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PULLOUT PREVIEW Thursday, November 12, 2020

BREEDING STOCK

Featuring the Goffs November, Tattersalls December and Arqana December Sales

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BREEDING STOCK SALES

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UR final supplement of the year takes in the crucial foal and breeding stock auctions from Tattersalls, Arqana and Goffs, and let’s hope that following the relocation of the Sportsman’s and Orby sales to Doncaster.

Goffs are able to host their auctions in Kildare after the end of lockdown in Ireland.

Our offering begins with the lowdown on a super seven fillies and mares who were among those to immediately stop you quickly turning their catalogue page. The marketplace is far from ideal due to the impacts of Covid-19, but these seven should do their bit to shore up figures.

We then focus on the racehorses-turned-sires who started their second careers last year and whose first foals are going through the rings of Ireland, Britain and France in what amounts to an important testing of the waters for these new stallions.

Our third feature concerns those mares in foal to the exciting 2020 intake of sires and who are being offered in the breeding stock sales Our following digests for the three auction houses pick out some of the anticipated highlights from the catalogues along with all of the vital statistics from the 2019, pre-Covid-19 editions of the relevant sales.

They will be helpful when it comes to comparing aggregates, averages and medians, along with leading sellers and buyers plus top lots. The yearling sales season provided less fireworks than usual, but still more than enough encouragement for all those with foals and mares to move on this autumn and winter.

As ever, the Racing Post’s team of reporters will be providing the best coverage of these sales online and in the newspaper, starting in Newmarket the week after next.

Headline-making mares Beach Frolic

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ANDREW SCUTTS, BLOODSTOCK MANAGING EDITOR

CONTENTS 4-6 Sires with their first foals up for auction 8-11 Mares in foal by the 2020 intake of stallions 12-17 Tattersalls news digest and tables 18-19 Arqana news digest and tables 20-23 Goffs news digest and tables Cover photo by Laura Green

Success stories (clockwise from top left): Onassis, Act Of Wisdom, Al Kazeem, Audarya (right), Blue Bunting (3), Marie’s Diamond and Exemplar are all progeny or relations of seven fillies and mares who look sure to command plenty of attention at upcoming sales

9yo ch m Nayef-Night Frolic (Night Shift) Tattersalls Lot 1731 Consigned by Highclere Stud This unraced daughter of Nayef has reached dizzying heights in her paddocks career, with son Palace Pier taking the European mile division by storm this season.

Palace Pier, by supersire Kingman, is Beach Frolic’s third foal and will stay in training next year after two Group 1 triumphs this year.

The nine-year-old mare has a Camelot colt in training, while her Highland Reel yearling colt realised 325,000gns at Tattersalls Book 1 in October. Any buyer hoping to snap her up might well have to go above and beyond that.

Fizzi Top

6yo b m Frankel-Zee Zee Top (Zafonic) Tattersalls Lot 1608 Consigned by Meon Valley Stud From the very fine nursery that is Meon Valley Stud, the unraced Fizzi Top boasts a pedigree befitting a blueblooded broodmare.

Her dam, Zee Zee Top, won the Prix de l’Opera, and has produced four winners including Pretty Polly victress Izzi Top (by Pivotal, and the dam of the stakes-placed pair Willie John and Prince Eiji) and Group 2 scorer Jazzi Top. For good measure, this daughter of Frankel also hails from the family of Irish Oaks winner Colorspin, the dam of Opera House and Kayf Tara.

The six-year-old has produced two foals, a Lawman colt in 2019 and an Oasis Dream colt earlier this year, while she was not covered this time around.

Hibiscus

7yo b m Galileo-Jacqueline Quest (Rock Of Gibraltar) Tattersalls Lot 1697 Consigned by Kiltinan Castle Stud Hibiscus comes with a page that is constantly updating: her Dubawi half-sister Onassis struck in a Listed event at Goodwood only last month – and ran very well in the Group 1 sprint on British Champions Day subsequently – while her progressive fullbrother Act Of Wisdom made it three wins from four starts at Newmarket, also last month.

Bred by Triermore Stud, the seven-year-old was a 625,000gns purchase from Tattersalls Book 1 by MV Magnier in 2014, before reaching 400,000gns at this sale three years ago, when selling to John and Jake Warren.

She has produced three foals to date, the oldest being an unraced Zoffany filly called

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sure to set the pulse racing

Palace Pier: crack miler is the third foal of Beach Frolic

Little Miss Rascal, and has been covered by sire of the moment Siyouni.

Kazeera

5yo ch m Dubawi-Kazeem (Darshaan) Arqana Lot 77 Consigned by Haras d’Etreham Haras d’Etreham’s unsurprisingly strong draft looks to be headed by Kazeera, a full-sister to multiple Group 1 winner and promising sire Al Kazeem.

The five-year-old made the track only once but she looks a highly promising prospect as a broodmare.

Her Havana colt foal is catalogued as lot 534 at the Deauville auction next month, while she is carrying to the exciting Wootton Bassett, whose purchase by Coolmore from Haras d’Etreham in August, while undoubtedly at considerable cost, is so far reaping dividends, the sire having had a Breeders’ Cup scorer in Audarya – for whom the Filly & Mare Turf was a second Group 1 win – while Wooded won last month’s Prix de l’Abbaye.

Lady Gorgeous

11yo ch m Compton PlaceCayman Sunset (Night Shift) Tattersalls Lot 1740 Consigned by Norelands Stud Lady Gorgeous looks one of the standout lots at Park Paddocks, thanks particularly to the exploits of daughter Pretty Gorgeous, winner of the Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket this term.

The 11-year-old has produced another stakes

winner in Toronado colt Alwaab, although her daughter

by Lawman is clearly the star name from her four offspring to have run so far.

Her yearling colt by Shalaa fetched 250,000gns at Tattersalls Book 2, while she has had a colt by Zoffany this year and is believed to be carrying to Siyouni, a sire who can do little wrong at present with three new individual Group 1 winners this autumn.

Monday Monday

3yo b/g f Galileo-Miarixa (Linamix) Goffs Lot 954 Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment The Castlebridge Consignment’s breeding draft looks particularly strong this year, and this filly, a half-sister to Irish Oaks and 1,000 Guineas heroine Blue Bunting, looks a collector’s item for those with deep enough pockets.

By Galileo, whose broodmare sire exploits this term need no elaboration here, Monday Monday is from a family chock full of black type,

being a full-sister to the Group-placed Exemplar and stakes-placed Blue Creek. She is in foal to Darley’s exciting champion two-year-old Too Darn Hot.

Sindiyma

13yo b m Kalanisi-Sinndiya (Pharly) Goffs Lot 922 Consigned by Airlie Stud Sindiyma sold for €20,000 at Goffs in 2013 but the exploits of her son Marie’s Diamond,

by Coolmore sire Footstepsinthesand, means she will fetch a far juicier price this time.

By the Aga Khan homebred Kalanisi, she is out of the winning Pharly mare Sinndiya and is therefore a sister to Lingfield Oaks Trial scorer Sindirana, the dam of two black-type horses. Sindiyma has been particularly well represented this year by Middleham Park Racing’s poster boy Marie’s Diamond, winner of the Paradise Stakes and a fine third at 40-1 in the Queen Anne, and she is believed to be in foal again to Footstepsinthesand.

‘Her Dubawi half-sister Onassis struck in a Listed event at Goodwood only last month – and ran very well in the Group 1 sprint on British Champions Day subsequently – while her progressive full-brother Act Of Wisdom made it three wins from four starts at Newmarket, also last month’

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BREEDING STOCK SALES Tom Peacock on the stallions with first foals up for auction

Making the most T of it

HESE will be difficult times for a stallion to be launched into the market with their debut crop of foals, but it is a positive that there are a handful of individuals who were deeply involved in what was a memorable and highclass European Flat season in 2018. There are also a number of whippersnappers whose handlers will dream of them becoming another Mehmas with a fast start on the track, and this will be the first public occasion where buyers can assess their potential.

