Sands Of Mali Retired

Group 1-winning sprinter Sands Of Mali (Fr) (Panis-Kadiania {Fr}, by Indian Rocket {GB}) has been retired to stud. It was not specified where he will stand.

Owner Cool Silk Partnership tweeted on Tuesday, “on a day when a potential future flag bearer for us [Faora] wins on debut, our star Sands of Mali is confirmed to start his next career at stud. An absolute legend of a horse –our first and only Group 1 winner to date! Hugely talented and as @RichardFahey says, a machine on the gallops.

“A clean pedigree, a beautiful physical specimen and bundles of natural ability–we can’t wait to see mini Mali’s hitting the track in a few years time. A huge thank you to team

@RichardFahey for all the hard work put into training and looking after him over the last three years.”

Sands Of Mali was pinhooked by Con Marnane, turning a €20,000 yearling pricetag into £75,000 at the 2017 Tattersalls Ascot breeze-up sale, and he justified that jump when winning the G2 Gimcrack S. on his third start. He won the G3 Prix Sigy and G2 Sandy Lane S. to kick off his 3-year-old campaign before finishing a half-length second in the G1 Commonwealth Cup, and he gained redemption back at Ascot four months later when besting Harry Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the G1 British Champions Sprint S. Sand Of Mali went winless in four tries last year and two this season.

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American Pharoah, Hard Spun Juveniles Strike Big At Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale

A colt by exciting young sire Night Of Thunder was the star turn at the sun-drenched Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale when selling for 575,000 guineas (US$748,927). A total of 70 lots sold for 6,649,500 guineas ($8,660,855) at an average of 94,993 guineas ($123,728) and a median of 61,000 guineas ($79,457).

Brown Island Stables' Johnny Collins was celebrating after his Night of Thunder colt lit up the ring when selling for 575,000 guineas ($748,927) to Tom Biggs of Blandford Bloodstock. It was a notable pinhooking triumph for Collins who had purchased the colt for £72,000 ($89,319) as a yearling.

“I had one by Night Of Thunder last year and really wanted to get another to join the team,” said Collins after the sale. “He went through very early, looked like an April 28 foal, and was only 15hh high – he is a 16hh horse now! The time delay this spring has probably helped him, but he has always been a powerful galloper.”

Of his sire, Collins added: “Who could have foreseen what he would achieve? He has got better books coming forward and he really is taking himself up into the higher brackets.”

Tom Biggs saw off the efforts of underbidder Mark McStay and David Redvers after an intense bidding battle to secure the colt and explained;

“He will stay in Newmarket. It was a little more than we had wanted to spend, but you have to pay for this sort of horse. He is a lovely horse, he did a very nice breeze and his sire is doing so well.”

The sale-topping colt is out of Thurayaat, a granddaughter of the Oaks and 1,000 Guineas winner Midway Lady who also produced an Oaks winner herself in champion 3-year-old filly Eswarah.

Internet Bid Triumphs for American Pharoah Colt

Bids rained in from outside the sale ring from the socially distanced Tattersalls audience for Star Bloodstock's American Pharoah colt but it was an internet bid that won the day at 400,000 guineas ($521,050). The successful purchaser was Simon Chappell, who said;

“I know the guys at Star Bloodstock and they've been telling me this colt is a good horse all year. At 400,000 guineas there was no way I was letting a horse like him slip through the net. He's by the sire of the moment in American Pharoah, he did the third-fastest breeze and has a massive stride, so I used the internet bidding system and bought the horse. He'll be going into training with Simon Crisford.”

The colt was bought as a yearling by Byron Rogers and Newminster Pinhook for $170,000 and was prepared for Star Bloodstock by Johnny Hassett.

“He has always shown us a lot,” said Rogers. “When we let them off in March and asked the draft to point their toes a little bit, he always went well. He is a very quick horse, he breezed as we expected he would.”

The colt is from the second crop of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, already the sire of seven stakes winners, and is the second foal out of the stakes winning mare Harlan's Honor whose only runner to date has been stakes-placed in the U.S.

Cool Silk Partnership Strike for Hard Spun Filly
 
The Cool Silk Partnership and Peter Swann have enjoyed great success buying at the breeze up sales with Stroud Coleman's Matt Coleman and the team struck the winning bid of 375,000 guineas ($488,476) for Mocklershill's popular Hard Spun filly.

