Fillies To The Fore On Opening Day Of Tattersalls October Book 1

Fillies by No Nay Never and Dubawi headlined the opening day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when selling for 825,000 guineas and 800,000 guineas respectively. The opening session saw turnover of 25,201,000 guineas, at an average of 210,008 guineas and a median of 152,500 guineas.

German pinhooker Philipp Stauffenberg enjoyed his best ever return in a sale ring when the No Nay Never sister to the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner and G1 Dewhurst Stakes second Arizona was knocked down for 825,000 guineas to Cheveley Park Stud's Chris Richardson. The daughter of the English Channel mare Lady Ederle is also a sister to the Grade 2 winner Nay Lady Nay and was secured by Richardson after he saw off Juddmonte Farms' Simon Mockridge. She was a €260,000 foal purchase.

Richardson was stood alongside Patricia Thompson, the owner of Cheveley Park, and her son Richard.
“She was the one we really wanted,” said Mrs Thompson. “She is a beautiful filly and she was first on the short list. We were looking for a filly for the broodmare band, we will get her broken in and make some plans.”
The Stephen Sullivan-bred bay filly was purchased by Philipp Stauffenberg as a foal for €260,000 and hails from the family of Champions Dabirsim and Sea of Class. Explaining his reasoning behind his purchase last autumn he commented;

“I bought her because she is an outcross and would be attractive for the big farms, and that was exactly what the case was. She was a top horse for every breeder, it didn't matter who. But she still needed to be a good physical, otherwise I wouldn't have bought her.

“The racecourse is the primary goal, today is just one step. Hopefully she will prove that she is worth what Cheveley Park have spent. It is wonderful that Mrs Thompson goes on and spends something like that. This is not a filly in training Mrs Thompson will have to wait for her, it is a future investment and it is very encouraging for the industry.”

He added: “All the sales companies wanted to have her, but she has done so well I think she deserved to be in the top sale, this is the top sale.”

Juddmonte Farms' Simon Mockridge didn't have to wait long after the missing out on the top lot of the day, striking to secure the Dubawi filly out of the Group 2 winning Monsun mare Logina for 800,000 guineas. Newsells Park Stud consigned the filly on behalf of breeder Al Shahania Stud.

“We were strong on the No Nay Never filly, but not strong enough,” said Simon Mockridge. “This is a very, very nice filly, by Dubawi who for us is a great outcross for the longer term for stallions such as Kingman and Frankel. But she is also a great free moving filly, who showed very well.”

Of plans for Juddmonte, Mockridge continued: “The positive news is that Prince Khalid's family want to continue to develop Juddmonte and we need to buy some outcross fillies, and that is the reason why we are here. The No Nay Never and this Dubawi filly fitted the bill perfectly.

“It has been a tough year, a very difficult year losing Prince Khalid, but the family is committed and is showing that it is committed to the future. The Prince left us with a great legacy and it is there for us to drive forward. It is fortunate in that we have a very strong stallion base, we are very fortunate to have Frankel and Kingman. That is number one, it keeps us going, and we just need to refresh a little bit.

“Fillies like these are very rare and very difficult to buy, you have to be competitive, and I think we have been that.”

Julian Dollar of Newsells said: “We have five lovely horses for the draft from Al Shahania Stud. They have been with us for ten weeks, we have just put a bit of polish on them. They came looking fantastic, produced by a good team. They deserve all the credit, they are very good horsemen.”

Bertrand Le Metayer, bloodstock advisor for Al Shahania who was at Tattersalls with stud manager Arnault Leraitre, said: “The team on the farm in France has done a great job, it is an honour to get such a result with a filly. She has been brilliant from the word go – she goes to sleep, gets up, goes to sleep. She has a great mind and she showed it today. That is what caught the buyers' eyes.

“We thought she was our best yearling and deserved the best sale.”

The top priced colt on the opening day of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale was the Lope de Vega colt out of the Group 1 Premio Lydia Tesio winner God Given, who was knocked down to Godolphin's Anthony Stroud for 725,000 guineas.

The colt, who was consigned by the Player family's Whatton Manor Stud on behalf of Andrew Stone's St Albans Bloodstock, is out of a half-sister to the multiple Group 1 winner Postponed and is a great grandson of the Champion race filly Bianca Nera.

“He moved extremely well, he is very light on his feet and he behaved very well here,” said Stroud. “He is out of a very good mare from the family of Postponed, whom we know well, and Lope De Vega we like very much. We think he is a very nice horse.”

Ed Player of Whatton Manor said: “We are delighted to have horses nice enough to come to Book 1, we have always aspired to have horses for Book 1.

