Bred and raced by the Elite Racing Club and trained by Sir Mark Prescott, Marsha made the first nine starts of her career at eight different venues across England and Ireland, winning listed events at Ayr and York in the summer of 2016 before venturing beyond the borders of the United Kingdom for the first time. She made the final two starts of her 3-year-old season at Chantilly, finishing runner-up in the G3 Prix du Petit Couvert before causing a 23-1 boilover in the G1 Prix de l'Abbaye.

Never out of the top three in her first six appearances as a 4-year-old in 2017, Marsha won the G3 Palace House S. on seasonal debut ahead of a third-place effort to Lady Aurelia (Scat Daddy) when favoured in the G1 King's Stand S. at the Royal meeting. Placed in the G2 Sapphire S. at the Curragh and in the G2 Qatar S. at Goodwood, she reversed form with Lady Aurelia in the G1 Nunthorpe S. prior to a runner-up effort to Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the Abbaye. She was unplaced in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint and retired with a record of 10-5-2-2 for earnings of $496,881.

Marsha proved the star turn at the 2017 Tattersalls December Mare Sale, hammering to M.V. Magnier for 6 million guineas (nearly $8.5 million), a record price for a horse sold at auction in Europe. Her first foal, the 3-year-old filly Tender Kiss (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) was well-beaten on Leopardstown debut this past April and her two most recent foals are by Frankel (GB)–a yearling filly and a colt foal.

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Consigned by @jenny_norris, this G3 winner has been bought by @LordshipStud. Her dam sold for 800,000gns yesterday. pic.twitter.com/yGENyXubuf

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This G1 daughter of Saxon Warrior @coolmorestud was consigned by @BoherguyStud and has been bought by @BBAIreland for 1,000,000gns. pic.twitter.com/9oPI5qAqGS

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Consigned by @jenny_norris, ARCHANGEL GABRIEL is in foal to St Mark's Basilica and has been bought by Hunscote Stud at #TattsDecember pic.twitter.com/A0kefPVqhc

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14.28 Kempton, Nov, £9,900, 3yo/up, f/m, 8f (AWT)
Godolphin's hitherto unraced 3-year-old distaffer WHISPERING ROMANCE (IRE) (Kingman {GB}) was one of nine millionaires at Tattersalls' 2020 October Book 1 fixture and makes her belated debut for Charlie Appleby in this one-mile test. Her eight rivals include the once-raced John and Thady Gosden trainee Lady Loulou (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), who is a out of a Group-placed half-sister to MG1SW sire Lope De Vega (Ire) (Shamardal).

15.38 Kempton, Mdn, £16,000, 2yo, 8f (AWT)
Sunderland Holdings' AMLETO (IRE) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) was the highest-priced Tattersalls December yearling at 240,000gns last year and debuts for the William Haggas stable responsible for his G1 Irish Oaks and G1 Yorkshire Oaks-winning full-sister and G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe runner-up Sea Of Class (Ire). The June foal's seven stakes siblings also include G1 Premio Lydia Tesio-winning G2 Oaks d'Italia heroines Charity Line (Ire) (Manduro {Ger}) and Final Score (Ire) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}). His opponents are headed by Valmont's once-raced €120,000 Goffs Orby yearling Mr Buster (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who is out of an unraced full-sister to MG1SW champion Islington (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), from the Ralph Beckett stable; and Pat Fitzsimons's Blue Antares (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), a once-raced half to MG1SW sire Blue Point (Ire) (Shamardal), who travels south from Charlie and Mark Johnston's Yorkshire base.

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Those results were extra-special for Sheila, Cathy and Sally Ann Grassick because both Flotus and Shades Of Blue are descendants of mares purchased and cultivated by the stud's late patriarch, the highly respected horseman Brian Grassick.

“It was such an evening,” recalled Cathy Grassick, who runs Newtown Stud and Brian Grassick Bloodstock alongside her mother Sheila and sister Sally Ann. “Myself and Sally Ann were there together and it was such an emotional evening. It was really a culmination of a long effort with those families and to be able to do that with them was amazing.”

