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O’Brien Lands Sister To Globetrotting Sensation State Of Rest For 750k

A Sea The Stars (Ire) sister to globetrotting sensation State Of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) found a fitting suitor at the Goffs Orby Sale with Joseph O'Brien, the man who trained that Tinnakill House graduate to win at the highest level in America, Australia, Britain and France, going to €750,000 to secure the star attraction on Tuesday. 

Tinnakill House has enjoyed the ride of a lifetime with the family of State Of Rest having signed for the granddam of the four-time Group 1 winner, Monaassabaat (Zilzal), at the Goffs November Mares Sale back in 2007. 

The journey reached its crescendo on Tuesday when the hammer fell to O'Brien to deliver what was clearly an emotional success for Dermot Cantillon and his wife Meta Osborne.

“My big wish is that she goes on and becomes a super race mare,” – Dermot Cantillon

Speaking shortly after the sale, Cantillon said of lot 48, “We had a lot of footfall down to the stable and I was always confident that she would make a good price. I'd like to say a big thank you to Mrs Tsui for giving me the opportunity to breed to the stallion. We're not in a situation where we can breed to those top stallions regularly so to have a foal share was great.”

He added, “I'd also like to say a special thank you to the late John Clarke. It was John who facilitated the foal share and, without him, we wouldn't have had that beautiful filly here today. Then of course my own staff, my family for supporting us; you don't come across a filly like that many times in your life and my big wish is that she goes on and becomes a super race mare.”

State Of Rest's dam Repose (Quiet American), who has also produced the dual Group 3 winner Tranquil Lady (Ire) (Australia {GB}), was sold to Juddmonte in May of last year. Tuesday's headline act was the last remaining offspring the County Laois farm had of that brilliant family.

The Cantillon family with the sister to State Of Rest | Sarah Farnsworth

Recalling how the mating to Sea The Stars for Repose came about, Cantillon continued, “I was at the Goffs Orby Sale at Doncaster and I met John. He was looking at Tranquil Lady going around the ring and I told him it was a nice filly who was going to sell well and that the two-year-old was quite nice as well. That was State Of Rest. He said, 'she might be one we'd be interested in doing a foal share with,' so that's how it came about.”

He added, “I bought Monaassabaat here in 2007. It's been a long time in the making but we have done very well. A lot of people will say we are selling one of our crown jewels but sometimes you have to do that to keep the whole show running.”

 

 

State Of Rest retired to Rathbarry Stud in Ireland with Saratoga Derby, Cox Plate, Prix Ganay and Prince Of Wales's S. triumphs to his name. O'Brien said that he was keen to secure the little sister to one of the smartest horses that he has trained and confirmed that he fully expected to have to shell out high six figures to get the job done. 

He said, “Obviously State Of Rest was a horse who progressed from two to three and this filly had a lot of quality and is medium-sized. We loved her from the moment we saw her and Sea The Stars is one of the best stallions in the world and the mare has proved herself as an outstanding producer. She will make a fantastic racing prospect in the short term and a brilliant breeding prospect further down the line. She will run for an existing client.”

 

 

Mike Repole Bolsters Turf Squad With Two Kingman Fillies

One of the major subplots of the Goffs Orby Sale in recent years has been the strength of the American investment. In Tuesday's preview, Goffs chief Henry Beeby paid a handsome compliment to the US agent to the sales company Jacob West, who has helped drive interest in the Orby among his American counterparts. 

Not only that, but West came up trumps on day one when signing for two different Kingman (GB) fillies on behalf of American powerhouse owner Mike Repole to the tune of €600,000. 

Speaking after signing for a €400,000 daughter of the high-class Group 2 winner Bocca Baciata (Ire) (Big Bad Bob {Ire}) (lot 260) from Glenvale Stud, West said, “She was kind of the pick of the litter from a filly perspective. She was bought for Mike Repole to go back to America so I'd assume she'll go into training with Todd Pletcher. We'll keep our fingers crossed as we're opening up a new turf division for Mike. 

