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Planteur’s Trueshan Routs Long Distance Cup Rivals

Ascot’s rain-affected British Champions Day opened with the £300,000 Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup over the best part of two miles and it was Hollie Doyle, fresh from setting a record number of winners earlier in the week, who celebrated success with a wide-margin tally aboard Barbary Lions 5’s 4-year-old gelding Trueshan (Fr) (Planteur {Ire}). The Alan King trainee’s previous best came in July’s Listed Tapster S. at Haydock and he earned his place in this line-up coming back off an eighth–behind the reopposing Fujaira Prince (Ire) (Pivotal {GB})–in York’s Aug. 22 Ebor H. and a Sept. 11 Salisbury conditions score over 14 furlongs last time. Trueshan found a comfortable rhythm just off the pace in sixth, but slipped one spot as 11-10 pick Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) improved position at halfway. Making rapid headway on the home turn, the 11-1 chance quickened into second entering the final quarter mile and powered ever clear under minimal urging once seizing control soon after to hit the line an impressive 7 1/2 lengths ahead of dual G1 Irish St Leger heroine Search For A Song (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), with old foe Fujaira Prince holding the closing pack for third. Stradivarius was unable to land a blow and finished 12th of 13.

“I travelled all over them and that was incredible,” exclaimed a jubilant Doyle. “He doesn’t like being crowded so I switched him at the three-[furlong] pole and the further I went, the better he went. He was almost overtravelling with me and I had to stay out a bit wide for the first three furlongs, but luckily I managed to slot in there and got a nice position outside Stradivarius. He was tanking with me and he went through the ground like a tractor. The pace was reasonable, but he was travelling and he felt like he was hacking round there. I switched my fellow round horses as they said he didn’t like getting crowded in the Ebor and when I pushed the button, he responded. It is testing and it is wet, heavy ground and hard work. I rode him first time at Wolverhampton, and that was a bit of a surprise, and then he bolted up at Ffos Las. I’ve not been on him since so I’m really grateful for the owners and Alan putting me back on him today. He is a proper horse, he won his first two starts and I’ve always liked him. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t realise he would be up to Group 2 level like today. I’m really happy people are seeing me as just a jockey, and not a female jockey, and shout out to Alan King because he is some trainer.”

Assistant trainer Dan Horsford added, “He’s been progressive all year and has improved for the step up to two miles. Who knows where he ends up from here, but it will be all the Cup races next year and I would think [any] hurdling [plans] will be shelved. It’s unbelievable, it looked like Hollie jumped in two furlongs out and she is still unbeaten on him. She gets on very well with him, but it just didn’t happen for him in the Ebor for whatever reason. It’s been a cracking year and long may it last.”

Reflecting on the performance of Stradivarius, who was not unduly punished once his chance had evaporated, trainer John Gosden said, “The ground was too deep and too heavy and he hated it. Frankie [Dettori] thought he pulled his shoes off. He was in good form, but the ground was very deep down there and he would have probably been better running on the inner [jumps] track!” Dettori added, “I was never there and there is not much else I can say.”

Trueshan is the leading performer and sole stakes winner for dual scorer Shao Line (Fr) (General Holme), who has five winners to her credit and is a granddaughter of Marie de Lempire (Fr) (Faristan {GB}), herself the dam of the stakes-winning Dom Lurcy (Dom Racine {Fr}). Marie de Lempire is kin to the stakes-winning Marie d’Ivors (Fr) (Rheffic {Fr}) and the mare Herila (Fr) (Bold Lad), who in turn is the second dam of G1 Derby Italiano hero Houmayoun Fr) (Shernazar {Ire}) and three-time stakes victress Hanzala (Akarad {Fr}), with this being the tail line of G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches heroine Altissima (Klairon {Fr}). Shao Line’s last known foal is the unplaced 3-year-old gelding Je N’y Crois Pas (Fr) (Sommerabend {GB}).

