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TUESDAY, 27TH OCTOBER 2020 ALL EYES ON KEENELAND NOVEMBER EBN MON. 9 - WED. 18 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com HIT TRADE HOLDS UP DESPITE ABSENT FRIENDS There may be fewer overseas buyers at Tattersalls’ Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale this week, but yesterday’s opening session The session-topping Asiaaf (New Approach), Lot 323, who did not lie down, writes Carl Evans. was bought by Ted Durcan from Shadwell for 165,000gns. A clearance rate of 83 per cent was another vote for horseracing © Tattersalls and, while the missing multitude of nations that make Tattersalls such a cosmopolitan place in the final week of October meant the occasion lacked a little atmosphere, those buyers who could be in Newmarket were not shy in coming forward. On-line bidders kept the auctioneers busy and, while minnow-nation representatives IN TODAY’S ISSUE... were noticeable by their absence, there are a willing array of Stallion News p7 agents at Park Paddocks who can assist the long-distance buyer. Qatar trainer Jassim Ghazali, an ever-present at this event in Points of View p15 recent years, is among those watching the action via Tattersalls’ Steve Cargill’s Racing Week p16 live internet stream, but his faithful ally Will Douglass is on the AUSTRALIA 6 Group winners in 2020 including St Leger Stakes-Gr.1 winner GALILEO CHROME CAMELOT 8 Group winners in 2020 including Gr.1 winners EVEN SO, RUSSIAN CAMELOT, SIR DRAGONET etc. FASTNET ROCK 4 Group winners in 2020 including ONE MASTER, winner of Prix de la Foret-Gr.1 for the third straight year GALILEO 9 Group 1 winners in 2020 including 1,000 Guineas-Gr.1 and Epsom Oaks-Gr.1 winner LOVE NO NAY NEVER 5 Group winners in 2020 including Cheveley Park Stakes-Gr.1 winner ALCOHOL FREE WOOTTON BASSETT 6 Group winners in 2020 including Gr.1 winners WOODED, AUDARYA etc. ZOFFANY 3 Group-winning 2YO’s in 2020 including National Stakes-Gr.1 winner THUNDER MOON Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: +353-25-31966. E-mail: [email protected] www.coolmore.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 27TH OCTOBER 2020 grounds to ensure a horse suitable for Doha gets a good look Shamardal mare Baqqa, who was purchased by Sheikh Hamdan over. Unfortunately, some very tight COVID-19 restrictions for 400,000gns at the 2013 October Sale Book 1. She is a full-sister relating to travel in and out of Australia have hit attendance from to the globe-trotting success story that was Dunboyne Express, down under and that could prove costly, but a number of buyers the pair having been foaled by Love Excelling, a member of the from that country registered bids either online or through successful Lordship Stud family that sprang from La Sky. representatives during the day. It helps that European pedigrees Asiaaf did not race at two, but this summer Marcus Tregoning continue to do well down under, as witnessed last week by a Sir trained her to win a race at Goodwood before following up with Dragonet-led clean sweep in the Gr.1 Cox Plate. two good efforts when runner-up at grade-one tracks. While the clearance rate dropped just three points, it has to be Durcan said: “She’s a lovely model and was my pick of the fillies in acknowledged that prices were down yesterday, but the session this sale. She showed her best form in the spring and early summer, lacked a few class acts and Monday’s trade in 2019 was and next year on a sound surface there should be more to come. considerably lifted by a draft from Juddmonte which added There are plenty of options trip wise, and she’s a lovely big and scopey 1,577,000gns to turnover. This year Juddmonte horses are selling mare with room to improve. during tomorrow’s third session and it will be the close-of-sale “She’ll stay in England. I’ve been watching her all summer and, figures that provide a clearer picture of the market for used having ridden out at Marcus’s, I know he’s a marvellous horseman racehorses. who brings horses along slowly.” Turnover at the opening session, which involved 11 fewer MEGAN DOES THE DEAL FOR DITCHEAT horses compared to last year, achieved 4,138,500gns, a fall of 46 Jockey Megan Nicholls made an impact in the ring when her bid per cent, the average price of 16,961gns was down 42 per cent, of 135,000gns reeled in an exciting hurdling prospect