Breeding Stock Supplement

PULLOUT PREVIEW Thursday, November 14, 2019

BREEDING STOCK

Featuring the Goffs November, Tattersalls December and Arqana December Sales

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BREEDING STOCK SALES

Crucial finale to exciting European sales season

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ITH the breeding-stock sales in Kentucky winding down, it’s the turn of Europe to take centre stage, with Goffs, Tattersalls and Arqana all gearing up for their big broodmare and foal auctions over the next few weeks.

In the pages that follow we highlight just a few of the eyecatching lots while providing all you need to know ahead of the sales, which kick off at Goffs.

Its catalogue comprises 367 lots, with the fillies and mares coming under the hammer between parts one and two of the November Foal Sale, on the 21st and 22nd.

Among those who immediately stand out are Snowflakes, a sister to dual Guineas winner Winter and in foal to US Navy Flag; Could It Be Love, a winner and Group 1-placed four-year-old who is in foal to Australia; and Dufay, a winning daughter of Dubawi out of Group 1 scorer White Moonstone, who is carrying to Invincible Spirit.

James Thomas and Nancy Sexton are the Racing Post’s dream team in County Kildare to cover the sales, and likewise at Tattersalls at the end of the month and into December – you can keep up to date during the action with Nancy’s blogs.

One of the standout highlights in Newmarket will be the sale of regally bred Coplow, dam of Classic heroine Billesdon Brook, who also recently landed the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes. Coplow comes under auction in foal to Kingman.

A more familiar name, and one who will also command plenty of attention, is Mabs Cross, the popular Michael Dods-trained sprinter who won last year’s Prix de l’Abbaye. The five-year-old features among a catalogue in excess of 1,000 and which is played out from December 2-5.

The sale also witnesses the first part of the Waddesdon Stud dispersal, the pick from which could be Group 1 winner Thistle Bird, another in foal to Kingman.

There is precious little, if any, time to get some Christmas shopping done between Tattersalls and Arqana, with the Deauville-based auction house beginning its run on December 7. There is at least, however, no Brexit-related disruption to contend with.

There will very likely be at some point, but for now ‘no deal’ will simply mean a horse returns home without kerfuffle.

ANDREW SCUTTS, BLOODSTOCK MANAGING EDITOR

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CONTENTS 4-6 Sires with their first foals up for auction 8-11 The mares in foal by the 2019 intake of stallions 12-15 Goffs news digest and statistics 16-21 Tattersalls news digest and statistics 22-23 Arqana news digest and statistics

Height Of Elegance

7yo b Galileo-Brigid (Irish River) Goffs, lot 861; consigned by Grenane House The mare who arguably gave the late Peter Magnier the most success as an owner-breeder was Brigid, a daughter of Irish River from whom he bred the Moyglare Stud Stakes scorer Sequoyah, later the dam of 2,000 Guineas winner Henrythenavigator (right), and Fillies’ Mile heroine Listen (above), as well as two Tattersalls Book 1 sale-toppers in Liffey Dancer (2,500,000gns in 2007) and Nazym (1,700,000gns in 2011).

Height Of Elegance, a seven-year-old Galileo mare who is the last registered daughter of Brigid, will be offered as part of a dispersal of the executors of Magnier – a rare chance to buy into one of the finest families in the stud book.

Her runners include the smart Zoffany filly Zofelle, the winner of a valuable allowance race at Keeneland last month, and she is carrying to the Commonwealth Cup hero and first-crop sire Caravaggio.

HOT LIST

Ollie O’Donoghue selects six fillies and mares who leap off the page as potential headline makers

Could It Be Love

4yo b War Front-Maya (Arch) Goffs, lot 1000; consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment The Castlebridge Consignment has sold the most expensive filly or mare at the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale for the past three years, and the operation could make it four from four with another solid draft of 28 of the best and brightest breeding prospects.

Arguably the standout lot among its draft this year is Could It Be Love (below), a War Front half-sister to Uncle Mo who posted her highest Racing Post Rating of 110 when second to the exceptional miler Alpha Centauri in last year’s Irish 1,000 Guineas.

The admirably consistent mare is believed in foal to Derby hero and sire Australia, whose two-year-old son King Carney showcased his Classic credentials with a taking success in the Listed Silver Tankard Stakes at Pontefract last month.

Thistle Bird

11yo b Selkirk-Dolma (Marchand De Sable) Tattersalls, lot 1515; consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment The Castlebridge Consignment has been entrusted with the dispersal of the late Lady Rothschild’s Waddesdon Stud and chief among those lots is Thistle Bird, who carried her owner-breeder’s distinguished navy and yellow silks to victory in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

The 11-year-old Selkirk mare is believed in foal to Kingman on a May cover and will be offered in the dispersal along with Magical Romance and Spinning Queen, who topped the bill at the 2006 Tattersalls December Sale when selling for a combined 7.6 million guineas.

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Mabs Cross

5yo b Dutch Art-Miss Meggy (Pivotal) Tattersalls, lot 1818; consigned by Denton Hall Stables (Michael Dods) Following a nose defeat to Alpha Delphini in last year’s Nunthorpe, Mabs Cross made her deserved Group 1 breakthrough in the Prix de l’Abbaye less than two months later, making her one of three elite winners by her Cheveley Park Stud-based sire Dutch Art, along with fellow Group 1-winning sprinters and sires Garswood and Slade Power.

Mabs Cross was bred by David Armstrong out of his Hilary Needler Trophy winner Miss Meggy, and she looks an attractive option for buyers looking for a speedy outcross mare, with Northern Dancer appearing only in the fifth generation of her pedigree.

Dutch Art, whose oldest daughters are now ten, has shown promise as a broodmare sire with his daughters responsible for the likes of last season’s Middle Park Stakes runner-up Jash and the Group-winning trio Fas, Silva and Yulong Gold Fairy.

Snowflakes

4yo br/gr Galileo-Laddies Poker Two (Choisir) Goffs, lot 997; consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment From the same vendor as Could It Be Love comes this year-younger sister of four-time Group 1-winning miler Winter, the dual Guineas heroine who also struck in the Coronation and Nassau Stakes, before going down fighting to Hydrangea in the Matron Stakes.

Snowflakes and Winter are by Galileo and out of the smart sprinter Laddies Poker Two, who pulled off a famous gamble for Jeremy Noseda and the Coolmore partners in the 2010 Wokingham Stakes.

Snowflakes opened her own account in a Cork maiden over an extended mile as a three-year-old and is offered in foal to US Navy Flag, the three-time Group 1 winner who himself is out of a Galileo mare, meaning the resulting foal will be inbred 3x2 to the perennial champion sire.

Coplow

10yo ch Manduro-Anna Oleanda (Old Vic) Tattersalls, lot 1834; consigned by Stowell House Stud Buyers at Tattersalls will be presented with the opportunity to purchase the dam of a Classic winner as Stowell Hill Partners, the owners of Billesdon Brook, have decided to send her dam Coplow into the ring at Park Paddocks, where she will be offered in foal to Kingman.

The sophomore sire sensation also covered Billesdon Brook’s year-older Dick Turpin half-sister and stakes scorer Billesdon Bess this year.

Last year’s 1,000 Guineas winner Billesdon Brook (red cap) confirmed the top-class talent she showed as a three-year-old with a resolute win in this year’s Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes when she defeated a high-class field including the likes of Veracious, Iridessa, Laurens and Hermosa.

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STARS OF THE FUTURE

NEW SIRES OUT TO MAKE THEIR MARK

Zidane and Frizzante, while he was also visited by the Oh So Sharp Stakes winner Souter’s Sister (1118).

If Highland Reel, who battled with so many of the above, can transmit his tenacity to his progeny, then Coolmore will have a hit on their hands.

The hard-knocking globetrotter, offered at €17,500, was used by plenty of knowledgeable breeders with Goffs listing a half-sister to the dam of the equally durable Alive Alive Oh (404), while Tattersalls has a half-brother to US stakes performer Feel Glorious (722).

Decorated Knight, from the illustrious Galileo-Storm Cat line, took three Group 1s during the same time as those rivals and headed to the Irish National Stud. That operation stands firmly behind him at Goffs with three of his ten entries, including a son of the twice-winning French mare Neuquen (220).

A link with his racing owners Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar is maintained by his only lot at Tattersalls, a colt out of their Princess Margaret Stakes scorer Princess Noor (955).

Tom Peacock looks at the stallions with their first foals up for auction this year

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HILE we have been immersed in the period of deals and fees being completed for the latest generation of stallions to have stepped off the racecourse, those who embarked upon their second careers in 2018 face a formative test in the ring when their first foals set foot in public.

Although there is not quite a new entry arriving with the razzmatazz of a Frankel or a Sea The Stars, some of the eminent names of this year’s crop are marked out by their tenacity, with a host of high achievers from several captivating seasons of middle-distance clashes as well as Guineas winners, speedballs and sons from some of the most cherished bloodlines including Galileo, Dubawi, Invincible Spirit and Scat Daddy.

Miling power

Classic class

Almanzor joined his father Wootton Bassett at Haras d’Etreham at €35,000 for 2018, priced co-highest in Europe of the latest intake with a full first book limited to 140 mares.

One of a few French giants to join the stallion ranks, his offspring are in fairly scarce supply away from home at this stage.

Jean-Claude Rouget’s superstar, who took the French Derby as well as the Ascot and Leopardstown editions of the Champion Stakes, has a small Tattersalls offering include a filly (lot 618) out of a half-sister to the accomplished Elusive Kate.

Kilcarn Park’s filly from the family of French Oaks winner Rafha (394) is among a trio at Goffs.

Zarak, the impeccably bred product of a meeting between Dubawi and Zarkava who took the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, has an even smaller supply at Tattersalls but at Goffs they include a grandson of the wonderful producer Foodbroker Fancy (622) and a close relative of Arc winner Sagamix (503).

As a resident of Cheveley Park Stud, Ulysses is in the right place to succeed. He boasts not only the genes of

Almanzor wins at Ascot (top, and clockwise from centre right) Ulysses, Postponed, Highland Reel and Zarak

Galileo but those of Mr Prospector and Miesque through his dam, the Oaks winner Light Shift. Nursed back to his best by Sir Michael Stoute after looking too inexperienced for the Derby, Ulysses took both the Eclipse and Juddmonte International as well as performing commendably against Enable.

Among his most current progeny at Tattersalls are Cheveley Park Stud’s colt out of a half-sister to this year’s Richmond Stakes winner Golden Horde ((left, 915), while those at Goffs include the first foal out of a sister to Almanzor (581) and a half-brother to Champagne Stakes winner Seahenge ((666).

Dubawi’s Postponed, another authentic middle-distance champion from the King George to the Juddmonte International, is new to Dalham Hall and had a first book of 112 mares. A notable inclusion at Tattersalls is a son of the Dansili mare Frangipanni (972), a member of the sprinting family of

Churchill is the latest big-ticket Galileo to reach the marketplace for Coolmore, earning champion juvenile honours through victories in the National Stakes and the Dewhurst and going on to take both the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas the following year.

Also standing at a 2018 fee of €35,000, his Goffs offerings include a son of Queen Mary Stakes-placed Hairy Rocket (677) and a half-brother to the Group 3 Amethyst and Gladness Stakes winner Onenightidreamed (757). He was also visited by the Acclamation mare Anklet, whose two Australia fillies sold for eyewatering amounts at Book 1 and whose son sells at Tattersalls (728).

Fellow Guineas winner Galileo Gold takes his maiden steps for Tally-Ho, with more than 150 mares on his dance card at the first instance.

Included in a raft at Goffs are a daughter of veteran mare Red Fuchsia, whose son Red Badge won a Group 3 (1346), and a son of champion Italian juvenile Shifting Place (295).

