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Starspangledbanner Colt Brings 550,000gns From Hong Kong Jockey Club At Tattersalls

Chasemore Farm's lot 1008, a son of Starspangledbanner (Aus), took the lead during the second session of Book 2 of Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Tuesday when selling for 550,000gns to the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Bred by Chasemore, his dam Wowcha (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) is a half-sister to the late The Wow Signal (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), who won the G1 Prix Morny and G2 Coventry S. before going on to sire G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches victrix Coeursamba (Fr). Since the catalogue was published, the colt's full-sister Breege (GB) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), already group-placed at Royal Ascot, was second in the G3 Prestige S.

 

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Group 1 Siblings Highlight Goffs November Foal Sale

The catalogue for the Goffs November Foal Sale, featuring several half- and full-siblings to Group 1 winners, is now online. Slated for Nov. 14-17, the 1,034 foals will go through the ring at Kildare Paddocks beginning at 10 a.m. each day.

Among the highlights is Airlie Stud's Kingman (GB) half-brother (lot 727) to G1 Moyglare Stud S. heroine Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy); a filly by Teofilo (Ire) who is a half-sister to four-time Group 1 winner Dawn Approach (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) (lot 768) from Boherguy Stud; Clonlisk Stud-consigned Churchill (Ire) colt (lot 577) who is a half-brother to G1 Irish St Leger hero Sonnyboyliston (Ire) (Power {GB}); a full-brother to G1 German Derby winner Sea The Moon (Ger) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) (lot 628) from Newtown Stud; another son of Sea The Stars, this time a full-brother to the star-crossed G1 Irish Oaks and G1 Yorkshire Oaks victress Sea Of Class (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire]) (lot 766) out of the Oak Lodge and Springfield House Stud draft; lot 550, a full-brother from Ridge Manor Stud to GI Natalma S. winner La Pelosa (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}); and Oak Lodge and Springfield House's Earthlight (Ire) half-brother to the three-time Group 1 winner and young sire Blue Point (Ire) (Shamardal) (lot 629).

Established sires are well-represented, among them Galileo (Ire), Dandy Man (Ire), Dark Angel (Ire), Invincible Spirit (Ire), Kingman (GB), Kodiac (GB), Lope De Vega (Ire), Mehmas (Ire), New Bay (GB), Night Of Thunder (Ire), No Nay Never, Oasis Dream (GB), Profitable (Ire), Ribchester (Ire), Saxon Warrior {Jpn}), Sea The Stars, Showcasing (GB), Sioux Nation, Siyouni (Fr), Starspangledbanner (Aus), Teofilo (Ire), Wootton Bassett (GB), Zarak (Fr) and Zoustar (Aus) among others.

New sires with their first weanlings on offer in November are Arizona (Ire), Circus Maximus (Ire), Earthlight, Far Above (Ire), Hello Youmzain (Fr), Kameko, King Of Change (GB), Mohaather (GB), Persian King (Ire), River Boyne (Ire), Royal Lytham (Fr), Sands Of Mali (Fr), Sergei Prokofiev, Shaman (Ire), Sottsass (Fr), Without Parole (GB) and Wooded (Ire).

Goffs November Foal Sale 2022 will follow the same format as 2021, with foals catalogue alphabetically by dam each day from Monday to Thursday inclusive.  Monday's and Thursday's sessions are billed as equal, Tuesday will raise the bar to an extent, and Wednesday will feature the most black-type pedigrees.

Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby said, “Goffs is the gateway to the world for Irish breeders and we are extremely grateful that the overwhelming majority send their best foals to the November Sale. Ireland's National Foal Sale consistently proves to be the preferred choice for most pinhookers and so many end users, both of whom have enjoyed so many successes year after year.  We are proud to present a truly world-class catalogue packed full of outstanding foals with the credentials on paper and conformation to appeal to every major buyer at every level seeking their next pinhooking success story or Group 1 glory.”

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2023 Fixture List Released By HRI

The 2023 fixture list, featuring the same number of fixtures as 2022 with 390, was revealed by Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) on Tuesday. Three of those fixtures will be floating fixtures, to be assigned as needed.

