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Juddmonte Strike For Kingman Top Lot

NEWMARKET, UK–As Book 2 continued in the manner it began, with a greatly improved median and strong demand throughout the second session, it was a rare yearling colt purchase by Juddmonte Farms that set the day's high at 525,000gns.

The blend of the bloodlines of Kingman (GB) and the Galileo (Ire) mare Reem (Aus) has worked well in the past to the extent of providing the Book 2 sale-topper of 2018 at 750,000gns. That youngster went on to become the dual winner and 103-rated King Leonidas (GB), and his trainer John Gosden took on Simon Mockridge in order to attempt to secure the full-brother, bred by Essafinaat UK. The Juddmonte manager had the final say, however, for the Hazelwood Bloodstock-consigned colt (lot 895).

“The mare has a patchy breeding record as she isn't the easiest to get in foal, but when it works it works very well,” said consignor Adrian O'Brien of the 14-year-old Reem, a listed winner at Meydan and also runner-up in the G2 Balanchine S. for Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum.

“This is a cross that clearly works. King Leonidas has had a few setbacks but is back on track now and is clearly a very talented horse.”

He added, “I'm very flattered that Juddmonte have bought a such a nice horse from our farm. It's great for the breeder and I wish them all the best with him.”

Mockridge was full of praise for the team at Hazelwood Bloodstock and said of the colt, “He had size, scope, a very big hip, [and is] a very good walker. It was obviously very clever–he could have been a Book 1 horse but they brought him to Book 2 and he stood out here.

“We liked his brother very much when he was sold a few years ago. He was favourite for the Jersey and got beaten there but he's run back recently after some time off and I know John Gosden likes him very much. And of course John Gosden was the underbidder which I suppose bears that out. It's very solid trade and it's heartening to see a lot of people here.”

Very solid is indeed the way to describe the market with two days of Book 2 done and one to go. For the second day running the median was markedly up at 65,000gns (+25%) with the clearance rate remaining high at 88%, with 218 yearlings sold from 248 offered. The day's aggregate settled at 18,560,500gns, which was up 3%, while the average was very slightly higher than this time last year at 55,140gns.

Prosperous Transaction

The scopey and elegant Prosperous Voyage (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) looked all over an Oaks filly in the making at Newmarket on Friday when posting an eye-catching performance to run second to Inspiral (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Fillies' Mile, no doubt giving an extra boost to her yearling half-brother by No Nay Never.

Brought to the sale as lot 944 by co-breeder Camas Park Stud, the late April colt raised a final bid of 450,000gns from Ross Doyle.

Tracing back to a Juddmonte family which includes the classy Xaar (GB), who is a half-brother to his Group 3-winning grandam Diese (Diesis {GB}), the colt is also a half-brother to the listed Warrnambool Cup runner-up Romanesque (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}).

No Nay Never has had just three yearlings sold so far in Book 2 for an average of 256,667gns.

Another Coolmore sire, Gleneagles (Ire), has had some decent results this week after a season on the track in which his runners have been headed by the G1 Prix de Royallieu winner Loving Dream (GB).

With eight yearlings sold for an average of 112,125gns, a late highlight was provided on Tuesday by lot 1036, Redpender Stud's homebred half-brother to one of this year's star juveniles. Asymmetric (Ire) (Showcasing {GB}) was himself a 65,000gns December yearling and his ascent has been notable this year, with three victories to his name, including the G2 Richmond S., as well as a third-place finish in the G1 Prix Morny.

Such exploits helped to enhance the appeal of his Gleneagles half-brother, who sold for 350,000gns to Anthony Stroud just as the session stretched beyond 11 hours.

American Interest Remains High

The American influence continues through Book 2, with Barbara Banke of Stonestreet Stables and Peter Brant's White Birch Firm both picking up some of Tuesday's more expensive lots.

Returning to the source that provided Stonestreet with the dual Group 1 winner Campanelle (Ire), agent Ben McElroy went to 340,000gns for lot 961, Tally-Ho Stud's Kodiac filly out of the Zamindar mare Shehila (Ire).

“I saw her two or three days ago and she is a lot like Campanelle,” said the agent, who confirmed that lot 961 will be trained in America. “She stands over a lot of ground and I think she's going to be quick. She has a lot of presence and class–everything you like to see in a filly.”

As well as her physical prowess, the filly is related to two black-type horses in the listed winner Ventura Diamond (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) and Group 3 runner-up Alba Power (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}).

Buying on behalf of Brant, Demi O'Byrne selected lot 918, a colt from the first European crop of Zoustar (Aus) at 310,000gns. Bred by Plantation Stud, the son of the Exceed And Excel (Aus) mare Rue Cambon (Ire) was a good pinhook for Yeomanstown Stud, having been bought as a foal for 110,000gns.

The colt hails from a family which has had notable success on the global stage. His dam is a half-sister to the GI Beverly D S. winner Gorella (Fr) (Grape Tree Road {GB}), while her full-sister Royal Intervention (Ire) won the G2 Goldene Peitsche in Germany.

Father And Son Score For Barnett

Breeder Robert Barnett topped Book 1 with a 1.5 million gns daughter of Sea The Stars and was represented among the leading lots during Book 2 on Tuesday when a colt by that stallion's son Sea The Moon (Ger) sold for 300,000gns to Sebastian Desmontils of Chauvigny Global Equine.

After confirming that lot 869 will head to France to be trained by either Fabrice Chappet or Henri Devin in the colours of Japanese owner Hisaaki Saito, Desmontils added, “He is a nice, correct individual and Sea The Moon is doing really well. His stats are very good. The mare is decent and has produced a horse who was placed in the Derby. This colt was on my client's original list, so it was good that we liked him and were able to buy him as we've been outbid on a few. The trade has been very strong.”

The colt, consigned on Barnett's behalf by Newsells Park Stud, is out of the Singspiel (Ire) mare Pure Song (GB), whose son Romsdal (GB) (Halling) was third to Australia (GB) in the Derby of 2014. The mare, a daughter of the Barnetts' Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks winner Pure Grain (GB) (Polish Precedent), has also produced the listed-placed Pure Art (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}) among her five winners.

