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Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale Gets Underway On Monday

Graduates Knights Order (Ire) (So You Think {NZ}) and Zaaki (GB) (Leroidesanimaux {BRZ}) have amassed four wins at the highest level in Australia between themselves while Hong Kong Harry (Ire) (Es Que Love {Ire}) paid another compliment to the Autumn Horses in Training Sale at Newmarket by winning a Group 2 in America just last month.

That may go some way to explaining why buyers were braving the elements on a day made for ducks on the eve of this sale at Park Paddocks on Sunday.

The 85,000gns that Boomer Bloodstock paid for Hong Kong Harry 12 months ago is working out at a snip and leading bloodstock agent Caig Rounsefell is back in search of his next high class runner.

He said, “It's been a great sale for me down through the years. Hong Kong Harry has turned out to be a great buy and it looks like he's getting better and better. I enjoy this sale because you don't have to buy the best horse on offer, you just have to buy the one that is going to be best suited to the conditions where they are being bought for.

“If you can find those ones, say for California, they can really thrive and improve. It's always a bit of a treasure hunt. Watching lots of videos and checking the physicals and it's all packed into four days. It's good fun.”

Rounsefell added, “We do quite a bit of background work leading into this sale but I'm mainly looking at horses for California. Conformation is pretty critical when you're buying horses for California with the firm tracks and having to train on the dirt every day. I don't know why but, every year, the first day is always quiet for me and it looks that way again this year.”

Coolmore's High Definition (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Waterville (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), along with Group 3-winning juvenile Eddie's Boy (GB) (Havana Grey {GB}), are just a selection of the offerings that are expected to fetch quacking sums this week as the four-day sale kicks off on Monday morning at 9.30am.

After withdrawals, a total of 305 winners and winners in waiting will walk through the ring in the opening session, with George Boughey's Royal Ascot winner Inver Park (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) one of the highlights.

Another former graduate of the sale, Pied Piper (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), confirmed himself a possible Champion Hurdle contender when winning on his seasonal reappearance at Cheltenham in impressive fashion on Saturday and Gordon Elliott was in attendance at Newmarket on Sunday as he searched for the next star recruit to the jumping game.

Pied Piper, a Grade 2 winner over hurdles last season and now just 16-1 to win next year's Champion Hurdle, was knocked down to Joey Logan on behalf of Andrew and Gemma Brown of Caldwell Construction for 225,000gns 12 months ago.

Sydney Cup winner Knights Order was snapped up here by McKeever Bloodstock and Gai Waterhouse in 2018 for 250,000gns while Zaaki, the triple Group 1 winner down under, made 150,000gns to Blandford Bloodstock and Annabel Neasham two years ago.

It's the Aidan O'Brien-trained 2020 G2 Beresford S. winner and this year's narrow G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup runner-up High Definition [lot 754A] and Irish Cesarewtich scorer and potential Cup horse Waterville [275 ] who are expected to take highest rank this week.

Both horses are just the types to drive foreign interest, of which there was a strong presence on Sunday, particularly with Middle Eastern buyers out in force. All told, a whopping 1,189 horses will go through the ring at Tattersalls this week.

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Shadwell Draft Heads Final Session Of Record-Breaking Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale

The final day of the record-breaking Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale was dominated by the Shadwell Estates consignment which was responsible for the top five lots, including the session topping Laatansa who realized 250,000 guineas.

The strength of the earlier sessions continued into the fourth day with significant rises in all key indicators resulting in the sale recording a record turnover, average and median, all of which rose substantially compared with last year's sale.

The top price on the final day was 250,000 guineas for the 2-year-old Laatansa who has finished third on his last two starts for trainer Ed Dunlop. The son of New Bay was greeted by a packed sales ring and after some early brisk flurries, the bidding soon settled into a head-to-head battle between the Najd Stud team and Ronald Rauscher, with the former successful at what is the second highest price for the final session of this sale.

Najd Stud's Saad bin Mishraf had left Park Paddocks bound for Saudi Arabia, leaving Saudi-based trainer and consultant Saud al Qahtani in charge of bidding and taking instructions over the telephone.

“Saad called me and told me not to leave here without this horse. He is a beautiful horse and a lovely physical. He is by a very promising stallion, whose progeny are booming. He has a very good family and we hope he will be a very good horse next year.

“We have bought 14 horses here this week and they are of great quality. We will have a great race in Saudi Arabia at the end of February, our race will be the destination for all the very best horses from Europe and America, and our Jockey Club racing manager is doing a great job.”

Laatansa was third at Newmarket on his most recent appearance and was offered with a 'Timeform' rating of 86. He is out of the Listed placed Rock of Gibraltar mare Louve Rare, herself a half-sister to the Group 2 winner and triple Group 1 placed Loup Breton.

The Najd Stud and Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock team purchased fourteen lots this week totaling 2,791,000 guineas, whilst Shadwell Estates' consignment saw a total of 118 lots realise 5,238,500 guineas.

At the conclusion of the 2021 Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;

“An extraordinary renewal of a unique sale. There is no sale in the world quite like the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale and there has never been one quite like the sale that has just taken place.

“Records for turnover, average and median are always notable landmarks for any sale, but when the record margins are so large it suggests that maybe new factors have come into play and to an extent that may have been the case this week. There is no doubt that the major consignment from the late Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum's Shadwell Estates has introduced a new dynamic. A consignment of that size and quality does not go unnoticed and the buyers have seized the rare opportunity to source horses from one of the finest owner/breeder operations in the world.

“Additionally, the numerous racing carnivals that now take place during the Autumn and Winter months throughout the Gulf region have had a huge impact on the sale. Buyers from the Gulf have been major contributors to Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sales for many years, but new racing opportunities have brought buyers from the region in even greater numbers than before and crucially, they have been active at all levels of the market.

“Equally important has been the sustained success-driven demand throughout the sale from Australian connections and this has been despite continued difficulties surrounding travel. There will be around 40 horses heading to Australia from this week's sale and that is in addition to the 30 or so yearlings which were purchased at the recent Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. The Australian buyers deserve huge praise for their collective commitment using every means possible to continue buying here despite being unable to travel and we look forward to them being rewarded with more success along the lines of recent Tattersalls Australian superstars Zaaki and Russian Camelot.

“The strong domestic demand we saw at our yearling sales has also been replicated and we can not only look back on a successful month at Tattersalls, but also take encouragement as we look forward to the Tattersalls December Foal and Mares Sale which, similar to this week, features outstanding consignments from Godolphin, Juddmonte Farms and Shadwell Estates.”

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Boltaway Leads Third Session Of Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale

The third session of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale continued the remarkable momentum of the second with exceptional trade resulting in turnover in excess of 10 million guineas, breaking the record aggregate for the sale. Ten lots sold for over 200,000 guineas and the clearance rate was a remarkable 93 percent.

The Juddmonte draft is a customary highlight of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale and it provided the top lot on the third day of this year's renewal when Boltaway was knocked down to Najd Stud and Peter and Ross Doyle for 400,000 guineas.

The 3-year-old Dubawi colt is out of the four-time Grade 1 winning mare Proviso and has shown smart form himself with four wins from six starts for Roger Charlton this season, earning a 'Timeform' rating of 100.

Najd Stud representative Saad bin Mishraf commented:

“We tried to buy this horse privately but that wasn't possible and so we waited for this sale. It's proved to be one of the toughest markets I have ever seen for horses in training. He's by Dubawi, whose offspring have succeeded in Saudi Arabia and out of a Dansili mare, and Dansilis have done very well in Saudi Arabia so he had the right pedigree. He also had size and good feet for racing on dirt.

“He has not been over-raced and he vetted 100 percent, which was one of the main reasons for trying to buy him. All the races in Saudi Arabia are on the up, with better prize money sometimes increased by four or five times. There are races for locally-bred horses and imported horses, and while we don't have many imported horses the ones we have are very good.”

The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale continues with the fourth and final session at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28.

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Grocer Jack, Hannibal Barca Lead Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale’s Second Session

Grocer Jack and Hannibal Barca were the highlights on an electric second day of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale, selling for 700,000 and 500,000 guineas respectively. The turnover for the day breached the 11 million guineas mark, a record for a session of the sale, whilst the average and median again showed significant increases and the clearance rate was above 90 percent.

Grocer Jack became the equal third highest priced horse in training sold at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale when he was knocked down to Saad bin Mishraf and Peter Doyle for 700,000 guineas.

“He is for the Saudi Cup, and with that rating he will definitely be accepted for the race,” explained Najd Stud's representative Saad bin Mishraf.

“Hopefully, he will act on the dirt, we hoped we might get him for 400,000 guineas – it was tough competition and I think it was from people with the same target!

