TUESDAY, 11 JULY, 2017 LISTEN LOUD AND CLEAR AT SELECT SALE THE WEEKLY WRAP by Kelsey Riley HOKKAIDO, Japan--The regally bred G1 Fillies= Mile winner Listen (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells) produced the sale-topping yearling at the 2014 Select Sale when David Redvers signed at -260 million for the son of Deep Impact (Jpn) that is now named New World Power (Jpn) and is in training in Britain with David Simcock. The 12-year-old mare was again the dam of the JRHA Select Sale=s top-priced yearling on Monday when New World Power=s full- brother fetched -270 million (US$2,364,189/£1,837,738 /€2,075,936/A$3,113,937) from the partnership of prominent Japanese owner Hajime Satomi and Big Red Farm. AThere were two yearlings I really liked today, and the other was scratched,@ explained Satomi. AI thought I might get him for -230 million, but the market is so hot. He is a horse that my trainer, Yasutoshi Ikee, and my advisor, Yasuo Ikee, both really Sir Michael Stoute & Sir Henry Cecil | Racing Post liked.@ Cont. p2 by Emma Berry When horses finish as closely tied as Ulysses (Ire) (Galileo IN TDN AMERICA TODAY {Ire}) and Barney Roy (Ire) (Excelebration {Ire}) did in Saturday's DISTINTA TOPS FASIG-TIPTON SUMMER HORA SALE G1 Coral Eclipse S., so often a dead-heat seems the fairest Grade II winner Distinta (Summer Bird) fetched a final bid of result. In this case, however, there were a number of factors $600,000 to top Monday’s Fasig-Tipton Summer Horses of Racing that had me longing for the number four to be called when the Age Sale in Lexington, Kentucky. Click or tap here to go straight to judge gave his verdict. TDN America. Jim Crowley's not just a really decent man but an excellent jockey and when the reigning champion is jocked-off a horse for no apparent reason, as he was from Eminent (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), it's hard not to take umbrage on his part. As it transpired, riding Ulysses instead was clearly no hardship. Rather more pertinently, there's always pleasure to be taken when the old >breeding the best to the best' maxim is applied successfully, so a Group 1 winner by a Derby winner out of an Oaks winner is cause for celebration. Ulysses may have been Galileo's 66th Group 1 winner, but he is Light Shift's first. The daughter of Kingmambo, from one of the best dynasties of the Niarchos family's breeding empire, played a significant part in the resurgence of Sir Henry Cecil's career long before Frankel (GB) came along. Her victory in the 2007 Oaks--the eighth win in the fillies' Classic for her trainer--had even the most flint-hearted of racing correspondents pretending to have a fly in their eye as three cheers rang out twice around Epsom for Cecil's return to the big time after several years in the wilderness. Cont. p7 (Click here) TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 19 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 11 JULY, 2017 Listen Loud and Clear at Select Sale Cont. from p1 Katsumi Yoshida, whose Northern Farm fields the largest Deep Impact was the sire of the top four lots to sell on consignment of both yearlings and foals with 154 total, said, Monday, and seven of the top 10, including three over -200 AThis is a better market than I expected. We have had a lot of million. The other sires among the top 10 were Lord Kanaloa lookers at Northern Farm, and a number of the buyers (Jpn), who has started out well registered is much higher than with his first 2-year-olds this last year, so I expected a strong year and his sire King market. However, last year=s Kamehameha (Jpn) as well as Heart=s Cry (Jpn). market was very good, so I The yearling session was didn=t expect to surpass last staged off two straight years of year=s figures. We had 15 horses records for aggregate and sell for -100 million or more average and thus sale organizers today and eight of them are by were cautiously optimistic Deep Impact, but seven of them heading into this year=s renewal, are not by Deep Impact, which but nonetheless new shows now that we have a benchmarks for both were variety of top-class sires. I think achieved on Monday. The this is one reason for the strong aggregate was -8,634,500,000 Deep Impact sired the top four lots at the JRHA Select Sale=s yearling market. Another reason is that (US$75,605,900 session on Monday | Kelsey Riley /£58,783,329/€66,391,997/A$9 we have a lot of new owners in 9,575,416) for 216 sold from 242 catalogued, and the 12% the game. I=m very happy to see those new players competing buyback rate was the same as last year. The average was up with the existing, proven buyers.@ 6.7% to -39,970,000 (US$272,111/£272,111 /€307,335/A$460,944). Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 19 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 11 JULY, 2017 JRHA SELECT YEARLING SALE VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS SESSION TOTALS 2017 2016 Gary King $ Catalogued 247 248 Twitter: @garykingTDN $ No. Offered 242 247 [email protected] $ No. Sold 216 217 + 1.732.320.0975 $ RNAs 26 30 $ % RNAs 12% 12.1% International Editor $ No. ¥100m+ 15 14 Kelsey Riley $ High Price ¥270,000,000 ¥260,000,000 Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN $ [email protected] Gross ¥8,634,500,000 ¥8,130,600,000 $ Average (% change) ¥39,970,000 (+6.7%) ¥37,470,000 European Editor Emma Berry Listen Up... Twitter: @collingsberry Listen, the winner of the 2007 Fillies= Mile while trained by [email protected] Aidan O=Brien for the Coolmore partners, hails from a Associate International Editor productive European family. She is a half-sister to G1 Moyglare Heather Anderson Stud S. second Sequoyah (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells), the dam of Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Classic and four-time Group 1 winner Henrythenavigator Contributing Editor (Kingmambo), as well as Group 3 winner Queen Cleopatra. Alan Carasso Another half-sister is the dam of Absolutelyfabulous (Ire) Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing (Mozart {Ire}), who herself produced the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas Sean Cronin and GI Breeders= Cup Turf winner Magician (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Tom Frary [email protected] Listen has already made an impact in Japan. She is the dam of the G2 Rose S. winner Touching Speed (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), Irish Correspondent as well as the stakes-placed Move the World (Jpn) (Deep Impact Daithi Harvey {Jpn}) and has three winners from five to race. Monday=s sale- Regular Columnists topping colt, lot 107, will be trained by Yasutoshi Ikee, one of Bill Oppenheim Japan=s most successful trainers and best known for handling Andrew Caulfield John Berry Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year Orfevre. Satomi=s Kevin Blake advisor is Ikee=s father, Yasuo Ikee, who trained Deep Impact. Tom Peacock Deep Impact is yet to sire a Group 1 winner from a Sadler=s Send Press Releases to: Wells mare, likely due to lack of opportunity, but he will be [email protected] given plenty of chances with that sireline due to continued support from Coolmore, which this year has three well-bred mares in foal to Deep Impact, all by Sadler=s Wells=s son Galileo (Ire), and all half-sisters to Group 1-winning fillies. Satomi himself is re-investing after a successful year on the track. The enthusiastic owner had yet to campaign a Group 1 winner at this time last year, but he has more than righted that wrong in the past 12 months. His Satono Diamond (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) won last year=s G1 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger) after being nosed out for the win in the G1 Tokyo Yushun earlier in the year, and he added the G1 Arima Kinen in December. Satomi=s Satono Crown (Jpn) (Marju {Ire}) beat Highland Reel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Hong Kong Vase in December and added the G1 Takarazuka Kinen in June. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 19 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 11 JULY, 2017 Samitar, who was acquired privately by Katsumi Yoshida, also has a colt foal by Deep Impact. Later in the session, Deep Impact=s colt out of European champion sprinter Fleeting Spirit (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) (lot 183) made -100 million from Mizuki Noda. Toast To Champagne... Champagne d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro) has produced feature yearlings at this sale the last two years, and on Monday the GI Acorn S. and GI Test S. winner made it a third straight when her Deep Impact colt (lot 98) was hammered down for -195 million to INZEL Co. Ltd for an undisclosed Japanese client. Champagne d=Oro, herself a big sale horse when selling to (l to r) Yasutoshi Ikee, Yasuo Ikee and Hajime Satomi with the Deep Shadai Farm for $2.7 million at Fasig November in 2013, is the Impact/Listen colt | Kelsey Riley dam of a Tapit colt named Foggy Night (Jpn) who sold for -230 million here in 2015, and is now a winner, and a Deep Impact Listen Loud and Clear at Select Sale Cont. colt who fetched -235 million. Satomi later signed for lot 151, a Deep Impact filly out of One of the best-bred fillies in the catalogue, Northern Farm=s Grade I winner Heir Kitty (Wildcat Heir), for -155 million.