In foal to Sealiway (Fr), the juvenile winner was third in the G2 Queen Mary S. and is one of three wildcards for the Baroda Stud draft. Another is Grandee Daisy (GB) (Sepoy {Aus}) (lot 122), who is in foal to Phoenix Of Spain (Ire); and rounding out the trio is a yearling filly (lot 118) by Zarak (Fr) who is a granddaughter to listed winner and Group 3-placed Roseanna (Fr) (Anabaa). Glebe Farm Stables will consign Mujabaha (GB) (Redoute's Choice {Aus}) (lot 123), who is a black-type producer and in foal to Space Blues (Ire); and another lot of note is smart juvenile Upper Hand (Ire) (Camacho {GB}) (lot 115).

For the full catalogue, please visit the  Tattersalls Online website. The sale will begin at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 13, and bidding will close on lots beginning at that time on Dec. 14.

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There are two sessions, set for Tuesday, Oct. 10 and Wednesday, Oct. 11. Hip No.'s 1-338 plus supplements 339-359 will be offered Tuesday and Hip No's 401-739 plus supplements 740-755 will be sold Wednesday. Both sessions will begin at 10:00 a.m.

The supplemental catalog adds substantial sire power to the sale. Flatter, Liam's Map and Munnings are represented, as are Nyquist, Oscar Performance, Quality Road, Spun to Run, Thousand Words and Win Win Win.

This group joins the large roster of sires in the original catalog, headed by Audible, Bernardini, Bolt d'Oro, Bucchero and Candy Ride (ARG).  The list also includes Catalina Cruiser, City of Light, Complexity, Curlin's Honor, Game Winner, Girvin, Global Campaign, Good Magic, Gunnevera, Hard Spun, Honest Mischief, Improbable, Instagrand, Instilled Regard, Kantharos, Khozan, Maximum Security, McKinzie, Mendelssohn, Not This Time, Omaha Beach, Practical Joke, Tiz the Law, Union Rags, Vekoma, Vino Rosso, Volatile and War of Will.

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“They were all drinking champagne and I was grooming horses,” he said as he jokingly nudged his wife Kendra and laughed, because really, he wouldn't have it any other way.

His family's business was founded a century ago as an all-purpose farm–over the years raising tobacco, Thoroughbreds, cattle, hay, even squash a time or two– and each generation to carry the Penn banner has stuck to its roots.

“We're farmers,” Kendra said simply. “If we can make a profit that's obviously the goal, but we're not here chasing seven figures on a regular basis.”

Of course, the Penn family couldn't help but get their hopes up about the youngster that would go on to sell for $1.35 million to M.V. Magnier. The Uncle Mo colt out of Forever for Now (War Front) looked like a star from the moment he was foaled and the Penns told his breeders Neal and Pam Christopherson going into sale day that he had gotten multiple looks from the right people.

“We had so many of the big folks coming back to look at him,” said Kendra. “He was super nice from the day he was born. He came out as a classic Uncle Mo–big, athletic, good feet, good walk. We had been telling [the Christophersons] that if we could just get him to the sale, that this horse was really nice.”

Spoken like a true farmer, Kendra shared the real 'win' of their momentous day in the spotlight.

“We were all asleep by 8:00 that night,” she said with a grin. “We had to get up at 4:00 to be back out here and do everything we need to do at home. It was definitely an honor to be a part of because the experience is not something that just happens on a regular basis, but life goes on and there are more horses and you just get up and get ready for the next day.”

During the second session of Book 1, Penn Sales offered a colt by Authentic. The half-brother to GISW Arklow (Arch) and MGSW Maraud (Blame) brought $360,000.

Choosing to skip Book 2 in order to keep their manpower within one sales barn at a time, Penn Sales will be back in action for Book 3 on Saturday with six going through the ring.

The Penns are particularly excited about Hip 1241, a Blame colt who is from the same family as the Authentic colt that sold well earlier in the auction.

“He's out of a young mare from a family that has been good to us,” Kendra explained. “His mom is a half to Arklow and Maraud. This colt is everything that family is. He's a really classy colt and he looks a lot like Arklow, so we're really excited about him.”

