FRIDAY, 12 APRIL 2019 ANODIN MAKES MARK AT OSARUS PHOENIX DIVIDENDS The second crop of France=s leading first-season sire of 2018, BOOST QUINN Anodin (Ire) (Anabaa), were highly sought after at Osarus=s La Teste breeze-up sale on Thursday. The Haras du Quesnay resident was responsible not only for the top-priced lot, a filly that fetched i90,000 from trainer Christophe Ferland, but three of the top 10. The clearance rate, while not sparkling, was up slightly from last year at 62%. With similar numbers offered and the exact same (46) sold, the average dipped 9% to i22,537, while the median climbed 7% to i15,000. The sale-topping filly (lot 42) was consigned by Paul Basquin=s Haras du Saubouas and is out of Ciao My Love (Fr) (Touch Down {Ger}), making her a half-sister to the G2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein second Hello My Love (Fr) (Literato {Fr}). It is the extended family of G1 Deutsches Derby winner Lagunas. Basquin picked John Quinn & Oisin Murphy celebrate their Queen Mary win up the filly for just i17,000 at Arqana=s October yearling sale Racingfotos.com last year. Cont. p5 by Chris McGrath IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Year after year, Yorkshire trainers unearth elite runners DALLAS STEWART: WINS, NOT WIN PERCENTAGE despite relatively limited budgets. Yet while the top owners will Bill Finley speaks with trainer Dallas Stewart, who does not focus sometimes snap up the odd maiden winner, with their wares on the numbers, but the moment instead. Click or tap here to advertised, even the most sustained improvement thereafter go straight to TDN America. tends not to be rewarded at the next round of sales. Many owners, agents and managers appear to be under the impression that when you leave Newmarket Heath, you fall off the end of the world. Perhaps they are members of the Flat Earth Society. How gratifying, then, that John Quinn's latest diamond sifted from the rubbleCa G2 Queen Mary S. winner found in Book III for just 20,000gnsCshould for once have prompted a vote not just of thanks, but of confidence. Phoenix Thoroughbreds, who bought into Signora Cabello (Ire) (Camacho {GB}) just before her Royal Ascot success last summer, not only went to 900,000gns to buy out their partners back at Tattersalls last autumn (returning her to Malton until she joins their expanding broodmare band). They also took the logical next step. If this is what Quinn could do in the basement of the market, why not try his skills a level or two higher? After 25 years with a licence Quinn remains perfectly aware that a handful of yearlings, however well bred, is still only a handfulCand hardly likely to transform his brand overnight. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 10 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 12 APRIL 2019 Phoenix Dividends Boost Quinn Cont. from p1 Nonetheless it is a boost to the whole yard to receive one or two youngsters of different calibre. A Frankel (GB) filly out of GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf and G1 Irish Oaks runner-up L'Ancresse (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}), for instance, purchased for i480,000 at Deauville straight after Signora Cabello had pulled four lengths clear of the colts when a close second to Pretty Pollyanna (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) in the G1 Prix Morny. "She's a beauty," says Quinn. "If there's ever one that came our way that might be a good 3-year-old, that could be her." Then there was a i135,000 Kodiac (GB) colt from the same sale, out of a half-sister to the dam of champion Wootton Bassett (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}). At Doncaster, moreover, Dermot Farrington told Quinn and his son Sean, who sieves the catalogues, to let him know if there was anything they particularly liked. And there was: an Exceed And Excel (Aus) filly. Sure enough, Farrington signed the docket at ,70,000. From the same Goffs UK catalogue, Phoenix sent up a ,125,000 colt by Signora Cabello's sire. And just the other day Farrington offered him a 180,000gns Gutaifan (Ire) filly out of the mare whose first cover, by Gutaifan's sire Dark Angel (Ire), had produced the lightning Battaash (Ire). "I said I'd try and find a box for her," Quinn says wryly. "To be fair, the filly winning at Ascot was fantastic for all of us. Because as a trainer you need something to happen, you always need that next horse to come along. I couldn't say she'd win the Queen Mary, because there were 22 runners and all beauties. But I told them I felt she was a very decent filly." He