Box Office Horseracing
Newsletter #46
George talks…
I was supposed to write this newsletter on Sunday night.
The last 10 days of horse racing between the Punchestown festival, the Guineas meeting and everything in between have been nothing short of immense in my eyes.
After a year where racing was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, I have a feeling this sport is only going to grow and grow and grow.
The human and equine partnership of Honeysuckle and Rachel Blackmore, the prowess of Willie Mullins and Paul Townend.
The racing public’s beloved James Doyle doing the Guineas double.
It was just incredible.
A Sea of Blue
The first thread I want to pull is the dominance of the Godolphin blue over the weekend.
Not with them just producing a one/two in the most important stallion-making race of them all, the 2000 Guineas.
But how their sea change of fortune has come about through their breeding program. Coreobus, was a homebred Dubawi.
The sea of blue seems set to continue with its high tide for this season and the resurgence against the bashing they have taken at the hands of Coolmore and Galilieo ove the last several years is commendable.
The trace element of this thread is the influence of dams by Teofilo over the weekend.
Every year, damsires seem to hit a flow of big winners and big numbers of winners, Danehill, Shamardal, Galileo and Dubai Destinantion to name a few. It feels to me that Teofilo is just about to poke his head into this stratosphere.
George Boughey
This brings me around to our own HRE filly with George Boughey.
If you listen to George’s comments below from when we bought this filly back in September 2021.
The Teofilo element is one of the primary positives he felt about training this filly.
All due to the fact he was already impressed by a filly from the same damsire.
Namely, Cachet
As you all know very well, I’ve been flooding your inbox with our promotion for our HRE filly. I spent some time refunding all owners who purchased between the announcement of the offer and our last purchase which was at 3.05 pm Sunday.
Our Holy Roman Emperor filly is now in training with a Classic winning trainer.
There are still several shares left in the filly.
Follow the link below to claim your share.
As mentioned a few weeks back we now have a Refer a Friend discount.
We will reward anybody who is an owner with us who introduces a friend to us who purchases a share.
- Email racing@Brownsbarnthoroughbreds.com
- Provide us with your friends: Name, email, phone number
- We will run them through the syndicate options
- They will receive a 10% discount off their share purchase
- You will receive a 10% discount off one future share purchase
Thomas talks…
What an extraordinary weekend for team George Boughey! Without hitting too many clichés, it was a truly unforgettable experience on many different levels.
CACHET is a complete exception to her pedigree, stallion progeny, and her young trainer who was training 4 horses three years ago (the best rated 62). Bought by Jake Warren for a modest 60,000gns at the Craven Breeze up sale in 2021, she broke her maiden in the first 6f race in mid-May by 6 lengths. From there she danced every dance from Royal Ascot, Newmarket, France, Rockfel Stakes, Fillies Mile, and then onto the Breeders Cup. While she did herself justice and ran with huge credit, she was constantly playing bridesmaid.
Since the turn of the year, she has done nothing but blossom never missed a day’s training, eats for fun, and is just so straightforward. Before Cheltenham, I was chatting with our head lad Adi, and I asked “why is she 66/1 for the Guineas? Take out Inspiral and it’s a wide-open race”. His response was you could put 50 quid EW on a lot worse!
After her impressive win in the Nell Gwyn and the withdrawal of Inspiral, it did seem crazy that she still remained friendless at 20/1. We still kept the faith. While it was a tense time leading up to the race, the trainer remained noticeably calm. She was last to leave the parade ring, last to go into the stalls, first out, and first home.
I stood just beyond the winning line with our vet, farrier, and Chas who rides her. To say we roared the house down would be a vast understatement! It was particularly satisfying to see Chas so emotional as he sadly lost his brother late last year.
After a good drink and plenty of singing Sunday night, we all made it to Saffron House Monday morning for a very enjoyable day’s ‘work’. Photoshoots, videos, interviews, and congratulations coming from far and wide it has been a busy week, to say the least.
But the show doesn’t stop there, the world is her oyster so roll onto the next show where I’m sure she will warrant much more respect than 20/1!
Owners Events
Our next round of in-person events are happening in the next couple of weeks.
We have 5 slots available to subscribers here to join us in Newmarket next Saturday 14/05 to visit our trainers’ yards and head to a couple of stud farms, followed by a day racing at Newmarket HQ.
If this sounds like fun send us an email to reserve your spot.
Cheers,
George