Their Book 3 lineup features two more colts: a Practical Joke full-brother to Kaling, who ran third in the GI Spinaway S. last year, and a colt from the first crop of Spendthrift's Vekoma.

Equally represented by three fillies, Penn Sales will offer a Classic Empire from the family of GISW Swift Temper (Giant's Causeway), a Maclean's Music out of a half-sister to Tonalist, and a filly from the first crop of Three Chimneys stallion Volatile.

Each of the 20 yearlings in Penn Sales' Keeneland September consignment were foaled and raised at the family's 1,000-acre farm outside of Paris. With oversight from the farm's two leaders in Alex's father John and his uncle Frank (profiled by TDN's Chris McGrath here), Alex and Kendra foal out around 40 mares each year and pride themselves on their hands-on approach.

“I don't think you'll find many farms left that do literally everything themselves,” Kendra noted. “From cleaning stalls to bathing to prepping to breeding, there's not an aspect of it we don't do. I think it makes a difference because we care. It's our livelihood. Everything on the farm is there year-round and so all the horses there have our attention 365 days a year.”

While Alex grew up in the Bluegrass and played a role on the family farm since childhood, Kendra hails from northwestern Pennsylvania. Her family had a small Thoroughbred breeding operation there and like her husband, she was handed equine-related responsibilities from an early age.

Kendra took the horsemanship skills she learned from her childhood and applied them to the yearling prep program at Penn Sales.

“My mom worked for Domino in the eighties when they were a premier sales company and the folks that taught her were pretty special,” she explained. “She handed that down to me. I want our horses to be respectful because a respectful horse is important for every step of their future, racing and beyond.”

Kendra recalled how a few years ago, a first-time employee had asked Kendra if she would be helping with cards during the sales. That newcomer quickly learned that Kendra can be found at the end of the shank for the majority of the sales season while simultaneously keeping a mental log of their consignment's visitors.

While Alex and Kendra said they are happy to continue passing on the spokesperson duties of their business to Frank and John, the younger generation of Penns are grateful for the opportunity to carry on the family legacy. Even their three children, they said, now have a small hand in the operation.

“I'm pretty proud to continue that tradition,” said Alex. “[Frank and John] pride themselves on their reputation and I hope to keep that going.”

“The Penns have done an amazing job raising horses for a long time,” Kendra added. “What John and Frank started has been easy for us to tailor to the sales market. We're here for the long haul, doing right by the horse and hoping that they have a sound and successful career.”

Perhaps equally as gratifying for the Penns as their first million-dollar sale, they also raised the winningest horse of 2022 in Beverly Park (Munnings), who won 15 of his 30 starts last year. The Penns said they believe that the hard-knocking horse's success may be attributed in some part to the way he was raised and the land he was raised on.

“That's something that is very important to us is letting them be horses,” Kendra said. “We raise them as racehorses and hope that the soundness carries them through. We bring them here to let people see that and hopefully they go on and be racehorses.

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In June, the international operation owned by Liliana Solari and her son Carlos Heller celebrated the first Grade I winner in the United States bred by their American base when Arcangelo (Arrogate) scored in a historic edition of the GI Belmont S. Now, they are preparing to send 50 homebreds to the Keeneland September Sale. The contingent is led by an Into Mischief colt out of champion racemare Unique Bella (Tapit) who will be the first of their prized mare's progeny to sell at auction.

Ten years ago, Don Alberto expanded from its successful breeding and racing base in Chile when they purchased the former Vinery Farm in Kentucky and then went on a shopping spree at the fall breeding stock sales, grossing $10.64 million in purchases at the Keeneland November Sale alone. Since then, the operation has emerged in the headlines from a different perspective as a commercial breeder. Recent highlights include their sale of the highest-priced yearling sold in North America in 2021–a $2.6 million Into Mischief colt out of GI Test S. winner Paola Queen (Flatter).

Next week at Keeneland, the farm will offer nine yearlings in Book 1. With six fillies and three colts in the lineup, each member of the assembly hails from a dam that claimed blacktype on the racetrack and four are out of Grade I winners.