Classic standard

Making their debuts: the much-missed Roaring Lion (main) and Cracksman (above and below)

There will be only one chance to bid for the foals of Roaring Lion, whose connections were dealt a cruel blow when the son of Kitten’s Joy succumbed to colic last year in New Zealand.

Tweenhills and Qatar Racing had rightly been optimistic about the breeding future of a horse who was very dear to them, having had the striking looks backed up with four Group 1 wins on the track.

One of the most illustrious of his 133-strong book was the St Leger-winning Simple Verse and the resulting filly foal is being consigned by Tweenhills as one of seven offspring at Tattersalls (967). Goffs has four, including AK Thoroughbreds’ son of Irish Listed winner Kanes Pass (653).

Dalham Hall Stud have a stallion in Cracksman who sells himself on his achievements too – the 130-rated firebrand whose two Champion Stakes wins will live long in the memory. The best son of Frankel to head to stud, from a superb Oppenheimer family, he covered 147 mares, including 97 who were closely related to Group winners and 61 individual stakes performers.

At Tattersalls, his progeny offered include a foal out of a winning half-sister to South African champion Mahbooba (543) and a half-sister to Pattern-class German performers (870), while Goffs has a granddaughter of Classic heroine and brilliant broodmare Virginia Waters.

Saxon Warrior has big shoes to fill, being the best

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Saxon Warrior (below) has big shoes to fill, being the best European performer by lamented Japanese sensation Deep Impact. He headed to Coolmore after a glittering career which saw him land Group 1s at two and three

TOO DARN HOT’s

European performer by lamented Japanese sensation Deep Impact. He headed to Coolmore after a glittering career which saw him land Group 1s at two and three.

Among nine catalogued for Goffs is the Irish National Stud’s colt out of the Prix de l’Abbaye winner Gilt Edge Girl, a half-brother to the useful Times Arrow (630).

He has a current inclusion at Tattersalls through a son of Hint Of Pink (645). Norelands Stud has sold two siblings for six figures including Parchemin, who made a bright juvenile start for Andre Fabre.

Mighty milers

Expert Eye, who rounded off his career in winning the Breeders’ Cup Mile, has a strong base as a son of Acclamation operating at Banstead Manor Stud. He covered 139 mares, including

plenty to get him started from Juddmonte.

His foals will be in plentiful supply on both sides of the Irish Sea, with Ballylinch Stud’s half-sister to credible Group performers Burnt Sugar and Brown Sugar looking a particularly sweet addition to Goffs (660).

There is also Ballintry Stud’s filly out of a sister to Slade Power (611), while the Tattersalls contingent includes a colt delivered by Prix d’Arenburg scorer Starlit Sands (839).

One racehorse who very much earned his new vocation through determination is Lightning Spear, winner of the Sussex Stakes aged seven and seemingly through some early fertility issues at Tweenhills.

Byerley Stud’s half-sister to seven other winners should find buyers at Tattersalls

(1141), as should a Limekiln Stud colt out of Fred Darling Stakes runner-up Dream Day (76) at Goffs.

Mickley Stud is standing fully behind its recruit Massaat, the son of Teofilo who won the Hungerford Stakes and was Classic-placed for Shadwell and Owen Burrows. It takes a large handful to market, a few out of stakeswinning mares including a colt out of the very useful Nantyglo (1042) bound for Tattersalls.

Smart US turf performer Smooth Daddy would be more recognisable for his renowned father, Scat Daddy, in European climates but Starfield Stud, which stood him for 2020, shows off a couple of his progeny at Goffs, including a colt out of its highly productive French-bred mare Anbella (18).

Only one of the likeable

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Dewhurst was rated even better than Pinatubo’s.

And his first book of mares?

He covered more Stakes winners/producers than in Dubawi and Night Of Thunder’s first books added together.

£45,000 Oct 1, SLF

Standing at Dalham Hall Stud, UK

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BREEDING STOCK SALES ‘Prince of Wales’s Stakes and King George winner Poet’s Word (right) departed for a National Hunt career at Boardsmill after one season at Nunnery Stud.

The admirable old warrior has one foal to his name at Tattersalls, a colt consigned

by Langton Stud from a sturdy French family (326)’

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Master Carpenter’s progeny appears, with his stallion masters GG Bloodstock & Racing offering a colt at Tattersalls from the immediate family of Winkfield Stakes victor Talking Hands (1144).

Speed kings

It seems like only yesterday that Godolphin’s Harry Angel was tackling some hot competition to become the best sprinter in the world. On retirement to Dalham Hall, he was granted a book of 137, including 119 with immediate stakes race relatives.

The son of Dark Angel could easily be a precocious sire and Tinakill House’s close relation to US stakes performers Qaraaba and Californiagoldrush (677) has everything going for her at Goffs.

A colt offered at Tattersalls by the National Stud out of fine sprinter Firenze, from the fine and fast Hopper family (516), should also be of interest.

Godolphin’s well-travelled and hard-knocking Jungle Cat lasted only a year at Kildangan before moving to Australia, and there is only one of his progeny apiece at Goffs (104) and Tattersalls (557).

There are also only a handful of foals on offer too by James Garfield, the rapid son of Exceed And Excel who departed for Rathbarry Stud.

His racing owners Stetchworth & Middle Park Stud have put several interesting lots into Tattersalls, with lot 410 from the great Ballymacoll family of Islington and 384 related to the

Harry Angel could easily be a precocious sire and this filly at Goffs has everything going for her Gredleys’ magnificent Pretty Pollyanna.

A more familiar son of the late Scat Daddy is the Phoenix Stakes hero Sioux Nation, who is through his second season standing at Coolmore.

He is another with abundant offerings on both sides of the Irish Sea. Castletown Stud’s Tattersalls-bound filly (435) has a page full of black type, as does a colt from the family of Paco Boy from Coolagown Stud (105) at Goffs.

Coolmore also introduced its Middle Park and July Cup winner U S Navy Flag to the Tipperary roster, pricing the beautifully bred son of War Front confidently. His initial €25,000 was taken up by plenty of Irish breeders and a Baroda Stud colt out of French Oaks runner-up Argentina (572) is an obvious starting point at Goffs.

Havana Grey is in the right place to succeed at Whitsbury Manor and it seems that plenty

Harry Angel: sprint king turned stallion

of breeders were interested at his £8,000 opening fee.

Narrowly beaten in the Prix Morny, Karl Burke’s sprinter gained his big day in the Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh.

A half-brother to Whitsburyproduced 2019 Cornwallis Stakes winner Good Vibes is an obvious candidate for buyers seeking a precocious type at Tattersalls (741), and similar notes apply to the large Goffs offering which includes Pipe View Stud’s sibling of this year’s Listed-winning juvenile Method (354).

Havana Grey’s old stablemate Unfortunately, who beat him in the Morny, headed to Springfield House Stud through Cheveley Park.

The best son of the late Society Rock has been covered by Cheveley Park mares, including Plead (559, Tattersalls), a halfsister to Commonwealth Cup winner Golden Horde.

Kodiac’s son Kessaar, who

won the Mill Reef in his sole racing campaign, is the latest young buck paraded by TallyHo. He has 19 catalogued at Goffs, including by some shrewd vendors, and a colt from Soolmoy Stud (476) has had a welcome update with his juvenile half-sister Andromaca landing an Italian Listed race this summer.

Fleet-footed Coventry winner Rajasinghe was wellmarketed by the National Stud and it presents a filly (1128) and a colt (453) from its own stock among half a dozen from his first crop to appear at Tattersalls.

Nunnery Stud’s Tasleet, from the family of Battaash and a winner of the Duke of York Stakes himself, is well represented, particularly at Tattersalls, where a filly consigned by Eildon Hill Stables is a sibling of Group 3 winner and very smart juvenile Psychedelic Funk (485).

