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00:00Saffron Beach, yeah look she's an outstanding filly, first crop of New Bay who is looking
00:20very very exciting, captured everybody's imagination from the word go.
00:24Just how she looked, she's a great advertisement also for the training regime of Jane Chappell-Hyams.
00:30Oh well it was while COVID was on I received a call from Ben Sankster asking to come down
00:37and see her, so we had to wait till after Royal Ascot and all the restrictions were
00:43lifted about five days after the meeting.
00:46So I went down and viewed her, loved her and then we organised to bring her back up the
00:52next week.
00:53She's just gone from strength to strength but in a funny kind of way her first two runs
00:58showed a lot, when she won her maiden and then two weeks later she backed up for the
01:03oh so sharp and when Adam Kirby got off her we knew there and then because he said she
01:09felt like a special filly.
01:11She did really well in the Nell Gwynn and then we used that as a stepping stone, she
01:16was probably only 85% fit and then waited another two weeks and then ran in the guineas
01:22so that was a highlight and then since then she's picked up group ones whether it be at
01:28Newmarket or over in Deauville and she's just proved a tough consistent filly.
01:35We've had the Royal Ascot Duke of Cambridgeshire and that was group two and then we've also
01:41picked up a Sun Chariot at Newmarket group one and the Prieta Rothschild at Deauville
01:46group one so you know she's thrived and done well in all those top races.
01:53She's a fine flagship for the Tattlesells December foal sale and to see her return as
01:58a four year old and to be one of the stars of the inaugural scepter sessions at the Tattlesells
02:02December breeding stock sale is yeah there's symmetry there as well so yeah it's a great
02:08story.
02:09She's got all the attributes that breeders from throughout the world will be looking for
02:13and look she can race on as well she's a very very good race filly and whoever ends up as
02:21the proud new owners they can decide which direction to take her from here.
02:26She's been sold as a horse in training as you can see and hopefully the lucky purchaser
02:32might enjoy having a trip to Hong Kong.
02:35She's in the four million US Hong Kong mile and we've accepted the invitation and so it'd
02:42be a lovely swan song.
02:45So then it will be up to the new purchasers if they would like her to run in their colours
02:50and we do some quick paperwork but we're all set with our visas at this end and then we'll
02:58just roll the dice and see what the new purchaser would like to do.
03:03She's feisty but she's a nice feisty mare she's got a kind side to her she's a very
03:11good doer and you know it's going to be hard when she goes because she's in box one and
03:17so for a couple of years seeing her every morning but hopefully she'll have a nice career
03:24at stud and get some top stallions.
03:28Well everyone's been you know thrilled that what she's done throughout the last couple
03:32of years so I'm sure they'll all miss cheering her on but yeah it's been it's been a nice
03:38few years we're lucky enough to keep her on as a four-year-old and she didn't pack
03:43her bags and go off to stud at the end of her three-year-old career so especially the
03:48last month we've been enjoying seeing her every day.
03:52The connections of Saffron Beach they've been in the game for a long time they're deeply
03:57knowledgeable and enthusiastic so it's great to see them with such a fantastic filly on
04:01their hands and they'll be very well rewarded I'm sure.