Camilleri’s Kingman Colt Leads The Way

NEWMARKET, UK—On a day when Kingman (GB) was given the ultimate boost by being announced as the first suitor of Enable (GB), one of his sons played a leading role in the first session of Tattersalls October Book 2, following on from some notable returns during last week’s Book 1.

Godolphin has already had its share of success with the progeny of Kingman, notably through Group 1-winning colts Persian King (Ire) and Palace Pier (GB), and Anthony Stroud added another by the sire to Sheikh Mohammed’s string for next year when outbidding Joseph O’Brien at 400,000gns for lot 576.

The son of the 8-year-old Rip Van Winkle (Ire) mare Allez Y (Ire) was bred by Australian John Camilleri, best known in the racing world as the breeder of superstar Winx (Aus), and was offered on his behalf by Harry McCalmont’s Norelands Stud.

“He is a well-balanced horse, he moves well and we have had a lot of luck with Kingman,” said Stroud. “He is from Norelands, who do such a good job, and he will go to France to be trained by Andre Fabre.”

McCalmont added that Allez Y has been covered by Lope De Vega (Ire) to southern hemisphere time and will soon be joining Camilleri’s broodmare band in Australia.

“I am delighted I have sold a good horse for him, very happy,” said McCalmont.

Allez Y is a daughter of the champion race filly L’Ancresse (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}) and a half-sister to the Lloyd Williams-owned Master Of Reality (Ire), one of four Joseph O’Brien-trained horses to have arrived in Australia recently to contest the Melbourne Cup in November.

The trade in Book 1, though reduced, was highly encouraging in the current circumstances and the same can certainly be said for the first of three Book 2 sessions. The clearance rate rose three points to 85% as 216 of the 255 yearlings offered found a buyer. The average dipped by 10% to 70,539gns and the median by 5% to 52,000gns. The day’s aggregate of 15,236,500gns was down by just 5%. 

D-Day For Churchill Filly
The first book of dual Classic winner Churchill (Ire) included a mare of rare appeal. Date With Destiny (Ire), the sole offspring of the ill-fated George Washington (Ire), earned some small black type herself when third in the Lingfield Oaks Trial and her subsequent mating with Galileo (Ire) produced the G3 Royal Whip S winner Beautiful Morning (GB). 

Newsells Park Stud sent the 12-year-old mare back to Coolmore to visit Galileo’s son Churchill and were rewarded with 350,000gns for the resultant yearling (lot 718). The filly was signed for by Anthony Stroud.

Date With Destiny raced in the colours of Julie Wood and was bought as a 3-year-old for 185,000gns by Newsells Park Stud, who also owned her half-sister Flawly (GB) (Old Vic {GB}).

“We’d had some luck with the family before,” said stud manager Julian Dollar. “Flawly was one of the first mares we bought and she produced [Group 3 winer and Classic-placed] Best Name (GB). We were very fond of the family so when the opportunity came to buy a bit more of it, we came in with her.”

He added, “The Churchill was an interesting mating going back to something familiar but to put in a bit more speed and precocity. The mare was herself quite precocious.”

Churchill has 21 yearlings catalogued in Book 2 and the seven offered on Monday were all sold for an average of 80,571gns.

Model Start For Delevigne
Model Queen ((Kingmambo) has already heaped reflected glory on Highclere Stud, notably through her July Cup-winning son Regal Parade (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), and the baton passed to another of her offspring on Monday at Tattersalls. The 5-year-old mare Delevigne (GB) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}) may have retired to the paddocks unraced but her first foal became one of the most expensive fillies of the day when bought by Alastair Donald for 350,000gns.

The Dark Angel (Ire) filly will join the King Power racing team, which enjoyed a stellar Saturday on the Rowley Mile with a hat-trick of Group wins on Future Champions Day.

Donald said of lot 722, “I loved her. She was my favourite filly in the sale. We stretched bit to get her, everyone was on her. She walks for fun and it is a lovely family to be involved with.”

David Redvers had eyes for another daughter of Dark Angel and jumped in when the bidding reached 360,000gns for lot 767, the sister to German listed winner Dark Liberty (Ire). The agent was pushed to 390,000gns to secure her for Qatar Racing.

“She’s one for the long term, for our breeding plan. She looked all speed, a little cracker,” he said of the Yeomanstown Stud-bred filly whose half-sister Queen Of Love (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) won the listed Prix Coronation at Saint-Cloud after the publication of the catalogue. 

Mehmas Success Story Continues
The popularity of Tally-Ho Stud’s young stallion Mehmas (Ire) has grown with each winner he has notched this season, and he now leads the first-crop sires of Europe with 35 individual winners to his credit, including the G1 Middle Park S. hero Supremacy (Ire).

Another milestone was passed on Monday when lot 600, a half-brother to the stakes-placed Ziarah (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}), became his most expensive yearling at 320,000gns.

The colt, who is out of the unraced Ashtown Girl (Ire), an Exceed And Excel (Aus) half-sister to classy sprinter Hot Streak (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}), was signed for by  Tom Goff, who was standing between John Gosden and Kia Joorabchian of Amo Racing.

“I think we can say that Mehmas has been something of a revelation,” said Goff. “Some people wrote him off as cheap speed but he has defied that. My brief was to buy a colt who would make a sharp 2-year-old and this is a lovely colt out of an Exceed And Excel mare. He will go to John Gosden.”