A colt at Tattersalls is a half-brother to Hurricane Ivor (815), who made a scintillating debut in France this year.

Time Test, a dual Group 2 winner for Juddmonte in Britain and placed in Grade 1 company in America, has returned to his roots to stand at the National Stud and was

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Stallions with first foals on sale Name (year of birth, sire; 2018 fee)

Stud

No. at No. at Goffs Tatts

Aclaim (13 Acclamation: £12,500)

National

Al Wukair (14 Dream Ahead: €8,000)

Bouquetot

1

-

Almanzor (13 Wootton Bassett: €35,000)

Etreham

3

6

Ardad (14 Kodiac: £6,500)

Overbury

4

40

Caravaggio (14 Scat Daddy: €35,000)

Coolmore

15

22

Churchill (14 Galileo: €35,000)

Coolmore

5

11

Cotai Glory (12 Exceed And Excel: €6,000)

Tally-Ho

36

10

Danon Ballade** (08 Deep Impact: £4,000)

Batsford

-

1

Decorated Knight (12 Galileo: €15,000)

Irish National

10

1

Divine Prophet* (13 Choisir: €7,500)

Tara

13

1

Ectot (11 Hurricane Run: €5,000)

Bouquetot

El Kabeir (12 Scat Daddy: €8,000)

well received for £8,500 with plenty of black-type visitors.

The National Stud is consigning a few of the 30 to

be sold at Tattersalls, including a half-brother to German 1,000 Guineas heroine Electrelane (802).

That same stud has taken charge of the Prix de la Foret winner Aclaim, the most popular new Flat sire in Britain

of 2018 with a 160-strong list of suitors. Included at Tattersalls is a daughter of smart Argentine mare Chibola (616),

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1

Yeomanstown

29

16

Galileo Gold (13 Paco Boy: €15,000)

Tally-Ho

26

8

Highland Reel (12 Galileo: €17,500)

Coolmore

23

20

Jack Hobbs (12 Halling: £4,000)

Overbury

-

2

Karpino (12 Cape Cross: poa)

Glenview

-

1

Kool Kompany (12 Jeremy: poa)

Milagro

-

4

Magician* (10 Galileo: poa)

Castlehyde

1

-

Mattmu (12 Indesatchel: £3,000)

Bearstone

-

1

Mondialiste (10 Galileo: £6,000)

Elwick

3

7

10

4

National Defense (14 Invincible Spirit: €12,000) Irish National

Decorated Knight strikes in the Irish Champion Stakes (top left, and clockwise from top right) Churchill, Time Test and Galileo Gold

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Peace Envoy (14 Power: £2,000)

Worsall Grange

-

1

Postponed (11 Dubawi: £20,000)

Dalham Hall

2

17

Profitable (13 Invincible Spirit: €12,000)

Kildangan

31

25

Ribchester (13 Iffraaj: €30,000)

Kildangan

24

21

Spill The Beans* (12 Snitzel: £6,000)

National

1

6

Time Test (12 Dubawi: £8,500)

National

1

30

Ulysses (13 Galileo: £30,000)

Cheveley Park

6

17

Zarak (13 Dubawi: €12,000)

Bonneval

2

1

* first European crop **first British crop

whose earlier progeny have sold well.

Ribchester, who was acquired by Godolphin early

in a career that yielded four Group 1s, was pitched in at an opening fee of €30,000 at Continues page 6

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Caravaggio enjoying the surroundings at Coolmore with stallion man Kevin Murphy and (clockwise from centre right) Ribchester, Ardad, Aclaim, Cotai Glory and Profitable From page 5

Kildangan and this Iffraaj outcross gathered 154 mares to get him started. They are divided neatly with at least 20 selling at each auction house.

A colt from the immediate family of Godolphin’s Dubai World Cup star Moon Ballad (828) stands out at Tattersalls, with his Goffs portfolio including a colt out of a full-sister to the very smart Venus De Milo (584).

Speed of the essence

Darley’s Kildangan Stud branch will be hoping one of their newbies will be Profitable in more than name only. The top sprinter had a first book of 179 mares at a €12,000 cover and is the most widely represented of all those

to feature with 56 selling across both events.

Although Profitable won as a juvenile for trainer Clive Cox and scored in Listed company as a three-year-old, it was not until he was an older horse that he became a star of the sprinting division, taking the Temple Stakes and the King’s Stand in 2016 and running second to Lady Aurelia in the latter event the following year.

His noteworthy entries at Tattersalls include a colt out of the Listed winner Law Of The Range (887) and one produced by a half-sister to the Queen Mary Stakes winner Signora Cabello (771). At Goffs he has a half-brother to the consistent Listed-scorer Majestic Myles (670).

Coolmore’s heir apparent to

the late Scat Daddy is the rapid Caravaggio, blistering winner of the Coventry and Phoenix Stakes at two who went on to defeat Harry Angel and Blue Point in a captivating running of the Commonwealth Cup. Standing for €35,000 in 2018, there will be big expectations when his first crop reach the racecourse in 2021, and there are 37 chances to get a piece of him on both sides of the Irish Sea. Included among the dispersal of the late Peter Magnier at Goffs is a colt out of a Galileo half-sister to the top-class Izzi Top (right, 597) from the cherished Meon Valley Stud family.

There is also a grandson of Falmouth winner Music Show (553). Tattersalls includes a

filly out of Brazilian Group 1 winner Energia Fox (852), a colt out of the Listed winner Riskit Fora Biskit (881), and a half-brother to Listed Land O’Burns Fillies’ Stakes winner Sugar Free (1003).

A more left-field son of Scat Daddy is El Kabeir,, a multiple

Graded winner in the US who has been shrewdly imported to stand at Yeomanstown. He was fully booked at a more pragmatic €8,000 with Ballylinch selling a daughter of its Italian stakes-class Avomcic (66) at Goffs.

Among Overbury’s boast for Ardad is that he took the 2016 Windsor Castle in a quicker time than Profitable in the King’s Stand, with the John Gosden-trained Kodiac colt going on to take the Flying Childers at Doncaster. An easy sell for the Gloucestershire operation with a first book of 132 mares, he has the biggest representation at Tattersalls with 40. Among them are a half-sister to Coventry ( runner-up Headway (714).

Molecomb winner Cotai

Glory has been a busy boy at Tally-Ho, covering more than 180 mares at a 2018 fee of €6,000, and his 36 foals at Goffs gives him the largest representation there of all first-crop sires. A match-up with Cheveley Park scorer Carry On Katie (90) ought to have produced a speedy filly.

National Defense, the son of Invincible Spirit currently shuttling in Australia from the Irish National Stud, attracted plenty of black-type mares. He has a filly at Tattersalls out of a full-sister to St Leger scorer Milan (1147).

Kool Kompany, who stands in Spain and is best known as a speedy Richard Hannon juvenile, has four chances to get his name across at Park Paddocks.

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Dubawi’s

Shamardal’s

Blue Point

NEW APPROACH’S

MASAR

TOO DARN HOT

The male line. Nurturing it, from the Darley Arabian onwards, is how the thoroughbred has grown faster. Retiring to stud at Darley for 2020 are three colts with the genes and mental attributes to have made it to the peak of the breed: a multiple record-breaking sprinter, a fast two-year-old who went on to win the Derby, and a European Champion juvenile and top-rated three-year-old. What’s more, they are all sons of exceptional Darley stallions.

Think of them as the next in line, an incremental honing on the way to the champions of tomorrow. Clearly amazing? We think so...

BLUE POINT NEW €45,000 Oct 1, SLF Shamardal – Scarlett Rose (Royal Applause) Standing at Kildangan Stud, Ireland MASAR NEW £15,000 Oct 1, SLF New Approach – Khawlah (Cape Cross) Standing at Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket TOO DARN HOT NEW £50,000 Oct 1, SLF Dubawi – Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) Standing at Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket

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TWO FOR ONE

MARES IN FOAL TO THIS YEAR’S NEW WAVE OF SIRES Ollie O’Donoghue on the breeding-stock offerings for 2019’s crop of stallions

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HE most expensive stallion retired to stud this year was not to be found in Europe but across the pond in Kentucky, where US Triple Crown hero Justify took up residence at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud at a fee of $150,000.

Buyers at Tattersalls will surely be hot on the trail of Butterscotch (lot 1829), the only mare listed in foal to the son of Scat Daddy at the December Mare Sale, and she can be expected to foal down early in the spring as she was covered in February.

The Castlebridge Consignment has been entrusted with the four-year-old daughter of Galileo, a half-sister to Coach House, who finished second to subsequent Group 1 winner Clemmie in the Group 3 Balanchine Stakes at the Curragh as a juvenile.

The priciest retiree to stud in

Europe this year was the ill-fated Roaring Lion, a son of Kitten’s Joy who covered a glittering book of mares at Tweenhills at a £40,000 fee.

Nine mares covered by last season’s Horse of the Year are listed for sale, eight at Tattersalls and one at Goffs, and many boast strong performance records and pedigrees.

Among those set to come under the hammer at Park Paddocks will be West Blagdon Stud’s two-time winner Stream Song (1454), a Mastercraftsman half-sister to British Champions Day scorer Journey out of the Prix Royal-Oak heroine Montare, and Bugley Stud’s placed Galileo mare With Good Grace (1491), a half-sister to the Golden Jubilee Stakes scorer Art Connoisseur from the family of Balanchine.

Two others joined the Tweenhills roster for the 2019 breeding season – Lightning Spear, a son of Pivotal who made his deserved Group 1 breakthrough in last year’s Sussex Stakes as a seven-year-old, and Zoustar, a son of Northern Meteor who stood his first northern hemisphere season as his progeny continued their fine run in his native Australia.

Lightning Spear has four mares listed in foal at Tattersalls including Molly

Mayhem (1981), a Casamento half-sister to the smart Siyouni filly Spectre from Glebe Farm Stables.

Among those to have visited Australian sire sensation Zoustar are the Goffs-bound Zakhrafa (973), a seven-year-old Shamardal mare offered by Mount Coote Stud, and Always A Drama (1662) at Tattersalls, a Red Jazz

mare from Norris Bloodstock who is a half-sister to Endless Drama, who landed three Group 2 prizes in Australia and New Zealand.

Coolmore crown jewels

Apart from Justify, Coolmore also welcomed a quartet of new recruits closer to home with 2,000 Guineas winner Saxon Warrior joined by fellow

Group 1 winners US Navy Flag and Sioux Nation at their base in Tipperary, along with the well-bred Group 2 winner Gustav Klimt.

Saxon Warrior became the first British Classic winner for his sire Deep Impact after he struck at Newmarket, which added to his success in the Racing Post Trophy (now the Vertem Futurity), and he has

no fewer than 16 mares in foal at Goffs and Tattersalls.

Of the seven heading to Goffs, Kiltinan Castle Stud will offer the Monsieur Bond mare Gilt Edge Girl (949), who is best known for her Prix de l’Abbaye win, although she has also produced the Listed scorer Time’s Arrow, while of the nine destined for Newmarket, Ballyhimikin Stud

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EQTIDAAR NEW Invincible Spirit - Madany £6,500 (Jan 1st, SLF)

MUHAARAR Oasis Dream - Tahrir

£20,000 (Jan 1st, SLF)

MUKHADRAM Shamardal - Magic Tree £6,000 (Jan 1st, SLF)

TASLEET

Showcasing - Bird Key £6,000 (Jan 1st, SLF)

will offer the Anabaa Blue mare Spain Blues (1792), whose Sageburg daughter Spain Burg appears on the Rockfel Stakes roll of honour.