Fittingly in a year where buyers, including Grassick, clamoured to purchase mares from extra-large Shadwell drafts, both Flotus and Shades Of Blue descend from mares that Brian Grassick purchased from Sheikh Hamdan.

“I was still going back to the well this year buying mares from Shadwell,” Grassick said. “My father always said, 'buy from people who breed their horses well, because they are the families that keep coming back.'”

The sequence began when Brian Grassick purchased the winning Mathaayl (Shadeed), for a client, out of the Goffs November sale in 1999 for 42,000 Irish pounds. Mathaayl's first two foals had been winners, but she went through the ring off an unfortunate run of four blank years. Sent to Unfuwain the following spring, Mathaayl produced a filly that was bought back by Shadwell for 180,000gns as a yearling. Named Sahool (Ire), she reversed Mathaayl's fortunes by giving her a first black-type foal with a win in the Listed Chalice S. and placings in the G2 Ribblesdale S. and G2 Lancashire Oaks.

Mathaayl's fortunes temporarily reversed thereafter, her next six foals either unraced or unplaced. She was offered again by owner John Davis at the 2006 Tattersalls December Mares Sale, where Brian Grassick purchased her for himself for 29,000gns.

“Mathaayl came back up in the sale carrying to Alhaarth, and my father was just besotted by this mare, and always had been, and he decided he was going to buy her,” Cathy Grassick said. “He wanted to buy her to get a filly from her because he really loved this mare. Unfortunately, my father never lived to see a filly.”

Mathaayl produced a colt by Alhaarth (Ire) in 2007 and, in 2009, a colt by King's Best that was born about a month after Grassick's premature passing from cancer, aged just 54. Mathaayl's 2010 foal by Jeremy died, but at last in 2011, along came Brian Grassick's filly out of Mathaayl, a daughter of Verglas (Ire).

“My father so much longed for a filly [out of Mathaayl], and she didn't arrive until just after my father passed away,” Cathy Grassick said. “That was tough, but it was lovely, and she's by Verglas and she's called Enjoyable.”

Enjoyable went into training, Grassick explained, but was ultimately kept unraced after suffering a minor injury. She was covered by Kodiac at the age of four.

“My mother decided it wasn't worth risking her because she was so planned for and so longed for that we didn't want to risk racing her,” Grassick said. “So we kept her unraced and her first foal is Shades Of Blue.”

Shades Of Blue was bought by Rathbarry Stud for 105,000gns as a Tattersalls December Foal, and was a 110,000gns buyback when re-visiting the Park Paddocks ring the following autumn for Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. Racing for Alison Jones and trainer Clive Cox, Shades Of Blue won on debut at Ascot in May of 2018 before finishing third in the G2 Queen Mary S. Traveling to Maisons-Laffitte for the five-furlong Listed Prix Hampton the following June, Shades Of Blue earned a first black-type victory before stringing together second-place finishes in the G3 Summer S., Listed Flying Fillies' S. and the G3 Prix du Petit Couvert, the last of those when she was beaten a short neck by the future multiple Group 1 winner Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead). Returning to Tattersalls last December, Shades Of Blue was picked up by BBA Ireland for 320,000gns and put in foal to Frankel before her latest, and most lucrative, turn through the ring. She is set to visit Peter Brant's G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Sottsass (Fr) for her second mating.

“It's been really lovely to be so well-rewarded; my father really wanted that filly [Enjoyable] and to have her come out and produce a black-type horse with her first foal was amazing,” Grassick said. “Then to have that foal go on and turn up at the sales in foal to Frankel looking amazing-I have to say all credit to Bill Dwan, she looked a million dollars at the sale. And to have her come into the ring in foal to Frankel and make 850,000gns, it was spectacular.”