 The colt, bred by the Noonan family, was “the busiest of the sale” according to John Noonan of Cregg Stud, who consigned him.

He added, “I bred his dam and didn’t sell her as a yearling but she has been very good to us since then. She is now in foal to Ribchester (Ire).”

A Mehmas colt was also on the list of Charlie Gordon-Watson, who bought lot 731 on behalf of Al Shaqab Racing at 160,000gns. The Tally-Ho Stud-bred colt is out of Diaminda (Ire) (Diamond Green {Fr}), a half-sister to G1 Golden Jubilee S winner Fayr Jag (Ire) (Fayruz {GB}).

Al Shaqab has focused much of its buying on the French market of late but picked up two yearlings in Newmarket on Monday, the other being lot 655, Barton Stud’s Teofilo (Ire) colt out of the Italian listed winner Cape Magic (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}), for 200,000gns.

Derby Dreams For Strawberry Fields
Gary Robinson of Strawberry Fields Stud brought just one yearling to Book 2 and the strapping son of Nathaniel (Ire) (lot 724) made the top ten on Tuesday when selling for 280,000gns to Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock. 

It has been quite a reversal of fortune for the Green Desert mare Desert Berry (GB), whose first four offspring are all by the late Archipenko. One of those was bought back by Robinson for 1,000gns at the December Foal Sale of 2016 but ever since his year-older brother Archie McKellar (GB) advertised the family’s prowess by becoming a Group 3 winner in Hong Kong under the name of Flying Thunder, the mare’s subsequent yearlings have not been overlooked. The Hong Kong Jockey Club bought Archie McKellar’s full-brother for 425,000gns at Book 2 last year, but the Nathaniel colt looks set to remain in Europe.

“He is an exceptional mover,” said Brown, who did not divulge the horse’s new owner. “He is going to need some time but he looks a real Classic type.”

Robinson, who raced the colt’s half-sister, six-time winner Rose Berry (GB) (Archipenko), said with a smile, “I bought the mare from Chris Dwyer and she’s been good to us. He looks a real Classic colt, I expect to see him win the Derby.”

Back at Strawberry Fields Stud in Fulbourn, just outside Newmarket, Desert Berry also has an Al Kazeem (GB) filly foal and is in foal to Study Of Man (Ire).

Loughtown Filly In Fashion
A mid-May foaling date proved no barrier to the popularity of Loughtown Stud’s daughter of Invincible Spirit (Ire) (lot 700) out of the stakes-placed Cristal Fashion (Ire) (Jeremy), who was bought by Ross Doyle at 220,000gns and will go into training with Richard Hannon.

“The mare has a top back pedigree,” said Loughtown’s Paddy Burns, who bought Cristal Fashion, a grand-daughter of the G3 May Hill S. winner Solar Crystal (Ire) (Alzao), for €25,000 at the Goffs November Sale. 

He added, “The whole team at home have done a top job and I’d just like to thank my head man Tom Brinkley, my wife Helena and everyone. She has gone to a great stable and wish them all the best with her. She has been a cracker all the way through.”

Doyle said. “I told Richard Hannon that I thought she was the best filly I had seen for the three days, and he agreed and decided we had to have her.”

He added, “She is from a great nursery and is out of a black-type mare. The last time we bought an Invincible Spirit yearling out of a black-type mare was [G2 Flying Childers winner] Zebedee (GB).”

Holy Pinhook
Bloodstock agents Johnny and Susie McKeever have been absent from the European sales circuit this year as Susie continues medical treatment in Australia, and the couple received a great pick-me-up with a foal pinhook purchased last year in partnership with James Hanly of Ballyhimikin Stud. 

The Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) relation to Anna Salai (Dubawi {Ire}) and National Defense (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), sold near the end of the session as lot 783, had been purchased from breeder Stuart McPhee as a foal last November for €30,000 and sold on Monday for 235,000gns to SackvilleDonald. 

McPhee bought the colt’s dam, the unraced Pivotal (GB) mare Fire Heroine, for 6,000gns from Darley in 2015.

“The McKeevers and I picked him out together. Johnny and Susie are in Australia and they were watching on. They are thrilled,” Hanly said.

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Shastye Filly Heads Strong Book 1 Finale

By Emma Berry & Alayna Cullen

NEWMARKET, UK—The final day of Book 1 at Tattersalls received a huge early boost with a new top lot of 2.8-million gns within the first hour, but by early afternoon that had been surpassed when the Galileo (Ire) filly widely expected to steal the show did just that. Coronavirus restrictions on the number of people in the sales ring have robbed Tattersalls of some of its customary theatrical feel but, with the leading players assembled in the open air on opposite sides of the walking ring for lot 436, a lengthy tussle ensued between Coolmore and Qatar Bloodstock for Newsells Park Stud’s sister to Group 1 winners Mogul (GB) and Japan (GB). And, in a fairly predictable final act, she duly topped the sale, with MV Magnier placing the final bid of 3.4-million gns on behalf of a partnership that will include Georg Von Opel of Westerberg.

