Who Will You Find at the Breeze-Ups? Karl Burke Found Ed Walker Found Richard Hannon Found QUIET REFLECTION STORMY ANTARCTIC MEHMAS
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MONDAY, 13TH JUNE 2016 EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU BELMONT | NATIONAL HUNT REVIEW | PINHOOKING TABLE | STAKES FIELDS Atlantic Jewel and Commanding Jewel listed under his Gr.1- TODAY’S HEADLINES winning grandam Pass The Peace; a Helmet half-sister (Lot 16) to the Gr.3-winning sprinter Dutch Masterpiece; and a Bushranger GOFFS LONDON SALE colt (Lot 20) who shares his Gr.1-winning grandam Bianca Nera with multiple Gr.1 winner Postponed. The breeze-up horses will be followed by 20 catalogued mixed lots, from already-raced two-year-olds to broodmares. Among EBN Sales Talk Click here to this section are the Gr.1-placed Listed winner Lady Penko (Lot is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com 25) in foal to Golden Horn; this season’s Listed-placed two-year- old Lundy (Lot 26); the French Gr.3-placed Listed scorer Money Maker (Lot 28); last month’s French Gr.3-winning sprinter Ross Castle (Lot 34); last month’s Listed Dee Stakes winner Viren’s CLASSIC HEROINE AMONG Army (Lot 38); and last month’s Listed-winning juvenile Vona (Lot 39). STAR LOTS AT SELECT SALE The supplementary entries start at Lot 42, this season’s French The third Goffs London Sale will be held today at the Orangery, juvenile winner Spaggia, and she has some notable horses Kensington Palace and is for invitees only. behind her in the ring. Next up will be last month’s Gr.1 Irish 1,000 The inaugural 2014 auction achieved a 70% clearance rate for 50 Guineas winner Jet Setting (Lot 43), also a Gr.3 winner this spring horses offered on the day, topped by Sheikh Fahed Al Thani’s £1.3m who has Gr.1 entries in the Coronation Stakes and Sussex Stakes; purchase of the then two-year-old Cappella Sansevero and MV the Wesley Ward-trained two-year-old Big City Dreamin (Lot 45), Magnier’s £1.15m purchase of Crystal Gazing and her Frankel filly a winner at Keeneland and entered in the Listed Windsor Castle foal. Only 23 of the 41 horses offered twelve months ago were Stakes; last week’s winning two-year-old Justice Frederick (Lot reported as having been sold, with a top price of £825,000 paid by 48), Joseph O’Brien’s first winner as a trainer; last summer’s Gr.3 John Ferguson for the Gr.3-winning Kheleyf mare Majestic Queen. Prix du Calvados winner Great Page (Lot 49); and Madam Even the reduced average sale price of £164,522 and median of Dancealot (Lot 50), runner-up on her sole start and entered in £100,000 were major achievements and the sale attracted clients the Gr.2 Queen Mary Stakes. from all over the world on the eve of Royal Ascot. Entrance to the sale is by invitation only and, as many of the Today’s sale will start with 21 catalogued breeze-up (unraced) horses in training hold entries at Royal Ascot, potential purchasers two-year-olds, including a Rip Van Winkle half-brother (Lot 1) to are reminded that they must be pre-registered with the BHA as an the Italian Classic-placed Zobenigo; a Helmet colt (Lot 8), who owner. Any queries should be directed to Weatherbys Ownership has Gr.1 winners Embassy, King’s Apostle, Fantasmagorico, Desk. Who will you find at the breeze-ups? Karl Burke found Ed Walker found Richard Hannon found QUIET REFLECTION STORMY ANTARCTIC MEHMAS Classic-placed BLUE DE VEGA and FIRST SELECTION plus NOW OR NEVER were also sourced out of the breeze-up sales www.breezeupwinners.com th Next breeze-up sale: Goffs London Sale, 13 June CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK ~ RACING REVIEW EBN: MONDAY, 13TH JUNE 2016 MATING PLAN UPDATE LADY PENKO Essonite (Sea The Stars), the unraced half-sister to the aforementioned Lady Penko, has a yearling filly by Medicean and is currently in foal to Dark Angel and their dam, Hespera (Danehill), is carrying to Camelot. The Medicean two-year-old out of the second dam has recently been named Living Being and she has a yearling colt by Dutch Art, while Marie De Medici has a Frankel juvenile filly called Extra Mile, a New Approach yearling colt, a colt foal by Invincible Spirit and she is in foal to Dubawi. An updated pedigree can be viewed on page 23. WITHDRAWALS Lots: 7, 9, 12, 22, 36, 46 Meergorl (Adlerflug) winning the Gr.2 Diana-Trial yesterday RACING REVIEW at Hoppegarten. www.german-racing.com GERMANY lead passing the 300m marker, where Meergorl (Adlerflug) and