TUESDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2019 THE WEEKLY WRAP: DON'T YEARLING ACTION RETURNS TO DEAUVILLE FOR ARQANA OCTOBER By Emma Berry DREAM IT'S OVER DEAUVILLE, France-There is little let-up in the packed European sales calendar. Tattersalls brought down the shutters on its October marathon on Saturday afternoon but by Monday morning Goffs was back in action with its Autumn Sale and today (Tuesday) sees the start of the four-day Arqana October Sale. This understudy to the flamboyant August yearling sale in Deauville has traditionally been conducted in two parts but this year it has a distinct grading system for each day, with the seemingly strongest set of yearlings offered in the opening session. The sale's clash with a three-day race meeting in the town means that the first two days of trade will not begin until 3 p.m. That may be just as well for those looking at yearlings on Monday who had to spend plenty of time dodging heavy seaside showers. Cont. p5 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Kameko (left), will bid to reverse the Royal Lodge form with Royal Dornoch in the G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy. | Racing Post FASIG-TIPTON KY OCTOBER BEGAN MONDAY The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale began in Lexington, KY on Monday. Brian DiDonato has the full scoop. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. By Emma Berry We are in that strange week of the year after Champions Day, with much tweeting about the end of the Flat season but with at least one highly informative juvenile race yet to be run. It's a misconception aided largely by the fact that the jockeys' and apprentices' championships both end that day, representing only a subset of the season as a whole. John Dance has been a breath of fresh air since joining the British owners' ranks, his joy for the game understandably heightened by being associated with the brilliant Laurens (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). With Karl Burke he has campaigned her sportingly and openly and we wish the mare continued success from the paddocks via her offspring. Last year, Dance's company took on the sponsorship of Britain's final Group 1 juvenile contest of the season, the Vertem Futurity Trophy at Doncaster. And while some of us may be forgiven for still occasionally and erroneously referring to it as the 'Racing Post Trophy' following that long sponsorship association, it is unforgivable, both for Doncaster and for Vertem Futurity, that racing fans are encouraged to have looked upon last weekend as the end of the season. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 22 OCTOBER 2019 been resident for the past two seasons. Dream Ahead rarely missed a beat in his own outstanding racing career and he has been enjoying something of a purple Don=t Dream It=s Over Cont. from p1 patch of late. Not only was he responsible for the first and third home in the Champion Sprint, with Forever In Dreams (Ire) Three of the last eight 2000 Guineas winners finishing just a neck behind runner-up One Master (GB) (Fastnet have come from the race-Camelot (GB), Saxon Rock {Aus}), but he also had the G1 Qatar Prix de l'Abbaye Warrior (Jpn) and Magna Grecia (Ire)--and at a winner Glass Slippers (GB) during the Arc weekend, and Dream time when racecourses desperately need Shot (Ire) has been runner-up in both the G2 Flying Childers S. sponsors and G3 Mercury S. outside the While Richard Venn is not yet stalwarts of the betting and at liberty to confirm the breeding industries, ensuring destination of Donjuan this race is given more kudos is Triumphant, he did reveal that essential. Ireland's Whytemount Stud will However, as the three names have a new recruit for next listed above show, it is a contest season in Feel Like Dancing in which Aidan O'Brien has (GB). The 9-year-old son of enjoyed much success and, Galileo (Ire), bred by Lady dauntingly, he has a strong Bamford from the Darshaan chance of winning it for the 10th (GB) mare Maid Of Killeen (Ire), time on Saturday. From the 12 won the G3 Bahrain Trophy and remaining entries, 11 are trained has been standing at Haras du by him at Ballydoyle, while the Glass Slippers |Scoop Dyga Lion since his retirement in only home challenger is Qatar 2014. Racing's Kameko (Kitten's Joy), whose trainer Andrew Balding Dream Ahead's stud career began at Ballylinch Stud, which is won the race in 2014 with Elm Park (GB) (Phoenix Reach {Ire}). represented in the current freshman sires' table by Make Believe (GB), who notched his second group winner on Sunday. Dream Sequence Ocean Fantasy (Fr), winner of the G3 Preis der Winterkonigin at An announcement will be made later this week with regard to Baden-Baden, was bred by Haras du Mezeray and is out of a the new home of Saturday's G1 QIPCO British Champions Sprint half-sister to the G2 Prix Maurice de Nieuil winner Watar (Ire) winner Donjuan Triumphant (Ire) (Dream Ahead). While the (Marju {Ire}), who stands at Moortown Stud in Ireland. Among name of the stud is yet to be revealed, it has been confirmed by the members of Watar's first crop is the Jonjo O'Neill-trained bloodstock agent Richard Venn, whose Anglo-French 5-year-old Stony Stream (Ire), a dual winner this season. transactions have led to him being dubbed 'Le Stallion Man', that the 6-year-old will be standing in France, where his sire has Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 22 OCTOBER 2019 Change For The Good When King Of Change (GB) (Farhh {GB}) chased home Magna Grecia in May to finish second in the Guineas at odds of 66-1, he perhaps wasn't given the respect he was due, and it hasn't helped that until Saturday we'd only seen him once more in action when winning the Listed Chasemore Farm Fortune S. at Vice President, International Operations Sandown. However low a profile he's been keeping, Richard Gary King Hannon's charge has done little wrong in his short racing career, Twitter: @garykingTDN never having finished out of the first two in six starts, and in [email protected] conditions that members of his sireline often favour he duly + 1.732.320.0975 became a second Group 1 winner for Farhh. Equal credit should go to his dam Salacia (Ire), however. The 10-year-old daughter International Editor of the late Echo Of Light (GB) had the rare distinction of being Kelsey Riley represented by two of her sons in Saturday's G1 Queen Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Elizabeth II S., with the seven-time winner Century Dream (Ire) [email protected] (Cape Cross {Ire}) finishing seventh. The 5-year-old was his European Editor dam's first foal and his best result to date has been winning last Emma Berry year's G3 Diomed S. on Derby day for Abdulla Belhabb and Twitter: @collingsberry Simon Crisford. A third of Salacia's sons, Thawry (GB) (Iffraaj [email protected] {GB}), was also in action on Saturday at Wolverhampton. Associate International Editor State Of Play Heather Anderson It has been interesting to watch from afar the stand-off Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN between Victoria and New South Wales when it comes to the Marketing Manager spring racing programme in Australia. Traditionally, of course, Alayna Cullen spring is all about Melbourne. But with the valuable Everest now Twitter: @AlaynaCullen vying for attention on the same day as the G1 Caulfield Cup, and [email protected] Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'landys having brazenly called for the Melbourne Cup to be moved to a later date, there Contributing Editor have been plenty of column inches devoted to the inter-state Alan Carasso rivalry of late. Twitter: @EquinealTDN Certainly the Everest has gained traction in a very short space of time and, bar U S Navy Flag (War Front) last year and Ten Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Sovereigns (Ire) (No Nay Never) on Saturday, it has included Tom Frary only domestic runners. From a punter's perspective this is [email protected] doubtless preferable. Cont. p4 Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | Andrew Caulfield John Berry | Kevin Blake IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY TDN Q & A WITH ARCHIE ALEXANDER TDN AusNZ chats with Archie Alexander. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. The winning connections with Mer de Glace | Bronwen Healy .oNpiH 1nraB 166 Consigned by Denali Stud, Agent I Photo Call (IRE) Sadler’s Wells . Northern Dancer KBIF Galileo . {Fairy Bridge Urban Sea . 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