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Bobby’s Kitten’s Sandrine Takes The Albany

Hailing from the Andrew Balding stable already successful at the Royal meeting with the 2-year-old Berkshire Shadow (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Kirsten Rausing's Kempton winner Sandrine (GB) (Bobby's Kitten) doubled Kingsclere's tally as she mastered both the heavy ground and 14 rivals in Friday's G3 Albany S. Showing stamina as well as speed on her debut over this six-furlong trip on the Polytrack May 19, the homebred raced wide initially behind the leading group. Sent forward by David Probert passing halfway, the 16-1 shot was briefly stopped in her run approaching two out but was unperturbed waiting for the command. In the clear soon after, she cut down Hello You (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) inside the final 150 yards and powered through the deep ground to beat that rival by 1 1/2 lengths in the race that for most of the morning looked unlikely to take place. Oscula (Ire) (Galileo Gold {GB}), who had been third behind the winner at Kempton, was again in that spot half a length away having broken away from the main group to come up the stand's side. “I don't think many will go on these kind of wet conditions, but she is super-fit and very hardy,” Probert said. “She relaxes really well and gets into a good rhythm–she is not very green for a very inexperienced filly and when I did ask her she really was relentless and galloped really nicely to the line. It's very boggy, but we had such a deluge it is quite loose and they are galloping through it so it's not so energy-sapping as it would be if it had dried.”

Kirsten Rausing said, “I bought this filly's fifth or sixth dam as a yearling at Goffs in 1976 and the family has been with me ever since. Everything on her catalogue page from top to bottom, we have bred at Lanwades Stud. All my animals are homebred, so it gives me tremendous pleasure to keep the continuity. I also tend to support my own stallions and this filly is Bobby's Kitten's first stakes winner, first group winner, so we are thrilled with that.”

Andrew Balding added, “I thought the meeting was sure to be off. We were only coming here to have lunch, but I'm so pleased for Kirsten and she deserves a winner like this. Sandrine was impressive when winning on debut. It was a low-class race at Kempton, but the form worked out well and she worked nicely last week. We felt we were entitled to run. We were slightly worried about the ground, as there were mixed messages on the pedigree. However, Bobby's Kitten won well on soft ground on his only start in Ireland. There was no fluke about the win and she was very impressive. I am pleased for David Probert, who just gave her the most beautiful ride and really deserves it.”

Sandrine is the second foal out of the useful Sir Mark Prescott-trained multiple-winning dam Seychelloise (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), whose first is the useful 3-year-old colt Sea the Shells (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) who was fourth in the Listed Fairway S. last month. She is a daughter of the G3 Prix d'Arenberg winner Starlit Sands (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who was also runner-up in the 2007 G2 Queen Mary S. here. The third dam is the G3 Silken Glider S. third Shimmering Sea (GB) (Slip Anchor {GB}), a half to the G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S.-winning sire Petoski (GB) (Niniski) who produced the Scandinavian champion Sea Dane (GB) (Danehill). She was also responsible for the dams of the G3 Prix des Reservoirs winner Songerie (GB) (Hernando {Fr}), the G1 Oaks d'Italia third Souvenance (GB) (Hernando {Fr}) and the G3 Ridgewood Pearl S. winner Chigun (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}). Seychelloise's yearling colt is by Roaring Lion, while she also has a colt foal by Study of Man (Ire).

Friday, Royal Ascot, Britain
ALBANY S.-G3, £65,000, Ascot, 6-18, 2yo, f, 6fT, 1:18.00, sf.
1–SANDRINE (GB), 126, f, 2, by Bobby's Kitten
1st Dam: Seychelloise (GB), by Pivotal (GB)
2nd Dam: Starlit Sands (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB)
3rd Dam: Shimmering Sea (GB), by Slip Anchor (GB)
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. O/B-Kirsten Rausing (GB); T-Andrew Balding; J-David Probert. £38,480. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $58,029. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Hello You (Ire), 126, f, 2, Invincible Spirit (Ire)–Lucrece (GB), by Pivotal (GB). (€350,000 Ylg '20 ARDEAY). O-Amo Racing Ltd; B-Serge Boucheron (IRE); T-Ralph Beckett. £14,554.
3–Oscula (Ire), 126, f, 2, Galileo Gold (GB)–Bisous Y Besos (Ire), by Big Bad Bob (Ire). (4,000gns Ylg '20 TATOC). O-Nick Bradley Racing 20; B-Padraig Williams (IRE); T-George Boughey. £7,274.
Margins: 1HF, HF, NO. Odds: 16.00, 5.00, 10.00.
Also Ran: Prettiest, Cachet (Ire), Elliptic (Ire), Anadora (GB), Sunstrike (Ire), Lady Ayresome (Ire), Eve Lodge (GB), El Maga (Ire), Hellomydarlin (Ire), Flotus (Ire), Sows (Ire), Gypsy Lady (GB). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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Study Of Man Foal In Kentucky