is immensely grateful that Phoenix have followed through, while acknowledging that it's just one encouraging turn of the wheel in a career of long attrition. Cont. p3 As a trainer you need something to happen, you always need that next horse to come along. I couldn't say she'd win the Queen Mary, because there were 22 runners and all beauties. But I told them I felt she was a very decent filly. John Quinn on Signora Cabello TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 10 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 12 APRIL 2019 Phoenix Dividends Boost Quinn Cont. "It's a great help to us," he says. "Because we knew that unless somebody jumps out of the woodwork, we can't afford the Galileos and Shamardals. And I think the North is deemed nearly a different country, when it comes to people sending their bluebloods up here. But a lot of the lads up here have done really well, and you are now seeing more of the big owners Vice President, International Operations Gary King sending horses North, which is great." Twitter: @garykingTDN The Exceed And Excel filly at Doncaster was always going to [email protected] make their shortlist, as a full-sister to a juvenile who had already + 1.732.320.0975 won three races for William Haggas in Queen Of Bermuda (Ire). Because Quinn remembers a call from Sean when they were at International Editor Tattersalls 18 months ago. Kelsey Riley "It was Book III, I had bought plenty of yearlings and hadn't as Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN many sold as I would have liked," he says. "And then Sean is on [email protected] the phone saying that there are these two fillies I must come European Editor and look at. Sean's a big help to me, a big pedigree man. So I Emma Berry went down. One turned out to be Queen Of Bermuda, and the Twitter: @collingsberry other was Signora Cabello. Unbelievable." [email protected] Quinn agreed to take one last punt, and they went with the one of the pair that had a little more substance. So the other filly Associate International Editor slipped by at 17,000gns, only to be pinhooked at the breeze-ups Heather Anderson to join Haggas for 230,000gns. Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN The Quinns will be back on the breeze-up circuit next week, Marketing Manager being no less adept at picking out value in that market. Having Alayna Cullen found G2 Superlative S. winner Red Duke (Hard Spun) for Twitter: @AlaynaCullen ,140,000 at Doncaster in 2011, three years later they famously [email protected] turned up a subsequent Group 1 winner in Ascot's bargain basement for ,50,000 in The Wow Signal (Ire) Contributing Editor (Starspangledbanner {Aus}). Cont. p4 Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | Andrew Caulfield John Berry | Kevin Blake IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY NEW ERA FOR THE AUTUMN SUN The Autumn Sun (Aus) (Redoute’s Choice {Aus}) will stand for Red Duke | Racing Post A$77,000 at Arrowfield Stud this fall. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 12 APRIL 2019 Grade 2 juvenile hurdle a couple of seasons ago with one Arqana graduate. But he cautions that the breeze-up market's increasing obsession with times may end up working against everyone's interests. "Last year we bought half a dozen from the breeze-up sales," he says. "And two or three of them had very sore shins shortly afterwards. We didn't get as good a run with them as in other years. Of course these are things you can get, that just happen. But I do think that the lads' hands are getting forced by the clock. A lot of us now are beginning to realize that it's just one aspect. You've got to move with the times a bit, but you've also got to put your own bit of >feel' into it. We've all bought the ones that have broken the clock but have not been the best racehorses. So you just want a see one that moves well and gallops out." Having learned the ropes under Jimmy FitzGerald, alongside The Wow Signal | Racing Post Richard Fahey among others, Quinn was for a long time one of the leading dual-licence trainers in the land. In recent years, Phoenix Dividends Boost Quinn Cont. however, his emphasis has shifted away from jumpingCand he has duly achieved a personal best, in terms of domestic Quinn rewinds to a drink with Eddie O'Leary at the prizemoney, in each of the past three Flat campaigns. Partly, of Cheltenham Festival. Gigginstown were having a tough week course, it is a matter of sheer economic necessity, with greater until no less a horse than dual Grand National winner Tiger Roll trading opportunities overseas.