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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here GOFFS NOVEMBER BOWS OUT IN STYLE >UP= TO THE CHALLENGE IN THE JACKPOT By Emma Berry Paul and Andrena Van Doren=s Rise Up (Rockport Consecutive lots from Jim Bolger=s Glebe House Harbor), a runaway winner of the Jean Lafitte S. Stables fetched i90,000 and i85,000 to lead a much Oct. 26, dropped the hammer on nine GIII Delta Downs more relaxed day of mares= trade at Goffs as the Jackpot S. rivals en route to a six- six-day November Sale concluded in Kildare. length decision. Sent to the front, So much of the talk ahead of the 2-1 shot showed the way the auction had centered on through a half mile in :46.30, and the Paulyn Dispersal, but turned on the jets in the stretch to even without the near i13- win for fun. Casiguapo million contribution to the (Sightseeing), second at 30-1 in the GI Hopeful S. at Saratoga, turnover from Paul Makin=s Coady Photography completed the exacta. It was horses, the 2013 breeding another 1 3/4 lengths back to Rankhasprivileges stock section vastly (Einstein {Brz}) in third. Favored Coastline exceeded the performance of (Speightstown) checked in eighth after stumbling badly 12 months ago. at the start. ADown the backside Gerard [Melancon] Outside the Paulyn Dispersal gave him a breather and that=s where the race was there were 31 six-figure won,@ said Tom Amoss, who saddled Mylute to a third- Jim Bolger transactions compared to 17 place finish in the 2012 Jackpot. AI=ve been guilty so Racing Post in 2012. These played a many times of taking horses with so much tactical significant part in improved speed and making them something they=re not. Maybe I figures across the board, with a 60% rise in turnover almost did that today, but Gerard took it out of my (again excluding the Paulyn horses) to i13,011,600, a hands and let him use his speed correctly and got us 44% rise in average to i40,159 and median of the win today. So he gets the gold star.@ Rise Up was i14,500 (up 32%). From 387 lots offered, 324, or previously campaigned by Blazing Meadows Farm LLC 84%, were sold--a surge in clearance of ten points. and Cottonwood Stables LLC and trained by Timothy That clearance rate was maintained throughout the Hamm in his first three starts, including a victory in the second session, which accrued i2,033,400 (up Mountaineer Juvenile S. Aug. 3. Rise Up disappointed 132%), with an average of i11,891 (up 62%) and in his first start for these connections with a sixth-place median of i8,000 (up 45%). Unsurprisingly, such an finish at 7-2 in the GIII Iroquois S. at Churchill Sept. 7, upwardly mobile week left Goffs= Group Chief Executive but has been unbeatable in a pair of subsequent tries at Henry Beeby in a buoyant mood. Delta Downs. Cont. p6 AWhat a thrill. It is hard to describe the feelings we felt at Goffs when the beautiful Chicquita realized all her pre-auction hype with a stunning final bid of i6- million. We have said many times that Goffs exists to sell the very best at every level, and yesterday=s incredible scenes are another vindication of our claims to achieve the best for the best, as we don=t believe her price has been bettered for a mare or race filly at a European auction. Henry Beeby Chicquita was the Racing Post centrepiece of a remarkable sale that saw prices of i1.1-million, i1- million, i850,000, etc. In fact, there were nine lots over i500,000, and a massive 49 six-figure lots, which compares most favorably with the 17 at last year=s sale. And even without the Paulyn lots there were 31 at i100,000 or over, which clearly illustrates the massive strides that this sale continues to make year after year.@ In This Issue Verrazano Works for Cigar Mile 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Verrazano (More Than Ready), a disappointing fourth in the GI Breeders' (732) 747-8060 Cup Dirt Mile, turned in a four-furlong breeze in :48.86 over the Belmont (732) 747-8955 (fax) Park training track as he continues to gear up for next weekend's GI Cigar www.thoroughbreddailynews.com Mile. The Let's Go Stable and Coolmore representative worked in company www.thetdn.com with fellow Cigar Mile contender and GI King's Bishop S. winner Capo Bastone (Street Boss), who covered the same distance in :48.87. CO-PUBLISHERS Coverage beings page 7 Barry Weisbord, President [email protected] • @barryweisbord Sue Finley, Vice President [email protected] • @suefinley Cairo Prince ‘Doing Everything Right’ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Gary King, Director of Business Development Cairo Prince (Pioneerof The Nile)--unbeaten hero of the GII Nashua S. Nov. 3--completed his