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River Boyne Joins The Tara Stud Roster

River Boyne (Ire), a Grade 1-winning son of Dandy Man (Ire), will join the roster at Tara Stud in Ireland for 2021. His fee is yet to be confirmed.

The 5-year-old started his racing career in Ireland with Gordon Elliott before being transferred to the Californian stable of Jeff Mullins. A winner in each of his racing seasons between the ages of two and five, River Boyne was victorious in nine of his 25 races, including the GI Frank E Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita, where he also won the GII Twilight Derby and GII Mathis Brothers Mile.

Commenting on his new arrival, who joins Alhebayeb (Ire) and Estidhkaar (Ire) on the stallion roster, Tara Stud’s Derek Iceton said, “River Boyne has arrived safely and we will be announcing details of his syndication and nomination fee shortly, but I’m thrilled to have secured him after closely following his career since his impressive victory at two years. He has all the qualities that you would wish to see in a stallion: ultra-sound, impressive physique and a great attitude.”

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French Guineas Target For Miss Amulet

Trainer Ken Condon is looking ahead to next spring’s G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches with Miss Amulet (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) after Doreen Tabor’s G2 Lowther S. winner ran a fine race in third in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

“The mile was always a question mark, but to my eyes she got it well, and we were delighted with her,” said Condon. “She’s had a busy season, but she’s retained her form well, and there is plenty to look forward to next year.

“I think her main aim early on will be the French Guineas–we think that might suit her better. I know all the Guineas are run over a mile, but some tracks are stiffer than others. The winner the other night [Aunt Pearl] is obviously very good–she set sensible fractions, and we knew then it would be difficult to come from behind, but we were delighted with how our filly finished off and put a bit of daylight between the fourth, who won the Prix Morny [Campanelle].

“She’s been on the go since the first week racing resumed. She’s been to England twice–that was her eighth run, so credit to her, she has exceeded all expectations. We know if she doesn’t stay a mile we have the option of coming back in trip, but I had a quick exchange with Michael Tabor after the race and I think the French Guineas is where we are going.”

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Miss Amulet Enhances Sicilian Dream

The final day of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale is usually a low-key affair. Take last year for example. That Thursday, 78 mares were sold for just shy of 280,000gns, a sum that wouldn’t come close to buying even one of the headline acts during the sale’s blockbuster Tuesday session. But Tattersalls prides itself on catering for all levels of the market and plenty of smaller breeders stay through to the end of the sale in the hope of finding a bargain.

That was indeed the case for Domenico Zammitti, a regular visitor to Newmarket from his native Sicily, who sat in the ring that Thursday morning and decided he liked the look of lot 2279, a scopey grey mare by Oasis Dream (GB) offered by Ringfort Stud. The fact that she had won four races herself and was already the dam of two winners makes it scarcely believable that she was sold for just 1,200gns, but it is an example of just how tough the market can be at the lower end. The then 10-year-old mare Shena’s Dream was carrying a foal by Haatef and was subsequently exported to Sicily to Zammitti’s residence, where she duly foaled a filly the following April.

Just over two months later, the pedigree of both mother and daughter received a boost when the mare’s 2-year-old filly Miss Amulet (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) broke her maiden on her third start at Cork in July. One update led to another, when Miss Amulet beat the evens-favourite Frenetic (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) in the listed Marwell S.at Naas in August, and so it went on. Just over a fortnight later she romped home on the Knavesmire to give Ringfort Stud a memorable York Ebor meeting when Miss Amulet’s G2 Lowther S. win followed the G2 Gimcrack S. victory of Minzaal (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}), providing plenty of reflected glory for her breeder in consolation for her having been sold as a foal for just €1,000.

Miss Amulet’s subsequent exploits for trainer Ken Condon, with Group/Grade 1 placings in the Cheveley Park S. and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, have not just enhanced her own profile, but that of her dam and her half-sister, who will be making a reappearance at Tattersalls this December. For Shena’s Dream, her daughter’s success means an instant upgrade in catalogue placing from Thursday to Tuesday, when she will be offered as lot 1602. She should know her way around Park Paddocks by now, as she will be stabled back in the Wall Boxes, just one row down from where she was last year but this time being sold by Luca and Sara Cumani’s Fittocks Stud, who will also offer her Haatef filly as lot 817 on the Friday of the December Foal Sale.

“We were contacted by Franca Vittadini, who is the Italian representative for Tattersalls, to ask if we would sell the mare and foal for Mr Zammitti and they arrived with us in early October,” said Sara Cumani.

“The owner’s normal modus operandi is to buy inexpensive mares at Tattersalls, take them back to Sicily and then race the foals they produce at Siracusa.”

Luca Cumani added, “Nico Zammitti was a top-class tennis player and he’s very excited about this. He follows all the racing and updates on the internet. He has about six acres and basically he keeps the horses in his back garden.”

The sales fortunes of Shena’s Dream’s offspring have already been lifted by the success of Miss Amulet. In September, Ringfort Stud sold her El Kabeir filly at the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale for £45,000, the fourth-top price of the one-day sale.

“The yearling has joined Michael Bell in Newmarket, which is great news,” said Sara Cumani. “Shena’s Dream herself is a very straightforward and attractive mare and is a great walker. We are very pleased to be bringing her and her foal to the sale on behalf of Mr Zammitti.”

Shena’s Dream, who wasn’t covered this year, is one of two Oasis Dream mares bred by Pat O’Kelly’s Kilcarn Stud to have produced a group winner this season. The Jim Bolger-bred Melbourne Cup winner Twilight Payment is out of the Kilcarn graduate Dream On Buddy (Ire), who also makes an appearance on one of the pages of the December Mare Sale as her daughter Bandiuc Eile (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) is being sold through Bolger’s grand-daughter Clare Manning of Boherguy Stud.