Saturday, Ascot, Britain
QIPCO BRITISH CHAMPIONS LONG DISTANCE CUP-G2, £300,000, Ascot, 10-17, 3yo/up, 15f 209yT, 3:35.75, sf.
1–TRUESHAN (FR), 133, g, 4, by Planteur (Ire)
1st Dam: Shao Line (Fr), by General Holme
2nd Dam: Marie d’Altoria, by Roi de Rome
3rd Dam: Marie de Lempire (Fr), by Faristan (GB)
1ST GROUP WIN. (€8,000 Ylg ’17 OSLATE; 31,000gns 2yo ’18 TATHIT). O-Barbury Lions 5; B-Didier Blot (FR); T-Alan King; J-Hollie Doyle. £170,130. Lifetime Record: 11-7-1-0, $423,737. Werk Nick Rating: D+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Search For A Song (Ire), 130, f, 4, Galileo (Ire)–Polished Gem (Ire), by Danehill. O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd (IRE); T-Dermot Weld. £64,500.
3–Fujaira Prince (Ire), 133, g, 6, Pivotal (GB)–Zam Zoom (Ire), by Dalakhani (Ire). (90,000gns Ylg ’15 TATOCT). O-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum; B-Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Roger Varian. £32,280.
Margins: 7HF, HF, NK. Odds: 11.00, 7.00, 10.00.
Also Ran: Morando (Fr), Sovereign (Ire), Dawn Patrol (Ire), Spanish Mission, Mildenberger (GB), Monica Sheriff (GB), Max Vega (Ire), Dubious Affair (Ire), Stradivarius (Ire), Broome (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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The Weekly Wrap: Blue Is The Colour

A sea of blue dominated winner’s enclosures in Britain and France this week, largely owing to the successful season currently being enjoyed by Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation and Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell team. The brothers occupy the top two slots in the owners’ table in Britain, and Godolphin is also currently the leading owner in France.

While Sheikh Mohammed has a significant number of horses in Chantilly with Andre Fabre, who oversaw the successful return of France’s champion 2-year-old of last year, Earthlight (Ire) (Shamardal), in the Listed Prix Kistena, it was the marauding team of visitors from Charlie Appleby’s stable which really took Deauville by storm on Sunday. At the top of the list was Pinatubo (Shamardal), making a return to winning ways in the G1 Prix Jean Prat. But, let’s face it, if a third-place finish in the 2000 Guineas and a second in the St James’s Palace S. are the only blots on an otherwise spotless copybook, he was hardly a horse coming back from the doldrums. Nonetheless, it is always satisfying to see the champion 2-year-old add to his tally at three and beyond, and it was pleasing to see the hugely likeable Pinatubo triumph in the same race used as a ‘recovery mission’ for the previous season’s champion juvenile Too Darn Hot (GB).

The two colts are sons, respectively, of the two stallions who have contributed enormously to Godolphin’s resurgence in recent years: Shamardal and Dubawi. The loss of the former in April will be rued for years to come, as just a quick glance at Sunday’s Deauville card shows. Along with Earthlight and Pinatubo, Shamardal is also the sire of the G3 Prix de Ris-Orangis winner Royal Crusade (GB), and is the damsire of listed Prix Amandine winner Althiqa (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), who together formed the Appleby stakes treble along with Pinatubo. He was also the grandsire of the third horse home in the Jean Prat, the Marco Botti-trained Malotru (GB) (Casamento {Ire}), while in Germany, his 4-year-old daughter Half Light (Ire) struck in the G3 Sparkasse-Holstein Cup for Henri-Alex Pantall, who won last season’s Poule d’Essai des Pouliches with another Shamardal filly, Castle Lady (Ire).

Dubawi is no slacker himself and in the week following the triumph of his son Ghaiyyath (Ire) over Enable (GB) in the Eclipse, his stakes winners kept rolling in. It’s too much to hope that Master Of The Seas (Ire) could be another Pinatubo for Appleby so soon, but his G2 bet365 Superlative S. win after a tetchy start was pretty convincing and means he is now unbeaten in two races. Dubawi cannot take all the credit, however, as Master Of The Seas is out of Firth Of Lorne (Ire) (Danehill), a smart performer herself and notably runner up to Kingman’s dam Zenda (GB) (Zamindar) in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches. She is also now the dam of five black-type performers among her seven winners.

Al Suhail (GB)—more of whom below—was another stakes winner for Appleby and Dubawi on the first day of racing on the July Course this season, while Too Darn Hot’s full-brother Darain (GB) made an impressive start to his racing career, winning a Newbury novice race by almost five lengths.

The decent start made by Dubawi’s first-crop son New Bay (GB) was noted in last week’s column but it is worth reiterating this following two more good winners—Jumby (GB) and Vafortino (Ire)—in Britain and Ireland on Saturday. From just ten runners to date, New Bay now has six winners.

It’s a strike-rate to crow about, as is the fact the last year’s champion freshman Night Of Thunder (Ire), also by Dubawi, has now sired eight black-type winners this season, including Thursday’s G2 Dante S. winner Thunderous (Ire), a welcome big-race success for Highclere Thoroughbred Racing.

