SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2011 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here FRIZETTE SHOWDOWN BOOK 1 ENDS WITH A BANG Repole Stable=s J “TDN Rising Star” J A sensational renewal of Book 1 of Tattersalls= Stopshoppingmaria (More Than Ready) gets another October Yearling Sale finished on a fittingly lively note crack at the unbeaten GII Adirondack S. heroine My in Newmarket last night when a Galileo (Ire) (Sadler=s Miss Aurelia (Smart Strike) in Wells) filly fetched 1.7-million today=s GI Frizette S. at Belmont gns (US$2.779 million). Charlie Park. Stopshoppingmaria stumbled Gordon-Watson, acting on behalf badly at the start in her unveiling at of Kazakhstan-based Nurlan the Spa July 22 (video), and Bizakov, was the man who bid reported home a valiant third, three the dearest price achieved by a lengths behind My Miss Aurelia. She yearling at auction in Europe or Stopshoppingmaria was away cleanly in her next start America during 2011. Out of Adam Coglianese going six furlongs upstate Aug. 14 Brigid (Irish River {Fr}), the filly is (video), and streaked under the line a 3/4-sister to the Group 1 Friday’s Topper, Lot 502 an eye-catching 9 3/4-length wire-to-wire winner, good winners Listen (Ire) (Sadler=s Tattersalls.com for a division-leading 101 Beyer Speed Figure. The Wells) and Sequoyah (Ire) $100,000 OBSMAR juvenile graduate has worked five (Sadler=s Wells)--the dam of Henrythenavigator, and was times since her maiden score, capped by a four-furlong bred by Peter Magnier=s Brittas House Stud at Cashel in move in :48 1/5 over the Belmont Park training track County Tipperary. She was consigned through Mark Oct. 3. AWith the way she breezes and the way she Dwyer=s Yorkshire-based Oaks Farm Stables. Cont. p2-8 gallops out, [the extra distance] should not be an issue for her,@ Todd Pletcher=s assistant trainer Whit Beckman KITTY=S GOT CLAWS said of Stopshoppingmaria stretching to a mile here. Ken and Sarah Ramsey homebred Stephanie=s Kitten AShe has a great pedigree to go forward.@ Cont. p8-9 (Kitten=s Joy), third in the grassy GIII Natalma S. at Woodbine last time Sept. 17, came charging late to CHAMPAGNE ON ICE post a 9-1 upset over Heart of Destiny (Lion Heart) in Belmont=s GI Champagne S. took a hit with the early the GI Darley Alcibiades S. on Keeneland=s opening day withdrawal of the sidelined Fire On Ice (Unbridled=s card before a record crowd of 19,026. Song), but it still boasts a solid nine-horse line-up, led Cont. p18 by the unbeaten GII Three Chimneys Saratoga Special S. hero Union Rags (Dixie Union). The Chadds Ford Stable colorbearer has been training smartly since that 7 1/4-length romp in the Saratoga slop Aug. 15 (video), most recently Union Rags working a bullet four furlongs in Adam Coglianese :48 1/5 at Fair Hill Oct. 1. AHe=s growing up, and each race he will continue to mature more and hopefully progress,@ trainer Michael Matz offered of Union Rags, who graduated at first asking at Delaware July 12. ARight now, we are quite happy with the way he is.@ Cont. p9 ALL POWER TO HIM Aidan O=Brien first won the G1 Dewhurst S. in 2001 with Rock of Gibraltar (Ire), and today=s Dubai- sponsored renewal of Newmarket=s famed seven-furlong highlight features a colt in Power (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) who stands some comparison with that past great. Cont. p12 www.coolm ore.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/8/11 • PAGE 2 of 21 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Tattersalls coverage cont. A prolific week for Gordon-Watson also saw him pay Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony kicked the 400,000gns for a Danehill Dancer (Ire) (Danehill) colt bidding off at 200,000gns for the filly, with the early out of a half-sister to Group 1 winner Eagle Mountain players including Authorized=s Kuwaiti owner Saleh Al (GB) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}) sold from Tim Hyde=s Homaizi and Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock, Camas Park Stud. The colt, on whom representatives of who has bought this week for Abu Dhabi royal family Qatari-owned Al Shahania Stud were underbidders, had member Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan. cost just 75,000gns as a foal at Tattersalls. Hong Kong-based Paul Makin threw in a solitary bid of a Newmarket trainer Roger Varian is set to train the million guineas when Gordon-Watson had already colt. He commented, "He=s for an existing owner in the entered the fray, but it was Brown, taking instructions yard and was a lovely colt with the scope to go on." by phone, who ended up as underbidder. Galileo fillies accounted for six of the week=s seven Bizakov, who stood with Gordon-Watson while highest prices. At number two in the pecking order was bidding, bought Hesmonds Stud in Sussex from Peter a full-sister to last year=s G3 Athasi S. winner Cabaret Goulandris last year and has bought four fillies this (Ire) offered from Croom House Stud. Yorkshire-born week. He now has 11 mares on his farm, including First owner Sir Robert Ogden, who had kept his powder dry (GB) (Highest Honor {Fr}), who was purchased for during the week, saw off John Magnier for the filly at 1.1 million gns at Tattersalls in December. 