“The prize-money fund at the Saudi Cup is driving up the market for the right horses. And it is not just the Saudi Cup, there are other valuable races on that card, too – Saudi is becoming very important on the international racing scene.”

A realistic Mishraf added: “No matter what you spend, sometimes it works, sometimes it won't work. You can spend three million on a yearling and it won't break its maiden, and that is the same everywhere.”

The 4-year-old son of Oasis Dream was owned and bred by Dr Christoph Berglar and trained by Waldemar Hickst and was a winner of the Group 3 Preis der Deutschen Einheit on his most recent start, having been second in the Group 1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis on his previous start.

“That was, by a long margin, more than I expected! I thought he might make between 300,000 guineas and 500,000 guineas,” reasoned consignor Ronald Rauscher. “But obviously we had a situation of two people going logger heads, and that makes a big difference.”

Out of the Doyen mare Good Donna, Grocer Jack was consigned with a 'Timeform' rating of 117 and also caught the attention of underbidder Michael Donohoe of BBA Ireland and local agent Armando Duarte.

Rauscher recalled the background to Grocer Jack: “I bought the mare Good Donna for Dr Christoph Berglar in-foal to Solider Hollow. That foal became a stakes winner and then we followed up with Jack. The mare has done nothing wrong, she is by Doyen but he was underrated – he had a very good average on ratings, especially for his fillies.

“Grocer Jack has not put a foot wrong for us, and I hope that continues for his new connections. He is a very fluent mover, and I think he prefers fast ground.”

Hannibal Barca, fourth in the Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy on Saturday on just his third start, was the second highest price on the day when selling for 500,000 guineas to the bid of BBA Ireland's Michael Donohoe.

“The horse looks very impressive. His maiden victory was very impressive and I thought it was a superb run in that ground at the weekend,” commented the agent. “I don't think he may have handled it all that well, but he was gutsy and it was his determination that got him through it.

“He is still quite green and he is a lovely big scopey horse, 16.1 hands with a lot of scope to him. We think he is very progressive.”

Of the colt's new connections, Donohoe said: “He has been bought for an existing client who has a couple of horses in England, Ireland and France, and he may stay in training here. We are not sure what the plans are with him, the first thing was to get him bought and we will make the plan after. He could obviously be a horse for the Classics next year, he could have the speed for a mile but I think in time he could stay 1m4f.

“We are very happy to get him. He is very clean, he has a lovely attitude and temperament, he did not turn a hair there the couple of times we saw him or in the pre-parade ring. He is rated 111, by next May or June today's price could be good value.”

Hannibal Barca is by Zoffany out of the Galileo mare Innocent Air and his sale price was the third highest for a 2-year-old in training at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale. He has run his three races in Sam Sangster's blue and green colors, and Sangster was at Park Paddocks to watch the horse sell. He explained his feelings as he watched the colt he had purchased for £55,000 have his market value increase nearly ten-fold.

“I am still buzzing, it was emotional really,” Sangster revealed. “Brian and I buy a lot of horses together on spec and we put them in the shop window, he was one of them. We loved him as a yearling, but with the year of COVID we struggled to get people to the yard and he was one of the horses we did not get sold.

“We have a lot of confidence in the horses we buy, so we raced him; full credit to Brian who believed in the horse to take him to the Doncaster race, Brian targeted the race for him. He has such a bright future, we are obviously gutted to see him go but it was good business all round.”

Top class 2-year-old colt Maglev, who was a last start fifth in the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes for trainer William Haggas, is set to head 'Stateside' after being purchased by California-based Tim Cohen of Red Baron's Barn for 300,000 guineas.

Cohen is at Newmarket with his son Cole, and was sat alongside his regular advisor Alastair Donald and Kern Thoroughbred's Joe Miller. Cohen signed under the regular purchasing banner of Red Baron's Barn & Rancho Temescal, and purchased the subsequent Grade 1 winner River Boyne at this sale in 2017 for 70,000 guineas.

“Towards the end of the year there are a couple of stakes races in California, but it is the 3-year-old year that we are looking forward to” reported Cohen of his purchase today. “His form is excellent, he vetted well, I thought one of the better two-year-olds in this sale. Alastair and Joe were very confident and we kept going.

“We've had good success with the horses we have taken back from here. We look for horses who can handle firm ground, that is what we are keen on.”

Maglev, a son of first-season sire Galileo Gold, is official rated 102 and raced for the Kuwaiti-based M M Stables who have also campaigned the top class Alenquer in 2021.

The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale continues at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27.

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