Saito has celebrated seven wins in France this year, led by the G3 Prix Eclipse victory of the Fabrice Chappet-trained Topgear (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}).

Ballyhimikin Draft Shines

James Hanly's Ballyhimikin Stud continued in successful vein through the second session of Book 2. Only two of its nine yearlings sold so far have failed to reach six figures, with Tuesday's sale-ring star being lot 1017, a daughter of Lope De Vega (Ire) sold for 260,000gns.

Bred by Hanly with his regular partners of Trevor Stewart and Anthony Stroud, the colt is out of the dual Group/Grade 3 winner Stellar Path (Fr) (Astronomer Royal), a sister to Group 2 winner Sir Patrick Moore (Fr) and half-sister to the G2 German 1000 Guineas winner Nyaleti (Ire) (Arch).

Agent Alex Elliott has signed for eight yearlings at Book 2, including this filly for a new client. He said, “She is going to Ralph Beckett, like a lot of the horses I have bought over the past two weeks. She was one we definitely wanted to go after. I am delighted to buy one from Trevor Stewart and James Hanly as they produce fantastic horses. We love Lope De Vega fillies. Hopefully, it is not too far to fall.”

New Blood For Amo Racing

Amo Racing's significant investment in bloodstock in recent seasons has yielded 30 2-year-old winners so far this season and Kia Joorabchian's operation has been busily recruiting next year's potential stars at Tattersalls. That included going to 260,000gns for lot 855, a New Bay (GB) colt consigned by Baroda Stud.

The Ballylinch Stud stallion has had a good run of late with G1 Sun Chariot S. winner Saffron Beach (Ire) and leading German juvenile Sea Bay (Ger), and this son of the unraced Munnings mare Praden was, like Saffron Beach, bred by the China Horse Club.

“China Horse Club is a big supporter of New Bay, and this mare is breeding some very nice stock,” said consignor David Cox. “Her 2-year-old filly Labaaqa, whom we sold a couple of years back, is lovely. She met with a bit of a set back, but is back in training with John Gosden. China Horse Club owns part of the stallion, they support him well, and it is good to see them get paid in the ring.”

Pinhooking Masterclass Continues

Philipp Stauffenberg has pulled off some successful pinhooks through Books 1 and 2 and that continued on Tuesday with the sale of lot 818, the Frankel (GB) first foal of Panmolle (GB) (Lawman {Fr}) from the family of Kingman (GB) and Oasis Dream (GB). Having been bought as a foal for 105,000gns from breeder Wood Farm Stud, the filly returned to make 230,000gns to an online bid from the Tokyo Thoroughbred Club.

“I think she might not be the most impressive Frankel, but she has these big flappy ears and her working attitude is excellent, I think you will hear from her,” said Stauffenberg, who has so far sold 10 yearlings through Book 2 for 993,000gns.

He continued, “I wanted to have her in Book 2, because she is not as big as some of the Frankels, so thought she is better off here. I think it paid off. We got our horses sold quite well. The market seems to be strong if you come up with a good horse and yesterday's session was incredibly strong, I think we are in good shape.”

Another pick of the draft was lot 874, a Barronstown Stud-bred Free Eagle (Ire) half-brother to listed winner Flaming Princess (Ire) (Hot Streak {GB}). Sold for 150,000gns, the colt was one of three yearlings bought over the last two days by Jeremy Brummitt on behalf of Australian trainer Danny O'Brien.

Mountarmstrong Strikes Again

Noel O'Callaghan's Mountarmstrong Stud sold one of the five seven-figure yearlings during Book 1 and a colt from the same family of G2 Queen Mary S. winner Anthem Alexander (Ire) brought another good result for the farm on Tuesday.

Lot 839, who was signed for at 230,000gns by Simon Crisford, is a Kodiac son of Anthem Alexander's half-sister Pious Alexander (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}). The immediate family also includes their half-brother and popular sire Dandy Man (Ire), while this season's 1000 Guineas winner Mother Earth (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) features under the colt's third dam.

“He has been bought for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid,” said Crisford. “He looks a nice precocious 2-year-old in the making and we look forward to seeing him on the track, hopefully early next season.”

The Mountarmstrong Stud team has enjoyed a good spell in the ring and on the track, with homebred No Speak Alexander (Ire) having recently become the first Group 1 winner for Shalaa (Ire) in the Matron S.

Overbury Colt Puts On A Show

Overbury Stud had just one Book 2 dart to fire but it hit the bullseye with its homebred son of Showcasing (lot 814), who sold for 200,000gns to Anthony Stroud.

Bred on the same cross as the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains third Dice Roll (Fr), the colt is a son of the Pulpit mare Pacifica Highway, who was bought by Simon Sweeting through Richard Brown at Keeneland for $110,000. Her current 2-year-old Spanish Baroque (GB) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) has made three starts in France for Jean-Claude Rouget and Peter Brant, resulting in two victories.

“The mare has done fabulously for us, all her progeny have sold really well. The 2-year-old is twice a winner now and apparently goes for a listed race in November. She is exciting,” said Sweeting.

“[The colt] has been fabulous all the way through the sale, I think he deserved that. We wanted to put a bit of substance into the mare, some of her foals have been a little bit light. It was a toss up between Showcasing and Kingman, and we thought [Showcasing] would give the foal a bit more substance.”

The 10-year-old Pacifica Highway, a half-sister to Grade II winner Secretary At War (War Front), has a filly foal by Night Of Thunder (Ire) and is now in foal to Overbury's highly promising young stallion Ardad (Ire), whose first-crop son Perfect Power (Ire) is the winner of the G1 Prix Morny and G1 Middle Park S.

Sweeting said of Ardad, “This year couldn't have been better for him. He has the fastest 2-year-old of the year and hopefully he can go on next year. It has been a lot of fun and we have been very fortunate. Ardad covered 165 mares this spring; he has got a good book and we are very much looking forward to next year.”

Clean Sweep For Redgate Bloodstock

Emma Foley and Damian Flynn of Redgate Bloodstock brought a small but select draft to Book 2 and were rewarded with all three yearlings sold for an average of 114,333gns.