Oxted Provides First For Many
Away from these powerhouse operations and stallions, the result of the G1 Darley July Cup gave a lift to those operating on a smaller scale. Owned in partnership by his breeders Stephen Piper, Tony Hirschfield and David Fish,

Oxted (GB) not only provided a first Group 1 winner for his fellow July Cup-winning father Mayson (GB) but also for his trainer Roger Teal and young jockey Cieren Fallon.

He was the first foal of his dam Charlotte Rosina (GB), a daughter of July Cup runner-up Choisir (Aus), who was also trained by Teal for the same syndicate under the Homecroft Wealth Racing banner. His full-brother Chipstead (GB)—named after the Surrey village which is home to his birthplace of Hirschfield’s Cheval Court Stud, not far from the village of Oxted—is now also in training in the stable. To complete the July Cup omens, Oxted inhabits the same box as the winner of the race in 1993, Hamas (Ire) (Danzig), who was trained by Peter Walwyn at Windsor House Stables in Lambourn where Teal took up residency at the start of this year.

The move has certainly done the trainer no harm, and his biggest win to date followed the success of Gussy Mac (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the Listed Dragon S. the previous weekend.

Star Appeal
Before Anapurna (GB) (Frankel {GB}) came along, Shirocco Star (GB) (Shirocco {Ger}) had come closest to being a homebred Oaks winner for Meon Valley Stud when she was beaten just a neck by Was (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in 2012, finishing half a length in front of third-placed The Fugue (GB) (Dansili {GB}). She has been quick to consolidate her position in the Meon Valley broodmare band, too.

Her first foal is the 92-rated dual winner Starcaster (GB) ((Dansili {GB}), who is now in training with Anthony Freedman in Australia. His year-younger brother Telecaster (GB) (New Approach {GB}) won last year’s G2 Dante S. and recently bounced back to form with a wide-margin win in the G3 La Coupe at Longchamp. In the last week, 3-year-old Al Suhail (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), a 1.1 million gns yearling who was group-placed last season, became the mare’s second black-type winner when landing the listed Sir Henry Cecil S. at Newmarket by six lengths.

All three of these sons could yet garner more stakes success and, while Shirocco Star has no current 2-year-old or yearling to represent her, she produced her first daughter, by Frankel, on Feb. 14.

Telecaster and Al Suhail are not the only male graduates to be flying the flag for the Hampshire nursery this year as Meon Valley Stud also bred the exciting staying prospect Dashing Willoughby (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), whose two runs in 2020 have resulted in victory in the listed Buckhounds S. and G3 Henry II S. to add to his win in the G2 Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot last year.

While Shirocco Star is a fifth-generation descendant of Reprocolor (GB) (Jimmy Reppin {GB}), the most celebrated of the Meon Valley foundation mares, Dashing Willoughby’s dam Miss Dashwood (GB) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}) is the same number of generations removed from Reprocolor’s contemporary One In A Million (GB) (Rarity {GB}).

The reassuring longevity and success of a well-managed and relatively small British breeding operation continues.

Make Busy
Last week’s wrap touched on the start made by Ballylinch Stud’s Make Believe (GB) through his first-crop Classic winner Mishriff (GB) and it would be remiss not to acknowledge the continuing achievements of the filly who was a ‘breakthrough’ runner for the stallion. The Mark Johnston-trained Rose Of Kildare (Ire), bred by Wansdyke Farms Ltd at Oghill House Stud, was Make Believe’s first winner on May 20 last year. That was her third start; she won again nine days later and clinched another three races, including a pair of Group 3s, before her juvenile season was out. She headed for her winter break after running 12 times between Apr. 30 and Oct. 11 for five wins and three places.

Since racing resumed in June, Rose Of Kildare has run four times, finishing third in the G2 German 1000 Guineas and then third in the G3 Princess Elizabeth S. on ‘Derby day’. Just five days later she was back out to claim her first win of the year in the rescheduled G3 Tattersalls Musidora S.

The tough filly was partly responsible for a memorable day for Johnston and jockey Franny Norton, who also combined to win the G2 Dante S. with Thunderous (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}).

Norton, who turns 50 this year and is arguably riding better then ever, joked in a recent interview that if his children are naughty he threatens them by saying he’s going to send them to Mark Johnston. Certainly, the horses in his stable tend to work hard and race often, and Rose Of Kildare is not the only one who has shown that she thrives on a busy campaign.