“We really liked this filly and waited for her. She is a lovely horse and travelled over well. She has only done her prep since March and has handled it well,” Peter Swann commented. “She might end up going abroad, we have just sent Midnight Sands to Brendan Walsh in the U.S. This filly will have some resale value too.”

Of the breeze-up sales, Swann added: “We like to buy at the breeze up sales as you get to see how the horse is mentally dealing with training. At the sale we look at times and strides and everything really, we have Matt with us and James Given to vet, but we also like to see the horses in the yard and see their characters. I think the market has been quite strong, we were underbidder on the Twilight Son filly. As the breeze ups have been so late this year we have had to be patient, but we hope we have bought a classier type.”

Consignor Willie Brown of Mocklershill said: “I am flabbergasted! She is a lovely filly, a seriously good filly, and has been very busy since we got here. She has been training well and only arrived with us on March 2. Then the only sale open was Goresbridge, but with the delays, and as she was working so well, we entered her here on a wild card.”

The filly is out of the Grade 3 placed Lemon Drop Kid mare Lemonette from a deep American family.

Chairman's Statement

At the conclusion of the 2020 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony commented;

“First and foremost we would like to pay tribute to each and every individual who has worked so hard to make sure that the 2020 Craven Breeze Up Sale took place under almost normal conditions, albeit more than two months later than intended. In particular we should recognise the patience and commitment of the Breeze Up consignors who have worked with us every step of the way and have adapted to the challenges that the global pandemic has thrown at people in every walk of life. None of us can pretend that the past few months have been easy, but in these times of adversity it has been even more pleasing than usual to see so many of the consignors well rewarded. A clearance rate of 83 percent, an average price nudging 100,000 guineas and a top priced colt matching last year's highest priced colt, are very respectable statistics and reflect the outstanding professionalism of the Breeze Up consignors who, as ever, brought a fine collection of 2-year-olds to the Craven Breeze Up Sale.

“We should equally recognize the huge contribution made by today's purchasers. They have yet again demonstrated the enduring appetite for quality European thoroughbreds and the esteem in which the Craven Breeze Up is held. Even in these extraordinary times we have had buyers active from all corners of the world including Australia, Bahrain, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Qatar and Spain and the domestic demand has also exceeded expectations. Obviously the highlight was Johnny Collins' spectacular pinhooking triumph with his outstanding 575,000 guineas sale – topping Night Of Thunder colt, but there were numerous other success stories and we can be confident that there will be plenty of 2020 Craven Breeze Up graduates performing at the highest level.

“We are expecting international travel restrictions to be eased in the near future, which will be a great relief, and as we look forward to the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up and July Sale it has also been encouraging to see the new internet bidding facility being widely used by buyers at all levels of the market. We have done our best to explore every possible way for buyers to participate at our sales in these unusual times and it has clearly been well received.”

The next sales at Tattersalls are the Guineas Breeze Up Sale and July Sale which takes place from July 8 – 10.

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Jetting In For The Fresh Prince Of The Ring

NEWMARKET, UK—There may have been one significant Prince Of Lir (Ire) colt missing from those originally consigned for the Tattersalls Ascot Breeze-up but the Ballyhane Stud resident still made his presence felt as the sire of three of the top eight lots of the sale.

The G2 Norfolk S. winner The Lir Jet (Ire) was withdrawn by Robson Aguiar and sold privately ahead of the delayed auction but that hold up has worked in other people’s favour. Heading the list of those who found themselves in the ring on Thursday afternoon was lot 13, the colt from Knockanglass Stables out of the listed-placed juvenile winner Harvest Joy (Ire) (Daggers Drawn), who sold for 92,000gns to Mark McStay of Avenue Bloodstock.

“He’s a lovely horse and we are delighted to have bought him,” said McStay, who was acting on behalf of a group of owners with Joe Parr, who is in his first season training in Newmarket.

“We thought he was one of the nicest horses on the sales ground and he compared very favourably with those in the Craven Sale, both on type and on the time he did for his breeze. He was prepared very well by Thomond O’Mara, who recommended him highly.”

Bred by John Hutchinson, the colt was bought by O’Mara for €10,000 at the Goffs February Sale.

McStay added, “He might have been considerably cheaper ten days ago had it not been for The Lir Jet but we hope he might be the next one. The horse is eligible for the new Ballyhane Stakes at Naas so hopefully he can go over and win some of Joe Foley’s money.”

