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MONDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2020 TDN Q&A WITH EDDIE LINEHAN IRISH YEARLING SEASON With the yearling sales now in full swing, TDN quizzes industry BEGINS IN NEWMARKET figures on past purchases, life during lockdown and their perspective on the sales over the next few weeks. Today, Eddie Linehan answers our questions. TDN: What was your best yearling purchase over the last few years? And your favourite? EL: [G1 Matron S. winner] Champers Elysees (Ire) (Elzaam {Aus}) was the best I've ever signed for. She was late on the third day of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale and was a standout yearling that day. Johnny Murtagh had loved her and was gone home by the time she was in the ring so I bid on her. My favourite yearling was a Piccolo (GB) filly called Nantany (GB). She was an 800gns purchase in my first year buying breezers. She went on to win a listed race in Germany and was stakes placed a few times. Cont. p4 Tattersalls Ireland graduate Dandalla has won this season=s G3 Albany S. and G2 Duchess Of Cambridge S. | Racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY GRETZKY THE GREAT WINS THE GI SUMMER S. By Daithi Harvey Gretzky the Great (Nyquist) kicked away to win the GI Summer S. at The symbiotic relationship between the Irish and British racing Woodbine on Sunday. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN and bloodstock industries has never been so evident as it is on America. Monday as the Irish yearling sale season gets underway at Park Paddocks in Newmarket with the relocated Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale. As has been the case so far this year with other bloodstock sales and indeed other global industries, expectations have been tempered as travel restrictions and economic woes have understandably had and will continue to have a detrimental effect on the selling of future racehorses. Participants, however, will wholeheartedly agree any trade is better than no trade and in the midst of challenges the bloodstock industry has held up remarkably well. The team at Tattersalls Ireland have little reason to believe such resilience will desert them over the next few days as they facilitate the selling of a strong book of yearlings, many whose causes have been aided by the exploits of some high-achieving siblings and graduates of this sale, with recent G1 Matron S. winner Champers Elysees (Ire) (Elzaam {Aus}) heading that roll of honour. Simon Kerins, Tattersalls Ireland's Marketing Director, while mindful of world events, is nevertheless positive in his outlook. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 14 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 21 SEPTEMBER 2020 Irish Yearling Season Cont. from p1 Potential buyers can look forward to the chance of buying a half-sibling to each of these fillies this week though no doubt "It's all systems go and we are very fortunate to be able to such investors will have to prepare for a larger outlay than the relocate the sale to Newmarket," Kerins said. "The UK is our i22,000 and i67,000, respectively, it cost to acquire their biggest market for this sale and illustrious relatives last year. while it's disappointing to have Dandalla's breeder Robert to move from Ireland we really PROMOTING THE SALE HAS HAD ITS Norton will offer a Divine had no choice and vendors Prophet (Aus) half-sister (lot 83) understand this and have been CHALLENGES THIS YEAR BUT to the G3 Albany S. and G2 very flexible and supportive. THANKFULLY A LOT OF PREVIOUS Duchess Of Cambridge S. winner Park Paddocks is obviously a through Newtownbarry House fantastic facility and having GRADUATES HAVE DONE THE TALKING Stud, while early in the session made the decision quite early to FOR US ON THE TRACK. Collegelands Stud offers a relocate we've had time to re-do half-brother to G2 Airlie Stud S. Simon Kerins the stabling plan and have winner Aloha Star by everything sorted," he added. Mastercraftsman (Ire) as lot 4. Kerins continued, "Promoting Both yearlings are out of young the sale has had its challenges mares who have produced a this year but thankfully a lot of high-class horse early in their previous graduates have done the talking for us on the track and breeding career, giving the pedigrees scope for even further we're delighted that there are so many siblings to these high improvement in the coming years. achievers catalogued this week. Speaking to trainers, the As mentioned above, Johnny Murtagh purchased G1 Coolmore majority are committed to buying, some perhaps on a lesser America 'Justify' Matron S. winner Champers Elysees (Ire) in this scale but the catalogue is condensed this year so we are sale two years ago for i28,000 and her dam Le Cuvee (GB) optimistic that trade will be at a very