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THURSDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2018 endeavour next week at Tattersalls. The Kingman filly will be KINGMAN'S QUEEN HEADS sent to France before eventually going into training for her new owner. GOFFS FOAL SALE Jacqueline Norris said of lot 600, "The Kingman filly was a queen. I'm thrilled for her breeder Paddy Burns. My team has done a wonderful job all week in difficult weather." Burns bought the filly's dam Splashdown (GB) (Falbrav {Ire}) from her breeders Luca and Sara Cumani of Fittocks Stud last December for 145,000gns. Now 12, Splashdown was successful both on the track and in the paddocks for the Cumanis, winning the Listed Ballymacoll Stud S. in their colours and breeding, to date, three winners including G3 Solario S. winner Aktabantay (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) and the useful multiple scorer Baydar (GB) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}). For Norris, the day wasn't just a success as a consignor, but also as a breeder in her own right when selling a Sea The Stars half-brother to the listed winner and G2 Norfolk S. runner-up Mind Of Madness (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}). Cont. p2 Lot 600, a filly by Kingman, topped the Goffs November Foal Sale Part 1 | Peter Mooney IN TDN AMERICA TODAY by Emma Berry 2018: THE YEAR OF THE NEW YORK-BRED KILDARE, IrelandCOnce the thinner air of the upper tier of the Christie DeBernardis speaks with various New York foal market is reached, only the bravest pinhookers remain to Thoroughbred stakeholders about the success New York-breds have enjoyed in 2018. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN do battle against those owner-breeders with a longer-term plan. America. The beauty of the Thoroughbred business is that each year at least one new player will emerge, intent on spending some serious money for the best bloodlines available, and thus it proved in the transaction of the most expensive foal sold at Goffs this week. The breeder and the vendor of the Kingman (GB) filly in question are names which resonate beyond their Irish homeland. Paddy and Helena Burns produced the daughter of Juddmonte's rising star at their Loughtown Stud and entrusted Jacqueline Norris to conduct the consigning duties. Norris's Jockey Hall Stud has a well earned reputation for excellence and duly featured in two of the top five lots of the session, including the i350,000 market leader, and ended the sale as leading consignor by average. On the other side of the deal, the buyer remains unnamed but Seville-based agent Francisco Bernal of Outsider Bloodstock was able to divulge that his Spanish client is prominent in the world of sport-horse breeding and is launching a fledgling venture into the Thoroughbred world. On her behalf, Bernal has bought three horses so far and he intimated that he will continue in this TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 19 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 22 NOVEMBER 2018 The aggregate last year had leapt by 43% to i25,515,750, so this year's tally of i20,311,000 represented a 20% shortfall from that lofty figure. The average fell by 11% to i42,315 but the median saw a rise of 4% to i28,000. Wednesday's trade added exactly i12 million to the overall takings. This too was down by 20%, as was the final-day average of i74,534. The median was i52,000 (-12%). Beeby continued, "Last year's Part 1 Foal Sale was always going to be a hard act to follow as it recorded big rises in each area and was headed by the rarity of a millionaire foal sale topper. So we have seen a sale that is still ahead of 2016 but it must be accepted that one of the key messages to be taken away from the sale has been the lower clearance rates, Francisco Bernal of Outsider Bloodstock | Peter Mooney especially on day one. This mirrored the commercial yearling sales and, as we pointed out a few weeks ago, should be a clear indication that the market is increasingly polarised." Goffs November Foal Sale Day 3 Cont. from p1 He added, "So the good ones have sold very, very well with several extremely happy breeders, especially throughout today, Lot 593, a son of the winning Oasis Dream (GB) mare Sioduil and we are grateful to them all for their ongoing support as it is (Ire), was purchased by Camas Park Stud for i290,000. they who make the sale such a success each year along with the "We had a lovely update yesterday as the 2-year-old huge group of buyers that descended on Kildare Paddocks from half-sister [Reticent Angel] won again. I bred this colt so Saturday morning.