MONEY doesn’t always buy success, but this year we have seen the emergence of some smart runners who cost quite a lot when they were sold as youngsters.

Jim Bolger trains Goldrush, the well-named three-year-old daughter of Frankel (Galileo) and the multiple Group 1 winner Alexander Goldrun. The latter, a daughter of Gold Away (Goldneyev) carried the colours of Miriam O’Callaghan to five Group 1 victories in England (Nassau Stakes), Ireland (Pretty Polly Stakes twice), France (Prix de l’Opera) and in Hong Kong where she won the Cup at their big international meeting. She was runner-up in five Group 1s and third in another five and she won some £1.9 million in prize money. Alexander Goldrun was also trained by Bolger.

Now owned by China Horse Club International, Goldrush was bred by Noel O’Callaghan and sold by his Mountarmstrong Stud as a yearling. From the first crop of the brilliant Frankel, she has the distinction of being his biggest priced yearling in that first crop, selling at the Goffs Orby Sale for €1.7 million. Now unbeaten in two starts, including the recent Listed Al Basti Equiworld Carlingford Stakes at Dundalk, she is one of 20 stakes winners in the first two crops of her sire, and one in three of all his winners have earned a blacktype success.

Alexander Goldrun is a half-sister to the Group 3 winner and sire Medecis (Machiavellian) and their dam Renashaan (Darshaan) was bought by Forenaghts Stud for just 30,000gns carrying Alexander Goldrun. Four years later she was traded, in foal to Pivotal (Polar Falcon), for 640,000gns following the successes of Medecis and the then three-year-old Alexander Goldrun.

BIG WINNER

The second big priced winner at the weekend, also a Goffs graduate but this time as a foal, was Ghaiyyath and he graduated to pattern company when winning the Group 3 Masar Godolphin Autumn Stakes at Newmarket. He was bred at the late Marguerite Weld’s Springbank Way Stud and sold as a foal, through The Castlebridge Consignment, for €1.1 million to John Ferguson.

Ghaiyyath is a son of Dubawi (Dubai Millennium) and the fifth winner for his Galileo (Sadler’s Wells) dam Nightime. She gave Dermot Weld one of his most emotional and satisfying victories as a trainer when she won the Group 1 Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas in the colours of his mother, who also bred the filly. Nightime has gone on to become a Group 1 producer, her daughter Zhukova (Fastnet Rock) winning the Man O’War Stakes and five other stakes races. She is due to be one of the stars at this year’s Tattersalls December Sale.

SUCCESS

Nightime is one of eight winners from eight runners for the listed winner Caumshinaun (Indian Ridge), another to carry Mrs Weld’s colours to success and doing so on five occasions.