“Andrew Stone of St Albans has entrusted us with God Given, we had Bianca Nera at the farm a long time ago and it has come full circle. We are absolutely delighted with the price, he is such a good walking horse, he walks for fun and he has not put a foot wrong here.”

“God Given is at the farm and she has a Dubawi colt foal and she is back in-foal to Siyouni. She is a beautiful mare, we are lucky to have her. The team has done an amazing job prepping the horse so well and shown him so well here,” added Player.

Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continues at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 6.

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Bold Pinhook Paces Book 1 Opener

By Emma Berry and Kelsey Riley

NEWMARKET, UK–Philipp Stauffenberg is well known for being a pretty fearless pinhooker but he surpassed even his own decent results of the recent past when selling a full-sister to Arizona (Ire) (No Nay Never) to Cheveley Park Stud for 825,000gns. A further compliment to the filly's family was paid by having the team from Juddmonte as underbidders, and this type of scenario was in Stauffenberg's mind when he paid €260,000 for lot 110 at Goffs last December.

“She was a very good physical but on top of that she is an outcross for most of the big owner/breeders, and that is what we saw with Cheveley Park Stud taking on Juddmonte,” he said. “This is just one step though, the racecourse is the primary goal. It is wonderful to see Mrs Thompson investing in the future in a filly like this. She is not a horse in training, Mrs Thompson will have to wait for her until at least next year, but it is very encouraging for the industry.”

As well as having the G2 Coventry S. winner and G1 Dewhurst S. runner-up as a brother, the filly's other full-sibling is the GII Mrs Revere S. winner Nay Lady Nay, while the further family also includes Group 1 winners Dabirsim (Fr) and Sea Of Class (Ire). The filly's dam Ederle (English Channel) is herself a daughter of G1 Oaks d'Italia victrix Bright Generation (Ire) (Rainbow Quest).

Patricia Thompson, who outbid Simon Mockridge of Juddmonte, admitted that she has bought the Stephen Sullivan-bred filly as an early Christmas present to herself, but it is a gift with plenty of upside for her Newmarket stud.

“She's a lovely filly and she's a nice outcross,” said the Cheveley Park Stud owner. “She should be a very good purchase for the stud, and hopefully on the racecourse as well. We've always strived to have quality, so we're just trying to prune and buy a bit of quality. It's the only way to go.”

No Nay Never, whose leading winners this year include the classy fillies Alcohol Free (Ire) and Zain Claudette (Ire), was quickly back in the spotlight when Mick Kinane went to €475,000 for lot 114, a colt out of the G1 Premio Lydia Tesio winner Laganore (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). Sold by The Castlebridge Consigment for breeder Newtown Anner Stud, the colt's half-brother Real Dream (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) was sold for 430,000gns at this sale last year.

Maurice Regan's Newtown Anner Stud also sold lot 141, a Dubawi (Ire) colt out of a Galileo (Ire) half-sister to dual Group 1 winner Simply Perfect (Ire) (Danehill) for 600,000gns to Godolphin.

Despite there being no millionaire lots, the opening day of Book 1 had a solid feel, with a notable 27% rise in median to 152,500gns. The average dropped slightly by 6% to 210,008gns, with a total of 25,201,000gns being raised from the sale of 120 of the 134 lots offered for an unchanged clearance rate of 78%.

A Trio For Juddmonte

In a sad year for the bloodstock industry with the loss of major owner/breeders Prince Khalid Abdullah, Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum and David Thompson, further encouragement can be drawn from Juddmonte's selective investment in the yearling market. Having been outbid by Patricia Thompson for the No Nay Never filly, Simon Mockridge held sway when in pursuit of the Dubawi filly out of German Group 2 winner Longina (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}). Offered as lot 127 by Newsells Park Stud, the filly from Gestut Ittlingen's top-class family of Lauro (Ger) and Lando (Ger) brought the hammer down at 800,000gns.

“The No Nay Never was a beautiful filly. We were strong on her but not strong enough, but it is nice to see Mrs Thompson here. This is also a very nice filly by Dubawi, who for us is a great outcross for stallions like Kingman and Frankel,” said Mockridge.

“The positive news is that Prince Khalid's family want to continue to develop Juddmonte and we need to buy some outcross fillies, and that is the reason why we are here. The No Nay Never and this Dubawi filly fitted the bill perfectly.”

He continued, “It has been a tough year losing Prince Khalid, but the family is committed to the future. The prince left us with a great legacy and it is there for us to drive forward. Fortunately we have a strong stallion base, we are very fortunate to have Frankel and Kingman, that is number one, it keeps us going, we just need to refresh a little bit.”