The week started well when they sold lot 619 on Monday for breeder K Collie. The daughter of Farhh (GB) is a sister to the G2 Duke of Cambridge S. winner Move Swiftly (GB) and she will join the Gosdens' Clarehaven Stables after being knocked down to Thady Gosden for 170,000gns.

On Tuesday, there was another decent return for Foley and Flynn when selling their homebred Twilight Son (GB) colt (lot 927) to Clive Cox for 135,000gns. Out of Samasana (Ire), a treble-winning daughter of Redback (GB), the colt is a half-brother to American stakes winner Simmy's Temple (GB) (Royal Applause {GB}).

“We're thrilled and the big bonus is where they've all gone as they are all going to be with good trainers, which is a big plus,” said Foley.

“We like Twilight Son, he's been a lucky horse for us and we've used him every year. I'm a big believer that if you're in in the first year, you have to take a punt on them. You have to believe in stallions, and we've never had a horse scope and X-ray as well as this horse, he was absolutely A1.”

She added, “The Farhh filly was particularly nice and of course she's a full-sister to a Group 2 winner which helps, but we felt we were coming with a nice set of horses. These have all been born, raised and grazed on the farm which is extra special, but all the hard work has paid off. We've barely slept for the last week.”

Redgate Bloodstock consigns another three yearlings in Book 3, which starts on Thursday.

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Record Session Kicks Off Tattersalls Book 2

NEWMARKET, UK-the middle market has flourished at the yearling sales transatlantically thus far in 2021, and that trend proved out again on Monday during the first of three sessions of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, where figures were not only well up on the remarkably strong 2020 renewal staged in the midst of the pre-vaccine pandemic, but at this stage also trending ahead of 2019's record edition. The first day of Book 2 saw records for turnover, average and median for a session at Book 2. Of the 247 yearlings offered, 212 found new homes (86%) for an aggregate of 18,935,500gns that was up 24% on last year's corresponding session. The average jumped 27% year on year to 89,318gns, while the median climbed 35% to 70,000gns. The average for the whole of Book 2 in 2019 was 78,224gns, and the median 55,500gns.

Sean Woods made his return to the Newmarket training ranks this season after nearly 20 years in Hong Kong. He has notched 10 wins this season and will have a serious bullet to fire sometime next year in the form of a Night Of Thunder (Ire) colt (lot 604) picked up by his brother Dwayne Woods for 375,000gns on Monday.

“He was stunning; to me he was the best colt in the sale,” Dwayne Woods said after signing the ticket. “He's very strong, probably the cleanest Night Of Thunder I've ever seen– conformationally, strength, everything. Night Of Thunder is a wonderful sire, but they are a little bit incorrect in front as he is. This was the most beautiful model. I see him as being a six furlong horse to a miler, or more like seven furlongs to a mile-a Guineas horse if I ever saw one, and hence we went that strongly on him.”

Sean Woods added: “he'll have a bit of time now and come to us in January. He's for one of my existing owners.”

Bred by Cranford Bloodstock, the colt was offered by Rathbarry Stud. He is out of Harlequin Girl (GB) (Where Or When {Ire}) and his 2-year-old full-brother Hanaady (Ire), who was bought by Shadwell for 110,000gns at this sale last year, won on Sept. 29 for trainer Ed Dunlop. Harlequin Girl is a half-sister to three stakes horses, including G2 Gimcrack S. scorer Blaine (GB) (Avonbridge {GB}), and also to the dam of this year's G3 Chester Vase winner Youth Spirit (Ire) (Camelot {GB}).

There is perhaps nothing to keep buyers around until late into the evening quite like a Galileo (Ire) filly out of a young stakes-winning mare, and that is exactly what materialized when Manister House Stud's filly out G3 Cornwallis S. winner Mrs Danvers (GB) (Hellvelyn {GB}) (lot 768) strolled into the ring four lots from the end of the session. Bids flew from throughout the ring, but the final blow was at last landed online by BBA Ireland/Yulong Investments at 320,000gns.

It would be rare indeed to see a mare who couldn't find a home for £1,000 as a 2-year-old among Galileo's mates, but Mrs Danvers has punched remarkably above the weight of her page. Unsold at the Tattersalls Ireland Ascot February Sale four months before making her racecourse debut for owner/trainer Jonathan Portman, Mrs Danvers soon caused her value to skyrocket when winning at first asking at Lingfield by 3 1/4 lengths. She would proceed to sail unbeaten through a five-race juvenile campaign culminating in Newmarket's Cornwallis. Mrs Danvers has visited Galileo in her first three seasons at stud, and with her first foal, a colt, having unfortunately died, this filly will be the first to try to bolster the black-type on the page.

“She was an exceptional filly, especially for her age,” said Manister House Stud's Luke Barry in reference to the fact that the filly is a May 4 foal. “She had all the qualities of her sire but most importantly she very much looked like Mrs Danvers. Even for a May foal she looks sharp. We brought her here to stand out and we're thrilled that she sold very well. She has great quality, as will come with a Galileo, but Mrs Danvers has put a lot of strength and sharpness into her.”

New Frontier For Kingman

Kingman (GB) has enjoyed another fruitful season domestically and in the meantime he has begun to build up an admirable record in Hong Kong, with six winners from seven runners in that nation. Another son of the Juddmonte supremo is bound for Hong Kong, with the Hong Kong Jockey Club's representative Mick Kinane going to 300,000gns for lot 617 from Ballyhimikin Stud.

“He's by a great stallion and he's a lovely, correct model, which is what I want,” Kinane said. “I liked him from the first day I saw him and when he settled in up here he was a lovely colt.”

Commenting on the market, Kinane added, “It's like anything, good horses are hard to buy. This is the first one I've tried on today. We bought five last week, so we were happy.”

Lot 617 is the first foal out of Hunaina (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}), who was bred by the Aga Khan Studs and raced by the Aga Khan through her first two seasons on the track. She was bought by Trevor Stewart through Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for €140,000 from the 2017 Goffs November Mares Sale, and went on to win the Listed Snowdrop Fillies' S. and G3 Prix Bertrand du Breuil Longines in Stewart's colours for trainer Henri Devin. This colt, her first foal, was bred by Stewart with James Hanley and Anthony Stroud. Hunaina is from the family of the dual Derby winner Harzand (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and this year's G1 Irish Derby, G1 St Leger and G1 Grand Prix de Paris winner Hurricane Lane (Ire) (Frankel {GB}).