The progeny of Danehill’s daughter Shastye (Ire) have as much of an affinity with the sales ring at Park Paddocks as the mare does with Galileo, who is responsible for her four group winners. The only extraordinary thing is that, despite both Sir Isaac Newtown (GB) and Mogul (GB) having sold for 3.6 million and 3.4 million gns respectively, neither of them topped the sale in their year.

“Firstly, I would like to say that Andreas Jacobs and his family have been great supporters of Coolmore for a long time,” said Magnier after signing for the fourth of the mare’s offspring who will end up being trained at Ballydoyle. “This is a great result for everybody and I’m very pleased for Newsells to get such a good price for the filly. Japan and Mogul were both very good looking and good movers. The mare just produces really good-looking horses who are also good racehorses.”

He added that 3-year-old Mogul, who followed in his brother Japan’s footsteps by winning the G1 Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris after the catalogue was printed, would remain in training next year but that no plan had yet been decided upon for Japan. The brothers were set to run against each other in last Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe but were scratched at the eleventh hour along with all of Aidan, Joseph and Donnacha O’Brien’s runners for the day through concern over contaminated feed supplied by Gain.

Newsells Park Stud manager Julian Dollar paid tribute to his team at the farm who led the Book 1 consignors’ list with 15 yearlings sold for just shy of 6.5 million gns. He said, “They have done a wonderful job, led by the yearling manager Mark Grace. He loves this filly so he will be sad to see her go.”

He continued, “Sales like that make all the difference. I am sad because I am a stud manager and you want to breed horses like that, you want to race them and you want them back into your broodmare band and that would have meant an awful lot. But it is what it is, it is reality.”

Dollar, who divulged that Shastye has been barren to Galileo for two years and is now in foal to Dubawi (Ire), added, “Having sold her, I am absolutely thrilled that the MV and the Coolmore team have got her, and that Aidan O’Brien is going to train her. He and Coolmore have done more than most to make the mare a success.”

Back in 2011, Shastye’s first Galileo filly was bought back at Book 1 for 230,000gns but, later known as Secret Gesture (GB), she was second in the Oaks and won the G2 Middleton S. and, since then, her siblings have not been overlooked. Seven of Shastye’s yearlings have sold for a total of 14.2 million gns at Book 1 over the years—six of those being by Galileo and one by Street Cry (Ire). The achievements of Shastye’s own progeny fill two-thirds of the catalogue page but there is also room for her own dam, G2 Prix de Royallieu winner Saganeca (Sagace {Fr}) and illustrious siblings, which include the Arc winner Sagamix (Fr) (Linamix {Fr}). Newsells Park Stud has retained three of Shastye’s daughters, by Galileo, Street Cry and Shamardal.

The Old Normal, Up To A Point

Very little feels familiar in this strange year but million-guinea yearlings waltzing in and out of the ring during Book 1 did at least bring an air of normality to proceedings at Tattersalls—that is if you can look beyond the masked participants and copious bottles of hand sanitiser around the sales paddocks.

Lady Carolyn Warren, whose Highclere Stud had a memorable week at Tattersalls, perhaps summed it up best when saying, “This sale has been incredible. It’s hard sometimes to remind oneself of the difficult times we are in and we are so appreciative of the people here who are investing in bloodstock.”

Her thoughts were echoed by Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony, who said in his closing statement, “First and foremost we would like to express our sincere thanks to everyone who has participated at Book 1 of this year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, in whatever capacity. Since the early part of this year every walk of life has been thrown into turmoil and the global bloodstock industry is no exception. The scale of the disruption which everyone has faced is best illustrated by the fact that this week’s sale has been the first 2020 British, Irish or French yearling sale to have taken place at both its originally intended location and date. Nevertheless, since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic we have worked collaboratively alongside Goffs and Arqana to explore every possible means by which to stage sales and to ensure that trade continues to take place as normally as possible. Everyone must take enormous credit for the way they have reacted to the difficult circumstances and responded to all the rules and regulations under which we have had to operate in order to provide the safest possible working environment for all concerned.”

During Thursday, the strongest session of the three, the clearance rate of 82% was up by two points on the same day last year after 126 horses were marked as sold. The median remained static at 150,000gns and the average was down just 3% at 263,952gns. The turnover for the day was 33,258,000gns (-5%).

For Book 1 as a whole, both the average and median contracted by 13% to 223,266gns and 130,000gns respectively. The clearance rate dropped, but only slightly, to 79%, through the sale of 369 of the 466 horses offered across three days. At the final count, the aggregate stood at 82,385,000gns, which was a reduction of 20% on 2019.

Prize Purchase

Until the final session, Book 1 had been dominated by Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation, which had accounted for 25% of the turnover of the first two days. Coolmore had been relatively reserved in its spending this season but, with some desirable Galileo fillies on offer in particular, MV Magnier certainly made his presence felt as Book 1 drew to a close. His first major acquisition of the day was lot 374, the lone Galileo filly from Barronstown Stud.

David and Diane Nagle had bought her dam, the dual Grade II winner Prize Exhibit (GB) (Showcasing {GB}), for 775,000gns at the December Sale of 2017 and her own good race record had plenty to recommend her. But subsequent Group 1 updates in her immediate family have come in the ensuing seasons and, once you throw in Galileo (Ire) as her first covering sire, the resultant filly had the wow factor that elicited a high-stakes bidding match between Coolmore and Qatar Bloodstock—which would be seen again later for the day’s top lot.