“I would say this is as strong as we've ever been coming into Keeneland Book 1,” said Reed Ringler, the COO of Don Alberto's U.S. operation. “Just an incredible depth, great sire power and out of fantastic mares that we've been procuring for the last ten years here in Kentucky.”

Selling with Taylor Made Sales, Unique Bella's colt may share the same flashy coloring as his dam, but the eye-catching gray seems to have inherited the physical of his sire.

“I think this horse is more like Into Mischief,” Ringler explained. “He's got some stretch to him and he is medium-sized, a very well-balanced colt. He has a big walk on him. He's a May foal, so there is a lot of room for growth. We're very excited about him and we have high hopes for this horse on the big night.”

Unique Bella was the first horse to claim a Grade I on American soil for Don Alberto's racing stable back in 2017. She would go on to earn Eclipse honors for top female sprinter that year and was then named champion older dirt female the following season.

The mare's first two foals were retained by the farm. Her 3-year-old unraced daughter Una Bella d'Oro (Medaglia d'Oro) is now carrying her first foal by Mandaloun and her 2-year-old colt Ultra Power (Curlin) is in training with Bob Baffert. The juvenile ran sixth at Del Mar on debut on Aug. 25, but Ringler said the colt is expected to thrive later this season going two turns.

Salty's Tapit filly at the Gainesway consignment | Sara Gordon

Ringler also noted that their team believes they have found the right match for Unique Bella in Into Mischief, explaining that the mare's foal of this year by the Spendthrift supersire is just as impressive as her older brother.

“Unique Bella is a big, strong mare and I think what we found with Into Mischief is that we really hit the bull's-eye as we were looking for that racey athlete,” he said.

Ringler added that because the operation now has a colt and a filly from their star mare, they believed this was the right time to offer one of her progeny to the market. Selling as Hip 382, the yearling will be one of the final hips to go through the ring during the second session of Book 1.

Earlier in the second day of the sale, another high-profile Don Alberto mare will be represented by her first foal to go to auction. Salty (Quality Road), who claimed the GI La Troienne S. in 2018, was purchased by Don Alberto later that year for $3 million. Her first foal Safiri, an unraced filly by Tapit, was retained by Don Alberto and bred to Mandaloun this year. Salty's second daughter by Tapit will sell as Hip 301 with Gainesway.

Hip 220, by Candy Ride (Arg), is the first foal out of Grade III winner Magic Star and sells with Denali Stud | Sara Gordon

“She looks a lot like her daddy,” Ringler noted. “She's going to turn a lot of heads when she walks out. She's a beautiful, early type and out of a Grade I-winning mare, so we're very hopeful and very blessed.”

Don Alberto's legion of Book 1-bound fillies also includes Hip 19–an Into Mischief half-sister to MGISW American Gal (Concord Point), Hip 20–a daughter of Uncle Mo out of GI Chandelier S. winner Angela Renee (Bernardini), Hip 69–a Quality Road filly out of GI La Brea S. victress Constellation (Bellamy Road), Hip 217–another Tapit whose dam Luminance (Tale of the Cat) was second in the GI Santa Anita Oaks, and finally Hip 297–an American Pharoah half-sister to stakes winner Rubilinda (Frankel).

With a majority of fillies coming out of this year's crop of yearlings, Ringler said the decision regarding which youngsters would go to auction was not an easy one.

“This year is exceptionally hard with the fillies coming out of these pedigrees,” he admitted. “Carlos [Heller Solari] and I just had a meeting about how hard this game is and it gets harder the bigger the decisions get. We are commercial and we do bring most of our horses to market, but when we identify horses that are maybe undervalued, we're going to keep them and race them. We're strong judges, but Carlos knows it's a business. We were filly heavy this crop and we thought it was the right thing to bring them to market to let other people see what we're building at Don Alberto.”

Don Alberto's Book 1 group is rounded out by two additional colts. Hip 220, a Candy Ride (Arg) colt consigned with Denali Stud, is the first foal out of Grade III victress Magic Star (Scat Daddy). Hip 377 by Curlin is a son of Grade III winner Touching Beauty (Tapit) and will sell with Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa.