Staying power

Prince of Wales’s Stakes and King George winner Poet’s Word departed for a National Hunt career at Boardsmill after one season at Nunnery Stud.

The admirable old warrior has one foal to his name at Tattersalls, a colt consigned by Langton Stud from a sturdy French family (326).

Godolphin’s well-travelled Eclipse winner Hawkbill left just one crop in Europe before he headed for Japan. Buyers can choose between four of them at Tattersalls, including a Trickledown Stud filly from the family of the much-missed Notnowcato (1118).

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Blue Point

If mares make stallions, is a sure thing: dams of 2020 G1 winners Palace Pier, Golden Horde and Exultant lead 150 Stakes winners or their dams, daughters or siblings in an incredibly strong first book.

¤40,000 Oct 1, SLF

Standing at Kildangan Stud, Ireland

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BREEDING STOCK SALES

‘This year’s crop of new stallions in Britain and Ireland are headed by the Darley pair of Too Darn Hot (left) and Blue Point (right)’

WHITSBURY MANOR STUD CONTACT: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper 01725 518254 www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk

SHOWCASING THE GROUP 1 SPEED SIRE Fee: £45,000 1st Oct. SLF

Showcasing

(by Oasis Dream)

£45,000

Sergei Prokofiev £6,500 NEW

(by Scat Daddy)

Havana Grey

£6,000

Due Diligence

£6,000

(by Havana Gold) (by War Front)

Adaay (by Kodiac)

£5,000

Buyers will be hot on trail to secure mares in foal to the dynamic duo Kitty Trice with the lowdown on mares in foal to new sires

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N TERMS of price, at least, this year’s crop of new stallions in Britain and Ireland are headed by the Darley pair of Too Darn Hot and Blue Point, the sons of two of the operation’s giants in the late Shamardal and Dubawi.

Standing at £50,000 and €45,000 respectively, buyers will be hot on the trail to secure mares in foal to the dynamic

duo, the former a champion juvenile and top-class threeyear-old, and the latter a sprinter of the highest calibre over several seasons.

The National Stud has a couple of new recruits represented at the forthcoming sales, not least the three-time Group 1-winning sprinter Advertise, who will stand for a fee of £25,000.

The winner of the Phoenix Stakes at two, he followed up with strikes in the Commonwealth Cup and Prix Maurice de Gheest at three, and there are certainly some eyecatching mares in foal to him at the upcoming sales.

Coolmore have some unsurprisingly high-calibre recruits who will see mares with their first foals selling too.

Vertem Futurity Trophy and 2,000 Guineas winner Magna Grecia (€22,500) looks an exciting prospect, while Calyx (€22,500), the first sire son of stallion sensation Kingman, and July Cup scorer Ten Sovereigns (€25,000) are other eyecatchers.

Coolmore coronation

The trio of Magna Grecia, Calyx and Ten Sovereigns look sure to be popular at Tattersalls and Goffs given the proven class of Invincible Spirit and the upwardly mobile

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THE CHAMPIONS OF TOMORROW BRED FROM MARES FOUND AT THE TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE 30th November - 3rd December 2020

ST MARK'S BASILICA Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes dam CABARET purchased for 600,000gns

LUCKY VEGA Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes dam QUEEN OF CARTHAGE purchased for 160,000gns

SUPREMACY Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes dam TRIGGERS BROOM purchased for 110,000gns

trajectories of Kingman and No Nay Never, their respective sires.

Magna Grecia needs little introduction as a Classic winner, and the son of Invincible Spirit has some of the choicest mares for sale across Tattersalls, Arqana and Goffs, including the Juddmonte-consigned Cosmos Pink (lot 1373) at Park Paddocks.

By Dansili, the seven-yearold is out of the influential Sprint Cup heroine African Rose, a full-sister to Helleborine, and therefore a half-sister to Princess Margaret winner Fair Eva. Lordship Stud will present Dubawi mare Loveheart (lot 1611), a half-sister to St Leger winner Sixties Icon, while Kiltinan Castle Stud’s Circus Tent (lot 1643) is another to catch the eye, being a halfsister to Beverly D Stakes scorer Gorella and Group 2 winner Royal Intervention.

Calyx hails from an outstanding Juddmonte family and breeders appear to have offered him strong support.

Among the 14 mares in foal to him across the three sales are Salcey Forest Stud’s Susan Stroman (lot 1321), out of a half-sister to the brilliant The Fugue, who sells at Tattersalls, and The Castlebridge Consignment’s Goffs-bound Second Glance (lot 949), a daughter of Galileo out of Cheveley Park winner Rosdhu Queen.

No Nay Never has continued his astronomical rise up the ranks and Ten Sovereigns’

exploits on the track helped ensure he was one of the busiest first-season stallions anywhere in Britain and Ireland.

Among the 25 mares offered for sale across Tattersalls, Goffs and Arqana are Baroda Stud’s It’s Magic (lot 1311), a Galileo half-sister to Eclipse winner Mukhadram who will be joined at Tattersalls by the Far Westfield Farm-consigned Nigh (lot 1522), a half-sister to star sprinter Kingsgate Native, while Mount Coote Stud’s Goffs-entered Isabella Brant (lot 842), from the family of the top-class pair Hydrangea and Hermosa, also takes the eye.

Darley diamonds

It is time for the next generation as sons of Shamardal (Blue Point), Dubawi (Too Darn Hot) and New Approach (Masar) take up the mantle for Darley at their Dalham Hall and Kildangan Studs.

Blue Point retired to Kildangan having recorded a marvellous double at Royal Ascot last year in the King’s Stand and Diamond Jubilee, and, as a sprinting son of the much-missed Shamardal, will be in demand at Tattersalls and Goffs.

Among the mares on offer in foal to him is the Park Paddocks-bound Daily Times (lot 1675), a Gleneagles halfsister to Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Newspaperofrecord and the stakes-winning Classical Times. She is offered by Goldford Stud.

Voute Sales, meanwhile, will

present Tisa River (lot 1680), an Equiano half-sister to European champion threeyear-old filly Iridessa and from the family of dual US Grade 1 scorer Starine.

Too Darn Hot is out of the prolific mare Da Re Mi, a topclass daughter of Singspiel, and he attracted a classy book of mares for his first season earlier this year.

Two sell at Arqana, while among their number at Goffs is The Castlebridge Consignment’s Monday Monday (lot 954), an unraced daughter of Galileo and halfsister to 1,000 Guineas and Irish Oaks heroine Blue Bunting, and she is also a fullsister to the stakes-placed Exemplar.

Another intriguing lot put forward in foal to the Darley sire is the Tattersalls-bound Daintily Done (lot 1282).

Consigned by Godolphin, the 12-year-old is out of Tantina, dam of Group 1 winner Cityscape, Juddmonte sire Bated Breath and Scuffle, herself the dam of last year’s St Leger hero Logician.

Masar, winner of the Solario Stakes at two and the Derby the following summer, is equally well represented, with his first mares including Voute Sales’ Kingman mare Bourbonesque (lot 1350), who is set to be sold at Park Paddocks and is a relation to Prix du Moulin and Summer Mile winner Aqlaam.

There is just one chance to buy a mare in foal to the Classic winner at Arqana, No Wind No Rain (lot 591).