“We've bought two Kingmans today and as I got off the phone to Mike just now he said don't call him tomorrow because he's done! That's Mike Repole in a nutshell. The update with the filly winning today only helped and we're happy to secure her. Kingman has done well in America, I think his stock appreciates the firm going that we have.”

That update came when Bocca Baciata's daughter Foniska (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) made all to win the Navigation S. at Cork for Jessica Harrington, who also trained the dam.

West added, “We've bid on a few today but it's strong for the right ones, there's plenty of trade. I love this sale, it produces top runners year after year. I feel like there's value here and they're raised right and come from good people. It's a great sale.” 

Frankel Colt Stars As Godolphin Make Return To The Orby

Godolphin returned to the Orby Sale market in style when snapping up a Frankel (GB) colt (lot 32) from Yeomanstown Stud for €625,000 before adding a Dubawi (Ire) colt (lot 100) from Ballylinch Stud for €400,000 and a Teofilo (Ire) filly (lot 168) for €190,000 from Baroda Stud. 

A buying team of Anthony Stroud, Charlie Appleby and David Loder saw off a determined challenge from Mark McStay for the Frankel colt out of Promised Money (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), a Listed-winning sprinter for Eddie Lynam and producer of Listed winner Salimah (Ire) (El Kabeir) and G2 Mill Reef S. runner-up Fivethousandtoone (Ire) (Frankel {GB}).

“He's for Godolphin,” said Stroud after signing for the Frankel colt. “Charlie, David and myself all saw this horse and we all liked him very much. 

“He's by Frankel and comes from a very good farm. He's very smooth and came within the range we thought he would. He's just a very nice horse.” 

Godolphin had been absent from the Orby since 2019, where their purchases included the subsequent Group 1-winning sprinter Creative Force (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}).

 

 

McStay Goes To 400k For Daughter Of No Nay

He may have been out of luck on the Frankel colt but McStay had more than one hand to play on the afternoon and the chips were firmly down on lot 156, a No Nay Never filly bought from Glenvale Stud for €400,000. 

Out of Juddmonte's black-type performer Ultrasonic (Mizzen Mast), the No Nay Never was reported to have been top of McStay's wish list on what proved to be a busy afternoon for the agent.

“She's as nice as there is on the grounds here today,” he said. “I thought the price was probably right because the sire is having a phenomenal year and she has a very good pedigree; what's not to like? There was plenty of competition so I'm delighted to get her.” 

The No Nay Never filly was purchased for an unnamed client and no trainer was revealed, however, McStay also featured among the buyers for lot 87, a Fastnet Rock (Aus) filly for €200,000 on behalf of well-known connections. 

She was consigned by Marlhill House Stud and is on her way to Donnacha O'Brien and will run for Medallion Racing, the part-owners of the brilliant G3 Albany S. winner Porta Fortuna (Ire) (Caravaggio). 

Medallion also added a Ten Sovereigns (Ire) filly (lot 116) to their haul from Glenvale Stud for €98,000 and she will go into training with Paddy Twomey.