Hip 19, a half-sister to GISW American Gal, by Into Mischief | Sara Gordon

Don Alberto will be represented well on past Book 1, but the breeding operation has proven that they can produce a top-level horse in the later books.

Dual Grade I winner Arcangelo (Arrogate) slipped through the September Sale in 2021 when he sold for just $35,000 to Jon Ebbert in Book 3. His dam Modeling (Tapit), who hails from influential Broodmare of the Year Better Than Honour, was a $2.85 million purchase for Don Alberto in 2014, but Arcangelo's immaturity and smaller stature as a May foal kept him off most lists.

“The great thing about Keeneland is that there is value everywhere,” Ringler explained. “You never know where you're going to find an Arcangelo and that's why you come here to shop. The dam of Arcangelo was one of our foundation mares so to get our first Classic winner with a horse that is this special for his connections, it's just been a wonderful year.”

While health issues have prevented Modeling from producing another foal since Arcangelo, Don Alberto does have his half-sister Madison Square (Medaglia d'Oro) in their broodmare band.

With just over 100 mares on their farm in Lexington, the Don Alberto product may continue to evolve, but their philosophy stays the same.

“When Ms. Liliana and Carlos came here, their passion for racing and pedigrees was already globally known,” said Ringler. “They came here with a plan. We've adapted a bit to American commercial appeal and I think we're seeing that on the racetrack now. Carlos has big goals. He wants to win the Kentucky Derby. He wants to compete in all the big Classics. But I think more importantly, we want to further the breed, be a good steward of the industry and continue to develop relationships.”

“Ms. Liliana lights up around all of her horses,” he continued. “You can see her love and passion for all of her horses and it really flows through to our entire staff. You can see the love they give to every horse and I hope that when the world sees our horses at Keeneland, they see that love and that care coming through with all of our yearlings.”

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After seven outs, 75 yearlings went through the sales ring. Topping this year's venue was Hip 71, a colt by first-year stallion Barkley (Munnings), winner of the 2018 GIII Longacres Mile before retiring to Nina and Ron Hagen's El Dorado Farms in Enumclaw. The colt sold for $55,000.

The Hagens bred the saletopper, who was one of a trio of yearlings purchased by the San Francisco-based SmilingTigerStallion.com. The other two yearlings, both $32,000 purchases, were Hip 3, a Smiling Tiger distaffer out of stakes winner Rewritten (she was the highest-priced filly) consigned by Robin Mason, Critter Creek Farm, agent; and Hip 48, an Outwork half-brother to three-time stakes winner Slack Tide and recent Del Mar maiden special weight winner Impeachalot. A son of Sir Prancealot (Ire), Impeachalot was the 2022 WTBOA sale topper and races for Philip Lebherz and Richard Meister. Both colts were bred and consigned by Terry and Mary Lou Griffin's Griffin Place and are out of their stakes-placed mare Impeached.

The second highest-priced yearling came from the Griffin Place consignment, Hip 75, a son of GI Blue Grass S. Brophy's Cause, the first foal out of Washington champion racemare No Talking Back, whose first three dams were also Washington champions. Popular Emerald Downs trainer Bonnie Jenne signed the ticket for $52,000.

Hip 57, a colt from the final crop of California-based Vronsky out of three-time Washington champion Lady Rosberg, consigned by Griffin Place as agent for Darlyne Krieg, brought a bid of $38,000 from California trainer Andy Mathis.

Also bringing bids of $25,000 or more were: Hip 1, a Take Charge Indy colt that California trainer Mark Glatt purchased for $32,000 from the Griffin Place consignment; Hip 54, a colt from the first crop of GI Pacific Classic winner Higher Power out of Connie Belshay's $489,862 stakes winner Kiss Me that was hammered down to Where We At $27,000;  and Hip 31, an Om half-brother to Washington titleholders Miss Prospector and Brilliant Bird bred by Bret and Julie Christopherson (Bar C Racing Stables, agent) and purchased by John and Janene Maryanski and Gerry and Gail Schneider for $25,000.