War Front stallion US Navy Flag has covered six mares on offer at Goffs and two at Tattersalls. Holding the most appeal is arguably the Goffs-bound Snowflakes (997), a year-younger Galileo

half-sister to the four-time Group 1 winner Winter who sent shivers down the spines of her rivals during a glittering three-year-old campaign that included Guineas wins on both sides of the Irish Sea. Sioux Nation has the same number of mares in foal at both sales as US Navy Flag, with Trickledown Stud sending the Declaration Of War mare

Collegiate (1383), a placed daughter of the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes runner-up Cochabamba, to Tattersalls.

Goffs will present for sale four mares carrying to Gustav Klimt – the Group 2 Superlative Stakes scorer from the family of Invincible Spirit and Kodiac – including the Montjeu mare Stranded (809)

Continues page 10

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BREEDING STOCK SALES Stallions with their first mares in foal at this year’s breeding stock sales: Lightning Spear at Tweenhills Stud (left), Saxon Warrior at Coolmore and (below centre) Darley’s Harry Angel; Harzand (bottom left) is a half-brother to Expert Eye’s mate Haziyna while (bottom right) Journey is a half-sister to a mare covered by the ill-fated Roaring Lion

Sires new for 2019 with mares in foal o ered by (year of birth, sire; 201 fee)

Stud

No. at No. at Goffs Tatts

Cracksman (14 rankel: £25,000)

Dalham Hall

-

8

Expert Eye (15 Acclamation: £20,000)

Banstead Manor

2

17 1

rontiersman (13 Dubawi: poa)

Overbury

-

Gustav Klimt (15 Galileo: €7,500)

Coolmore

4

-

Harry Angel (14 Dark Angel: £20,000)

Dalham Hall

2

18

Havana Grey (15 Havana Gold: £8,000)

Whitsbury Manor -

10

Hawkbill (13 Kitten s Joy: £7,500)

Dalham Hall

James Garfield (15 Exceed And Excel: €7,500)

Rathbarry

Justify (15 Scat Daddy: 150,000) Kessaar (16 Kodiac: €8,000) ightning Spear (11 Pivotal: £8,500)

-

1

1*

-

Ashford

-

1

Tally-Ho

2

-

Tweenhills

-

4

Massaat (13 Teofilo: £5,000)

Mickley

-

1

Poet s Word (13 Poet s oice: £7,000)

Nunnery

-

3

Rajasinghe (15 Choisir: £5,000)

National

-

4

Roaring ion (15 Kitten s Joy: £40,000)

Tweenhills

1

8

Saxon Warrior (15 Deep Impact: €30,000)

Coolmore

7

9

Sioux Nation (15 Scat Daddy: €12,500)

Coolmore

6

2

Tasleet (13 Tasleet: £6,000)

Shadwell

2

10

US Navy lag (15 War ront: €25,000)

Coolmore

6

2

Unfortunately (15 Society Rock: £7,500)

Cheveley Park

-

9

Washington DC (13 Zoffany: £6,000)

Bearstone

-

2

**Zoustar (10 Northern Meteor: £25,000)

Tweenhills

1

16*

*not in foal **first European crop

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from Jockey Hall Stud, who has already produced the Listed-placed Westadora to Le Havre.

Like Gustav Klimt, another from the Eljazzi clan to retire to stud this year was James Garfield, the Mill Reef Stakes scorer who joined the Rathbarry Stud roster, and his first foals will hit the ground next spring.

Darley delights

Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley operation rolled out the blue carpet at Dalham Hall for dual Champion Stakes scorer Cracksman, world champion sprinter Harry Angel and Coral-Eclipse hero Hawkbill.

Cracksman captured the Ascot feature in 2017 and 2018, following on from the success of his own sire Frankel in the race in 2012, and eight mares will be offered in foal to the Dalham Hall stallion at Tattersalls.

Among the Shadwell draft is

Fawaayed (1354), a Singspiel half-sister to the Queen Mary Stakes scorer and Guineas third Maqaasid who is pregnant on an early-April cover, while Upperwood Farm Stud will consign Mascarene (1372), a placed Empire Maker mare out of the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf heroine Intercontinental, whose own dam is the legendary producer Hasili.

Harry Angel is the best represented of any 2019 sire at the Goffs and Tattersalls breeding-stock sales with no fewer than 18 in-foal mares lined up for a date with the Tattersalls auctioneer.

The Elms Stud is the vendor of Mondiva (1373), a Bertolini half-sister to the Prix du Cadran winner Molly Malone, who in turn is the dam of Morgan Le Faye, while Glidawn Stud is the consignor of Samaah (1394), a Cape Cross half-sister to Kingsgate Native who produced this season’s Sirenia Stakes third Huraiz.

Meanwhile, the Kitten’s Joy stallion Hawkbill, who precedes his paternal half-brother Roaring Lion on the Coral-Eclipse roll of honour, has a sole lot on offer at Tattersalls, with Old Buckenham Stud set to offer Lemon Sophia (1925), an unraced daughter of the smart Oasis Dream mare Anna Sophia.

Expert credentials

As well as its stallions enjoying a stellar season on the track with their progeny, Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud welcomed the arrival of Expert Eye, who hit the heights in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Mile at Churchill Downs.

Pitched in at a £20,000 fee, the son of Acclamation has 17 mares on offer at Park Paddocks and another two at Goffs, with the Aga Khan Studs set to present Harzand’s half-sister Haziyna (938) at the latter.

The Halling mare was

second in the Group 3 Give Thanks Stakes at Cork during her own racing career, and has a yearling Fastnet Rock filly and Golden Horn filly foal in the pipeline.

There are some similarly appealing mares in foal to Expert Eye at Tattersalls, with Juddmonte to offer Midday’s winning half-sister Popular (1481), an Oasis Dream mare who has already come up trumps with the Listed-placed In Favour, and Queen’s Charter (1395), an unraced Oasis Dream half-sister to Queen’s Trust, featuring among the Barton Stud draft.

Need for speed

Group 1-winning sprinters Havana Grey and Unfortunately found berths at Whitsbury Manor and Cheveley Park Stud this year, although the latter has since moved on to Oak Lodge Stud ahead of the 2020 breeding season.

The two went toe-to-toe in the 2017 Prix Morny, with the

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LONG STANDING ACHIEVEMENT

Under its current ownership, Cheveley Park Stud has stood three Champion UK-based First Crop Sires; three Champion Sires in various categories, and a multiple Champion Broodmare Sire.

MAYSON Invincible Spirit ex Mayleaf (Pivotal)

Sire of 65 individual winners in 2019 and 20% of his runners were officially rated 85 or higher.

■ Fee: £5,000 (1st Oct. SLF)

PIVOTAL Polar Falcon ex Fearless Revival (Cozzene)

Champion Sire and Champion Broodmare Sire.

Sire of 30 individual Group 1 winners.

■ Fee: Private (1st Oct. SLF)

TWILIGHT SON latter prevailing in a closely fought finish, although Havana Grey made his own Group 1 breakthrough in last year’s Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh, which has led to the son of Havana Gold being labelled “the fastest horse from the Galileo sire-line”.

Havana Grey – whose dam Blanc De Chine is listed for sale as lot 1717 at Tattersalls – is the covering sire of ten mares at Park Paddocks, while Society Rock’s son Unfortunately has nine on offer at the same venue.

Kirtlington Park Stud will send forth Shadow Spirit (2240), a Makfi half-sister to the German Group 2 scorer Highland Knight who was covered successfully by Havana Grey in April, while

Cheveley Park Stud will offer two mares in foal to Unfortunately out of dual winner Pious, who is the dam of Group winners Penitent and Supplicant, both by Kyllachy First into the ring will be the winning Kyllachy mare Postulant (1699), followed by the winning Pivotal mare Blithe (2078), whose runners include the useful Telmeyd and Sainted.

Furthermore, Richard Hughes’s Weathercock House Stables will offer the placed Looks Good (2180), a Morpheus half-sister to Unfortunately and the Group 2 Temple Stakes scorer Look Busy.

Others of interest

Poet’s Word – who once ranked second to Winx in the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Ratings – has a trio of mares in foal to him at

Tattersalls, with Shadwell the vendor of Ostora (1350), an unraced Sea The Stars half-sister to the Group 3 Earl of Sefton Stakes scorer Mahsoob.

The Nunnery Stud’s Tasleet, a Group 2-winning sprinter and close relation of Battaash, is another who is well represented at the upcoming breeding sales, with his harem last season including Byerley Stud’s Chrissycross (1387), a winning Cape Cross half-sister to this year’s Phoenix Sprint Stakes scorer Gustavus Weston (left), and Trickledown Stud’s Power To Exceed (1680), a winning Exceed And Excel half-sister to the Group 2 May Hill Stakes scorer Powerful Breeze.

Other 2019 stallions with mares in foal at the upcoming sales include Frontiersman (one at Tattersalls), Kessaar (two at Goffs), Massaat (one at Tattersalls), Rajasinghe (four at Tattersalls) and Washington DC (two at Tattersalls).

Kyllachy ex Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad)

Dual Group 1 winning sprinter.

First crop yearlings made 130,000gns, 115,000gns, etc.

■ Fee: £7,000 (1st Oct. SLF) FIRST CROP 2YOS IN 2020

ULYSSES Galileo ex Light Shift (Kingmambo)

Dual Group 1 winner by a Classic winner out of a Classic winning dam.

■ Fee: £15,000 (1st Oct. SLF) FIRST CROP YEARLINGS IN 2020

Cheveley Park Stud Tel: (01638) 730316 • enquiries@cheveleypark.co.uk www.cheveleypark.co.uk • L@CPStudOfficial

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BREEDING STOCK SALES GOFFS GOFFS

Goffs November Foals GGWhere and when Goffs sales complex, Kildare; Part 1 November 18-20 and Part 2 November 22 GG2018 results Part 1 480 lots sold from 665 offered (72 per cent) for turnover of €20,311,000, an average of €42,315 and median of €28,000; Part 2 154 lots sold from 252 offered (61 per cent) for turnover of €1,033,800, an average of €6,713 and median of €3,750

Goffs November Breeding Stock GGWhere and when Goffs sales complex, Kildare; November 21-22 GG2018 results From 363 lots offered, 235 sold (65 per cent) for turnover of €6,289,000, an average of €26,762 and median of €10,000

Galileo’s girls and sibling to Group 1-winning graduate lead the way AS A MARK of the quality of this year’s Goffs November Sale, the most represented sire of fillies and mares during the breeding-stock section is none other than Galileo, with 19 of his daughters listed for auction at Kildare Paddocks.

The perennial champion is damsire of runners in Europe who have accumulated in excess of £8 million in prize-money this season, his daughters having produced

Group 1 stars Ghaiyyath, Magna Grecia, Sottsass and Watch Me. Galileo is second only to Pivotal in the broodmare sire stakes in Europe, and the latter has ten daughters on offer at the November Breeding Stock Sale, while Shamardal, who came up trumps as damsire of the Haydock Sprint Cup scorer Hello Youmzain, has a dozen scheduled to come under the hammer.

The November Foal Sale is also jam-packed with quality, not least with the full-brother to 2015 top lot Ghaiyyath, who counted both parents Dubawi and Nightime and his half-sister Zhukova as Group 1 winners before he even stepped foot on a racecourse. He upheld family honour this season with an emphatic win in the Grosser Preis von Baden in Germany.

Expect plenty of quality foals and breeding stock on show from leading vendors including the Aga Khan Studs, Airlie, Ballylinch, Baroda, Derrinstown, Godolphin, Irish National, Moyglare, Norelands, Owenstown, Rathbarry, Redmondstown, Staffordstown, The Castlebridge Consignment and Tinnakill House, for what promises to be a bumper edition of the auction.

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GROUP WINNING 2YO, CLASSIC WINNING 3YO

Phoenix Of Spain winning the Irish 2,000 Guineas by 3 lengths from Too Darn Hot, Skardu and Magna Grecia.