Bred on the same cross as Godolphin's G1 Prix de l'Opera winner Wild Illusion (GB), the April-foaled filly was bred by Al Shahania Stud, whose interests in Europe are managed by Arnault Leraitre and Bertrand Le Metayer.

“They deserve all the credit,” said Newsells Park Stud's Julian Dollar. “We have five yearlings in the draft for Al Shahania and they arrived with us looking fantastic. They have been with us for 10 weeks and we've just put a bit of polish on them.”

In addition to the Dubawi filly, Juddmonte also bought two fillies by their freshman sire Expert Eye (GB), including lot 113, a half-sister to the Group 3 winners Brown Sugar (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}) and Burnt Sugar (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}). Bought as a foal from breeder Ballylinch Stud for €180,000 by Yeomanstown Stud, she was resold at 290,000gns.

“We bought two very nice Expert Eye fillies,” said Mockridge. “The one from Barouche Stud is a very nice filly–well made, very strong and active. And the other from Yeomanstown we were underbidders on as a foal.”

Given A Great Start

Many of the yearlings at Book 1 represent generations of careful nurturing by their breeders, and this was certainly the case for lot 49, the first foal of G1 Premio Lydia Tesio winner God Given (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), who won four group races for her breeder Andrew Stone of St Albans Bloodstock before returning to her birthplace of Whatton Manor Stud. Those same Nottinghamshire paddocks have also been home to her grandam, the former Irish champion 2-year-old and Group 1 winner Bianca Nera (GB), and dam Ever Rigg (GB) (Dubai Destination), whose other offspring include four-time Group 1 winner and sire Postponed (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}).

God Given's initial mating with Lope De Vega (Ire) produced a colt who was one of the standouts of the day and will eventually race in the Godolphin blue, having been bought by Anthony Stroud at 725,000gns.

“We have always aspired to have horses nice enough to bring to Book 1,” said Ed Player of Whatton Manor Stud. “Andrew Stone has entrusted us with God Given–we had Bianca Nera here years ago so it has come full circle to get God Given back again.”

He added, “That's the highest price we've had for a yearling and we're delighted with that. He is such a good-moving horse, he walks for fun and hasn't put a foot wrong since he arrived here.”

Five lots later Whatton Manor Stud also sold Rabbah Bloodstock's son of Sea The Stars (Ire) out of a winning Shamardal half-sister to 1000 Guineas winner Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}). Offered as lot 54, he was bought for 260,000gns by Roger Varian.

“It's always great when a horse goes to a good trainer,” Player continued. “That's what it's all about, what they do on the racecourse, so it's very important. The colts were two very good first foals and the team at home have done such a good job preparing them for the sale.”

Ballylinch Stud's Lope De Vega is well represented in Book 1 with 44 yearlings catalogued. Fifteen sold during the first session for an average of 264,000gns and included a filly from Longview Stud, who was also bought by Godolphin for 475,000gns. Lot 64 is out of How (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a full-sister to a pair of Classic winners in Minding (Ire) and Empress Josephine (Ire).

Dubawi Colt To Propel MyRacehorse Europe

MyRacehorse.com was launched into the racing elite in the U.S. when Authentic (Into Mischief) won the 2020 GI Kentucky Derby, providing the more than 5,300 investors who owned a 12.5% share in the colt the ultimate ownership experience. The microshare syndicate has since soared in popularity in the U.S.; it expanded to Australia earlier this year, and the next frontier is Europe. MyRacehorse purchased the third yearling for its European stable at Tattersalls on Tuesday, spending 450,000gns on Watership Down Stud's Dubawi (Ire) colt out of dual Group 3 winner J Wonder (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) (lot 81).

A $300,000 Keeneland November foal, J Wonder was raced by Andrew Rosen and won the G3 Fred Darling S. and G3 Oak Tree S. at three for trainer Brian Meehan before joining Shug McGaughey for a short stint in the U.S. Returning to Britain for her broodmare career, J Wonder produced for Rosen a Dubawi colt that fetched 850,000gns at this sale in 2018 and, named Boccaccio (Ire), was listed-placed for Godolphin. The mare's second foal, Gal Wonder (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), has won this year, and she had a Kingman filly in 2021 before being covered by Wootton Bassett (GB). J Wonder is a full-sister to the G1 Matron S. winner Chachamaidee (Ire), and their second dam is Legend Maker (Ire), the dam of G1 1000 Guineas victress Virginia Waters.

