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First Foals Out of Grade I Winners on Offer at KEESEP

One of the highlights of Book 1 of the Keeneland September Sale each year is the opportunity to view and purchase the first foals out of some of the top racemares in recent years. This year is no exception with six such offerings available in Book 1. Below we feature six yearlings who are the first foals out of Grade I-winning mares, such as two-time champion Unique Bella (Tapit).

 

It Tiz Well won five of her 10 starts and was only out of the money once, earning over $1.1 million. She scored her first black-type win in the 2017 GIII Honeybee S. and captured the GIII Delaware Oaks three starts later. Second to Elate (Medaglia d'Oro) in the GI Alabama S. next out, the bay concluded her career with a two-length defeat of champion Abel Tasman (Quality Road) in the GI Cotillion S. at Parx. Retained by owner Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, It Tiz Well was sent to War Front for her first mating and the resulting colt is offered by Denali Stud here.

“It's a nice first foal with good leg and good scope,” Denali's Conrad Bandoroff said. “You see a lot of the mare with the Arch line coming through. He is a powerful colt, well balanced with a good hip, good shoulder and deep heart girth on him. He is a hard horse to pick on. He has good size and substance especially for a first foal. We are pretty encouraged for the mare's first effort.”

 

A $375,000 OBSMAR purchase by Speedway Stable, Noted and Quoted won the GI Chandelier S. in 2016. She retired with two wins from 13 starts. Bred to fellow Bob Baffert trainee and Horse of the Year Justify, the 'TDN Rising Star' was sent through the ring at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton November Sale, RNA'ing for $950,000. The resulting foal was a colt bred by Aaron and Marie Jones and consigned by Taylor Made Sales.

“This colt has really good size for a first foal,” Mark Taylor said. “He is a leggy individual, a lot like the other Justifys I've seen. He has a really good frame to him, looks like a two-turn horse. He is very correct with a lot of class. Noted and Quoted herself is a beautiful mare and was a Grade I winner at two. I think this colt is exactly what you would have hoped for from a mare of that caliber, especially for a first foal. This colt is very forward with a lot of stretch to him. He is a really nice horse.”

 

Sailor's Valentine upended the 2017 GI Central Bank Ashland S. at 22-1. She retired with two wins from 13 starts and over $400,000 in earnings. Purchased for $800,000 at the 2018 KEENOV sale by Town and Country Farms and Pollock Farms, the gray was sent to War Front for her first mating and was sent back through the Keeneland ring the following November, bringing $1.25 million from Bryant Prentice's Pursuit of Success. St. George Sales consigns the colt on behalf of the breeder.

“I like the horse very much,” Archie St. George said. “He is a big strong colt, a very good first foal. He is very straightforward. Obviously the mare was a very good racehorse and he is by a very good stallion in War Front.”

 

Salty scored her first black-type victory in the 2017 GII Gulfstream Park Oaks and was runner-up in that term's GI Acorn S. The bay capped her career with a win in Churchill's GI La Troienne S. in May of 2018, retiring with a record of 11-4-2-2 and $688,500 in earnings. She summoned $3 million from Don Alberto at that year's Fasig-Tipton November Sale and was sent to Tapit. The resulting filly is offered by Lane's End here.

 

   Sippican Harbor had a short, but sweet career, winning the 2018 GI Spinaway S. She retired at the end of her juvenile season with just four starts under her belt. Lee Pokoik sent her to Medaglia d'Oro in 2019 and entered her in term's FTKNOV sale. She RNA'd for $1.45 million and her colt is in the Taylor Made consignment at KEESEP.

 

  • UNIQUE BELLA – Medaglia d'Oro filly (Hip 221)

Unique Bella more than lived up to her 'TDN Rising Star' billing throughout her career. The $400,000 KEESEP buy won four consecutive graded events in California during her 2017 sophomore season. Off the board in that term's GI Breeders' Cup F/M Sprint, the Don Alberto runner rebounded with a victory in the GI La Brea S. Kicking off 2018 with a win in the GII Santa Maria S., the gray finished second in the GI Apple Blossom H. and followed that with a pair of wins in the GI Beholder Mile and GI Clement L. Hirsch S. Her 2018 campaign earned her a pair of Eclipse awards as the top female sprinter and top older dirt female. Her first foal is a Medaglia d'Oro filly, who is in the Denali Stud consignment.

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Mo Town on Track to Become Uncle Mo’s Next Sire Prodigy

When 2020 came to a close, Ashford Stud's GISW Mo Town (Uncle Mo – Grazie Mille, by Bernardini) sat in prime position to see his best book yet as his first crop became yearlings and he began his third year at stud. Sons of Uncle Mo were at the forefront of breeders' minds as esteemed young stallions Nyquist and Laoban finished one-two in the freshman sire standings and were both represented by Grade I winners, while another Uncle Mo prodigy in Outwork ended up a close fourth on the same list.

