Aspiring

The Baroda Stud-consigned Aspiring (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a half-sister to champion and G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and five-times Group 1 winner Danedream (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}), was knocked down to the BBA Ireland on behalf of the Lucky Vega Syndicate for €790,000 to take the lead at about the midway stage of day one of the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale. The unraced 4-year-old filly, also kin to Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Venice Beach (Ire) and Group 3 winner Broadway (Ire), produced a colt by Wootton Bassett...

A total of 469 broodmares and broodmare prospects have been catalogued for the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale, which is to take place Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18 and 19, following the auction house's November Foal Sale. One of the highlights of the catalogue is expected to be the 3-year-old filly Ladies Cruise (GB) (Churchill {Ire}), a listed winner at two whose credentials were further enhance when taking out the July 16 G2 Sapphire S. at the Curragh for trainer John Murtagh. She is offered as lot 1222 through Fox...