FOR ONE and ONE for ALL TIMONIUM, MD - the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in the Goffs Arqana 2020 Breeze up Sale Begins on Wednesday
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WEDNESDAY, 1 JULY 2020 O=BRIEN TO SPLIT PEACEFUL, LOVE ALL FOR ONE Aidan O=Brien is likely to split his 1000 Guineas winners AND ONE FOR ALL Peaceful (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), with the former, the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner, pencilled in for Sunday=s G1 Prix de Diane and the latter, the G1 1000 Guineas winner, likely for the G1 Investec Oaks on July 4. AI was talking to the lads [John Magnier, Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor] this morning and it looks like Love, Passion (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Ennistymon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will go to Epsom,@ said O=Brien. APeaceful might go to the Diane. That=s what we=re thinking at the moment anyway. The Diane is worth a lot of money. AI think it=s a question of splitting them up--that=s the way the lads are thinking at the moment and you can=t blame them for that. The other two going to Epsom with Love are very good fillies. One of them was second and the other one was third in Arqana Breeze-up graduate Ocean Atlantique is set to run in the Ribblesdale, so they are both very good fillies.@ Cont. p4 the Prix du Jockey Club | Scoop Dyga IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Emma Berry CANDY RIDE (ARG) COLT LEADS FASIG-TIPTON DAY 2 DONCASTER, UKCThere aren't many bloodstock sales A colt by Candy Ride (Arg) topped the second session of the Fasig- companies that can boast of an Irish auctioneer who can speak Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale at $875,000 on Tuesday. French with a Yorkshire accent but if you happen to walk in to Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. the Goffs UK sales ring at Doncaster on Wednesday while Nick Nugent is on the rostrum that is what you're likely to find. In the spirit of COVID-encouraged entente cordiale, the breeze-up sector finds itself in a situation few would have imagined at the start of this year, with British sales house Goffs UK and French-based Arqana holding their respective breeze-up sales effectively as one in England after the initial idea of staging them together in Ireland had to be scrapped owing to human quarantine issues. This reporter hasn't been near a race meeting since the Cheltenham Festival in mid-March, but from the solitude of the press office at Goffs UK on Tuesday there was the dual benefit of being able to enjoy a flamboyant and bilingual Nugent rehearsal for the online bidding facility which will be in operation during both sales while watching the runners canter to post on the Town Moor right next door. Normality, almost. There appeared to be a good flow of agents from Britain, Ireland and France around the sales grounds on Tuesday along with a smattering of, mostly young, English trainers such as George Boughey, Tom Clover, Charlie Fellowes and James Ferguson. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 1 JULY 2020 Goffs Arqana 2020 Breeze Up Sale Preview Cont. from p1 Sadly, the ice-cream lady isn't here but as part of the baptism of fire for Goffs UK's new managing director Tim Kent, successful negotiations were undertaken with Doncaster council to have two local hotels open specifically and solely for people working at the sale. "We discussed at one point the possibility of caravans," said Kent at the sales ground on Tuesday. "But luckily we've been able to get the Hilton and the Mount Pleasant open and they are both full." Tim Kent | Goffs too. There was some assurance working with Eric and Freddy Goffs Group chief executive Henry Beeby added, "We are [Powell] because we were all in it together. I think they would indebted to Doncaster Racecourse and the BHA as well as the have been a sense of isolation otherwise but we have been able local council. We are also indebted to HRI and Naas [racecourse] to talk. I've also had a number of very frank and long because they made it very easy for us to plan the sale [in conversations with Edmond [Mahony, chairman of Tattersalls] Ireland] and were then very graceful and supportive when we about the market and how we were going to do this, things like had to take it back to England. Rather than tell us what we the sales protocols for the day. We produced 27 pages to be couldn't do they have all been very helpful in saying what we circulated but they were produced in coordination with could do, and without all those people helping us we wouldn't