The World's SATURDAY, 29TH MAY 2021 Yearling Sale EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS SEPTEMBERMON. 13 - SAT. 25 FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU • L@bloodstocknews TODAY’S HEADLINES ARQANA EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com STRONG DEMAND KEY AT ARQANA BREEZE-UP For the second year running, the transplanted Arqana Breeze-Up Sale shrugged off the difficulties of a cross-Channel move and a delay to prove a hit in Doncaster, with strong demand throughout and an international cast of buyers securing choice lots, writes Amy Bennett. Lot 90, a colt by Medaglia D’Oro consigned by Malcolm Trade was headed by a son of Medaglia D’Oro who outstripped Bastard, topped the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale, held at Goffs UK last year’s top price of £650,000 when the hammer eventually in Doncaster yesterday, when being purchased by Godolphin came down at £675,000. for £675,000. © Steve Davies The spirited bidding battle went the way of Anthony Stroud, who confirmed: “He’s been bought for Godolphin. He did a very nice breeze and Malcolm Bastard does a fantastic job, he’s very good at bringing these horses on. He was the horse that we wanted.” The colt’s delighted consignor added: “He is a fantastic horse, he IN TODAY’S ISSUE... breezed great and he has a superb temperament. There is a lot of improvement to come from him. Leading sires’ table p7 “I don’t got excited, I’m realistic, but it’s turning out to be a good Stallion news p8 sale. The sale being put back a few weeks has only helped him because he’s still immature. He’s a beautiful horse who will only Stakes fields p14 improve with time.” DEADLINE DEADLINE TO NOMINATE YOUR US SIRED YEARLINGS of 2021 to the EBF: May 31 – $600 (or £ / € equivalent) 31 FOR FURTHER DETAILS, CONTACT: T: +44 1638 667960 E: [email protected] www.ebfstallions.com MAY CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 29TH MAY 2021 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld ARQANA BREEZE-UP SALE Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (£) 90 c MEDAGLIA D’ORO – Shelbysmile Malcolm Bastard Godolphin 675,000 147 f RIBCHESTER – Cheap Thrills Church Farm & Horse Park Stud Blandford Bloodstock 590,000 49 c KINGMAN – Monami Grove Stud Kuldeep Singh 500,000 145 f NIGHT OF THUNDER – Catchline Yeomanstown Stud Blandford Bloodstock 500,000 130 c DUBAWI – All At Sea Oak Tree Farm Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock 480,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS The colt was one of a number of six-figure pinhooks in the figures will be very similar to 2019 and 2018, when we had an yesterday’s catalogue, having been purchased for $175,000 last aggregate of around €15m. The median is close to €100,000 which is year at Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky October Yearling Sale. incredible from that number of horses. I think it shows the depth of The first foal out of Shelbysmile (Smart Strike), who collected the catalogue. The vendors have been amazing to adapt again – we a black-type Stakes race at Woodbine as a three-year-old, he had to change the date and change the venue – and when you have marks a return to the Godolphin fold for his family, as the horses of that value, for things to change all the time is not easy operation campaigned his grandam Sultana (Storm Cat), a full- when you are preparing them for a breeze. That is why we had to sister to the top-class juvenile and miler Aljabr, who also raced in make our decision early. But today has been very satisfying, especially the royal blue silks. the clearance rate, and we have had the highest median ever as well as record aggregate.” FIGURES UP – IN EITHER CURRENCY Year-on-year comparisons are a tricky business these days, RIBCHESTER FILLY STARS particularly when working in different currencies, but Arqana The highest-priced filly of the sale arrived in the ring late on in the reported a record final figure for both aggregate and median. session, with Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock securing A total of 109 lots were sold for an aggregate of £13,052,500 or Church Farm & Horse Park Stud’s daughter of Ribchester for €15,219,820, while the median of £85,000 translated to a final £590,000. figure of €98,600. The average was £119, 748, or €139,631, while Lot 147 represented a spectacular pinhooking result for her the clearance rate was 89 per