Peter Swann was the man who raced Prince Of Lir—a Norfolk S. winner and breeze-up graduate himself—and, while Swann had to play the role of underbidder on the sale’s top lot, he picked up number two on the list, another colt by the sire for whom he has an understandable fondness. Sold for 70,000gns, lot 23 was consigned by Mickey Cleere of MC Thoroughbreds. A son of the six-time American winner Little Italy (Proud Citizen), he was bred by Gerard Mullins.

Matt Coleman did the bidding on behalf of Swann’s Cool Silk Partnership and said, “We missed out on The Lir Jet but Peter was very keen to buy a Prince Of Lir colt for Robert Cowell to train as he also trained the sire.”

Prince Of Lir ended the sale as the leading sire with an average of 44,800gns for five sold.

The Cool Silk team also picked up a first-crop son of Pearl Secret (GB) (lot 85) for 45,000gns and ended the sale as leading buyer with three bought for 130,000gns. The Pearl Secret colt was another with particular significance for Swann as he is out of Bertorizzia (Fr) (Bertolini), an unraced half-sister to Cool Silk’s GI QIPCO British Champions Sprint winner Sands Of Mali (Fr) (Panis), himself a £75,000 purchase from the second edition of the Ascot Breeze-up Sale.

Despite a much denuded catalogue—after 39 withdrawals only 57 juveniles were offered for sale—the figures for what is usually the breeze-up season opener held up pretty well. Fifty horses (88%) sold for a total of 1,000,440gns, for a 21% improvement in the median to 15,750gns and an average which held steady at 20,009gns.

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Inaugural Tattersalls Online Sale Topped by West End Girl

Badgers Bloodstock acquired Group 3 winner West End Girl (GB) (Golden Horn {GB}) (lot 5) for a sale-topping £420,000 when bidding closed during the inaugural Tattersalls Ascot Online Sale on Monday. Formerly owned by Alan and Mike Spence, the G3 Sweet Solera S. heroine has an entry in the G2 Ribblesdale S. at Royal Ascot on Tuesday. Consigned by Kingsley Park, the Car Colston Hall Stud-bred is out of the Dansili (GB) mare Free Rein (GB) and was last seen finishing third in the Listed Oaks Trial S. on June 5 for trainer Mark Johnston.

Originally purchased for 95,000gns out of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale by Johnston, she is the second foal, runner and winner for the winning Free Rein, who is a half-sister to European Highweight Reckless Abandon (GB) (Exchange Rate), a winner of the G1 Prix Morny and G1 Middle Park S., as well as Japanese listed winner & MGSP Best Approach (GB) (New Approach {Ire}). GI American Oaks and GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup S. heroine Ticker Tape (GB) (Royal Applause {GB}) is under the third dam, as is the MGSW War Decree (War Front).

The other lot to sell on Monday was lot 4, Igotatext (Ire) (Ajaya {GB}), who was offered by Archie Watson’s Saxon Gate after a June 5 debut win over the Lingfield all-weather. The Cool Silk Partnership snapped up the son of first-season sire Ajaya for £165,000. Out of Tifawt (GB) (High Chaparral {Ire}), Igotatext comes with an entry for the G2 Coventry S. on June 20.

The bay RNA’d for €13,500 during the 2018 Tattersalls Ireland Flat Foal & Breeding Stock Sale, before changing hands for €10,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale Part II. Bred by Peter and Hugh McCutcheon in Ireland, his winning second dam is a half-sister to English highweighted sprinter Kingsgate Native (Ire) (Mujadil), who won the G1 Golden Jubilee S., G1 Nunthorpe S. and ran second in the G1 Prix de l’Abbaye.

“A big team effort has gone into getting the inaugural Tattersalls Ascot Online Sale off the ground and we are very pleased with the results,” said Tattersalls Ascot Sales Head Matthew Prior said. “There were a few technical glitches along the way which were quickly resolved and we will learn from today’s sale, but overall it was a genuinely encouraging start for Tattersalls Online. We had wholehearted, enthusiastic support from the vendors as well as bidders from throughout the world, and we would like to extend our thanks and gratitude to all who supported and participated in this new venture. In particular we wish all the connections the very best of luck with their purchases this week if taking up their engagements at Royal Ascot.”

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