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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here THE BUZZ IS BACK AT TATTERSALLS FIVE PROPOSED FOR NYRA BOARD by Mike Kane By Emma Berry Five current members of the New York Racing A palpably livelier session in bright sunshine brought Association=s Board of Directors, including chairman C. Tattersalls back to life on Tuesday when Yeomanstown Steven Dunker, have been proposed as members of the Stud=s pinhooked son of Shamardal (Giant=s Causeway) new NYRA Reorganization Board. New York Governor (lot 931) rocketed from 32,000gns foal to 245,000gns Andrew Cuomo signed legislation at the end of yearling and topped the second day of Book 2. September that will allow the state to take control of Turnover for the day was up by 7% on the equivalent the beleaguered racing association for three years. The session last year to 9,300,500gns, while the average governor will appoint eight members, including the rose by 13% to 44,714gns. The median also received a chairperson, and the Senate and Assembly two each. boost to 35,000gns, None of the state=s directors have been announced. an increase of 17%. NYRA selected its nominees during a board meeting An improved clearance Oct. 3 and forwarded the names to state officials. rate from the first day In addition to Duncker, the NYRA trustees moving to was just a point down the Reorganization Board are Vice Chairman Stuart from 2011 at 87%. Subotnick, Stuart S. Janney III, Barry Ostrager and The session-topping Charles V. Wait. New York Thorougbred Horseman's colt, who will be Association president Richard Violette is a member of trained by Richard the NYRA board, but will be an ex officio member of Hannon, was claimed the new board. The NYRA board that is being replaced by the sale=s leading by the state takeover is made up of 25 members, 14 buyers at the halfway from NYRA and 11 designated by the government. stage, Peter and Ross Lot 931 Duncker has been the NYRA chairman since 2005. Doyle, for an unnamed Tattersalls Photo Ostrager, a New York attorney, owns Questroyal Stud client. and is the president of the New York Thoroughbred AHe is from a tough family and looks tough,@ said Breeders, while Wait is the chairman, CEO and Ross Doyle, who had a busy day on Tuesday and added president of the Adirondack Trust Company. Janney is 12 yearlings to the six bought on the first day for a a breeder-owner, the chairman of Bessemer Trust total expenditure of 1,226,000gns. AHe is a lovely Company and Bessemer Securities Corp. and the moving horse with a pedigree and looks. We thought he vice-chairman of The Jockey Club. Subotnick is a New was the week's standout.@ York-based businessman who, with his wife, owns The Doyles had earlier picked up a Teofilo (Ire) filly Anstu Stable. (lot 869), whose full-sister What Style won a Leopardstown maiden on debut in August for John Oxx after the catalogue was printed. Bought for 100,000gns, she is on her way to France to be trained by Andre Fabre having been selected for Haras du Mezeray. Cont. p3 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE - BOOK 2 TUESDAY, OCT. 16, 2012 CUMULATIVE 2012 2011 Catalogued 521 564 No. Offered 475 496 No. Sold 391 429 RNAs 84 67 % RNA 17.7% 1 3.5% Gross 16,266,000gns 17,402,000gns Average (% change) 41,601gns (+2.6%) 40,564gns www.tattersalls.com In This Issue Dialed In to Darby Dan 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 GI Florida Derby winner Dialed In (Mineshaft) (732) 747-8060 will take up stud duties next year at Darby Dan, (732) 747-8955 (fax) alongside fellow newcomer Shackleford (Forestry). www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Page 8 Barry Weisbord, co-publisher Dialed In [email protected] • @barryweisbord Horsephotos Sue Finley, co-publisher [email protected] • @suefinley Editorial [email protected] Welfare & Safety of Racehorse Summit Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Alan Carasso, Managing Editor The Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit began its Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor two-day run at Keeneland Tuesday and Lucas Marquardt was Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor on hand to take in all the action. 