MARK Dreeling’s and Barbara Fonzo’s Coole House Farm was in the news recently when they consigned a half-sister to Altior at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale, the filly selling for €300,000. Now they are turning their attention to the yearling sales and what excitement there must be surrounding their Tamayuz (Nayef) filly at the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale which will now be staged in Newmarket.

The filly is catalogued as Lot 309 and was an 11,000gns foal purchase by BBA Ireland last year. When you look at her page in the catalogue for the upcoming sale it states that her dam, the unraced Pardoven (Clodovil), is responsible for a winner from one runner and four foals of racing age. A good start, but the story has skyrocketed since. The two-year-old out of Pardoven, Minzaal, described at the time of printing as unraced, is now a two-time winner and his most recent success came in the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes.

Surprise

Continuing an incredible racing season for Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell, Minzaal was sold for 85,000gns as a foal and 140,000gns as a yearling. Given this fact, it is a real surprise to find that his year younger half-sister could have changed hands for so little. After all, the French 1000 Guineas winner Precieuse and Grade 1 winner Blond Me are fine examples of the quality fillies Tamayuz is capable of siring.

Minzaal is not the first big sales result either for Pardoven. Her five-time winning son Cabo Da Cruz (Cape Cross) realised €220,000 as a yearling, while another of her daughters sold for 90,000gns as a foal. Minzaal extends a fine run of success as breeders for Ringfort Stud’s Derek and Gay Veitch, and a sensational start as a stallion for Tally-Ho Stud’s Mehmas (Acclamation) who seems to make a weekly appearance in this column.

With an astounding 21 individual winners at the time of writing, four of them stakes winners and two more stakes-placed, it is certain that his 2020 fee of €7,500 will be a fraction of what Mehmas will cost breeders next spring. Supremacy, Acklam Express and Method are his other stakes winners, while his son Mystery Smiles was third in last week’s Gimcrack Stakes.