preparations for next Saturday's GII Remsen S. [email protected] breezing five furlongs in company with Alpha (Bernardini) in 1:01.08 on the training track at Belmont. EDITORIAL [email protected] Coverage begins page 7 Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Alan Carasso, Managing Editor Steve Sherack, Racing Editor Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. Rolling on the River Justina Severni, Assistant Editor Christie DeBernardis, Assistant Editor ADVERTISING [email protected] Alycia Borer, Director of Advertising Lia Kusch, Senior Advertising Designer Sarah K. Andrew, Adv Assistant/Distribution Amanda Crelin, Advertising Assistant Amanda Foster, Advertising Assistant CUSTOMER SERVICE [email protected] Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming [email protected] Potomac River WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Reed Palmer Kelsey Riley, International Editor [email protected] Sean Cronin, Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Potomac River (English Channel) pulls off a 45-1 shocker in the GIII River Tom Frary, Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing City H. at Churchill Downs. [email protected] Coverage begins page 9 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/24/13 • PAGE 3 of 12 • thoroughbreddailynews.com (718) 978-8200 (718) 978-8200 www.mersant.com www.mersant.com Sponsors of the following stats for the: Sponsors of the following stats for the: GOFNOV BREEDING STOCK SALE (Excluding the Paulyn Dispersal) GOFFS NOVEMBER ENTIRE SALE SESSION 2013 2012 (Excluding the Paulyn Dispersal) Catalogued 240 208 CUMULATIVE 2013 2012 No. Offered 207 163 Catalogued 1412 1384 No. Sold 171 119 No. Offered 1225 1168 RNAs 36 44 No. Sold 1025 874 % RNAs 17% 27% RNAs 200 294 No. $500K+ 0 0 % RNAs 16% 25% High Price €90,000 €29,000 No. $500K+ 9 0 Gross €2,033,400 €875,900 High Price €6,000,000 €450,000 Average (% change) €8,473 (+15%) €7,361 Gross €31,316,300 €23,158,350 Median (% change) €4,200 (+110%) €2,000 Average (% change) €30,552 (+15%) €26,497 Median (% change) 16,000 (+19%) €13,500 CUMULATIVE 2013 2012 Catalogued 411 483 No. Offered 381 394 No. Sold 324 239 RNAs 57 155 % RNAs 15% 39% Did You Know?... No. $500K+ 9 0 Havana (Dunkirk) High Price €6,000,000 €450,000 was tabbed as a Gross €13,011,600 €8,154,000 J “TDN Rising Star” J Average (% change) €40,159 (+44%) €27,829 Visit the TDN Rising Stars section on our Median (% change) €14,500 (+32%) €11,000 website! TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/24/13 • PAGE 4 of 12 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Final Day Stars... International Theme Continues... The Green Desert mare Vastitas (Ire) (lot 1343), with The second session of the mares= sale may have been a March cover by hugely promising first-season sire conducted in more muted proceedings than the electric Intense Focus, just had the edge when knocked down events of Friday, to SM Bloodstock for i90,000. From the but there were still high-achieving family that includes the unbeaten G1 plenty of Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe winner Treve (Fr) (Motivator international buyers {Ire}), the dual winner produced her first foal this year present at Goffs, by Dream Ahead, and he was sold in the same ring on including Sheikh Thursday for i58,000 to Marc-Antoine Berghgracht. Mohammed Bin Next into the arena was 4-year-old Miss Ekaterina (Ire) Faleh Al Thani, (lot 1344), by Teofilo (Ire) out of a sister to Kheleyf, Chairman of the who was signed for by Eamonn Reilly of BBA Ireland at Qatar Racing and 85,000. The Aga Khan s Sindjara (Include) (lot 1295) i = Equestrian Club. He was in the sights of both Bobby O=Ryan and Peter Kelly, and his team but eventually went the way of the latter, representing Sheikh Mohamed Bin Faleh accounted for 11 Emerald Bloodstock, who said: AShe=s been bought for a Al Thani client of Jockey Hall Stud, who has bought from the lots for a total of Goffs Aga Khan before--something always turns up on those i178,000, pages and she was a pretty filly.@ Bought for i61,000, including Alexander Loyalty (Ire) (lot 1338). The the 4-year-old relation of dual Derby and Arc winner daughter of Invincible Spirit (Ire)--a sister to listed Sinndar (Ire) won twice for John Oxx, breaking her winner Bahama Mama (Ire)--was sold in foal to maiden at the end of her juvenile season when beating Bushranger (Ire) by Noel O=Callaghan from Seapark Stud recent GI EP Taylor S. winner Tannery (Ire) (Dylan for i47,000. Also on the list for Qatar was the Lady Thomas {Ire}) over a mile on Dundalk=s all-weather Rothschild-bred Lovage (GB) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), track.