MyRacehorse Managing Partner Jules Pittam and Director of Operations Kate Hardy were at Park Paddocks on Tuesday, and Hardy said, “we loved this horse as soon as we saw him. He has a real presence about him. Dubawis are really classy horses and he's a nice type. He is quite strong with a nice topline and looks like he'll be sharp.”

“Dubawi is one of the best sires in the world and J Wonder has already produced a full-brother who is listed-placed,” she added. “What MyRacehorse is trying to do is provide elite bloodstock at an accessible level to our owners, so he really fit the bill.”

While plans are not yet set in stone for the bay, the MyRacehorse team is hoping he could be bound for Kingsclere.

“At this stage, Andrew Balding makes a lot of sense,” Hardy said. “That isn't confirmed but that's the direction we're looking in right now. He's going to be our first colt in training here in the UK, so we would be pretty excited to have a trainer like Andrew on board.”

MyRacehorse signed for a daughter of Zoffany (Ire) for €170,000 at Goffs Orby for its European stable who is bound for Joseph O'Brien, and a Mendelssohn filly bought at Keeneland September for $300,000 will also be crossing the Atlantic. Hardy said the first three yearlings purchased for the microshare syndicate to race in Europe will be available to investors by the end of 2021.

“By the end of the year we are hoping to launch MyRacehorse in Europe,” she said. “We will launch with the three yearlings we've purchased this year that have been chosen by our head of bloodstock and racing Roderick Wachman, so the bill is filled. The plan is to syndicate these horses on our microshare platform. We average about 1,200 owners per horse in the United States, and that's probably what we'll aim for here as well.

“We're really excited to launch here in Europe. The MyRacehorse story started in the U.S. where we had Authentic win the 2020 Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic. We now have over 60 horses in training, and we launched in Australia in April, so Europe seemed like the next most appropriate market.”

Hardy said the deep-seated connection of Europeans with horses made it an obvious next frontier for MyRacehorse.

“It's a model that works in America so well; it's great to be able to bring people from all over such a large country in on one horse that they can cheer for together,” she said. “We really thought the European market would be a good market to come into because there is already such a huge demographic that loves racing. The horse here is such a part of the history and the culture so we felt that if we could offer a way for fans to get involved at an ownership level, it could really take off. Growing the number of people who get to experience the thrill of ownership is our main objective and we think there is quite a fan base here that would really enjoy MyRacehorse.”

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Goffs History Runs Deep At Camas Park

A snapshot of history, that of the Shergar (GB) colt Authaal, takes pride of place on a wall in the bar within the Goffs sales auditorium. Close to four decades have passed since that image was taken of the white-faced youngster and a celebratory Trish Hyde following his sale for Ir3.1 million gns to Tote Cherry-Downes. It had been a record-breaking transaction, a moment of enough consequence to hit the national news, and for vendor Timmy Hyde of Camas Park Stud, one that had repaid handsomely on the colt's Ir325,000gns price tag as a foal.

That Goffs Invitation Yearling Sale of 1984 is a world away from today's bloodstock scene but for some of those concerned that day, little has changed with the passage of time. Just as back then, Camas Park Stud wields a weighty presence at the forefront of the business, whether it be on the track or in the sale ring.

Situated just beyond the Rock Of Cashel on land shared with the River Suir, the stud has been under the ownership of the Hyde family for over 80 years. Its founder, Timmy Hyde, had a very successful career as a jumps jockey, steering Workman (Ire) to victory in the 1939 Grand National and the great chaser Prince Regent (Ire) to success in the 1942 Irish Grand National and 1946 Cheltenham Gold Cup. Equally adept at training, he also sent out Dominick's Bar (Ire) to win the 1950 Irish Grand National.

Son Timmy was also an accomplished jumps jockey, partnering the Duchess Of Westminster's Kinloch Brae (Ire) to win the Cathcart Challenge Cup at the 1969 Cheltenham Festival, before hanging up his boots to develop the family stud into the major force that it is today.

Since then, Camas Park has been associated with numerous big names, among them stars of the 1980s such as Al Bahathri (Blushing Groom {Fr}), Indian Skimmer (Storm Bird) and Soviet Star (Nureyev) to the likes of Alexandrova (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), Fame And Glory (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) and Johannesburg (Hennessy) and then more recently Ten Sovereigns (Ire) (No Nay Never), Rekindling (GB) (High Chaparral {Ire}) and Russian Camelot (Ire) (Camelot {GB}).