@ Cont. p3 obviously I'm delighted," she said. Hard Act to Follow "It has been as hard as ever to buy the good ones but there were more falling through the cracks than in recent years," was the assessment of Goffs group chief executive Henry Beeby as he drew breath between the close of the first section of the foal sale and the start of the mares' sale. The daily clearance rate at Goffs has risen from 59% to 73% to a much more buoyant 84% on the closing day of Part 1, during which 161 of 191 foals offered found a buyer. This brought the overall clearance for the three days to 72%Cmarkedly down on last year's 81% when the sale was headed by a i1.1 million weanling. Figures overall were ahead of the trade seen in 2016. Jim Bolger | Peter Mooney TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 19 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 22 NOVEMBER 2018 GOFFS NOVEMBER FOAL SALE DAY 3 SESSION TOTALS 2018 2017 $ Catalogued 234 214 $ Number Offered 191 187 Vice President, International Operations $ Number Sold 161 159 Gary King $ Not Sold 30 28 Twitter: @garykingTDN $ Clearance Rate 84% 85% $ High Price i350,000 i1,100,000 [email protected] $ Gross i12,000,000 i14,966,500 + 1.732.320.0975 $ Average (% change) i74,534 (-20%) i94,129 $ Median (% change) i52,000 (-13%) i60,000 International Editor Kelsey Riley CUMULATIVE 2018 2017 Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN $ Catalogued 775 753 [email protected] $ Number Offered 665 660 $ Number Sold 480 535 $ Not Sold 185 125 European Editor $ Clearance Rate 72% 81% Emma Berry $ High Price i350,000 i1,100,000 Twitter: @collingsberry $ Gross i20,311,000 i25,515,750 [email protected] $ Average (% change) i42,315 (-11%) i47,693 $ Median (% change) i28,000 (+4%) i27,000 Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Goffs November Foal Sale Day 3 Cont. AIndeed, we have rarely seen the place as packed and the Marketing Manager barns were just so busy for the last five days to illustrate the Alayna Cullen ongoing hunger for the best-bred foals on the market, and Twitter: @AlaynaCullen following so many excellent pinhooking results from last year,@ [email protected] he said. AThe advance in the three-day median also shows that Contributing Editor there has been more consistency in the top half of the sale Alan Carasso where there was the most activity. Twitter: @EquinealTDN "We now turn our attention to two days of breeding stock and look forward to another day of foals on Saturday mindful of Cafe Racing several great pinhooking stories from last year's Part 2 sale." Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] A Merry Notion for Galileo The younger stallions may have had their chances in the Irish Correspondent spotlight but come the most prestigious day of the Goffs Daithi Harvey November Sale it was the turn of Europe's heavy-hitting brothers to take a dominant role in proceedings. Regular Columnists A quartet of Coolmore-bred weanlings by the champion sire Andrew Caulfield Galileo (Ire) sold nowhere near as well as their pedigrees John Berry Kevin Blake suggested they should, but leading the pack was a three-quarter Tom Peacock sister to the 2016 Derby winner Harzand (Ire) (Sea The Stars {GB}) (lot 709). The May-born filly was bought by Hugo Merry at i300,000. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 19 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 22 NOVEMBER 2018 of the champion racemare Banks Hill (GB). With Juddmonte's late blue hen Hasili (GB) as her third dam, the young Galileo foal's pedigree is certainly replete with black-type. Flash Conroy signed for lot 680, the Galileo half-brother to G2 Lowther S. winner Besharah (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) at i170,000, while the half-brother to rising young Australian stallion Zoustar (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}) was led out unsold at i85,000. Big Stars Come Out With 17 weanlings catalogued, it was always likely that Galileo's half-brother Sea The Stars (Ire) would feature prominently as Part 1 of the foal sale swung into top gear and he was indeed represented by a run of high prices through the day. Hugo Merry | Peter Mooney As previously mentioned, Jacqueline Norris's colt was the most expensive of the stallion's offspring, and of the six to sell for six Goffs November Foal Sale Day 3 Cont. figures, there was also success for Oak Leaf Stud, run by Willie "It was just a notion, really, but I've bought her for myself, Pilkington, which sold lot 590 for i220,000 to Jamie Railton. Jane [Allison] and a friend of ours," he said. "How often are you "It's hard to find a Sea The Stars filly with that sort of profile. I able to buy into a pedigree like this? Galileo is a very good like the Distorted Humor mare, it all worked for me," said the broodmare sire and the mare does it every time." pinhooker.