Making the Grade, which will run through the 2020 Triple Crown races, focuses on the winners or top performers of the key races, usually from the previous weekend, who could make an impact on the Triple Crown. We’ll be taking a close look at impressive winners and evaluating their chances to win classic races based upon ability, running style, connections (owner, trainer, jockey), and pedigree.
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Swindler Tops Second Session Of Tattersalls August Sale
Trade continued in strong fashion at the inaugural Tattersalls August Sale with international participation and live internet bidding both featuring strongly on the second day. The top four lots were bought by buyers from Bahrain, Qatar, Hong Kong and the U.S., with two of the four falling to internet bids. The clearance rate was a spectacular 95 percent.
The high-class sprinter Swindler topped the second day of the Tattersalls August Sale after Oliver St Lawrence saw off the attentions of underbidder Steven Hillen to secure the gelding on behalf of Fawzi Nass for 150,000 guineas (US$206,930).
“He is to go to Bahrain, that will be his base,” commented Nass. “He is a very talented horse; he goes on fast ground and can sit off the pace. There might be a race for him on our International Day but he could make up to be good enough to go to Dubai or Saudi.”
The 97-rated Swindler is a dual winner from the family of French 2,000 Guineas winner Make Believe and was fourth last time out in the Stewards' Cup for trainer Ed Walker and owner breeder Bjorn Nielsen.
U.K.-based agent Jamie Lloyd secured the highly rated three-year-old Poet's Voice colt Whisper Not for 90,000 guineas (US$124,158) from the draft of Richard Hannon's East Everleigh Stables.
“He is for Chris Dunn for whom we bought Lady Prancealot, so he will be going to the U.S.,” said Lloyd. “This horse has got a lot of pace and is lightly raced – Richard Hannon said there is some more improvement to come. We have not finalized plans in the U.S. yet – West Coast or East Coast, probably west – but he will come back to the farm first.”
The colt has won his last two starts and was offered with a 'Timeform' rating of 94p, and Lloyd added: “He won that first race by 20l on a slow track at Pontefract and then won again on the faster track at Lingfield. I think he could drop back to a mile in the U.S.”
Owned in training at East Everleigh by owner Michael Pescod, the colt was bought by Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock for 20,000 euros (US$23,647) at the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale in 2018.
The Tattersalls August Sale continues at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 26 with the third and final session.
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Freshman Sire Scissor Kick Off the Mark at Vichy
Haras d’Etreham-based Scissor Kick (Aus) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}) became the latest European freshman sire off the mark when Remy Dupuy-Naulot’s twice-raced juvenile colt Kick Boxing (Fr), gained a narrow verdict in Tuesday’s Prix de Pionsat over one mile at Vichy.
4th-Vichy, €15,000, Mdn, 8-25, 2yo, c/g, 8fT, 1:41.18, g/s.
KICK BOXING (FR) (c, 2, Scissor Kick {Aus}–Dulche de Leche {Fr}, by Victory Note), a June 21 debut third at Lyon-Parilly before improving one spot going seven furlongs here last month, stole a length on the field with a sharp getaway and was comfortable on the lead for the most part. Shaken up soon after passing the two pole, the 14-5 chance rallied gamely when headed by Quindiano (Fr) (Elvstroem {Aus}) with a furlong remaining and outbattled that rival in the closing stages to score by a short neck, becoming the first winner for his Haras d’Etreham-based freshman sire (by Redoute’s Choice {Aus}). The February-foaled bay is the latest of seven foals and fifth winner produced by an unraced half-sister to G1 Champion S.-winning sire Literato (Fr) (Kendor {Fr}). His second dam La Cibeles (Fr) (Cardoun {Fr}) ran third in the G3 Prix Fille de l’Air and is a daughter of stakes-winning multiple Spanish champion Douberta (Fr) (Don Roberto). Sales history: €5,000 RNA Wlg ’18 ARQDEC; €6,500 Ylg ’19 AROCT. Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-1, €12,400. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Remy Dupuy-Naulot; B-Gerard Samain (FR); T-Christophe Escuder.
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Sands Of Mali Retired
Group 1-winning sprinter Sands Of Mali (Fr) (Panis-Kadiania {Fr}, by Indian Rocket {GB}) has been retired to stud. It was not specified where he will stand.
Owner Cool Silk Partnership tweeted on Tuesday, “on a day when a potential future flag bearer for us [Faora] wins on debut, our star Sands of Mali is confirmed to start his next career at stud. An absolute legend of a horse –our first and only Group 1 winner to date! Hugely talented and as @RichardFahey says, a machine on the gallops.
“A clean pedigree, a beautiful physical specimen and bundles of natural ability–we can’t wait to see mini Mali’s hitting the track in a few years time. A huge thank you to team
@RichardFahey for all the hard work put into training and looking after him over the last three years.”
Sands Of Mali was pinhooked by Con Marnane, turning a €20,000 yearling pricetag into £75,000 at the 2017 Tattersalls Ascot breeze-up sale, and he justified that jump when winning the G2 Gimcrack S. on his third start. He won the G3 Prix Sigy and G2 Sandy Lane S. to kick off his 3-year-old campaign before finishing a half-length second in the G1 Commonwealth Cup, and he gained redemption back at Ascot four months later when besting Harry Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the G1 British Champions Sprint S. Sand Of Mali went winless in four tries last year and two this season.
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