SATURDAY, 5TH DECEMBER 2020 NEW YEAR NEW OPPORTUNITY JANUARY EBN MON. 11 - THURS. 14 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES ARQANA EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com WELL-BRED MARES APLENTY AT DECEMBER SALE The four-day Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale was given the go-ahead by the Calvados Prefecture and the four sessions of selling will start at 10:00am from today. Indianapolis (Galileo) topped proceedings at the Goffs UK On the same terms as last month’s Autumn Sale, access to the December Horses in Training Sale at Doncaster yesterday establishment will be exclusively reserved for professionals when purchased for £52,000. Full story on page 8. involved in the sale: consignors and their staff, buyers, vets, © Goffs UK transporters and Arqana staff. Past graduates of the sale include Lady Gorgeous, dam of this autumn’s Gr.1 Fillies’ Mile winner Pretty Gorgeous. They were IN TODAY’S ISSUE... both sold at the 2018 renewal, while Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes Best of British p26 winner Alcohol Free’s dam Plying was bought by BBA Ireland in 2013 and, two years earlier, Queen Of Carthage, dam of the Gr.1 Godolphin Flying Start Blog p27 Phoenix Stakes winner Lucky Vega, had been purchased by Spotlight on Adlerflug p28 Hugo Merry Bloodstock. Hello You! Hello Youmzain, the champion sprinter By leading sire and emerging sire of sires Kodiac Out of a Shamardal mare Dual Gr.1 winner and Group 2 winner at 2 NEW FOR 2021 25.000€ LF - Limited to 140 mares CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 BOBBY’S KITTEN SEA THE MOON BOOK FULL 2021 A LEADING EUROPEAN A LEADING EUROPEAN FIRST CROP SIRE IN 2020 SIRE IN 2020 Sire of 11 individual first crop 2yo Sire of 25 Black-type horses winners of 17 races, including including Gr.1 winnner Gr.2 Beresford Stakes ALPINE STAR in 2020 runner-up MONAASIB Ten yearlings sold at the 2020 First stallion son of KITTEN’S JOY Tattersalls October Sales Book 1&2 in England and Ireland made 480,000 gns, 210,000 gns, ONLY 3YO EVER to win the 200,000 gns, etc., Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint averaging Specialist Miler who £154,975 could also Sprint – over 10 times his 2018 fee £7,000 £22,500 SIR PERCY STUDY OF MAN First Foals 2021 A POTENT MIX OF SON AND GRANDSON SPEED & STAMINA OF LEGENDS Sire of 49 Black-type horses Winner of 3 races at 2 & 3, including 2 Gr.1 winners and including the ‘Stallion Making’ 84 individual 2yo winners Gr.1 French Derby, and £1,033,142. Yearlings sold at the 2020 Tattersalls October Sales Book 2 The only son of DEEP IMPACT made 150,000 gns (x2), 80,000 gns (Japanese Super Sire & multiple & 50,000 gns, Champion) at stud in England averaging £112,875 Supported by Europe’s leading – over 16 times his 2018 fee breeders in his first season £7,000 £12,500 All nominations on 1st October Special Live Foal terms [email protected] • www.lanwades.com • Tel: +44 (0)1638 750222 LANWADES The independent option TM SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 5TH DECEMBER 2020 The 2019 sale saw marginal improvements on 12 months previously, with the aggregate up by three per cent, the average by one per cent to a record €49,111 and the median up by six per Golden Horde cent to €19,000. There were two horses sold for seven-figure sums; the Listed-placed Frankel Light, in foal to Dark Angel, was consigned by Haras du Mézeray and bought by Charles Gordon- available to view Watson for €1,300,000 and multiple Gr.1 winner Uni’s dam Unaided, part of the Haras d’Etreham draft, went to Oceanic Bloodstock for €1,250,000. The leading buyer at last year’s sale was BBA Ireland, which purchased 15 horses for €2,542,500, and the leading consignor was Haras d’Etreham, which sold 19 horses for a total of €3,937,000. Numerically, this year’s consignors are headed by La Motteraye (53 lots), Haras de Grandcamp (37), the Aga Khan Studs (34), Coulonces Sales and Haras des Monceaux (32 each), Haras d’Ombreville (31), Haras d’Etreham (30), Haras des Capucines and Haras du Hoguenet (28 each) and Wertheimer et Frère (24). FILLIES AND MARES The sale comprises 623 mares and fillies, with up to 11 wild cards available. They include 53 half-sisters to Gr.1 winners, and nearly a quarter of the catalogued lots have either earned black type themselves or have already produced a black-type winner. There are plenty of mares in foal to established stallions, Golden Horde (pictured), who joins the stallion ranks at including Acclamation, Adlerflug, Areion, Dabirsim, Dark Haras de Montfort & Preaux for 2021, will be available for Angel, Galiway, Goken, Iffraaj, Intello, Kendargent, Kingman, viewing at the bottom yard at Deauville racecourse during Lawman, Le Havre, Lope De Vega, Mastercraftsman, Nathaniel, the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale; from today New Bay, No Nay Never, Oasis