SPEED

SIRELINE

At 2

Phoenix of Spain is the highest rated and first Classic winning colt to retire to stud by the world’s emerging super sire Lope De Vega. Bred on the incredible Shamardal sire-line responsible for the 2019 Group 1 winning juveniles Victor Ludorum, Earthlight and Pinatubo as well as Champion sprinter Blue Point

At 3

1st

Acomb Stakes Gr.3, 7 furlongs – beating Broome Gr.1p 2nd Champagne Stakes Gr.2, 7 furlongs – from Too Darn Hot Gr.1 2nd Vertem Futurity Trophy Gr.1, 8 furlongs – from Magna Grecia Gr.1, beating Circus Maximus Gr.1

1st

Irish 2000 Guineas Gr.1, 1 mile – beating Too Darn Hot Gr.1, Magna Grecia Gr.1

PHYSIQUE • •

78,000gns foal purchased by Kilminfoyle House Stud 220,000gns yearling purchased by Howson Houldsworth

RECORD • •

Winner of the Irish 2,000 Guineas by 3 lengths. In one of the quickest times recorded, faster than Kingman, Dubawi, Gleneagles and Rock Of Gibraltar Timeform rated 126

Fee: €15,000 (1st Oct terms)

Contact: Cathal Beale, Sinéad Hyland, Gary Swift +353 (0)86 6031979, Patrick Diamond +353 (0)85 1299236 or Helen Boyce.

Tel: +353 (0)45 521251 www.irishnationalstud.ie Terms & Conditions apply

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BREEDING STOCK SALES GOFFS

Ten chances to snap up a foal by young sensation No Nay Never

An Invincible Spirit half-brother to Listed scorer Rose De Pierre (right) is catalogued as lot 763

Mad about the Moyglare gems on offer BARN E, where the Moyglare Stud draft will be housed during the Goffs November Sale, looks set to be a hive of activity with a trio of foals and three more fillies and mares among its select annual offering.

The vendor was the leading consignor by average at last year’s Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale with five lots bringing in total receipts of €526,000 at an average spend of €105,200, including the Listed-placed Invincible Spirit mare I’m Yours who sold in foal to Ribchester for €210,000 to Katsumi Yoshida.

The operation also sold Romantic Venture for €40,000 in 2008, and she has since gone on to produce the Irish 2,000 Guineas hero Romanised and the Italian Group 3 winner Rock Of Romance.

Among the three foals from Moyglare are a March-born Dark Angel colt out of Mad About You (lot 722), who placed

multiple times in Group 1 company including the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Moyglare Stud Stakes, and a May-foaled Invincible Spirit half-brother to the Listed scorer Rose De Pierre (763) out of the multiple Group 3 winner Profound Beauty, with both foals tracing back to Moyglare’s foundation mare Aptostar.

Another to trace back to Aptostar is the four-year-old Dream Ahead filly Smile Ahead (979), a half-sister to the smart Pattern performer Making Light who will be offered by Moyglare at the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale, where she will be joined by Frosty Beach (978), a three-year-old Footstepsinthesand filly who opened her account in a mile Naas handicap in June, and Firey Flower (977), a three-year-old Lemon Drop Kid half-sister to the Group 3 Golden Fleece Stakes runner-up Firey Speech.

NO NAY NEVER, riding high in the sophomore sire rankings in Europe this year with progeny earnings in excess of £2 million, has had his fee hiked up to €150,000 for next year.

Among the Coolmore stallion’s 49 winners this season – which have come at a clip of 42 per cent – is his first-crop son Ten Sovereigns, who added a second Group 1 to his haul in the July Cup, and two stars from the sire’s second crop in Mystery Power and Shadn, both of whom struck in Group 2 company.

Mystery Power and Shadn were both sold by Seskin Stud at the 2017 Goffs November Foal Sale, where the former realised €110,000 from Oaks Farm and the latter made €16,000 from Hill Farm.

Among the sire’s ten-strong group of foals destined for Part One of this year’s November Foal Sale is a full-brother to Mystery Power (lot 672) from Whitehall Stud.

Breeder Siobhan O’Rahilly has bred three runners with a Racing Post Rating of 100 or more out of the three-time winner Gems, a daughter of

Haafhd sourced privately for €5,500 at the 2013 Goffs February Sale, with Mystery Power a half-brother to the French Group 3-placed Seaella and the handicap specialist Fayez.

Other No Nay Never foals to catch the eye include the second produce out of the Listed-winning Thewayyouare mare We Are Ninety (590), with the April-foaled youngster to be offered as part of the dispersal of the late Peter Magnier, and a March-born colt out of the Danehill mare Al Ihsas (601) who will be offered by Applewood Stud on behalf of Suzanne Macken, with the dam having finished second to Romantic Myth in the millennium running of the Queen Mary Stakes.

No Nay Never is

also the covering sire of three mares on offer during the Goffs Breeding Stock Sale, with Norelands to offer the accomplished producer Steel Princess (971), a Danehill mare responsible for three stakes scorers led by Group 1 Canadian International winner Sarah Lynx. The Castlebridge Consignment, meanwhile, will offer Zagitova (998), a Group 2-placed Galileo mare and half-sister to Garswood, and the dual Group 3 winner Actress (1001), who shares her sire Declaration Of War with recent Melbourne Cup hero Vow And Declare.

Shadn: a Group 2 winner from the second crop of No Nay Never who sold here in 2017 for €16,000

TOP-PRICED ARES 201 -201

TOP-PRICED FOALS 201 -201 Year

a e se

Pedi ree

Buyer

Vendor(s)

Price (€)

Year

Buyer(s)

Vendor(s)

Price (€)

2018

nnamed, f

Kingman-Splashdown

Outsider BL

Jockey Hall Stud

350,000

2018

She’s Complete, 2012

a e year o

ir

Sea The Stars

o erin sire

BBA Ireland ulong Investments

The Castlebridge Consignment

350,000

2017

Petite Musti ue, f

Galileo-Inca Princess

Hugo Lascelles, agent

The Castlebridge Consignment

1,100,000

2017

Inca Princess, 2008

Galileo

Broadhurst Agency

The Castlebridge Consignment

1, 00,000

2016

Ma sad, f

Siyouni-Ameri ue

Shadwell state Co

The Castlebridge Consignment

775,000

2016

Beauty Parlour, 200

Kingman

White Birch

The Castlebridge Consignment

1,600,000

2015

Ghaiyyath, c

Dubawi-Nightime

John Ferguson

The Castlebridge Consignment

1,100,000

2015

beyina, 2011

Kodiac

Ballylinch Stud

Aga Khan Studs

460,000

2014

La Figlia, f

Frankel-Finsceal Beo

Dermot Farrington

Al ile Stud

1,800,000

2014

Ha ariya, 2002

Fastnet Rock

Oliver St Lawrence

Aga Khan Studs

480,000

GOFFS NO E F

ER FOAL SALE

GOFFS NO E

-

F

Year

ered

od

re a e (€)

era e (€)

edian (€)

2018 (pt1)

665

480

20,311,000

42,315

2017 (pt1)

660

536

25,540,750

2016

1,041

6 7

20,083,350

2015

1,057

810

25,852,500

2014

872

741

27,4 2,700

-

Year

ered

od

re a e (€)

era e (€)

edian (€)

28,000

2018

363

235

6,28 ,000

26,762

10,000

47,651

27,000

2017

445

345

14, 24,450

43,25

15,000

28,814

15,000

2016

467

401

20,777,700

51,815

15,000

31, 17

17,750

2015

407

315

,840,400

31,23

15,000

37,102

22,000

2014

375

2 7

7,777,400

26,187

13,500

TOP TEN FOAL ENDORS 201 PART 1 onsi nor(s)

ER ARES SALE

TOP TEN ARE ENDORS 201 onsi nor(s)

o so d

era e (€)

o a (€)

12

71,333

856,000

o so d

era e (€)

o a (€)

28

50,786

1,422,000

6

13 ,833

83 ,000

Aga Khan Studs

14

53,821

753,500

37,105

705,000

Godolphin

35

16,763

586,700

The Castlebridge Consignment Stanley odge Ballylinch Stud

1

The Castlebridge Consignment

3

221,000

663,000

Moyglare Stud

5

105,200

526,000

Ringfort Stud

13

45,731

5 4,500

Norelands Stud

7

66,857

468,000

Oghill House Stud

12

Jockey Hall Stud

Airlie Stud Irish National Stud Baroda

Colbinstown Studs

Pipe iew Stud

47,2 2

567,500

Baroda

54,111

487,000

Derrinstown Stud

Tally-Ho Stud

15

2 ,133

437,000

10

31,820

318,200

8

55,875

447,000

Irish National Stud

5

46,000

230,000

14

31,67

443,500

Kilmaglish House Stud

3

44,000

132,000

12

33,833

406,000

Mount Coote Stud

5

25,200

126,000

TOP TEN FOAL PURC ASERS 201 PART 1 Buyer

Colbinstown Studs

o ou

era e (€)

1

51, 47

TOP TEN ARE PURC ASERS 201 o a (€)

Buyer(s)

87,000

BBA Ireland Yulong Investments

o ou

era e (€)

o a (€)

2

212,500

425,000

Rifa Mustang Europe

2

180,000

360,000

BBA Ireland

8

38,250

306,000 2 4,000

Jamie Railton Sales Agency

8

118,375

47,000

Camas Park Stud

5

158,000

7 0,000

Shadwell Estate Company

3

226,667

680,000

Howson

4

73,500

Pier House Stud

8

80,875

647,000

Mick lanagan, agent

2

115,000

230,000

6

37,167

223,000

Houldsworth B stock

Yeomanstown Stud

6

104,833

62 ,000

Paul Nataf

Paca Paca arm

7

72,857

510,000

Outsider B

1

210,000

210,000

Ballyhane Stud

14

30, 2

433,000

Katsumi Yoshida

1

210,000

210,000

Stroud Coleman Bloodstock

4

4,500

378,000

Broadhurst Agency

1

210,000

210,000

Glenvale Stud

6

60,833

365,000

De Burgh Equine

3

56,000

168,000

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Brother to Ghaiyyath sure to be major draw

Night to remember with flying freshman sire BREAKTHROUGH freshman stallion Night Of Thunder – who transfers from Dalham Hall to Kildangan Stud for the 2020 breeding season, when he will command a €25,000 fee – provided one of the best Goffs November foal graduates on the track this year with the Simon Crisford-trained juvenile filly Night Colours, who landed an Italian Group 2 on her most recent start.

The first of her sire’s offspring to strike in Group 2 company, Night Colours was pinhooked

by Harry Dutfield for €26,000 from her breeder Grenane House Stud, and buyers will have half a dozen opportunities to buy the sire’s offspring at this year’s Goffs November Foal Sale, including Limekiln Stud’s April-born colt out of Listed-placed Exceed And Excel mare Vitoria (lot 587).

Derrinstown Stud, meanwhile, will offer the Listed-placed Oasis Dream mare Adhwaa (847) in foal to Night Of Thunder at the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale.

Night Of Thunder: represented this year by star sale graduate Night Colours

Aga Khan Studs draft makes plenty of appeal BUYERS panning for gold among the Aga Khan Studs draft at this year’s Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale will take encouragement from results on the track this year.

Marie’s Diamond, a three-year-old Footstepsinthesand colt who landed the Listed Pomfret Stakes at Salisbury in the summer, was bred by Tony Ashley out of Sindiyma, a daughter of the Aga Khan’s top-class middle-distance performer Kalanisi sourced for €20,000 here in 2013.

Shadai Farm also got in on the act by

breeding this year’s Group 3 Prix d’Aumale winner Savarin, a Deep Impact filly bred from the Refuse To Bend mare Sarafina, whom Shadai Farm sourced privately from the Aga Khan Studs.

