Month: October 2020

Rathasker Stud Announces Reduced Fees

Rathasker Stud has released the 2021 covering fees for its four stallions, with all bar one having been dropped in price.

Bungle Inthejungle (GB), sire of this season’s G3 Cornwallis S. winner Winter Power (Ire), who has won four of her nine races in a busy juvenile campaign, will stand at €8,000, down from €12,000 in 2020.

The stud’s stalwart Clodovil (Ire) was represented by a new Group 1 winner this season in the Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Tiger Tanaka (Ire) and he has had his fee reduced from €8,000 to €5,000.

Clodovil stands alongside his son Gregorian (Ire), who has also enjoyed stakes success in France this year via G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte winner Plainchant (Fr), and he too will stand at €5,000, his fee having been dropped from €6,000.

Completing the quartet is Coulsty (Ire), a son of Kodiac (GB) whose first-crop runners this year have posted a strike-rate of 43%, and he remains unchanged at a fee of €4,000.

Commenting on his roster, stud owner Maurice Burns said, “We are very pleased to offer four proven stallions at Rathasker Stud for 2021. This year has been a difficult year for many breeders and in acknowledgment of this we have taken the step to reduce or maintain all our stud fees for 2021.”

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Equiano To Join Irish National Stud

Dual Royal Ascot-winning sprinter Equiano (Fr) will move from Britain to stand at the Irish National Stud in 2021.

The 15-year-old son of Acclamation (GB) has spent 10 seasons at Newsells Park Stud, during which time he has sired treble Group 1 winner The Tin Man (GB) and GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint victrix Belvoir Bay (GB) among 17 stakes winners.

Irish National Stud CEO Cathal Beale said, “We are delighted to offer Equiano to the Irish market at a time when solid, proven speed influences are ever more valued by breeders. He is an imposing individual with a great walk and, being completely free of Sadler’s Wells and Danzig blood, he is a great outcross option. Standing alongside Invincible Spirit, Equiano’s addition to our roster will mean we can offer Irish breeders two of the most prolific sources of speed available in Europe.”

Equiano started his racing career in Spain under the care of Mauricio Delcher Sanchez and soon progressed to group company in France before beating Takeover Target (Aus) in the G1 King’s Stand S. during his 3-year-old season. Switched to Britain and the stable of Barry Hills following his Royal Ascot success, he won a further three races in England as a 5-year-old, including a second King’s Stand. He was also runner-up in the G1 July Cup by a neck to Starspangledbanner (Aus). Through four seasons of racing he won seven of his 27 starts.

No fee has yet been set for Equiano, who stood at £6,000 for his last two seasons in Britain.

 

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Uncle Mo Colt Tops Third Session Of Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale

A colt by champion sire Uncle Mo topped the third session of the Kentucky October Yearlings sale Wednesday in Lexington, Ky.

A son of record-breaking champion freshman sire of 2015 proved most popular on Wednesday, fetching a top price of $600,000 from Donato Lanni, agent (video).

The dark bay or brown colt was offered as Hip 1131 by Lane's End, agent. The session topper is a half-brother to English stakes winner Wind Fire (Distorted Humor) out of a winning full-sister to Grade 1 winner Majestic Warrior and stakes winner and multiple stakes producer Crystal Current. Hip 1131 was bred in Kentucky by Kinsman Farm.

The second-highest price of the day was paid for a colt by leading sire Into Mischief, purchased by Spendthrift Farm from the consignment of Paramount Sales, agent (video).

Offered as Hip 1147, the bay colt is a half-brother to Grade 2 winner Yara, dam of undefeated 2-year-old stakes winner of 2020 Moon Swag. Hip 1147 was bred in Florida by Bulldog Racing and Gabriel Duignan.

Nine other yearlings sold for $200,000 or more during the sale's third session, including:

  • Hip 844, a colt from the first crop of multiple Grade 2 winner Mohaymen, sold for $315,000 to Trade Winds Farm from the consignment of Hunter Valley Farm, agent. A half-brother to multiple Grade 1 winning millionaire Got Stormy, Hip 844 was bred in Kentucky by Mt. Joy Stables, Pope McLean, Marc McLean, and Pope McLean Jr. The colt was a $145,000 selected weanling purchase by Redly Bloodstock at last year's Fasig-Tipton November Sale, where he was consigned by Pope McLean, agent.
  • Hip 1040, a filly by successful young sire Maclean's Music, sold for $280,000 to JCM Racing from the consignment of Eaton Sales, agent. A half-sister to four winners from the immediate family of multiple Grade 1 winner Code of Honor, Hip 1040 was bred in Kentucky by Athens Woods LLC.

Wednesday's session saw 237 yearlings change hands for a total of $9,062,300. The average was $38,238 and the median was $17,000. Through three days of selling, 726 yearlings have sold for $25,800, good for an average of $35,059. The three-day median is $15,000.

The Kentucky October Yearlings sale resumes Thursday, Oct. 29 at 10 a.m.

Results are available online.

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