“We bought the mare as a 3-year-old in training and sent her to trainer Henri Devin and she won a listed race and a Group 3,” said Stewart. “We are very happy with the result. He is a really nice first foal; a good walking, strong individual. It is a nice start for the mare, who is at Ballyhimikin, and she had a colt by Sea The Stars this spring.”

There were seven Kingmans offered during the opening session of Book 2 and they filled two of the top three spots on the leaderboard. A filly by Kingman (lot 739) joined Ballyhimikin's colt late in the session at the 300,000gns mark when bought by Blandford Bloodstock's Richard Brown standing alongside John Gosden, who trained the sire through his Horse of the Year campaign.

Lot 739 was offered by breeder Appletree Stud, a Gloucestershire-based nursery run by former leading National Hunt rider Robert “Choc” Thornton that brought a three-horse draft to Book 2. She is the fifth foal out of the Moyglare Stud-bred Midnight Thoughts, who is unraced and was a high-profile buyback at the 2014 Keeneland November sale when led out unsold at $975,000. That valuation was based on the fact that Midnight Thoughts is a daughter of G2 Ribblesdale S. victress Irresistible Jewel (Ire) (Danehill), the dam of G1 Irish St Leger winner Royal Diamond (Ire) (King's Best), Ribblesdale winner Princess Highway (Street Cry {Ire}) and G3 Gladness S. winner Mad About You (Ire) (Indian Ridge).

Midnight Thoughts was acquired by Appletree Stud privately thereafter, and her third foal, Tomorrow's Dream (Fr) (Oasis Dream {GB}), was a winner and placed in Newmarket's Listed Rosemary S. while racing as an Appletree homebred with trainer William Haggas. Midnight Thoughts has a foal full-brother to Tomorrow's Dream, and was covered by Pinatubo this season.

“It's a fantastic result, in the region of double what we thought,” Thornton said. “Going into the ring, we knew we had good people behind us but we didn't expect that. It's a complete credit to Jonny Sutton, the stud groom. He has done a hell of a job with her and turned her inside out. If you look at the pictures of her online, and look at her now, they were only taken 10 days ago; she has really changed. She is by far the best daughter out of Midnight Thoughts and, as this is a business, we have put her in the sale and we have got a great result.”

Brown said after signing the ticket, “She was an extremely attractive filly. She's come from a very good, young farm in Gloucestershire. She had a fantastic shape. I've seen her quite a lot; she put on a great show out there. I bought her for John Gosden for a client of ours and we were both extremely keen to get her. John thought she was the outstanding Kingman filly in the sale and so did I. He probably knows more about Kingman than me. She's a lovely, classy, elegant filly by a proper stallion and it's a proper page.”

Brown, who picked up a daughter of Gleneagles two lots later, admitted the strength of the market had made for a difficult start to the day.

“We had to go strong, but the market has been very strong today,” he said. “It was a very frustrating morning; I bid on a lot of horses before lunch time and it wasn't going very well, but we got a couple there and she was at the top of the list.”

It's A Yes For No Nay Never Filly

Andrew Balding has trained one of the best yet by ascendant young sire No Nay Never in this season's G1 Coronation S. and G1 Sussex S. winner Alcohol Free (Ire), and Balding secured another by the Coolmore sire for Kingsclere when going to 260,000gns on Monday for lot 561, a colt from Newsells Park Stud.

“We thought he was a lovely colt and we've had some success with the stallion,” Balding noted, saying the purchase was made on behalf of an undisclosed client. “We're thrilled to get him.”

As detailed last week in the TDN, Balding is assisted at the sales by the formidable team of Emma Balding, his mother, and racing manager Tessa Hetherington, and Balding noted the colt passed inspection by each of his discerning team members.

“He was one of our top picks of the ones we've seen over the three days, so we're delighted to have him,” he said.

Jeff Smith's Alcohol Free, who also won last year's G1 Cheveley Park S., is entered in Saturday's G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. on Champions Day at Ascot, and Balding said it is “all systems go” for the 3-year-old filly. Alcohol Free looks to bounce back from a sixth-place finish behind Mishriff (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}) in the G1 Juddmonte International, and she drops back to her favoured mile trip.

Balding has enjoyed a remarkable season with the likes of Sandrine (GB), Spanish Mission, Berkshire Shadow (GB) and Bangkok (Ire) also among his group winners. Balding lost his top spot in the trainers' championship to Charlie Appleby after a great last weekend for latter, but Balding was philosophical about the demotion.

“It was inevitable, I am afraid,” he smiled. “We were probably punching above our weight for a good while there, but it is what it is and natural order has been restored. We have had a wonderful season.”

Lot 561 is the first foal out of Fleeting Fancy (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a placed daughter of the G3 Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial winner and G1 Irish Oaks and G2 Ribblesdale S.-placed Just Pretending (Giant's Causeway). Fleeting Fancy is likewise a full-sister to the black type-placed Persia (Ire) and Visage (Ire). She was bought for €480,000 at Arqana December in 2019, carrying this colt, by Dean Hawthorne on behalf of the Australian-based Jonathan Munz of GSA Bloodstock, who bred him.

Wilson Broadening His Racing Horizons

Lope De Vega had two yearlings feature among the top eight on Monday and one of those is headed Down Under, with owner Noel Wilson signing the docket on lot 657, a colt from Ballyhimikin Stud, at 250,000gns while seated alongside his French-based trainer Eoghan O'Neill.

Wilson, who is based in Kent and is a former Sun racing editor who is also involved in property and other investments, has horses in training with O'Neill as well as Francis Graffard and Christophe Ferland under his Just Wow Ltd. banner and has taken shares of horses in Australia to get his feet wet in the business there. Wilson also bought an Australia (GB) colt out of G3 Sweet Solera S. winner Nations Alexander (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) from Book 1 last week for 200,000gns, and said he hopes to send his new purchases to British-born, Australian-based trainer Annabel Neasham.