  • Al Shira'aa Farms lit the touch paper for the sale when going to €200,000 for the second lot into the ring, the Whitehall Stud-drafted American Pharoah half-sister to Group 1 winner Onesto (Ire) (Frankel {GB}).  Not long afterwards, Kieran Lalor, who buys on behalf of the powerful owner-breeder, added a Wootton Bassett (GB) filly (lot 12) out of a sister to Saxon Warrior (Jpn) for €250,000. She was consigned by WH Bloodstock.
  • Pinhooking profits always make for encouraging reading and few do it better than Tally-Ho Stud. Lot 86 is as good an example as any. Bought for 130,000gns from Ringfort Stud at the Tattersalls December Foal Sales, the Ghaiyyath (Ire) filly out of a Listed-placed Zoffany (Ire) mare realised €360,000 to Peter and Ross Doyle. Meanwhile, lot 31, a Havana Grey (GB) half-brother to The Wizard Of Eye (Ire) (Galileo Gold {GB}), was picked up for €52,000 from Pipe View Stud in November. He was on Tuesday sold to Sackville Donald and Dermot Farrington for €180,000.
  • Paula Flannery was another to pull off a shrewd pinhook on the day when her 23,000gns Havana Grey (GB) foal purchase rocked into €140,000. Lot 148 was consigned by Ballyvolane Stud and was bought by Andrew Balding.
  • Mick Kinane was another busy buyer at Goffs on Tuesday. On behalf of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, Kinane bought an Acclamation (GB) colt (lot 19) from Rathbarry Stud for €280,000 and a No Nay Never colt (lot 201) from Baroda Stud for €240,000. 
  • At close of play on Tuesday, the aggregate, average and median had all dropped by 10% compared to the corresponding day's trade 12 months ago. However, many of the big-ticket lots are still to come on Wednesday, including the eagerly-anticipated Stauffenberg Bloodstock draft. Turnover stood at €24,287,500, while the average was €112,443 and the median €85,000.
Redvers Goes To 460k For “Rockstar” Wootton Bassett

David Redvers described the third most expensive horse to go through the ring on the day, a €460,000 Wootton Bassett (GB) colt out of the brilliant racemare Albigna (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}), as “a rockstar individual” before revealing the lofty plans in store. 

The Camas Park Stud-drafted colt (lot 205) was bought on behalf of a new partnership between Sheikh Fahad, the China Horse Club and expanding British-based owner David Howden, best known for owning the high-class Running Lion (GB) (Roaring Lion).

The partnership are in search of colts who have the potential of becoming stallions and, in the Wootton Bassett colt out of Albigna, Redvers certainly fitted the brief on paper at least. 

Speaking shortly after signing the docket, Redvers said, “This colt has been on our minds since we first saw him. We are trying to buy horses for a partnership of Sheikh Fahad, the China Horse Club and David Howden with a view of hopefully, one day, turning them into a stallion. He's by a phenomenal sire of high-class two-year-olds. He is a rockstar individual. Hopefully he will be a top-class two-year-old.”

Albigna, of course, will form part of the exciting draft of high-class Niarchos-owned broodmares that will go under the hammer at Goffs in November. Expertly trained by Jessica Harrington, Albigna carried the colours of the Niarchos family to victory in the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac in 2019. 

Redvers continued, “It's always nice knowing there is a genuine reason for a sale, especially with top-class bloodlines like this. If it had come up from another hotel, you might have thought, 'why are they selling it?' But there is a straightforward reason as to why he has turned up at the sales and we all have the opportunity to look at these mares in November. Genuine Group 1-winning mares producing horses like this, they are as rare as hen's teeth.”

Indeed, Goffs has been a happy hunting ground for Redvers and Sheikh Fahad in the past, and connections will be hoping for similar luck with their new acquisition.

“This place has been very kind to us,” Redvers added. “We've bought some lovely horses here in the past. Sheikh Fahad's first Group 1 winner, Lightning Pearl (Ire) (Marju {Ire}), came out of here, as did his first Classic winner in Simple Verse (Ire) (Duke Of Marmalade {Ire}). We hope to make a stallion out of this one.”

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Revelation And Vindication – The Story Behind Brilliant Broodmare Repose

Few broodmares carry a more impressive combination than Repose (Quiet American), who landed a left and right hook with State Of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) and Tranquil Lady (Ire) (Australia {GB}), and she's far from finished after it was announced this week that she would be joining the Juddmonte broodmare band after a deal was struck with Tinnakill House Stud.

Dermot Cantillon, the man behind Tinnakill, of which Group 1 winners Alexander Goldrun, Red Evie, Casamento and more recently State Of Rest are graduates, revealed that the Repose story is as much about vindication as it is revelation.

It was a November day in 2007 when Cantillon put his shoulders back and took a punt on a then 17-year-old mare called Monaassabaat (Zilzal).

According to Cantillon, she ticked a lot of the right boxes, being by a stallion with brilliance and from an exceptional family.