MV Magnier and his colleagues had taken up their usual spot in the bidders’ section and initially had opposition across the ring from their old friend Demi O’Byrne, who has been active at the European sales this season on behalf of Peter Brant. But as the bidding climbed, David Redvers jumped in with an offer of 2- million gns, until eventually giving way to Magnier.

The pedigree of the filly in the spotlight had been enhanced this season by her dam’s full-brother Mohaather (GB), winner of the G1 Sussex S. for Sheikh Hamdan and now a new stallion at his Nunnery Stud. Two summers ago another sibling, Roodle (GB) (Xaar {GB}), had provided one of the best stories of the year when her son Accidental Agent (GB) (Delegator {GB}) won the G1 Queen Anne S. for trainer Eve Johnson Houghton and her mother Gaie, who has nurtured this family for generations and also bred Prize Exhibit.

“David Nagle has been saying for ages what a lovely filly she is and we are very lucky to have been able to buy her with Michael [Tabor], Derrick [Smith] and Georg Von Opel,” said Magnier.

Looking to the future, he added, “Galileo is such a good broodmare sire and a filly like this is a collector’s item. Sheikh Hamdan’s good horse is also there [on the page].”

Eleven lots later Magnier was back in action, outbidding Angus Gold for the full-brother to the young Yeomanstown Stud stallion Invincible Army (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). Bred by Tinnakill Bloodstock and Jack Cantillon, the colt (lot 385) had been an expensive foal purchase by Mimi Wadham and Violet Hesketh at 375,000gns but he rewarded the young consignors with their best pinhooking result to date when he brought the hammer down at 600,000gns.

“We bought him for a pinhooking syndicate and we own a part of him with clients. He’s a standout, he just hasn’t put a foot wrong,” said Wadham, who has been consigning with Hesketh for three years under the WH Bloodstock banner. “Let’s hope he is as good as his full-brother.”

Coolmore will also take charge of lot 468, a colt by No Nay Never out of the speedy Group 3 winner Strut (GB) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), who was sold at 650,000gns through Newsells Park Stud as part of the dispersal of the late Lady Rothschild’s Waddesdon Stud.

Dream Of Dreams’s Sister To America

Another man with his eye on a regally-bred daughter of Galileo was Mike Ryan, whose list of 15 purchases at Tattersalls this week was headed by the last of them, the half-sister to G1 Haydock Sprint Cup winner Dream Of Dreams (Ire) (Dream Ahead). Her sale price of 1.4-million gns provided a decent boost for Chippenham-based Old Mill Stud in its early days of ownership by Ibrahim Araci, who bred the filly (lot 510).

“I thought she was unbelievable. The first time I saw her was Saturday in the rain and she blew me away. She looks a real runner,” said Ryan. “I’m delighted we got her because how many more years are we going to see Galileo’s yearlings? She’ll go back to the States but I can’t disclose the client at this stage. Hopefully we’ll see her at Saratoga next summer, and hopefully we’ll see a picture of her on the wall like that one of Newspaperofrecord over there.”

He added modestly, “It was a no-brainer. There’s no real skill picking a filly out like that.”

The agent, whose purchases in Newmarket in recent years include the aforementioned dual Grade I winner Newspaperofrecord, said of this year’s sale, “It’s held up very well. I’ve been runner-up to Shadwell, Godolphin, Roger Varian, Henri Devin, and we’ve run hard on some horses. But we’ve bought some very nice horses and I’m pleased with what we’ve got. Obviously it was worth the trip as I’ve got some good clients and, as I’ve said before, with no disrespect to America or Japan, this is the best sale in the world to buy good grass horses. We’ve been very lucky here.”

Rob Speers, who manages the racing and breeding interests of the Araci family, said of the daughter of Vasilia (GB) (Dansili {GB}), “She’s been a very special filly ever since she was born. She has a wonderful pedigree: Galileo on a fast family and Dream Of Dreams has given it a Group 1 update. We wish her new owners the best of luck. Obviously when you breed a filly like this there’s part of you that wishes she would be running in our colours but we still have her mum and one of her daughters at the farm and anything this filly does on the racecourse will help the family.”

Born A Queen

Eddie O’Leary is a noted pinhooker of foals and yearlings but his Lynn Lodge Stud had a red-letter day with a filly bred by his brother Michael’s Gigginstown House Stud when the daughter of Kingman (GB) joined the rarefied clutch of seven-figure Book 1 yearlings. Offered as lot 416, the first foal of the Dream Ahead mare Sante joined the long list of Godolphin purchases this week when Anthony Stroud came out best in the bidding at 1.45 million gns.

“She’s made a queen’s price but she was always a queen,” said O’Leary of the grand-daughter of Zeiting (Ire) (Zieten), whose black-type offspring include group winners Combat Zone (Ire) and Scottish (Ire) as well as Zut Alors (Ire), the dam of G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Precieuse (Ire).

Mags O’Toole bought Sante on O’Leary’s behalf in 2018 for 310,000gns when she was carrying the filly.

O’Leary added of Sante, who was a winner at three and listed-placed in Germany, “I thought she was a great physical and the Kingman cover was very appealing. I hope Sheikh Mohammed is very lucky with the filly.”

