€1.9 Million No Nay Never Filly Tops Goffs Orby

A No Nay Never full-sister to champion two-year-old Blackbeard topped the Goffs Orby Book 1 Sale on Tuesday when selling to MV Magnier for €1.9 million.

Glenvale Stud’s blue-blooded filly is not only a full-sibling to the exciting first-crop yearling sire, but also this year’s Group 2 Norfolk Stakes winner Charles Darwin.

The trio are out of the Born To Sea mare Muirin, a daughter of Group 3 winner Girouette.

Magnier said: “She’s a lovely filly. Blackbeard was a very good racehorse and his yearlings are selling very well, they look very promising. He’s having a good sale here and apparently he has a few good ones coming up in the next couple of weeks.

“To be fair to the mare, she always has a good-looker. Blackbeard is a very nice, correct horse who was very fast. Charles Darwin looks like he could be the proper job, so let’s hope this filly can do something similar. She’s a very valuable filly. There’s a lot going on on the page too; the mare is in foal to Wootton Bassett.”

He added: “This is great for Goffs and everyone involved. They’ve done a great job all week getting the people and the horses here, and every year something good comes out of this sale.”

Glenvale’s Flash Conroy said: “We all know the family well, and it’s a great family. She's an amazing mare, she gets lovely looking stock so they suit the sales ring. She’s bred some great two-year-olds; she’s produced Blackbeard, she’s produced Charles Darwin. She’s a rare mare to have."

It has been an excellent week for No Nay Never after True Love’s win in the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday.