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Tattersalls Online April Sale Lineup Released

A total of 33 lots have been catalogued for the Tattersalls Online April Sale and can be viewed here. Bidding for the sale commences from 12 noon on Tuesday, Apr. 4 and closes from 12 noon on Wednesday, Apr. 5. The catalogue is comprised of 28 horses in and out of training from both Flat and National Hunt disciplines, four broodmares and a yearling filly by Planteur (Ire), sire of dual Group 1 winner Trueshan (Fr).

Set to go through the ring from Darren Bunyan's Blackmiller Stables is three-time winner Elzaam Blue (Ire) (Elzaam {Aus}) (lot 25). Posting a victory on his most recent start at Dundalk on Feb. 15, he is out of the Dansili (GB) mare Ghostflower (Ire), making him a half-brother to Jebel Ali S. victor Lost Eden (Ire) (Seas The Stars {Ire}).

A pair of other lots to watch include 5-year-old gelding Dinoo (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) (lot 24) offered by Roger Varian's Carlburg Stables, who won his most recent start on Feb. 23 at Newcastle. Also of note, Sophie Buckley's Culworth Grounds Farm will present two mares, including Jumeirah Street (Street Cry {Ire}) (lot 4) who is offered in foal to G1 Derby hero Masar (Ire).

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Elzaam’s Limiti Di Greccio Impresses In The Staffordstown

The Curragh's Staffordstown Stud S. looked a listed race in name only on Sunday and it duly produced a winner who could be destined for the top in Martin Schwartz's Limiti Di Greccio (Ire) (Elzaam {Aus}). Successful in a seven-furlong Leopardstown maiden Aug. 12 and runner-up in the Sept. 11 Listed Ingabelle S. back over that course and distance since joining Paddy Twomey from Andrew Kinsella, the bay raced towards the rear of mid-division early against the rail under Billy Lee. Running into a pocket two out and again at the furlong pole, the cause appeared lost as Tranquil Lady (Ire) (Australia {GB}) and Sunset Shiraz (Ire) (Time Test {GB}) forged on ahead but once angled off the fence produced a rare surge to overhaul that duo with 50 yards remaining. At the line, there was a dominant 1 1/4-length margin to Tranquil Lady, who held on for the silver medal by a short head from Sunset Shiraz who brought leading formlines into the contest having placed in the G1 Moyglare Stud S., G2 Debutante S. and G3 Weld Park S.

“I was concerned turning into the straight and she seemed to meet every bit of trouble she could, but she has a turn of foot,” Twomey said. “She's a filly who does what she has to do and it's great that she won the way she did. She's a smart filly and displayed that to everybody today–we are lucky to have her. Marty had intimated that he'd like to go to France for the group 1 and Del Mar with her, but I managed to talk him out of it. I bypassed the Weld Park, as I didn't want her to have a penalty when she tackles a Guineas trial next year. We won this last year and I wanted to come here as I think it's a perfect stepping stone for the Guineas.”

“I thought the extra furlong would suit her today and the slower ground didn't seem to inconvenience her,” Twomey added. “The owner would very much like to go for the Breeders' Cup, but the trainer is trying to put the brakes on. She is a big filly who is progressive and we've purposely picked her spots with next year in mind. She'll have an entry in both the Guineas here and at Newmarket.”

Limiti di Greccio further advertises the prowess of her Ballyhane Stud-based sire, becoming his sixth black-type winner. Her dam is the unraced Grotta Del Fauno (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) whose immediate family features the Italian listed-placed Abruzzo Nel Cuore (Ire) (La Vie dei Colori {GB}). The family includes the G2 Premio Ribot winner Duca D'Atri (Ire) (Dr Devious {Ire}) and the dual G3 Gran Premio Citta di Napoli winner Guado D'Annibale (Glint of Gold {GB}). Grotta Del Fauno's yearling filly is by Camacho (GB), while she also has a colt foal by Profitable (Ire).

STAFFORDSTOWN STUD S.-Listed, €37,500, Curragh, 10-10, 2yo, f, 8fT, 1:44.72, yl.
1–LIMITI DI GRECCIO (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Elzaam (Aus)
1st Dam: Grotta Del Fauno (Ire), by Galileo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Conca Peligna (GB), by Persian Bold (Ire)
3rd Dam: When Lit (Ire), by Northfields
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Martin Schwartz; B-Leaf Stud (IRE); T-Paddy Twomey; J-Billy Lee. €22,500. Lifetime Record: 5-2-2-0, $65,711.
2–Tranquil Lady (Ire), 128, f, 2, Australia (GB)–Repose, by Quiet American. (€30,000 RNA Wlg '19 GOFNOV; £160,000 Ylg '20 GOFOR). O-Teme Valley; B-Tinnakill Bloodstock Ltd (IRE); T-Joseph O'Brien. €7,500.
3–Sunset Shiraz (Ire), 128, f, 2, Time Test (GB)–Sunny Again (GB), by Shirocco (Ger). (£100,000 Ylg '20 GOFOR). O-Lindsay Laroche; B-Mount Coote Estates (IRE); T-Gavin Cromwell. €3,750.
Margins: 1 1/4, NO, 5HF. Odds: 1.88, 5.00, 3.00.
Also Ran: Alizarine (GB), Viareggio (Ire), Willesee (GB), Angels Wrath (Ire), Lullaby (Ire), Past Time (GB), Cyclamen (Ire), She's Trouble (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result.