There are plenty of opportunities to tap into the same source this year as among the bright breeding prospects on offer are Hardiyna (lot 937), an unraced Sea The Stars filly out of Silver Flash Stakes scorer Harasiya who is offered in foal to Rock Of Gibraltar.

Hardiyna will be followed into the ring by

her dam’s Halling half-sister Haziyna (938), one of five stakes performers out of the Athasi Stakes scorer Hazariya along with the dual Derby hero and sire Harzand. Haziyna is the dam of two winners and was covered by Expert Eye this spring.

Zanoubiya (943), whose best performer has been the 2015 Give Thanks Stakes winner Zannda, is another who makes plenty of appeal with an April cover to Awtaad, as does Mouneera (988), a twice-raced Dawn Approach half-sister to the Sydney Cup hero Mourayan.

ONE lot sure to have the big buyers out in force will be the Dubawi full-brother to former Goffs graduate Ghaiyyath (below), who topped the bill at €1.1 million at the 2015 Goffs November Sale, with the March-foaled chestnut colt (lot 745) set to be offered by The Castlebridge Consignment.

A son of the Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Nightime, Ghaiyyath had much to live up to before he ever stepped foot on a racecourse, with his Fastnet Rock half-sister Zhukova successful in the Man o’ War Stakes at Belmont Park in May 2017.

Since then Charlie Appleby’s charge has gone on to win five of his eight starts in the royal blue of Godolphin, including an astonishing 14-length win in this season’s Grosser Preis von Baden and another victory in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt at Longchamp.

What makes his achievements this season all the more remarkable is that he raced only once at three, when successful in the Group 3 Prix du Prince d’Orange at Longchamp.

GROUP-WINNING FOAL GRADUATES LISTED AS SOLD SINCE 2015 Horse

Year

Price (€)

Buyer

Vendor

Mystery Power

2017

110,000

Oaks Farm

Seskin Stud

Superlative S-G2

Races won

Shadn

2017

16,000

Hill Farm

Seskin Stud

Criterium de Maisons Laffitte-G2

Max ega

2017

47,000

Vendor

Tullpark from Stanley Lodge

Night Colours

2017

26,000

Harry Dutfield

Grenane House Stud

Aurelius In ove

2017

8,000

Arglo House Stud

Chariot Stables

Dark ision

2016

15,000

Limefield Stud

Baroda & Colbinstown Studs

a Pelosa

2016

52,000

Tally-Ho Stud

Ridge Manor Stud

ady Kaya

2016

15,000

Chinook Farm

Ballylinch Stud

Ghaiyyath

2015

1,100,000

John Ferguson

The Castlebridge Consignment Grosser Preis von Baden-G1, Prix d’Harcourt-G2, Autumn S-G2, Prix du Prince d’Orange-G3

ighting Irish Who s Steph atrobe

2015

2015

2015

20,000

Whatton Manor Stud

Kilcarn Stud

Whitehall Stud

Wraymount Stud

Zetland S-G3 Premio Dormello-G2

FIND YOUR CLASSIC WINNER

AT THE IRISH FOAL & BREEDING STOCK SALES

Premio Guido Berardelli-G3 Vintage S-G2 Natalma S-G1 Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial-G3

Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte-G2 Munster Oaks-G3, Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial-G3

2015

88,000

Margaret O’Toole

Castletown Stud

Irish Derby-G1, Ballyroan S-G3

Wells arhh Go

2015

16,000

Howson & Houldsworth BS Palmers Hill Stud

Bahrain Trophy S-G3, Acomb S-G3

Barraquero

2015

40,000

J Mactaggart

Cloneymore Farm

Rajasinghe

2015

65,000

Trickledown Stud

Arraghslea Stud

River Boyne

2015

20,000

Ballyhane Stud

Tara Stud

Richmond S-G2 Coventry S-G2

Twilight Derby S-G2, Mathis Brother Mile-G2

THE DAM OF IRISH 2,000 GUINEAS WINNER ROMANISED (IRE) IS A GRADUATE OF GOFFS NOVEMBER BREEDING STOCK SALE

Tattersalls Ireland Flat Foal and Breeding Stock Sale 16th November Goffs November Foal Sale 18th – 20th & 22nd November Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale 21st – 22nd November

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BREEDING STOCK SALES TATTERSALLS TATTERSALLS

Tattersalls December Mares GGWhere and when Park Paddocks, Newmarket;

December 2-5

GG2018 results

From 878 lots offered, 728 sold (83 per cent) for turnover of 60,712,100gns, an average of 83,400gns and median of 20,500gns

Tattersalls December Foals GGWhere and when Park Paddocks, Newmarket; November 27-30 GG2018 results From 969 lots offered, 681 sold (70 per cent) for turnover of 34,924,757gns, an average of 51,300gns and median of 25,000gns

Bumper year on the track with three Classic winners leading the way NO FEWER than three Classic winners this season emerged from the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, with Magna Grecia and Phoenix Of Spain winning the English and Irish 2,000 Guineas, and Star Catcher successful in the Irish Oaks as well as picking up Group 1 prizes in Britain and France.

They were augmented by Blue Point, a graduate of the 2014 auction who joined an exclusive club to have completed the

King’s Stand-Diamond Jubilee Stakes double at Royal Ascot, with Choisir the only other to have done so in the post-war era.

Furthermore, the December Yearling Sale graduate Zabeel Prince made his Group 1 breakthrough in the Prix d’Ispahan at Longchamp in May, while fellow auction graduate Royal Dornoch took out the Royal Lodge Stakes in late September.

This year’s December Yearling Sale on November 25 is highlighted by the Dubawi colt out of Irish St Leger winner Voleuse De Coeurs and the Galileo colt out of the regally bred Sent From Heaven.

Among the standout lots in the foal segment is the Galileo half-brother to 2017 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Precieuse and a Frankel colt who is the first foal out of the St Leger heroine Simple Verse.

The December Sale concludes with the mares’ section, which is billed as “the world’s most international bloodstock sale”.

Among the standout lots are the Prix de l’Abbaye heroine Mabs Cross, Pretty Polly Stakes star Thistle Bird and 1,000 Guineas winner Billesdon Brook’s dam Coplow, with the latter pair to be offered in foal to Juddmonte’s sophomore sire sensation Kingman.

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BREEDING STOCK SALES TATTERSALLS

FIRST FOALS SELLING THIS WINTER

MONDIALISTE GALILEO - OCCUPANDISTE (KALDOUN)

TATTERSALLS DECE F

ER FOAL SALE

So d

re ate (

2018

ear

ffered

6

681

34, 24,757

51,285

25,000

2017

57

742

32,668,200

44,027

25,000

2016

57

743

30,568,350

41,142

21,000

803

33,565,600

41,800

20,000

77

32,110, 00

41,221

25,000

2015

1,08

2014

66

s)

era e (

s)

edia (

s)

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or(s)

No so d

New England Stud

18

The Castlebridge Consignment Trickledown Stud

era e (

s)

Tota (

s)

181,878

3,273,800

24

4,500

2,268,000

33

41,045

1,354,500

Ringfort Stud

12

3,125

1,117,500

Norelands Stud

16

68,125

1,0 0,000

3

326,667

80,000

ittocks Stud Oghill House Stud Baroda

Colbinstown Studs

10

106,667

60,000

8 ,400

8 4,000

oute Sales td

8

102,238

817, 00

Castlefarm Stud

7

113,42

7 4,000

TOP TEN FOAL PURC ASERS 201

“I have been very impressed with the Mondialiste foals. He had it all, and his foals are seemingly following suit” ALEX ELLIOTT, BLOODSTOCK AGENT

uyer

No bou ht

Blue Diamond Stud arm UK Stroud Coleman Bloodstock

era e (

s)

5

576,000

Tota (

s)

2,880,000

6

45 ,167

2,755,000

Blandford Bloodstock

13

105,077

1,366,000

Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock

1

68, 47

1,310,000

Yeomanstown Stud

17

66,000

1,122,000

Tally-Ho Stud

16

64,344

1,02 ,500

One Agency

2

500,000

1,000,000

Camas Park Stud

8

124,625

7,000

Paca Paca arm

13

76,000

88,000

Emerald Bloodstock

21

42,057

883,1 2

Mabs appeals as speedy outcross

THE Group 1-winning sprinter Mabs Cross (below, lot 1818), a five-year-old daughter of Dutch Art, will be consigned from trainer Michael Dods’ Denton Hall Stables on behalf of owner David Armstrong.

Mabs Cross – who is free from Northern Dancer within her first four generations – is out of the Listed Hilary Needler Stakes winner Miss Meggy, a Pivotal half-sister to the Grade 3 Senorita Stakes winner Charlie Em. The seven-time winner was successful in the Prix de l’Abbaye last October, which followed on from placed efforts in the Nunthorpe and King’s Stand Stakes. She also landed the Group 3 Palace House Stakes twice, and in total won four stakes races as well as being placed in a further eight.

TOP-PRICED FOALS 201 -201 ear

STANDING AT ELWICK STUD Elwick Stud, Sheraton Farm, Co. Durham TS27 4RB t: +44 (0) 1429 856 530 e: info@elwickstud.co.uk w: www.elwickstud.co.uk

2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

Name, se

nnamed, f ueen’s Opal, f Secret Walk, f spadrille, f Naseem, c

edi ree

Galileo-Pearling

uyer(s)

Blue Diamond Stud Farm K

e dor(s)

New ngland Stud

ri e (

s)

1,700,000

Dubawi-Swain’s Gold

Godolphin

Minster Stud

750,000

Dansili-High Heeled

MV Magnier et al

West Blagdon Stud

600,000

Dubawi-High Heeled

John Ferguson B’stock

West Blagdon Stud

800,000

Sea The Stars-Chiosina

Shadwell state Company

Oghill House Stud

450,000

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GROUP-WINNING FOAL GRADUATES LISTED AS SOLD SINCE 2015 orse

ear

ri e (

s)

Arizona

2017

65,000

Threat

2017

Cayenne Pepper

2017

Dr Simpson

2017

7,000

New York Girl

2017

Streamline

uyer(s)

e dor(s)

Houghton Bloodstock

Coventry S-G2

100,000

Capital BS

Ringfort Stud

Gimcrack S-G2, Champagne S-G2

1 5,000

Harriet Jellet

Bumble Mitchell

Flame of Tara S-G3

Khubler Khan

The Castlebridge Consignment

Mercury S-G3

32,000

Brian Grassick BS

Ballybin Stud

Park S-G3

2017

40,000

Manister House Stud

Whitsbury Manor Stud

Sirenia S-G3

Magna Grecia

2016

340,000

MV Magnier Mayfair P&R Doyle

Norelands Stud

2,000 Guineas S-G1, Futurity Trophy-G1

Phoenix Of Spain

2016

78,000

Good Will Bloodstock

Newtown Stud

Irish 2,000 Guineas S-G1, Acomb S-G3

Star Catcher (right )

