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Court Vision to Remsen p.5 HEADLINE For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. NEWS www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2007 KEENELAND CONCLUDES ON HIGH VERGLAS COLT TOPS DAY TWO Keeneland concluded its marathon 15-day November A colt by Verglas (Ire) was the highlight of the sec- Breeding Stock Sale in Lexington Monday with record ond session of the Goffs November Foal Sale yesterday sales of over $340 million and a world-record price when selling for i60,000. Consigned by Collegelands broodmare. Last year, through 14 days of selling, Stud, hip 282 is out of Ibtihal Keeneland drew $313,843,800 (Ire) (Hamas) and is from the for 3,147 head sold, compared family of the top-class Ibn Bey to $340,877,200 generated for (GB) and Roseate Tern (GB). 3,381 sold this term. Average He was snapped up by Bobby price of $100,821--the second O=Ryan for Cloverdale Blood- highest in sale history--was up stock. AI thought that he was a 1.1 percent over $99,728 in nice horse, an athletic sort 2006 and the median remained with a good step to him, Lot 282 Goffs.com @ unchanged from last year=s re- O=Ryan commented. AHope- cord of $35,000. AThis sale was fully, he=ll be lucky and the sire is doing well.@ As on the strong from beginning to end; first day, progeny of Antonius Pius were commanding evidenced by the fact that we conducted 15 days of attention and Tally-Ho Stud stepped in for a colt by selling and averaged over $100,000 and equaled the Coolmore=s first-crop sire consigned by Le Mont Stables record median," said Keeneland Director of Sales as hip 345. Out of the listed-placed Minerwa (Ger) Geoffrey Russell. According to Russell, the double-digit (Protektor {Ger}), he was secured for i40,000. AHe=s a growth was realized from session 11 through the end very nice foal by a good racehorse and he certainly of the sale, while the RNA rate was 22.2 percent, stood out today,@ Tally-Ho=s Roger O=Callaghan said. down 3.5 percent from last year. AThese figures indi- AHe=ll be back for resale.@ Brian Grassick Bloodstock Ltd cate that we are selling more horses to a wide range of later paid i38,000 for hip 402, a half-brother by Night people, and that is very rewarding.@ Shift to the listed-placed juvenile Rey Davis (Ire) from the draft of Mount Loftus Stud. Francis Woods secured Multi-Millions... the top-priced filly of the day when paying i25,000 for Contributing to the increases was the sale of 39 hip 399, a daughter of Elusive City out of Ruacana Falls horses for $1 million or more, equaling the record total (Storm Bird). From the draft of Woodfort Stud, she is sold during the 2000 November Sale. Last year, 27 out of a close relation to the top-class Morgana and horses topped the $1-million mark in November. Panama City. AShe=s quite a nice filly from a good pedi- Keeneland established a world-record price of $10.5 gree,@ he said. AShe is a May foal and we will let her tell million for a broodmare on opening day when John us when she is ready to go to a sale. Hopefully the sire Ferguson, acting on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed bin will do well with his first runners next year.@ As on the Rashid al Maktoum, outbid John Magnier of Coolmore opening day, trading was marred by a clearance rate of to buy Group 1 stakes winner Playful Act (Ire) (Sadler=s 46 percent, but unlike the previous session, the average Wells). The five-year-old was consigned by Hill >n' Dale suffered as a result and was down by nearly 18 percent Sales Agency, agent for the dispersal of the Robert on 2006. Part Two of the foal sale gets underway at Sangster family's Swettenham Stud. 11 a.m. Full results can be found on www.goffs.com. You can also pick up a copy of the TDN Keeneland stats & report cont. p2 today at the Goffs November Sale. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/20/07 • PAGE 2 of 5 Keeneland cont. Foreign Affair... While foreign buyers maintained a presence at the top end of the market, American buyers accounted for more than half of the sale's $1-million dollar purchases, and two-thirds of total sales. AOur traditional interna- tional markets remained strong during November, and we saw increases in the number of horses bought and dollars spent by new buyers from emerging markets," Geoffrey Russell continued. AIncreased racing in these Craig & Holly Bandoroff / (859) 987-6212 / www.denalistud.com countries has heightened interest, and the quality of the American Thoroughbred is superior to horses they find GOFFS NOVEMBER at home." At the conclusion of the sale, Keeneland Hip 707, c, Invincible Spirit (Ire)--The Castles (Ire), officials were pleased, and somewhat relieved, with the by Imperial Ballet (Ire) outcome of their two biggest sales of the year. AAt the Consigned by The Castles Stud end of our two major sales [September and November], This is the first foal of a half-sister to the dual listed we did not experience the market correction many in scorer Blue Corrig (Ire), who hails from the extended the industry anticipated,@ Russell said. ABut we attribute family of Manndar (Ire) and Mandesha (Fr). that chiefly to the weakness of the U.S. dollar, which spurred foreign spending." Hip 768, f, Oratorio (Ire)--Cassilis (Ire), by Persian Bold (Ire) Sailing into the Sunset... Consigned by Milltown Park Stud Sailing Minstrel (The Minstrel), in foal to Borrego, By Coolmore=s multiple Group 1-winning first-crop brought the final session's top price of $32,000 from sire, this is a half-sister to a listed place-getter from the R.L. Stallard. Out of the *Sea-Bird mare Gulls Cry, family of the sire Ventiquattrofogli (Ire) and this year=s Hip 5380 was consigned by Patricia Clark, agent. The G2 Debutante S. scorer Campfire Glow (Ire). 18-year-old mare is the dam of GII Jamaica H. and GIII Kent Breeders= Cup S. hero Navesink and stakes winner Hip 794, f, Acclamation (GB)--Eva Luna (Ire), Efficient Frontier. For complete results visit www.keeneland.com by Double Schwartz (Ire) Consigned by Castlemartin Stud While the 1994 G1 Phoenix S. heroine Eva Luna has KEENELAND NOVEMBER MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2007 not produced anything to match her talent so far, this January-foaled filly by the leading first-season sire of SESSION CUMULATIVE 2007 is certain to attract attention, especially as she Catalogued 244 5415 hails from the extended family of Soldier of Fortune No. Offered 156 4343 No. Sold 114 3381 (Ire). RNAs 42 962 % RNA 26.9% 22.1% TDN TODAY Gross $673,500 $340,877,200 Average (% change) $5,908 $100,821 Headline News..................... 5 pages Median (% change) $3,700 $35,000 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/20/07 • PAGE 3 of 5 GOFFS NOVEMBER FOAL SALE P EDIGREE INSIGHTS BY ANDREW CAULFIELD MONDAY, NOV. 19, 2007 Sunday, Hollywood Park REAL QUIET S., $105,900, HOL, 11-18, 2yo, 1 1/16m SESSION TOTALS 2007 2006 (AWT), 1:42 4/5 (NSR), ft. No. Catalogued 284 248 1--#COLONEL JOHN, 119, c, 2, by Tiznow No. Offered 249 221 1st Dam: Sweet Damsel, by Turkoman No. Sold 115 166 RNAs 134 55 2nd Dam: Grande Dame, by Zen % RNA 53.8% 24.9% 3rd Dam: Fia, by One for All Gross €1,205,700 €2,116,100 O/B-WinStar Farm LLC (KY); T-Eoin G Harty; J-Corey Average (% Change) €10,484 (-17.8%) €12,748 S Nakatani; $65,900. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, $105,300. *1/2 to Caroline=s Gold (Touch Gold), CUMULATIVE 2007 2006 GSP, $156,410. No. Catalogued 544 467 2--Overextended, 117, c, 2, Monarchos--Way of Life, No. Offered 438 411 by Gulch. ($20,000 wlng '05 KEENOV; $400,000 No. Sold 188 278 2yo >07 FTFFEB). O-J Paul Reddam. $20,000. RNAs 250 133 3--Cafe Tortoni, 115, g, 2, Katahaula County--Trillia, by % RNA 57.1% 32.4% Regal Classic. ($16,000 yrl '06 WASSEP). Gross €1,866,000 €3,074,800 O-Moonrunners LLC. $12,000. Average (% Change) €9,926 (-10.3%) €11,060 Margins: 3, 4HF, HF. Odds: 0.70, 3.60, 42.00. Video, sponsored by Taylor Made. www.goffs.com Ï Ò www.coolmore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/20/07 • PAGE 4 of 5 Andrew Caulfield cont. However, the former Claiborne stallion, whose last It's a fact of life that people hate being told what's crop was born in 2002, has two talented all-weather good for them, especially when the person doing the performers among his dwindling number of representa- telling is a relative outsider. Even so, I hope America's tives, the other being Mustanfar, who has been placed racing industry listened to some of the comments made at Grade II and Grade III levels on synthetic tracks. Is it by Michael Dickinson when he announced last week just coincidence that Connections is out of a Danzig that he is to give up training to concentrate on his mare, while Mustanfar has a dam by Lyphard? Maybe a Tapeta Footings business. dash of Northern Dancer blood is all that will be re- AI have been concerned for some time about the quired in many cases to help the dirt bloodlines make welfare of horses racing on unsuitable surfaces and the transition.