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ALKUMAIT Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes dam SUELITA purchased for 21,500gns

MISS AMULET Gr.2 Lowther Stakes dam SHENA'S DREAM purchased for 20,000gns and laaerly for 1,200gns

DANDALLA Gr.2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes dam CHELLALLA purchased for 7,500gns

UBETTABELIEVEIT Gr.2 Flying Childers Stakes dam LADYLISHANDRA purchased for 10,000gns 2020 EUROPEAN GROUP WINNING TWO-YEAR-OLDS OUT OF TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE GRADUATES Should you require assistance ahead of the Taaersalls December Mare Sale, please contact: Minty Farquhar on +44 (0) 7493 869 240/mfarquhar@greatbritishracing.com GBRI is the British horse racing industry’s designated first point of contact for overseas individuals interested in becoming part of the world’s leading racing and bloodstock industry. greatbritishracinginternational.com

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BREEDING STOCK SALES ‘Advertise (below), whose sire Showcasing has enjoyed another excellent year and continues to be hugely popular, has 14 carrying to him at Tattersalls, including the Ladyswood Stud-consigned Wealth Of Words’

Phoenix set to rise

Lope De Vega has a promising stallion son in Belardo, the first-season sire who has produced Rockfel and Prestige Stakes scorer Isabella Giles among three individual Group winners this season at the time of writing.

His latest son to join the ranks is Irish 2,000 Guineas winner and Irish National Stud resident Phoenix Of Spain, who will be represented by his first crop in utero at Tattersalls and Goffs this winter.

Pitched in at €15,000, Phoenix Of Spain has five mares on offer at Park Paddocks and another five at Goffs, including Ballylinch Stud’s Kiltara (lot 896), a winning daughter of Sadler’s Wells and a half-sister to Group 1 Metropolitan winner Opinion.

Among the mares in foal to the sire for sale at Tattersalls is Baroda Stud’s Moondust (lot 1244), a daughter of Exceed And Excel and out of a halfsister to the outstanding Lillie Langtry, winner of the Coronation Stakes and dam of champion Minding.

Need for speed

Group 1-winning sprinters Advertise and Eqtidaar found homes at the National and Nunnery Studs respectively, with the pair set to be represented by several mares at the three auctions.

Advertise, whose sire Showcasing has enjoyed another excellent year and continues to be hugely popular, has 14 carrying to him at Tattersalls, including the Ladyswood Stud-consigned Wealth Of Words (lot 1481).

The daughter of Poet’s Voice is a half-sister to last year’s Rockfel Stakes winner and Moyglare second Daahyeh, plus this season’s Denford Stakes scorer Saint Lawrence.

The National Stud will offer Chisana (lot 1594), a halfsister to Group 2 Diadem Stakes scorer Sayif and Cornwallis Stakes winner Hunter Street, while the Newsells Park Stud-consigned Moment Of Time (lot 1648) is another mare offered in foal to the three-time Group 1 winner at Tattersalls.

The stakes-placed daughter of Rainbow Quest has produced the Group 2 scorer Chief Ironside and two further winners to date.

Meanwhile, The Castlebridge Consignment’s considerable draft includes Vita Vivet (lot 830) at Goffs, who was successfully covered

by Eqtidaar in April. The halfsister to the stakes-winning Rhagori comes from the family of Group winners Fleet Hill and African Dream.

Among other mares of interest who are in foal to Nunnery’s young recruit is Shadwell’s Park Paddocksbound Maayaat (lot 1831), a Jazil relation to the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and St James’s Palace winner Bahri, plus Norris Bloodstock’s Perfect Charm (lot 1903), a

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‘Waldgeist (right) covered a book of mares befitting a Prix Ganay and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner and Ballylinch Stud’s son of Galileo is well represented at Goffs, Arqana and Tattersalls this winter’ daughter of Charm Spirit and Listed winner Indignant.

Among her further relations is Criterium de Saint-Cloud scorer Special Quest.

There is just the one mare in foal to Eqtidaar among the Arqana catalogue, the York handicap winner Sweet Forgetme Not (lot 452).

Others of interest

Waldgeist covered a book of

mares befitting a Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner, and Ballylinch Stud’s son of Galileo is well represented at Tattersalls and Goffs.

Among mares in foal to Enable’s 2019 conqueror are the Newsells Park Studconsigned Keene Dancer (lot 1458), a winning daughter of Danehill Dancer and Prix de l’Opera heroine Kinnaird, and so a sibling to the high-class

Royal Lodge winner Berkshire.

Ballylinch offer the Goffsentered Lope De Vega mare Pharadelle (lot 893) who is from a fine family that includes the top-class Phoenix Stakes winner Pharaoh’s Delight and Breeders’ Cup Turf victor Red Rocks.

Other 2020 stallions with mares in foal at the sales include Invincible Army (three at Goffs, two at Tattersalls and

two at Arqana), Best Solution (three at Arqana and one at Tattersalls), Study Of Man (five at Tattersalls and one at Arqana), and Inns Of Court (three at Arqana, two at Goffs and one at Tattersalls).

Arqana action

Waldgeist is also strongly represented at Arqana, with Glebe Farm’s Dream Ahead mare Vivid Dream (lot 204) –

BREEDING STOCK SALE e l a S e r tu u o The Haute C 5-8 DECEMBER DEAUVILLE

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from the family of Prix Jean Prat winner Territories – one of five lots carrying to the son of Galileo.

Another eyecatcher is the Elevage des Trois Rivièresconsigned Sous Le Soleil (lot 373), out of the Preis der Diana heroine Que Belle and a halfsibling to Osidy and Quetsche.

Inns Of Court was a highclass performer in France, so it comes as no surprise that

Tally-Ho Stud’s stallion is represented in Deauville next month.

Among the mares carrying to the Group 2 winner is Haras de Castillon’s Rock Of Gibraltar mare Rock Exhibition (lot 298), from the family of Grand Prix de Paris winner Cavalryman, plus Haras du Buff’s Pink Perpetue (lot 582), a Motivator half-sister to stakes winner Pink Gin.

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BREEDING STOCK SALES TATTERSALLS

Quality abounds for mares and foals alike T

ATTERSALLS’ December Foal and Mare Sales have seen plenty of fireworks over the years – one has only to think of Marsha setting a new European record when selling to MV Magnier for 6,000,000gns in 2017 – and, despite the difficulties faced this year due to Covid-19, we could be in for some more treats this month.

Beach Frolic (lot 1731) and Lady Gorgeous (lot 1740), the dams of Group 1 stars Palace Pier and Pretty Gorgeous, are both due to come under the hammer at the Mare Sale.

With their respective offspring beating the best in Europe, and the pair carrying to exciting young sires Blue Point and No Nay Never, their connections could find themselves realising sevenfigure prices.

The likes of Juddmonte invariably have a high-quality consignment on offer and, with some of the best bloodlines around, breeders will be on the lookout to boost their broodmare band with some of Prince Khalid’s finest families.

Among the standout lots is Tanita (lot 2020), a Frankel filly out of a full-sister to the outstanding Midday, and Desirous (lot 1260), by Kingman and out of the Matron Stakes winner Emulous. She is currently carrying to the great Frankel.

Godolphin lead the way with 87 broodmares and fillies in/ out of training to be offered, while other leading consignors at the two sales looking to make their presence felt include Shadwell, Whitsbury Manor Stud, New England Stud, The Castlebridge Consignment and Cheveley Park Stud.

The Foal Sale holds plenty of appeal and interest as well, with Tweenhills offering the second foal of Classic heroine Simple Verse – a filly by Roaring Lion – in addition to siblings to star juveniles Alkumait, Nando Parrado, Pretty Gorgeous and The Lir Jet. There is strong international representation too, with Haras de Colleville, Gestut Gorlsdorf, Eoghan O’Neill and European Sales Management – who sold recent Grade 1 scorer Etoile – among those represented.

KITTY TRICE

Marsha went through the ring at 6,000,000gns in 2017 – this year Desirous (pink cap below) looks one of the standout lots

TATTERSALLS Tattersalls December Foals

vv Where and when Park Paddocks,

Newmarket; November 25-28

vv 2019 results From 921 lots offered, 663 sold

(72 per cent) for turnover of 29,338,300gns, an average of 44,251gns and median of 22,000gns

Tattersalls December Mares

vv Where and when Park Paddocks,

Newmarket; November 30-December 3

vv 2019 results

From 812 lots offered, 668 sold (82 per cent) for turnover of 57,790,900gns, an average of 86,513gns and median of 27,000gns

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BREEDING STOCK SALES TATTERSALLS

Dubawi half-brother to juvenile star a major eyecatcher IT GOES without saying that prospective buyers sit up and take note when a Dubawi offspring enters the ring, and Airlie Stud’s half-brother (lot 939) to champion juvenile Skitter Scatter has the potential to light up the December Foal Sale.

