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WEDNESDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2020 KINGMAN BROTHER TO ARC HERO SOTTSASS RETIRED TO COOLMORE STUD GALILEO GOLD LEADS 2020 G1 Qatar Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe hero Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}BStarlet=s Sister {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) has been BOOK 1 OPENER retired and will take up stallion duties at Coolmore Stud in Ireland, owner Peter Brant announced on Tuesday. A colourbearer for Brant=s White Birch Farm initially, with Coolmore buying a 50% interest this year, the 2019 French highweight=s fee will be announced later. AA world champion at three and now an Arc winner at four, I have decided to retire Sottsass after what he has achieved,@ said Brant. AHe has retired sound and right at the top of his game-- this is important to me. I am looking forward to breeding some of my best mares to him. Coolmore purchased 50% of him earlier in the year and he will stand there for 2021.@ Cont. p9 Lot 174, the Kingman half-brother to Galileo Gold IN TDN AMERICA TODAY bought for 2.7-million gns | Tattersalls KEENELAND CATALOGUES 3,777 HORSES FOR NOVEMBER SALE By Emma Berry and Alayna Cullen The catalogue for the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale NEWMARKET, UKCAny doubts as to the participation of some was released on Tuesday with 3,777 horses. Click or tap here to of the leading buyers at Tattersalls=s flagship October Sale were go straight to TDN America. largely dispelled as Book 1 got underway on Tuesday with four seven-figure lots and the most expensive yearling sold in Europe or North America this year. That honour went to the sole, emotional offering from Colin Murfitt=s local Pantile Stud (lot 174) in the Kingman (GB) half-brother to 2000 Guineas and G1 St James=s Palace winner Galileo Gold (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}), who sold for 2.7-million gns to Oliver St Lawrence acting on behalf of Fawzi Nass and Bahraini interests. The Kingman colt will be trained by Roger Varian. AHe didn=t put a foot wrong from the moment he was born,@ said Bo Hicks-Little, stud manager for breeder Colin Murfitt=s Pantile Stud. AHe=s just been a superstar and he=s so straightforward. He=s not just a great specimen physically but mentally he=s so professional. He=s been very easy to look after. To me he=s just >Goofy=, it was a Disney naming theme that year. I=m going to go back to the stable to see him now.@ The colt=s dam Galicuix (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), a half-sister to G1 King=s Stand S. winner Goldream (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), had herself been bought by Murfitt from the same ring back in 2013 for just 8,000gns. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 16 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 7 OCTOBER 2020 Oliver St Lawrence | Tattersalls Tattersalls October Book 1 Cont. from p1 A non-winner herself, she hit the bullseye with her first foal, Galileo Gold, and has produced five winners from her five runners to date. She did not produced a foal in 2020 but is back in foal to Too Darn Hot (GB). The Kingman colt was consigned for Pantile Stud by Houghton Bloodstock. In what felt a strong market throughout the first session of Book 1, figures did predictably take a dip from last year=s buoyant trade but Sheikh Mohammed=s bullish return to the yearling sales accounted for approximately a quarter of the day=s turnover of 27,250,000gns, which was down by 22% on 2019. The clearance rate held up respectably for an elite sale at 73%Cor 124 sold from 158 yearlings offered. The average was down 14% at 223,790gns and the median fell by 33% to 120,000gns. $ Anthony Stroud signed for eight lots on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed for a total of 7.22 million gns, including three of the four seven-figure lots of the session. $ Attraction (GB)=s five yearlings to have been offered at the Tattersalls October Sale to date have sold for a total of 4,685,000gns. $ Frankel (GB) had nine yearlings sell through the first session for an average of 590,000gns. $ Mike Ryan purchased five yearlings (four fillies & one colt) totaling 970,000gns. Lot 19 Frankel filly, Lot 38 Frankel filly, Lot 84 Siyouni filly, Lot 86 Dark Angel filly, Lot 155 Almanzor colt. $ Highland Reel (Ire) achieved the highest price for a first-season sire when the half-brother to Palace Pier (GB) sold for 320,000gns. Another son of Galileo (Ire), Churchill (Ire), was the leading first-season sire on day one by average with three or more sold, with seven sold at an average price of 100,286gns. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 16 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 7 OCTOBER 2020 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE Senior Vice President Gary King BOOK 1 Twitter: @garykingTDN SESSION TOTALS 2020 2019 [email protected] $ Catalogued 185 184 + 1.732.320.0975 $ Number Offered 158 164 $ Number Sold 124 136 International Editor $ Not Sold 34 28 Kelsey Riley $ Clearance Rate 78% 83% $ No. $500K+ 10 17 Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN $ High Price 2,700,000gns 3,600,000gns [email protected] $ Gross 27,750,000gns 35,408,000gns $ Average (% change) 223,790gns (-14%) 260,353gns European Editor $ Median (% change) 120,000gns (-33%) 180,000gns Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Floors Stud The Main Attraction The name Godolphin appeared alongside three lots at Associate International Editor = Heather Anderson Arqana s Select Sale last month and was absent entirely from Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN the Goffs Orby Sale, Keeneland September and Fasig-Tipton=s Selected Yearlings Showcase but Sheikh Mohammed returned Marketing Manager with intent to Tattersalls October Book 1, with Anthony Stroud Alayna Cullen signing for eight lots on his behalf for a total of 7.22 million gns, Twitter: @AlaynaCullen including three of the four seven-figure lots of the session. [email protected] Two of those yearlings hailed from Floors Stud, whose star broodmare Attraction (GB) (Efisio {GB}) was upstaged only by Contributing Editors her own daughter when the Dubawi (Ire) colt out of Grade Alan Carasso Christina Bossinakis III-placed Cushion (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) elicited a duel between his co-breeder Coolmore and Anthony Stroud. With both interested Cafe Racing parties based outside the ring, MV Magnier made his last play at Sean Cronin 2-millions gns before the hammer came down on lot 109 in Tom Frary Stroud=s favour at 2.1-million gns. [email protected] Earlier in the session, Stroud had outbid Andrew Balding for Attraction=s colt by Frankel (GB), who was the first yearling of Irish Correspondent the week to breach the million mark at 1.1-million gns. Sold as Daithi Harvey lot 41, the colt is a full-brother to Elarqam (GB) and half-brother Regular Columnists to dual winner Maydanny (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), each of whom Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake also sold for seven-figure sums to Shadwell as yearlings in the Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele same ring. AI wish Guy was here,@ said Floors Stud owner Virginia, Duchess of Roxburghe, of her late husband Guy Innes-Ker, the IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY 10th Duke of Roxburghe, who died in August 2019. He has been succeeded in the dukedom by his son Charles, while younger HARRON WINS RACE TO LOCK IN LIBERTINI son George now assists his mother in the running of the stud. Libertini (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) has filled James Harron’s Cont. p4 The Everest slot. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 16 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 7 OCTOBER 2020 said the Duchess of Roxburghe. AEd [Sackville] has been a fantastic support and with Simon Marsh, too, and all the team at Floors has been amazing. Chris [Gillon, stud manager] deserves a special mention. He has produced the horses to perfection, every single one of them. I was so pleased it was him leading up the colt today.@ She continued, AI am thrilled for my late husband who did nothing but dream of Attraction and she has really done us proud. They were two really lovely horses, and they have been since they were foals. My husband always thought they were two of the best he had ever produced and he has been proved right. We wish Anthony Stroud and the team all the success.@ Chris Gillon has managed Floors Stud in the Scottish Borders for eight years and commented after the sale of Attraction=s The Duchess of Roxburghe | Tattersalls colt, AIt's absolutely brilliant. We loved him as a foal and he came perfect all the way through his prep. He got down here Tattersalls October Book 1 Cont. and everything went so well. Just to see him go through the ring She continued, AThis means a huge amount. Everyone knows and do that, it=s the icing on the cake.@ the story of Attraction and we are very emotionally attached to He continued, AThe late duke saw him as a foal and he loved her. This is really my husband=s legacy. He adored the Dubawi him and thought he was the best yet that Attraction had colt as a foal so I hope he=s watching from upstairs.@ produced, but for the colt to come here and do exactly that, the Attraction was famously the filly who was too crooked to go to duke will be up there smiling, that's for sure.@ Cont. p4 the yearling sales herself but she was a star on the track for the Duke of Roxburghe and Mark Johnston, winning the 1000 EVERYONE KNOWS THE STORY OF Guineas in Britain and Ireland as well as the G1 Coronation S., G1 Sun Chariot S.