The 58 yearlings sold for a total of $730,200 with an average price of $12,863 (down 27.2% from 2022) and a $6,500 median (down a drastic 45.8 percent). RNAs dropped to seven from nine when 76 yearlings sold in 2022.

The one mixed session two-year-old sold for $5,000 and the 15 mares going through the sales ring brought a $16,850 total and $1,123 average. Hip 214, Grazen Valor, a $47,346 winning full sister to graded-stakes winner and California horse of the year Lieutenant Dan, brought a $7,500 bid from Carl Seymour of Coulee Dam. After producing her first foal, a filly by Code of Honor, this past spring, the 6-year-old mare wasn't covered.

Complete sales results can be found here.

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Six years ago, Esler decided that after years of corporate life, she was ready to try something different. She and her husband Matt began looking for a piece of property in Saratoga. They found a farm located just off Fish Creek, less than five miles from the racetrack, and it was love at first sight. On the couple's thirtieth wedding anniversary, they signed the paperwork on their new property and Thirty Year Farm was born.

Neither of them had much horse experience, but they had both been racing fans for decades–back to the early days of their marriage when Matthew had a t-shirt business at the track. They were meticulous in educating themselves as they put together their plan to build a thriving breeding farm and now, just a few years later, they're preparing to sell their first yearling at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale.

On Tuesday, Thirty Year Farm's Authentic filly, who is a half-sister to MGISW Casa Creed (Jimmy Creed), will sell with Paramount Sales as Hip 227.

It was a long road for the operation to get to such a prestigious night. Esler admits that she was “extremely intimidated” when she was first getting involved in the industry, but she made a point to surrounded herself with the right advisors–people like Joe and Anne McMahon, who live just down the road, trainer John Kimmel, Hedgewood Farm's Carson Asbury and former Chestertown Farm manager Jeff Raine.

They started with just three broodmares. While Matt, who is the CEO of the Andersen Windows affiliate Esler Companies, traveled during the week, Kristen ran the day-to-day aspects of the farm and soaked in as much knowledge as she could.

“I started to read everything I possibly could,” Esler recalled. “I went to any farm that would have me so that I could shadow them and work for the day. I would ask them every question that I could come up with and anything that I needed to know. We only had two employees and during the week I did as much of the work as I could myself so that I understood what I was doing.”

Kristen and Matt Esler | Ashley Nizolek

Esler quickly noticed that in order for her farm to be successful in the long run, they would need to breed at the top of the game.

“We started slow so that we could learn to eventually get there, but it felt to me like the middle part of this business seemed to be disappearing a little and it started to make me nervous,” she said. “With all of the sales I was following and with the numbers I felt like we needed to make to have this farm be here for our grandchildren, I felt like we needed to step it up. I wanted to breed to the best.”

In 2021, Esler and a few trusted advisors went to Kentucky for the Keeneland November Sale. They all landed on Achalaya, an unraced Belamy Road mare that was in foal to Authentic. She was out of the MGSW Wild Heart Dancing (Farma Way) and her produce record featured the talented turfer Casa Creed, who at the time had won the 2019 GII Hall of Fame S. and the 2021 GI Jaipur S., as well as Grade III winner Chess's Dream (Jess's Dream).

“I still have my notes,” Esler recalled. “She was Barn 2, hip number 175, and she checked every box that we were looking for. She was on a very short list and we stretched to $725,000 to purchase her. We felt like we had something really special.

Esler's gut feeling about the mare grew when that Authentic foal hit the ground. The April-foaled filly bore a strong resemblance to her young sire and she was a pleasure to work with from the start.

Since then, Achalaya has produced a Curlin filly this year and is back in foal to Life Is Good. Meanwhile her son Casa Creed won another edition of the Jaipur and the GI Fourstardave H. in 2022 and this year, recently got yet another graded stakes win in the GIII Kelso S. Achalaya also has a 3-year-old Distorted Humor colt named Direct Drive that just broke his maiden at Woodbine for Mark Casse and a 2-year-old Omaha Beach colt that sold for $775,000 as a yearling to White Birch Farm and is now named Bold Landing.