Of the Lope De Vega colt, Wilson said, “He's very classy. He vetted superbly, he was a standout at the sale. I'm just looking for a good horse. There is quite a bit of stamina in the two I've bought-this one has a bit more speed, maybe a mile and a quarter. You never know.”

“I live in Kent but I've never had a horse in England,” Wilson said. “I've had horses in Australia come tenth and pick up 1500-quid. That's not the deciding factor, but it's indicative of what's going on. If you look at Australia, I've seen 90-rated horses place in Group 1s, and the money–if you have a horse that does have ability, you only have to look at some of the examples recently. I'm not really rich enough to support British racing.”

The complication of not being able to regularly see his runners isn't a problem, either, for Wilson.

“I set the alarm and I can see them,” he said. “I have Equidia in the kitchen. I don't need to go and watch them physically. When they lose its nice to turn around and make a cup of tea rather than having to get in a car and drive to a different country to get home.”

“He's come to see me once in 15 years,” O'Neill confirmed.

Wilson's Lope De Vega colt continued a good day for Ballyhimikin Stud and co-breeders James Hanley, Trevor Stewart and Anthony Stroud, who also sold lot 617, the 300,000gns Kingman colt, to the Hong Kong Jockey Club. The Lope De Vega colt is out of the listed-winning and Group 3-placed Kambura (Fr) (Literato {Fr}), who was bought by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for €220,000 at Arqana December in 2016. She is a half-sister to four stakes horses and the Lope De Vega colt is her third foal. She produced a colt by Night Of Thunder this year and was covered by Pinatubo (Ire).

New England Stud and partners picked out the Intello (Ger) mare Ionic (GB) in foal to Lope De Vega for 450,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale of 2019, and the mare's first foal, a filly (lot 635), went some way toward repaying that investment when making 270,000gns from SackvilleDonald at Tattersalls on Monday. While Ionic was but a minor winner in France, her considerable value stems from the fact that her immediate family is steeped with high-quality black-type winners and producers. Ionic is a half-sister to listed winner Prudenzia (Ire) (Dansili {GB}), who is now best known as the dam of Group 1 winners Chicquita (Ire) and Magic Wand (Ire) as well as current Group 3-winning and Classic-placed 3-year-old Philomene (Ire). Another half-sister, Pacifique (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), has left behind the G3 Prix de Lutece victress Paix (Ire), while the listed winner and former Derby favourite English King (Fr) is also a sibling to Ionic. The proficiency of the line appears already very much to be trickling down to the next generation; Chicquita's first two foals are group placed, including this season's G1 Irish Oaks third Nicest (Ire) (American Pharoah).

Ionic produced a filly by Too Darn Hot this spring, and was bred back to Night Of Thunder.

Ed Sackville signed the ticket on behalf of SBA Racing, which campaigns the stakes-winning Kodiac (GB) fillies Frenetic (Ire) and Geocentric (Ire) with trainer Ger Lyons. The daughter of Ionic goes to William Haggas.

Star Filly For Winning Partnership

The stakes-placed Fasliyev mare Greenisland (Ire) has been a very useful producer for the Jennings Family's Stonethorn Stud. The 15-year-old mare is the dam of the listed-winning Boerhan (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and Shamshon (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), who has run a remarkable 102 times for 16 wins, mostly for trainer Stuart Williams, winning as recently as August as a 10-year-old. Three of her progeny have sold for six figures at the sales, including a filly foal by Sea The Stars bought by SackvilleDonald for €350,000 at Goffs November in 2019, and her latest filly by Starspangledbanner (Aus) was added to that list on Monday when Hugo Merry went to 220,000gns for lot 600. The agent was acting on behalf of Andrew Rosen, who will partner with Andrew and Madeleine Lloyd Webber's Watership Down Stud, who consigned the filly. Rosen and the Lloyd Webbers currently race the winning 3-year-old filly Theory Of Music (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) together with trainer Jessica Harrington. Theory Of Music is a full-sister to triple group winner Turret Rocks (Ire), whose Kingman colt was among the leading lights at Book 1 last week when selling to MV Magnier and Peter Brant's White Birch Farm for 1.1-million gns. Theory Of Music cost 290,000gns at Book 1 last year.

“She's been bought for my very good client Andrew Rosen to partner with the Lloyd Webbers,” said Merry. “We bought a filly last year that's won and [Rosen] is a longstanding friend and client of the farm, so we've seen this filly around. She's bred by the Jennings' who have bred a lot of good horses. We were just trying to find a really nice filly who might work out, then have some residual value to go back to the farm to breed together.”

“The flaxen mane,” Merry quipped when asked what about the filly appealed to him. “Our sight is deteriorating, so the instruction was to get one we could see out in the field.”

“She was just a lovely shape,” he added. “The sire has had a great year. We would have liked to have had her for a bit less but it wasn't to be. The good ones are making the money.”

Le Havre Colt A Pinhooking Home Run

Jamie Railton enjoyed a pinhooking homerun courtesy of his Le Havre (Ire) colt out of Lady Francesca (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) (lot 676), who was signed up by John Warren under the Highclere Agency banner for 230,000gns. Railton purchased the colt from this ring last year for 58,000gns under his Cill Dara Bloodstock banner.

“Some of these foals turn around, and some don't,” Railton said. “I particularly liked him as a foal and some of them work and some of them don't. The life of a pinhooker is not a straightforward one, and I am incredibly lucky to be surrounded by some exceptional people who keep me upright. I feel very privileged to have the people around me that I do. It is the people who show faith in us as a company and our organization. We have some loyal supporters, both involved in this horse and other horses. I am very grateful for all the people who support us in the good times and the bad times.”

It was 14 years ago at this sale during Book 1 that breeder Floors Stud parted with Lady Francesca for 21,000gns. She was scooped up by David Joseph, who raced her to one win and a pair of listed placings with trainer William Muir. Newsells Park Stud plucked her out of the 2009 Tattersalls December Mares Sale, and bred the Le Havre colt out of her before selling her for 40,000gns back at Park Paddocks last year, where she was bought by John Hammond. The page, meanwhile, had continued to improve, with Lady Francesca's half-sister Purr Along (GB) (Mount Nelson {GB}) winning Group 3s in Ireland and France and another sister Katawi (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) winning at listed level.