Skitter Scatter won four of her seven starts at two, culminating in a two-length triumph in the Moyglare Stud Stakes, beating subsequent 1,000 Guineas runner-up Lady Kaya in the process.

Her half-brother is the latest produce by the Street Cry mare Dane Street and looks to hold a stallion’s pedigree, especially given Dubawi’s sons Night Of Thunder and New Bay are already making great strides in their second careers.

Skitter Scatter was sent to Frankel this year for her first mating, while her dam visited Kingman, so the story is by no means over yet.

Tweenhills consignment has strength in depth TWEENHILLS FARM was responsible for last year’s Foal Sale sale-topper when the Frankel colt out of St Leger heroine Simple Verse realised 600,000gns to John Gunther, acting on behalf of Tweenhills’ David Redvers.

This time the team consign Simple Verse’s second foal, a filly by the much-missed Roaring Lion (lot 967), among a squad that has plenty of strength in depth. Given she hails from the sole crop of Qatar Racing’s superstar, and is out of a dual Group 1 winner, the filly will have plenty of residual value after her racing career is over.

Other notable lots from Tweenhills include a Roaring Lion filly (lot 865) from the family of Duke of Cambridge heroine Aljazzi, a Charm Spirit filly (lot 345) out of a halfsister to the Group 1-placed Military Law and an Invincible Spirit filly (lot 966) out of the stakes-winning Lope De Vega mare Ship Of Dreams.

TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE Five-year history Year

Offered

Sold

Aggregate (gns) Average (gns)

Median (gns)

2019

921

663

29,338,300

44,251

22,000

2018

969

681

34,924,757

51,285

25,000

2017

957

742

32,668,200

44,027

25,000

2016

957

743

30,568,350

41,142

21,000

2015

1,089

803

33,565,600

41,800

20,000

TOP TEN FOAL VENDORS 2019 By aggregate Consignor

No sold

Average (gns)

Total (gns)

80,688

1,936,500

20

92,715

1,854,300

11

109,045

1,199,500

Barton Stud

22

48,455

1,066,000

Whitsbury Manor Stud

21

44,295

930,200

The Castlebridge Consignment

20

42,020

840,400

Trickledown Stud

25

30,516

762,900

Tinnakill House Stud

5

147,200

736,000

Castletown Stud

7

103,029

721,200

16

41,406

662,500

Norelands Stud

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Tweenhills Farm & Stud Newsells Park Stud

Ringfort Stud

TOP TEN FOAL PURCHASERS 2019 By aggregate Buyer(s)

No bought

Average (gns)

Total (gns)

22

64,318

1,415,000

Peter & Ross Doyle B/S

5

278,000

1,390,000

15

73,800

1,107,000

9

114,444

1,030,000

16

56,188

899,000

Camas Park Stud

7

117,143

820,000

David Redvers B/S

2

400,000

800,000

Shadwell

4

198,750

795,000

Jamie Railton Sales Agency

10

67,900

679,000

JC Bloodstock

10

58,200

582,000

Woodford Thoroughbreds Paca Paca Farm Yeomanstown Stud Blandford Bloodstock

TOP-PRICED FOALS 2015-2019 Year

Name, sex

Pedigree

Buyer(s)

Vendor(s)

2019

Unnamed, c

Frankel-Simple Verse

David Redvers B/S

Tweenhills Farm & Stud

Galileo-Pearling

Blue Diamond Stud Farm New England Stud

2018 Unnamed, f

Price (gns)

600,000 1,700,000

2017 Queen’s Opal, f

Dubawi-Swain’s Gold

Godolphin

Minster Stud

750,000

2016 Secret Walk, f

Dansili-High Heeled

MV Magnier et al

West Blagdon Stud

600,000

2015 Espadrille, f

Dubawi-High Heeled

John Ferguson B’stock

West Blagdon Stud

800,000

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Simple Verse in the winner’s enclosure after the 2015 St Leger – her second foal looks sure to attract plenty of interest, as does Airlie Stud’s half-brother to Skitter Scatter (below)

3-time Gr.1 winner CIRCUS MAXIMUS →

Irish 2,000 Guineas winner SISKIN ↴

← 2,000 Guineas winner KAMEKO Dual Group winner and Gr.1-placed WICHITA →

Won a vintage renewal of the Group 1 Sussex Stakes Standing alongside Eqtidaar, Muhaarar and Tasleet Get in touch with the nominations team to discuss terms.

Contact Tom Pennington on +44 (0)7736 019914 | tpennington@shadwellstud.co.uk or Ellen Bishop on +44 (0)7826 205155 | ebishop@shadwellstud.co.uk Discover the Shadwell stallions: www.shadwellstud.com

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BREEDING STOCK SALES TATTERSALLS

Phillyjinks appeals as Tiger shines MISS PHILLYJINKS (lot 1736) was no superstar on the track but, following a mating with Zoffany, produced a Group 1 star with her first foal in the shape of Tiger Tanaka.

A €12,000 purchase as a yearling from the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale in 2014, she made just a quarter of that when purchased by Bedrock Bloodstock at Goffs’ November Sale three years later.

Given the exploits of her prolific daughter – the twoyear-old has won six of her eight starts and two black-type contests, notably the Prix Marcel Boussac – she will be worth a far greater sum when she steps into the Park Paddocks sale ring.

Newsells expected to make usual impact NEWSELLS PARK STUD have enjoyed a fruitful end to 2020 with the Galileo filly out of the wonderful producer Shayste achieving top-lot status at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale to MV Magnier, plus the acquisition of St James’s Palace Stakes winner Without Parole as a new stallion.

The team has a typically strong consignment heading to Park Paddocks, including a mix of proven broodmares and exciting maidens for the Mare Sale. Among them is Lady Eclair (lot 1932), a daughter of Danehill Dancer and a sister to the stakes winner Savethisdanceforme, who has produced two black-type horses to date.

Foals, meanwhile, by firstcrop sires Harry Angel, Expert Eye and Saxon Warrior join offspring by leading stallions including Sea The Stars,

Coplow passes through the Tattersalls ring last year for 2,100,000gns

Invincible Spirit and New Approach.

One particularly eyecatching sort is lot 650, an Invincible Spirit colt out of the Listedwinning Fresh Terms, a halfsister to Prix Marcel Boussac third Star Terms.

Rekindling offered as stallion hope TWO horses owned by Lloyd Williams are being offered for sale as stallion prospects, consigned by Joseph O’Brien, and the pair are due to be

followed into the ring by a couple of entires from Shadwell.

O’Brien’s first Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling (lot 1504) and Australian Group 2 winner Yucatan (lot 1505) are set to be joined by Sandown Listed scorer Wadilsafa (lot 1506), who was trained by Owen Burrows, and Yafta (lot 1507), saddled by Richard Hannon to win the Group 3 Hackwood Stakes.

Rekindling, a son of High Chaparral, has raced just twice since winning the 2017 Melbourne Cup, finishing last in the 2019 Australian Cup and sixth in a minor event at Leopardstown this summer.

