5% share available @ £4,250 upfront and £160 per month from 1st March 2023
2.5% share available @ £2,125 upfront and £87.50 per month from 1st March 2023
Race entries
*From the Goffs Premier Yearling Sale 2022 - the best Sale of the season for 2yo’s. The sale where we purchased our Group 1 winner and Champion European 2yo 2013; TOORMORE (£36,000), Group 2 winner VENTURA TORMENTA and dual Group 2 winner KOOL KOMPANY (£40,000)*
SIRE: HAVANA GREY - the leading first season sire. We have had tremendous success with his progeny this year: Shouldvebeenaring, winner of the Goffs Harry Beeby Premier Yearling Stakes, plus he was the winner of the Ripon Champion 2yo Trophy Stakes - Listed winner Cuban Mistress - Weatherbys Super Sprint winner and Listed Windsor Castle Stakes 3rd, Eddie's Boy and Maylandsea, 2nd in the Group 2 Queen Mary at Royal Ascot. We know how to buy a good Havana Grey!
DAM: DOLLY COLEMAN (Diamond Green)
TRAINER: Richard Fahey, trainer of our Goodwood track record breaking 2yo filly The Platinum Queen.
The Racing Post reported: "Havana Grey continues to carry all before him in the European first-season sire standings, with 30 winners worldwide and nine black-type performers headed by the Listed scorers Cuban Mistress and Lady Hollywood. He also sired Shouldvebeenaring, winner of this year’s Goffs UK Harry Beeby Premier Yearling Stakes." We own Cuban Mistress and Shouldvebeenaring, plus our Weatherbys Super Sprint and Windsor Castle Stakes 3rd, Eddie's Boy. We know how to buy a good Havana Grey!
Tim says: “Was one of our naps of the sale. Comes from the vendor of Native Trail (Mark Dwyer’s Oaks Farm Stables), so we’re in very good company. He’s by our, and everyone’s, favourite first season sire Havana Grey. What’s not to like?”
Here he is after arriving at Musley Bank, looking very relaxed after the rigours of the sale:
Likely to be a first half of the season sort with very much one eye on Royal Ascot, where we managed to have a number of 2yo runners this year including the Queen Mary 2nd (Maylandsea) and the Windsor Castle 3rd (Eddie's Boy, by Havana Grey.)
He is eligible for the £300,000 Goffs Harry Beeby Premier Yearling Stakes, a race that we won this year with our £40,000 purchase Shouldvebeenaring (yes, also by Havana Grey!) He earned £122,000 in winning that day, at York’s Ebor Festival and his owners won a £47,000 voucher to spend on a ‘free’ horse at this year’s Sale too.
This colt will qualify for Redcar’s £250,000 2yo Trophy, which we’ve won in the past with Ventura Mist, and the £300,000 Weatherby’s Insurance Sales race, held at Doncaster in September could easily be on this horse’s agenda too. We do know how to win a sales race of course! EDDIE'S BOY won the Weatherby's Super Sprint and SHOULDVEBEENARING, the aforementioned Goffs race in 2022.
A sharp and racy sort, we’d hope to debut in April or May, with Royal Ascot in mind, hopefully. Then, all being well, on to Sales races and Group races. However, failing that, we’d go on to look at nursery handicaps at, hopefully, the main, summer festivals, where our silks are regularly seen.
We’ve a proven track record of delivering, year in, year out, and we’d hope a fair number of our Goffs UK purchases can deliver on the highest stage, again in 2023.
The same MPR buying team, who bought last year's yearlings have done a great job-no doubt they have struck gold with this one too. Four of them, by HAVANA GREY!