Stroud signed for 22 yearlings on the sheikh’s behalf over the three days of Book 1, with Thursday’s purchases including lot 376, Cheveley Park Stud’s colt by Dubawi (Ire) out of a Galileo daughter of the Thompsons’ champion racemare Echelon (GB) (Danehill). He was bought for 800,000gns, while lot 445, the Lordship Stud-bred colt by Sea The Stars (Ire) out of Smoulder (GB) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}), a half-sister to Classic winner Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), was recruited at 680,000gns.

Lope De Vega’s X-Factor

Overnight between the second and third days of Book 1 a graduate of last year’s October Sale, Aunt Pearl (Ire), set a new track record when winning the GII Jessamine S. at Keeneland and the enthusiasm shown for her sire Lope De Vega (Ire) showed no sign of abating in the ring at Tattersalls.

The leading light on Thursday was another from a very well received Highclere Stud draft, lot 460, who sold to David Redvers of Qatar Bloodstock for 825,000gns. The colt, out of the Sea The Stars (Ire) mare Starlet (Ire), was bred by Lord Halifax and is a half-brother to Group 3 winner Love Locket (Ire) (No Nay Never) and listed winner Raakib Alhawa (Ire) (Kingman {GB}). His third dam Kasora (Ire) is responsible for the dual Derby winner High Chaparral (Ire) and Chenchikova (Ire), the dam of this season’s G1 Prix de Diane winner Fancy Blue (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}).

“We were underbidder on almost everything, so it’s been a very frustrating day,” said Redvers. “The market has been very resilient for the top-end stock and this was a horse that we loved from the moment we saw him. He has a stallion’s pedigree and the mare has produced 100% stakes horses. That’s exactly the sort of horse that we are looking to add to the team. We have a lot of homebreds going into training this year and we’ve just been selectively trying to acquire horses to slot into areas where we might have a little bit of weakness.”

Highclere’s Lady Carolyn Warren commented, “We are absolutely delighted to have consigned such a special colt and we are incredibly grateful to Sheikh Fahad and David Redvers and we hope that he’s very lucky for them. Lord Halifax bred him at his Garrowby Stud and their stud groom Alan has done a marvellous job in rearing him there. John bought the mare for Lord Halifax carrying the 2-year-old so it’s lovely. We go back a long way and it’s very special to have done that for Lord Halifax, and for all the team at home who have prepared him so well.”

Lope De Vega’s transatlantic appeal has been enhanced not just by Aunt Pearl but by Klaravich Stables’ champion juvenile filly Newspaperofrecord (Ire), and another of his progeny may be making his way to America after lot 412 was bought by Demi O’Byrne on behalf of Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm at 450,000gns.

Oneliner Stables made a splash last year at Tattersalls with its pricey pinhooks and this was another good result for the Lowry family’s Tipperary operation. Bought for 180,000gns last December, the colt is the first foal of the treble winner and listed-placed Sagaciously (Ire), whose fourth dam Saganeca (Fr) also features as the dam of the celebrated Shastye.

“He came from a very good farm, from George Kent in Waterford, and we have just tried to do everything for him to the best of our ability,” said Oneliner’s Gerard Lowry. “We are very into the stats and we take a very analytical approach to our selections but at the same time you have to have the individual. This has been a shocking year for everybody but it is the same year for all of us and people have kept their heads up and produced the horses for this sale to the highest standard. We just have to hold our nerve and do the best we can for the animals.”

Lot 367, the Lope De Vega colt out of a half-sister to 2000 Guineas winner Magna Grecia (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), continued the good week for Floors Stud, who sold two of the top three lots on Tuesday, when selling to Shadwell for 400,000gns.

Roundhill Stud has also been in the news of late when consigning the top lot at the Goffs Orby Sale last week and a Lope De Vega colt from that same family caught the attention of Alastair Donald, who bought him at 230,000gns. Lot 373 is a full-brother to the G1 Prix Ganay winner Zabeel Prince (Ire) and three-parts-brother to Australian Group 2 winner and successful young stallion Puissance De Lune (Ire) (Shamardal). At Goffs, another three-quarter sibling, Princess De Lune (Ire) (Shamardal) featured as the dam of the £450,000 top lot, a filly by Oasis Dream (GB).

Lope De Vega’s 24 yearlings to have sold through Book 1 returned an average price of 265,583gns.

Another Star For Gosden?

John Gosden has had plenty of success with the offspring of Sea The Stars (Ire), notably through Oaks winner Taghrooda (Ire), champion stayer Stradivarius (Ire) and Irish Oaks winner Star Catcher (GB), and he has at least two daughters of the Aga Khan Studs stallion joining his stable from Book 1, including lot 474. The half-sister to listed winners Dawn Of Hope (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) and Ayrad (Ire) (Dalakhani {Ire}) was bred by Diomed Bloodstock and offered for sale through Lodge Park Stud.

“She’s bred on the same Sea The Stars-Sadler’s Wells cross as Taghrooda and John Gosden will train her,” said Charlie Gordon-Watson, who bought the daughter of Sweet Firebird (Ire) for 700,000gns.