Next year, Navan racecourse (Nov. 18, 19) and Punchestown (Nov. 25, 26) will host high-class weekends of NH racing ahead of the traditional Winter Festival at Fairyhouse (Dec. 2, 3).  A new two-day fixture will be introduced at Naas on the weekend of Oct. 14 and 15 and a two-day all-Flat fixture at Leopardstown on the following weekend. The season will end at the Curragh on Sunday, Nov. 5, while the Flat Turf season also begins at the Curragh, on Saturday, Mar. 25. The number of blank Sundays will be retained at six, on Mar. 19, Apr. 23, June 25, July 16, July 30 and Oct. 8. The number of Saturdays with clashing afternoon Irish race meetings has been reduced to nine in 2023, from 15 in 2022.

Jason Morris, HRI's Director of Racing and Strategic Projects, said, “The 2023 fixture list sees a significant development of the National Hunt schedule in November with a series of two-day feature meetings now being created for both race programming and promotional benefits. The very popular Down Royal NH Festival at the start of the month will be followed by two-day meetings at Navan (featuring the Fortria and Troytown), Punchestown (featuring the Morgiana and the re-located John Durkan Memorial Chase from early December), leading into the hugely successful Fairyhouse Winter Festival in early December.”

For the full 2023 fixture list, please click here.

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Alpinista to Dubawi? Rausing Drops Hint at Star Mare’s Stud Plans

Kirsten Rausing has dropped a firm hint that her Arc heroine Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}) could visit Dubawi (Ire) in her first season at stud next year. Though not confirming or naming Darley's 20-year-old stallion, who looks on course to be champion sire for the first time this year, the breeder told the Nick Luck Daily podcast on Tuesday, “Obviously there are a few horses she could visit, and one in particular who is not getting any younger, but nothing is written in stone yet so therefore I can't really talk about that until I have made firm arrangements.”

She added, “I would think that your listeners will know which way my mind is going because one has to look not only at what makes a pretty pattern on paper but what is logistically and in general possible in terms of the ages of stallions involved.”

A potential mating with Dubawi would produce a reverse of the cross seen in recent Classic winners Adayar (Ire) and Homeless Songs (Ire). While it is relatively early days for Frankel as a broodmare sire, daughters of his sire Galileo (Ire) have combined well with Dubawi, with notable examples of that cross being Horse of the Year Ghaiyyath (Ire) and 2,000 Guineas winner Night Of Thunder (Ire). 

Furthermore, Rausing's Lanwades Stud has also been represented as the breeder this year of St Leger winner Eldar Eldarov (GB), a son of Dubawi who, like Alpinista, has the treble Group 1 winner Albanova (GB) (Alzao) as his grand-dam.

The 5-year-old Alpinista, a daughter of the Hernando (Fr) mare Alwilda (GB) and a fourth-generation Lanwades homebred, has won six consecutive Group 1 races for Rausing and Sir Mark Prescott. She will retire at the end of the year, though one final racecourse hurrah has not yet been ruled out.

“The plan for the spring is definitely the paddocks at Lanwades Stud because she will be a 6-year-old then,” Rausing told Nick Luck. “She will definitely retire at the end of the year. Whether she runs again, at this precise moment is not decided. There are only two opportunities for her, which would be the Japan Cup or the Breeders' Cup, and in fact I would say the firmer going in Japan would be attractive to us because she has always actually been particularly good on firm going, so from that point of view it was an even more admirable achievement on that very heavy ground in Paris.”

Rausing pointed to the long journey to Japan as a potential matter of concern, however. 

“I am pondering that at the moment,” she added. 

While stud plans for next year are to be confirmed, Rausing revealed that she has already decided to keep Alpinista at home at Lanwades for her 2024 mating with G1 Prix du Jockey Club winner Study Of Man (Ire), the only son of Deep Impact (Jpn) at stud in Britain. 

“I can tell you that she is going to visit Study Of Man in 2024,” she said. “Study Of Man has his first-crop yearlings this year. We very much look forward to seeing his produce run as two- and three-year-olds in the next two years and I have great expectations for him.”

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