Make Believe’s sire Makfi (GB) started his career at Tweenhills Farm & Stud and completed two terms at the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval before being exported to stand at the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association’s Shizunai Stallion Station in 2017. He also appeared as grandsire of another stakes winner this week: The Queen’s G2 Tattersalls July S. winner Tactical (GB) (Toronado {Ire}) is out of his listed-placed daughter Make Fast (GB).

Hollie Go Brightly
Ben Curtis may be romping away with the British jockeys’ championship and is the only rider with more than 100 wins to his name at this stage, but heading the chasing pack is Hollie Doyle, whose season and profile goes from strength to strength.

After landing her first Royal Ascot victory and becoming only the third woman to ride a winner in the meeting’s history, Doyle secured her first group win on Anthony Oppenheimer’s Dame Malliot (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) in the G2 Princess Of Wales’s S. at Newmarket last Thursday. The 4-year-old filly is a credit to her trainer Ed Vaughan, who had her in fine shape for her resumption after 301 days away from the racecourse. She also continued a fine season for Oppenheimer’s Hascombe & Valiant Studs, which has also been represented by G2 Ribblesdale S. winner and Oaks third Frankly Darling (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and has last year’s Irish Oaks and Prix Vermeille winner Starcatcher (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) waiting in the wings for her seasonal comeback.

Doyle’s Royal Ascot winner came aboard Scarlet Dragon (GB) (Sir Percy {GB}) for Alan King, who was busy restocking the Flat section of his yard at last week’s Tattersalls Guineas Sale, where he bought four juveniles, including the 140,000gns top lot. From five runners at Royal Ascot, King saddled three winners and a second. That runner-up, Tritonic (GB) (Sea The Moon {Ger}), who was bought at last year’s Guineas Sale, will bid to improve on that good run in Thursday’s listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Glasgow S. at Hamilton with Doyle booked to ride.

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Excelebration Colt Tops Rescheduled Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale

Two lots sold for 100,000 guineas (US$132,471) or more at the postponed Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale. Alan King and Highflyer Bloodstock secured the top lot whilst 13 lots sold for 50,000 guineas (US$66,250) or more.

Highflyer Bloodstock's Anthony Bromley and trainer Alan King have been long standing supporters of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale and the pair purchased four lots at this year's renewal for 258,000 guineas (US$341,854) including the sale topping Excelebration colt at 140,000 guineas (US$185,510).

“We don't go on times, but unfortunately he did a good time which increased interest in him, and pushed his price,” said Bromley. “We just like to look at them as individuals, their strides and general way of going.”

“This is the horse we really wanted and we had to really push the boat out to get him,” added the agent.

King, fresh from his three-timer at Royal Ascot, added: “Delighted and he is for two long-standing supporters of the yard in Max McNeill and Niall Farrell.”

The colt, who is out of the Mark of Esteem mare Open Book, was consigned by Meadowview Stables who purchased him at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale for just 18,000 euros (US$20,405).

Dolmen Bloodstock, the partnership of Justin Timmons and Danny O'Donovan, were celebrating after their Make Believe filly out of Olivia Pope was knocked down for 105,000 guineas (US$139,134) to Blandford Bloodstock's Richard Brown after he saw off the efforts of David Redvers. The filly received a significant boost on the weekend when her sire's son Mishriff won the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club.

“It was massive!” commented Timmons on the classic victory on Sunday.

“She has an engine and we were very happy with her breeze. She has been very busy, but it is always hard to gauge,” said Timmons. “We had the right people on her.”

The Kildare-based Dolmen Bloodstock team enjoyed a mighty pinhooking touch, having purchased the filly out of the mare Olivia Pope for just 10,000 euros (US$11,335) at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.

At the conclusion of the 2020 Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;

“In the current climate we are all looking to accentuate the positives and I think we can reflect on solid if unspectacular trade at this year's renewal of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up. This is, however, a year where 'solid if unspectacular' is a positive outcome and we would like to thank all those who have participated at today's sale for their contribution. The buyers have worked incredibly hard and the Breeze Up consignors have had to endure uniquely difficult conditions in the run up to the 2020 breeze up sales season, but ultimately everyone can look back on sales which have largely exceeded expectations.