Father And Son Picks For Shadwell

Philipp Stauffenberg enjoyed a decent pinhooking success on Wednesday when selling a daughter of Wootton Bassett (GB) for 600,000gns and his final offering at Book 1 was on behalf of breeders Heike Bischoff and Niko Lafrentz of Gestut Gorlsdorf, and by their homebred stallion Sea The Moon (Ger). The colt (lot 446), a half-brother to G3 Prix Fille de l’Air winner Powder Snow (Dubawi {Ire}) and out of a Sadler’s Wells half-sister to Lammtarra (Nijinsky), was bought for 480,000gns by Angus Gold on behalf of Sheikh Hamdan.

The Shadwell team was bolstered by 10 yearlings from Book 1, bought for 3.04-million gns. These included lot 506, a colt by Sea The Moon’s sire Sea The Stars (Ire), who was bought from Fittocks Stud for 625,000gns.

Bred by Luca and Sara Cumani in partnership with Andrew Bengough, the colt is a full-brother to The Path Not Taken (GB), who was bought by Klaravich Stables from Book 1 in 2018 and won her sole start for Chad Brown at Keeneland last year.

Marsha’s Brother To Juddmonte

It was confirmed on Thursday that a private sale had been arranged for the Frankel (GB) half-brother to Group 1-winning sprinter Marsha (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), who had been offered as lot 295 during the second session and bought in at 1-million gns. The colt will now race in the same famous silks as his father after being bought by Juddmonte for 850,000gns. The son of Marlinka (GB) (Marju {Ire}) was bred by the Elite Racing Club and consigned by Furnace Mill Stud.

Mahony Acknowledges ‘Commerical Realities’

Concluding his assessment of Book 1, Edmond Mahony added, “In terms of the market, none of us can pretend that all is plain sailing and a slightly lower clearance rate reflects prevailing commercial realities from which none of us are immune, but we can also reflect on a resilience and sustained demand for quality yearlings in spite of the wider challenges. Book 1 of the 2020 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale has yet again produced the highest price for a yearling sold in Europe and North America, as well as the highest-priced yearling filly in the world and three of the ten highest prices ever at this fixture. Inevitably the market is down, in broad terms to around the levels of 2015 after a sustained period of growth, but the global appetite for our sport remains intact and buyers from throughout the world, albeit in reduced numbers, have made a huge contribution to Book 1 of the October Yearling Sale, as have the British and Irish buyers who continue to recognise this particular yearling sale as the key fixture in the European yearling sales calendar. Success-fueled demand from American and Australian buyers has been very evident from start to finish and the support and commitment from throughout the Gulf region, in particular Dubai, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, continues to be hugely influential and massively appreciated by the whole industry.”

He continued, “The significance of the lucrative October Book 1 Bonus, arguably greater than ever, has also been a feature of the sale and having distributed almost £5.5-million in bonus prize-money to date, it has been rewarding to see so many owners, trainers and syndicates actively pursuing future bonus winners. Opportunities to win significant prize money have never been more crucial and the importance of incentives such as the £20,000 Book 1 Bonus, as well as the Great British Bonus, should not be underestimated in the current climate.

“Equally significant has been the outstanding quality of the yearlings on offer this week. This was without doubt the cream of the European yearling crop; a true showcase for so many of the best yearlings to be found anywhere in the world and we must pay tribute to the breeders and consignors. The market may not fully reflect the quality of the horses at Park Paddocks this week, but everybody should be applauded for what they have achieved in the face of extraordinary challenges and we will now turn our attention to Books 2, 3 and 4 of the October Yearling Sale which are catalogues with all the ingredients to appeal to buyers at all levels of the market.”

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‘Beautiful, Elegant’ Daughter Of Shastye Set For Book 1

When one has a filly like the Galileo (Ire) daughter of Shastye (Ire) (Danehill), Julian Dollar admits, “you don’t look at those sorts of horses particularly objectively.” And to be fair, that assessment likely doesn’t just apply to the Newsells Park Stud general manager. Such a force has Shastye been in the Tattersalls October Book 1 ring and on the racecourse over the past 10 years that plenty of shoppers are likely to get a bit starry-eyed.

Lot 436 at next week’s renewal of Book 1 is the sixth filly out of Shastye and is a full-sister to Secret Gesture (GB), the G2 Middleton S. winner and triple Oaks runner-up who was disqualified from a first-place finish in the 2015 GI Beverly D. S.; last year’s G1 Juddmonte International winner Japan (GB); last month’s G1 Grand Prix de Paris scorer Mogul (GB); and Group 3 winner Sir Isaac Newton (GB). Secret Gesture was a 230,000gns yearling who later sold to Godolphin as a broodmare for $3.5-million, while Japan, Mogul and Sir Issac Newton cost 1.3-million gns, 3.4-million gns and 3.6-million gns in the Tattersalls ring, all bought by the Coolmore partners. Shastye had another Galileo filly, Secret Gaze (GB), sell for 1.35-million gns at Book 1 in 2016.

Dollar confirmed that the latest filly’s looks and attitude match her pedigree.

“We’ve loved her since day one and she’s a bit of a favorite,” Dollar said. “Not only because of her pedigree but also because she is just a lovely filly and she has that wonderful temperament. I described her the other day as serene and I think that is a good description of her. She’s a beautiful, elegant filly, she’s got a huge walk, but it’s the way she conducts herself, really. She’s very much the boss in the paddock and always has been.

“And yet when she’s with people she’s like a 14-year-old pony. She just loves people and is a sweet filly to deal with. But when it comes to business she knows what she’s about. She’s just got that air about her. She’s a bit special I think and a bit of a collector’s item.”

