Nafaayes winning the Gr 2 Wilgerbosdrift Gauteng Fillies Guineas (JC Photos)
Nafaayes, the former Mike de Kock-trained Australian-bred winner of the Gr 2 Wilgerbosdrift Gauteng Fillies Guineas and Gr 2 Ipi Tombe Challenge, has had a foal bought for 600,000 Gns by Godolphin at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1.
The Blue Point filly was consigned by Ballyphillip Stud in Ireland and was purchased by Godolphin.
Nafaayes herself was consigned by Kia Ora Stud at the 2017 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and was purchased by Shadwell for Aus$350,000.
De Kock trained for Sheik Hamdan of Shadwell at the time and Nafaayes was sent over to his Randjesfontein yard.
She won her only two races as a two-year-old, beating the useful Running Brave in the second of them over 1400m at Turffontein Standside.
In her second start as a three-year-old she finished second in the Gr 3 Starling Stakes and followed that by winning the Ipi Tombe, the Gauteng Fillies Guineas and finishing second in the Gr 1 Wilgerbosdrift SA Filllies Classic.
She then finished third in the Gr 1 Empress Club Stakes and was retired after being unplaced in both the Gr 2 KRA Fillies Guineas and Gr 1 SA Fillies Sprint.
Nafaayes’s first foal, a Shadwell homebred by Mohaather, finished unplaced in a Novice Stakes race at Wolverhampton on Monday, her third unplaced run in three starts.
Nafaayes herself was sold by Shadwell at the Tattersalls December Breeding Stock Sale in 2022 in foal to Blue Point for 78,000 Gns and she was purchased by Twin Hills Stud.
The Blue Point filly was consigned at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale by Newsells Park Stud Ltd and purchased by Ballyphillip Stud for 110,000 Gns.
Ballyphillip have thus made a nice profit on the pinhook.
Meanwhile, Nafaayes appeared at an Inglis Sale in Australia in May this year consigned by Twin Hills Stud and was purchased for Aus$475,000 by E Hirsch.
Today’s filly purchased by Godolphin was the fourth horse by Blue Point to make 400,000 Gns so far at Book 1.
The Darley-owned Shamardal sire Blue Point is the only European stallion since Sadler’s Wells 35 years ago to sire two first-crop juvenile G1 winners. His first crop star Rosallion became a Classic winner in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and Breeders’ Cup hero Big Evs was third in a Royal Ascot G1 against his elders. His second crop already includes Stakes winner Tiego The First.
Blue Point was a Oak Lodge Stud-bred Godolphin-owned sprinter who won the Gr 2 Gimcrack as a two-year-old and he went on to win the Gr 1 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot over five furlongs on two occasions and on the second of those occasions in 2019 he followed up by winning the Gr 1 Diamond jubilee Stakes over six furlongs at the same Royal Ascot meeting four days later.
Blue Point also won the Gr 1 Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan and besides the Gr 1s mentioned above he also won two Gr 2s, including the Gimcrack, and three Gr 3s.