TOP-PRICED MARES 2015-2019 Year

Buyer(s)

Vendor(s)

Price (gns)

2019 Coplow, 2009

Name, year of birth Covering sire

Kingman

MV Magnier

Stowell Hill Stud

2,100,000

2018 Pearling, 2006

Galileo

Blue Diamond Stud Farm

New England Stud

2,400,000

2017 Marsha, 2013

-

MV Magnier

Heath House Stables

6,000,000

2016 Hazariya, 2002

Invincible Spirit

MV Magnier / Mayfair

Newsells Park Stud

2,000,000

John Ferguson Bloodstock

Highclere Stud

2,700,000

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TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARES SALE Five-year history Year

Offered

Sold

Aggregate (gns) Average (gns)

Median (gns)

2019

812

668

57,790,900

86,513

27,000

2018

878

728 6

0,712,100

83,396

20,500

2017

857

675

68,315,300

101,208

25,000

2016

891

681

44,709,200

65,652

27,000

2015

908

680

46,513,500

68,402

28,000

TOP TEN MARE VENDORS 2019 By aggregate Consignor

No sold

Average (gns)

Total (gns)

The Castlebridge Consignment

62

164,653

10,208,500

European Sales Management

13

458,538

5,961,000

Juddmonte Farms

36

110,250

3,969,000

9

264,444

2,380,000

20

117,350

2,347,000

Stowell Hill Stud

1

2,100,000

2,100,000

The National Stud

27

74,137

2,001,700

New England Stud

20

97,340

1,946,800

Newsells Park Stud

15

128,933

1,934,000

Norelands Stud

14

126,000

1,764,000

Highclere Stud Tweenhills Farm & Stud

TOP TEN MARE PURCHASERS 2019 By aggregate Buyer(s)

BBA Ireland

No bought

Average (gns)

Total (gns)

26

132,596

3,447,500

Rob Speers / Old Mill Stud

7

327,857

2,295,000

MV Magnier

1

2,100,000

2,100,000

6

309,167

1,855,000

11

152,727

1,680,000

Katsumi Yoshida

3

530,000

1,590,000

Eaton Bloodstock

2

762,500 1,525,000

London Thoroughbred Services

2

712,500

1,425,000

Haif Trading

6

184,167

1,105,000

Badgers Bloodstock

3

355,667

1,067,000

Kern/Lillingston Association Blandford Bloodstock

Tiger Tanaka wins the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp

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BREEDING STOCK SALES ARQANA The stage is set: Arqana will play host to the December Breeding Stock Sale across four days next month

ARQANA DECEMBER BREEDING STOCK vv Where and when

Arqana sales complex, Deauville; December 5-8 vv 2019 results From 918 offered, 698 sold (76 per cent) for turnover of €34,384 500, an average of €49,261 and median of €19,000

DEAUVILLE

Donjah top of the charts THE Breeders’ Cup did not go to plan for Donjah – the filly, Germany’s only representative at the two-day extravaganza, was unlucky to stumble badly and drop to the rear in the Turf won by Tarnawa – but the daughter of Teofilo can still be considered one of the star lots on offer at Deauville.

A six-length Group 3 winner at two, the now four-year-old struck at the top level when defeating the likes of Dame Malliot and Barney Roy in the Preis von Europa at Cologne over the summer, providing trainer Henk Grewe with his second success in the race and career Group 1 triumph; he was to make it three the day after the Breeders’ Cup Turf when Sunny Queen took the last top-flight race in Europe of 2020, the Grosser Preis von Bayern.

A €100,000 purchase from the Baden-Baden September Yearling Sale, Donjah (lot 182) looks set to command a substantially bigger price and is undoubtedly a valuable asset for any breeding operation.

Impressive strength ECURIE DES MONCEAUX enjoyed a record-breaking Select Sale when consigning what turned out to be the top two lots, and are once again strongly represented at the Breeding Stock Sale.

Among the leading consignor’s blue-blooded mares and fillies for sale is a half-sister to the Group 1-winning globetrotter Magic Wand in Psara (lot 148), who is carrying to Churchill, and Forest Maiden (lot 166) a daughter of Invincible Spirit out of the Group 1 winner Lady Marian, who is in foal to Siyouni.

TOP-PRICED FOALS 2015-2019 Year

Name, sex

Pedigree

Buyer(s)

Vendor(s)

Price (€)

Sea The Stars-Innevera

Hennessy Bloodstock

Montaigu

290,000

2018 Nash Nasha, f

Dubawi-Just The Judge

Stroud Coleman Bloodstock

La Motteraye Consignment 1,000,000

2017 Frozen Ocean, c

Dabirsim-Sailor Moon

Godolphin SNC

Petit Tellier

2019 Unnamed, c

2016 Fashion Family, f Frankel-Ascot 2015 Guy Dragon, c

Family Hugo Merry Bloodstock Capucines

Dark Angel-Trip To The Moon Railton/Stauffenberg

Cadran 2

260,000 450,000 30,000

TOP-PRICED MARES 2015-2019 Year

Name, year of birth

Covering sire

Buyer(s)

Vendor(s)

Price (€)

2019

Frankel Light, 2015

Dark Angel

Charlie Gordon-Watson

Mezeray

1,300,000

-

Narvick International for Katsumi Yoshida

Capucines

1,100,000

2017 Haggle, 2013

-

Wertheimer et Frère

Devin

1,300,000

2016 Parvaneh, 2013

-

James Delahooke

Monceaux

1,000,000

2015 Embellishment, 2011

Kingman

Bridlewood Farm

Etreham

2018 Lily’s Candle, 2016

900,000

The Truth is out there THE recently retired Magic Wand sold for €1,400,000 as a yearling at Arqana in 2016, going on to enjoy a stellar career featuring a triumph at the top level in the Mackinnon Stakes, while her career earnings topped £3.7 million.

Her older sister Truth (lot 178) obviously holds plenty of value given her sister’s starstudded exploits and all-round consistency.

Currently carrying to sire of the moment Siyouni, the daughter of perennial champion sire Galileo is also related to Irish Oaks heroine Chicquita and the stakesplaced Secret Thoughts.

World-class sires abound WHETHER purchasers are after a mare in foal, a filly recently retired from the track or a foal, there is a huge amount of choice when it

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ARQANA DECEMBER BREEDING STOCK SALE Five-year history Year

Offered

Sold

Aggregate (€)

Average (€)

Median (€)

2019

918

698

34,384,500

49,261

19,000

2018

901

683

33,276,500

48,721

18,000

2017

871

688

31,249,000

45,420

19,000

2016

832

620

23,035,500

37,154

16,000

2015

895

686

25,945,900

37,822

19,000

TOP TEN VENDORS 2019 By aggregate Consignor

comes to the sires on offer.

Among the leading stallions with mares in foals are Dark Angel, Kingman, Le Havre, Sea The Stars and Siyouni, while Frankel, Mehmas, Night Of Thunder and Wootton Bassett are among those whose foals are up for auction.

As a footnote, Arqana’s December sale usually brings the curtain down on Europe’s breeding stock auctions, but this time it sits in the middle of Tattersalls and Goffs, given the delay of the latter’s foal and mare auctions.

No sold

Average (€)

Total (€)

Etreham

19

207,211

3,937,000

Mezeray

15

184,333

2,765,000

Monceaux

27

90,593

2,446,000

La Motteraye Consignment

42

52,869

2,220,500

Wertheimer et Frere

21

99,143

2,082,000

Ombreville

28

74,107

2,075,000

Aga Khan Studs

24

65,542

1,573,000

Channel Consignment

30

49,017

1,470,500

Coulonces Sales

22

64,159

1,411,500

Capucines

17

56,559

961,500

TOP TEN PURCHASERS 2019 By aggregate Buyer

BBA Ireland

No bought

Average (€)

Total (€)

15

169,500

2,542,500

Oceanic Bloodstock

2

885,000

1,770 000

Charlie Gordon-Watson

1

1,300 000

1,300 000

Meridian International

13

86,308

1,122 000

Paul Nataf

30

31,333

940,000

Blandford Bloodstock

11

85,091

936,000

Broadhurst Agency

18

46,778

842,000

MAB Agency

18

44,250

796,500

Margaret O’Toole

4

196,750

787,000

Blue Diamond Stud

5

133,800

669,000

Rymska Gr.2 winner and twice Gr.1 placed on the Flat in 2019 then sold for $1,050,000 at Keeneland in November

Queenohearts Gr.2 winner over hurdles in 2019, purchased for £13,000 at Goffs UK

Emmas Joy Gr.2 winner over fences in 2020, purchased privately

Available at all the upcoming Flat and National Hunt sales, so please get in touch

jdmoorebloodstock.com JD Moore, Dereens, Naas, Kildare T: +353 (0)87 634 6998 E: Johndaniel.moore@yahoo.com

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BREEDING STOCK SALES GOFFS

Ghaiyyath and Sea Of Class siblings the highlights of a star-studded sale

T

HIS year’s Goffs November Sale is unsurprisingly chockablock full of quality, and potential buyers will have the opportunity to get their hands on a foal with one of the hottest pedigrees anywhere in the world.