While Shastye’s filly will likely feature as one of the stars of the sale when she strolls into the ring midway through day three of the sale on Oct. 8, she is far from the only “collector’s item” in the Book 1 draft of Newsells, which has been leading vendor at the sale last past two years. Shastye’s filly is one of two Galileos Newsells will offer, the other being a colt (lot 454) who is the first foal out of the G3 Prix Imprudence winner and multiple Group 1-placed sprinter/miler Spectre (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}).

“He’s got a really good step to him,” Dollar said. “He’s a very attractive, neat horse with a good step and a good walker. He’s a very encouraging first foal for the mare.”

Newsells offers two colts by Galileo’s best son Frankel (GB) out of Oasis Dream (GB) mares on day one of the sale: lot 62, a colt out of Enable (GB)’s unraced half-sister Birdwood (GB), and lot 36, “a real class horse” out of As Good As Gold (Ire), a half-sister to former Frankel standout Eminent (Ire).

Dollar recalled having to buy Birdwood twice-“once when she was good value, and once when she wasn’t when our partners wanted to sell.” The former was for 150,000gns as a 3-year-old from the Juddmonte consignment at Tattersalls December in 2016 before Enable had raced. The second was for 1.1-million gns two months after Enable won her first Arc in 2017.

“He’s a very nice horse,” Dollar said of Birdwood’s colt. “Strong, well-made with a good step to him. And of course, what a lovely pedigree.”

Dollar said As Good As Gold’s colt resembles his sire in his athleticism.

“I remember watching his father walk and he had that amazing movement, moved a bit like a panther,” he said. “And this horse has got a great step to him. He’s a very nice horse.”

An elite yearling draft would hardly be complete without representation from Dubawi (Ire), and Newsells has two colts to offer by Darley’s kingpin: lot 356, a half-brother to G1 Oaks winner Qualify (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), and lot 112, a son of the Arc winner Danedream (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}) offered on behalf of breeder Teruya Yoshida.

“This is a really nice horse,” Dollar said of lot 356, who is out of the Galileo mare Perihelion (Ire). “He’s always been a lovely individual since the day he was born. Sadly we no longer have the mum, she passed away soon after he was born. But he’s a nice colt. He’s quite typical of Dubawi but he’s got a lot of quality.”

Lot 112 is just the second of Danedream’s foal to see a sales ring; the first was this colt’s full-brother who made 1.5-million gns from Shadwell in 2017 and has won three times. The mare’s next foal, a Frankel (GB) filly, sadly died before making the races but Dollar reported that Danedream’s current 2-year-old Online Dream (GB) (Frankel {GB}) is training well in Japan.

“Funny enough, the Frankels have been quite fine horses, but both Dubawis had much more size and strength about them,” Dollar said of Danedream’s foals. “And this guy, he’s a big brute of a horse. But he’s nice, and I know the mare hasn’t got off to the brightest of starts, but you can never ignore a Dubawi out of a filly as good as Danedream.”

Newsells has thrown plenty of support behind leading French sire Siyouni (Fr) with three yearlings in the draft including fillies out of Grade III winner Ceisteach (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) (lot 84), who Newsells bought for $700,000 in 2015, and Queen Philippa (Henrythenavigator) (lot 380), a full-sister to Group 1 winner Pedro The Great and a half to Footstepsinthesand (GB) and to the dam of Classic winner Power (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}).

Dollar said of the daughter of Ceisteach, “she’s a beautiful filly. She’s very, very nice. I really rate her. She’s just beautifully balanced, has a great step and real quality. I’m excited about this mare, she’s producing some lovely stock.”

Dollar described Queen Philippa’s filly as “a real strong, precocious type.”

“I would be disappointed if she wasn’t winning races by this time next year,” he said. “She looks the type that isn’t going to take long; she’s very well put together, very balanced and precocious-looking, which is not necessarily what we normally produce, but I’m happy to see something like that.”

Another in the draft to fit that bill is a Kodiac (GB) colt out of G1 Prix de l’Opera winner Kinnaird (Ire) (Dr Devious {Ire}) (lot 250), a half-brother to the triple stakes-winning 2-year-old Berkshire (GB) (Mount Nelson {GB}).

“He is just a real monster of a 2-year-old [type],” Dollar said. “Some might say I wouldn’t know what a 2-year-old looked like, and they might be justified in that, but even a blind man can see that this is a 2-year-old type. He’s strong, he’s got a great step, he’s well put together and he just means business.”

Of quite the opposite profile are a pair of colts by Sea The Stars (Ire): lot 518, a son of the Newsells foundation mare Waldmark (Ger), and lot 366, a half-brother to the G1 Premio Roma GBI Racing winner Potemkin (Ger) (New Approach {Ire}) from a family that has been nurtured by Newsells’s German sister stud Gestut Fahrhof.

“A bit of a personal favourite is the Sea The Stars colt out of Waldmark,” Dollar admitted. “Waldmark and this whole family mean an awful lot to Newsells because Waldmark was one of the first horses that the late Mr. Jacobs bought in 2000. And he bought her as a filly foal, raised her at Newsells when he just bought the farm, sent her to train with Michael Stoute and she was second in the Falmouth S. She’s bred a number of good horses, not least of course Masked Marvel who won the Leger and was a very good horse for Bjorn Nielsen and John Gosden. The very next year we had Waldlerche who turned out to be a group winner for Andre Fabre and subsequently, of course, bred Waldgeist as her first foal.