2016

240,000

Blandford Bloodstock

Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd

British Champions Fillies & Mares S-G1, Irish Oaks S-G1, Prix Vermeille-G1, Ribblesdale S-G2

ox Champion

2016

75,000

J R Bloodstock

Amy Marnane Bloodstock

Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen-G2

Shine So Bright

2016

57,000

Rathasker Stud

St Simon Stud

City of ork S-G2

A Bit Special

2016

15,000

Glidawn Stud BS

Bumble Mitchell

Sweetest Chant S-G3

2016

50,000

Richard Frisby B’stock

Longview Stud

Darley S-G3

Kick On

2016

80,000

Peter & Ross Doyle BS

Keith Harte,agent

Sovereign S-G3

Coral Beach

2016

85,000

Astute Bloodstock

Castletown Stud

Killavullan S-G3

Beshaayir

2015

1 ,000

Peter & Ross Doyle BS

Crimbourne Stud

Lanwades Stud S-G2

Move Swiftly

2015

30,000

Cooneen Stud

Redgate Bloodstock Ltd

Duke of Cambridge S-G2

Mythical Magic

2015

140,000

John Ferguson BS

Ballybin Stud

Zabeel Mile-G2

Raa Atoll

2015

200,000

China Horse Club

The Castlebridge Consignment

Oleander Rennen-G2

Soffia

2015

16,000

Amy Lynam

Newsells Park Stud Ltd

Sapphire S-G2, Ballyogan S-G3

intager

2015

25,000

Margaret O’Toole P S

Barton Stud

Oettingen Rennen-G2, Prix Bertrand du Breuil-G3

Brian Ryan

2015

15,000

C & C BS

Ga eley Stud agent

Grosser Preis der Landeshauptstadt Dresden-G3

eliciana De ega

Yulong Gold airy

2015

3,000

Five Star BS

Barton Stud

Concorde S-G3 twice

Havana Grey

2015

42,000

Crimbourne Stud

Mickley Stud Ltd

Flying Five S-G1, Sapphire S-G2, Molecomb S-G3

Summer estival

2015

5,000

Michael O’Brien

Keith Harte agent

Derby Italiano-G2

Treasuring

2015

32,000

David Redvers BS

Stringston Farm

Senorita S-G3, Curragh S-G3

Stage Magic

2015

160,000

John Ferguson BS

Rossenarra Stud

Prix des Chenes-G3

Beckford

2015

58,000

Margaret O’Toole

Brook Stud

Railway S-G2

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

SHOWCASING THE GROUP 1 SPEED SIRE Fee: £55,000 1st Oct. SLF

Adaay

Fee: £5,000 1st Oct. SLF

Due Diligence

Fee: £8,500 1st Oct. SLF

a e(s)

Fairway Partners

Havana Grey Fee: £6,500 1st Oct. SLF

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BREEDING STOCK SALES TATTERSALLS

Waddesdon Stud dispersal sure to focus the attention

THE first stage of the complete dispersal of stock from the Rothschild family’s Waddesdon Stud will be among the highlights of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale. The Castlebridge Consignment has been entrusted with the initial draft, which comprises 14 mares in foal and two fillies in training.

Heading the 16-strong team is Group 1 winner Thistle Bird (lot 1515), who is in foal to the outstanding young sire Kingman. Trained for Lady Rothschild by Roger Charlton, Thistle Bird ended her racing career on a high with victory in the 2013 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh. Dolma, her stakes-winning dam (1505) who is in foal to Sea The Moon, will join her in the dispersal.

TATTERSALLS DECE F

In total, eight of the 14 Waddesdon mares heading to this year’s December Sale are black-type winners, including the regally bred Group 1 winners Magical Romance (1508) and Spinning Queen (1513), both stakes producers and in foal to Gleneagles and Nathaniel respectively.

The six other mares are all either produced by or sisters of Group 1 winners, including Rocksavage (1512) and Willoughby (1517), who are half-sisters to the Group 1 winners Nathaniel, Playful Act and Great Heavens out of Magnificient Style.

The two fillies in/out of training comprise the winning three-year-old Kodiac filly Gallic (1506), out of Spinning Queen’s Listed-winning

ER ARES SALE

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Thistle Bird winning the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh

TOP-PRICED ARES 201 -201 ear

daughter Gallipot, and the three-year-old Nathaniel filly Wild Cat (1516), who is a half-sister to the Listed winner and Group 1-placed sprinter Growl.

Name, year of birth

2018

Pearling, 2006

2017 2016

o eri

or(s)

No so d

uyer(s)

e dor(s)

2,400,000

Marsha, 2013

-

MV Magnier

Heath House Stables

6,000,000

Ha ariya, 2002

Invincible Spirit

MV Magnier Mayfair

Newsells Park Stud

2,000,000

2015

Hanky Panky, 2010

Dubawi

John Ferguson Bloodstock

Highclere Stud

2,700,000

2014

Just The Judge, 2010

-

Tweenhills Farm & Stud

4,500,000

atar Racing & China Horse Club

TOP TEN ARE PURC ASERS 201 era e (

s)

Tota (

s)

uyer(s)

No bou ht

47

12 ,021

6,064,000

Blue Diamond Stud arm UK

New England Stud

18

272,806

4, 10,500

Phoenix Thoroughbreds

Highclere Stud

15

271,533

4,073,000

Baroda

1

204,053

era e (

s)

Tota (

s)

11

424,818

4,673,000

5

560,000

2,800,000

4

675,000

2,700,000

3,877,000

Kern illingston Assoc and One Agency 1

2,200,000

2,200,000

TS, agent for Erdenheim arm

ffered

So d

re ate (

35

107,22

3,753,000

Hugo ascelles, agent

3

700,000

2,100,000

2018

878

728

60,712,100

83,3 6

20,500

European Sales Management

8

457,500

3,660,000

Blandford Bloodstock

18

113,111

2,036,000

2017

857

675

68,315,300

101,208

25,000

John Troy

7

455,286

3,187,000

Katsumi Yoshida

3

550,000

1,650,000

2016

8 1

681

44,70 ,200

65,652

27,000

25

110,720

2,768,000

M Magnier

1

1,300,000

1,300,000

2015

08

680

46,513,500

68,402

28,000

Newsells Park Stud td

20

120, 00

2,418,000

Winstar arm

1

1,300,000

1,300,000

2014

882

685

48,2 0,6 5

70,4 7

26,000

Jamie Railton

2

78,700

2,282,300

Rabbah Bloodstock

8

153,375

1,227,000

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Juddmonte arms

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New ngland Stud

The Castlebridge Consignment

Colbinstown Studs

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Blue Diamond Stud Farm K

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SHALAA 1st 2-year-olds in 2020

MEKHTAAL

Invincible Spirit’s best 2-year-old performer - Ever

ECTOT

1st foals in 2020

1st yearlings in 2020

Group 1 winner by Sea The Stars, from an exceptional maternal line

Gr.1 winning 2-year-old

by Hurricane Run

AL WUKAIR

AL SHAQAB SIRES 2020

1st yearlings in 2020 Winner of the Prix Jacques le Marois Gr.1 over the mile at 3, like Dubawi & Kingman before him

TORONADO 52% winners to runners

Sire of 11 blacktypes from his 1st crop, and one of the highest % 2-year-olds winners in Europe

ZELZAL 1st yearlings in 2020 The fastest Gr.1 winner

by Sea The Stars

OLYMPIC GLORY Groupe 1 sire

Sire of 8 blacktypes & 2 Gr.1 performers from his 1st crop Haras de Bouquetot, France . +33 (0)2 31 32 28 91 . contact@alshaqab-racing.com . www.alshaqabracing.com

RULER OF THE WORLD New in France

Sire of multiple Gr.1 & Breeders’ Cup winner IRIDESSA from a small first crop

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Rare opportunity to buy Classic producer – and she’s in foal to hotshot Kingman

Oaks heroine Anapurna (white cap) is a half-sister to Fly To The Top, who is to be offered in foal to Mukhadram on an April cover

Carlton Stud to cash in on success of Anapurna IT WAS at last year’s Tattersalls Ascot November Sale that Carlton Stud’s Adam Wragg snapped up the Meon Valley Stud castoff Fly To The Top for a mere £2,500, with her year-younger half-sister Anapurna similarly described as unraced in the catalogue.

Since then Anapurna has become the first British Classic winner for her sire Frankel with a resolute win in the Oaks, to give Fly To The Top that all-important pedigree boost.

And now Carlton Stud looks likely to turn a nice

TIME TEST X PURE JOY (ZAMINDAR) 5 MONTHS OLD

profit when it sends Fly To The Top (lot 1470) into the ring at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale, with the four-year-old daughter of Mastercraftsman in foal to Mukhadram on an April cover.

Wragg, who owns Carlton Stud with his father Graham, said of buying Fly To The Top: “I was hoping to find some strong bloodlines – she certainly stood out on that score – and then I noticed Anapurna on the page, her sister by Frankel who was two then and unraced.

Being by Frankel I hoped she’d be good.”

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COPLOW, the dam of 1,000 Guineas and Sun Chariot Stakes heroine Billesdon Brook, is to be offered in foal to Kingman – the progenitor of such talents as Persian King, Calyx and Headman – at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.

The ten-year-old Coplow (lot 1834), whose first two foals are the Listed-winning Billesdon Bess, who sold for 800,000gns at last year’s Tattersalls December Sale, and the outstanding Billesdon Brook will be offered on the Tuesday of selling by Jeanette McCreery’s Stowell Hill Stud on behalf of the Stowell Hill Partners.

By world champion and sire Manduro, the regally bred Coplow is herself the half-sister to the Group 3-winning trio of Anna Nerium, Middle Club and Piping Rock, all of whom raced in the famous McCreery colours.

Her dam Anna

Oleanda is out of the German champion juvenile and three-year-old filly Anna Paola and appropriately by Irish Derby and Prix du Jockey Club winner Old Vic, who was also bred by McCreery’s late husband Bob. In foal to the hugely exciting Kingman on a March cover and believed to be carrying a colt, Coplow has a two-year-old daughter of Sepoy in training with Richard Hannon alongside her Classic-winning half-sister Billesdon Brook, and also has a colt foal by Dubawi, who is the sire of Anna Nerium.

Billesdon Brook: the dam of the 1,000 Guineas winner will be offered in foal to Kingman

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BREEDING STOCK SALES ARQANA ZUZANNA LUPA

Arqana December Breeding Stock GGWhere and when Arqana sales complex, Deauville, December 7-10, starting at 11am local time (10am December 8) GG2018 results From 901 offered, 683 sold (76 per cent) for turnover of €33,276,500 (+6 per cent), an average of €48,721 (+7 per cent) and median of €18 000 (-5 per cent)

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Vow And Declare takes out Melbourne Cup for Australia

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Les Young's Pedigree Page

When Vow and Declare was passed in at auction, Paul Lansky approached members of the group which race Lycurgus, among them Geoff Corrigan, and a number of family members to form a new syndicate

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to race the son of Declaration of War (War Front) with Danny O’Brien.

They must now be thrilled they became involved with the winner of

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Australia’s most coveted race and to be sharing in the $5,722,690 he has earned to date.

After Lycurgus, Geblitz produced the placed filly Blitz’n’Magic (Magic

What's on

Albert) in 2014 before Vow and Declare was born the following year but the

Race meetings: Grafton (NSW), Kyneton

mare’s 2016 colt by Stratum (Redoute’s Choice) died. A sister to Lycurgus

by Star Witness (Starcraft) arrived in 2018 and she is to be offered as Lot

(VIC), Port Lincoln (SA), Launceston (TAS),

Danny O’Brien-trained stayer holds off internationals in tight Flemington finish

329 at January’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast in the

Avondale (NZ)

Widden Stud consignment.

International meetings: Happy Valley (HK).

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This spring Geblitz has foaled a filly by Shalaa (Invincible Spirit) and

Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Warwick Farm

We wrote about Vow and Declare’s sire Declaration of War, a multiple Group 1 winner, in yesterday’s ANZ Bloodstock News when profiling his

(NSW), Caulfield (VIC).

2019 Victoria Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) winner Warning.The former Coolmore

Sales: Keeneland (USA) - November

shuttler, now standing in Japan, has some pretty impressive statistics with five Group/Grade 1 winners among a total of 24 stakes winners from his

Breeding Stock Sale - Day 1

CHARLIE FELLOWES

early crops in Ireland, the United States and Australia which have given him a high 7.4 per cent stakes winners-to-runners.