“Obviously what Uncle Mo has done not only as a sire, but now as a sire of sire, has certainly helped the momentum behind a horse like Mo Town,” said Coolmore's Adrian Wallace. “Certainly with what Laoban, Nyquist and Outwork have done, we're starting to realize now that Uncle Mo is very much on the way to creating a sire line all of his own.”

While all three of the aforementioned young sires saw either an increase in stud fee or held the same fee in 2021, Mo Town's stud fee decreased from $10,000 to $7,500 and breeders jumped at the chance to get in on the easily-accessible value into the Uncle Mo sire line.

“Certainly we're seeing the benefit of that in his third year as he covered more mares this year than he ever covered before,” Wallace said of Mo Town, who saw 144 and 108 mares in his first two books. “This year, he got over 200 mares. I think that shows you how well his foals have been received and how good his yearlings look, but also how well Uncle Mo is doing himself as a sire of sires.”

A $200,000 Keeneland September purchase, Mo Town broke his maiden at second asking by seven lengths at Belmont before taking the 2016 GII Remsen S. He returned to the winner's circle at three in an allowance on the turf at Belmont and then again tried the grass to claim the GI Hollywood Derby over eventual Eclipse Champion Channel Maker (English Channel).

“Mo Town was a very good racehorse on both surfaces and he was precocious,” Wallace noted. “He managed to do what we all want them to do in being successful on dirt at two and then to go on and win a Grade I at three is very important as well.”

The dual graded stakes winner is out of the winning Bernardini mare Grazie Mille, who herself is a daughter of GIIISW and GISP Molto Vita (Carson City) and is a half-sister to two stakes winners. Wallace said that physically, Mo Town is an equal representation of both sides of his pedigree.

“While Mo Town does look quite like Uncle Mo in some respects, I think there's a lot of Bernardini in him,” Wallace explained. “He's got much more of a short back and he has a great hip and shoulder. He has all the qualities you would want in Bernardini, who obviously was a great sire in his own right but a great broodmare sire as well, and then he has the strength and scope of Uncle Mo.”

Wallace said that Mo Town's first few crops have trended strongly towards the look of their sire.

“We're seeing a lot of him in them,” he said. “Uncle Mo certainly stamps his stock and Mo Town does as well. They're very balanced, scopey-looking horses. They've got a lot of quality. He's getting the good hip and shoulder and the lovely top line. His action is another thing that's going to sell them.”

Hip 2242, a colt out of Closing Move, sells with Gainesway. | Ray Gladwell

Last year, 22 of 31 Mo Town weanlings sold to average $41,318. His top weanling, a son of the winning Broken Vow mare Mybrokenhome, went to Davant Latham for $185,000 at the Keeneland November Sale. That colt returned to the auction ring a few weeks ago at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale and brought $300,000.

Earlier this summer at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale, another son of Mo Town sold for $100,000 off the stallion's $12,500 initial stud fee. The colt out of All Day Donna (Value Plus) went to Brick City Thoroughbreds.

Mo Town will be well-represented at the Keeneland September Sale, which begins Monday, Sept. 13, with over 40 yearlings cataloged.

Wallace said that one Keeneland-bound yearling that he has heard high praise for already is Hip 2242. The March-foaled colt is out of Closing Move (Bernardini), who hails from the family of GIISW Stanford (Malibu Moon) and successful Coolmore sires Tale of the Cat and Johannesburg. The youngster was purchased as a weanling for $75,000 by Stella Stables at the Keeneland November Sale and is slated to return to the same ring with the Gainesway consignment.

“[Gainesway's] Brian Graves told me that he is one to keep an eye on,” Wallace said. “He said the colt has progressed very, very well.”

Wallace explained that he believes Mo Town's progeny will appeal to a wide array of buyers on the Keeneland grounds due in large part to Uncle Mo's recent insurgence of talented performers on turf with the likes of this summer's GII Del Mar Mile S. winner Mo Forza, another son of Uncle Mo to have captured the GI Hollywood Derby at three, as well as last year's GII Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint champion Golden Pal.

“The great thing about Uncle Mo is that he was perceived very much as a dirt horse himself, but I think we're now starting to see the versatility of the Uncle Mo line,” Wallace said. “It should come as no surprise because if you go further back in the sire line he has two French Classic winners in Siberian Express and Caro (Ire). It's something that is very important because it opens you up to so many more buyers at a yearling sale.”

“Mo Town yearlings will appeal to buyers in that we know Uncle Mo is becoming, in a very short period of time, a sought-after sire of sires,” Wallace said. “Uncle Mo's first three proper stallions have done very, very well. They've got the precocity and they've shown that they can get it done, so now it's up to Mo Town.”

