Powerful Partners in Play for Waldgeist
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 2020 ARQANA SEASON STARTS WITH MIXED FARE POWERFUL PARTNERS IN The wraps have already been lifted from Tattersalls and Goffs PLAY FOR WALDGEIST and this week it is the turn of Arqana to host its mixed February Sale to start the auction year rolling in Deauville. The >something for everyone' nature of these sales is always a draw even in the depths of winter, and though this lower-key debut will have none of the glitz and glamour of the August Sale, history relates that there are always gems to be found. Of course only time will tell whether any of the 431 lots catalogued will have the appeal of Sister Nat (Fr) (Acclamation {GB}), who was bought here as a short yearling in 2016 for i20,000Ca fraction of the value that her subsequent racing career and family ties make the Group 3-winning half-sister to Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) and Sistercharlie (Ire) (Myboycharlie {Ire}) worth these days. Cont. p4 Waldgeist salutes in the Arc | Racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Emma Berry LA MYSTERY HORSE SPICES UP DERBY TRAIL It is almost half a century since Ballylinch Stud took delivery of In Bill Finley’s latest The Week in Review, he checks in with Tom its previous winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. In 1970, Amoss, trainer of undefeated ‘TDN Rising Star’ No Parole Sassafras (Fr) (Sheshoon {GB}) became the first horse to get the (Violence). The bay just won Saturday’s Premier Night Prince S. at better of Nijinsky II (Northern Dancer), beating the Triple Crown Delta Downs. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. winner by a head at Longchamp before taking up residence in the beautiful tiled box which was once home to The Tetrarch (Ire) (Roi Herode {Fr}). That stable still stands away from the main stallion yard at Ballylinch and within its historic walls now is the 2019 Arc winner Waldgeist (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), who caused an upset of his own when scuppering the chances of the Arc hat-trick seeker Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}). His win was no fluke, however, and Enable was far from the only horse he had to beat. Looking back over the finishing order from Oct. 6 last year, one finds the two best 3-year-old colts of the season, Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) and Japan (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), along with Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), the winner of four Group 1 races in 2019 including the Champion S. a fortnight after the Arc. Since that glorious day in Paris, Waldgeist has gained one final bit of recognition for his distinguished racing career in running Enable and Crystal Ocean (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) to a three-way tie for the title of Longines World's Best Racehorse. He follows the brilliant Sea The Stars (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) as the last Arc winner before him to retire to stud in Ireland and now has a high bar to aim for in his second career. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 5 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 11 FEBRUARY 2020 Waldgeist Cont. from p1 any of those lines which I think will be a big advantage to him." In this pursuit he won't struggle for a helping hand. Crucially, Also of advantage has to be the fact that Waldgeist is just one Ballylinch Stud has a knack for finding and making stallions, of the latest high-class performers from a distinguished dynasty. aided by some strategic partnerships. In the case of Waldgeist His dam Waldlerche (Ger), a daughter of Monsun (Ger) bred by we find the familiar name of Dietrich Von Boetticher's Gestut Newsells Park Stud, won the G3 Prix Penelope and is from the Ammerland as co-owner and breeder, and the new stallion will celebrated Gestut Ravensberg family of the German St Leger be able to call on support from that Bavarian farm's broodmare winner Wurftaube (Ger) (Acatenango {Ger}), who is Waldgeist's ranks. The German link is strengthened through another in the third dam. Waldlerche has also produced the G2 Prix de breeding partnership of Waldgeist, the Jacobs family's Newsells Malleret winner Waldlied (GB) to Galileo's son New Approach Park Stud, which formed a third of the trio along with Coolmore. (Ire) and her 2-year-old of last season, the >TDN Rising Star= Ammerland and Ballylinch have already teamed up Waldkonig (GB) (Kingman {GB}), looked a group horse in the successfully in the stud career of another former Andre Fabre making on his sole appearance for John Gosden. trainee, the dual French Classic winner Lope De Vega (Ire) "I'm always positive about young stallions whose own dams (Shamardal), who now heads the roster of five stallions at are really good," O'Connor notes. "In this particular case, Ballylinch. Waldlerche is a group winner herself and she has bred a Group 1 "Ammerland and Newsells Park Stud are both exceptionally winner with her first foal and a Group 2 winner with her second good breeders and they've foal. That's an outstanding both shown they can breed start, and of course Group 1 winners on a fairly Waldkonig looks very regular basis so it's great to exciting. It is worth bearing in be working with them on this mind while we're all excited project with Waldgeist. about him, though, that he's We're working on the same won a maiden so far as a type of approach as we did 2-year old but by that time with Lope De Vega when we Waldgeist had already won a started him," says Ballylich Group 1. He was much more Stud's managing director precocious than people give John O'Connor. "Both him credit for." Ammerland and ourselves That juvenile Group 1 in will send Waldgeist 14 or 15 question was the Criterium mares each, including some de Saint-Cloud on his third of the mares who worked start, in which Waldgeist very well with Lope De Vega Waldgeist and owner Dietrich Von Boetticher | Racingfotos.com beat a field which included like Burning Heights (Ger) (Montjeu {Ire}), who is the dam of two subsequent Derby winnersCWings Of Eagles (Fr) (Pour Moi Blue De Vega (Ger), who was one of Lope De Vega's early group {Ire}) and Capri (Ire) (Galileo {Ire})CCaulfield Cup winner Best winners." Solution (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) and the Melbourne Cup winner Ammerland is also sending Lope De Vega's listed-winning Rekindling (GB) (High Chaparral {Ire}). daughter Sassella (Ire), as well as the Group 1 winner Grey Lilas Newsells Park Stud reinforces the Danehill approach by (Ire) (Danehill), who is already the dam of the Prix de Diane sending his granddaughter Date With Destiny (Ire), the sole winner Golden Lilac (Ire) and Australian Group 3 winner Grey offspring of George Washington (Ire), who is the dam of Lion (Ire), both by Galileo (Ire). Galileo's G3 Royal Whip S. winner Beautiful Morning (GB). Also The combination of Galileo and Danehill blood has had on the list from the British-based farm is Keene Dancer (GB) particularly noted success and it is the opportunity to combine (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), a daughter of G1 Prix de l'Opera winner these two through Waldgeist which is one of the appealing Kinnaird (Ire) (Dr Devious {Ire}) and half-sister to Berkshire (GB) elements for O'Connor, who says, "I think one of the interesting (Mount Nelson {GB}). Newsells Park Stud's dual Grade I winner things about this particular horse and his pedigree is that he is a Dynaforce (Dynaformer), who has worked well with a son of top-class Galileo whose dam line is completely free of all the Galileo to produce the listed winner Aljezeera (GB) (Frankel lines that have done so well with Galileo himself. So Danehill, {GB}), is another member of Waldgeist's first book, which is Storm Cat, Pivotal (GB): he's very open to sending mares from likely to number between 130 and 140. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 5 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 11 FEBRUARY 2020 Waldgeist Cont. Outlining a number of the Ballylinch broodmares who will be heading to the farm's new stallion, O'Connor says, "We'll be sending him Alava (Ire) (Anabaa), the dam of Forest Ranger (Ire) (Lawman {Fr}), who is a Group 2 winner. We will give him a Senior Vice President certain amount of Danehill blood when we get a chance so we'll Gary King also be sending Colonia (Fr), a Grade III winner in the United Twitter: @garykingTDN States by Champs Elysees." [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Waldgeist | Scoop Dyga Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen Ballylinch and Ammerland teamed up to buy a Siyouni (Fr) [email protected] 4-year-old named So Unique (Fr) for i210,000 at Arqana in December. "We thought she would suit him and she was a Contributing Editor Alan Carasso group-placed 2-year-old," explains O'Connor. Twitter: @EquinealTDN Another daughter of Siyouni bought specifically to go to Waldgeist is Barkaa (Fr), winner of the G3 Prix Vanteaux. Cafe Racing Charteuse (Fr), a listed winner and Group 3-placed daughter of Sean Cronin Lawman (Fr)Ca stallion O'Connor knows wellCis another in the Tom Frary book having joined the Ballylinch herd in 2016 when she was [email protected] bought for 825,000gns. Dookus (Ire) (Linamix {Fr}) was responsible for one of the Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey first-crop stakes winners for Frankel (GB) in the Ballylinch-bred dual Group 3 winner Frankuus (Ire) and she will now be covered Regular Columnists by Waldgeist.