The one drawback, although Cantillon didn't see it that way, was her age, which may explain why he secured the mare for just €42,000.

Monaassabaat is a proven producer of black-type performers, including Prince Alzain (Street Sense) and Echo River (Irish River {Fr}), but it is Repose, who never managed to make it to the track, who has put the pedigree in lights.

They say the secret to becoming an overnight success is a lifetime of hard work and, in Cantillon's case, nurturing the bloodlines of the globetrotting star State Of Rest and genuine Oaks contender Tranquil Lady began when he took a punt on a mare that many others would have deemed too old back in 2007.

“The fundamentals we adhere to are strong,” Cantillon explained. “We always try and get into female families where the black-type is substantial and of good quality. That particular family featured one of the best mares ever in America, It's In The Air (Mr. Prospector) and we bought her daughter, Monaassabaat, quite cheaply.

“When we bred Repose, she was owned in partnership with Pat and Kim Hayes, who worked for me at the time, and I subsequently bought out the share. I bought Monaassabaat from Darley at Goffs in 2007. She was a Maktoum Al Maktoum-owned mare and, if you were to look down through the pedigree, it was a fantastic family, so that was a big attraction for me.”

He added, “I remember Monaassabaat because I was mad about Zilzal and, if memory serves me correct, she may have been the first stakes winner by Zilzal. I thought he had brilliance as a sire and was a Nureyev horse so, in my mind, it was ticking boxes.

“At the time I bought her, I had just purchased a farm in Kentucky and I thought she would be a very good mare to have over there given she had a strong American pedigree. We sent her over there and, out of her, we bred Prince Alzain, who was the first stakes winner for Street Sense.”

Repose never made it to the sales in America but, thinking he might have something different to offer potential buyers in Ireland, Cantillon elected to roll the dice at the Orby Sale at Goffs in 2013, but she failed to sell.

Acknowledging his luck, Cantillon recalled, “She held entries in the November Foal Sales at Keeneland in 2012 and was also entered in the sales at Keeneland the following January but she didn't attend either of those because I didn't think I would get much for her.

“I decided to bring her back to Ireland and offer her at the Goffs Orby Sale thinking she would be a bit different but she didn't sell. I had 10 yearlings that year and I sold nine but couldn't sell her.”

He added, “In actual fact, I sold Chicago Dancer (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}), whose first yearling made 1 million gns, so it wasn't a bad consignment looking back at it now.”

After failing to sell as a yearling, Repose was put into training before it was reported that she wouldn't make it as a racehorse and, while her first foal–as they often can be–was disappointing, she has quickly earned revelationary status as a broodmare.

Cantillon explained, “She has been an outstanding producer from two very different sires in Starspangledbanner and Australia. When you watch a horse that you have bred go on to win a race, it's like having a winner of your own without the expenses, and we have been given huge pleasure by State Of Rest. In fact, one of the greatest thrills of my life was watching him winning the Cox Plate.”

The State Of Rest story may never have been written had Cantillon not been prepared to take on an older mare but, along with the help of his wife Meta Osborne, an industry-renowned vet, it has been an avenue the stud have enjoyed huge success with down through the years.

Cantillon said, “Monaassabaat was 17 when we bought her. If you get a foal that looks the part out of an older mare, the chances are that it is the part. What happens with older mares, a lot of them are bred to first-season sires, who are unproven and chances are that one out of 10 of those sires will be good. There's a big bias with mares as they get older. When they are young, they tend to get bred to more proven sires, so of course they are going to produce much better horses.

“Meta is very good at what she does and treats mares as individuals. She thinks about them a lot and is at the cutting edge of managing older mares. We don't put ourselves under massive pressure with regards to expectations either. If we buy a mare who is 15 years' of age or older, we would be thinking that if we could get them in foal every second year, that would be good. We'd love to get them in foal every year but don't get too disheartened if we don't.”

Repose joined Juddmonte in foal to Frankel (GB), with Cantillon retaining a Sea The Stars (Ire) filly foal alongside Sunderland Holdings, although a decision has yet to be made on whether she will be offered at public auction as a foal or a yearling.