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New Name, Same Ethos For Somerville Sale

The bloodstock sales market proved extraordinarily resilient in the face of the global pandemic last year, and one of the true highlights was the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale staged for the first time at Park Paddocks. A move from the sale's traditional home at Ascot Racecourse that was necessitated by public health restrictions appeared a truly inspired one at the close of trade last Sept. 7, when 81% of the 250 youngsters offered changed hands for an average of 11,533gns that was up 13% on the year prior. Making that rise all the more extraordinary was the fact that the catalogue was up 56% in size due to the switch to the larger venue. The Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale staged at Park Paddocks grossed 2,341,350gns, while the median was likewise up 5% to 8,000gns.

The Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale was incorporated in 2017 as a boutique auction laser-focused on the type of sharp, precocious youngsters that were gaining so rapidly in popularity, and it turns out the desire for that kind of animal has not waned one bit. Off the back of last year's excellent results-which built on the year-on-year gains the sale had achieved since its inauguration–heads went together at HQ and it was announced that the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale would be permanently relocated to Park Paddocks and re-branded the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale. The first edition of the sale under its new guise takes place on Tuesday with 292 catalogued.

“The success of the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale at Park Paddocks last year posed the question to everyone here, “should we hold the sale here permanently? And I think it was a pretty straightforward decision to do that,” explained Tattersalls Marketing Executive Bobby Jackson. “And moving it here, we felt it would need a new name and its own identity.”

It was decided the sale should honour Somerville Tattersall, the last member of the Tattersalls family to lead the firm, he having done so through another very turbulent period in history, the first half of the 20th century.

“Tattersalls is all about innovation and moving forward, but also tradition, and Somerville Tattersall encompassed all of this, and it felt right to give the sale that name,” Jackson said. “Somerville Tattersall shaped the modern Tattersalls as everyone knows it now. We felt you could compare his story to the Ascot Yearling Sale, and how in a short space of time it has been thrust into the limelight and come quite a long way.”

One aspect of the Ascot sale that endeared it to its loyal vendors and buyers was the personal service offered by the Tattersalls Ascot team, and Jackson noted the Tattersalls team is committed to maintaining that. Jackson and fellow Tattersalls marketing executive Chloe Pitts have joined forces with Tattersalls Ascot's Matt Hall and Shirley Anderson-Jolag as the dedicated team working on the Somerville Yearling Sale, with Ollie Fowlston doing the yearling selection.

“Something people liked about the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale was the personal touch that the Tattersalls Ascot team had,” Jackson explained. “That's something we wanted to keep going with the Somerville Sale. Even though it's now called the Somerville Yearling Sale, we're keen that it still has that personal touch that the Ascot Yearling Sale had.”

Jackson was likewise keen to stress that the move to Park Paddocks does not mean that the Somerville Yearling Sale will become amalgamated with the two-week October Yearling Sale that begins four weeks later. Helping keep that identity separate is the fact that the sale has produced so many big-name graduates in its short history-10 stakes winners in the last two years alone, led by the G2 Lowther S. victress Miss Amulet (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) and the G3 Molecomb S. winner Steel Bull (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}), graduates of the 2019 sale at £7,500 and £15,000, respectively. The second renewal of the sale in 2018 proved a bumper edition, producing group winners Shadn (Ire) (No Nay Never) and Liberty Beach (GB) (Cable Bay {Ire}) as well as listed winners Summer Sands (GB) (Coach House {Ire}) and Flippa The Strippa (Ire) (Outstrip {GB}). Summer Sands, bought for a mere £2,000, evolved into an 85,000gns breezer and six months later was hammered down for 625,000gns at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale after winning the Listed Redcar Two-Year-Old Trophy and finishing third in the G1 Middle Park S.

Last year's sale has already produced three stakes winners among its 41 winners thus far: 17,500gns purchase Windstormblack (GB) (Brazen Beau {Aus}) won the G3 Premio Primi Passi in June, while 10,000gns purchase Chipotle (GB) (Havana Gold {GB}) scaled some of racing's highest peaks the same month when winning Royal Ascot's Listed Windsor Castle S., having already taken the Brocklesby Conditions S. and the Royal Ascot Two-Year-Old Trial Conditions S. for trainer/purchaser Eve Johnson Houghton. Saturday marked the victory of 12,500gns purchase Eve Lodge (GB) (Ardad {Ire}) in the G3 Sirenia S. at Kempton.

Jackson said horses like Chipotle are exactly what the Somerville Yearling Sale has, and will continue to, target.

