TUESDAY, 16 MARCH 2021 PAIR OF QUEENS TATTERSALLS IRELAND RESCHEDULES MAY STORE SALE GIVES SYNDICATE The Tattersalls Ireland May Store Sale has been rescheduled for Wednesday, July 14. Tattersalls Ireland has taken this step A STRONG HAND due to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and prevailing travel restrictions. The Tattersalls Ireland Select July Store Sale is slated for Thursday, July 15, and the remaining stores will be put under the hammer at the Tattersalls Ireland August NH Sale on Aug. 10-11. At this time, inspections for the various store sales are almost complete, and the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale remains as scheduled on June 23-24. ANaturally our first preference would have been to hold what is normally the first store sale of the year in May but, we do not feel it is prudent to hold a select store sale in May or early June due to ongoing uncertainty and current travel restrictions,@ said Tattersalls Ireland CEO Simon Kerins. AGiven that point-to-points are yet to resume, we feel that it is imperative that we allow time for the market to recover and ensure we provide a vibrant Grangee & Jody Townend win at the Dublin Racing Festival marketplace following the Derby Sale.@ Racingfotos.com AWe have received positive feedback from a number of By Emma Berry vendors on this decision, who have echoed our concerns for the There have been 28 runnings of the G1 Weatherbys Champion marketplace in May and early June and have welcomed the Bumper at Cheltenham and 10 of them have been won by Willie clarity at this early stage. We have liaised with Goffs on this Mullins. The Festival's most successful trainer of all time even decision to ensure that any changes to our sales dates are in @ rode the first of his winners, Wither Or Which (Ire), and he trains harmony with their plans. five of the 15 declared runners for this year's race, which is the final contest of Wednesday's card. Of that quintet, the Cheveley Park Stud-owned favourite Sir IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Gerhard (Ire) (Jeremy) cost ,400,000. Lower down the sales HORSEMEN’S GROUPS FILE FEDERAL LAWSUIT OVER HISA scale is the little mare Grangee (Fr) (Great Pretender {Ire}), a Organizations representing Thoroughbred horse owners and i25,000 purchase who now races for a syndicate of 50 owners, trainers have filed a federal lawsuit to stop HISA. Click or tap each of whom made an initial investment of i500. She has here to go straight to TDN America. already given them plenty of bang for their bucks. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 6 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 16 MARCH 2021 Syndicate.Racing Cont. from p1 Syndicates.Racing have Grangee in Wednesday's Champion Bumper but, remarkably, its only other National Hunt horse in Jack Cantillon founded Grangee's ownership group training, Cabaret Queen (GB) (King's Theatre {Ire}), is set to run Syndicates.Racing, which has a total of 13 horses in training, and in the G2 Mrs Paddy Power Mares' Chase on Friday. it is fair to say that he is bordering on evangelical when it comes Formerly owned by Highclere Thorougbred Racing, Cabaret to persuading people to become involved in owning racehorses. Queen was a shrewd purchase two years ago by Cantillon and "I'm a lawyer by profession and friends would come to the Arc Adam Potts for just ,13,000 after she had already won over with me every year, or to Cheltenham, and it always puzzled me hurdles and fences for Dan Skelton. Since then, the 9-year-old a little bit why they didn't buy shares in horses," he says. "The has won two i100,000 chases, the Munster National and the reality is that it's prohibitively priced, but I did feel that there Kerry National, as well as finishing third in the Galway Plate. was a number there that people would invest, but in the Grangee has also scooped a lucrative prize and equally valuable hundreds rather than the thousands. Invariably our shares are in graded black type when landing the mares' bumper at the the hundreds." Dublin Racing Festival to take her career tally to two wins and a If you were at the sales last autumn it would have been third from three starts. impossible to miss Cantillon in his bright yellow jacket promoting "You could give me i10 billion and I'd still be on the rope at his new stallion, Far Above (Ire), whom he stands in partnership Tattersalls, or down the chute in Arqana, or in the pocket at with Micheal Orlandi of Compas Stallions. With his various Goffs trying to rob horses for 20 grand. I know nothing else and I projects in the bloodstock world, it's questionable whether