“She means a lot to us, Waldmark, and she had five years where we were unable to get a live foal out of her. We were all set to throw in the towel but between our vet here and the encouragement and support of a vet in Ireland, we got her going. She’s got a Frankel filly that’s a 3-year-old with John Gosden at the moment who’s only had the one start; she had a little setback recently, but she’s a filly we want to carry on with. And now this nice Sea The Stars colt and he’s an absolute belter.”

Newsells also offers a grandson of Waldmark in lot 519, a Le Havre (Ire) colt out of the German listed-winning Waldnah (GB) (New Approach {Ire}).

“If you’re looking for a horse that when you look at the pedigree and look at the horse you say, ‘this is bred to win the Derby’, this horse looks every inch a horse that’s bred to win the Derby,” Dollar said. “I know Le Havre, from a colts’ point of view, is not always the most commercial, but he’s such a taking horse, this horse, that’s why we decided to put him in Book 1. He’s a proper Book 1 horse for me and deserves lots of respect.”

Among three Lope De Vegas in the draft is a son of the G1 Irish Oaks winner Great Heavens (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) (lot 188) offered as part of the Waddesdon Stud dispersal. Also offered on behalf of the late Lady Rothschild is a No Nay Never half-brother to G3 Bengough S. winner Mince (GB) (Medicean {GB}) (lot 468) who Dollar said is “a real monster. He is just so impressive to look at, you just take a deep breath and go ‘wow.'”

Newsells offers a Fastnet Rock (Aus) filly (lot 279) on behalf of Manfred Ostermann of Gestut Ittlingen that Dollar described as a “real Oaks filly.”

The only unproven sire represented in the Newsells draft is Ulysees (Ire) via lot 8.

“This horse has got a great step and a great mind, which I think is just so important with these horses,” Dollar said of the relative of the recent G3 Prix de Ris-Orangis winner Royal Crusade (GB). “He looks very solid, I really like him.”

Reflecting on his expectations of the market with the season’s first few yearling sales in the book on both sides of the Atlantic, Dollar said, “I thought earlier in the year that best-case scenario we would be down 20%, and worst-case scenario is 50%. I suspect we’re going to be somewhere in the middle, as a whole. I think it’s hard to be overly optimistic, given the circumstances. You’ve got to think to yourself, ‘who is going to want to spend lots of money on buying horses to go racing with while this virus is still plaguing us?’ But at the same time I hope that we all come together, and I think we have to a degree this spring and summer, come together and supported each other and just tried to get racing back on its feet.

Dollar said he rates the Newsells draft as one of the best that the stud has offered, and that the sale as a whole will offer opportunities looking for those to invest in blueblooded stock while the market is down.

“You’re going to be able to buy into some beautiful pedigrees at prices that, if you looked at what people were spending in the last couple of years at the December sales for mares, are going to look like serious bargains,” he said. “I certainly know from our point of view that when we invested in mares about 10 years ago [during the last major economic crash] we were buying at a level that we thought was value and that’s been borne out subsequently. Certainly the last few years buying broodmare prospects it’s been eye-watering the sort of money we’ve had to spend. So I think there is a great opportunity for buyers who are brave this year, who can see beyond the next six, maybe 12 months.”

“Ultimately, there’s not very much we can do about [the market],” Dollar added. “It’s just a question of preparing these horses as well as we can and taking them to the sales, hoping that people like them and trying to sell them. But we’ll be very realistic. We will be reducing our reserves significantly in order to get the market ticking over and we’ll take our medicines like everybody else has had to do.”

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Newsells Park Unveils New Website, Features Yearling Consignments

Newsells Park Stud, which will be consigning yearlings to the upcoming Tattersalls October Yearling Sales, has launched a new website at www.newsells-park.com. A total of 25 yearlings from Newsells Park are slated to sell during the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, with visitors to the new website able to access pedigree links, photos and videos of the individual yearlings.

One of the highlights of the draft is lot 436, a daughter of Galileo (Ire) out of Shastye (Ire) (Danehill), making her a full-sister to European highweight Japan (GB), who has saluted in the G1 Juddmonte International S. and the G1 Grand Prix de Paris. The filly is also a full-sister to GSW Secret Gesture (GB), who ran second in the G1 Oaks and G1 German Oaks and was third in the G1 Yorkshire Oaks; MGSW & G1SP Mogul (GB), GSW Sir Isaac Newton (GB), and a half-sister to MSW Maurus (GB) (Medicean {GB}).

“Clearly the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to leave its mark and we were therefore keen to ensure potential buyers could access as much information online,” said Newsells Park Stud General Manager Julian Dollar. “We believe we have one of the best drafts of yearlings that we have ever had and we hope that these high-class individuals, together with our proven track record of breeding and raising 11 Group 1 winners, including two Classic winners and an Arc winner, since 2010, will give buyers confidence during these uncertain times. ”

Newsells Park stands the stallions Nathaniel (Ire), sire of dual G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Enable (GB), and Group 1 sire Equiano (Fr), and viewers can learn more about the pair on the new website, as well.

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