“We were conscious as a team that we wanted the Somerville Yearling Sale to remain about the precocious, early, athletic 2-year-olds that had been known to come from the Ascot Yearling Sale, and that's definitely what has been catalogued in the Somerville Yearling Sale,” he said.

Steadfast supporters of the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale have gotten behind the Somerville Yearling Sale with some of their more precocious yearlings: Tally-Ho Stud brings 19, Barton Stud and Rathasker Stud 11 apiece and Trickledown Stud 10. And some of the circuit's leading vendors are bringing drafts to the sale for the first time, like Yeomanstown Stud, Lynn Lodge Stud and Castledillon Stud. The catalogue includes half-siblings to stakes-winning graduates Windstormblack (lot 2, a filly by Adaay {Ire}) and Flippa The Strippa (lot 222, a colt by War Command). Other siblings to black-type horses catalogued include a Cable Bay (Ire) half-sister to Chilworth Icon (GB) (Sixties Icon {GB}), winner of Italy's Primi Passi and Epsom's Listed Woodcote S. (lot 144); a full-brother to Listed El Gran Senor S. scorer Sweet Gardenia (GB) (lot 71); a Jungle Cat (Ire) half-sister to G3 Renaissance S. victor and G1 Commonwealth Cup third Ventura Rebel (GB) (Pastoral Pursuits {GB}) (lot 271); a colt by Unfortunately (Ire) who is a half to three stakes-placed winners including this season's G2 Coventry S. third Vintage Clarets (GB) (Ardad {Ire}) (lot 261); and a Kodiac (GB) filly (lot 105) out of the Listed Chalice S. winner and multiple Group 2-placed Sahool (GB) (Unfuwain), whose Laraaib (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) won the G3 Cumberland Lodge S. Another daughter of Sahool has produced Alnaseem (GB), stakes-placed in the U.S. this year, and it is also the family of multiple group-winning juvenile and productive young sire Gutaifan (Ire). The stakes-winning and Group 1-placed Baileys Jubilee has a colt by Twilight Son set to sell (lot 206).

“There are half brothers and sisters to 44 group and listed performers catalogued,” Jackson noted. “And there are 108 siblings to 2-year-old winners and 80 out of 2-year-old winning dams. It's still definitely the early, precocious 2-year-olds, which is what we wanted to keep in the catalogue going forward.”

The aforementioned daughter of Sahool is one of four by the ever-popular Kodiac in the book, and other proven Group 1 sires represented include Showcasing, Night Of Thunder (Ire), Dark Angel (Ire) and his sire Acclamation (GB), Ardad (Ire), Dandy Man (Ire), Holy Roman Emperor (Ire), Mehmas (Ire), Oasis Dream (GB), Starspangledbanner (Aus) and Zoffany. Currently popular young sires like Cotai Glory (GB), Galileo Gold (GB), Profitable (Ire) and Ribchester (Ire) are also represented. First-season sire Havana Grey is the most represented sire in the book with 21, and other first-crop sires with progeny on offer include Cracksman (GB), Expert Eye (GB), Harry Angel (Ire), Kessaar (Ire), Sioux Nation, Tasleet (GB) and Zoustar (Aus) with his first Northern Hemisphere crop.

The Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale begins at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. All yearlings offered are eligible for the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction S. as well as the new £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction S., which will be held five weeks apart in 2022 with the Tattersalls Somerville Auction S. taking place over six furlongs on the Newmarket July Course in late August, with prizemoney paid down to 10th place.

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First ThoroughBid Sale Set For Sept. 12

New digital sale platform ThoroughBid will host its first sale on Sept. 12, the company announced on Thursday. Entries will be accepted for the platform through Friday, Sept. 3. ThoroughBid, which is currently a team sponsor in the William Hill Racing League, will kick off their sale at 10 a.m. on Sept. 12, with bidding ending for each lot at two-minute intervals beginning at 6 p.m. In addition, anti-snipe technology will be utilised, so that any bid made in the last minute will extend the auction by an additional two minutes.

Will Kinsey, co-founder of ThoroughBid, said, “The feedback we've had since launching last month has been very encouraging. ThoroughBid's sponsorship of the Racing League has helped raise awareness of what we are doing and it's been great to hear from a range of trainers, owners and breeders who are all interested in being involved in our first sale.

“The first sale falling in mid-September provides everyone with a good opportunity to buy and sell bloodstock. The flexibility of our product means we can setup future sales to suit the needs of the industry rather than sticking to traditional dates.”

Added Andrew Balding, who currently leads the UK Trainers' Championship and is one of Team ThoroughBid's trainers in the Racing League, “Selling horses is always a challenge and a new platform like ThoroughBid is very welcome.

“Not everybody needs to be waiting for the autumn sales and, obviously, income for our owners is very important if they are going to re-invest in time for the yearling sales.”

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