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F-T CALDER TOP FILLIES HEADLINE p. 3 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2005 A WORLD-RECORD TALE FASIG-TIPTON CALDER -- TOP COLTS The world-record price for a two-year-old in training Hip Sire Dam Price was easily surpassed yesterday when hip 58, a racy 058 Tale of the Cat Carry All $5,200,000 bay by Tale of the Cat, was purchased by Darley for B-Grade I Bloodstock & Halcyon Farm (Ky) $5,200,000 at the 2005 edition of the Fasig-Tipton Consigned by Robert Scanlon, agent Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale in Miami. That Purchased by Darley Stud Management Co Ltd bid broke the old mark of $4.5 million set when 265 Forestry Rare Bird $3,000,000 Fusaichi Samurai went through the ring at this sale last ($200,000 yrl ‘04 FTKJUL) year. It was a walk-off grand B-Freedom Stables (Ky) slam for Grade I Bloodstock, Consigned by Tony Bowling & Bobby Dodd, agent owned by Jay Brunker, and Purchased by Dr. Dermot O’Byrne Halcyon Farm, headed by 089 Grand Slam Dama $2,900,000 Brunker’s wife Cammie. The ($450,000 yrl ‘04 FTKJUL) duo bred and raised the juve- B-Larry Byer (Ky) nile at Halcyon in northern Consigned by M W Miller III, agent Fayette County, Kentucky. Purchased by Darley Stud Management Co Ltd “We have the mare with sev- 226 Golden Missile Ms. Copelan $1,500,000 eral partners, and the original ($360,000 yrl ‘04 KEESEP) Hip 58 Horsephotos plan was to race the foals B-Clover IV Stables (Ky) from the mare,” Jay Brunker said. “That’s why he had- Consigned by Wavertree Stables, Inc., Agent VII n’t been through a sale prior to this. But in the middle Purchased by Dr. Dermot O’Byrne of the summer, we were in discussions with our part- 266 Exchange Rate Raspberry Affair $1,050,000 ners and the decision was made to sell him here at ($140,000 yrl ‘04 FTKJUL; $38,000 wnlg ‘03 OBSOCT) Calder. That started the process.” The process ended B-Padua Stables (Fl) with a world-record bid, but it wasn’t until the week Consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, Agent I before the sale that the Brunkers got the idea they Purchased by Jeremy Noseda, agent might be dealing with a multi-million dollar baby. “We 149 Gone West Heavenly Rhythm $1,000,000 liked him all along and we knew he was potentially B-WinStar Farm (Ky) talented,” Brunker said. “But I don’t think anyone Consigned by Robert Harris, agent knows what the horses are capable of until they get on Purchased by Robert & Beverly Lewis the racetrack. In the field, at home, he was always very 344 Tiznow Thega $1,000,000 nice, but we never dreamt that he’d break a world ($500,000 yrl ‘04 FTSAUG) record. It wasn’t until last week that we started to B-WinStar Farm (Ky) think he’d be a seven-figure kind of horse.” Cont. p2 Consigned by Hoby & Layna Kight, Agent I FASIG-TIPTON CALDER Purchased by Eoin Harty, agent 154 High Yield Here Comes Chelsie $975,000 TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2005 ($415,000 yrl ‘04 FTSAUG; $335,000 wnlg ‘03 KEENOV) SESSION TOTALS 2005 2004 B-Elmer Miller (Ky) No. Offered 267 223 Consigned by Hoby & Layna Kight, Agent I No. Sold 147 142 Purchased by Eoin Harty, agent RNAs 120 81 093 Saint Ballado Danzerella $950,000 % RNA 44.9% 36.3% ($80,000 yrl ‘04 KEESEP) Gross $50,132,000 $41,586,000 B-Fox Hill Farms (Pa) Average (% change) $341,034 (+16.4%) $292,859 Consigned by Tony Bowling & Bobby Dodd, agent Median (% change) $200,000 (+17.6%) $170,000 Purchased by Dr. Dermot O’Byrne TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/2/05 • PAGE 2 of 11 Record Price Pleasant Surprise for Scanlon... Big-Time Operation Takes Him Home... Consignor Robert Scanlon was also surprised by the John Ferguson was on the phone with Sheikh Mo- $5.2-million record-breaking final bid. “He brought hammed during the bidding. “He was interested in the twice what I thought he would,” he admitted. “I proceedings,” Ferguson said with a smile. “I was just thought maybe he’d bring $3 million.” But Scanlon keeping him informed.” But it was Jimmy Bell who knew he had something special. signed the ticket for Darley after a protracted bidding “We always prep them four days duel with Coolmore’s Demi O’Byrne. “Obviously, he has before the breeze show,” he ex- everything you want,” Bell said. “He’s