Twice a winner as a two-year-old in France, Declaration of War was

essentially bred for speed but was at his racing best at around 1600m to

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Nicconi gelding a freak of Nature

will be scratching their heads as to from where the gelding has derived his stamina. My guess is that the source may be via Old Vic (Sadler’s Wells),

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sire of his third dam Young Vic, a mare with little racing ability.

hat a day yesterday was –

As you will see from the catalogue pedigree printed here, Young

it was unbelievable. Most importantly Prince Of Arran

Vic is an excellent producer but while her superbly-bred sire was a

has come through the run

disappointment at stud, he was outstanding as a racehorse, winning in

perfectly.

HeWarren trotted up beautifully and polished Race meetings: Moree (NSW), offMoe all his feed, which is a great sign that the (NSW), Ararat (VIC), (VIC), horse isn’t stressed.

Townsville (QLD), Penola (SA), York He had a lovely long pick of

Rejuvenated sprinter scores scintillating Darley Sprint Classic win

M

I am incredibly proud Prince OfoverArran, 2000mof though was never tried longer distances.

Vow and Declare comes from a family of high quality tracing back to fantastic race he ran another the famous “flying filly” Mumtaz Mahal (The Tetrarch) but breeding buffs

CHARLIE FELLOWES | @FELLOWESRACING

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1989 both the Prix du Jockey Club (Gr 1, 2400m) and the Irish Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f ), two stiff tests.

grass at Werribee this morning. Tash sent me a (WA), Hastings (NZ).

One of Young Vic’s daughters, Youthful Presence (Dehere) produced

International Group races:saying Kranjithat (SGP) message she got so distracted giving

- Singapore Gold Cup 2000m), ended up staying out there for an him(Listed, grass she elbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m)

ATC Epsom Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Hauraki (Reset) and two

Saas Fee Stakes (Listed, hour 1200m). and a half. So he’s, as always, had the best

other stakes winners, most notably Kidnapped (Viscount), winner of the

Taipa (MAC). winner Vow And Declare,

treatment since the run.

Sales: Keeneland (USA) - November

South Australian Derby (Gr 1, 2500m).

Breeding Stock Sale - Day 5

by American-bred stallion I never thought

Loralane (Habitat), fourth dam of Vow and Declare, established a

I was going to win

Declaration Of War (War

It was totally different to last year – I really felt at one stage 12 months ago we were going

Front) who twice won on turf at the highest

to win the race. But this year I never ever felt,

very strong branch of this wonderful Mumtaz Mahal family in Europe, Prince Of Aarran

I always knew we were just held by Master

advantage. But the way run really Michael Walker’sHorn’s ride wasthird just dam. perfect. I it was (Gr Stakes 1, 1msuited 2f). Loralane is Golden

Of Reality and Vow And Declare. It probably

Prince Of Arran – he is such a relaxed, easy to

close we actually were. I am incredibly proud of

can sit wherever you want, whereas if you

him for running another fantastic race.

speed Prospector a Native), have influence, in suchMr. a good position the(Raise whole way through have a horse that getsofa another bit lit up they to

S

The former Coolmore stallion Declaration

strength and depth.

They went a very steady peed machine Nature Strip (Nicconi)

Of War, now domiciled in Japan, certainly left

simply gave nothing else a chance in

his mark during his two-year stint Down Under,

1, 1200m) as he scorched to victory

not least of which allows Australia to lay claimRider to

James McDonald was quick to

Nature Strip

Vow And Declare

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Time (Time Thief ) filling the minor placings. Hot favourite Santa Ana Lane (Lope De Vega) was uncharacteristically flat, finishing six lengths

Santa Ana Lane’s jockey Mark Zahra agreed the sprinter was ‘flat’, "He just went a bit tired today," Zahra said.

from Nature Strip in sixth.

“I’m thrilled for the horse and thrilled for the connections, he has gone to a

"When I got the gaps on the

But you also have to put Vow And Declare in

we just weren’t good enough on the day.

that bracket because it was a lovely story. It’s Australian-bred – just the right sort of horse you would want to win the ultimate Australian race.

complaining, questioning what could have

You got the feeling this year that Europeans

been, as everything went our way. I’m not even

coming over and constantly winning it wasn’t

just talking about Tuesday either, really since

really doing it any favours. But Tuesday showed that Australian horses can still be competitive and can still win this amazing race. It was won

that all along nothing went wrong. I was just

by a big syndicate of owners and it was just a

but it hasn’t. We have been so, so lucky and I

the horses to beat us I really didn’t begrudge

don’t underestimate how fortunate we have

him for it.

like I was six in front and he was still going through his gears and he ran it out so strongly.”

went like he's a tired horse."

been with him.

Passed in for $90,000 (reserve $120,000) at the 2016 Inglis

The result was exactly SPORTPIX what the race needed

Nature Strip

Trainer Chris Waller revealed plans of tackling Royal Ascot next year.

Melbourne

“All preparation he has shown how well he is going, he’s a very happy

Sale, Nature Strip (5 g Nicconi - Strikeline by DesertAlthough Sun) tookobviously his recordI would have loved to 11 wins and two placings from 18 starts for prize-money of $1,879,285. to have taken the Cup back to Newmarket, I Nature Strip is one of three winners for the Group think the3-winning result wasmare very, very important for

horse and that takes them a long way,” he said.

“We’ve been fortunate enough to takeover a very fast horse and we’ve added a bit of our own fine tuning.

“I’m not to sure where he will have his next starts but I know the team are keen to take him to Royal Ascot in June but there will certainly be a few races before then.”

Sam Freedman said favourite Santa Ana Lane would enjoy an

Premier

Yearling

Strikeline (Desert Sun), making him a half-brother to Fernhill Handicap (Listed, 1600m) winner The Barrister (Star Witness), now racing as High Volatility in Hong Kong.

Strikeline is herself a half-sister to fellow Group 3 winner Bashful Girl (Perugino), with the pair being out of Listed winner Strike High (Pre Emptive Strike).

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Japan or Hong Kong in the pipeline

the perfect Australian story: Australian-trained,

nothing more you can ask from a horse. We only got beaten a head, so we can’t come away

Goodwood we could not have had a more perfect preparation into the race. I have said waiting for something, even small, to go amiss

the winner today - but he just

“He was airborne, floating across the ground, I slipped him a bit more

extended spell after a hectic 2019.

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Brought to you by our way, the race played into our hands and

zoom - nothing would've beat

at his first start, apart from that he’s been faultless, he’s a star,” McDonald said.

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new levelthis preparation, he hashad onlyone real disappointmentand that was

rein at the 300m and I looked at the big screen and thought ‘oh no’, it felt

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But he ran his heart out and there really is

Brought to you by An emphatic three and a quarter

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are also four

The bottom line is that everything went

more infusions of Northern Dancer (Nearctic) in the sixth and seventh

set an impossible task for the

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Nicconi gelding a freak of Nature

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Vow And Declare takes out Melbourne Cup for Australia

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in his fifth

generations of Vow and Declare’s genetic background.

pair sizzled home in 33.08 seconds which chasing pack.

Race Record: 13 Starts 4-3-2 A$5,722,690.

4 wins from 1800m to 3200m, A$5,722,690, to 2019-20, VRC Melbourne Cup, Gr.1, Qld Tatt's RC Tattersall's Cup, Gr.3, VRC TCL TV S., L, 2d MRC Caulfield Cup, Gr.1, BRC Queensland Derby, Gr.1, 3d VRC Flt Lt Peter Armytage H., 4th VRC Turnbull S., Gr.1.

he’s ever given him, but although we didn’t win,

get some cover, so although we wereplus fortunate he couldn't it any better. generation anotherandson in his have sixthridden generation.There with the way the race was run, we earned that

yesterday’s Darley Sprint Classic (Gr

find the outside rail on Nature Strip and

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3rd dam YOUNG VIC, by Old Vic. Raced once. Half-sister to NURYANA (dam of REBECCA SHARP, MYSTIC KNIGHT, HIDDEN HOPE HOPE), Digger's Rest, Cowley, Littlewick (dam of BORGHESE), Wild Pavane (dam of DUKE OF GREEN). Dam of 12 foals, FONTANELLA BORGHESE 11 to race, 7 winners, inc:WALKING OR DANCING (Falvelon). 8 wins-1 at 2-from 900m to 1600m, A$611,425, Newcastle JC Newmarket H H., Gr.3, GCTC Magic Millions Cup, AJC Octagonal H., STC Angostura Bitters H., 2d AJC Bill Ritchie H., Gr.3, 3d Newcastle JC Newmarket H., Gr.3, STC CCIA Supershow H., 4th STC Phar Lap S., Gr.2, QTC Brisbane P., L. Sire.

IRONGAIL (Canny Lad). 7 wins from 1200m to 1800m, A$322,950, MRC Summoned S., L, AJC Capital Finance H., Graysonline.com.au H., Wyong RC Mona Lisa P., 2d Wyong Cup, L, 3d STC Shannon H., Gr.2, VRC Maybe Mahal P., L. Producer.

Aim for Gold (End Sweep). Winner Winner. See above.

Youthful Presence. Unraced. Dam ofHAURAKI (Reset). 5 wins from 1400m to 2000m, A$2,546,660, ATC Epsom H., Gr.1, Tulloch S., Gr.2, NSW Tatt's RC Tramway S., Gr.2, ATC Membership on Sale H., 2d Australian Derby, Gr.1, VRC Emirates S., Gr.1, ATC Ranvet S., Gr.1, George Main S., Gr.1, BRC Doomben Cup, Gr.1, ATC Phar Lap S., Gr.2, GCTC AD Hollindale S., Gr.2, ATC Craven P., Gr.3, 3d ATC Chipping Norton S., Gr.1, Canterbury S., Gr.1, Apollo S., Gr.2.

KIDNAPPED (Viscount). 5 wins-1 at 2-from 1400m to 2500m, £187, A$715,427, 19,320Dhs, South Australian Derby, Gr.1, MRC Sandown Guineas, Gr.2, VRC Carbine Club S., Gr.3, MRC Gothic S., L, VRC Bruce Gadsden H., 2d Ballarat Cup, L, STC Theraces.com.au 2YO H., 3d SAJC Chairman's S., L, MRC Star Shower 2YO H. ACADEMUS (Lonhro). 4 wins at 1200m, 1600m, A$593,800, Western Australian Guineas, Gr.2, Gold Coast Guineas, Gr.3, BRC Daybreak Lover S., L, 2d BRC Sires' Produce S., Gr.2, Champagne Classic, Gr.2, MRC Heading Out Hair & Beauty S., L, Hawkesbury RC Inglis Bonus 2YO H., 3d BRC TJ Smith S., Gr.1, BTC Classic, Gr.3, 4th BRC Queensland Guineas, Gr.2, VRC Hilton Hotels S., L. DELEDIO (Testa Rossa). 6 wins wins-2 at 2-from 1400m to 1800m, A$143,375, SAJC Hill Smith S., L, Allan Scott Park Morphettville H., MRC Andelosia 2YO H., SAJC Irish Day H., Carlton Draught H.

of Danehill’s sire Danzig (Northern Dancer) while he carries two sons I think Tuesday’s was just as good. He had him

down the Flemington straight.

the second time in a decade.

1st dam GEBLITZT, by Testa Rossa. 5 wins to 1400m, A$96,950, ATC Bowermans Furniture H., BRC Coca-Cola Amatil P., Leighton Contractors H., Brc.com.au H., 2d BRC Subiaco Hair P., Tim Ryan Go Hard or Go Home H., Ambassador Travel H., 3d ATC Central Coast Tourism H., 4th Qld Tatt's RC Falvelon H., L. Three-quarter-sister to DELEDIO, half-sister to Wealth. Dam of three named foals, all raced, two winnersMadibagold, Sudden Wealth VOW AND DECLARE (g. by Declaration of War). 4 wins. See below.

