MARKAZ x disko - *unnamed*

This filly was purchased from the Tattersalls Ireland Sale held in Newmarket on September 22nd.

This is a sale which Dandalla and Mere Green were sourced from in 2019 and going back further Nick  found Vona and Realtra who were both Dark Angel fillies who won Stakes  races for Nick having cost very little at the sales.

Nick had a shortlist of less than 10 fillies that he was keen to add to the ranks, having viewed over 200 fillies at the sale.  

This filly is by Markaz who has not had a great start to his stallion career and as a result a  lot of the agents weren't considering his progeny at the sales. He has  sired plenty of winners but due to a small first crop size he hasn't hit  the headlines in the same way as the likes of Mehmas has.  This time  last year, the same could have been said of Gutaifan which allowed Nick  to pick up Fev Rover for 20,000 who has gone on to win at Listed and Group 2 level in 2020  and is expected to pick up a success at Group 1 level before the end of  the season.

Had Markaz had a better start to his stud career this filly would have sold for a lot more than £11,000.

She  is out of the mare Disko, who Nick remembers as a racey filly. She won  as a 2yo in May and went on to finish 4th in the Empress Stakes before  injury curtailed her racing career. She has already produced the 94  rated She Can Boogie who herself was a 5-furlong sprinter.

Markaz was a grey son of Dark Angel and looking at this filly, she looks very much like her dam sire Kodiac who is probably the most prolific influence of speed on the planet  right now. Had she been a daughter of Kodiac out of a Markaz mare, she  would have sold for around £50,000.

This  filly is a very good physical and that is why Nick purchased her. She  is a strong good moving filly with a good step and a great hind leg. She  is a very powerful filly and in Nick's view in the top five physicals  in the sale.

The  average price of the top five fillies on Nick's list was around £50,000  so Nick is very confident we have snared a bargain in this filly.

In  2019 Nick managed to find the best daughter of Dandy Man (Dandalla),  Gutaifan (Fev Rover) and Adaay (Furlong Factor) at the sales. That is a  ridiculous achievement when you consider that each of those stallions  has approximately 100 2yos on the ground. Nick is also confident that  this filly will end up being the best 2yo by the stallion in 2021.

She joins George Boughey who has had an outstanding 2020 with 23 winners on the board already by  23rd September, scoring at an incredible 26% with very cheaply sourced  horses. George is a highly motivated young man who is striving for  success and together with Nick Bradley Racing should be bound for the  top in 2021. George is excellent with owners and has impressed the  Mystery Angel and Silent Queen owners already on yard visits.

This filly was purchased by Nick, Jessica Harrington and Patrick Cooper of BBA Ireland on 1st October 2020 for £60,000.

Our  new recruit is a strong good moving daughter of sire sensation Lope de  Vega. The Goffs Orby Sale had a mixed bag of fillies in the sale this  year and Nick ended up with a shortlist of 53 fillies from just over 200  viewed. Of the 53 that remained on the shortlist this filly was  definitely in the top 20 physicals and probably around 10th to 15th in  the entire catalogue of fillies.

Our  filly has a great hip with a powerful action and very much looks and  moves like a colt. She very much looks like her sire with the typical  Lope de Vega head but she has a sprinter's hip and based on looks and  pedigree we would expect her to be starting off over 6 furlongs in  May/June and as she matures making up into a 7-8 furlong horse.

Looking  at the pedigree of this filly she is by the high-class stallion Lope de  Vega who has had 10 Stakes winners in 2020 alone in Europe, behind only  Galileo and Dubawi.

Lope  de Vega excels with his fillies on the track both as 2yos and as 3yos.  In recent years he has had the likes of Newspaperofrecord, Manuela de  Vega, Capla Temptress, Feliciana de Vega and Antonia de Vega who are all  Stakes winners.

Jessica  knows all about training the progeny of Lope de Vega with horses like  Cadillac (Group 2 winner) and Lucky Vega (Group 1 winner) who were both  bought at the Goffs Orby Sale in 2019 by Jessica and her team.

She  is the first filly Nick has had in training with Jessica, Nick has been  following Jessica's runners in recent years and in 2020 her level of  success has rose again.