Fittocks Stud is also selling a homebred daughter of Oasis Dream (lot 1548), the 3-year-old Blue Dawn (GB), who is out of a half-sister to G3 Nell Gwyn S. winner Fantasia (GB) (Sadler’s Wells), and the Cumanis will offer just two foals at Tattersalls, both during Friday’s session.

The second to take to the ring will be lot 944, one of three Dubawi weanlings in the sale and a half-brother to Australian Group 1 winner Best Of Days (GB) (Azamour {Ire}), who also won the G2 Royal Lodge S. in Britain.

Out of the German listed winner Baisse (GB) (High Chaparral {Ire}), the colt is being sold on behalf of his breeder Gerhard Schoeningh, the owner of Germany’s Hoppegarten racecourse. His full-sister was offered as a weanling at Tattersalls two years ago and was the second-top lot of the sale when sold to Godolphin through Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for 725,000gns.

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Wootton Bassett To Stand For €100,000

Wootton Bassett (GB), one of four new sires on the Coolmore roster for 2021, will stand for €100,000 off a glittering season on the track that saw him sire two new Group 1 winners and 10 stakes winners.

Coolmore announced its purchase of Wootton Bassett in June from Haras d’Etreham, where the son of Iffraaj had stood since retiring to stud in 2012. After standing for as low as €4,000 in his third season, Wootton Bassett had been priced at €40,000 the past two seasons. Just a week after the announcement, Audarya (Fr) became Wootton Bassett’s second Group 1 winner in the Prix Jean Romanet, and she bolstered that form last weekend with a victory in the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Meanwhile, Wooded (Fr) won the G1 Prix de l’Abbaye on Arc day, besting the defending winner and subsequent GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint scorer Glass Slippers (GB). Wootton Bassett’s other 2020 standouts include the G2 Champagne S. winner Chindit (Fr), GII Sands Point S. winner Tamahere (Fr), GIII Franklin-Simpson S. winner Guildsman (Fr) and G3 Prix de Fontainebleau scorer The Summit (Fr).

Coolmore also revealed on Thursday that G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and G1 Prix du Jockey Club winner Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}-Starlet’s Sister {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) will debut at €30,000 next year. The 4-year-old, who earned over £2.4-million and is a half-brother to American star Sistercharlie (Ire) (Myboycharlie {Ire}), is one of three stallions on the Coolmore roster standing their first year at stud. Those also include three-time Group 1-winning miler Circus Maximus (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}-Duntle {Ire}, by Danehill Dancer {Ire}) at €20,000 and G2 Coventry S. winner Arizona (Ire) (No Nay Never) at €7,000.

Circus Maximus remains under consideration for the Hong Kong International races in December before retiring. The winner of the G1 St James’s Palace S. and second in the G1 Sussex S. in the summer of his 3-year-old year, the Niarchos Family’s Flaxman homebred added another Group 1 win in the Prix du Moulin that September prior to a fourth in the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile. At four, he displayed his affinity for Royal Ascot with a win in the G1 Queen Anne S., before another second in this year’s Sussex and a third in both the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois and another edition of the Prix Moulin. The bay bounced back with a close second two starts later in the Nov. 7 GI Breeders’ Cup Mile. His record stands at 17-5-3-3 and $1,881,584 in earnings.

“Circus Maximus is very tough and travels with a lot of speed,” said trainer Aidan O’Brien. “He’s that type of horse that can often make very good stallions. We’ll definitely be breeding to him.”

Circus Maximus’s sire and Coolmore lynchpin Galileo (Ire) is once again listed as private off a stellar season that saw him break the worldwide record for Group 1 winners for a sire (85) and add three new Classic winners among his nine Group 1 winners for the year: G1 1000 Guineas and G1 Oaks winner Love (Ire), G1 Irish 1000 Guineas victress Peaceful (Ire) and G1 Derby scorer Serpentine (Ire). Search For A Song (Ire) won the G1 Irish St Leger for the second straight year, while the evergreen Magical (Ire) and Mogul (Ire) were also standouts.

The vast majority of Coolmore’s proven sires receive slight fee cuts for 2021 in the midst of a difficult global economy, but one that goes up is Camelot (GB), who will stand for €45,000 next year off a season that saw him add four new Group 1 winners, including Irish Oaks scorer Even So (Ire) and Australian sensations Russian Camelot (Ire) and Sir Dragonet (Ire).

No Nay Never is the only other advertised six-figure fee on the roster aside from Wootton Bassett, and he is trimmed to €125,000 from €175,000. Fastnet Rock (Aus) will once again shuttle from Australia and will stand for €50,000 after his One Master (GB) won her third straight G1 Prix de la Foret in October.

The remainder of the roster is as follows: Australia (GB) (€25,000), Calyx (GB) (€16,000), Churchill (Ire) (€30,000), Footstepsinthesand (GB) (€12,500), Gleneagles (Ire) (€25,000), Gustav Klimt (Ire) (€4,000), Highland Reel (Ire) (€10,000), Holy Roman Emperor (Ire) (€12,500), Magna Grecia (Ire) (€18,000), Mastercraftsman (Ire) (€15,000), Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire) (€5,000), Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (€20,000), Sioux Nation (€10,000), Starspangledbanner (Aus) (€22,500), Ten Sovereigns (Ire) (€20,000), The Gurkha (Ire) (€5,000), U S Navy Flag (€12,500) and Zoffany (Ire) (€20,000).

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