The Castlebridge Consignment usually holds a stellar hand – they sold last

year’s record-breaking top lot – and this time the team is headed by a Kingman halfbrother to the recently retired four-time Group 1 winner Ghaiyyath.

Godolphin’s brilliant middle-distance runner, the top-rated horse of 2020 so far, leaves the scene for Kildangan Stud, and his half-brother will be box office when heading into the sales ring.

By sire sensation Kingman, responsible for top milers Persian King and Palace Pier this year, he is out of 1,000 Guineas heroine Nightime, famously the first Group 1 scorer for Galileo.

Ghaiyyath was sold at this auction for €1.1 million in 2015, while his full-brother sold for €1.2m to Anthony Stroud last year as the most expensive foal in the world.

What price this latest blueblooded sibling can top those seven-figure lots?

Another star attraction will be Oak Lodge & Springfield House Stud’s full-brother to the hugely talented but illfated Irish and Yorkshire Oaks heroine Sea Of Class (lot 636), who would likely also have won the Oaks at Epsom two years ago had she turned up and was very unlucky to be

beaten a short neck by Enable later that season in the Arc. Sire Sea The Stars has had another excellent year on the track, through the exploits of supreme stayer Stradivarius plus the likes of Ribblesdale winner Fanny Logan and Queen Anne runner-up Terebellum.

With ten lots set to represent the Gilltown Stud-based stallion here, his progeny

look hot property.

All in all we can expect to see plenty of quality foals and breeding stock on offer at this year’s delayed sales, with leading vendors the Aga Khan Studs, Ballylinch, Baroda, The Castlebridge Consignment, Derrinstown, Godolphin and Moyglare all represented in what promises to be another excellent edition.

KITTY TRICE

GOFFS NOVEMBER FOALS

vv Where and when Goffs sales complex, Kildare; December 18-20 vv 2019 results Part 1 524 lots sold from 645 offered (81 per cent)

for turnover of €25,721,800, an average of €49,087 and median of €30,000; Part 2 105 lots sold from 157 offered (67 per cent) for turnover of €680,500, an average of €6,481 and median of €4,200

GOFFS NOVEMBER BREEDING STOCK

vv Where and when Goffs sales complex, Kildare; December 21

vv 2019 results From 295 lots offered, 242 sold (82 per cent) for

turnover of €8,022,900, an average of €33,152 and median of €14,000

KILL

Ghaiyyath cruises home to win the Juddmonte International at York.

He was sold at this auction in 2015

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BREEDING STOCK SALES GOFFS

Strong show from hot firstcrop sires THE 2018 graduates to the stallion ranks looked a particularly strong class, and the leading group of Cracksman, Saxon Warrior, Roaring Lion, Expert Eye and Harry Angel are all duly represented.

Among their first foals to look out for are The Castlebridge Consignment’s Cracksman filly (lot 672) from the family of 1,000 Guineas winner Virginia Waters, Ballintry Stud’s Expert Eye filly (lot 611) out of a sister to star sprinter Sole Power, plus the Irish National Stud-consigned Saxon Warrior colt (lot 630) out of Prix de l’Abbaye scorer Gilt Edge Girl.

Sadly this will be Roaring Lion’s first and only crop heading to the Goffs November Foal Sale. The late son of Kitten’s Joy has four foals up for offer.

Among them is the Ballylinch Stud-consigned colt (lot 597) out of the Listedplaced Teofilo mare Cascading, a half-sister to French champion juvenile First Defense, and The Castlebridge Consignment’s colt out of the unraced Footstepsinthesand mare Sand Shoe, a relation of Pretty Polly Stakes scorer Thistle Bird.

Chances to snap up a Mehmas foal MEHMAS has taken the firstseason sire scene by storm and made history when recording his 38th individual European winner – courtesy of the Richard Hannon-trained Good Listener at Windsor in October – so Tally-Ho Stud’s young stallion will undoubtedly be on most purchasers’ shortlist.

Leading his first crop of runners is the exciting Middle Park Stakes winner Supremacy, who also struck in the Richmond Stakes for good measure, plus Minzaal, who landed the Gimcrack and was a promising third in the Middle Park.

The red-hot sire has 12 foals up for grabs at this particular sale and one of the most intriguing lots is Osberstown Stud’s colt (lot 539) out of the unraced Dansili mare Trading Places, the dam of the Marygate Stakes winner Vona and from the family of European champion threeyear-old Rail Link and the Group 2-winning Crossharbour.

Plenty will be hopeful of Mehmas’s progeny progressing at three, and the dam’s side of this particular colt offers encouragement on that front.

Mehmas’s debut crop was conceived at a fee of €12,500

‘Mehmas has taken the first-season sire scene by storm and made history when recording his 38th individual European winner, so Tally-Ho Stud’s young stallion will undoubtedly be on most purchasers’ shortlist’

GOFFS NOVEMBER MARES SALE

GOFFS NOVEMBER FOAL SALE Five-year history

Five-year history Year

Offered

Sold

Aggregate (€)

Average (€)

Median (€)

Year

Offered

Sold

Aggregate (€)

Average (€)

Median (€)

2019

295

242

8,022,900

33,152

14,000

2019 (pt1)

645

524

25,721,800

49,087

30,000

2018

363

235

6,289,000

26,762

10,000

2018 (pt1)

665

480

20,311,000

42,315

28,000

2017

445

345

14,924,450

43,259

15,000

2017 (pt1)

660

536

25,540,750

47,651

27,000

2016

467

401

20,777,700

51,815

15,000

2016

1,041

697

20,083,350

28,814

15,000

2015

407

315

9,840,400

31,239

15,000

2015

1,057

810

25,852,500

31,917

17,750

TOP TEN FOAL VENDORS 2019 (Part 1)

TOP TEN MARE VENDORS 2019 By aggregate Consignor

No sold

Average (€)

Total (€)

The Castlebridge Consignment

18

65,444

1,178,000

Godolphin

22

47,182

1,038,000

Aga Khan Studs

19

37,263

708,000

Derrinstown Stud

10

55,200

552,000

6

91,583

549,500

19

26,816

509,500

7

57,286

401,000

18

21,028

378,500

2

171,500

343,000

11

26,564

292,200

Kiltinan Castle Stud Norelands Grenane House Stud Baroda Stud Linacre House Stud Ballylinch Stud

TOP TEN MARE PURCHASERS 2019

Consignor

No sold

The Castlebridge Consignment

Average (€)

Total (€)

40

87,513

3,500,500

8

106,313

850,500

14

54,679

765,500

Stanley Lodge

8

86,125

689,000

Irish National Stud

6

113,833

683,000

Castletown Stud

10

64,200

642,000

Ringfort Stud

18

35,444

638,000

Abbeville Stud

6

103,167

619,000

Airlie Stud

7

87,143

610,000

Jockey Hall Stud

5

121,000

605,000

Ballylinch Stud Tinnakill House Stud

TOP TEN FOAL PURCHASERS 2019 (Part 1)

By aggregate Buyer(s)

By aggregate

By aggregate

No bought

Average (€)

Total (€)