From an auction perspective, Authaal's sale to Tote Cherry-Downes on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed was the landmark sale-ring moment. Yet that too worked out for both parties with the colt, one of only 35 foals left behind by the ill-fated Shergar, successful in the 1986 Irish St Leger prior to hitting Group 1 heights in Australia.

In another slice of Goffs history, the stud also sold the last Northern Dancer yearling to be offered in Europe for a sale-topping Ir.1.3 million guineas at the 1988 Goffs Cartier Million Sale.

Head to Barn F at Goffs this week and Camas Park Stud, fronted by Hyde and his son Timmy Jr., will be there as it always is, its name at the helm of a sizeable draft that will undoubtedly secure plenty of interest.

It was out of the stud's various Goffs consignments of yesteryear that buyers could have secured the Classic winners Dancing Rain (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), the 2011 Epsom Oaks heroine who was bought for €200,000 by Norris/Huntingdon, and Saffron Walden (Fr) (Sadler's Wells), the Irish 2,000 Guineas winner who sold to Demi O'Byrne in 1997.

Like Authaal, Saffron Walden was a Goffs sale-topper, in his case when heading the 1997 renewal at Ir£1.2 million. At the other end of the spectrum, multiple Group 1 winner Grandera (Ire) (Grand Lodge) was secured for just Ir£30,000 by Amanda Skiffington and James Fanshawe in 1999. Breeders' Cup Classic runner-up Toast Of New York (Thewayyouare), a €60,000 purchase by Jamie Osborne at the 2012 renewal, also went on to repay his connections with a flourish.

A good proportion of the Camas Park yearlings on offer at Goffs this year are the stud's own homebreds. A handful of pinhooks are also catalogued while adding further interest is a smattering of horses belonging to the Niarchos family's Flaxman Holdings and Ben Sangster.

It's hard to be confident towards a market that is still battling within the constraints of a pandemic era but against that, heart can already be taken from the way in which various yearling sales have held up this year. Camas Park Stud has not been alone in enjoying a successful sales season to date and hopes remain high within the operation that such positive momentum will carry over into this week's sale.

“We've had a good year, we're very happy,” says Timmy Hyde Jr. “There seems to be a great appetite for horses right now. Whether it's because people haven't been able to spend properly for two years, I don't know, but long may it continue.

“There have been some great results for the sales on the track and not just over here but in the US as well. Saratoga was great for the European horses and hopefully we'll see plenty of American buyers coming over this week.

“There are definitely a lot of people in town. I know there is not a hotel room left in the vicinity, which tells you everything. So the vibes are good. I saw a lot of horses this morning and the standard seems high. It's very important to have the sale in Ireland and I have to take my hat off to Goffs, they have done a lot of work to get people in.”

The reintroduction of a million-euro race, the Goffs Million, also resonates strongly with the team given that the stud sold Rinka Das (Nureyev), winner of the Cartier Million at Phoenix Park in 1990. A forerunner to the current million initiative, the Cartier Million was the richest sporting prize in Europe of its time.

“Goffs had to do something to incentivise people and I know they spoke to a lot of people after last year's sale,” says Hyde. “I think the Million is a good idea, it's definitely a help anyway.”

So are there any potential Goffs Million winners lurking within this year's draft?

Hyde speaks particularly fondly of lot 276, a homebred son of No Nay Never. He is the first foal out of Sweet Charity (Fr) (Myboycharlie {Ire}), a five-furlong French listed winner bought for $250,000 through the BBA Ireland at the 2019 Keeneland January Sale.

Hyde is well placed to appreciate No Nay Never given that he co-bred the stallion's G1 Middle Park S. and July Cup winner Ten Sovereigns in partnership with Lynch Bages and raised him on his Summerhill farm adjacent to Camas Park.

“He's the star of the show,” says Hyde. “It's like Ten Sovereigns all over again. He's a beautiful individual, the right type of No Nay Never, a very good mover and very hard to fault.”

No Nay Never is also sire of a half-sister to the G2 miler True Valour (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), catalogued as lot 274.

“Her mother, Sutton Veny, was very fast,” says Hyde. “She won five races and this filly is very fast-looking. She's very nice.

“We also have a very nice filly by Dark Angel (lot 245). She's well put-together and a good mover. Her half-brother Duhail is a Group 2 winner but the 2-year-old out of the mare, Locke (Ire), also won recently at Windsor.”

Of particular interest is the Galileo (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) colt, one of six catalogued within the sale by his late sire. Catalogued as lot 98, the colt was bred by Ben Sangster out of the high-class Lady Lara (Ire) (Excellent Art {GB}), a durable filly whose six wins included the G2 Honey Fox S. and G3 My Charmer H. in the U.S., and listed Dubai Duty Free Cup in Britain. The daughter of Excellent Art (GB)(Pivotal {GB}) was placed on another eight occasions at stakes level.

