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[email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU RACING REVIEW | RACING NEWS | SOUTH AFRICA | JOB BOARD TODAY’S HEADLINES SALES TALK STALLION NEWS GOFFS FIRST MARE IN FOAL EBN Sales Talk Click here to TO FASCINATING ROCK is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com Ballylinch Stud has announced that its dual Gr.1 winner Fascinating Rock has had his first mare, Lady Livius, tested in foal. Also owned by Ballylinch Stud, the Weatherbys Super Sprint winner, a daughter of Titus Livius, has already produced two SPORTSMAN’S SALE TO REVERT Group-winning two-year-olds, Burnt Sugar, who became the TO ONE-DAY FORMAT first Stakes winner by Lope De Vega when he won the Gr.3 Sirenia The Goffs Sportsman’s Sale will revert to a one-day auction on Stakes, and Brown Sugar (Tamayuz), who landed the Gr.3 Thursday, 28th September, immediately following the two-day Molecomb Stakes and the Gr.3 Sirenia Stakes. Lady Livius is a half- Orby Sale. The move is a response to feedback from vendors and sister to the Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Galeota (Mujadil). purchasers following last year’s two-part Sportsman’s Sale. It now Managing Director of Ballylinch Stud, John O’Connor, said “We returns to its most successful format, which in 2015 recorded a are committing some very nice mares to Fascinating Rock in his first 90% clearance rate and average price of just under €25,000.