GORLSDORF’S HOMEBRED MEERGORL Pagella (Soldier Hollow) suddenly arrived on the scene. The pair GETS UP ON LINE FOR TRIAL WIN set to a battle and it was only in the final stride that Meergorl, who looked to be getting the worst of the argument, rallied late to get Hoppegarten in Berlin staged a mammoth twelve races yesterday up in the shadow of the post and record a neck win. The pair afternoon, with the Gr.2 Diana-Trial the feature event. Mary Sun (Soldier Hollow) won the dash for the lead in the ten furlong pulled three and a half lengths clear of Kasalla (Soldier Hollow). contest for three-year-old fillies, but the pace was soon eased and This was only the third start for the winner, who had finished plenty in behind were keen enough. The nose-banded runner third on debut in a maiden at the track in late April, before scoring increased the pace on the turn for home and she still just held the on her last start in another Hoppegarten maiden on 15th May. She holds an entry in the Gr.1 Diana over 2200m at Dusseldorf on BEINGENTRIES TAKEN ONLINENOW 7th August, as well as the Gr.2 Hansa-Preis on 3rd July and the Gr.3 Hamburger Stuten-Preis on 9th July. A homebred of Gestut Gorlsdorf, she is a daughter of the winning Tertullian mare Mouette, a half-sister to the Gr.2 (then) Schwarzgold-Rennen-third Meridia (Monsun) and two other Ascot July Sale winners by Monsun and Shirocco. The second dam is the four- time winner Montserrat (Zilzal). Summer Sale and Select Session Horses in Training, Point to Pointers & Stores Follow the upward trend IRELAND set at the Ascot May Sale PERFECT RUN FOR O’BRIEN 29 Lots Top Price Average FILLY IN MUNSTER OAKS £10,000+ £110,000 £6,464 The Aidan O’Brien-trained Listed Salsabil Stakes winner and Gr.3 +44% Blue Wind Stakes runner-up Pretty Perfect put a disappointing run in the Gr.1 Irish 1,000 Guineas behind her and landed yesterday’s Gr.3 Munster Oaks Stakes at Cork. Select Session The daughter of Galileo broke well and was sent straight to the Will include entries that would have previously front by Colm O’Donoghue. Pushed along two furlongs from been nominated for the Horses in Training home, she was driven out to win in good style by four lengths section of the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale & August Sale. from the favourite Shamreen (Dubawi), with stablemate Best In The World (Galileo) two and a quarter lengths back in third. O’Brien said: “She ran very bad in the Guineas and that threw us, Ascot July Sale but maybe we ran her back too quickly. She stays very well and he Tuesday 12th July [O’Donoghue] was very happy with her there. Enter online at www.tattersalls.ie “The Guineas was a hard race to work out because we ran Contact Info. for Ascot Sales Coolmore in it and she ran very bad, too. Telephone +44 (0) 1568 617724 “We’re delighted with her today and she’ll maybe go to an Irish [email protected] www.tattersalls.ie Oaks now. She seems to stay well.” Bred by Milanova Syndicate, she is the third runner and winner out of the Gr.3 Tokyo City Cup winner Milanova (Danehill), who 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 RACING REVIEW EBN: MONDAY, 13TH JUNE 2016 was Gr.1-placed in the US. She is a full-sister to the Gr.1 Phoenix (Machiavellian) and the decent hurdlers Desert Quest and Stakes and Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner and sire Holy Stocktons Wing. His next two dams were Stakes-placed and the Roman Emperor. The third dam was a Champion in Canada and family includes the German Gr.2 winner and sire Passing Glance. the family also includes fellow Canadian Champions La Voyageuse, L’Enjoleur and Medaille D’Or, as well as the Gr.3 Jersey Stakes winner and sire Kheleyf. BRITAIN SPRINT STAKES DON’T TOUCH LANDS MAIDEN STAKES Trainer Robert Cowell collected his second Listed sprint prize WIN IN SALISBURY FEATURE within a few days when veteran Spirit Quartz won yesterday’s five-furlong Sprint Stakes at Cork, having taken the Prix Hampton More akin to a Group contest with the quality of runners, the at Deauville last Thursday with Justineo. Listed EBF Cathedral Stakes at Salisbury was landed by Don’t The eight-year-old son of Invincible Spirit was recording his first Touch (Dutch Art), who was making it seven wins from eight victory since landing the Gr.2 Prix du Gros-Chene in 2013, although starts, his only blip coming last time out in Gr.2 company in he was placed a couple of times in Group company last year and Ireland last month.