got lovely bal- plained. “We just let them do ance. He’s done everything he’s supposed to do, and what they want for an eighth he’s got a stallion’s pedigree as well. He’s a very, very and he went in :10 1/5 and gal- athletic individual, and he showed the part both on the loped out in :21 3/5. Everybody shank and on the racetrack.” As for the final price, he was here to see it. His work in added, “There’s just no way to pinpoint what a horse the breeze show [:10 3/5] was- will go for. That’s what happens at a horse sale. Sheikh Hip 58 Horsephotos n’t really indicative of what he Mohammed was pretty determined to have him.” The could do. The track was way too colt will go back to Scanlon. “Sheikh Mohammed will dry that day and he just didn’t handle it.” Just two decide where he’ll go, in due course,” Bell said. Buzz years ago, Scanlon sold a Tale of the Cat for $1.4 Chace, on the phone with Aaron Jones, was also in the million at this sale. That colt turned out to be Lion bidding for the record colt. “I finished a bad third,” he Heart, who went on to win the GI Haskell Invitational quipped. “I thought he’d bring anywhere from a million H. and set all the pace in the GI Kentucky Derby before and a half to $3 million.” Chace conceded at the $3- hanging in there gamely for second. How does yester- million mark, saying, “It’s good for the game.” day’s sale topper compare? “He is better than most of the Tale of the Cats I’ve seen,” Scanlon said. “He has Can You Hear Me Now? more scope to him. He’s got a great mind on him. He He kept losing his mobile phone connection with does everything so easy. You couldn’t ask for a better client Aaron Jones and, in the end, Buzz Chace lost out horse to work around. At this stage, he is a better on another multi-million dollar colt. With an offer of $3 prospect than Lion Heart. He shows me more.” million, Demi O’Byrne won the bidding battle for hip 265, a Forestry colt consigned by Tony Bowling and Small Operation Hits the Big Time... Bobby Dodd, as agent. The duo acquired the youngster Jay Brunker had already been involved in racing for for $200,000 at Fasig-Tipton July sale, and he provided about 10 years before he and Cammie, who rode show them with their biggest pinhooking success to date. jumpers, tied the knot five years ago. The two began a “It’s huge,” said Bowling. “I had one sell once for 1.1, commercial breeding operation called Halcyon Farm. but this beats that by far.” Bowling had high hopes for The rest is now sales history. “We are just a small the colt since last summer. “He’s been a dream since operation,” Jay Brunker explained. “We are hands-on. day one,” he continued. “He came here and performed It’s just Cammie and myself and two employees. We do like the right kind of horse. When I brought him down, I it all. We are in the barn every day. That’s our program expected maybe a half a million. Then he breezed good, and our lifestyle.” How did they feel as they watched there was more interest every day, and I raised my the bids race higher and higher? “When it gets beyond expectations. I thought tonight he might bring between a certain level, it becomes surreal,” Jay said. ”Every- $800,000 and a million. But when you get two guys thing is in slow motion.” Added Cammie, who admitted like that on your horse, you just say, ‘Thank God.’ crying over the mind-blowing result, “You are watching Seriously.” Bowling and Dodd, both Florida natives, so intensely--is that Coolmore bidding, is that Darley?-- have been in business together for 21 years. Produced that the price doesn’t really sink in. It still hasn’t sunk by the stakes-placed Rahy mare Rare Bird and from the in.” How will the two celebrate? “I wish I could tell you family of Mt. Livermore, the juvenile had a very timely we had some elaborate plans, but we’ll probably just go catalogue update Jan. 30 when his 3/4-brother Host out for a nice dinner,” said Jay. And what will they do (Tabasco Cat) captured the GIII Mac Diarmida H. at for an encore? “Win the Derby,” laughed Cammie. Gulfstream. “What else can we do?” TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 3/2/05 • PAGE 3 of 11 Darley Goes Deep... FASIG-TIPTON CALDER -- TOP FILLIES Darley still had plenty left in the pocketbook after Hip Sire Dam Price their world-record purchase.