Shadwell, Godolphin Drafts Dominate Tattersalls Opener

NEWMARKET, UK–There was a true blue feel to the first day of the Tattersalls February Sale, with the partial dispersal of Shadwell stock and a sizeable draft from Godolphin dominating the leader board and accounting for all five of the six-figure lots to have changed hands during a strong opening session.

Barring 2018, when several members of the Ballymacoll Stud dispersal set new record prices for February, the average of 18,311gns was the highest seen at this sale, and was not far from double the figure set 12 months ago. The day's clearance rate was up 15 points at 82% for 170 sold from 208 offered, bringing a first-day aggregate of 3,112,800gns (+168%). With the sale staged under normal conditions this time, compared to the virtual auction of 2021, the median also improved by 57% to 9,000gns.

Over the next few weeks pinhookers have their final chances to add to their autumn yearling drafts, and one we are likely to see back at Park Paddocks come October was the session's top lot, a colt by Night Of Thunder (Ire) from the dynasty of the top-class producer Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk). Already a half-brother to listed winner Moqtarreb (GB) (Kingman {GB}) and Group 3-placed Khaloosy (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), the yearling also has a 2-year-old half-sister by Shamardal set to race.

The Shadwell colt sparked plenty of interest from potential buyers, but it was the trio of Anthony Stroud, Eugene Daly and James Hanly who had the most staying power, finally securing lot 111 for 175,000gns.

“Night Of Thunder has done really well and the dam has already produced two stakes horses,” Stroud said. “He's got a really good back pedigree and he'll be back here for resale.”

Out of the Dalakhani (Ire) mare Elshaadin (GB), a grand-daughter of Magnificient Style, the colt's relations include the Group 1-winning full-siblings Nathaniel (Ire) and Great Heavens (Ire), both by Galileo (Ire), and their three-parts-brother, the G2 Yorkshire Cup winner Percussionist (Ire) (Sadler's Wells).

Smart Mare For Ardad

The 7-year-old mare Anasheed (GB) (Frankel {GB}), sold for 130,000gns to Richard Brown, was offered barren but already has youngsters on the ground by Siyouni (Fr) and Sea The Stars (Ire) and will likely be covered next by Ardad (Ire). A half-sister to the listed winner Hadaatha (Ire), Anasheed (lot 55) won once in three starts for Owen Burrows.

“She only ran three times but was rated 93 so it's probably fair to say that she was of stakes calibre,” Brown said. “Her first two foals are nice. The Siyouni colt is now with Owen Burrows and the Sea The Stars filly is rated highly. She has a lovely page and a lot going for her.”

Among those from the Shadwell offerings who will be racing on for new connections is Mashaaer (GB), a 3-year-old daughter of Muhaarar (GB) who posted an eye-catching performance on her sole start for Richard Hannon last season when finishing runner-up at Ascot over a mile. Sold as lot 60 for 105,000gns, she won't have far to go on leaving Tattersalls as she will join the Newmarket stable of Henry Spiller for owner Jonathan Sarkar, who plans to breed from Mashaaer in the future.

Acting for Sarkar, agent Jamie Lloyd said, “Jonathan has three mares with us on the farm and horses in training with Henry.”

He continued, “The form of her first race, you don't make private offers on Shadwell horses, but if you had done, you would have been offering in the region of £250,000. We just felt she is a filly that down the road, even at this price, she could look cheap. Jonathan is looking for something a bit better and a bit nicer to add to his string.”

With farther to travel is lot 70, a 2-year-old filly by Exceed And Excel (Aus) who will be heading to Dubai to join the stable of Satish Seemar. Tattersalls' marketing manager Jason Singh conducted the bidding on the trainer's behalf, going to 105,000gns for the first foal of the winning Dubawi (Ire) mare Nawassi (GB).

“Satish is looking for recruits for the next season in the Middle East,” said Singh. “He went through the catalogue himself, put a short list together and got the horses vetted here. She was his pick of the 2-year-olds.”

Memories In the Making

The unraced Sea The Stars (Ire) filly Good Memories (lot 257) topped those sold from the Godolphin draft when knocked down at 100,000gns to Sam Sangster. A daughter of the treble stakes winner Khor Sheed (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), the 4-year-old is from an active family which includes last season's Listed Godolphin S winner, her half-brother Without A Fight (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), while her half-sister Sharja Princess (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) is the dam of stakes winner Avenue De France (Fr) (Cityscape {GB}). Khor Sheed is herself a half-sister to G1 Prix d'Ispahan winner Prince Kirk (Fr) (Selkirk).

“She's been bought for a small breeder and she will go to Tom Blain at Barton Stud,” said Sangster. “She'll possibly go to Pinatubo this year. There are some nice options for her and I think she could be good value.”

