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THURSDAY, 1 OCTOBER 2020 SERPENTINE SUPPLEMENTED TO ARC FLORIDA-BOUND This year=s G1 Investec Derby winner Serpentine (Ire) (Galileo INVINCIBLE SPIRIT COLT {Ire}) was supplemented to Sunday=s G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe on Wednesday at a cost of i72,000. He was the lone LEADS ORBY supplementary entry to the i3-million race. In his first start since running away with the blue riband at 25-1, Serpentine finished fourth in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris over the Arc course and distance at ParisLongchamp on Sept. 13 behind stablemate and fellow Arc contender Mogul (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). They are part of a five-horse challenge for the Coolmore partners and Aidan O=Brien, with Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) holding sway as the race=s 11-4 second favourite. Mogul=s year-older full-brother Japan (Ire) and last year=s G1 Irish Derby winner Sovereign (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) complete the Ballydoyle brigade. With Serpentine supplemented, 16 remain engaged for the Arc. Rain has continued to fall in Paris, with as of Wednesday morning 14.4 millimetres having fallen this week. The going is currently very soft with more rain forecast. The session-topping Invincible Spirit colt, bought by Ben McElroy for Stonestreet Stables | Goffs By Emma Berry DONCASTER, UKCOn a day without the millionaire highlights that we have become accustomed to at the Goffs Orby Sale, trade struggled to keep pace with recent strong renewals of this auctionCa factor which had been widely expected in advance and has been seen throughout the 2020 yearling market. Despite the industry being fuelled largely by dreams, only the foolhardy could dream that this year=s trade would be unaffected by a global pandemic which is not only restricting international travel but also plunging plenty of businesses into precarious situations. To a certain extent, the upper tier of the yearling market remains immune to such outside forces but there was a more workmanlike feel to the first session which Derby winner Serpentine | Scoop Dyga progressed at a rate significantly below recent levels. It must be remembered that in 2019 the Orby was led by a i3 million fillyCone of four seven-figure transactions at the saleCbut even the presence of that Galileo filly=s IN TDN AMERICA TODAY three-parts-sister by Sea The Stars (Ire) couldn=t make a MIDNIGHT BISOU RETIRED difference this year as the daughter of Green Room (Theatrical) Reigning champion older female and five-time GISW Midnight was bought in at ,775,000. Bisou (Midnight Lute) has been retired from racing after Cont. p2 suffering a sesamoid fracture in her right front fetlock. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 15 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 1 OCTOBER 2020 Florida-Bound Invincible Spirit Colt Leads Orby cont. from p1 The mare=s first foal, the once-raced Castlebar (Ire), was sold Having topped the Orby in the last two years when her at last year=s sale for i460,000. Like her son, Aimhirgin Lass was daughters brought a collective i6.2 million, Vimal and Gillian bred by the Irish National Stud and is out of the unraced Khosla=s star broodmare, who is already the dam of three Group Nebraas (GB) (Green Desert), whose three black-type 1 winners, has already more than played her part and the performers and eight winners include listed winner Seeharn retention of such a prized filly by her breeders is (Ire), also by Pivotal, and the Group 3 winner Yellow Rosebud understandable. (Ire) (Jeremy). Having delivered a filly by Invincible Spirit earlier Of course, with the sale=s move from Ireland to England came this year, Aimhirghin Lass is now in foal to the stud=s new a change of currency from euros to pounds. Direct comparisons recruit, G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Phoenix Of Spain (Ire). are not being made by Goffs until the end of the sale on AI know the family pretty well as I was underbidder on Yellow Thursday, and the most encouraging statistic to be drawn from Rosebud,@ the agent continued. AAnd I remember the brother the first day of trade is the 81% clearance rate. from last year. This is a really nice colt, just the type of horse we AThe clearance rate demonstrates a pragmatism and a realism are looking for, and we hope he=ll be a Royal Ascot horse.