Thirty Year Farm is now home to 10 broodmares. Last year at Keeneland November, they added the maiden Tapit mare Follow the Flag, a $700,000 purchase who has since produced a Quality Road filly and is back in foal to Not This Time. East India (Mizzen Mast), the dam of Grade II winner Ete Indien (Summer Front), was a $325,000 purchase at the same sale and she produced a Gun Runner filly this year.

She'samericanmade (American Pharoah), a half-sister to the dam of Life Is Good, raced for the Eslers and is now in foal to Tapit. Gotta Go Mo (Uncle Mo) also raced in the Esler's silks and was stakes placed. She had her first foal by Medaglia d'Oro this year and is in foal to Constitution.

Esler puts as much care into the horses she breeds before they hit the ground as she does once they are foaled. A director for the medical supply company Henry Schein in her former career, Esler has embraced her biology background in her new role as a breeder.

“I work really hard on the genetic side to see that the crosses work and feel like we're going to get a sound animal,” she said. “I really want to do it right. Basically these horses are treated better than I treat myself. I want to raise animals that we can really be proud of. In the years to come, people will know Thirty Year Farm and what we're trying to do here and it will be something lasting.”

Esler admits that there have been challenges throughout the early stages of developing her operation.

“When we first started, I expected it to be hard,” she admitted. “But I don't think I ever thought it would be this hard. There have been some tough times. There have been some wonderful times. There have been times that you're crying and times that you're celebrating. I didn't know how hard it would be, but at the same time, things that aren't hard really aren't worth it.”

It's a big month ahead for Thirty Year Farm, and they kicked it off with a bang on Aug. 2 when Brocknardini (Palace Malice), a 2-year-old filly that their farm bred, won impressively on debut for trainer George Weaver at Saratoga.

Thirty Year Farm-bred Brocknardini wins for fun on debut at Saratoga | Sarah Andrew

Next week, they will send half a dozen yearlings to the New York-bred Sale.

“I run around like crazy and try to see everything that is at the sale and what our competition is,” explained Esler. “Of course I think our animals are the absolute best of all of them, but I have a soft spot. We have a gorgeous group this year and we are so proud of them all.”

Thirty Year Farm has offered yearlings at the Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Sale in past years, but Esler said there is no denying how special it will be to send the Authentic filly through the ring on Tuesday as their first yearling selling at the Saratoga Sale.

“I'm as excited and nervous as I could possibly feel,” Esler said. “We are so proud of this filly and what she has become. She's always been an uncomplicated, forward type who has prepped up into an impressive animal. I try to be at absolutely every foaling, so they mean a lot to me. I will absolutely miss having her on this farm, but this is the right thing for her and we are excited for her future.”

Esler learned quickly that as a breeder, she has to make decisions that might be difficult in the moment, but will prove to have the best outcome in the long run.

“There are times where some of the decisions are not what we want to make, but it's the right decision,” she explained. “I feel like in the end, that is what is going to make this farm. Even if it takes longer, that's what will get us where we need to go. This team that we've put together right now, they all are absolutely superb and they feel like family. We all work together to make sure that the animals come first.”

She credits farm consultant Jeff Raine, manager Lolly LaRue and the rest of their team for the work they have put in during these early stages of building the operation.

The Eslers' son and daughter-in-law now live on the farm as well, along with their young son Oliver. Esler explained that by setting Thirty Year Farm up for success from the start, she hopes that it will flourish into something she and her husband can leave for their family and for generations to come.

“Maybe someday Oliver will run this farm,” she hoped. “We're trying to build something lasting and special. We feel blessed to be stewards of this incredible farm. I'm so happy that my grandchildren get to grow up here and I feel really excited to be doing something so different with my life. If you had told me ten years ago that this is what I would be doing, I don't know that I ever would have believed it.”

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Set for June 7-8, the sale will offer a stallion share in the aforementioned multiple Group 1 winner as lot 45. The stallion is currently standing at Zenith Stallion Station in Ireland where he stands for €7,000. In addition to a 20-strong breeze-up session, 24 more lots divided between 15 horses in- and out-of-training, two broodmares, and a Tasleet (GB) yearling will also go under the hammer.

