Sottsass Colt Leads The Way For Baroda Stud At Goffs February Sale

Baroda Stud were responsible for two of the three six-figure lots on day one of the Goffs February Sale, including the €115,000 top lot, a colt by Sottsass (Ire), who was purchased by Tally-Ho Stud.

Of the 2017 lots offered, 128 were sold, which represented a clearance rate of 59% and an aggregate spend of €2,056,250. The average for day one of first sale for 2023 at Goffs was €16,064 with Cox explaining that the nice horses had no trouble in finding new homes.

He said, “A few people said to me that the horses we had here stood out. The Sottsass was a good, straightforward colt who had good X-rays and a good scope. He was a homebred of China Horse Club and sold very well to Tally-Ho Stud. He'd plenty of fans–he had six or seven vets and there was plenty of action on him.”

Baroda offered 11 horses on Wednesday, of which nine were sold to the tune of €321,000 at an average of €35,667. They included another China Horse Club homebred by New Bay (GB) (lot 186), knocked down to Camas Park for €85,000, and a Magna Grecia (Ire) filly (lot 200) snapped up by MAB Agency for €58,000.

Cox added, “The New Bay was another homebred by China Horse Club and the sire is flying so he definitely attracted plenty of attention before selling to Camas Park. The Magna Grecia filly was lovely. She's a homebred by the Niarchos family and the half-sister [Burning Topic (Ger) (Ulysses {Ire})] is doing well in France.”

He added, “This is a sale where, if you put a good foal in here, it will stand out and sell well. We're happy with how the day went.”

 

Rogues Snap Up Night Of Thunder Colt

One of the major subplots to the 2022 sale season was the strength of Night Of Thunder (Ire)'s progeny at public auction and the Rogue's Gallery Syndicate, best known for owning listed winner Rogue Millennium (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), gave €110,000 for a colt by the Darley sire.

The Night Of Thunder colt was consigned by Ringfort Stud and signed for by the syndicate's Tony Elliott, who was standing alongside bloodstock agent Billy Jackson-Stops. Elliott revealed that lot 109 would be offered for resale later in the year.

He said, “This horse has been bought to pinhook. We had three for pinhooking last year and we've three this year as well. We've got some nice horses.”

Elliott added, “We thought he was the standout and it was exactly what we wanted to give for him. That would have been our last bid I reckon.

“We're really pleased to get him because he's a lovely-looking horse and, being by Night Of Thunder, he could be anything. Sometimes we buy them back into the syndicate, which we did last year with a Zoustar (Aus).

“If we really like this lad and he's going the right way we could look at buying him back into the syndicate. There's two syndicates–a pinhooking syndicate and a racing one. We've got some nice horses for the coming years.”

 

Shared Wish For Shamrock Thoroughbreds And Team Valor

The Joseph O'Brien-trained Dundalk winner Tosen Wish (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) (lot 35) provided some early interest when selling for €100,000 to Shamrock Thoroughbreds and Team Valor.

Tosen Wish overcame a 469-day absence to win a seven-furlong handicap off 82 at Dundalk last week, justifying 9-4 favouritism in the process.

The 4-year-old, who is now two from three, boasts a rating of 89 and will be aimed at a turf campaign by Ado McGuinness, according to the trainer's assistant Stephen Thorne.

He said, “Tosen Wish won well on the polytrack at Dundalk last week. He'd been off for a good while but we made plenty of enquiries about him and put the picture together and I think he's a nice lightly-raced horse moving forward. We've partnered up with Team Valor on this one so it is an exciting new partnership and hopefully he will be lucky for us.”

Asked how the new partnership with Barry Irwin's Team Valor came about, Thorne added, “We made contact with him and we've had a few conversations with him. He's obviously seen the success Ado has had on the track. He's a dual Group 1-winning trainer now and we're delighted to have Team Valor on board. We were waiting to find the right type of horse to pitch to Barry and he obviously liked him. He was a standout at this sale by a mile. I thought we'd get him a little cheaper but there was strong competition in the ring. We've no major plans but I think he'll be a nice horse for the turf.”

Tosen Wish was consigned by Castlebridge, who also offered the placed Arabian Legend (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) (lot 37), sold for €48,000 to Italian owner Mr. Ciampoli to be trained by Grizzetti Galoppo.

Another horse with form, the Cormac Farrell-trained and consigned Seven Hills (Ire) (Camacho {GB}) (lot 40C), who placed a couple of times at Dundalk, sold for €40,000 to the New Racing Factory.

 

Walk In The Park Colt Comes Up Trumps

The Flat-bred weanlings may have dominated but once again the progeny of Walk In The Park (Ire) proved to be in high demand with Coolmore's Gerry Aherne going to €56,000 to secure a well-bred colt (lot 209) by the sire from Thistledown Stud.

The colt is out of a sister to Felix Desjy (Fr) (Maresca Sorrento {Fr}), a classy performer for Gigginstown House Stud and Gordon Elliott at one point, and was the highest-priced National Hunt-bred lot through the ring on Wednesday.