“It has been challenging staging events of this nature with the prevailing COVID related regulations still in place but, despite continued travel restrictions, today's Guineas Breeze Up has seen demand from throughout the world including Australia, Bahrain, Dubai, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Kuwait, Qatar and Spain. The international demand has been accompanied by spirited bidding from the domestic British and Irish buyers and has resulted in some notable pinhooking successes, while the overseas buyers have made use of every possible means at their disposal to participate in the sale, including extensive use of our new live internet bidding platform as well as telephone bidding. It is a tribute to the resilience of the global bloodstock market that we continue to experience this level of international demand and we expect to see further widespread use of the live internet bidding platform at our two-day July Sale which commences tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.”

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Excelebration Colt Tops Guineas Sale

NEWMARKET, UK—Alan King may be best known for his exploits with top-class jumpers such as Voy Por Ustedes (Fr) and My Way De Solzen (Fr) but he has been making an increasingly notable impact on the Flat scene in recent years. His 2020 Royal Ascot treble is undoubtedly the highlight of his diversification to date and, with the assistance of his regular agent Anthony Bromley, he added another four Flat-bred horses to his string on Wednesday, including the day’s top lot, a colt by Excelebration (Ire).

“He was our favourite horse of the sale,” said Bromley after being pushed to 140,000gns for lot 108 by underbidder David Redvers. “We don’t go on times, we go on the individual, their stride and general way of going, but inevitably the vendors end up telling you the times. We knew he had breezed well and that he would be expensive but we didn’t think we’d have to go that high.”

The colt was bought for Niall Farrell and Max McNeill, the latter being the co-owner of another of King’s Royal Ascot team, Tritonic (GB) (Sea The Moon {Ger}), who was beaten half a length when second in the Golden Gates H. and was bought at the Guineas Sale of 2019 for 55,000gns.

Out of the Mark Of Esteem (Ire) mare Open Book (GB), the April-born Excelebration colt, bred by Chapel Lane Farm, represented a significant pinhooking coup for Brian Slattery of Meadowview Stables who bought him for €18,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.

The regular participation of King and Bromley at this breeze-up in particular over the years perhaps typifies the sale, at which one can expect to find a scopier and later-maturing individual than those generally catalogued for the earlier sales at Ascot or Doncaster. That is certainly what Jake Warren will be hoping to see from lot 87, the first son of the former German champion Lucky Lion (GB) to be sold at Tattersalls. Bought from Tally-Ho Stud, the son of the Galileo (Ire) mare Livia’s Wake (Ire) was pinhooked by Matt Coleman from the BBAG Yearling Sale last August for €21,000 and is from the further family of recent G2 King Edward VII S. winner Pyledriver (GB) (Harbour Watch {Ire}).

“He could be a Derby horse,” said Warren after signing the docket on behalf of Highclere Thoroughbred Racing at 95,000gns. “It is unique for a horse like this to be at a breeze-up sale. He has size and scope, so to have breezed as well as he did has to be very positive. He should make up into a lovely middle-distance type, and the bulk of his career will come next year.”

The colt is a member of the first crop of G1 Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen winner Lucky Lion, a son of High Chaparral (Ire), who also landed the G2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen (German 2000 Guineas) before finishing runner-up in the G1 Deutsches Derby. He stands at Gestut Graditz for a fee of €4,500.

Referring to the trade for breeze-up horses this season, Warren, who bought six in total, added, “It has been a bit up and down, but without some of the key players in the market it has presented some opportunities for us.”

Trade Holds Up Despite Delays
Some regular top-end buyers have indeed been either absent or low key during the last fortnight of rearranged breeze-up sales. Godolphin, for example, bought seven horses at last year’s Craven Sale for 2.94 million gns and a filly at Arqana for €800,000, but this year signed, through Anthony Stroud, for just one filly at last week’s relocated Arqana Breeze-up for £380,000.

The Guineas Breeze-up, like all sales before it in the sector this season, had a high number of withdrawals and only 116 of the 157 catalogued lots made it to the ring on Wednesday. Of those, 94 were sold at a clearance rate of 81%. Trade had a reasonably buoyant if unflashy feel to it throughout the day and, while the median was down by 28% at 17,250, the average was just about static at 28,511gns. Turnover, from 27 fewer horses sold compared to last year, stood at 2,680,000gns (-23%).

“In the current climate we are all looking to accentuate the positives and I think we can reflect on solid if unspectacular trade at this year’s renewal of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up,” said Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony. “This is, however, a year where ‘solid if unspectacular’ is a positive outcome and we would like to thank all those who have participated at today’s sale for their contribution. The buyers have worked incredibly hard and the breeze-up consignors have had to endure uniquely difficult conditions in the run up to the 2020 breeze-up sales season, but ultimately everyone can look back on sales which have largely exceeded expectations.”

