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Eclipse Thoroughbreds’ Unbeaten Manhattan Jungle Untroubled On Black-Type Debut

Manhattan Jungle (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {GB}–Skylight {Ire}, by Acclamation {GB}) annexed a five-furlong newcomers' heat at Chantilly in her Apr. 13 unveiling and doubled up, at the expense of the reopposing subsequent winner Sabya (Fr) (Pedro The Great), over the same distance at Lyon Parilly in her Apr. 26 return last time. Breaking sharply to race on the front end from flagfall in this black-type debut, she went clear when asked to stretch soon after passing the two pole and was pushed out in the closing stages to easily hold the late bid of Exxtra (Fr) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) by 1 3/4 lengths for a career high and a perfect three-for-three record.

“Manhattan Jungle came onto our radar immediately after her debut at Chantilly,” said Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Aron Wellman. “She looked like a fast filly with gears, who could potentially be a [G2] Queen Mary prospect for Royal Ascot. I saw the race and liked it. But, in all candour, when my good friend and colleague Mike Levy pushed me on her, which is a rare thing for him to do, I got much more serious about pursuing her as a purchase for Eclipse. Then, when another good friend and colleague, Jamie Lloyd, contacted me with an in to get a deal done, it was go-time. It all came together beautifully and we turned around within two weeks and won an allowance at Lyon [Parilly], which inspired us to go for the Listed race at Vichy today as a test to see if she was, in fact, a bona fide Royal Ascot contender.”

Wellman added, “Eclipse has only run three horses at Royal Ascot, with a second from our US-based filly Sharing in the G1 Coronation S. in 2020 and we won the Queen Mary last year with a filly named Quick Suzy, who we acquired privately in Ireland after her debut, similar to how we came across Manhattan Jungle. Our partners at Eclipse have a voracious appetite for having legitimate runners at Royal Ascot and our base is becoming increasingly game for international action in Europe and Australia, so we're delighted Manhattan Jungle might take our partners back for another thrilling tilt at the Royal Meeting with a very smart, talented and classy filly. Amy Murphy has been brilliant in executing the game plan we mapped out when we acquired Manhattan Jungle and now we just have to hope that the filly can manage to maintain her pristine trajectory as we embark upon a much more serious challenge heading to Ascot. The world is getting so small, particularly in our industry, and it's wonderful to have an Irish-bred filly, who is three-for-three in France and now destined for Royal Ascot in England and will be supported by a strong contingent of American owners. Very cool stuff!”

Manhattan Jungle is the third foal and first stakes performer, from three winners, produced by a winning granddaughter of Listed Criterium de l'Ouest and Listed Prix Ronde de Nuit placegetter Plissetskaia (Fr) (Caerleon). Plissetskaia produced three black-type performers of her own, namely Listed Prix de Pontarme winner Indianski (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}), MGSP G2 Union-Rennen third Palao (Ger) (Champs Elysees {GB}) and Listed Prix Petite Etoile third La Gohanniere (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}). The January-foaled bay is half to a yearling filly by Sioux Nation.

Friday, Vichy, France
PRIX DES REVES D'OR – JACQUES BOUCHARA-Listed, €60,000, Vichy, 5-20, 2yo, 5fT, :57.01, sf.
1–MANHATTAN JUNGLE (IRE), 122, f, 2, Bungle Inthejungle (GB)
1st Dam: Skylight (Ire), by Acclamation (GB)
2nd Dam: Swingsky (Ire), by Indian Ridge (Ire)
3rd Dam: Plissetskaia (Fr), by Caerleon
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. (€20,000 Ylg '21 GOFSPT). O-Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners; B-Patrick F Headon (IRE); T-Amy Murphy; J-Mickael Barzalona. €30,000. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, €57,000.
2–Exxtra (Fr), 122, f, 2, Starspangledbanner (Aus)–Rolling Stone (Ire), by Raven's Pass. 1ST BLACK TYPE. (€26,000 Ylg '21 ARQOCT). O-Mme Anja Wilde; B-Mme Isabelle Corbani & SARL Jedburgh Stud (FR); T-Carlos & Yann Lerner. €12,000.
3–Sabya (Fr), 122, f, 2, Pedro The Great–Pacific Chalnetta (Fr), by Planteur (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Christian Berland, Jean-Marc Baillet & Philippe Sogorb; B-Jean-Claude Crouton & Michel Crouton (FR); T-Philippe Sogorb. €9,000.
Margins: 1 3/4, 1HF, 2HF. Odds: 1.50, 3.10, 4.40.
Also Ran: Fix You (GB), Rosie Rocket (Fr). Video, sponsored by TVG.