Siyouni To The Fore

Five-time Group 1 winner St Mark's Basilica (Fr), the world's current co-highest rated horse, has been one of the poster children for the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale having cost 1.3-million gns at Book 1 two years ago, and a pair of colts by his sire Siyouni (Fr) featured among the leading lights early in Monday's session when selling for 200,000gns apiece.

First up was lot 537, Whatton Manor Stud's first foal out of Faay (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}). The 6-year-old mare was placed on the racecourse herself, but holds plenty of residual value being a full-sister to the speedy pair of Mecca's Angel (Ire) and Markaz (Ire). The former won the G1 Nunthorpe S. twice, while Markaz was a multiple Group 3-winning sprinter. Faay was a 400,000gns purchased by Charlie Gordon-Watson on behalf of Abdullah Saaed al Naboodah at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, and her first foal appears bound for the breeze ups, having been bought by Mick Murphy of Longways Stables. Murphy has already had success re-selling Siyounis; he and his partner Sarah O'Connell pinhooked Al Raya (GB) and Le Brivido (Fr) by the sire, and both went on to be Group 3 winners.

Lot 576, meanwhile, has already provided an excellent pinhooking return. The son of the placed Fusion (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) was the selection of Liam and Jenny Norris at last year's Tattersalls December Foal Sale for 92,000gns, and he rewarded that roll of the dice with a winning bid of 200,000gns from John Dance's Manor House Stud on Monday. Fusion is a half-sister to the champion and multiple stakes producer Attraction (GB) (Efisio), with a further two of her sisters having produced stakes horses. Fusion's 2-year-old filly Atomic Lady (Fr) has won twice this season and has been listed-placed since the catalogue was printed. The Siyouni colt was bred by Floors Farming.

“He's been a very straightforward horse and we're absolutely delighted for the client,” said Jenny Norris. “He's a very good mover and a beautiful individual. He vetted well and he's been going down well right from the start and he's behaved impeccably. There are some nice little updates in the pedigree too. So those all help and it's good to see trade is strong.”

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Sea The Stars Colt Lights Up Second Day Of Tattersalls October Book 1

A colt by Sea The Stars was the star turn on the second day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, selling for 1.2 million guineas during a session that saw a clearance rate of 87 percent and turnover of 30,116,000 guineas.

The top lot on the second day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 was the Sea The Stars colt from Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber's Watership Down Stud, who realized 1.2 million guineas to the bid of Charlie Gordon-Watson on behalf of Woodford Racing's Bill Farish. The colt is out of the Dubawi mare So Mi Dar, winner of the Group 3 Tattersalls Musidora Stakes and placed in the Group 1 Prix de l'Opera. So Mi Dar is a half-sister to champion 2- and 3-year-old Too Darn Hot and a daughter of Lloyd-Webber's triple Group 1 winning Dar Re Mi, herself a daughter of the farm's foundation mare Darara.

Lady Lloyd-Webber was at Park Paddocks to see her homebred colt sell, and husband Andrew Lloyd-Webber arrived in Newmarket just in time to catch the sale too.

“I got here just in time in a taxi, I just walked in at the 600,000 guineas mark,” laughed Lord Lloyd-Webber.

“We never expected to break the million-guinea barrier, because no one ever does. Maybe Andrew is our lucky omen,” said a delighted Lady Lloyd-Webber. “It is very difficult to do that. The Dar Re Mi family is carrying on, and that is what it is all about from a foundation mare. We are now in the third generation, it is really wonderful to see this family keep going.

“He is a beautiful horse, hopefully he will win the Guineas. And then will carry on winning Group 1s like the rest of the family.”

Purchaser Charlie Gordon-Watson said the purchase was the result of a last-minute phone call.

“Bill Farish rang me just an hour ago and said, 'What about this horse? What do you think?' I told him that I thought he was the best horse I have seen at the sale.

“I know the family backwards, as Bill does, and he is a great friend of Simon Marsh, but he did not want to Simon to know anything about it. Simon had no idea.”

Gordon-Watson added: “It all happened in the last hour and a half. I think I got the valuation right as I told Bill that I thought he'd make between 800,000 guineas and 1.2 million.

“I have been involved in the family all the way through, I bought Darara and this colt is very typical of the family, perhaps a bit bigger because they are all slightly smallish, Darara was quite small. He is a very athletic horse, I have been going on about Lot 277 for a long time.”

Of Farish's plans for his new colt and reasoning behind the purchase, Gordon-Watson said: “Bill liked the pedigree and the mare, everything is so international now. The horse will stay here, and no trainer has been decided as yet.”

Early in the evening the Kingman colt out of the G2 May Hill Stakes winner Turret Rocks became the second lot to breach the million-guinea mark when knocked down to M.V. Magnier for 1.1 million guineas after a bidding war with Anthony Stroud stood alongside David Loder and trainer Charlie Appleby. The colt is the first foal of the Fastnet Rock mare and was consigned by the Egan family's Corduff Stud on behalf of the Andrew & Roseanne O'Grady Walshe's Farmleigh Bloodstock.

Corduff Stud's David Egan was suitably delighted;

“He is a magnificent horse, he really is. I am delighted they bought him, I was not sure they were on him, but they stood up and bought him. It is great.

“This horse was bred by John Corcoran and he bred the horse with Jim Bolger, and bought him out in training. John had a vision of what he wanted to do with the horse, he had a plan and facilitated a way to make it happen. He owned this horse in with his children, Andrew and Roseanne O'Grady Walshe, through Farmleigh Bloodstock.

“She is a beautiful mare, she is by Fastnet Rock, she is big, she is robust, she is strong. She was so honest on the track and John, unfortunately is not with us, but he was very involved in the mating. He chose Kingman, it is great.

“The bidding took a long time, but it got more enjoyable as we went on.”

The colt traces back to the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Riviere d'Or and the family of ten-time Group 1 winner Goldikova.

Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continues on Thursday, 7th October from 11am with the third and final session.

