Coolmore Fees: No Nay Never Up To 175k and Blackbeard To Start At 25k

Off the back of a star-studded season, No Nay Never will stand for €175,000 in 2023, which represents a €50,000 rise, while his dual Group 1-winning son Blackbeard (Ire) will join him on the Coolmore roster next year at a price of €25,000. 

No Nay Never has had an exceptional year. Older filly Alcohol Free (Ire) landed the G1 July Cup at Newmarket, but it has been his Coolmore-owned and Aidan O'Brien-trained juveniles that have set tongues wagging this term. 

Like his father, Blackbeard landed the G1 Prix Morny in Deauville before doubling his tally at the highest level in the G1 Middle Park S. at Newmarket. 

While he was prematurely retired due to a training injury, Group 1 scorers Little Big Bear (Ire) and Meditate (Ire) sit at the head of the ante-post markets for the 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas respectively. 

Coolmore's director of sales, David O'Loughlin said, “No Nay Never has had an unbelievable year. The quality of the mares he got off the back of his success has really been shining through and, to have three individual Group 1-winning two-year-olds in the one year, he has caught the attention of a lot of people. 

“It has been another big week for him with Meditate winning the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and she is now a leading fancy for the 1,000 Guineas. Little Big Bear is favourite for the 2,000 Guineas, so No Nay Never has a big chance for the first two Classics of the season. That means a lot for us because we are trying to win the Classics.”

Sioux Nation hails from the same sire line being a son of Scat Daddy, and enjoyed a terrific debut season at stud at Coolmore with 43 winners. He will have his fee increased from €10,000 to 17,500 next year. Blackbeard is being backed to make a similar splash in his debut season by O'Loughlin. 

He said, “To get a horse like Blackbeard on the roster is hugely exciting as well. Breeders love fast horses and he proved himself of the highest quality this season and was reminiscent of his father when winning the G1 Prix Morny is some style before following up in the G1 Middle Park S. at Newmarket. That was the icing on the cake of another big season. 

“Blackbeard is very like his father-the same colour, shape and he has the movement. Everything a breeder wants, he has. He's also out of a very fast mare who Eddie Lynam trained [Muirin (Ire) (Born To Sea {Ire})] so I think a lot of people will be keen to use him.”

O'Loughlin added, “Commercially, what is driving the market is international appeal. When the international market zones in on a particular sire line, it puts a lot of value on that, much more than the domestic market can. No Nay Never is a good example of that as he has international appeal.

“Take Justify as another example, he has had two Group winners in Europe and three stakes winners in America. It's obvious that he is working both sides of the Atlantic-he has the dirt horses and horses who can do it in Europe as well. For breeders, it will help when they use Arizona, Blackbeard and Sioux Nation because they all hail from that exceptional Scat Daddy line. It's all the one line.”

Like Sioux Nation, Coolmore's Saxon Warrior (Jpn) made a big impression with his first crop of runners. As well as having the highly-touted Auguste Rodin (Ire) to look forward to this season, Saxon Warrior came up trumps with Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Victoria Road (Ire), one of 21 international winners in his first season. 

O'Loughlin said, “Saxon Warrior had an exceptional year. Again, he's a horse with international appeal being a son of Deep Impact (Jpn), who was the best horse to stand in Japan. Auguste Rodin is a very special horse and Victoria Road crowned a remarkable year with his victory in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf. 

“It's remarkable because Saxon Warrior wasn't the most precocious of horses and, for him to be getting all of these top-class two-year-olds is a big statement. He has some very good two-year-olds and who's to say that Greenland (Ire) won't be the best of them all. I know that a lot of people think he is a high-class horse to look forward to next year. Some big breeders have latched on to him after his debut season and I even sold a nomination to him out here in Keeneland the other day. They think the horse is great value at €35,000.”

Wootton Bassett will stand for €150,000, St Mark's Basilica's 2023 fee is €65,000, and Camelot (GB) is at €60,000. Churchill (Ire), the sire of dual Group 1 winner Vadeni (Fr), has had his fee increased to €30,000, Starspangledbanner (Aus) will stand for €50,000, Australia (GB) and Sottsass (Fr) for €25,000 and Ten Sovereigns (Ire) and Gleneagles (Ire) for €17,500. 

Footstepsinthesand, Circus Maximus, Calyx and US Navy Flag are set at €10,000, Arizona (Ire) is €5,000 and Gustav Klimt (Ire) will be available at €4,000. 

 

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‘Footsteps’ Colt Leads Sportsman’s Opener

The Goffs Sportsman’s Yearling Sale got underway in its temporary new guise in Doncaster on Thursday, with a colt by Footstepsinthesand (GB) (lot 647) from Rockfield Farm topping trade with a bid of £50,000 from Kevin Ryan. He is the second foal out of the winning Danehill Dancer (Ire) mare Harpist (Ire) and his year-older full-brother Star Of Orion (Ire) won on debut at Newmarket in June for Ralph Beckett.

As was the case with the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale earlier this week and as will be the case with Goffs Orby next week, the Sportsman’s sale, typically staged in Kildare, was moved to Britain to maximize buyer attendance. A significant number of Irish-based vendors opted to withdraw their yearlings and instead offer them in the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale in November, and as such just 70% of the yearlings catalogued on Thursday (144) visited the ring, with 99 sold at the close of trade for a clearance rate of 69%. The aggregate was £1,369,000, the average £13,828 and the median £10,000.