LYCURGUS (g. by Star Witness). 6 wins-1 at 2-from 1100m to 2500m, A$442,665, MRC Galilee Series Final H., L, L VRC High Country H., MRC Ladbrokes Odds Boost H.-twice, 2d VRC Trevor Clarke H., Happy Holidays H., ATC Tab.com.au H., MRC Ladbrokes Challenge H., 3d MRC Inglis Cup, VRC Banjo Paterson Series Final H., Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation H. Blitz 'n' Magic (f. by Magic Albert). Placed at 3 in Aust.

the Geelong Cup that was his best ride The pedigree of Vowsaid andafter Declare up close is dominated by a 3 x 4 cross

ride sort of horse which means that he really

really, really good story for the race and of all

But the love for Prince Of Arran has been lovely and it’s very touching - they seem to have taken him under their wing and clearly have a lot of affection for him. But that really

Japan Cup

JRA

So the immediate plan for Prince Of Arran is either the Japan Cup or the Hong Kong Vase.

We were invited to Japan immediately after the

is the kind of horse he is, he’s got a wonderful

race and then overnight were invited to Hong

personality. They also love the story of Tash and

Kong as well which is great. I feel like Japan

her affection for the horse and he’s become a

is unbelievably tough - the ground is always

Foaled in 2015 Northern Dancer Rubiano Blushing Groom Gone West Danzig Sir Dapper Forty Niner Old Vic

2nd dam Aim for Gold, by End Sweep. Winner at 1200m, A$203,750, STC Winning Edge Presentations P., 2d AJC Champagne S., Gr.1, 3d AJC Reginald Allen H., L, Heroic 2YO Championship S., Oz Eco Resorts 2YO H., 4th STC Magic Night S., Gr.2, AJC PJ Bell H., L. DANCING IRONGAIL, Youthful Presence (dam of Half-sister to WALKING OR DANCING, HAURAKI, KIDNAPPED, ACADEMUS ACADEMUS, DELEDIO). Dam of 8 named foals, 7 to race, 5 winners, inc:Sudden Wealth (Time Thief). 5 wins to 1400m, A$162,670, SAJC Holdfast Insurance H., Horsman's Plumbing & Gas H., Zonte's Z Force H., David Tootell 40yrs Anniversary H., 2d SAJC Manihi Classic, L L, Dennis & Janet Small H., 3d SAJC City of Marion S., L. Madibagold (Johannesburg). 5 wins to 1400m, A$299,750, AJC Coogee Welter H., Juggler H., STC Cadbury Bubbly H., Theslipper.com.au H., 2d ATC Civic S., L, AJC Centennial Park H., Filante H., STC Solo Strong H., 3d ATC Winter S., L, STC Civic S., L, ATC Sparkes H., Cleanevent a Spotless Company H., Bowermans Office Furniture H., Bridie Sp Blackwoods Gearwrench H., Blackwoods H., 4th STC Winter S., L. Geblitzt. 5 wins. See above.

Eighteen Carrot. Winner at 1300m in 2018-19, MRC Le Pine Funerals P., 2d ATC Star Turn at Vinery H.

fortune and luck with his versatility and the way

despite how close we were, that it was ours.

'I’M THRILLED FOR THE HORSE AND THRILLED FOR THE CONNECTIONS'

Testa Rossa Aim for Gold

DECLARATION OF WAR (USA) (Bay 2009-Stud 2014). 7 wins-2 at 2, Royal Ascot Queen Anne S., Gr.1. Half-brother to SW War Correspondent. Sire of 326 rnrs, 186 wnrs, 24 SW, inc. Vow and Declare (VRC Melbourne Cup, Gr.1), Warning, Olmedo, Winning Ways, Decorated Invader, Assiro, Actress, Peace Achieved, Valdermoro, Opry, Declarationofheart, Speed Franco, Vigor Winner, Mr. Hustle, Uncle Benny, Armistice Day, Lucky Stride, Agincourt, Bayshore Freeway, etc.

its most recent superstar being Golden Horn (Cape Cross), whose seven SPORTPIX

country’s biggest race.

establishing an unchallenged lead, the breeding the winner of the $8 million cup forafter just

WHAT THE JOCKEY'S SAID - PAGE 9

Dam

Dam GEBLITZT (AUS) 2006

Danzig Starry Dreamer Rahy Tempo Perugino Bo Dapper End Sweep Young Vic

2f ) and the Irish Champion 1, 2400m), the Coral-Eclipse (Gr 1, 1m 2f) he runsStakes his races. were massively at an meant those on the pace

level in Europe, has delivered for Australia

wasn’t until right on the line I realised how

VOW AND DECLARE (AUS)

Sire War Front DECLARATION OF WAR (USA) 2009 Tempo West

wins included the Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f ), the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Gr 4f),

gallop and turned it into a bit of sprint which

with a locally bred and trained victory in the

BY TOM WALTER | @ANZ_NEWS It was a very strong renewal with a lot of

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Spotlight turns on to the jumpers for auction’s final day

Wertheimers’ top pedigrees on display

THIS season’s Group winners Big Brothers Pride, Hopeful, Platane, Polydream and Ziyad are all out of mares sold by the Wertheimer brothers at Deauville in recent years.

This year’s edition will see 22 mares and fillies from their best maternal families go under the hammer, among them the Group winner Legerete (lot 115), dam of black-type performers Pilote and Esquisse offered in-foal to Mastercraftsman; Kylia (131), a descendent of Allegretta who has produced black-type performers Cosmique and Standing Up and is also in-foal to Mastercraftsman; the Listed winner Bilissie (164), a Dansili half-sister to Prix Vermeille winner Left Hand carrying to Intello; and High Profile ), a Dansili (181), half-sister to multiple Group 1 winner Solow (right).

ARQANA graduates shone at Santa Anita on Breeders’ Cup weekend, led by Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Uni. The Haras d’Etreham homebred is out of Unaided (lot 161), a daughter of Dansili in foal to No Nay Never. She is

Hunt breeding prospects including Star Face (931), the dam of star chaser Douvan who will be offered in foal to Doctor Dino by Haras d’Haspel, and Avanguardia (884), the dam of Supreme Novices’ Hurdle hero Labaik who will be offered by the same vendor in foal to the same sire, along with her Doctor Dino colt foal (889).

(889

Douvan: the star chaser’s dam Star Face will be offered in foal to Doctor Dino

AR ANA DECE F

ered

od

re a e (€)

era e (€)

2018

01

683

33,276,500

48,721

18,000

2017

871

688

31,24 ,000

45,420

1 ,000

2016

832

620

23,035,500

37,154

16,000

2015

8 5

686

25, 45, 00

37,822

1 ,000

2014

871

672

26,301,250

3 ,13

17,000

HALF A DOZEN sisters to Group 1 winners are among the 11 mares and 16 well-bred fillies going under the hammer from the Aga Khan Studs.

These include the Prix de l ’Opera winner Shalanaya (lot 8), who is offered in foal to Almanzor; the Listed winner Shamakiya (99), the dam of

edian (€)

2018

a e se

nnamed, f

onsi nor(s)

o so d

era e (€)

o a (€)

22

144,727

3,184,000

Wertheimer et r re

47

5 ,47

2,7 5,500

Monceaux

a Motteraye Consignment

21

4,61

1, 87,000

Capucines

20

0, 00

1,818,000

Aga Khan Studs

28

53,321

1,4 3,000

5

260,000

1,300,000

21

61,310

1,287,500

1

64,368

1,223,000

Cl ment Munir

Souede

Montaigu Saint Pair

5

210,800

1,054,000

Manneville

7

150,000

1,050,000

BREEDING STOCK SALE 7-10 DECEMBER DEAUVILLE

TOP TEN PURC ASERS 201 Buyer(s)

o ou

era e (€)

o a (€)

201,056

1,80 ,500 1,251,000

Meridian International SAR Carlos et Yann erner

7

178,714

Narvick International for Katsumi Yoshida

2

570,000

1,140,000

Stroud Coleman Bloodstock

3

344,333

1,033,000

Margaret O Toole

11

Broadhurst Agency

2,000

1,012,000

10 ,556

86,000

Bertrand e Metayer Bloodstock

3

312,333

37,000

Oceanic Bloodstock

5

183,800

1 ,000

Al Shaqab Racing

3

303,333

10,000

Blandford Bloodstock

8

107,250

858,000

Pedi ree

Buyer(s)

Vendor(s)

Price (€)

Dubawi-Just The Judge

Stroud Coleman Bloodstock

La Motteraye Consignment

2017

Fro en Ocean, c

Dabirsim-Sailor Moon

Godolphin SNC

Petit Tellier

260,000

2016

Fashion Family, f

Frankel-Ascot Family

Hugo Merry Bloodstock

Capucines

450,000

2015

Guy Dragon, c

Dark Angel-Trip To The Moon

Railton Stauffenberg

Cadran

230,000

2014

Maariyah, f

Oasis Dream-Ana Marie

Stauffenberg Bloodstock

Petit Tellier

2 0,000

1,000,000

TOP-PRICED ARES 201 -201 Year

Buyer(s)

Vendor

2018

Lily’s Candle, 2016

-

Narvick International for Katsumi oshida

Capucines

1,100,000

2017

Haggle, 2013

-

Wertheimer et Fr re

Devin

1,300,000

2016

Parvaneh, 2013

-

James Delahooke

Monceaux

1,000,000

2015 2014

a e year o

ir

mbellishment, 2011 Alterite, 2010

Group 3 Prix Cleopatre scorer Shamkala with an Awtaad covering; Valasyra (159), a stakes-winning half-sister to the Prix de Diane winner Valyra in foal to Siyouni; and also Riazana (205), an unraced sister to Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Rosanara.

TOP TEN ENDORS 201

TOP-PRICED FOALS 201 -201 Year

(177), a Dansili granddaughter of the champion three-year-old Peeping Fawn; and Just Gorgeous (189), a winning Galileo sister to more Ballydoyle stars in Magical and Rhododendron who is in foal on a February cover to Almanzor.

Six of the best from the Aga Khan Studs

ER REEDING STOC SALE

-

Year

one of 25 lots consigned at Deauville by the Normandy stud, which also includes the Group 1-placed Wonder Of Lips (125), a four-year-old daughter of Champs Elysees from the family of this year’s Arc hero Waldgeist; Palmyre

The dam of Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Uni, herself an Arqana graduate, will be offered in foal to hot sire No Nay Never

© Megan Rose

BRINGING together 210 lots, the fourth and final day of the sale is dedicated to the jumps and will see three stallion prospects go under the hammer in Silverwave (lot 828), the multiple Group winner from Haras des Capucines; Khan (829), the winner of the Group 1 Preis von Europa and brother to established stallion Kamsin from Arcadia Elevage; and Haras de Mirande’s Saddex (830), 830), the sire of Pattern winners on the Flat and over jumps.

There are also some hugely exciting National

Haras d’Etreham consignment not short on quality

o erin sire

Kingman

Bridlewood Farm

-

Narvick International

treham Capucines

Price (€)

00,000 1,100,000

Winner of the Coronation Stakes (Gr.1) at Royal Ascot, WATCH ME was bought «in utero» at the 2015 ARQANA Breeding Stock Sale.

The best European bloodlines on offer among the 1038 horses catalogued from the Aga Khan Studs, Wertheimer & Frère, Haras d’Etreham, Gestüt Fährhof, Haras du Mezeray, Ecurie des Monceaux, Godolphin etc. in the unique Christmassy atmosphere of Deauville.

CONTACT info@arqana.com - +33 (0)2 31 81 81 00

CATALOGUE ONLINE AT WWW.ARQANA.COM

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