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From the Experts: Joseph Burke

On the back of the eagerly anticipated stallion fee announcements in Europe, Gary King spoke with a number of leading industry figures about value. Today we hear from Joseph Burke.

GK: Who have you identified as a first-year stallion at an appealing opening fee?

JB: I must admit that whilst I have not inspected any of the first-season sires yet, on paper I expected Earthlight (Ire) (Shamardal) to be standing for a little more than €20,000. So I booked one of our better mares to him, a Group 3-winning 2-year-old currently carrying her second foal to Night Of Thunder (Ire), as soon as I read about his fee via a TDN alert whilst in Lexington. For a horse who finished his career rated just two pounds behind another leading 2-year-old and freshman son of Shamardal in Pinatubo (Ire), it would appear the value lies with Earthlight given that Pinatubo has been pitched at £35,000.

Kameko (Kitten’s Joy) is also very competitively priced at £25,000 and I would definitely be using him were it not for the uncertainty surrounding Brexit. Breeding is difficult enough without all the hassle Brexit could potentially entail next season, something the chair of Britain’s Thoroughbred Industries Steering Group confirmed when he advised members “not to schedule movements for the first two weeks of 2021.” Nevertheless, Kameko has to rate a very attractive prospect for breeders with mares based in England.

In the U.S. we have booked two mares to Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg}) whom I think is comfortably the best value first-season sire over there for 2021, priced at $30,000.

GK: Best value proven stallion, and why?

JB: To me this is a no-brainer. In the breeding game, the evidence is often there in black and white for anybody willing to do their own independent research and place a lot of stock in statistics. That said, a mere glance is all that’s needed at the second-crop sire’s results for 2020 illustrates that Make Believe (GB) (Makfi {GB}) is the only stallion to have sired a Group 1 winner in Mishriff (Ire), and not just any ordinary top level winner but a Classic winner who has inherited his sire’s turn of foot. Mishriff is the shortest price of any English-trained horse to take next year’s Arc, a trip he might possibly get as a 4-year-old.

Make Believe has also sired three individual group winners including the multiple Group 3 winner Rose Of Kildare (Ire). He’s a correct horse whom you can rely upon to throw a good physical. Oghill House Stud sold the full-brother to Rose Of Kildare for 175,000gns at Book 2 this year, and he is priced at €15,000.

From a commercial perspective, it is essential to go to stallions who don’t cover huge books and with that in mind, Ballylinch manages him very well which gives breeders a better opportunity to earn a decent return in the sales ring. In fact, when you look at the overall sire list, of those with more than three winners in 2020, no other living stallion in GB or Ireland has a higher percentage of winners-to-runners this year, not a single one. He has a pretty outstanding 47% strike rate with 28 winners from 59 runners. In his short career thus far, he is outperforming his contemporaries on every level and most of the established sires as well. As the clock at the old Curragh racecourse famously stated ‘Time discloses all’, but I don’t think one requires hindsight to see that Make Believe is the best-value proven sire who is only going one way.

In the U.S., Twirling Candy (Candy Ride {Arg}) at $40,000 and Munnings (Speightstown) at $50,000 appeal in this category.

GK: Who would you consider to be an under the radar stallion?

JB: Elzaam (Aus) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}) has an overall strike rate of 42% winners-to-runners and has sired 12 stakes horses including the G1 Matron S. winner on Irish Champions Weekend, as well as the runner-up in the Hong Kong Derby. Yet Elzaam is available at just €5,000 for 2021. I think that is surely the definition of under the radar.

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Elzaam’s Champers Elysees Swoops In the Matron

Rapidly-progressive in 2020, Fitzwilliam Racing’s Champers Elysees (Ire) (Elzaam {Aus}) sealed her upwardly mobile status with an authoritative success in Leopardstown’s G1 Coolmore America ‘Justify’ Matron S. on Saturday. Providing Johnny Murtagh with a breakthrough first top-level success, the July 28 Listed Corrib Fillies S. and Sept. 2 G3 Fairy Bridge S. winner had plenty to do turning for home but produced an impressive flourish to cut down Peaceful (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) 100 yards from the line. Soon clear under Colin Keane, the 9-2 shot had 1 1/4 lengths to spare over that G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner at the line, with Peaceful 1 1/2 lengths ahead of the 9-4 favourite Fancy Blue (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in third. “The plan was to be third or thereabouts early on, but there was plenty of pace on early doors and I was happy with where I was,” jockey Colin Keane said. “I had to sit and suffer, but they came back to me turning into the straight and she has a very good turn of foot. I thought she was a good winner at the line. I remember being disappointed walking away from the Curragh one day when she beat me in a handicap, but it’s amazing when these fillies start to progress where they can end up. Johnny Murtagh is a fellow Meath man and was one of my idols growing up, so it’s great to do this for him.”