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David Cox On How Baroda Stud Are Aiming To Stand Out At Tattersalls Ireland

If a major part of a trainer's job is to place horses in the right races, then a consignor must select the right sale for their offerings, which is exactly what David Cox of Baroda Stud gets right more times than not.

Baroda have had some well-received yearling drafts in Britain and France this autumn and Cox is quietly optimistic of breaking into the top bracket of the September Yearling Sale at Tattersalls Ireland this week with his 21-strong draft.

“It's all about trying to make your horse stand out. No matter what sale you go to, you want to be in that top 10 to 15 per cent,” Cox said at the end of a busy day showing at Barn G at Tattersalls Ireland on Sunday. 

“You have to think about what physical you have, what pedigree you have and then try and make your horse stand out wherever you send it. All of the yearling sales so far this year, the top end of the market has been very strong, so, if you can position yourself to be in the top 10 to 15 per cent of that market, you are going to get well-paid. 

“Take our horses at this sale for example, we have a broad arrangement of sires there; we've sharp types and staying types, so we've something for everyone. A lot of the breeze-up men and women, they didn't really do a lot of shopping in Britain this year because of the expenses involved, but they will shop here.”

He added, “This is a good sale. It's an Irish sale as well, which is important, because we need to support the Irish sales as well as the English ones.”

It being an Irish sale is a relevant point. There was a noticeably small representation of Irish trainers at the Premier Yearling Sale at Doncaster and the Somerville Sale at Tattersalls UK but Paddy Twomey, Ado McGuinness and many more were spotted doing some early legwork on Sunday. 

Travelling horses to and from Britain has become far more expensive since Brexit and, according to Cox, is a major factor in when it comes to trainers, agents and owners deciding where to select the raw material from.

However, judging by the footfall at Tattersalls Ireland on Sunday, a good 48 hours before the sale commences on Tuesday, trade at the first Irish yearling sale of 2022 should be strong.

“Even for ourselves,” Cox explained, “sending yearlings to the sales in Britain has become extremely expensive. The cost is roughly double what it used to be and, if you don't sell one and have to bring it back, it's far from ideal.

“If you were to look at the amount of British runners in Ireland this season, I can only imagine that it is much less than what it used to be, and that's because of the costs in travelling these horses and the hassle that comes with Brexit.”

On his hopes for the week ahead, he added, “There aren't many Irish trainers who splash out at the yearling sales and buy on spec. There aren't many Richard Hannons over here and, to be honest, there are less and less trainers buying on spec on the whole. 

“It's more agents, owners and syndicates who are doing the buying but the yearling sales have been strong so far this year so I'd be positive heading into this week. 

“We've had a lot of footfall today, there's plenty of English over, which is great so I think this sale will go well.”

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Italian and Irish Farms Make Deauville Debut

DEAUVILLE, France—In a yearling sales season which has had more reshuffles than the British government’s cabinet, the caravan has finally started rolling in the last week and has now pitched up in Deauville for Arqana’s headline event of the year. As it is taking place three weeks later than usual, it is no longer the August Sale but the Select Sale, though there is a more than familiar feel to the catalogue, which features plenty of France’s leading equine families.

Two consignors have taken advantage of the sale’s later date to try their hand with a debut Arqana draft. Though new to this particular sale, both are familiar names on the wider circuit: Italy’s Allevamento Le Gi and Baroda Stud of Ireland. They also each have a Dubawi filly to sell from just six yearlings in total in the catalogue by the revered Darley stallion.

From Tuscany to Normandy
Giovanni Parri is representing Le Gi in France while his father Massimo has remained at the family’s beautiful farm in the shadow of the Tuscan Hills to oversee a draft of 15 going to their home country’s SGA Sale on Sept. 19.

As the head of Italy’s Thoroughbred breeders’ association (ANAC), Massimo Parri is understandably keen to support the sale in Milan but the family has also succeeded in recent years when selling abroad. Notably, they topped Tattersalls October Book 2 in 2017 when selling a Sea The Stars (Ire) colt out of Biz Bar (GB) (Tobougg {Ire}) for 850,000gns to Shadwell, and it is the Dubawi (Ire) half-sister of this colt who makes up half of Le Gi’s select Arqana draft. Selling within the first two hours of the opening day of the sale on Wednesday, lot 34 is also a half-sister to the G1 Gran Premio do Milano winner Biz The Nurse (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}) and fellow stakes winners Mysterious Boy (Ire) (Arcano {Ire}), Bullish Glory (Ire) (Roderic O’Connor {Ire}) and Biz Power (Ire) (Power {Ire}). Furthermore, the progeny of Biz Bar have delivered three updates since the catalogue went to press, with the mare’s Golden Horn (GB) 3-year-old Presidential Sweet (ITY), having won her maiden in Italy by seven lengths, and the 99-rated aforementioned Book 2 topper Alfaatik (GB) having returned to winning ways at York’s Ebor meeting.