Tattersalls." Cont. p3 be holding a sale." He continued, "We are absolutely delighted to be here and the most important thing is that there's a sense of relief to be here and also hope that it might be okay and that we'll get the wheel turning again. For Goffs, we've been very pleased to work with Eric [Hoyeau] and all his team at Arqana. It's a very good mix and I think it has made the whole offer more attractive with both catalogues. We are selling under one set of conditions of sale tomorrow, which are the slightly modified Goffs UK conditions, and we are selling in sterling from start to finish. "We have worked very closely with Tattersalls to coordinate dates. Competition is a wonderful thing but there is a greater good, particularly this year. It was very easy for Goffs and Arqana to work together because we know each other so well and to be fair to Tattersalls they've been very easy to work with Henry Beeby | Racing Post TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 1 JULY 2020 Goffs Arqana 2020 Breeze Up Sale Preview Cont. Eric Hoyeau added, "For the breeze-ups in particular, it is the beginning of the season and it was important to get this organised for the yearlings sales as well, to give a chance for the pinhookers to recover, so we took that very seriously." Each sale originally had 165 2-year-olds catalogued to sell in Senior Vice President Gary King their respective traditional slots in late April and early May but Twitter: @garykingTDN 120 of those have subsequently been withdrawn for various [email protected] reasons, including private sales, leaving 210 to sell through the + 1.732.320.0975 ring on Wednesday from 10 a.m. A little over ,5 million was accrued from the sale of 111 horses International Editor at 2019 Goffs UK Breeze-up, which registered an average of Kelsey Riley ,45,570 and included the group-winning juveniles A'Ali (Ire) Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN (Society Rock {Ire}) and Kenzai Warrior (Karakontie {Jpn}). [email protected] Arqana meanwhile, which usually trades in euros, saw record European Editor turnover slightly in excess of i15 million, with 119 horses sold Emma Berry at an average of i129,798. The sale's top price of i1.1 million Twitter: @collingsberry was given for Ocean Atlantique (American Pharoah), presented [email protected] by Grove Stud. Winner of the Listed Prix ses Suresnes for the Coolmore team and Andre Fabre, he is entered for Sunday's Associate International Editor G1 Prix du Jockey Club. Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Eric Hoyeau | Zuzanna Lupa Daithi Harvey Tim Kent, who is now overseeing his second sale since Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry succeeding Tony Williams at the head of Goffs UK, said, "There John Boyce | Amy Lynam has been the feeling from everyone that we had to work Melissa Steele together to make this happen and that is especially true for the vendors. They need to get some liquidity back into the market and they were very happy to work with us to get this going. IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY "Our agent in Scandinavia, Filip Zwicky, can't travel over so THE ART OF THE BROODMARE PURCHASE he's having a little lunch party tomorrow and getting potential TDN AusNZ speaks with several broodmare buyers on what buyers together to bid from there as every horse in the Goffs UK they prefer in a prospective broodmare. Click or tap here to go catalogue is eligible for the Scandinavian Classic series." Cont. p4 straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 1 JULY 2020 Goffs Arqana 2020 Breeze Up Sale Preview Cont. He concluded, "There's been a real sense of community, of everyone coming together and offering advice. We've had 60 online registrations, and that means that the likes of our Scandinavian clients, and French and American clients of ArqanaCpeople who wouldn't be able to come hereCwill still be able to engage with the sale in a very efficient manner." RIDENZA RETURNS AT LEOPARDSTOWN Mick Halford has a strong hand in Wednesday=s pattern races at Leopardstown, with >TDN Rising Star= Ridenza (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) making her keenly-awaited reappearance in the G3 Derrinstown Stud Fillies S. Half an hour before stablemate Sinawann (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) represents The Aga Khan in the G3 Amethyst S., Ridenza gets her season underway having been taken out of the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas due to the prevalent fast surface. Not seen since winning on debut over seven furlongs at this venue in August, her trainer is hoping for a bold show.