for her while the median lost 46 per cent at 9,000gns. father, multiple Champion Trainer Paul Nicholls. Wise Glory (Lot 263), a three-year-old gelding, now heads to DURCAN GRABS SESSION-HIGH ASIAAF Manor Farm Stables in Ditcheat, Somerset, to join Nicholls’s string Three-year-old filly Asiaaf (Lot 323) from Sheikh Hamdan’s of juvenile hurdlers. Bred by Sheikh Obaid, and carrying his Shadwell operation became the 165,000gns session-topper colours from the stable of Simon and Ed Crisford, Wise Glory may when Tattersalls’ Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale opened its have been a son of top sprinter Muhaarar, but his two wins this doors. year came over ten and 12 furlongs. He was recently second on Former jockey Ted Durcan was on the right side of the winning heavy ground and with a rating of 86 appears to have the bid, gaining him a daughter of New Approach and the attributes needed to make a mark over jumps. THE AGA KHAN STUDS Success Breeds Success GOFFS AUTUMN HIT SALE CONSIGNMENT Interested to view more? Click here to watch all the photos and videos of our draft selling at the Goffs HIT Sale online on 5th November. 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 27TH OCTOBER 2020 ONE Masked-up Megan Nicholls who bought Wise Glory (Lot 263) to go hurdling for her father Paul. (Ce) Megan said: “He will be going back to Dad’s with the object of MILLION going juvenile hurdling. He’s a lovely, big horse, has a frame to fill and will need a bit of time, but he’s gelded and has the right profile. He stays a mile and a half and has won on soft ground, so he’s a horse to look forward to. I’ve had a connection with the Crisford team and in GBB bonuses rode out there, more so last year than this, and he is a horse that caught the eye. He only ran once at two and they looked after him. I paid out in just five months! like that and hopefully there is plenty more in the engine.” A subsequent Tweet by Megan revealed Wise Glory had been Don’t miss out on multiple bought on spec and was being offered for sale to stay in training at Ditcheat. opportunities to win. Megan’s father has used a number of leading bloodstock agents down the years and that is an area of the industry that appeals to his daughter. She said: “It’s something I’m interested in Register your 2020 filly and Dad is encouraging me. I’ve gone round with the likes of Tom Malone, Alex Elliott and Stephen Hillen viewing horses and I’ve foals by 31st October 2020 learned loads. With help from Dad and Buffy [Shirley-Beaven], who to #WINWIN does the vetting, I hope to learn a lot more.” Another member of the Crisfords’ consignment, Ostilio (Lot 254), is heading to Dubai after being purchased by racehorse owners Taylor Bloodstock. Paul Midgley will train the five-year- old entire son of New Approach, a talented performer over a mile, but recently successful in Listed grade over seven furlongs at Redcar. Ian Mason, representing Taylors, and whose bid of 90,000gns secured the horse’s passport, said: “The plan is to take him to Dubai for the winter. He has the right profile, and we’ll take him out there to get a bit of sun on his back and take it from there. He’s got the right rating, we’ve followed him for a while and hopefully he can do a job over there.” ◆ greatbritishbonus.co.uk DOUGLASS IN RIGHT BALL PARK WITH NASTASE Owner/breeder/trainer Mick Channon enjoyed a profitable return on a Sixties Icon cover that resulted in the colt Nastase (Lot 302). Channon saddled Nastase to win at Chepstow in August and he later went on to land the Listed Rockingham Stakes at York before finishing fourth at Newbury on Saturday in the Gr.3 Horris Hill Stakes. From there it was back to his trainer’s West Ilsley Stables and then on to Tattersalls, where Will Douglass of Charlie Gordon- Watson Bloodstock was in position and primed to act on behalf of CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 27TH OCTOBER 2020 consistent horse, really honest, really straightforward, sound as a pound. I really like him. “We had our eye on him after he won at York and he ran a really nice race in the Horris Hill. Hopefully there is more to come. We are trying to concentrate on buying a bit of quality for Jassim.” NEW HORIZONS FOR NUMEN It is destination unsure for three-year-old colt Numen (Lot 223), who was knocked down to Narvick International’s Emmanuel Seroux for 105,000gns.