And despite her sometimes frustrating produce record, Brian Grassick was ultimately proven correct about Mathaayl by more than just Shades Of Blue. Today, seven of Mathaayl's daughters are stakes producers, and her descendants include the Group 2-winning sire Gutaifan (Ire); the dual G2 Hardwicke S. winner and multiple Group 1-placed Maraahel (Ire); the G1 Lockinge S. winner Mustashry (GB); this year's G2 Premio Gran Criterium scorer Don Chicco (GB); G3 Cumberland Lodge S. winner Laraaib (Ire); and G1 Premio Jockey Club winner and G1 St Leger second Ventura Storm (Ire). Enjoyable's yearling colt by Invincible Spirit will run in America after being purchased by Klaravich Stables for 170,000gns at Tattersalls in October, and Enjoyable is back in foal to Invincible Spirit, having not had a foal in 2021.

The Grassicks had to wait little more than an hour after Shades Of Blue's turn to see Brian's legacy once again honoured through the sale of Flotus. The foundations for her story were laid nearly 20 years ago, in the autumn of 2002, when Brian Grassick purchased the 9-year-old Naazeq (GB) (Nashwan) from Shadwell for $115,000, in partnership with Tim Pabst, at Keeneland November in foal to Elusive Quality. Naazeq had three foals of racing age at that stage, but it would still be almost two years before her filly Tamweel (Gulch) would win the Listed Mariah's Storm S. and finish second in the GI Spinster S. at Keeneland.

“My father was very enamoured with Elusive Quality,” Cathy Grassick said. “Naazeq was by Nashwan, whose influence as a broodmare sire needs no explanation. My dad really wanted an Elusive Quality filly.”

Unlike Mathaayl, Naazeq didn't make the Grassicks wait for their filly. She foaled a daughter of Elusive Quality five months later, and the filly was retained to race for Sheila Grassick and Joe Higgins. She was named Sharapova after rising tennis star Maria Sharapova.

“Mum and dad were away and they were watching tennis, and dad asked me to reserve the name Sharapova,” Grassick recalled. “We reserved the name and it was on the back of Joe Higgins having a very good horse called Dimitrova, who was very lucky, and dad liked the Russian-sounding name.”

Put into training with Brian Grassick's brother Michael Grassick at Fenpark Stables just down the road from Newtown Stud, Sharapova broke her maiden at The Curragh in her first start at three, and was retired back to the Newtown paddocks after an abbreviated 4-year-old campaign. Brian Grassick had been pivotal in the purchase of Invincible Spirit (Ire) to stand at the nearby Irish National Stud, and he and Sheila were shareholders in the Group 1-winning sprinter. Thus, Sharapova-now owned by the Grassicks in partnership with Matt Duffy–visited Invincible Spirit for her first covering in 2007 off the back of the horse's excellent first year with runners, a start that he would continually build on to become a perennial leading sire.

Sharapova produced an Invincible Spirit filly, later named Floriade (Ire), in the spring of 2008 and she was sold to Dick O'Gorman on behalf of Godolphin for 130,000gns at the Tattersalls Craven Sale. After Brian's death, Sharapova was sent through the sales ring to dissolve the partnership, with Duffy buying out Newtown.

“My mother really wanted to get back into the family, but we didn't have any of the other daughters and Naazeq had since retired as a broodmare,” Cathy Grassick said. “So I went looking for another daughter and found Floriade in the [December] sale in Arqana [in 2011] and we purchased her there for €15,000, back from Godolphin, and we started breeding from her.”

Floriade, now owned in partnership with the Grassicks' longtime friend and business associate Tim Pabst, started out with a touch of bad luck, losing her first two foals, but she soon began to show promise with colts by Nathaniel (Ire) and Iffraaj (GB) fetching €50,000 and 75,000gns at the sales. Floriade produced a filly by Starspangledbanner in 2019, and there was a feeling, Grassick said, that she was exactly what her father had had in mind when he bought Naazeq almost 20 years ago.