“I actually bred Lady Lara myself,” says Hyde. “She was the last one we had out of her dam Shanty. I sold her to Alan Jarvis, she did really well for him and then performed to a high level for Ben in the U.S. She was always a lovely looking mare and the colt out of her is very nice.”

The colt's full-brother Changingoftheguard (Ire) has been placed for Aidan O'Brien since the publication of the catalogue.

Group 1 producer Crazy Volume (Ire) (Machiavellian), meanwhile, is the dam of lot 417, a second-crop daughter of Churchill. Three of the mare's seven winners are black-type performers led by Gallante (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), the 2014 G1 Grand Prix de Paris winner, and listed scorer Silence Please (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}).

“The mare keeps throwing good runners and this filly is one of the nicest individuals that she has produced,” says Hyde. “She is a good-moving filly, and the sire is going well.”

Those who have supported U S Navy Flag (War Front) will be hoping that the same words will be uttered towards his first crop by this time next year. The Coolmore stallion has two representatives to fly the flag within the consignment starting with lot 85, a daughter of the Aga Khan-bred listed winner Karasiyra (Ire) (Alhaarth {Ire}).

“She is a really fast-looking filly,” he says. “She's very good-looking, has a good back end on her and a terrific hind leg. From what we have, she's typical of what the sire is throwing. We also have a good colt by him, who was a pinhook (lot 388). I really like what we have by the sire–they look sharp and fast.”

The stud's pinhooks also include a 'good-moving' Lope De Vega (Ire) grandson of German champion Borgia (Ger) (Acatenango {Ger}) bought for €150,000 at the Goffs November Sale and catalogued this time around as lot 383.

The same sire is also represented by lot 161, a daughter of the fast Group 3 winner Only Mine (Ire) (Pour Moi {Ire}). A well-liked filly, she was bred by the Niarchos family's Flaxman Holdings, as is lot 425, a Zoustar (Aus) grandson of Divine Proportions (Kingmambo), and lot 432, a son of Kingman (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) who descends from Miesque (Nureyev). The Mastercraftsman (Ire) brother to Alpha Centauri (Ire) and Discoveries (Ire) is a late withdrawal.

A qualified vet and former jump jockey, Hyde Jr was at school the day that Authaal went through the ring but well remembers the heightened outside media interest that accompanied the colt's sale.

However, the day that Grandera went through the ring 15 years later evokes memories of a different kind.

“We actually couldn't sell Grandera in the ring,” recalls Hyde. “He twisted a shoe off in the outside ring just as it was his turn to go in, stepped on it and hopped around the sales ring on three legs–it couldn't have been worse timing.

“But Amanda Skiffington and James Fanshawe had liked him and our head man at the time, Edmond Ryan, got them to come back down to the yard and we sold him afterwards to them for €30,000.”

Grandera turned out to be an excellent purchase, winning a listed race and running Group 1-placed for Fanshawe in the colours of Lael Stable before selling to Godolphin, for whom he won the G1 Irish Champion S. and G1 Prince Of Wales's S.

Rarely has a year gone by since then when a classy graduate hasn't emerged out of Camas Park Stud. With that in mind, chances are that another one will do so out of this generation.

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Roasting Start To Tattersalls Ireland September

NEWMARKET, UK–Ah, the yearling sales. It's a long old season and sometimes the more elderly members of the press desk can get a little jaded by the halfway point, not to mention discombobulated. After all, we're at a Tattersalls Ireland sale in Newmarket, where instead of selling in guineas or euros, the horses are changing hands in sterling. But every now and then a feelgood story comes along to soften even the stoniest of hearts.

Let's face it, the day started pretty well: the sun shone and the free ice-cream stand was unveiled, attracting an even more attentive throng than Heaven, the, er, gentlemen's club at the bottom of Tatts hill. And then midway through the afternoon from the the exit at the back of the ring burst a bonny Ardad (Ire) colt led by Irishman Leon Carrick, who is a policeman in real life but does a pretty convincing job moonlighting as a yearling consignor and pinhooker. He was quickly joined by his girlfriend Michelle Gibbons, all smiles and hugs and kisses–some of them even directed at Carrick, but most of them landing on the yearling colt who had been transformed from a 7,500gns foal into a £105,000 yearling.