With plenty of young stallions on their books, the team from Tally-Ho Stud was busily recruiting new mares for the farm. The group included lot 152, Iconic Look (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), who is out of a Dubawi half-sister to Derby winner Masar (Ire), bought for 60,000gns, and lot 44, Duchess Rose (Ire) (Dream Ahead), for 52,000gns. The latter, who has just turned four, looks particularly well bought as her page was given a major boost last season by her Group 2-winning half-brother Bayside Boy (Ire) (New Bay {GB}), who landed the Champagne S. for Roger Varian and was then third in both the G1 Dewhurst S. and G1 Futurity Trophy. Duchess Rose is also a half-sister to the G2 Huxley S. winner Forest Ranger (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}) and she has first-season sire Starman (GB) pencilled in for her initial mating.

Forenaghts At The Double

Caoimhe Doherty made a quick double signing for a pair of well-related mares from the Godolphin draft to add to the team at Tony Smurfit's Forenaghts Stud, where she has been manager for the past year.

The 6-year-old Moment Of Silence (Ire) (Slade Power {Ire}), in foal for the first time to Too Darn Hot (GB), was the first to be added to the fold at 95,000gns. With an official rating of 92 from her win and two placings as a 3-year-old, the mare (lot 169) is a grand-daughter of the Irish 1000 Guineas winner Nightime (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), with her stakes-placed dam Sleeping Beauty (Ire) being an Oasis Dream (GB) half-sister to 2020 Horse of the Year Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}).

Following her into the ring was lot 171, Luceita (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}), with an equally appealing cover by Invincible Spirit (Ire), who was bought for 90,000gns. The 7-year-old is a half-sister to G2 Rockfel S. winner and Irish 1000 Guineas runner-up Lucida (Ire) (Shamardal). Their dam Lura (Street Cry {Ire}) is a half-sister to the multiple Grade I winner and sire English Channel (Smart Strike).

“She's a sister to a very good filly,” Doherty said of Luceita. “They were both good race fillies and they are in foal to good stallions. We tried really hard to buy decent race fillies and mares here in December and it's hard to get a filly rated in the 90s.”

Another from the Godolphin draft, Sacred Jewel (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), will be joining Julie Camacho's Yorkshire stable after the trainer went to 95,000gns for lot 164, a daughter of the G2 Temple S. winner Priceless (GB) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}).

Camacho said, “She has residual value as daughter of Dubawi, but hopefully we can have a bit of fun with her first. We've watched all her races, and my husband spoke to Charlie Appleby who recommended her.”

The concluding session of the February Sale gets underway at 10 a.m. on Friday.

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Curtain Up At Tattersalls For Popular February Fixture

NEWMARKET, UK–Here we go again. Dry January has been consigned to the books and the sales world will be back in full flow from Thursday at Park Paddocks.

The Tattersalls February Sale jumped up from one day to two five years ago and it shows no sign of reverting to its more compact format. Once withdrawals are taken into account, around 400 horses will pass through the ring, ranging from just-turned yearlings to horses in training and broodmares. They will be preceded by the TBA's annual stallion parade, featuring a dozen first- and second-season sires, on Thursday. 

Shadwell continues with its reduction of stock and will sell a range of horses in and out of training through Barton Sales and New England Stud, as well as offering broodmares and yearlings through its own consignment during the opening session. 

With the largest draft catalogued, Barton Sales also offers Tiger Lilly (Ire), a winning daughter of Galileo (Ire) and the only mare in the catalogue in foal to Time Test (GB) for Sir Robert Ogden, who dispersed the majority of his stock during the December Sales. The 11-year-old mare, whose half-sister Kelly Nicole (Ire) has produced the Group 2 winner Aljamaheer (Ire) by Time Test's sire Dubawi (Ire), is set to sell as lot 117.

Though lower key than the December Mares' Sale, the February Sale has however been a decent source for mares who have gone on to be stellar producers, with the dams of last year's Group/Grade 1 winners Going Global (Ire), Thundering Nights (Ire) and El Bodegon (Ire) having been bought from previous February Sales for 55,000gns, 32,000gns and 10,500gns respectively. 

There is certain to be plenty of interest in Heaven's Angel (Ire) (Henrythenavigator), one of 43 lots to be offered by Godolphin. The unraced 8-year-old (lot 172) is not only a half-sister to the Oaks winner Qualify (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) but is also the sole mare in the book to be offered in foal to the French champion sire Siyouni (Fr). Further back on her page are the Classic winners Workforce (GB) (King's Best) and Brian Boru (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), while a more recent update was provided by the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner El Bodegon (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), who is also a full-brother to four-time Group 1 winner Best Solution (Ire).