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Rathasker’s Rising Tide

When standing a stallion there appears to be a defined path that most are destined to follow. Busy in year one, numbers drop in year two and three, and then your fate is sealed on whether their first crop can run or not. In the case of Bungle Inthejungle (Ire) and Coulsty (Ire), both have proven that their stock can run and can compete at the top level, with Winter Power (Ire) and Shantisara (Ire) having won Group 1 races for both sires, respectively. This gives Maurice and Madeline Burns of Rathasker Stud, where the stallions call home, every reason to be excited for the year ahead.

“Winter Power, who was a very good 2-year-old and progressed at three to win the G1 Nunthorpe S. at York, is very typical of Bungle's [stock],” says Maurice Burns. “They're precocious, they're strong, they have loads of speed and it's just another feather in his cap to produce a Group 1 winner. Because she showed how high a Bungle can go, his yearlings last year sold extremely well and have gone to some very, very good trainers.”

Last year's crop of yearlings made up to €125,000, which is 10 times the stud fee those horses were conceived on, and the “good trainers” who have a Bungle Inthejungle 2-year-old include Mark and Charlie Johnston, Michael Dods, and John Quinn among others. No doubt the icing on the cake for Bungle Inthejungle's 2021 season is the fact that Winter Power was bred by Maurice's brother Patrick Burns of Newlands House Stud.

Bungle Inthejungle's first crop were quick to suggest that he is a sire capable of getting precocious 2-year-olds, and in the first months of the flat season in 2018 there was hardly a juvenile maiden that went by without a Bungle Inthejungle either winning or catching the eye, most notably through Rumble Inthejungle (Ire) winning the G3 Molecomb S. at Goodwood. In his second crop, Living In The Past (Ire) won the G2 Lowther S. and so it was only fitting that a Group 1 winner should be found in his third crop.

“It is the same for everyone who has a stallion when they have the first runners,” Burns says. “You're praying that they are going to come out and be precocious, and win, and Bungle just did that. They came out, they ran, they won, he did exactly what we were hoping he would do. He did well the first year, then we filled him up well for the next year and things progressed on from there. Thank God Coulsty also had a good start.”

Boasting some of the best statistics in the book, Coulsty had smaller numbers to go to war with but those that have run have certainly made people stand up and pay attention to the young son of Kodiac (GB).

“He didn't have big crops on the ground but he took every opportunity he got,” said Burns. “The mares he got were bread-and-butter mares but he produced some very good horses and you know there is only one stallion from that crop who has two Group 1 winners and then you have New Bay (GB) and Coulsty with one apiece.”

The aforementioned Shantisara became Coulsty's first top-level winner in the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland and her story has been well documented. A 10,000gns breeze-up purchase by agent Federico Barberini from breeze-up maestro Robson Aguiar, Shantisara's progression has certainly been a rags-to-riches tale and has helped to put a lot of people onto her sire.

Burns added, “On the stats, he's fantastic. A lot of the switched-on breeders are using him this year because last year we had over 100 mares to him. The more numbers you have the better chance you have of producing good horses so we'll see how high he can fly. If he keeps going on the way he's going, he's going to do very, very well.”

The third stallion to make up the Rathasker roster is Gregorian, who has returned to his place of birth and is by the stud's stalwart Clodovil (Ire), who is now retired. Gregorian's progeny have been flying the flag for him worldwide with Gregorian Chant (GB) winning graded races Stateside and his top performer being a Group 2 winner.

“He came up with a good filly in 2020 which was Plainchant (Fr) and she was the top-rated 2-year-old filly in France that year. He's got two stakes-winning horses in California so it means that he's internationally successful,” says Burns. “He's a very solid horse and he's one of those horses that has a very high winners-to-runners ratio.”