“The Dubawi filly has a really nice temperament and she’s been doing everything very well since she arrived here,” said Giovanni Parri at Arqana on Sunday. “We took her to be lunged this morning and she behaved just as if she was still at our farm.”

He continued, “We have sold at Tattersalls for the last three years and we decided to come here when Arqana announced that the sale would be moved to September. When we made that decision, Great Britain was in a worse condition than France with Covid and so we through that probably it would be easier for us to come here to Arqana from Italy.

“Also, last year there were a lot of Dubawi yearlings in Tattersalls, so it might have been too much competition. She was born in February so it’s a good time now for her to come to a sale. The family is going well. Alfaatik won again for John Gosden, and the 3-year-old won her maiden well and was then second yesterday [Saturday] in a good conditions race.”

It’s not just this family that has been going well for Le Gi, which has celebrated two Classic winners in Italy this year. Cima Emergency (Ire) (Canford Cliffs {Ire}) won the G3 Premio Parioli (Italian 2000 Guineas) and Auyantepui (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) landed the G2 Oaks d’Italia. Formerly trained in Italy by Nicolo Simondi, the latter is co-owned by the Parri family with OTI Racing and is now with Chantilly-based young Italian trainer Mario Baratti. She is entered in Thursday’s Listed Prix Joubert at ParisLongchamp.

Parri said, “It has been an exciting year as we won the Oaks as breeder and owner, and also the Guineas, both with the offspring of our young mares, so we are very happy. We are going to sell a Kodiac (GB) half-brother to the Guineas winner in Milan and we are very excited about him.”

The SGA draft also includes yearlings by Pride Of Dubai (Aus), Churchill (Ire) and Mehmas (Ire), while at Arqana, the pair of offerings is completed by a colt by Camelot (GB) (lot 76) out of the four-time winner Dweezil (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}), a half-sister to Derby Italiano victor De Sica (Ire) (Sri Pekan).

“The Camelot is a horse for someone who likes to dream: he’s not a 2-year-old type but more a Classic type,” noted Parri. “He’s a first foal but he doesn’t look like a first foal because he is a good size and strong.”

Baroda Branches Out
The second Dubawi filly to take to the ring on Arqana’s opening day, lot 61 is the only one in the sale to have arrived from Ireland, though she started her life in Germany. Bred by Janet Leve-Ostermann’s Gestut Haus Itlingen, the daughter of the G3 Hamburger Stutenpreis winner Daytona Bay (GB) (Motivator {GB}) was a 300,000gns pinhook from the Tattersalls December Sale and she will be the first Baroda-consigned yearling to be offered in Deauville.

“We’ve been coming here for years and we usually sell through Monceaux, but it’s great to have our first draft here,” said stud owner David Cox. 

“The timing of the sales all being on top of each other now, especially with the American sales as well, is difficult, but Arqana has done a very good job of helping to get as many people over here as can come. The statistics for the online facilities so far this year have been very interesting as well.”

He added of the Dubawi yearling, “She’s a lovely filly with scope and she’s a great mover. She’s an exciting one to be selling. Dubawi has enjoyed enormous success with mares by Sadler’s Wells-line stallions: Ghaiyyath (Ire) is out of a Galileo (Ire) mare as is Dubawi’s young stallion son Night Of Thunder (Ire). European champion 2-year-old Too Darn Hot (GB) is out of a daughter of Singspiel (Ire), likewise Group 1 winners Wuheida (GB) and Old Persian (GB), while Barathea (Ire) is the broodmare sire of Dubai World Cup winner Monterosso (GB), Juddmonte International heroine Arabian Queen (GB) and Hunter’s Light (GB).”

Just six lots later, Baroda will be back in action with lot 67, a daughter of another popular British-based stallion, Showcasing (GB). The March-born filly is out of the dual winner Deux Saisons (GB) (Chineur {Fr}), who is herself a half-sister to G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Tin Horse (Ire) (Sakhee), while the family also includes last year’s Horse of the Year in Germany, Rubaiyat (Fr) (Areion {Ger}).

“She is a fast-looking filly and hopefully she’ll be popular,” said Cox. “It’s a case of finding the right sale for the right horse and we’ve a few Showcasing yearlings so we thought she would suit this market with some good French winners in her pedigree. With the prize-money being so strong in France it’s a great place to be selling horses and it was a natural progression for us as a consignment to come here. It was a last-minute move to come to Arqana but everyone has had to be flexible this year. The breeze-up boys started it and had to move horses around but they showed that it can be done, and we all have to adapt in a difficult year.”

Following the French sale, Baroda turns its attentions to shipping its drafts for the relocated Goffs Orby Sale to the UK, swiftly followed by those for the Tattersalls October Sale.

Cox added, “We will also be welcoming clients to the farm in a socially-distanced manner if they would like to see the Goffs Orby yearlings and Tattersalls yearlings ahead of the sale, especially if they can’t travel to the UK.”

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