SATURDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2020 HUNDRED-YEAR HISTORY OF >THE ARC= >BEAUTIFUL, ELEGANT= by Tom Frary DAUGHTER OF SHASTYE Nothing sacred just appears out of the wilderness; it is always the outcome of an evolutionary process with many layers of SET FOR BOOK 1 development. In racing, France and arguably Europe=s self-proclaimed >monument=, the Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe, emerged from a lengthy spell of planning and forethought into how the country could showcase its own talent in direct competition with its neighbours. With the hippodrome at Longchamp superseding the worn-out Champ de Mars circuit in 1857, the Societe d=Encouragement pour l=Amelioration des Races de Chevaux en France looked to provide some prizes to fit the new order. First up was the 1863 launch of the Grand Prix de Paris, serving as the Bois de Boulogne=s testing ground for the vainqueurs of the English Derby and the Prix du Jockey Club. Then, 30 years on, followed the Prix du Conseil Municipal which pitched the 3-year-olds against their elders. It was from that mile-and-a-half contest that the >Arc' as we know it now came to be. In 1920, with the people of Europe turning back to the great irrelevances that the devastation of Mogul is the latest Group 1 winner out of the the First World War had temporarily shelved, the Societe excellent producer Shastye | Scoop Dyga initiated the perfect weight-for-age examination. By Kelsey Riley Cont. p6 When one has a filly like the Galileo (Ire) daughter of Shastye (Ire) (Danehill), Julian Dollar admits, Ayou don=t look at those sorts of horses particularly objectively.@ And to be fair, that assessment likely doesn=t just apply to the Newsells Park Stud general manager. Such a force has Shastye been in the Tattersalls October Book 1 ring and on the racecourse over the past 10 years that plenty of shoppers are likely to get a bit starry-eyed. Lot 436 at next week=s renewal of Book 1 is the sixth filly out of Shastye and is a full-sister to Secret Gesture (GB), the G2 Middleton S. winner and triple Oaks runner-up who was disqualified from a first-place finish in the 2015 GI Beverly D. S.; last year=s G1 Juddmonte International winner Japan (GB); last month=s G1 Grand Prix de Paris scorer Mogul (GB); and Group 3 Sakhee, the six-length winner of the 2001 Arc | Scoop Dyga winner Sir Isaac Newton (GB). Secret Gesture was a 230,000gns yearling who later sold to Godolphin as a broodmare for $3.5- IN TDN AMERICA TODAY million, while Japan, Mogul and Sir Issac Newton cost 1.3-million gns, 3.4-million gns and 3.6-million gns in the Tattersalls ring, all PREAKNESS CAPS UNCONVENTIONAL TRIPLE CROWN bought by the Coolmore partners. Shastye had another Galileo Kentucky Derby winner Authentic (Into Mischief) is the filly, Secret Gaze (GB), sell for 1.35-million gns at Book 1 in 2016. favourite for Saturday’s Preakness, which this year concludes the Cont. p2 Triple Crown. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 24 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 3 OCTOBER 2020 >Beautiful, Elegant= Daughter Of Shastye Set For Book 1 cont. While Shastye=s filly will likely feature as one of the stars of the sale when she strolls into the ring midway through day three of Dollar confirmed that the latest filly=s looks and attitude match the sale on Oct. 8, she is far from the only Acollector=s item@ in her pedigree. the Book 1 draft of Newsells, which has been leading vendor at AWe've loved her since day one and she's a bit of a favorite,@ the sale last past two years. Shastye=s filly is one of two Galileos Dollar said. ANot only because of Newsells will offer, the other her pedigree but also because being a colt (lot 454) who is the she is just a lovely filly and she WHEN IT COMES TO BUSINESS SHE first foal out of the G3 Prix has that wonderful KNOWS WHAT SHE’S ABOUT. Imprudence winner and temperament. I described her the multiple Group 1-placed other day as serene and I think SHE’S JUST GOT THAT AIR ABOUT HER. sprinter/miler Spectre (Fr) that is a good description of her. SHE’S A BIT SPECIAL AND A BIT (Siyouni {Fr}). She's a beautiful, elegant filly, AHe's got a really good step to she's got a huge walk, but it's the OF A COLLECTOR’S ITEM him,@ Dollar said. AHe=s a very way she conducts herself, really. Julian Dollar on Shastye’s Galileo filly attractive, neat horse with a She's very much the boss in the good step and a good walker. paddock and always has been. He=s a very encouraging first AAnd yet when she's with foal for the mare.