All three stallions have been kept at affordable fees for 2022 with Bungle Inthejungle spearheading the roster at €8,000. With their popularity you could hardly blame a considerable jump up in fees for each of their stallions but the patriarch of the family operation explains the decision behind the value to be found in his covering shed.

“We're a small family operation and we have a number of breeders who have used us for years,” says Burns. “You don't want to push them away, you want to keep them in the game with you. As the stallions progress, you take small steps forward and if you take a small step forward then the people who were with you at the start can stay with you. If take a large step you've got a new bunch of clients or maybe you don't have any clients at all.”

As breeders themselves the Burns family recognise the mutual benefits of stallions doing well.

“When you have successful horses on the farm everybody gets a lift from it,” Burns says.  “When you go to the market and people are asking to look at the Bungle or the Coulsty or the Gregorian it is good for us and it's good for our clients. Your farm is based on what stallion you have or what stallions you use, and if your stallions are doing well then it's good for everyone.”

As the breeding season inches ever closer and larger crops start running for the Rathasker stallions it will be no surprise if everyone involved starts taking bigger steps forward together.

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Art Power Bound For Champions Sprint

The G1 QIPCO British Champions Sprint on Oct. 16 is next for Art Power (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) following his dominant display in the G2 Renaissance S. at The Curragh on Sept. 25. Bearing the King Power racing silks, the G1 Diamond Jubilee S. third drew off by five lengths in the Renaissance. It was his first win since taking the G3 Lacken S. at Naas last July. Art Power was also fourth in the 2020 edition of the British Champions Sprint.

“It was a very good performance in Ireland and he's come out of it really well,” said trainer Tim Easterby. “He's in good order and he goes to Ascot next time. He ran well last year.

“He just wants riding with a bit of patience. That's what he wants and he could win anything.”

Art Power's stablemate Winter Power (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {GB}) is headed to France to take in the G1 Qatar Prix de l'Abbaye on Oct. 3. Since taking the G3 Cornwallis S. last October, the bay filly opened her season with a listed victory at York on May 13, but was only ninth in the G1 King's Stand S. at Royal Ascot. Back in the winner's circle in the Listed City Walls S. at York on July 10, she won the G1 Nunthorpe S. there on Aug. 20. An awkward break in the G1 Flying Five S. at The Curragh resulted in a 10th place finish on Sept. 12.

“She's in great form and goes to the Prix Abbaye,” he said. With a bit of luck she can repeat her Nunthorpe performance in France.”

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Bunglejungleparty The Star at Tattersalls August

The second year of the Tattersalls August Sale kicked off its run at Park Paddocks in Newmarket on Tuesday. The clearance rate remained solid when compared to the 2020 renewal, which was inaugurated due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Of the 144 horses offered during the first session 127 (88%) were marked as sold for a gross of 1,459,200gns. The average of 11,490gns and median of 7,000gns were down 36% and 42% on 2020, respectively.

Leading the way on day one was lot 169, Bunglejungleparty (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {GB}), who brought 125,000gns from Will Douglass of Charlie Gordon-Watson Bloodstock. Consigned by Jamie Railton on behalf of Theresa Marnane, the Qatari-bound colt was the first six-figure lot of the sale.

His sire celebrated a first Group 1 scorer with Winter Power (Ire) in the G1 Nunthorpe S. at York earlier this month and the four-time starter appears to be shaping with plenty of promise, having run third in the Listed Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles at Vichy in July.

“I have had luck buying from these connections at last year's sale with Pom Malpic,” said Douglass. “This is just a very nice horse with form. He goes to Qatar.”

His dam, the winning Brazilian Breeze (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), is a full-sister to stakes winner Rivellino (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). The second dam is Group 3 winner Brazilian Bride (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}), while in the extended family are Group 1 winners Dolphin Street (Fr) (Bluebird), Insight (Fr) (Sadler's Wells) and Saffron Walden (Fr) (Sadler's Wells).