“We bought him while lying in bed–best online shopping ever!” Carrick said with a grin, bringing a hitherto unconsidered upside to being confined to quarters through lockdown. “We couldn't come over here because of Covid and I'd just come in from a night shift. We liked him and decided to buy him online and he has been an absolute delight to do everything with, and of course we have been delighted to see the stallion doing so well.”

Ardad, the young son of Kodiac (GB) based at Overbury Stud, has certainly not let down those foal buyers and breeders who put their faith in him last year as he has made a hugely promising start with his first runners this year, headed by the G1 Darley Prix Morny winner Perfect Power (Ire). The colt consigned by Carrick as lot 154 was bred by Saeed Nasser Al Romaithi and is out of the Azamour (Ire) mare Mara Grey (Ire), already the dam of the dual winner Constanzia (GB) (Dandy Man {Ire}).

Based on The Curragh, the 27-year-old Carrick is the nephew of well-known breeze-up consignor Johnny Collins and has served his time on studs working for the Aga Khan, Coolmore and at Curraghmore in New Zealand. Before joining the Gardai he also worked for Richard Brabazon, who trains Apple Of His Eye (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) for Carrick and Gibbons, who is also 27.

Carrick continued, “I didn't in my wildest dreams expect to get a figure like that. Michelle wants to go to college to do a midwifery course and she'll be able to do that comfortably now. Our thanks have to go to my uncle Johnny, who supports me, and to Richard Brabazon, who allowed us to use his facilities this year.

“We prep a few horses every year, a few cheap foal purchases, hoping that something like this will happen, and this has given us a great boost. If we get a few more results like this we might do it full time.”

The couple has four yearlings to sell this year, including a Dawn Approach colt (lot 296) who is catalogued on Wednesday.

The man who bought the colt has had the inside track on Ardad from the start as Robson Aguiar, who signed the ticket on behalf of Amo Racing, rode Ardad in his breeze at Doncaster back in 2016 and he has been a strong supporter of the stallion at the sales.

Roaring Trade

Both consignors and purchasers expressed a mixture of surprise and delight as the first day of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale drew to a close in Newmarket. The fact that it had been relocated for the second year running amid uncertainty over the lifting of Covid restrictions in Ireland was not ideal, especially for a number of Irish consignors, but many now will be relieved to have taken the plunge and stuck with the sale. The median of £20,000 was up by 18% on the equivalent day of trade last year, while the average rose by 13% to £26,729 from 42 more horses sold this time around–217, bringing an identical first-day clearance rate of 85%. The day's takings amounted to £5,702,500.

On the first day of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale of 2019, the last time it was staged in Ireland and in Euros, 200 horses were sold for €5,084,500, at an average of €25,423 and a median of €21,000.

Going Global

The Ardad colt was not the top price of the day, his tag having been bettered twice by two colts bought by Adam Driver of Global Equine Group on a day of trade that surpassed most people's expectations on both sides of the transactions.

The first yearling to have breached the six-figure mark during the lively opening session was a second-crop son of Churchill (Ire) (lot 111), sold by Grange Hill Stud for £110,000. His dam Komedy (Ire) has given Mark Hanly and his mother Stephanie plenty to smile about in the early days of her stud career and the Kodiac (GB) mare struck gold again on Tuesday when her yearling colt became the first at the sale to breach the six-figure mark.

Consigned by his breeders, he is the third foal of his 8-year-old dam, who was bought in the same ring at the Horses-in-Training Sale for 9,000gns. A winning sister to the listed victrix On Her Toes (Ire), Komedy did not take long to advertise her potential as a broodmare when her first foal Internationaldream (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) won twice at two and was third in the G3 Molecomb S.

“He is a very taking individual and I thought to myself that he'd be a standout at this sale,” said Mark Hanly. “It is a nice, fast family, and he is out of a Kodiac mare and they are working very very well at the moment on the track. The mare is a typical Kodiac and when I first saw Churchill at stud, I absolutely loved him. He has a big physique and would suit a Kodiac mare, and the cross of Danehill and Galileo suited too.”

Komedy is now in foal to Churchill's Coolmore studmate Saxon Warrior (Jpn) having been barren last year.

The Global Equine Group, which Driver said already has two Churchill juveniles in training in Newmarket with Tom Clover, later signed up the leading light of the day online when going to £130,000 for lot 217, Castlehyde Stud's smart chestnut colt by No Nay Never out of the Galileo (Ire) mare Pink Damsel (Ire).

“It's great to have the top lot,” said Castlehyde Stud manager Paddy Fleming. “We brought him here to stand out and he did just that. He was born and raised on good limestone land at Castlehyde and the mare has been very good to us.”