Dream, Reliable Man, Sea The until Monday, 7th December. Moon, Sea The Stars, Siyouni and Wootton Bassett, plus younger sires such as Al Wukair, Almanzor, Caravaggio, Stakes; the 6f Gr.3 winner Fas, by Fastnet Rock and out of a half- Churchill, Cracksman, Ribchester, The Grey Gatsby, Zarak and sister to Sole Power; Master’s Spirit, a middle-distance Listed Zoustar. winner who was placed in 12 Group/Listed races; the once-raced There are catalogued mares in foal to a range of stallions who Renat, an Invincible Spirit half-brother to No Nay Never; Le covered for the first time this year, including the German-based Havre’s Gr.2-winning son Roman Candle; Gr.1 Grand Prix de multiple Gr.1 winner Best Solution, Coolmore’s trio of Calyx, Saint-Cloud winner Silverwave, who was bought for €105,000 at Magna Grecia and Ten Sovereigns, the Gr.1-winning sprinter this sale last year; and Taj Mahal, a multiple Group-winning Eqtidaar, the multiple Group-winning sprinter Inns Of Court, Galileo full-brother to Gleneagles, Marvellous and Happily. the four-time Pattern winner Invincible Army, Gr.2 winner Land Among the mares and fillies catalogued for today’s Part I of the Force, Gr.3 winner Le Brivido, Gr.1 Derby winner Masar, Gr.1 Prix sale are: du Jockey Club winner Study Of Man, triple Gr.1 winner Too Lot 20, the dual Gr.3 winner What A Name, in foal to Sea The Darn Hot and the four-time Gr.1 winner Waldgeist. Moon, The above all had in-foal mares catalogued at the recent Lot 21, the dual Gr.3 winner Board Meeting, dam of a Listed Tattersalls December Mare Sale, but the following French-based winner and herself a half-sister to Classic winner Bright Sky, in sires have not yet been represented at a sale: Siyouni’s son City foal to Cracksman, Light, who won two Gr.3 races and was twice a Gr.1 runner-up, Lot 25, Caja Primera, a half-sister to the dam of Gr.1 winners including when a short-head second in the Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Sea Of Class, Charity Line and Final Score, in foal to Churchill, LAND FORCE No Nay Never Fee: £5,000 with terms inc* Extremely popular with breeders covering 155 quality mares in 2020 *see website for more info Press play and hear what they have to say Video +44 (0)1635 253 212 +44 (0)7730 272 895 [email protected] www.highclerestud.co.uk CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 DERRINSTOWN STUD STALLIONS ESTABLISHED SINCE 1982 DERRINSTOWN STUD CONTINUES TO GIVE ACCESS TO STALLIONS WITH SOME OF THE FINEST BLOODLINES WITH LIMITED BOOKS, BREEDERS ARE GIVEN THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCE TO REAP THE REWARDS OF THEIR CHOICE NEW FOR 2021 Awtaad King of Change A Group 1 Classic winning miler Group 1 winning miler Sire of 12 first crop 2yo winners in 2020 including: Won the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Listed winner Ebeko, Stakes-placed A Taad Moody, beating 8 Gr.1 winners including the winners and Headshot, Huddleton Mac, Isla Kai, Live Stream, Mr of the British and Irish 2,000 Guineas Excellency, Qaasid, Rainbow Bright, Roseabad, Sister Half brother to triple Group winning Rosetta, Shining Success, Zaajel, etc. and Gr.1 placed miler Century Dream 2021 fee: €10,000 (1st January SLF) 2021 fee: €7,000 (1st January SLF) +353 (0)1 6286228 • [email protected] • www.derrinstown.com +353 (0)1 6286228 • [email protected] • Markaz Tamayuz Dual Group winning sprinter Sire of 4 individual Group 1 winners His first crop 2yos winners in 2020 include Mustashry (Lockinge S.), Precieuse (French 1000 Guineas), A Boy Named Ivy, Brasilian Jet, Blond Me (EP Taylor S.), G Force (Sprint Cup) Gotixtix, Juraszek, Mark Of The Man, 2020 Stakes winners include 2yo LR winner Zeyaadah Mark Of Respect, Snash, etc. 2020 yearlings made up to €200,000 averaging €42,000 (22 sold) 2021 fee: (1st January SLF) €3,000 STUD DERRINSTOWN 2021 fee: €8,000 (1st January SLF) Also standing: HAATEF – Sire of nearly 40% lifetime winners to runners • 2021 fee: €2,000 (1st January SLF) SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 5TH DECEMBER 2020 Lot 32, Considerate, a Dansili half-sister to Enable, in foal to the latter’s sire Nathaniel, Lot 38, Dalmenya, a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Dalkala, in foal to Golden Horn, Lot 46, Abys, a full-sister to Gr.1 winners Recital and Corre Caminos, in foal to Sea The Moon, Lot 77, Kazeera, a Dubawi full-sister to multiple Gr.1 winner Al Kazeem, in foal to Wootton Bassett, Lot 92, Media Day, a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Donjuan Triumphant, in foal to Wootton Bassett, Lot 93, this year’s Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches third Mageva, Lot 99, Nabatea, a half-sister to Gr.1 winners Nymphea and Nutan, in foal to Adlerflug, Lot 106, Paris Beauty, a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Intellogent, from the top German family of Nightrockette,