cent. consignors Roger Marley and John Cullinan, who snapped up the Arqana’s Executive Director Freddy Powell commented at the April-born filly for just £45,000 in the same ring at the Goffs UK end of trade: “It shows that the catalogue was so strong that it has Premier Yearling Sale. The filly hails from the Stratford Place Stud been appreciated worldwide. We’ve had people bidding from all family of the classy juvenile and successful young sire Bungle over. Inthejungle (Exceed And Excel), being out of the winning “All things considered, we have to be satisfied. It’s difficult to Bertolini mare Cheap Thrills, who is also a half-sister to the Gr.1 compare the figures to last year when we had far fewer horses, but Golden Shaheen victor Muarrab (Oasis Dream) and the Listed TATTERSALLS IRELAND GORESBRIDGE BREEZE-UP 2-3 June 2021 • Newmarket, UK VIEW CATALOGUE Contact ITM for information & assistance Phone + 353 45 443 000 | Email [email protected] | Website www.itm.ie HAQEEQY (IRE) 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 29TH MAY 2021 winner Waveband (Exceed And Excel), as well as the Group- placed Classic Encounter (Lujain) and Group Therapy (Choisir). “She was always very nice, she has a fantastic stride and a great attitude; she’s a pleasure to have in the yard,” a beaming Cullinan reported. “She was very busy and she showed well throughout and I’m delighted that Richard Brown has bought her.” Confirming that the filly was purchased for an existing client, Brown added: “She did an outstanding breeze, she is a gorgeous filly and it is a very good pedigree. One of the first Stakes performers I bought is on the page, a horse called Classic Encounter. It’s a fast family and it’s a great page and she did an exceptional breeze. The big selling point for me as well was Ribchester, who was an outstanding racehorse and I am hearing some very good words about his stock. She was more than I was expecting to give but I had Kuldeep Singh went to £500,000 to secure Lot 49, a highlighted her as as good a breeze-up filly as we have seen all Kingman half-brother to Gr.1 Preis der Diana winner season.” Miss Yoda, from Grove Stud. © Steve Davies THUNDER KEEPS ROLLING The April colt was the most pricey pinhook on offer, having Only two lots earlier, Brown was out-bid by his Blandford been purchased for 340,000gns as a foal, but he lived up to Bloodstock colleague Stuart Boman for a Night Of Thunder filly, expectations yesterday when falling to a final bid of £500,000. who also provided an exceptional return, having been bought The winning bid for the Grove Stud-consigned colt was made back for 50,000gns during Book 2 of the Tattersalls October by Arqana’s Freddy Powell, bidding on the phone. After the Yearling Sale. Yesterday saw that price parlayed into a £500,000 hammer fell, he revealed that the colt was purchased by Kuldeep price tag for the filly’s consignor, Yeomanstown Stud. Singh Rajput, a new Singaporean owner who has also been Bids flew from Boman outside as well as Brown upstairs, but it investing in youngstock at Australian yearling sales this year, was Boman who brought the hammer down for Lot 145. The filly including a Pierro colt, purchased for A$750,000 at this year’s will head to Germany to join Andreas Suborics and will sport the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. colours of Jürgen Satori, which have been carried to success by Although unable to confirm the colt’s destination, Powell such as the Gr.3 winner and Classic-placed No Limit Credit, also noted: “He is a lovely horse and he galloped really well.” by Night Of Thunder. The strong colt drew plenty of fans in the ring as well as online The filly is a half-sister to winners by Iffraaj and Shamardal and after putting in an eye-catching breeze and can boast a stallion’s is out of an unraced half-sister to the Gr.1 winner Ancient World page already, as a half-brother to a Classic winner and a son of a (Spinning World) from a high-class family. red-hot young sire. “She’s a lovely filly who did an outstanding breeze. I loved her One lot earlier, Alex Elliott had the final say for a No Nay Never stride, and Yeomanstown are consignors that don’t necessarily colt from the same Grove Stud draft, going to £300,000 for the breeze with the clock in mind so I felt that her times when you February-born colt, who has already been named Macchiavello factored that in were very good. She maintained her speed the whole (Lot 48).