Singing Sweetly (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) gave birth to a filly foal by Study Of Man (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) at Stone Farm, Kentucky earlier this week. The filly is from the first crop of the Lanwades-based stallion, who won the G1 Qipco Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly in 2018.

The former Coolmore-owned Singing Sweetly was purchased by James Delahooke, on behalf of Bobby Flay, at last year's Arqana Breeding Stock Sale from Haras des Capucines for €125,000.

“She's an excellent first foal–well balanced, correct and plenty of bone. A lot of quality to both the mare and the foal,” said Stone Farm's Lynn Hancock. “I don't think there will be too many Study Of Man foals born in the U.S. this year. But he was a very talented racehorse, by Deep Impact, and this filly is an excellent model. It's pretty cool to have some Sunday Silence blood back on the farm as well.”

Flay confirmed that the mare will be bred to Violence (Medaglia d'Oro) this season. “Violence is one of the young stallions I'm very bullish on. He's had a few crops and is proving to be successful long, short, dirt and grass,” said Flay. “He fits this mare since her pedigree is both European and American. Violence gives her a great shot at producing a fast horse.”

Violence, sire of Volatile, No Parole and Dr. Schivel, will stand at Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa this season for $25,000.

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Classic Pretensions For December Top Lot

NEWMARKET, UK—Sending an Oaks winner to a Derby winner is no guarantee of success but it’s a great place to start and it is a recipe which has worked in the recent past for Classic winners Australia (GB) and Sixties Icon (GB). Those connected with the top lot of the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale will be hoping for similar glory in two years’ time for the Sea The Stars (Ire) colt out of Talent (GB) (New Approach {GB}), who was offered by his breeders James Rowsell and Mark Dixon through Rowsell’s Ashbrittle Stud and bought by Anthony Stroud for 300,000gns.

“He looks like he will need a bit of time, but he is by a Derby winner out of an Oaks winner,” said Stroud of lot 160. “I saw him as a foal and he has been progressing well.”

Rowsell and Dixon raced the 2013 winner Talent as well as her first foal, Ambition (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who was trained in France by Xavier Thomas-Deameaulte to win the G2 Prix Corrida.

As is so often the case, a yearling who has missed an earlier sale date through a minor setback can prove a smash hit at the December Sale, and so it proved with a number of the day’s leading lots. Talent’s son missed his slot in October Book 1 with a haematoma, while Kirsten Rausing’s Sea The Stars (Ire) half-sister to G2 York S. Winner Shine So Bright (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) missed hers through a soft tissue injury a few weeks prior to the sale. Brought to the December Sale as lot 7 through the Castlebridge Consignment, the filly had plenty to recommend her as a member of Lanwades Stud’s banner family. With dual G1 Champion S heroine Alborada (GB) (Alzao) as her great grandam, the grey’s first four dams are all stakes winners and producers, and she was bought by a partnership representing two major breeders in Ireland and America for 260,000gns.

“She is for Norelands and Craig Bernick of Glen Hill Farm,” explained Norelands Stud owner Harry McCalmont after signing for the daughter of Group 3 winner Alla Speranza (GB) (Sir Percy {GB}).

“We had good yearling sales so we wanted to reinvest, and she is by a stallion that we love and from a wonderful family which has been very well managed by Kirsten Rausing. There are a large number of fillies from the family breeding and they are going to good stallions. It’s not often that one comes up for sale but Coolmore has a branch, Juddmonte has a branch and now we have one too.”

McCalmont added that the filly is likely to go into training with John Gosden, who will also train the day’s top lot.

Sea The Stars accounted for three of the top five yearlings of the day, with the third making a quick reappearance after being sold for 135,000gns at October Book 1. The Watership Down Stud-bred Sea The Stars colt out of Crysdal (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) (lot 31) was this time consigned by New England Stud and knocked down for 125,000gns to Charlie Gordon-Watson.