850,000gns, although she was bought as a racing, "You don=t get the chance to buy a filly like that very rather than breeding prospect. often and it was more than we were expecting to pay," "It=s not significant that she is a filly--I=ve been just said Gordon-Watson. "But less and less good fillies looking for racehorses and the fact we could breed from become available and, when you are starting a new stud her didn=t come into the decision to buy her," said and want foundation blood, you go for the best. I know Ogden. "What we have looked for this year is quality, the family well and I think Galileo is the best stallion in and my brief [to my advisors] was to look for proven my lifetime, because of what he has achieved with stock with top pedigrees; nothing by first-season sires 2-year-olds as well as older horses.@ He added, AIt is up to [Mr. Bizakov] where she goes into training, but he and no first foals out of mares.@ currently has horses with Sir Michael Stoute, Ed Dunlop and Jeremy Noseda." Cont. p3 859-873-7270 • www.airdriestud.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/8/11 • PAGE 3 of 21 • thoroughbreddailynews.com "This filly was our pick of the whole sale,@ Ogden Coolmore=s purchases included a 370,000gns continued. AWe knew there would be a battle for her Acclamation (GB) colt offered from Paddy Twomey=s and we knew Coolmore were interested. I've sat on the County Tipperary-based Hawthorn Villa Stud. The colt sidelines all week, which is unusual for me, but this was had cost i80,000 as a weanling at Goffs. the one I wanted. There's no decision on a trainer, but Stuart Boman of Blandford Bloodstock saw off John she will go to one of our Ferguson to get a Shamardal colt offered from Luke existing people.@ Ogden Lillingston=s Mount Coote Stud for 350,000gns. explained, "We have "I have bought him for an undisclosed, existing client, bought less this year and he=ll go into training in this country," said Boman. because we have such a His Blandford Bloodstock colleague Tom Goff earlier large amount still in paid 340,000gns for a Danehill Dancer colt on behalf of training, and we have a 30-year-old London city trader Lawrie Inman. few 2-year-olds who are The full-brother to G2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein winner injured and have not got on Tamazirte (Ire) (Danehill Dancer), sold by Tom Gaffney=s a racecourse. We also have Churchtown House Stud, is set to join Michael Bell. "He Lot 420 a few home-bred was an exceptionally high quality model of a Danehill Tattersalls.com yearlings." Dancer," said Goff. Chris Richardson of Cheveley Park Stud, accompanied by the farm=s joint owner Patricia Thompson, saw off TATOCT coverage cont. colourful soccer player Joey Barton--bidding through Johnny McKeever--for another Galileo filly, a PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... 410,000gns 3/4-sister to MGSW Fantasia (GB) (Sadler=s Get pedigree expert Wells). She was bred by Luca and Sara Cumani=s Fittocks Stud and sold by Highclere Stud. Andrew Caulfield=s take on racing=s newsmakers! You can find all of Caulfield=s All European post times in the TDN are local time columns in the TDN Archive. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/8/11 • PAGE 4 of 21 • thoroughbreddailynews.com OCTOBER YEARLINGS Friday Toppers TATOCT BOOK 1 - FRIDAY’S TOP LOTS Hip Sex Sire Dam Price (gns) 502 f Galileo (Ire) Brigid 1,700,000 Consigned by Oaks Farm Stables Purchased by Charles Gordon-Watson Bloodstock 420 f Galileo (Ire) Witch of Fife 850,000 Consigned by Croom House Stud Purchased by Sir Robert Ogden, CBE, LLD 494 f Galileo (Ire) Blue Symphony (GB) 410,000 Consigned by Highclere Stud Purchased by Cheveley Park Stud 455 c Danehill Dancer (Ire) Anna Pallida (GB) 400,000 (75,000gns wnlg ‘10 TATDEC) Consigned by Camas Park Stud Purchased by Charles Gordon-Watson Bloodstock 496 c Acclamation (GB) Bold Desire (GB) 370,000 (80,000 wnlg ‘10 GOFNOV) Consigned by Hawthorn Villa Stud Purchased by Demi O’Byrne TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE, BOOK 1 FRIDAY, OCT.