BBA Ireland

8

136,000

1,088,000

BDS UK

6

107,500

645,000

Yeomanstown Stud

Yeguada Centurion

9

66,556

599,000

Shadwell

Eaton B/S for Diane Nagle

2

255,000

510,000

John McCormack BS LLC

2

179,000

Tally-Ho Stud

4

Broadhurst Agency

No bought

Average (€)

Total (€)

2

765,000

1,530,000

17

62,500

1,062,500

3

343,333

1,030,000

Lynn Lodge Stud

16

61,000

976,000

358,000

Tally-Ho Stud

22

42,477

934,500

75,000

300,000

Camas Park Stud

7

123,857

867,000

2

134,000

268,000

Glenvale Stud

9

82,222

740,000

Eaton Bloodstock

2

131,000

262,000

Jamie Railton Sales Agency

11

65,455

720,000

RJB Bloodstock

3

74,000

222,000

Peter & Ross Doyle B/S

9

66,333

597,000

10

16,100

161,000

Cormac McCormack Bloodstock

2

290,000

580,000

Luke Comer

and averaged 32,665gns, but their subsequent exploits resulted in a 59 per cent increase for this year’s yearlings at 51,880gns. His most expensive yearling to

date realised 320,000gns to Tom Goff at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, and if this is anything to go by his foals should sell like hot cakes.

Buyer(s)

Godolphin

Aga Khan consignment catches eye

IT GOES without saying that the Aga Khan Studs draft will attract plenty of attention given the strength of the bloodlines and the results gained on the track this year by

progeny of the mares sold in previous years.

One such example is Marie’s Diamond, winner of the Paradise Stakes and third in the Queen Anne, who is out of the Kalanisi mare Sindiyma, sold at this auction in 2013 to Tony Ashley for €20,000.

Sindiyma is again up for sale and the Airlie Stud-consigned mare (lot 922), who is carrying once again to Footstepsinthesand, has the pedigree and paddocks record to go for a respectable sum.

Among the exciting breeding stock prospects on offer this year is the placed Kingman filly Ediyva (lot 933), out of the Group 3 winner Emiyna and from the family of Gold Cup winner Estimate, Irish Oaks heroine Ebadiyla and Blandford Stakes scorer Eziyra.

Another likely prospect is the unraced Zoffany filly Haramouda (lot 936), out of a half-sister to dual Group 3 winner Hazapour and from the top-class family of dual Derby winner and champion threeyear-old Harzand.

Raydiya (lot 852) is another lot from the star-studded draft with polished breeding credentials. A Listed winner herself, the daughter of Marju has produced three winners including the Rock Of Gibraltar filly Raydara, winner of the Group 2 Debutante Stakes and fourth in the Matron. She produced a filly

by Roaring Lion this year and is now in foal to Ballylinch Stud’s Waldgeist, making her a tempting buy for anyone wishing to add to their broodmare band.

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Big guns: Night Of Thunder (main) and (from far left) Expert Eye and Mehmas will each be represented

It’s Night Of Thunder’s world and we’re just living in it NIGHT OF THUNDER has consistently broken records and exceeded high expectations with his first two crops of racing age, and consignors offer a select three to represent the Darley sire at the Goffs November Foal Sale.

The Kildangan Stud-based son of Dubawi recorded his 13th stakes winner from his first crop when Stormy Girl struck in the Listed Flying Fillies’ Stakes at Pontefract in August, and there is no reason why demand for his progeny should slow down.

The obvious standout from his three foals to go under the

hammer here is the AK Thoroughbreds-consigned colt (lot 569) out of the winning Monsun mare Arabescatta. She is out of the stakes-winning Approach and therefore a halfsister to Grand Prix de SaintCloud and Prix Jean Romanet scorer Coronet, plus Derrinstown Derby Trial winner and Irish Derby second Midas Touch.

With Dante Stakes winner Thunderous and some exciting juveniles set for next season, Night Of Thunder’s three foals could well be collector’s items by this time next year.

Derrinstown draft looks hot to trot THE Derrinstown team are always a familiar presence at the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale and there is plenty

of choice for prospective buyers among the 16-strong offering.

Among them is the Green Desert mare Ethaara (lot 886), a stakes winner in her own right and the dam of four winners to date, including the Listed-winning Street Cry filly Etaab. Ethaara hails from a solid black-type family, which includes stakes scorers Sudoor and Raseed, and is currently carrying to Darley stallion Cracksman, who had his first crop of foals arrive this year.

Another eyecatching lot on offer is Shimah (lot 891), a stakes-winning daughter of Street Cry who was second in the Moyglare Stakes. From the family of Group 2 winner Haatef and Group 3 victress Walayef, her best offspring to date is Rockingham Stakes scorer Mushir. She returned to Mushir’s sire, Oasis Dream, this year and would rate a high-class addition for any breeder.

TOP-PRICED FOALS 2015-2019 Pedigree

Buyer(s)

Vendor(s)

2019 Unnamed, c

Year

Name, sex

Dubawi-Nightime

Godolphin

The Castlebridge Consignment

2018 Reina Madre, f

Kingman-Splashdown

2017 Petite Mustique, f Galileo-Inca Princess

Outsider BL

Jockey Hall Stud

Hugo Lascelles, agent

The Castlebridge Consignment

Price (€)

1,200,000 350,000 1,100,000

2016 Maqsad, f

Siyouni-Amerique

Shadwell Estate Co

The Castlebridge Consignment

775,000

2015 Ghaiyyath, c

Dubawi-Nightime

John Ferguson

The Castlebridge Consignment

1,100,000

TOP-PRICED MARES 2015-2019 Year

Name, year of birth

2019 Snowflakes, 2015

Covering sire

Buyer(s)

Vendor(s)

Price (€)

U S Navy Flag

BBA Ireland

The Castlebridge Consignment

525,000

2018 She’s Complete, 2012 Sea The Stars

BBA Ireland/Yulong Investments The Castlebridge Consignment

2017 Inca Princess, 2008

Broadhurst Agency

Galileo

350,000

The Castlebridge Consignment

1,900,000 1,600,000

2016 Beauty Parlour, 2009

Kingman

White Birch

The Castlebridge Consignment

2015 Ebeyina, 2011

Kodiac

Ballylinch Stud

Aga Khan Studs

460,000

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THE AGA KHAN STUDS Success Breeds Success

BREEDING STOCK SALES Graduates of previous Aga Khan drafts include the dams of subsequent 2020 successes: CORMORANT

GUILDSMAN

PASSION

Gr.3 Derby Trial Stakes

Gr.3 Franklin-Simpson Stakes 2nd Gr.3 Round Tower Stakes 3rd Gr.2 Coventry Stakes

Gr.3 Stanerra Stakes 3rd Gr.1 Irish Oaks rd 3 Gr.1 British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes 3rd Gr.2 Ribblesdale Stakes 3rd Gr.3 Give Thanks Stakes

DARKNESS LR Criterium de Lyon

KIRSTENBOSCH

EMERALDS

2nd Gr.3 September Stakes 3rd LR Floodlit Stakes

Gr.3 Angst Stakes 2nd Gr.2 Golden Pendant

MARIE’S DIAMOND

VENTURA DIAMOND

Gr.3 Anglesey Stakes LR Paradise Stakes 3rd Gr.1 Queen Anne Stakes

LR Bosra Sham Stakes

GOLD TRIP Gr.2 Prix Greffulhe 3rd Gr.1 Grand Prix de Paris

the dams of jumps winners:

Stakes winner:

BORN TO HOLD

SONAIYLA

LR Prix Dominique Sartini

LR Sweet Mimosa Stakes nd 2 Gr.3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes 3rd Gr.1 Flying Five Stakes

HERE I AM LR Prix Finot (Poulains)

ZARKAREVA Gr.3 Buck House Novice Chase

See our 2020 drafts for Goffs and Arqana at

www.AgaKhanStuds.com/Sales