@ from the vendors and once again we salute them. They=ve read McElroy later bought a Bated Breath (GB) colt (lot 54) for the market well,@ said Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby ,115,000. The son of Boragh Jamal (Ire), a winning Namid (GB) at the close of play on Wednesday. half-sister to G3 Molecomb S winner Whitbarrow (Ire) (Royal The 165 yearlings sold throughout the day brought an Abjar), was offered by Eddie O=Leary of Lynn Lodge Stud, who aggregate of ,11,504,000 (the corresponding figure during the pinhooked him as a foal for i44,000. same session last year was just over i23-million). The average price was ,69,721 and the median ,50,000. Early Start For Campanelle Team American buyers have increased their investment in European yearlings in recent years and it wasn=t long before their influence was felt at Goffs on Wednesday morning when Ben McElroy went to ,420,000 for a son of Invincible Spirit (Ire). Offered by the Irish National Stud as lot 12, the second son of the dual winner Aimhirgin Lass (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) will race for Barbara Banke=s Stonestreet Stables, which enjoyed success at Royal Ascot this year with Campanelle (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), the winner of the G2 Queen Mary S. AHe=s been bought for the same connections as Campanelle and will head to Florida to Stonestreet Stables= facility before Ben McElroy (left) and trainer Simon Callaghan | Fasig-Tipton joining Wesley Ward in the spring,@ confirmed McElroy. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 15 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 1 OCTOBER 2020 Bold Pinhook Pays Off Most vendors will say that trade was tough at Doncaster during the opening session of the Orby, but one of the highlights of the day came for Baroda Stud, which sold a Dark Angel (Ire) filly (lot 153) for ,400,000 to CBR Bloodstock, bidding through a phone call to Goffs=s Joey Cullen. Senior Vice President AI can=t tell you much about the filly=s future, other than that Gary King she will be trained in England or Ireland,@ said Cullen after Twitter: @garykingTDN seeing off underbidder Michael Donohoe. [email protected] Baroda topped the first day of the Arqana September Sale + 1.732.320.0975 when selling a daughter of Dubawi (Ire) for i620,000, having bought her as a foal for 300,000gns. The Dark Angel filly was International Editor also a bold foal pinhook, signed for at the Goffs November Sale Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN by BBA Ireland for i260,000, but she had every right to be [email protected] sought after even in her weanling days as she is a half-sister to the dual Group 3 winner Jack Naylor (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}) European Editor by a sire whose popularity rarely wanes. Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editors Alan Carasso Christina Bossinakis Cafe Racing Lot 153, the ,400,000 daughter of Dark Angel | Goffs Sean Cronin Tom Frary She also wasn=t the only popular Dark Angel filly in the Baroda [email protected] draft as lot 67, out of the American Grade III winner Button Down (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), was another to fetch six figures Irish Correspondent and sold for ,120,000 to Peter and Ross Doyle. Daithi Harvey Baroda Stud got off the mark well when its first horse through Regular Columnists the ring (lot 4), a filly from the first crop of National Stud stallion Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Aclaim (Ire), sold to breeze-up pinhooker Brendan Holland for Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele ,130,000. Dark Angel was also on the list of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, and Mick Kinane waited until the third-last lot in the ring (241) before making his first purchase of the day at ,260,000. The colt, bred and consigned by Guy O=Callaghan=s Grangemore Stud, is a full-brother to one of Dark Angel=s early stars, the G2 Superlative S. winner Birchwood (Ire), who is now standing at Haras de la Huderie in Normandy. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 1 OCTOBER 2020 Goffs Orby report cont. AI missed on a few Mehmas yearlings last year as I just thought Bar one season, his dam Layla Jamil (Ire) (Exceed And Excel they were on the small side, but he is not over-big himself and {Aus}) has been mated exclusively with Dark Angel and she also he is getting winners all over the place and we all have to get on has a filly foal by him this year. board.@ Mehmas is now the sire of 33 first-crop winners, including last Magic Mehmas Saturday=s G1 Juddmonte Middle Park S. winner Supremacy Members of the first-crop of Mehmas (Ire) have wasted no (Ire). time in showcasing their sire=s promise this season and on the back of their success on the track the Tally-Ho Stud resident was Father And Son Provide Late Highlights catapulted into the upper echelons of the bloodstock market on Invincible Spirit was back in demand late on the first day, as Wednesday morning when lot 51 brought the hammer down at was his son Kingman (GB).