Among the other lots on offer include recent juvenile winner Tears Of A Clown (GB) (Pearl Secret {GB}) (lot 31); multiple winner Sympathise (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire) (lot 30); and Akela Moon (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {GB}) (lot 44), herself a half-sister to stakes winner Audacia (Ire) (Sixties Icon {GB}) and her Sands Of Mali (Fr) filly foal.

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Set for Feb. 22 from 6 to 6:30 p.m. local time, the sale features shares in stallions like Group 1 sire Almanzor (Fr) (lot 8), G1 Prix Ganay victor Dariyan (Fr) (lot 9), Triple Threat (Fr) (lot 3) and Van Beethoven (lot 15) among others. Lot 11 is a breeding right in young stallion Cloth Of Stars (Ire), and lot 4 is the jumps mare Kourouka (Fr) (No Risk At All {Fr}) in foal to Masked Marvel (GB).

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The son of Dubawi (Ire) and Arc heroine Zarkava (Ire) (Zamindar) already has group winners Purplepay (Fr), Baiykara (Fr), Sirjan (Ger), Lavello (Ire), and Lizaid (Ger) in his first two crops, as well as the Classic-placed duo of Times Square (Fr) and La Parisienne (Fr). He stands for €60,000 this year. The share will provide one nomination per year from 2023 onwards and an additional nomination in 2024 and in every even-numbered year thereafter.

Other lots of note including breeding rights to UK/Ireland Champion First-Season Sire Havana Grey (GB) (lot 66), besides additional breeding rights in Charming Thought (GB) (lot 64), Harry Angel (Ire) (lot 65), Profitable (Ire) (lot 59), Ribchester (Ire) (lot 60), Territories (Ire) (lot 61) and Time Test (GB) (lot 62). G1 Champion Novices Hurdle winner Cilaos Emery (Fr) (Califet {Fr}) (lot 44) will be offered by Willie Mullins's Closutton Stables.

Seven of the 65 lots are part of the Lance Bloodstock Reduction, including Represent Yourself (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}) in foal to Equiano (Fr), and three-time winner Satin Snake (GB) (Aclaim {Ire}) (lot 29), who won at Kempton earlier this week.

Trainer Ger O'Leary, disucssing the Lance Bloodstock Reduction, said, “Lance Bloodstock is reducing numbers in order to make space for a number of homebred 2-year-olds that are in training in my stables. Lance Bloodstock also plans on purchasing a select number of 2-year-olds in the upcoming breeze-up sales. The horses-in-training that are being offered have won many races. They have all passed a rigorous vetting process and all have recent racing form.

“Lance Bloodstock made the decision to sell with Tattersalls Online because it causes no disruption to the training routine of the horses and avoids the expense of sending staff to the sales for two days.”

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Consignor David Minton said of the March-born yearling, “He is a lovely horse and by the right sire, which was important. He was bred by Robert Waley-Cohen, who is cutting back on numbers now that his son Sam has finished riding.”

Allenstown Stables consigned lot 28, a colt by Soldier Of Fortune (Ire), who caught the eye of Ian Ferguson for €40,000. He is a half-brother to G1 Guinness H. Chase hero Foxy Jacks (Ire) (Fame And Glory {GB})

Two horses brought €37,000 apiece and they both went to T Hillman. The first, lot 60, is a gelded son of Gentlewave (Ire) from Mill House Stud. His dam was placed at listed level over hurdles in France. Loughview Stud offered lot 93, a gelding by Poet's Word (Ire), who is a half-brother to Group 3-winning chaster Ballynagour (Ire) (Shantou) and to the Grade 3-placed chaser Simply Wings (Ire) (Winged Love {Ire}).

A total of 45 yearlings sold from 93 offered (48%) for a gross of €725,150. The average and median both posted big gains at €16,114 (+60%) and €14,000 (+21%), respectively.

The sale continues with National Hunt foals from Sunday through Nov. 10. There is also a broodmare session later in the day on Nov. 10.

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