Yes, we make mistakes, too. We own up to them and try to correct them as quickly as possible. On the blog on Kitalpha, I mistakenly wrote that the Goffs summer sale was defunct and that Mr. Lewis Rankin worked for Flaxman Holdings, the Niarchos breeding/racing arm.

Mr. Rankin corrected me by email: “The old Goffs France summer sale has been replaced by the Arqana summer sale (this is well known in Europe), therefore that sale is not defunct since Arqana’s takeover of Goffs France. Also, I work for Niarchos London Ltd, not Flaxman Holdings Ltd.”

On the blog on Mizzen Mast, we left out a Japanese stakes race as our program applied 2008 data to his 2006 stakes win. In plain talk, the black type race he won in 2006 is no longer considered a black type race in 2008, and we messed up by not giving him and Mizzen Mast credit!

The colt’s name is Tropical Light (out of a Secreto mare) and he is yet another Mizzen Mast SW out of a Northern Dancer line mare! That means that 6 of Mizzen Mast’s 10 SWs are out of Northern Dancer line mares, and 8 of 10 or 80% have Northern Dancer somewhere in their pedigrees!