Dwyer continues UK spending spree at Goffs

Group 1-winning Victorian trainer Henry Dwyer has added to his growing northern hemisphere stable with the purchase of two two-year-olds from the Goffs Breeze Up Sale on Wednesday (UK time).

The trainer of three-time European Group 1-winning sprinter Asfoora, who is preparing for another tilt at Royal Ascot from Newmarket, Dwyer bought a Too Darn Hot colt for £100,000 and a St Mark’s Basilica filly for £205,000.

Dwyer teamed up with agent Hamish Macauley to buy the pair who will join the trainer’s growing stable at Lemos de Souza’s stables at Newmarket.

The St Mark’s Basilica filly is out of an unraced half-sister to two-time British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes winner Kalpana.

“She’s been bought by Henry Dwyer, so she’ll end up in Australia eventually, but hopefully there’s a chance she might get to Royal Ascot first,” Macauley told the Racing Post.

“There’s a small chance she’ll get there this year, and that would be the idea. She has the best pedigree in the sale, she’s from a champion’s family. She did a very good breeze and is a lovely physical. She came highly recommended. Obviously plenty of people were in for her. I’m delighted to buy her, though that (price) was stretching it a little bit.”

Dwyer also bought a Kodiac filly for 72,000 guineas at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale earlier this month.