“Floriade then bred Flotus, and that was the result of generations of my father wanting an Elusive Quality mare,” Grassick said. “Flotus was beautiful from the moment she was born. It's one of the reasons that the mare is already back in foal to Starspangledbanner. When we were deciding who to send the mare to, having seen Flotus as a yearling, you couldn't but want to breed her back.”

Offered by Newtown Stud at Goffs November, Flotus was purchased for €65,000 by Glenvale Stud, which pinhooked her for 125,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when she was purchased by Arthur Hoyeau on behalf of a partnership. Sent to Simon and Ed Crisford, Flotus won by 4 3/4 lengths on debut at Goodwood in May, earning 'TDN Rising Star' status. She added the Listed Ripon Champion Two Yrs Old Trophy S. in August before finishing second to Tenebrism (Caravaggio) in the G1 Cheveley Park S., leading for all but the final five strides when caught late on.

“Simon Crisford's team have been so lovely and involved us, and Arthur Hoyeau, who bought her as a yearling-they have been so nice to us as breeders,” Grassick said. “Quite often that doesn't happen, but they've been so nice to us all and let us be slightly involved along the way. It's been such a pleasure and I really hope that Flotus gets to stay with the Crisfords, because they've done such an amazing job. Interestingly Simon Crisford also trains a filly called Miss Marble, who is by Iffraaj and has won her last two starts and who is out of a full-sister to Floriade. So he knows how to handle the family.”

Floriade has a yearling colt by Camacho that has been retained and will most likely race for Sheila Grassick and Tim Pabst. Like Enjoyable, Floriade didn't have a foal this year but is back in foal to Starspangledbanner and, unsurprisingly, already booked back to him for 2022. Sharapova, for her part, has also been a very useful producer, with Miss Marble's Group 1-placed dam Lottie Dod (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and the dual group-placed 2-year-old Rockaway Valley (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) in addition to Floriade.

Making Tattersalls all the more special was the fact that it came on the heels of an excellent foal sale for Newtown Stud at Goffs. Newtown brought eight foals to Kildare paddocks and sold all eight including the sale-topping Frankel (GB) half-sister to Classic winner and sire Sea The Moon (Ger) to Juddmonte Farms for €550,000. The Frankel filly, who was born and raised at Newtown, was sold on behalf of breeders Heike Bischoff and Niko Lafrentz of Gestut Gorlsdorf. Grassick got to know Bischoff and Lafrentz when they brought Sea The Moon to Tattersalls as a yearling in 2012.

“We met because of Sea The Moon; I fell in love with him as a bloodstock agent at the sales,” Grassick said. “They knew I was a big fan of his and that's how I got to know them.”

Sea The Moon was a 230,000gns buyback by his breeders.

“Unfortunately I didn't have enough money to buy him for my clients, but they retained him and we got to know each other then,” Grassick continued. “We kept in touch and not long after that they sent [his dam] Sanwa to Newtown. She was coming back to see Sea The Stars when Sea The Moon was a 2-year-old, and she boarded with us then and she's been back to visit us a few times. She's here with us still at the moment, which is a very big honour to be entrusted with something so precious. They've been great supporters of us and great friends.”

Grassick was quick to acknowledge, too, the contribution of the entire Newtown Stud team.

“For a small farm to bring eight foals to the sale and have the week we had at Goffs was a great result,” she said. “Caroline Hannon, who is our manager here, puts a huge amount of work into it, and we wouldn't be able to do what we do without her. It's been a real testament to the effort we've all put in and for myself, Sally Ann and mum it's great to be able to carry on dad's legacy. That's really important to all of us.”

This latest success, and everything that has come along the way, has, of course, been the realization of Brian and Sheila Grassick's vision all those years ago.

“My parents bought the farm together in 1996,” Grassick said. “They set it up together. And grew it from being their own personal broodmare band into a real commercial entity. When my dad passed away myself and my mum were running the farm until Sally Ann came back from France, and now the three of us work together with Caroline Hannon. The three of us work really well together with Caroline and it's gone from strength to strength. After my father passed away we increased the size of the farm; we purchased more land, which was very brave of my mother at the time. She's been amazing. She's put a lot of work and effort into the farm and it's really paid off now.