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Sean Cronin Page 2 (atw) Tom Frary TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/17/12 • PAGE 3 of 14 • thoroughbreddailynews.com TATTERSALLS OCTOBER 1012 f Dubawi (Ire) Saabiq 155,000 TUESDAY’S TOP LOTS B-Rabbah Bloodstock Limited (GB) Hip Sex Sire Dam Price (gns) Consigned by Hillwood Stud 931 c Shamardal Princess Speedfit (Fr) 245,000 Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock (32,000gns wnlg ‘11 TATDEC) 987 c Bahamian Bounty (GB) Rock Lily (GB) 150,000 B-Ringfort Stud (Ire) B-The Kathryn Stud Ltd (GB) Consigned by Yeomanstown Stud Consigned by Bumble Mitchell Purchased by Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock Purchased by Shadwell Estate Company Limited 919 c Teofilo (Ire) Poppets Sweetlove (GB) 220,000 1081 c Clodovil (Ire) Somoushe (Ire) 150,000 B-Peter Dane Player (Fr) (48,000gns wnlg ‘11 TATDEC) Consigned by Whatton Manor Stud B-John Fielding (Ire) Purchased by Tony Nerses Consigned by Watership Down Stud 969 f Galileo (Ire) Redstone Dancer (Ire) 205,000 Purchased by Shadwell Estate Company Limited (€78,000 RNA wnlg ‘11 GOFNOV) B-Ken Lynch (Ire) Consigned by Ballybin Stud Purchased by BBA Ireland TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE - 1080 f Acclamation (GB) Somerset Falls (UAE) 190,000 BOOK 2 B-Rathbarry Stud TUESDAY, OCT. 16, 2012 Consigned by Rathbarry Stud Purchased by Tony Nerses SESSION 2012 2011 1069 f Selkirk Sister Maria 170,000 Catalogued 260 286 B-Cliveden Stud Ltd (GB) No. Offered 240 248 Consigned by Watership Down Stud No. Sold 208 219 Purchased by Hugo Lascelles Bloodstock RNAs 32 29 989 c Royal Applause (GB) Rolexa (GB) 160,000 % RNA 13.3% 11.7% (45,000gns wnlg ‘11 TATDEC) Gross 9,300,500gns 8,684,000gns B-Leydens Farm Stud (GB) Average (% change) 44,714gns (+12.8%) 39,653gns Consigned by Baroda & Colbinstown Studs Median (% change) 35,000gns (+16.7%) 30,000gns Purchased by Mrs A Skiffington www.tattersalls.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/17/12 • PAGE 4 of 14 • thoroughbreddailynews.com AI was very keen to get him,@ Nerses said. AHe has a TATTERSALLS OCTOBER great pedigree and is a really nice individual.@ Nerses later bought lot 1080, an Acclamation filly out On The Up of a Red Ransom half-sister to Group 1 winner Cutlass Mill Reef=s grand-daughter Upend has served Peter Bay, for 190,000gns. Player=s Whatton Manor Stud well over the years and Earlier in the session, Player, who is assisted at one of her descendants was to Whatton Manor by his son Ed, sold Overdose=s Royal the fore again on Tuesday when Applause half-brother to breeze-up pinhooker Con selling for 220,000gns. Tony Marnane for 35,000gns. His dam Our Poppet (Ire) Nerses prevailed in some lively (Warning {GB}), is one of five mares on the stud bidding for the Teofilo colt (lot descending from Upend. 919), whose dam Poppets AIt all started when I bought Upend=s dam *Gay Sweetlove (GB (Foxhound) is Charlotte in the 1970s from Colonel Gray, who was my half-sister to >The Budapest mentor in this business,@ Player recalled. AWe sent Bullet=, crack sprinter Overdose Upend to [trainer] Henry Cecil and, above all other (GB) (Starborough {GB}). The people, he was the one who really got us going when family also includes last year=s my wife and I were first starting off. He has been so G2 San Clemente H. winner Up supportive ever since and has bought plenty of horses In Time (GB) (Noverre), who was from us over the years.@ bought as a yearling in the same While this particular branch of the family boasts a ring three years ago by Richard Ed & Peter Player European champion sprinter, another of Gay Charlotte=s Knight, one of the unsuccessful Emma Berry daughters, High Gait (GB), was the dam of the bidders on the son of Teofilo champion stayer on the flat and champion hurdle along with John Ferguson and Ed Sackville. winner Royal Gait (GB). Nerses advised that the colt, who purchased on Whatton Manor Stud also sold a Holy Roman Emperor behalf of Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar of (Ire) colt (lot 603) on the opening day of Book 2, who Authorized fame, will be sent to the team=s Blue was one of a number of good pinhooks of the sale.