respectable level. We are (Mark Of Esteem {Ire}) is represented this time around by lot hoping also the change in venue will see us welcoming back 222, a colt by red-hot sire Mehmas (Ire). Offered by Beechvale some UK buyers who haven't been to our Fairyhouse complex in Stud the colt was pinhooked as a foal at Goffs for i19,000 and a while. is likely to show a good profit for connections. AWe are very aware of the challenges people face currently A major pedigree update is something that fuels the dreams of but horse sales have stood the test of time and given the way pinhookers and another yearling whose value has increased the industry has coped so far this year, coupled with the significantly since being purchased last year is lot 309 from strength of the catalogue, gives us all encouragement that we Coole House Farm. The Tamayuz (GB) filly was bought by BBA will have a solid, successful sale." Ireland for 11,000gns at Tattersalls last year but last month her Last year's edition of the Tattersalls Ireland September year-older brother Minzaal (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) delivered the Yearling Sale has already unearthed the Group 2-winning pair of mother of all updates when winning the G2 Gimcrack S. at York juvenile fillies Dandalla (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) and Aloha Star in impressive fashion. (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}). Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 21 SEPTEMBER 2020 Irish Yearling Season Cont. While the breeders of Minzaal and this filly, Ringfort Stud, are missing out on selling the Tamayuz filly, they can take solace from the addition of another high-class black type winner to the pedigree of their lot 230. This filly by first-crop sire Galileo Gold (GB) is a half-sister to this month's G2 Flying Childers S. winner Ubettabelieveit (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) among three other stakes Senior Vice President Gary King winners so lacks nothing in terms of pedigree. Twitter: @garykingTDN York's Ebor meeting also provided a major boost to the [email protected] prospects of lot 165 from Boherguy Stud. The Jim Bolger-bred + 1.732.320.0975 Teofilo (Ire) colt already has plenty going for him being a full-brother to G3 Eyrefield S. winner Guaranteed but his International Editor 2-year-old full-sibling Gear Up (Ire) added a further touch of Kelsey Riley class to the page when he won the G3 Acomb S. at York for Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN trainer Mark Johnston. [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editors Alan Carasso Christina Bossinakis Aloha Star | Tattersalls Cafe Racing The updates kept coming for Clare Manning's Boherguy Stud Sean Cronin when her grandfather Jim Bolger=s New Treasure (Ire) (New Tom Frary Approach {Ire}) landed the G3 Heider Family Stables Round [email protected] Tower S. at The Curragh at odds of 66-1. Manning has the colt's full-brother catalogued on Tuesday as lot 260. Irish Correspondent Fillies by Kingman (GB) could well become collectors' items in Daithi Harvey years to come and there are two opportunities in the sale to acquire one. Lot 98 from The Castlebridge Consignment has a Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake pure Juddmonte pedigree hailing from the famous family of Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele Hasili (Ire) (Kahyasi {Ire}) and Intercontinental (GB) (Danehill) and her dam Continental Drift (Smart Strike)'s only runner from two horses of racing age is the promising Ger Lyons-trained Masen (GB) (Kingman {GB}), a debut winner at Leopardstown and group placed subsequently. The other Kingman filly is from Luke Barry's Manister House Stud and lot 248 is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Justineo (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) from the fast family of Galeota (Ire) (Mujadil). Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 21 SEPTEMBER 2020 Irish Yearling Season Cont. to victory in a listed race at Leopardstown in June before being sold to race in Hong Kong. The mare's latest offering, lot 72, is a Yearlings from first-crop stallions can often provide value, colt by Red Jazz, making him a full-brother to Snazzy Jazzy (Ire), especially if the stallion boasts solid credentials. Churchill (Ire) who along with a French Group 3 win also won the valuable and Caravaggio certainly fall into that category as multiple Tattersalls Ireland Sales Race in 2017. Group 1 winners with top-class pedigrees to back up their race Selling gets underway at 11 a.m. on Monday and 10 a.m. on records. Champion European 2-year-old and dual Guineas Tuesday with Part II of the sale commencing directly after the winner Churchill has a pair of colts in the sale including lot 57 main sale finishes on Tuesday.