@ people she's like a 14-year-old Newsells offers two colts by pony. She just loves people and is a sweet filly to deal with. But Galileo=s best son Frankel (GB) out of Oasis Dream (GB) mares when it comes to business she knows what she's about. She's on day one of the sale: lot 62, a colt out of Enable (GB)=s just got that air about her. She's a bit special I think and a bit of a unraced half-sister Birdwood (GB), and lot 36, Aa real class collector's item.@ horse@ out of As Good As Gold (Ire), a half-sister to former Frankel standout Eminent (Ire). TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 24 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 3 OCTOBER 2020 Senior Vice President Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Click to listen to a podcast with Julian Dollar speaking about Newsells [email protected] Park Stud=s Tattersalls October Book 1 draft European Editor Dollar recalled having to buy Birdwood twiceBAonce when she Emma Berry was good value, and once when she wasn=t when our partners Twitter: @collingsberry @ [email protected] wanted to sell. The former was for 150,000gns as a 3-year-old from the Juddmonte consignment at Tattersalls December in Associate International Editor 2016 before Enable had raced. The second was for 1.1-million Heather Anderson gns two months after Enable won her first Arc in 2017. Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN AHe's a very nice horse,@ Dollar said of Birdwood=s colt. AStrong, well-made with a good step to him. And of course, what Marketing Manager a lovely pedigree.@ Alayna Cullen Dollar said As Good As Gold=s colt resembles his sire in his Twitter: @AlaynaCullen athleticism. [email protected] AI remember watching his father walk and he had that amazing Contributing Editors movement, moved a bit like a panther,@ he said. AAnd this horse Alan Carasso has got a great step to him. He's a very nice horse.@ Christina Bossinakis An elite yearling draft would hardly be complete without representation from Dubawi (Ire), and Newsells has two colts to Cafe Racing offer by Darley=s kingpin: lot 356, a half-brother to G1 Oaks Sean Cronin winner Qualify (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), and lot 112, a son of Tom Frary the Arc winner Danedream (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}) offered on [email protected] behalf of breeder Teruya Yoshida. Irish Correspondent AThis is a really nice horse,@ Dollar said of lot 356, who is out of Daithi Harvey the Galileo mare Perihelion (Ire). AHe's always been a lovely individual since the day he was born. Sadly we no longer have Regular Columnists the mum, she passed away soon after he was born. But he's a Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake nice colt. He's quite typical of Dubawi but he's got a lot of Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele quality.@ Lot 112 is just the second of Danedream=s foal to see a sales ring; the first was this colt=s full-brother who made 1.5-million gns from Shadwell in 2017 and has won three times. The mare=s next foal, a Frankel (GB) filly, sadly died before making the races but Dollar reported that Danedream=s current 2-year-old Online Dream (GB) (Frankel {GB}) is training well in Japan. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 24 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 3 OCTOBER 2020 AFunny enough, the Frankels have been quite fine horses, but ASome might say I wouldn't know what a 2-year-old looked like, both Dubawis had much more size and strength about them,@ and they might be justified in that, but even a blind man can see Dollar said of Danedream=s foals. AAnd this guy, he's a big brute of that this is a 2-year-old type. He's strong, he's got a great step, a horse. But he's nice, and I know the mare hasn't got off to the he's well put together and he just means business.@ brightest of starts, but you can never ignore a Dubawi out of a filly Of quite the opposite profile are a pair of colts by Sea The Stars as good as Danedream.@ (Ire): lot 518, a son of the Newsells foundation mare Waldmark Newsells has thrown plenty of support behind leading French (Ger), and lot 366, a half-brother to the G1 Premio Roma GBI sire Siyouni (Fr) with three Racing winner Potemkin (Ger) yearlings in the draft including (New Approach {Ire}) from a fillies out of Grade III winner family that has been nurtured by Ceisteach (Ire) (New Approach Newsells=s German sister stud {Ire}) (lot 84), who Newsells Gestut Fahrhof.