A winner herself at three, Pink Damsel is a daughter of the dual Grade I winner Riskaverse (Dynaformer) and thus a full-sister to the G3 Dance Design S. winner Say (Ire). Her first foal, Glengowan (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), is already a winner and her Caravaggio 2-year-old Sarsons Risk (Ire) was third on debut at Newbury last month having been bought at the Craven Breeze-up Sale for 120,000gns.

A Filly To Go Farhh

Muscling her way in to be the top filly of the day was an athletic daughter of Farhh (GB) consigned by Nelius Hayes as lot 81 through his Knockainey Stud. At £90,000, she was the most expensive of nine purchases by Peter and Ross Doyle, who confirmed that she would go into training with Richard Hannon, whose previous positive experience with the sire runs to training the 2000 Guineas runner-up King Of Change (GB).

“We have been very lucky buying from Nelius Hayes over the years,” said Ross Doyle. “She is the nicest filly Nelius has brought to the sales for a few years. She is nicely sized and she has a bit of class to her.”

Hayes, who with a partnership picked up the filly's dam Imasumaq (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) for 16,000gns when carrying this filly, added, “A friend of mine and neighbour Michael O'Dwyer bought her here at the December Sale. Everybody just seemed to like this filly. We had no expectations of anything like that coming, but as the days go on you get hopeful.”

Hayes was pleased with the early decision taken to switch the sale from Ireland to the UK. He said, “It was a difficult decision for Tattersalls to make, but I think they did the right thing making a call that they were going to stick to this date and sell here. In hindsight perhaps there could have been time to go back to Fairyhouse, but it gave us all some certainty by making a decision back in the summer.”

Brothers Believe

Richard Hannon's brother-in-law and fellow trainer Richard Hughes will also take charge of one of the day's top lots after going to £85,000 for lot 70, a colt by Make Believe (GB) who represented a successful pinhooking debut for brothers Tom and Davy Brickley of Ard Erin Stud. They bought the son of the unraced Tamayuz (GB) mare Hidden Girl (Ire) for €8,000 last year at Goffs.

“He was our very first pinhook,” said Tom Brickley, 29. “We've loved him the whole way through, he has been a champion. We are delighted to get so well paid, we were dreaming about it but never thought it would happen.”

He added, “He came from Brendan Hayes of Knocktoran Stud, who is a great breeder, and we loved his action from the start. For a big horse he moved so well. Everyone at home is part of the team–mum, dad and our sisters. Dad always had a mare at home, but we are the first to do horses in a bigger way. We caught the bug and decided that we wanted to do this game, and we both learnt from the top farms.”

A half-brother to the 100-rated Muraad (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), the colt will be sent to former champion jump jockey AP McCoy for breaking and pre-training, according to his friend Hughes, who said, “I loved him from the minute I set eyes on him. He's not a 2-year-old type, he'll probably be more of a 3-year-old. I haven't had any by Make Believe before but I've been following his stallion career.”

Another of the day's top fillies was a decent pinhook for Guy O'Callaghan, who on Saturday celebrated the G2 Mill Reef S. victory of Wings Of War (Ire), who was bred by him at his Grangemore Stud. The same stallion, Dark Angel (Ire), was responsible for both, and lot 129 had been picked out as a foal by O'Callaghan for 20,000gns. Trainer Tom Ward, acting on behalf of a syndicate, ended up as the successful bidder on the easy-moving grey, out of the Group 3-placed Light My Fire (Ire) (Dragon Pulse {Ire}) at £80,000.

Keeping Good Company

Mark and Barbara Dreeling's Coole House Farm enjoyed a good day through the sale of lot 224, a colt by the late Fast Company (Ire) whose brother Flashcard (Ire) was third in the G3 Sovereign S.

“He has been a gentleman since the day he was born. Hopefully he will be as lucky as the full-brother,” said the couple's daughter Megan after the colt sold for £90,000 to Ed Dunlop and JD Moore.

Her mother added, “He has been very busy today and he can really move. The mare doesn't have a foal as she's not an easy mare to get in foal, but she is now in foal to Gleneagles.”

Four lots later (lot 228), a New Bay (GB) half-brother to recent debut winner Whoputfiftyinyou (GB) (Twilight Son {GB}), who was unnamed when the catalogue was printed, went the way of Kevin Ross for £88,000. Consigned by Ballylinch Stud for breeders Eleanor Commins and the New Bay Syndicate, the colt is also a three-quarter brother to the GIII San Francisco Mile S winner Whisper Not (GB) (Poet's Voice {GB}).

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