“The Marnanes are such enthusiasts, I am so pleased for them,” added Railton. “We are so appreciative of our Qatari bidders. He was a pretty obvious horse and he had an avenue to the US as well as he is a non-winner. We are so appreciative of all these people coming to Tattersalls to buy horses. This sale suits every single jurisdiction in the world to buy horses so we must strive to support it.”

Marnane said of the €12,000 Goffs Autumn Online Sale yearling, “I am over the moon. He is a very good-looking horse, big and strong, everybody wanted him today. He had clean X-rays and a very good scope, and there were three people on him over 100,000gns.”

She added, “We rolled the dice here. He was entered in a Group 3 in Germany this weekend, but the yearling sales are coming up.

“We sold Will a very good horse last year, who has been stakes placed in Qatar; he knows where to get the good ones from.

“This date works in the calendar, the sale companies are doing a great job to get these horse sold and we are looking forward to the yearling sale next week.”

Barton Sales offered Encourage (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}) (lot 197) late on Tuesday and were rewarded with a winning bid of 75,000gns. Trainer Ali Majeed signed the ticket on behalf of His Excellency Sultan Aldeen MS Al-Khalifa of Bahrain.

“He is a little under the handicap mark, but we think he will go well in Bahrain and hopefully he will improve,” said Majeed, who is eyeing the lucrative Bahrain Turf Series for the winning 3-year-old gelding. “He is for Sheikh Sultan and we are looking forward to running him. We hope this will be a nice horse.”

Bred and raced by The Queen and trainer Roger Charlton, Encourage is a winner over 10 furlongs. The bay is out of a winning half-sister to G1 Queen Elizabeth S. hero Kingdom of Fife (GB) (Kingmambo), Group 3-placed Four Winds (GB) (Red Ransom), and the dam of stakes winner and G3 Prix Eclipse third Royal Spring (Fr) (Tamayuz {GB}).

National Hunt racing is next on the cards for Dirham Emirati (Ire) (Vadamos {Fr}), who caught the eye of Phil Middleton. Mick Sheridan placed the winning bid of 62,000gns for Middleton, who missed Dirham Emirati's time in the ring due to heavy traffic.

“Phil has been very keen on this horse for a while, he has watched all his runs,” said Sheridan. “Phil's got a keen eye for a jumper and that is the plan–but he will [give] the horse a bit of time off first. He should go with a bit of cut in the ground.”

A 22,000gns Tattersalls December foal turned 55,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling, the 3-year-old gelding was consigned by David Simcock's Trillium Place Stables. Sold as lot 180, he has a win over 1 1/2 miles and is rated 78. His sire Vadamos is now a National Hunt sire at Coolmore's Grange Stud after first standing on Tally-Ho Stud's Flat roster. Dirham Emirati's granddam is L'Ancresse (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}), named the European Champion 3-Year-Old Filly in 2003 and runner-up in the G1 Irish Oaks and the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

Added Sheridan of his temporarily stranded friend, “I am very good friends with Phil, we were involved in Arab racing together. He rang me when he got stuck in the traffic two hours ago, and then rang me an hour later when he had not moved.”

The highest-priced filly to sell on Tuesday was lot 211, Eastern Delight (Ire) (Camacho {GB}). Part of the James Owen Racing consignment for Rabbah Bloodstock, the daughter of Glamorous Air (Ire) (Air Express {Ire}) went for 50,000gns to breeder Robert Bailey of New Hall Farm.

“There is one mare in India and one mare in Australia, so apart from those, we have nearly all the family's breeding mares at home, and they are all “Glamorous,'” said Bailey who bid through Jason Singh over the telephone and was not opposed to renaming his new acquisition.

Already a half-sister to G3 Prix du Petit Couvert heroine Just Glamorous (Ire) (Arcano {Ire}) and G3 Sapphire S. Victoria Glamorous Spirit (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), the €180,000 Goffs Orby yearling is rated 76 and has placed twice in six runs.

“There was no need for me to come up to Newmarket as she was the one I wanted–we have done all the checks we needed,” Bailey added from his Chepstow base. “She will go into training for a couple of years with Chris Mason and we will try and improve her form and then she will come back to the farm.”

The sale continues with another 230 lots at 11 a.m. on Wednesday.

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