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Baffle ‘Em Commands $75,000 To Top Wanamaker’s March Sale

Baffle 'Em, a 3-year-old filly by Quality Road, brought a final bid of $75,000 to top the Wanamaker's March online auction.

Offered by Bradley Thoroughbreds and purchased by Jay Reese, Baffle 'Em was sold as a racing or broodmare prospect. The sale grossed $110,000 and had an average of $11,000 with a total of ten horses changing hands.

“It is great to see continued growth in our selling and buying base alongside customers who have returned after their previous experiences. While we take pride in our platform, service, and ability to bring a genuine market online, we really depend on those that have been willing to give us a chance as a new player in the market,” said co-founder Jack Carlino.

Entries are now open for Wanamaker's April online auction. Entries will close on April 20, the catalog will be released on April 21, and the horses will sell on April 29. Detailed selling information can be found at wanamakers.com/sell.

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Arqana May Breeze-Up Catalogue Online

A total of 158 2-year-olds have been catalogued for the 2021 Arqana Deauville Breeze-Up Sale, to be held Friday, May 14, beginning at 1pm, one day after all the lots will perform their under-tack breezes at Deauville-La Touques Racecourse.

The catalogue is enriched with pedigrees to appeal to an international buying bench, with many prominent sires from either side of the Atlantic strongly represented. European stalwarts include the likes of Dark Angel (Ire), Dubawi (Ire), Exceed and Excel (Aus), Galileo (Ire), Invincible Spirit (Ire), Mehmas (Ire), No Nay Never, Sea The Stars (Ire), the late Shamardal, successful dual-hemisphere stallion Showcasing (GB), Siyouni (Fr) and Wootton Bassett (GB). The young progeny of first-crop sires such as Almanzor (Fr), Caravaggio and Churchill (Ire) are also set to go under the hammer in Deauville.

The May Breeze-Up Sale can proudly boast of having sold American Classic winner War of Will (€250,000, 2018 sale), who added last year's GI Maker's Mark Mile to his victory in the 2019 GI Preakness S. There is no shortage of American horse power in this year's event, as Triple Crown winner American Pharoah–sire of the €1.1-million sales-topping Ocean Atlantique–the reliable Distorted Humor, leading sire Into Mischief, Medaglia d'Oro, More Than Ready, Speightstown and War of Will's sire War Front all feature in the catalogue.

Seven of the sale's offerings are either out of Group 1 winners or are related to top-level scorers, including lot 22, a Dark Angel (Ire) son of G1 Irish 1000 Guineas heroine Jet Setting (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}) from the draft of Star Bloodstock; and lot 143, a Caravaggio half-sister to dual South African Grade 1 winner Queen Supreme (Ire) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) from Kilbrew Stables.

Brendan Holland's Grove Stud was responsible for last year's €715,000 sales-topping daughter of War Front–Beauty Parlor (Elusive Quality) and that operation will be represented by 10 juveniles, chief among them lot 76, a colt by American Pharoah and the second produce of Queen of the Sand (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {GB}), a Grade III winner and Grade I placed in America. A total of 35 vendors will travel from France, Ireland and Britain to Deauville.

Already in 2021, Arqana Breeze-Up graduates have made their mark at the Dubai World Cup Carnival. Al Tariq (Fr) (Oasis Dream {GB}), a €150,000 graduate of the 2018 sale, took out the G3 Al Shindagha Sprint and is one of 14 entered for Saturday's US$1.5-million G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen at Meydan. Midnight Sands (Speightstown) made a successful Dubai return in the G3 Burj Nahaar S. on Super Saturday Mar. 6 and the €80,000 grad figures to take plenty of beating in the G2 Godolphin Mile earlier on World Cup Saturday. Summer Romance (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), the €800,000 second-dearest lot in 2019 when purchased by Godolphin, added the G2 Balanchine S. to her success in last year's G3 Princess Elizabeth S. at Epsom.

Click here for the complete catalogue.

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New Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale To Be Held at Park Paddocks

Following the success of the 2020 Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale staged at Park Paddocks, the sale will now be a permanent fixture in Newmarket and will be renamed the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, in recognition of Somerville Tattersall.

The inaugural sale will be held on Sept. 7, combining the same emphasis on carefully selected, precocious yearlings as its Ascot predecessor and the unique advantages of the Tattersalls Park Paddocks complex in the “Home of Horse Racing.” All Tattersalls Somerville, yearlings will also be eligible for the ever-popular £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes.

Famously stepping up to the rostrum for the first time at age 22 during the 1885 July Sales when his ailing father's voice failed, Somerville Tattersall was the final member of the eponymous family to lead the company and was pivotal in shaping the modern Tattersalls.

Alongside the innovations that have transformed its physical home, the Tattersalls roster of sales has evolved in tandem with the wider bloodstock world and the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale was launched in 2017 to showcase a select offering of forward, athletic yearlings to purchasers. The sale has quickly established a reputation as a consistent source of top-class juvenile talent.

In the last two years, the sale has produced an impressive nine group/listed performers led by the Group 2 Lowther Stakes winner Miss Amulet and the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes scorer Steel Bull in 2020. The roll of honor also features Group 2 winner Shadn, Group 3 winner Liberty Beach, and five further listed winners including £2,000 purchase Summer Sands, who was subsequently resold as a 2-year-old at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale for 625,000 guineas.

Underpinned by the success of its graduates, the sale has enjoyed remarkable growth year-on-year and last year's renewal posted a record average, median, top lot and turnover with 17 lots selling for 30,000 guineas or more.

Commenting on the new Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said;

“The catalyst for launching the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale at Park Paddocks was the extraordinary vibrance of last year's relocated Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale. The new Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale will benefit not only from the outstanding facilities at Park Paddocks, but also from Newmarket's unique infrastructure and we are confident that the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, named in honor of one of the central figures in the history of Tattersalls, will harness the momentum established by its predecessor.”

Nominations are currently open for the 2021 Tattersalls Yearling Sales and will close on March 26.

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Shockingly, Motown Girl Each Sell For $50,000 To Lead Keeneland March Digital Sale

Shockingly and Motown Girl, both siblings to graded stakes winners and consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, each sold for $50,000 to top Keeneland's March Digital Sale, held today as part of Keeneland's Digital Sales Ring platform.

Andre Lynch, agent, purchased Shockingly, a 3-year-old daughter of Nyquist who is a half-sister to Apollo Kentucky, a Japanese Group 1 winner and earner of more than $3 million, and stakes-placed Beau Ravelle. Out of Dixiana Delight, by Gone West, Shockingly is from the family of stakes winners Lake Lady, Slinkylady and One Night Lover. In her career debut on Feb. 20 at Fair Grounds, she rallied from far back at the top of the stretch to finish second by a head.

Motown Girl, a 4-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo who is a full sister to Grade 3 winner Name Changer, sold to Randy Coker. The filly is out of the multiple stakes-winning Northern Afleet mare Cash's Girl and from the family of champion and sire Afleet Alex.

Both fillies were offered as broodmare prospects.

The one-day mixed March Digital Sale grossed $128,000 for six horses. Summary results are available by clicking here.

Keeneland will host its next Digital Sale on May 25. Additional digital sales are scheduled for June, July, August, October and December.

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