Those looking for form horses with which to hit the ground running this all-weather season or farther afield, a last-minute update has come for Tributo (Ire) (Dragon Pulse {Ire}), who sells late on Friday as lot 445. The 4-year-old dead-heated when winning for the second time on Jan. 31 for Stuart Williams and Opulence Thoroughbreds. 

The 3-year-old gelding Sydney Street (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) is another to have been in good form through the winter, winning in December and January for Hugo Palmer and Chelsea Thoroughbreds, and he comes under the hammer as lot 417 from The Castlebridge Consignment. 

Trainers and breeze-up consignors who didn't quite fill their quotas from last year's yearlings sales have another 22 chances to recruit a 2-year-old at Tattersalls on Thursday. Among the juveniles on offer is a filly from the lone crop of the late Roaring Lion (lot 71), who is one of those being sold by Shadwell through New England Stud. The grey filly is out of the young Shamardal mare Raddeh (GB), a half-sister to the Listed winner and Group 1-placed Hadaatha (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). In the same draft is a 2-year-old colt by Sea The Stars (lot 80) out of the Group 2 winner Tarfasha (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), a full-brother to Listed winner Rakan (GB), and also a Dubawi colt (lot 81) out of the Listed winner Yaazy (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}). His dam is a half-sister to group winners Matterhorn (Ire) (Raven's Pass) and Bangkok (Ire) (Australia {GB}) as well as to the dam of Ribchester (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}).

This time last year Britain was still in the grip of strict lockdown restrictions, meaning that the February Sale had to be held online. Figures held up remarkably well, with the median and average only marginally down on those set for 2020 and, given the extraordinary way in which most sales fared during the pandemic, it is fair to expect some decent trade across the next two days.

For breeders with mating plans still undecided, there is the chance to peruse some young stallions in advance of the proceedings getting underway, with Newsells Park Stud new boy A'Ali (Ire) kicking off a parade which will conclude with his stud-mate Without Parole (GB), whose first foals are arriving this season. Not quite an A to Z then, but between A and W, you can find Bangkok (Ire), Lope Y Fernandez (Ire), Mr Scaramanga (GB), Roseman (Ire), Ubettabelieveit (Ire, Diplomat (Ger), Legends Of War, Sergei Prokofiev, Southern Hills (Ire) and Tip Two Win (GB). 

Meanwhile, the Shadwell stallions Tasleet (GB), Mohaather (GB) and Eqtidaar (Ire) have been brought in from Nunnery Stud for breeders to view close to Tattersalls at Beech House Stud. 

The sale commences directly after the stallion parade at 11am, and it is worth nothing that Friday's trade gets underway earlier at 10am.

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Trio of Wildcards Join Tattersalls February Sale

Three more wildcards have been added to the Tattersalls February Sale catalogue after the addition of White Marlin (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}). Rated 93, the Michael Bell-trained Dairerin (GB) (Spill The Beans {Aus}) (lot 375B) will be offered by Bell's Fitzroy House. The 3-year-old was a dual winner last year and also ran in the G3 Prix de Cabourg in Deauville, although he did not hit the board. From the family of the Classic-placed G2 Geoffrey Freer S. hero Mr Combustible (Ire) (Hernando {Fr}) and the G2 Ribblesdale S. winner and influential producer Miletrian (Ire) (Marju {Ire}), he was third in his sophomore bow at Newcastle on Jan. 13.

Also joining the Feb. 3-4 catalogue is the winning Acrion (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) (lot 375D). A full-brother to Group 3 scorer Extortionist (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) who also placed in the G1 Nunthorpe S., the Brian Meehan runner is rated 70p. Rounding out the trio is another hailing from Meehan's Manton Lodge Stables-lot 375C, City Runner (Ire). Rated 84, the son of Caravaggio has made three starts and graduated going seven furlongs over the Southwell all-weather on Jan. 9.

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White Marlin Added to Tattersalls February Sale

The two-for-two White Marlin (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) has been added to the upcoming Tattersalls February Sale on Feb. 3-4. Consigned as lot 375A by Ronald Rauscher, the 4-year-old colt is rated 93p by Timeform after winning a Dec. 15 Dundalk maiden and a Jan. 14 handicap there, both over 1 ½ miles on the all-weather for trainer Joseph O'Brien in the colours of Ms. M. McDowall.

In addition, the grey is a half-brother to G1 Flying Five S. heroine Romantic Proposal (Ire) (Raven's Pass). The duo are out of the winner Playwithmyheart (GB) (Diktat {GB}), herself a half-sister to G1 Prix de la Foret hero Toylsome (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}), the G3 winner Coral Mist (GB) (Bahamian Bounty {GB}) and the dam of stakes winner and G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy S. third Western Australia (Ire) (Australia {GB}).

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