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New Face, Same Philosophies For Top Tatts Vendor

Newsells Park Stud has become one of the most steadfast sights of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale-being, as it has, leading vendor at Book 1 for the past three years, and five of the past eight years–and while many of the familiar faces behind the stud remain the same, it has in fact undergone some significant changes this year, with entrepreneur Graham Smith-Bernal having purchased Newsells Park in June from the Jacobs family.

Not that Newsells Park is new at all to Smith-Bernal-he had been a client of the stud for a handful of years, boarding his small broodmare band there before the opportunity came along to expand his bloodstock interests in a major way.

“Fortunately, Graham had enjoyed being an owner at Newsells because he decided to buy the stud when the opportunity came along,” said Newsells General Manager Julian Dollar. “That was very fortunate. He's a very nice guy, he's incredibly enthusiastic and passionate about it, which is so important.”

Newsells Park has a storied history that dates back to 1086, and the Newsells that we know today was incorporated by Klaus Jacobs in 2000. Jacobs's German influence is still very much prevalent in the bloodstock that emanates from the stud today, and Dollar noted that Smith-Bernal and his wife, Marcela, have become fully immersed in the experience.

“Graham and Marcela have became enchanted with Newsells Park–the grounds, the paddocks and the land–and they're spending a lot of time here, which is wonderful,” he said. “They really enjoy that additional benefit of the place; not just the horses and the fact that it's a business, but they're enjoying that it's a beautiful place to live. They've really embraced the stud and everything about it.”

Smith-Bernal stressed in a TDN interview in June that he is not looking to reinvent the highly successful wheel when it comes to Newsells Park, but that he is keen to explore branching out into other areas, in particular breeding and racing partnerships.

“I know he is interested in partnerships and I think he has a lot of friends and acquaintances that have been investors with him along the way in his businesses, and they're keen to support and they're interested in racing and breeding,” Dollar said. “A lot of them have been to see Newsells and really enjoyed that. I think there is a possibility that will happen, but there is no firm deadline. It might happen this year, it might wait until next year.

“While Graham continues to get his feet under the desk and understand the place, things remain pretty much as before. He'll gently tweak things as he goes along based on what he enjoys and what he'd like to see the stud do. He loves his racing and he'll be around to enjoy his racing so there is maybe the possibility that we'll be able to retain a couple more fillies than we have in the past. I think we all see partnerships as something quite important to the future, so I could see that happening and he's enthusiastic to welcome friends, acquaintances and business investors into that.”

The first order of business, however, will be the Tattersalls October yearling sales, and for Book 1 alone Newsells Park brings 29 yearlings, 19 of which are siblings to stakes horses and 19 of which are out of stakes mares.

Newsells's commercial star during the past decade-a reputation that has been upheld by her progeny on the racecourse-has certainly been Shastye (Ire) (Danehill), the dam of Group 1 winners Japan (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) (1.3-million gns) and Mogul (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) (3.4-million gns), G2 Middleton S. winner and triple Oaks runner-up Secret Gesture (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), G3 International S. winner Sir Isaac Newton (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) (3.6-million gns) and listed winner Maurus (GB) (Medicean {GB}). Shastye's current 2-year-old filly by Galileo (Ire), now named Skylark (GB), cost MV Magnier 3.4-million gns at Book 1 last year, and while the mare doesn't have a yearling or foal of 2021, two of her daughters feature with yearlings in the Newsells consignment.

Dollar noted that 20-year-old Shastye was scanned in foal to Dubawi early in the season, and she has an important scan in the coming weeks.

“We have three daughters of Shastye, which is wonderful,” Dollar said. “Shastye is going to be checked next week; last year we scanned 95 mares on the stud for the October 1 checks and 94 of them were in foal, so it was a bit sad that the one that wasn't in foal was probably the most important mare that we have on the stud, Shastye. But she is, we hope, back in foal to Dubawi and I hope that we might get one, if not two, more babies out of her. She looks fantastic, she is getting on these days but she doesn't look like an old mare–she looks 15, 16 tops. She looks great and I'm hopeful we could get one or two more.”

Lot 260 is a Lope De Vega (Ire) filly and the first foal out of Shastye's daughter Secret Gaze, who cost Qatar Bloodstock 1.35-million gns at Book 1 in 2016. Secret Gaze didn't make it to the racetrack, and her first foal is bred by Qatar Bloodstock in partnership with Newsells Park.

“Secret Gaze probably reminds me the most of Shastye,” Dollar said. “She had some problems in training as a 2-year-old and never really overcame those. This is her first foal, and there's lots of mum and plenty of dad in her. People that have seen her on the farm seem to like her, and I like her; she has a good step to her and an honest way about her. She just wants to please and she's been a delight to do anything with. But that's the whole family.”

Following Secret Gaze's filly through the ring as lot 261 is a Kingman (GB) filly who is the third foal out of Secret Sense, a winning daughter of Shastye.

“Secret Sense is a proper, big Shamardal mare and this girl is rather magnificent,” Dollar said. “She has a great way about her, a great step to her and a great character.”

There will be few individuals at Park Paddocks on Thursday morning around 11 a.m. under as much pressure as Dollar will be, as Newsells sends the first three lots of the day through the ring, and four of the first 10.

“It's going to be a bit of a nightmare,” Dollar admitted, but, as far as nightmares go, even he would admit it is more of a daydream considering the quality of those four yearlings. First up is lot 336, a Dubawi (Ire) half-sister to the 2019 G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner and four-time Group 1 scorer Waldgeist (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) as well as the group winners Waldlied (GB) (New Approach {Ire}) and Waldkonig (GB) (Kingman {GB}) out of the G3 Prix Penelope scorer Waldlerche (GB) Monsun {Ger}). Waldlied's first foal, a colt by Kingman (GB), is next up as lot 337, while lot 338 is a Sea The Stars (Ire) colt out of the German listed winner Waldnah (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), who is a half-sister to Waldlerche. Lot 346 is John and Tanya Gunther's full-brother to G1 St James's Palace S. winner and young Newsells sire Without Parole (GB) (Frankel {GB}).

The three 'W' family yearlings are extra special to Newsells as they descend from Waldmark (Ger) (Mark Of Esteem {Ire}), who was bought as a foal by Klaus Jacobs and was the first horse he purchased for Newsells after buying the stud in 2000.