There were a handful of notable buybacks during the session, headed by a Lope De Vega (Ire) filly (lot 596) who was led out unsold at £64,000. A Dark Angel (Ire) filly (lot 543) was bought back at £48,000, and the Divine Prophet (Aus) half-sister to Grade I winner River Boyne (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) (lot 560) was taken home at £50,000.

Leading first-crop sire Mehmas (Ire) was predictably popular, and he had a colt and a filly sell for £47,000 and £44,000, respectively. The colt (lot 570) was from Kilmoney Cottage Stud and is a half-sister to the French listed winner Just Sherry (Ire) (Intense Focus), their dam being a half-sister to the G1 2000 Guineas and G1 St James’s Palace S. winner Cockney Rebel (Ire) (Val Royal {Fr}). He was bought by BBA Ireland.

The Mehmas filly (lot 609) was from Grange Hill Stud and was scooped up by trainer Eddie Lynam. She is the third foal out of her dam Faddwa (Ire) (Arcano {Ire}), who is a half-sister to the listed-winning Heart Of Fire (Ire) (Mujadil). Her year-older full-brother Fools Rush In (Ire) is one of 32 winners for Mehmas thus far.

The Goffs Sportsman’s Sale continues with its second and final session from 10 a.m. on Friday.

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Dream Update For Even So Sister

There may have been relative silence at The Curragh in July when the Ger Lyons-trained Even So (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) won the G1 Juddmonte Irish Oaks, but in the Boland household at Piercetown Stud in Meath the decibels were likely to have hit the high notes.

Eight months previously the stud’s owner Ronnie Boland and his son Aaron had bought a Footstepsinthesand (GB) half-sister to Even So as a foal at Goffs November for €22,000 and the now yearling filly will return to the sales ring with a massive update when she takes up her slot as lot 57 at the Goffs Orby Sale at Doncaster on Sept. 30.

Being a half-sister to a Classic winner is no mean feat in itself; however, the pedigree is far from one dimensional, as the filly’s dam Breeze Hill (Ire) (Danehill) is a half-sister to a brilliant Derby winner in Dr Devious (Ire) who also landed the G1 Irish Champion S. and the G1 Dewhurst S., as well as a champion sprinter in Archway (Ire). One doesn’t have to look too far down the page either to see the likes of G1 Epsom Oaks winner Dancing Rain (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), champion 2-year-old Maybe (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and the multiple Group 1 and Classic winner Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}).

Taking up the story of Irish Oaks day in July, Boland said, “Obviously it was an exciting day and we were delighted to see Even So win. She had already done us a turn when she won a listed race at Naas on her previous run but to go and win the Oaks was something we could only have dreamt about.”

It was more  than just blind luck that lead the Bolands to the foal’s stable last year at Goffs, however, as Ronnie explained: “Myself and Aaron do a bit of work for Ger Lyons; we take horses that are out of training and that need a break and Aaron also works for Ger at the races sometimes. When he saw this filly catalogued in Goffs last year Even So had just won her maiden in Gowran but it wasn’t in the catalogue and Aaron thought she could be capable of developing into a stakes filly this year so it was his decision to buy her.”

Even So went into a lot of people’s notebooks the day she broke her maiden at Gowran last September and when she stretched almost four lengths clear of her rivals in a soft ground maiden over a mile it was a performance that definitely suggested stakes class at the very least with the possibility of ‘could be anything’ when upped further in trip. Although a beaten favourite on her return when third to stablemate Lemista (Ire) (Raven’s Pass) in the G3 Park Express S. at Naas in March, she acquitted herself well on her next start when fifth in the G1 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas over an inadequate mile, running on strongly at the finish. The Coolmore-owned filly then confirmed her staying power when beating subsequent stakes winner Laburnum (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the Listed Naas Oaks Trial before landing a second Classic in as many months for her trainer Ger Lyons.

“We would have been happy with any bit of stakes form, even to be have been placed in a listed race would have been grand but to get the big one was special,” Boland said. “There was a lot of shouting at the television here in the house and Aaron was actually at The Curragh working for Ger so he was on hand to witness it.”

Responsibility for prepping the yearling for the Orby has been handed over to Boland’s neighbour, Bill Dwan’s The Castlebridge Consignment, and so far things are going according to plan. “She is coming along fine I believe and hopefully on the day that matters she will be looking her best,” Boland said. “There are four Classic winners under the first two dams and it’s a very solid fillies family.”

As well as acting as a relaxation resort for many of Ger Lyons’s squad, Piercetown Stud is also home to a small band of broodmares with G2 Prix de Pomone winner Star Lahib (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) the highest achiever to have emerged from the boutique nursery. Risk Of Thunder (Ire)–not the famous cross country chaser of yesteryear owned by Sean Connery but a 2020 James Tate-trained winning juvenile filly by Night Of Thunder (Ire)–is another flying the flag for the farm.

Boland is breeding winners not only on the track but also on the educational side of the bloodstock business as his son Aaron was awarded the Gold Medal in the Irish National Stud breeding course earlier this year.

“Aaron is actually in England at the moment, he is working for Chasemore Farm doing their yearling prep,” Boland said. “He is going to be in Newmarket at the time of the Orby Sale so unfortunately he won’t be there to see the filly go through the ring. It’s his first real foal pinhook so hopefully he gets on well. He used the proceeds from selling an Awtaad filly foal last year that he bred himself to buy her so fingers crossed his luck will continue.

“It’s a tough game and everything has to go right not only during prep but also getting them to the sales up until they go into the ring. Then you need a few people to like them so it’s far from straightforward, as everyone in the business knows.”

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