As has been the hallmark of the yearling sales at Tattersalls in a year in which many vendors understandably feared the worst, the figures returned for the final auction of its kind in 2020 were encouraging. From a smaller catalogue, 142 were offered and 122 sold, leading to an improved clearance rate of 86%, compared to 78% last year. The aggregate was down slightly at 3,986,300gns and the median dipped by 20% to 20,000gns but the average was up by 3% to 32,675gns.

There was a major update this season for Knockatrina House’s Starspangledbanner (Aus) filly out of Plying (Hard Spun), who was pinhooked from Goffs in February for €40,000, seven months before her half-sister Alcohol Free (Ire) won the G1 Cheveley Park S. Withdrawn from the Goffs Orby Sale in October, the filly (lot 119) duly made 130,000gns this time around when bought by Creighton Schwartz Bloodstock.

Knockatrina House’s Canice Farrell said, “We were lucky enough that Alcohol Free came along. This filly was entered in an earlier sale, but had an over-reach. She needed the time.”

The filly’s breeder Jossestown Farm bought the three-time winner Plying at the Goffs November Sale of 2018 for €21,000, just over half the amount her weanling daughter by No Nay Never fetched at the same sale when bought by Jeff Smith’s Littleton Stud. The page has continued to be enhanced since then, with Plying’s son Alexander James (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) having won the listed Prix Le Fabuleux last season. The mare’s colt foal by Dandy Man (Ire) is catalogued to sell at the Goffs Foal Sale, which has been postponed until December.

Daniel Creighton of Creighton Schwartz Bloodstock added, “Her sister has done well his year and she is by a popular sire. Let’s hope it all adds up to her being a good filly on the track and eventually a good broodmare, too. She is a lovely big filly and has a lot of quality. She is for a new client and will go into pre-training with my brother.”

Alcohol Free’s trainer Andrew Balding was the busiest purchaser of the day, signing for six yearlings, including Hillwood Stud’s son of Lope De Vega (Ire) at 130,000gns. Offered as lot 154, the colt is the second foal of the French listed winner Stone Roses (Fr) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}), whose three foals to date are all by the Ballylinch Stud sire. The 8-year-old mare is a half-sister to fellow listed winner Straight Right (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), who was trained by Balding for King Power Racing.

Acting for Dan Hayden, Demi O’Byrne and Sean Grassick went to 115,000gns for lot 84, the Dark Angel (Ire) filly from the family of Magna Grecia (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and St Mark’s Basilica (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). Offered by her breeder Croom House Stud, the filly is a daughter of dual winer Loreto (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), a half-sister to Cabaret (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), the dam of the aforementioned Group 1 winners.

On a day when six of the top nine yearlings sold were by Derby winners, the seventh to return a six-figure price tag was Mount Coote Stud’s New Approach (Ire) colt (lot 77) from the family of that same stallion’s aforementioned Oaks winner Talent (GB). He will be making his way back to Ireland after being bought by Patrick Cooper for 105,000gns on behalf of Alpha Racing.

“He ‘s going to be trained by Jessica Harrington,” said the agent. “He’s a lovely colt, a 3-year-old type.”

Luke Lillingston, who bred the son of La Superba (Ire) (Medicean {GB}) in partnership with Talent’s co-breeder Mark Dixon, said, “He came here for Book 2 and he was showing really well the first day but then he spiked a temperature and we had to withdraw him. He is a horse that was really sick. Thanks have to go to Damian Flynn and Emma Foley who have looked after him in the weeks since then.”

He added, “Book 2 was so strong and we were disappointed not to be part of it with this horse, but the market has revalued him again today. He is going to Jessie and that is really the cherry on the icing on the cake.”

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Sea The Moon Leads Lanwades 2021 Roster

Sea The Moon (Ger) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) anchors the Lanwades Stud roster in 2021. He is the sire of G1 Coronation S. heroine Alpine Star (Ire) this term, as well as MGSW Wonderful Moon (Ger) and GSW and Group 1 bridesmaid Quest the Moon (Ger) off a £15,000 fee. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the sire of 11 black-type winners to date will cover mares at £22,500 in 2021.

French Classic hero Study of Man (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) is expecting his first foals in 2021, and is priced at £12,500. Veteran sire Sir Percy (GB) (Mark of Esteem {Ire})’s fee is £7,000, while first-season sire Bobby’s Kitten (Kitten’s Joy), who celebrated 10 winners and G2 Beresford S. second Monaasib (GB) so far this season, will stand for the same amount.

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