“It's nice for us now to have developed a couple generations of that family,” Dollar said. “We haven't always had the opportunity to do that because we've been so commercial.”

Newsells raced Waldlerche, the fifth foal out of the Classic-producing Waldmark, in partnership with Deitrich von Boetticher's Gestut Ammerland, and they too teamed up with Waldgeist, who was her first foal, and are co-breeders of the mare's Dubawi filly.

“What I think is so interesting about this mare is that every foal she produces has a bit of her and a bit of the stallion,” Dollar said. “This filly is absolutely no exception. She's probably one of the stronger fillies that this mare has produced. She's very much Dubawi– very strong, powerfully built, a very tidy model–and yet you have mum's colour, head, and a lot of mum's characteristics.

“She does have a very good mind; we know Waldlerche throws horses with very good temperaments, otherwise they wouldn't be good racehorses, and Dubawi is extraordinary for the temperament he passes on. We own her in partnership, but we felt we had to disperse the partnership; Dietrich wasn't particularly keen to race her because he might be cutting back a bit. We'll be there to support her; we're not going to let a filly like that just go, but she might be too valuable for us to race, unfortunately.”

Waldlied is the second foal out of Waldlerche, and though her record reads well as the winner of the G2 Prix de Malleret in only four starts, Dollar said there is more than what meets the eye.

“She won the Prix de Malleret but if you watch it she won it in a canter,” Dollar said. “The jockey didn't move and she won by four or five lengths. I know Andre Fabre thought the world of her and he thought she was a filly we'd supplement to the Arc that year. We didn't because sadly she did a tendon and never came back from that.”

Dollar admitted Waldlied's Kingman colt, likewise bred in partnership with Ammerland, will not be on the lists for those shopping for a Royal Ascot 2-year-old.

“This guy is a big, strong horse; he's magnificent,” Dollar said. “I think he has some x-factor about him. He's not going to be winning a Royal Ascot 2-year-old race, that's for sure, but hopefully his future is more exciting than that as a 3-year-old.

“If you think about who is the best or the second-best son of Kingman, you'd have to say it's Persian King. We have Persian King's dam here and I know what Persian King looked like, and they're not dissimilar. He wouldn't be beautiful, but he's a rather fine, handsome horse and he has a great athletic step on him. To be fair, if I showed you the mare you'd understand the yearling a bit better. She's about 17 hands, she's very long and in deference to her–she is the most lovely person so I couldn't be rude about her– but she doesn't have the prettiest noggin, as they'd say in America. She's the most lovely character you could ever deal with, but she's not pretty.”

Lot 338, the Sea The Stars colt out of Waldnah, has had a few important updates since the catalogue was printed; the mare's first two foals, both sons of Le Havre (Ire), have won, with the 2-year-old Wanees (GB) an exciting prospect for Shadwell, which bought him for 325,000gns at Tattersalls last year. Wanees broke his maiden at Ascot on Sept. 4 and followed up in a Salisbury novice race last Thursday.

“The Waldnah/Sea The Stars is a lovely horse,” Dollar said. “They think quite a bit of the 2-year-old, Wanees, who is with Charlie Hills. We are very passionate about that family. We wanted to get a Le Havre filly out of the mare, we tried twice but we didn't get lucky. Sea The Stars is a mating we really wanted to try, too.”

Dollar and the Newsells team won't have much time to digest the results of the 'W' yearlings before another of their big-ticket offerings enters the ring, the full-brother to Without Parole, who is the ninth foal out of the Gunthers' Without You Babe (Lemon Drop Kid), who has also produced the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner and young sire Tamarkuz (Speightstown) as well as the American listed winner and Grade III-placed She's Got You (GB) (Kingman {GB}). Without You Babe's most recent progeny to see a sales ring was her 2018 Dubawi colt, who was bought by Kevin Ryan on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed Obaid for 1-million gns at this sale.

“He's just a beast,” Dollar said of Without Parole's full-brother. “He's not as beautiful as Without Parole-Without Parole is just such a lovely looking horse. But he's magnificent. He's incredibly strong. He looks very much like an American turf horse. I'd be amazed if the guys coming over from the States didn't zoom in on him.”

Without Parole won the St James's Palace S. while unbeaten in 2018. He joined Chad Brown in the States as a 4-year-old and while he didn't manage to pick up another win, he did place in the GI Breeders' Cup Mile at four and the GI Shoemaker Mile and GI Shadwell Turf Mile at five despite meeting trouble in running on numerous occasions. He stood his first season at Newsells Park this year, covering just shy of 100 mares for £10,000 apiece.

“He's been well received, not really surprisingly,” Dollar said. “He's a Group 1-winning miler by Frankel, who looks like he might be the horse to succeed Galileo, if any horse ever could really succeed Galileo.”

Fifteen yearlings by Galileo grace Book 1, and Newsells Park offers a filly by the late, great champion sire (lot 365) who is the first foal out of the G2 Duke Of Cambridge and G3 Atalanta S. scorer Aljazzi (GB) (Shamardal), who Newsells bought for 1-million gns from the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale of 2018.

“The Galileo filly is an absolute belter, she's just lovely,” Dollar said. “She's beautifully balanced, walks beautifully and looks a real racehorse.”

Dollar also nominated a Dubawi filly who is the first foal out of German Group 3 winner Peace In Motion (Hat Trick {Jpn}) as being “very special.” Newsells offers five fillies on behalf of Al Shahania Stud, including a Dubawi filly out of G2 Diana Trial winner Longina (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) (lot 127), and a Siyouni (Fr) colt for that breeder out of G1 Cheveley Park S. winner and stakes producer Vorda (Fr) (Orpen) (lot 333).

“They're exceptionally nice horses, a very strong, level bunch with a few extra special ones,” said Dollar of the draft. Referring to Newsells's sale-topping filly out of Shastye last year, he added modestly, “I don't have a 3.4-million guineas filly, but we have some lovely horses. I just hope they all go there in one piece and that there are enough people there that like them and want to buy them and that our clients are happy with the prices they make. It's a nerve-wracking time and I'm always a bit anxious about these things, but I'm hopeful.”

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