“It will be exciting to see what they go on to do now,” Grassick said of Flotus and Shades Of Blue. “It's great with those families going forward, and we have a lot of other young mares on the farm that we're hoping we can do the same with.”

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Before we get to that, however, we have one final day of yearlings to contend with. The December Yearling Sale can offer a second chance for a saunter round the ring for those who may have encountered a setback at earlier sales, but plenty of vendors opt to be included in this catalogue from the outset, whether to stand out in a smaller book, or to give a little extra time to a later-maturing yearling. 

The sale has been streamlined somewhat over the last few years to include around 200 yearlings–the exact number catalogued this year. 

Last year's topper at 300,000gns was a son of Sea The Stars (Ire) and the Oaks winner Talent (GB) (New Approach {Ire}) and it is not a stretch to think that the same sire might top the sale this time around as among the eight yearlings catalogued by Sea The Stars is a full-brother to Sea Of Class (Ire). Offered as lot 30 by Oak Lodge & Springfield House Stud, the June-foaled colt is not just kin to the late Irish Oaks winner but also to four other Group winners, with the tremendous breeding record of her dam Holy Moon (Ire) (Hernando {Fr}) taking up almost the entire catalogue page. 

There will doubtless be interest, too, in lot 47, consigned by New England Stud as the sole Galileo (Ire) yearling in the catalogue. With the same birthdate as the aforementioned colt of June 8, this fellow is a son of the G2 Prix de Sandringham winner Laugh Out Loud (GB) (Clodovil {Ire}) and his full-brother Platinum Warrior (Ire) is both a Grade II winner in the States and a Group 3 winner in Ireland.

Feast your eyes on the foals

There's almost nothing the bloodstock crowd loves more than to get a good look at the first batch of foals by each year's freshman sires. Opinions are quickly drawn, and sometimes have to be revised at a later date, but the acceptance or otherwise of a stallion's first crop by the foal pinhookers can play a big part in his future success at stud. 

The group that retired to stud in 2020 included a quartet of Classic winners, comprised of Godolphin's homebred Derby hero Masar (Ire), Coolmore's 2000 Guineas winner Magna Grecia (Ire), who is in danger of being usurped by his high-flying half-brother St Mark's Basilica (Fr), Irish 2000 Guineas winner Phoenix Of Spain (Ire), and the Niarchos-bred Prix du Jockey Club winner Study Of Man (Ire).

Prospective buyers can hardly have failed to notice the worldwide success this season of graduates of Kirsten Rausing's Lanwades Stud, which stands Deep Impact (Jpn)'s son Study Of Man and offers a weanling by the stallion under the operation's St Simon Stud banner. The colt, lot 859, is the first foal of the treble winner Quintada (GB) (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) and a grandson of the G1 Premio Lydia Tesio victrix Quiza Quiza Quiza (GB) (Golden Snake).

Masar's first batch of foals catalogued include a half-brother to the G2 Railway S. winner Beckford (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}), offered by Brook Stud as lot 890, while Norelands Stud, where Magna Grecia was born and raised, consigns a colt by him (lot 948) out of the listed winner Twitch (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}) and from the family of Hong Kong champion Viva Pataca (GB).

Waldgeist (GB) was a Group 1 winner at two and missed out by just a short-head when aiming for Classic glory in France but he more than made up for it by winning three more Group 1 races during his four seasons of racing, culminating in the Arc.  Having had all nine of his Goffs November foals sell last week for an average of €54,278 and top price of €180,000, Waldgeist has six weanlings on offer at Tattersalls. These include two fillies from his co-breeder, Newsells Park Stud, with lot 695 being a half-sister to listed winner and Group 2 runner-up Aljezeera (GB), who is by another son of Galileo in Frankel (GB).