have to buy what I perceive to be the value horse," Cantillon Cantillon ever sleeps, but what little shut-eye he does manage says. to grab is likely to be even less this week. Not only do Cont. p3 Cabaret Queen | Racingfotos.com TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 6 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 16 MARCH 2021 Syndicate.Racing Cont. Of the purchase of Grangee at Arqana just over a year ago, he recalls, "I wasn't at the sale but there was a mare I was interested in. I didn't get her but Fanny Cypres, who is a good friend and whose family bred Grangee, had had a look at the mare for me and she said I should have a look at this other filly. There had been suggestions she had worked quite well for Senior Vice President Gary King Hector de Lageneste and the guy who owned her was getting Twitter: @garykingTDN out of racing. When the video of Grangee dropped I thought she [email protected] was captivating: she's jet black and she has this lovely presence. + 1.732.320.0975 She didn't sell in the ring but I bought her afterwards." He adds, "I didn't sell Grangee for a while, she was a slow International Editor burner, but it was the start of the Covid pandemic and people Kelsey Riley were a little reluctant. But we have assembled a variety of Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN individuals and they are all enjoying the ride and are [email protected] understandably very excited for Wednesday. Some of the European Editor people are in both Grangee and Cabaret Queen and they are Emma Berry pinching themselves at having two runners at Cheltenham, as I Twitter: @collingsberry am." [email protected] It was as recent as 2008 that the first race devoted solely to mares was run at the Festival. There was some short-sighted Associate International Editor grumbling about the G1 David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle, more Heather Anderson still when the G2 Dawn Run Mares' Novices' Hurdle was Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN introduced in 2016 and, undoubtedly, there are plenty of jump Marketing Manager racing fans that dislike the fact that this year sees the inaugural Alayna Cullen running of the G2 Liberthine Mares' Chase. But that is to fail to Twitter: @AlaynaCullen see the jump racing industry as a whole. [email protected] Contributing Editors Alan Carasso Christina Bossinakis Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele Dermot & Jack Cantillon in Tinnakill masks | Fotor IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY For years, fillies, whether sold as foals or stores, were all but DARLEY AUS GAINS FOUR CHAMPIONS FOR 2021 ROSTER being given away, leading a number of stallion farms to offer Bivouac (Aus), Pinatubo (Ire), Earthlight (Ire), and Ghaiyyath (Ire) discounted nominations by way of compensation if a mare will all join the Darley Australia roster in 2021. Click or tap here produces a filly foal. Cont. p4 to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 6 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 16 MARCH 2021 Syndicate.Racing Cont. Cabaret Queen will be bred this year and she'll go to a very good stallion, but she wouldn't be going to one if there hadn't been Initiatives by the TBA and ITBA, such as the National Hunt the incentive for us to keep her in training." Mare Owners' Prize Scheme (now incorporated into the Great He adds, "When we get to the day when there is no longer the British Bonus) and Elite Mares Scheme, as well as significant commercial necessity of a discount for a filly foal then we have expansion of the mares' racing programme in Britain and reached the appropriate point. The overall goal needs to be the Ireland, are slowly making jump fillies and mares more enticing testing of the racehorses, and that is achieved by having the prospects at the sales. With three mares' races at the Festival, appropriate races for them and by continuing to invest in the owners and trainers have gradually been encouraged to pay mares' racing programme both in Ireland and in England." them more attention, though it Cabaret Queen, from the final is Cantillon's view that this is crop of the former multiple still a sector that represents champion jump sire King's great value. Theatre, will retire to the He notes, "I think the most Cantillon family's Tinnakill under-valued type of horse House in Ireland at the end of that you can buy is a National the season and, as her Hunt mare, and I think in 10 youngsters eventually take to years' time we will be asking the track, will doubtless be the why they were so cheap at the subject of continued interest time.