That Curragh handicap that Keane referred to is the seven-furlong one June 12 that marked the seasonal debut of Champers Elysees off a mark of 86, having gone into winter quarters on the back of a runner-up finish in Naas’s “Birdcatcher” nursery over that trip in October. Taking the Corrib by seven lengths at the Galway festival, the bay followed up in the Fairy Bridge over another half a furlong at Gowran Park to earn this tilt but as impressive as those performances were there was little suggestion she could deal out such a beating to two Classic winners in Peaceful and Fancy Blue and several other talented distaffers. Qatar Racing’s July 1 G3 Derrinstown Stud Fillies S. winner and Aug. 2 G1 Prix Rothschild third Know It All (GB) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) was fourth, framing an almost-perfect picture for Murtagh.

“Group 1s are hard to come by, so it’s a marvellous day and just shows you need a bit of luck and to be in the right place at the right time,” her trainer said. “Earlier in the year, she was almost sold and had passed all the tests but it fell through as she was judged a bad trotter. She is well able to gallop and they went a good pace all the way. It was a good even pace and she has that very good turn of foot. She can go on most going, but when they have that turn of foot I always find they prefer better ground than soft. She has a great heart and wants to win. Know It All maybe just got outstayed in the last half a furlong, but to be first and fourth is amazing. I was sick of everyone saying you’d had a great career as a jockey, that was in the past, it’s the here and now I’m worried about. It’s been a brilliant year, but to win a group one on Champions Weekend means everything. This is not for Johnny Murtagh, this is for the whole team and this end result makes all the work worthwhile.”

Champers Elysees could have at least one other outing this year according to her trainer. “This was always a good filly and the amount she has improved is unbelievable,” he added. “She’s improved a lot physically and has started to realise she’s good. She’s won a handicap, listed race, group Three and now a group one. When these fillies start improving there’s no stopping them and this race was always the plan. The Breeders’ Cup Mile is an option, the mile around there would suit her down to the ground as she’s quick and has a great turn of foot. There is also the [G1] Sun Chariot at Newmarket.”

Champers Elysees’ dam La Cuvee (GB) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}) is a daughter of the G3 Goldene Peitsche-winning German champion Premiere Cuvee (GB) (Formidable), who was also second in the G3 Prix du Gros-Chene. She produced the Listed Fern Hill S. winner Cask (GB) (Be My Chief) and She Bat (GB) (Batshoof {GB}), who took the G3 Premio Sergio Cumani before throwing four black-type performers of her own including the G2 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1000 Guineas) third She Basic (Ire) (Desert Prince {Ire}). Premiere Cuvee is a half-sister to another Fern Hill winner in Fizzed (GB) (Efisio {GB}) who was also runner-up in the G2 Prix d’Astarte and her full-sister Swizzle (GB), who produced the G3 Premio Parioli scorer Al Rep (Ire) (Trade Fair {GB}). Also connected to the G1 Prix Jean Prat-winning sire Dick Turpin (Ire) (Arakan), the dam has the unraced 2-year-old colt Performance Plus (Ire) (Alhebayeb {Ire}) and a yearling colt by Mehmas (Ire) who is catalogued to sell in next Monday’s session of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale.

Saturday, Leopardstown, Ireland
COOLMORE AMERICA ‘JUSTIFY’ MATRON S.-G1, €250,000, Leopardstown, 9-12, 3yo/up, f, 8fT, 1:39.77, gd.
1–CHAMPERS ELYSEES (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Elzaam (Aus)
1st Dam: La Cuvee (GB), by Mark of Esteem (Ire)
2nd Dam: Premiere Cuvee (GB), by Formidable
3rd Dam: Clicquot (Ire), by Bold Lad (Ire)
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (€12,500 Wlg ’17 TATFBR; €28,000 Ylg ’18 TIRSEP; €95,000 RNA 2yo ’19 GOFHIT). O-Fitzwilliam Racing; B-Karl Bowen (IRE); T-Johnny Murtagh; J-Colin Keane. €150,000. Lifetime Record: 9-5-2-1, $305,753. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Peaceful (Ire), 128, f, 3, Galileo (Ire)–Missvinski, by Stravinsky. O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O’Brien. €50,000.
3–Fancy Blue (Ire), 128, f, 3, Deep Impact (Jpn)–Chenchikova (Ire), by Sadler’s Wells. O-Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Susan Magnier; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Donnacha O’Brien. €25,000.
Margins: 1 1/4, 1HF, HD. Odds: 4.50, 2.74, 2.25.
Also Ran: Know It All (GB), Albigna (Ire), Valeria Messalina (Ire), So Wonderful, Lady Wannabe (Ire), New York Girl (Ire), Wilds Dreams (Arg), Love Locket (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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