The long list of freshman sires with first foals at Tattersalls is completed by Advertise (Ire), Blue Point (Ire), Calyx (GB), City Light (Fr), Crystal Ocean (GB), Eqtidaar (Ire), Flag Of Honour (Ire), Inns Of Court (Ire), Invincible Army (Ire), Land Force (Ire), Le Brivido (Fr), Portamento (Ire), Sogann (Fr), Soldier's Call (GB), Ten Sovereigns (Ire) and Too Darn Hot (GB).

Last week brought the sad announcement of the death of Cheveley Park Stud's celebrated stallion Pivotal (GB). The 28-year-old was pensioned last year and there are two chances to acquire members of his final crop at Tattersalls. A colt out of Royal Seal (GB) (Dansili {GB}), a full-sister to the Breeders' Cup winner Queen's Trust (GB), is among the Cheveley Park Stud draft as lot 589, while Drumroy Farm offers a filly from the family of multiple Group 1 winner Starcraft (NZ) as lot 1024.

Magnificent mares in abundance

We have already seen high levels of demand for quality breeding stock in America and Ireland in the last few weeks and that is unlikely to change as the sales season concludes in Britain and France.

A sad element of sales over the last few months has been the significant downsizing of the Shadwell racing and breeding operation, though as ever, dispersals and reductions of this nature offer tremendous opportunities for breeders to buy into bloodlines that do not regularly come onto the market. Sizeable drafts from major breeders are not unusual, however, though this year's offerings can perhaps be described as supersized. Furthermore, this year's catalogue includes 24 mares and fillies in a dispersal from Sir Robert Ogden and another eight from Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Thani's Al Shahania Stud.

“Particularly enticing for breeders from all over the world are not just the specific dispersals but effectively we have a dispersal numbering 224 lots from Godolphin, Juddmonte and Shadwell,” said Tattersalls marketing director Jimmy George. “These are not specifically referred to as dispersals but numerically it's bigger than ever and there are some really smart mares and fillies in there from these teams from some of the best families in the world.”

On the equine front, the bloodstock world has been dealt a great blow in 2021 with the deaths of Galileo (Ire) and Pivotal (GB), and there have also been the losses of some major owner/breeders.

George continued, “There were a very sad few months at the beginning of this year when we lost three such significant contributors to the industry in the shape of Prince Khalid Abdullah, David Thompson and Sheikh Hamdan.”

Among the 93 lots on offer from Shadwell is the unraced 2-year-old Shomooly (GB) (Frankel {GB}) whose dam Riqa (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) (lot 1298) was bought at Goffs last week for €550,000 by Barronstown Stud. Listed-placed herself, Riqa's best offspring is the dual Group 3 winner Tantheem (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}).

Tuesday as dusk falls tends to be the time that the sale ring at Park Paddocks truly lights up during the week of mares. There's stiff competition to be the queen of this year's proceedings but one who has justifiable claims to top honours is Newsells Park Stud's Waldlied (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), who is owned in partnership with her co-breeder Gestut Ammerland.

Waldlied (lot 1839) really does have everything one could desire in a top-class breeding prospect. A superior performer herself, she won the G2 Prix de Malleret, and she is foal to Kingman (GB), by whom she has a yearling colt and who is also the sire of her Group 3-winning half-brother Waldkonig (GB). Her foal this year is a filly by Siyouni (Fr). 

Then there's the back story. Waldlied's three-parts brother is the Arc winner and young stallion Waldgeist (GB) (Galileo {Ire}). Their dam Waldlerche (GB) (Monsun {Ger}) was herself a Group 3 winner, while grandam Waldmark (Ger) (Mark Of Esteem {Ire}) was Group 2-placed and is the dam of the Classic winner Masked Marvel (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}). Skip back another generation to the third dam and there appears the influential Wurftaube (Ger) (Acatenango {Ger}), who is also the dam of the German Derby winner Waldpark (Ger) (Dubawi {Ire}). In short, this is a family brimming with class. 