In the meantime, the pedigree could be set for yet another boost, with State Of Rest bidding for his first Group 1 on home shores when he lines up in the Tattersalls Ireland Gold Cup at the Curragh on Sunday, while Cantillon has already made plans to travel to Epsom to see Tranquil Lady tackle the Oaks. The story continues.

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State Of Rest’s Dam Sold To Juddmonte

Repose (Quiet American), the dam of treble Group/Grade 1 winner State Of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) and Classic-entered Tranquil Lady (Ire) (Australia {GB}), has been bought by Juddmonte Farms.

Bred by Dermot Cantillon and Meta Osborne of Tinnakill House, the 10-year-old daughter of noted broodmare sire Quiet American has already hit the jackpot with two of her first three foals. State Of Rest is a rare top-level winner in three different countries, having won the Belmont Derby in America and Australia's Cox Plate last season before adding the Prix Ganay to his tally on his most recent outing in France. On Sunday he takes aim at the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh, and it has already been announced that the 4-year-old will shuttle between Ireland's Rathbarry Stud and Newgate Farm in Australia upon his eventual retirement to stud.

Repose's third foal, Tranquil Lady, races in the Teme Valley Racing colours sported by her elder sibling last year, and she holds entries for the Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas and Cazoo Oaks, having won the G3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Blue Wind S. in impressive fashion on her last start.

 A statement released by Cantillon and Osborne on Thursday read, “We are delighted to announce that Juddmonte have purchased Repose, the dam of Tinnakill-bred multiple Group 1 winner State of Rest and Oaks contender Tranquil Lady.

“Repose, a Tinnakill homebred, has given great joy to our family and her success is a testament to the hard work of Ian Thompson and the whole team at Tinnakill.

“We are delighted to entrust Repose to our friends at Juddmonte where we have no doubt she will continue to flourish for years to come with access to the world's best stallions.

“What began as a retained homebred filly has turned into an amazing journey seeing her blossom into one of the world's most promising broodmares, nurtured throughout on our family farm in Laois. We have retained her Sea The Stars filly foal and we look forward to cheering her progeny for years to come.”

Cantillon and Osborne bought Repose's dam, the Gainsborough-bred Listed winner Monaassabaat (Zilzal), from Goffs in November 2007 for €42,000. The mare was 16 at the time and she went on to produce Listed Churchill S. winner Prince Alzain (Street Sense). The unraced Repose, who is currently in foal to Frankel (GB), is a grand-daughter of the multiple champion American filly It's In The Air (Mr Prospector), whose 16 wins included five at Grade 1 level.

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State Of Rest’s Dam To Visit Frankel

Repose (Quiet American), the dam of last year's G1 Cox Plate and GI Saratoga Derby Invitational winner State Of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), will visit champion sire Frankel (GB) this year, owner Dermot Cantillon told the TDN. The 10-year-old mare is in foal to Sea The Stars (Ire) and is due to foal soon.

State Of Rest is the second foal out of Repose, and he was bought by Diamond Bloodstock for 45,000gns as a foal before being pinhooked for 60,000gns when purchased as a yearling by Aiden O'Ryan and Joseph O'Brien. He started out racing for the Long Wait Partnership before being bought privately by Teme Valley Racing. State Of Rest ran just three times last year but made of the most of his opportunities; after finishing third in The Curragh's Listed Celebration S. on June 26, he shipped to New York to win the Saratoga Derby. He traveled to Australia off 77 days' rest, but made it a Group 1 double when besting the G1 Caulfield Guineas winner Anamoe (Aus) (Street Boss) by a short head.

Teme Valley also races Repose's 3-year-old filly Tranquil Lady (Ire) (Australia {GB}), who broke her maiden at second asking in September before finishing second in the Listed Staffordstown Stud S. Repose has a newly turned 2-year-old filly by Dandy Man (Ire) who was bought by American trainer Tony Dutrow for €180,000 at Goffs Orby, and she was rested for 2021 before being covered by Sea The Stars.

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