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Record-Priced Colt Tops First Session Of Relocated Tattersalls Ireland September Sale

It proved to be a record-breaking first session for the relocated two-day Tattersalls Ireland September Sale when Boherguy Stud's colt by Teofilo (Lot 165) fetched €351,000 (US$413,063), a new record price for the sale.

He was bought by Mick Kinane, signing on behalf of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the day's leading buyer by aggregate spend.

The colt, bred by trainer Jim Bolger, is a full-brother to two Group 3 winners – the Group 3 Eyrefield Stakes winner Guaranteed and this year's G3 Acomb Stakes winner Gear Up, whose success is an update on the catalog page.

The March-born yearling was sold by Bolger's grand-daughter Clare Manning of Boherguy Stud in just her second season consigning yearlings.

“He has been a superstar since he has been here,” Manning said. “He has the pedigree and the physique, he was busy and had a number of vettings, but it was difficult in this climate to gauge what he would fetch.

“He came to prep eight weeks ago and has always been straightforward, he is one of those that just have got something about them. I have had a brief chat with grand-dad and he is absolutely delighted.”

Kinane, standing outside the ring, said: “He is a lovely horse, and we didn't think we'd be pushed that hard. He was a stand-out, he could have been sold here in a few weeks at the October Sale. Hopefully, he can run like his brother, he was a good horse.”

The sale was the highlight on a day which produced a strong clearance rate of 83 percent (206 horses offered and 172 sold), an average price of €25,706 (US$30,251), a slight increase of 1 percent on the same session in 2019, a median of €20,330 (US$23,924), a drop of just 3 percent. The day's aggregate sales totaled €4,421,441 (US$5,203,244).

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Breeders’ Cup Hopeful Con Te Partiro Retired; Still To Be Offered At Keeneland November Sale

Con Te Partiro, a multiple Group 1 winner in Australia who had visions of returning to her native country for a swan song start in this year's Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf before being offered at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, has been retired from racing due to a minor knee injury, per Ray Thomas of Australia's Daily Telegraph.

The 6-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy will remain cataloged for the Keeneland November sale.

Con Te Partiro was announced for the upcoming Breeders' Cup at Keeneland and the ensuing sale on the same property on Sept. 12, aiming to close a 2020 campaign that has included wins in the G1 Coolmore Classic and G1 Coolmore Legacy Stakes in Australia.

The mare was born in the U.S., and raced domestically for for trainer Wesley Ward and owner Hat Creek Racing. She won on debut as a juvenile during Keeneland's 2016 Spring Meet by 5 1/2 lengths. That campaign also saw her win the Bolton Landing Stakes at Saratoga by 5 3/4 lengths, and later finish second against male competition in the Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes on the Breeders' Cup undercard at Santa Anita.

Like many of Ward's runners, Con Te Partiro was sent to England's prestigious Royal Ascot meet, and she came back with a victory in the Sandringham Handicap. Her remaining time in the U.S. saw her become a Grade 3-placed runner.

Con Te Partiro sold to SF Bloodstock and Newgate Farm for $575,000 during the 2018 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, and she was sent to the barn of Australian trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott to continue her racing career. The career renaissance she has experienced in 2020 was foreshadowed by her first Australian start, a victory in the G3 Dark Jewel Classic.

This is the second retirement for Con Te Partiro, who was initially sent off to be a broodmare during the 2019 Southern Hemisphere breeding season. However, she was put back in training at the insistence of her trainers after the mare failed to get in foal.

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Exhi Filly Tops CTHS Alberta Thoroughbred Sale

The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Alberta Division) Thoroughbred Sale brought in smaller bulk numbers during its 2020 renewal on Friday, Sept. 18, but it made up with increased average and median sale prices, led by a filly by Exhi who sold for $44,000 (Canadian).

In total, 40 horses changed hands during Friday's sale for revenues of $327,400, down 27 percent from the previous year when 67 horses brought $451,300. The average sale price rose 25 percent to $8,395 from $6,736, while the median increased 67 percent to $4,500 from $2,700. The sale's buyback rate finished at 38 percent, compared with 40 percent in 2019.

Greg Tracy, agent, purchased the sale-topper, an Exhi filly out of the multiple stakes-winning Forestry mare Eustacia, for $44,000.

The second foal out of the dam, the Alberta-bred sale-topper hails from a deep family of stakes producers throughout North America, including stakes-winning second dam Sparkling Pink. Highfield Investment Group consigned the filly, as agent.

True North Stable landed the auction's second-highest-priced offering, a Kentucky-bred Laoban filly, for $26,500.

The bay filly is out of the stakes-placed Bernardini mare Kimono, and her extended family includes Grade 1 winners Declassify, A Phenomenon, and Seattle Meteor. Stone Ranches Ltd. consigned the filly.

This year's sale, like all of the country's sales operated under the CTHS banner, offered online bidding for the first time in 2020 to accommodate those unable to attend due to COVID-19.

Online bids accounted for six of the auction's successful purchases, totaling $45,900 – roughly 14 percent of the sale's total gross. The two most expensive online purchases each brought $15,000: an O'Prado Again filly who sold to Shot In the Dark Racing and a Cross Traffic filly who sold to Meadowlake.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

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Imperial Hint To Stand At Clear Creek Stud In Louisiana For 2021

Clear Creek Stud is proud to announce their new stallion for 2021 in Imperial Hint (Imperialism-Royal Hint)

The son of Grade 2 winner Imperialism, Imperial Hint earned in excess of $2.2 million while winning 11 graded stakes including four Grade 1 stakes.

He twice won both the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga Race Course and the G1 Vosburgh at Belmont Park. In the 2019 edition of the Alfred G. Vanderbilt he set a new track record running six furlongs in 1:07.92, getting the half mile in 44.21, while beating Eclipse Award-winning male sprinter, Mitole.

Also on his list of accomplishments is the G2 True North Stakes and the G3 Smile Sprint Stakes. In the Donald LeVine Memorial Stakes at Parx Racing he ran six furlongs in 1:07.55 with the half mile clocked in 43.81.

Imperial Hint recorded triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures eleven times in his career with a high of 114.

Imperial Hint will be syndicated with shares available that will grant shareholders seven breedings in his first four years at stud plus bonus seasons after that. Shareholders participate in both stallion awards and stud fees from excess seasons sold.

Imperial Hint will stand the 2021 breeding season at Clear Creek Stud for a fee of $2,500 payable Sept. 1.

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