A feature of this season’s sales conducted amid travel and quarantine restrictions has been the introduction of online bidding platforms by the sales houses. At the Guineas Sale, eight lots were bought by internet bidders for a total of 177,500 gns, while another five lots were underbid online.

Make Believe For Real
Just one lot before the top-priced colt entered the ring, Richard Brown had signed for the other six-figure horse of the day and the most expensive filly at 105,000gns. Like Sunday’s G1 Prix du Jockey Club winner, lot 107 is by Ballylinch Stud resident Make Believe (GB) and was bought as a yearling for a tenth of her breeze-up price at Tattersalls Ireland by Justin Timmons and Danny O’Donovan of Kildare-based Dolmen Bloodstock, who consigned the filly to the breeze-up.

“She has an engine and we were very happy with her breeze. She has been very busy, but it is always hard to gauge, though we had the right people on her,” said Timmons of the first foal of three-time winner Olivia Pope (Ire) (Lilbourne Lad {Ire}).

Four years ago Katie McGivern of Derryconnor Stud was responsible for the top-priced filly of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up Sale when the subsequent G3 Nell Gwyn S. winner Daban (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) sold for 260,000gns and she was to the fore again on Wednesday with a daughter of Kodiac (GB). The more modest price of 90,000gns was given for the fastest breezer of the sale (lot 47) by trainer James Tate on behalf of Rabbah Bloodstock. She is out of the champion Italian galloper Fair Nashwan (GB) (Nashwan), the winner of the G3 Premio Federic Tesio and producer of Italian listed winner Fair Dubawi (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), and was bought back by her breeder Nafferty Stud for 42,000gns at last year’s October Sale.

“She has loads of ability, and is very easy. She was always a powerful filly and looked like a colt, and she still does,” McGivern said. “She is ready to crack on with. The coronavirus didn’t stop her as she is actually a middle-of-the-summer filly, a six-furlong or seven-furlong filly.”

She added. “I have sold everything I have offered so far. There has been a great sale at every sale I have been at, no different from any other year apart from the precautions we have had to take. For me there is a good solid market at every level.”

James Tate, who will train the filly for Sheikh Juma Dalmook Al Maktoum, said, “She did a very fast time, I thought she was a stand-out filly in the catalogue. I thought she was decent value at that. I hope she will be running in July.”

Kodiac is a routinely popular sire at the breeze-ups and he was also represented among the day’s top lots by 138, a colt out of the unraced Bahamian Bounty (GB) mare Smart Bounty (GB) who was bred and consigned by Tally-Ho Stud.

Micheal Orlandi of Compas Equine was the buyer at 82,000gns.

Trainer John Quinn won the G1 Darley Prix Morny and G2 Coventry S. with former breeze-up purchase The Wow Signal (Ire) and he understandably has a fondness for that horse’s sire Starspangledbanner (Aus). The trainer’s son Sean went to 77,000gns for another colt by the Coolmore shuttler (lot 6) early in the session.

Thomond O’Mara bought the son of the 3-year-old winner Adore (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) for 16,000gns at Book 3 of the October Sale from breeder Fergus Anstock.

“He did a very pleasing breeze and what I liked is that he got stronger as the breeze went on,” said Sean Quinn. “I didn’t have any intention of buying a breeze-up horse, but when I saw him he caught my eye and I discussed it with dad and said he might be a good addition to the team.”

He continued, “Starspangledbanner is a very good stallion. This is a very late April foal so we will get him home, but there is no rush with the horse, we will let him tell us.”

Over To The July Sale
Selling continues at Tattersalls on Thursday and Friday with the mixed July Sale, which includes broodmares, fillies out of training and horses in training.

At the conclusion of the breeze-up, Edmond Mahony commented, “It has been challenging staging events of this nature with the prevailing COVID-related regulations still in place but, despite continued travel restrictions, today’s Guineas Breeze-up has seen demand from throughout the world, including Australia, Bahrain, Dubai, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Kuwait, Qatar and Spain. The international demand has been accompanied by spirited bidding from the domestic British and Irish buyers and has resulted in some notable pinhooking successes, while the overseas buyers have made use of every possible means at their disposal to participate in the sale, including extensive use of our new live internet bidding platform as well as telephone bidding. It is a tribute to the resilience of the global bloodstock market that we continue to experience this level of international demand and we expect to see further widespread use of the live internet bidding platform at our two-day July Sale which commences [Thursday] morning at 10am.”

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