In what will be a frenetic couple of hours, Waldlied enters the ring two lots after the Group 1 winner Blond Me (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}), who is lot 1837 and is included in the aforementioned partial dispersal from Al Shahania Stud, which will be featured in more depth in a future issue of TDN. 

Another appealing dispersal comes from Sir Robert Ogden, who has been a stalwart supporter of both Flat and National Hunt racing in Britain for decades, with such luminaries as Voy Por Ustedes (Fr), Exotic Dancer (Fr) and Sans Frontieres (Ire) having carried his famous pink-and-mauve checked colours.

The 24 fillies and mares to be offered by Barton Sales on Sir Robert's behalf are led by his homebred dual Group 1 winner Amazing Maria (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), who is lot 1876 and is in foal to Oasis Dream (GB), with two Galileo youngsters still to run for her. Amazing Maria's 3-year-old half-sister Turandot (GB) (Frankel {GB}), the winner of three races this year, is another member of the family to be included in the draft (lot 1874).

Earlier in the session comes one of the hardiest mares in training over the last few years, the 8-year-old globetrotter True Self (Ire) (Oscar {Ire}). She has plenty of stamps in her passport, having twice won the G3 Queen Elizabeth S. at Flemington for Willie Mullins as well as this year's Neom Turf Cup on the Saudi Cup card in Riyadh. On a diverse CV, her 11 victories also include three listed wins on the Flat and three bumpers, as well as a victory over hurdles. She has certainly given her owners in the Three Mile House & OTI Partnership plenty of fun over her five seasons of racing and is consigned by Baroda Stud as lot 1671.

One of the notable elements of this season has been the run of success for Nick Bradley Racing, particularly with some classy fillies. Three black-type winners will be consigned to the December Sale, led by the Oaks runner-up Mystery Angel (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}), who is lot 1746, and will be followed 12 lots later by the 1000 Guineas third and Group 2 winner Fev Rover (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}) (lot 1758). The juvenile G3 Six Perfections winner and Group 1-placed Oscula (Ire) (Galileo Gold {GB}) has also recently been added to sale as a wildcard, lot 1823A.

Another of this year's leading juvenile fillies with obvious Classic claims for next season appears in Tuesday's list as lot 1798, and is the G1 Cheveley Park S. runner-up Flotus (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}). She is consigned by her trainers Simon and Ed Crisford of Gainsborough Thoroughbreds.

Meanwhile a mare with a proven track record will be offered by Goldford Stud and should have transatlantic appeal. Sunday Times (GB) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) is the 12-year-old dam of the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) as well as the listed winner Classical Times (GB) (Lawman {Fr}). Back in foal to Lope De Vega on a Mar. 10 cover, she is slated as lot 1810 and hails from a family which also includes the Irish Derby winner Latrobe (Ire) (Camelot {GB}). A little later in the day, her daughter Daily Times (GB), a juvenile winner by Gleneagles (Ire), will go through the ring also carrying to Lope De Vega (lot 1829).

Looking ahead to a fortnight of what is certain to be brisk trade at Park Paddocks, Jimmy George added, “The market has proved to be incredibly resilient throughout the course of 2021 and it has been a great boost to everybody. The December Sales at Tattersalls are always very much a fitting way to bring the curtain down on the British and Irish sales season and it is regarded as a must-attend fixture for many breeders, not just from Britain and Ireland but throughout the world.”

He continued, “It is widely regarded by a lot of people as the most international bloodstock sale in the world and this year's catalogue definitely looks set to attract the overseas buyers in numbers, especially now that the vast majority of them are able to travel more freely. We staged last year's December Sales under pretty extraordinary conditions and people responded magnificently. It has been great to have been able to stage sales under pretty well normal conditions throughout this autumn and we are looking forward to doing that again for the foals and mares.”

