Wildenstein Dispersal Set for Goffs Sales
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Irish sales company Goffs will handle Wildenstein Stables' dispersal of 110 horses, to be offered by The Castlebridge Consignment during the Goffs Orby and November sales.
The dispersal features 27 mares, 20 foals, 19 yearlings, and 44 horses in training. The yearlings and horses in training are to be offered at the end of the second day of the Orby sale Sept. 28 in an exclusive stand-alone section, while the mares and foals will be offered at the November foal and breeding stock sale, set for Nov. 13-19.
Beauty Parlour, a homebred daughter of Deep Impact, who won the 2012 French One Thousand Guineas (Fr-I) and was runner-up in the French Oaks (Fr-I), headlines a stellar group of broodmares. She will be offered in foal to Kingman. The dispersal also includes her 2015 colt by Dubawi and her Dansili filly foal. Beauty Parlour's half sister, the winning Invincible Spirit filly Blue Kimono, will also be offered and is in foal to Australia.
"Our family has enjoyed tremendous successes at the highest level in horse racing and breeding, and this remarkable draft of horses is the legacy of my grandfather, Daniel," said David Wildenstein. "He raced many of the greats, including four Arc winners: Allez France, All Along, Peintre Celebre, and Sagace, and was the leading owner in France on nine occasions as well as leading owner and breeder in England in 1976. Our dispersal features these great families and we wish their new owners all the luck in the world.
"Now the time has come for us to move in a different direction."
The Wildenstein Stables dispersal also features yearlings and foals by sires such as Dansili, Dark Angel, Dubawi, Giant's Causeway, Invincible Spirit, Le Havre, Lope de Vega, Oasis Dream, Pivotal, Shamardal, Teofilo, and many others.
The draft of 44 horses in training includes the listed winner and group-II placed Smart Strike filly Lady Of Kyushi, the winner and group-placed Dalakhani filly Asterina, and the winning Giant's Causeway colt Andrea Mantegna as well as several other winning 3- and 4-year olds and 26 juveniles.
"In my 34 years in the business there are a handful of names that you associate with the very best—Robert Sangster, HH The Aga Khan, Khalid Abdulla, the Maktoums, Coolmore, the Niarchos family for example, and the Wildenstein name is certainly amongst their number," said Goffs Group chief executive Henry Beeby.
Key dates for The Wildenstein Stables dispersal:
Yearlings—Orby sale (end of second day, Sept. 28)
Horses in training—Orby sale (end of second day, Sept. 28, immediately following the yearlings)
Mares and foals—November Sale ( November 13-19, details to be announced in due course)