Plan  A will be for this filly to be winning a Maiden and then we will be  looking to compete in the Stakes races in Ireland next Summer.

This filly was bought from the Goffs Sportsman Sale on September 24th 2020.

Nick was adamant that she was coming home with this filly today from the sale and was probably his pick of the entire sale.

She  is a strong, powerful, and good moving filly who looks very masculine  and very much like a colt. On seeing the filly Nick asked Karl and Kelly  Burke both to look at the filly and both thought the filly was  physically very impressive. Karl was as keen as Nick to secure the filly  and took a share in her himself. 

She  was a little unsettled at the sale and has the scope for being a  handful being by Buratino and out of a Hawk Wing mare both of whom can  throw horses who have a degree of temperament.

She  behaved much better when she got to the ring and looked like a filly  who was just ready to be broken in and get started with her training.  Many agents didn't look at the filly having been put off by her  pedigree.  

She is expected to be a sharp early filly who will debut in May and be competing over 6 furlongs to 1 mile.

She  will be trained by Karl Burke who Nick has combined so well with over  recent years. The pair have the undefeated Group 2 and Group 3 winner  Dandalla in 2020 as well as the likes of Group 3 winner Little Kim and  Listed placed Terrichang and Miss Lucy who was sold to race in the U.S.  for a lot of money.

This filly was purchased from the Goffs Sportsman Sale by Nick and Karl on 25th September 2020.

The  Goffs Sportsman Sale was a sale transferred from Naas, Ireland to  Doncaster in the UK in a last-minute decision so the sale could go  ahead.

Nick  has tried to focus on buying the best individuals at the sales and  relying on his ability to see angles that other people don't and in this  filly, we think he has struck gold again.

This  filly is out of the second crop of the stallion Estidkaar. She is  catalogued as being out of a mare who has produced 3 foals and 2  runners. This was catalogued incorrectly by Goffs and her pedigree is  far better than it suggests on paper.

Wishyouwerehere  has actually bred 2 winners from 3 runners. The Anjaal filly 'Qing Shen  Yi Chang' was bought and exported to China where she won twice as a  2yo. The 2yo colt by Prince of Lir was bought by Ben McElroy at the  Yearling Sales for 40,000 Guineas and exported to the U.S. where he is  in training with Wesley Ward. He has ran twice to date finishing 3rd on  debut before going on to win on the turf on his second start at  Gulfstream in a $65,000 Maiden Special Weight. Gulfstream is a premier  track in the U.S. and Maiden Special Weight's are the equivalent of our  Novice races in the UK. 

https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Results.cfm?type=Horse&refno=10482568®istry=T

He  has since done a track workout where he recorded the 5th fastest of the  29 horses who worked on that day and looks set to be running again  soon.

https://www.equibase.com/premium/chartEmb.cfm?track=GP&raceDate=08/16/2020&cy=USA&rn=1

This filly was one of the best moving fillies at the sale, she has a great way of going and couldn't be faulted on her action. 

She  is very much in the frame of her sire Estidkaar, she is a shade long  and narrow and wouldn't be as physically strong as the other fillies we  have bought to date.  She looked poorly prepped at the sales and Nick  plans to give her plenty of conditioning work at home before she leaves  but this isn't something that should concern anyone. Turning the clock  back 12 months, she is very much a filly who is in the frame of a Fev  Rover rather than a Dandalla.

Nick sees her as a filly for the second half of the season running over trips between 6 and 8 furlongs.

Nick  and Karl were prepared to bid to £20,000 to secure the filly and feel  they have secured a bargain when buying this filly. Karl has bought a  50% share in this filly.

She  will be trained by Karl Burke who Nick has combined so well with over  recent years. The pair have the undefeated Group 2 and Group 3 winner  Dandalla in 2020 as well as the likes of Group 3 winner Little Kim and  Listed placed Terrichang and Miss Lucy who was sold to race in the U.S.  for a lot of money.

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This filly is a long-term investment opportunity. The plan is to race her for 2 years before retiring her to Glebe Farm as a Broodmare.

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