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A 125,000gns purchase from last year's edition of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Flotus broke her maiden at first asking on May 22 for trainers Simon and Ed Crisford, earning 'TDN Rising Star' status. She missed the board in her next three tries but bounced back to take Ripon's Listed Champion Two Yrs Old Trophy S. on Aug. 30 before finishing second to Tenebrism (Caravaggio) in the G1 Cheveley Park S. on Sept. 25. Flotus is the second winner out of Floriade (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), and is third in the betting for next year's G1 1000 Guineas.

“Flotus has been a joy to train,” said Simon and Ed Crisford. “She is a sound filly with a good temperament. She performed at the highest level throughout her 2-year-old campaign and she has the scope to train on as an outstanding 3-year-old.”

Speaking on behalf of the owners, Arthur Hoyeau said, “Flotus is an exceptional 2-year-old filly and has all the attributes to be a top-class 3-year-old. She is deservedly the highest rated 2-year-old filly in Britain and a credit to Simon and Ed Crisford who have always regarded her as an exceptional talent. She will have huge appeal to owners and breeders from all over the world.”

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Kimmel Debuter Looks To Sink Rivals…
7th-SAR, $100K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 3:54 p.m.
TORPEDO RUN (Gun Runner) cost $270,000 at Fasig-Tipton last October, then fetched $450,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale after covering an eighth of a mile in :10 2/5. The Apr. 25 foal is out of a daughter of MGISW Lady Tak (Mutakddim), the dam of Japanese SW & MGSP A Shin Spartan (Zensational); SW Melody Lady (Unbridled's Song), whose produce include 'TDN Rising Star' Volatile (Violence) and SW/GSP Buy Sell Hold (Violence); and MSP Casual (Curlin). Fans of the daytime drama 'All My Children' might take a liking to the debuting Pine Valley (Maclean's Music), named after the fictional Pennsylvania town that served as the setting for the show. Produced by a half-sister to SW & MGSP Cherokee Artist (Cherokee Run) and SW/GSP Cherokee Girl (Cherokee Run), Pine Valley was bought back for $32,000 at KEENOV in 2019, made $75,000 at FTKOCT last year and hammered for $250,000 at FTFMAR earlier this year after working a furlong in :10 2/5. TJCIS PPs

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Spotting the field a couple of lengths after that slow break, Star Devine–a 200,000gns purchase by Mike Ryan out of the 2019 Tattersalls October Sale–Book 1–was allowed to find her feet and settled last but one as the leaders went a good gallop up front. Tracking favored Dovima (Union Rags) through in about the three path on the turn, she was steered out decisively to the grandstand side as they hit the top of the lane and she covered her final two furlongs in a slick :22.53 (per Trakus data) to take it by 1 1/2 lengths.

Star Devine is the second foal for her dam, who was purchased by Mick Flanagan for 350,000gns in foal to Mastercraftsman (Ire) at the 2016 Tattersalls December Mares sale. Stars At Night is a half-sister to 2011 G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas and G1 Darley Yorshire Oaks winner Blue Bunting (Dynaformer) and a full-sister to MGSP Exemplar (Ire). Star Devine has a 2-year-old full-brother named Poker Face (Ire) and a yearling full-sister. Star Devine is bred on the exact same cross responsible for GI Man o' War S. heroine Zhukova (Ire), G1 Investec Oaks winner Qualify (Ire), G1 Moyglare Stud S. victress Intricately (Ire) and Australian Group 1 winners Personal (Aus), Age of Fire (Aus) and Magicool (Aus).

4th-Aqueduct, $80,000, Msw, 4-8, 3yo/up, f/m, 6fT, 1:07.83, fm, 1 1/2 lengths.
STAR DEVINE (IRE), f, 3, by Fastnet Rock (Aus)
1st Dam: Stars At Night (Ire), by Galileo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Miarixa (Fr), by Linamix (Fr)
3rd Dam: Mrs Arkada (Fr), by Akarad (Fr)
Sales history: 200,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $44,000.
O-Lawrence Goichman; B-Rockhart Trading Ltd (IRE); T-Jorge R Abreu. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG. Click for the free Equineline.com catalog-style pedigree.

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