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The World's WEDNESDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER 2020 Yearling Sale SEPTEMBERSALE BEGINS SUNDAY 13 EBN SEPTEMBER.KEENELAND.COM EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES GOFFS UK EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com STONEY MOUNTAIN HITS THE SUMMIT AT GOFFS UK A dispersal of stock from Trevor Hemmings’s hugely successful Gleadhill House Stud lit up the one-day Goffs UK September Horses in Training Sale in Doncaster yesterday, with trade headed Stoney Mountain (Mountain High) topped the Goffs UK by the Gr.3 winner Stoney Mountain, who was knocked down to September Horses in Training Sale yesterday when knocked Tom Malone and Anita Gillies for £140,000. down to Tom Malone and Anita Gillies for £140,000. The seven-year-old son of Mountain High triumphed in the © Goffs UK Gr.3 Stayers’ Handicap Hurdle at Haydock in November and was twice placed over hurdles in Gr.2 company in the preceding season, having previously scored in bumper and hurdles company for Henry Daly. IN TODAY’S ISSUE... Offered as Lot 183, the gelding is a half-brother to the Gr.3- Stallion News p6 placed hurdler Great Try (Scorpion), out of a half-sister to the Gr.1-placed chaser The Nightingale (Cadoudal). Racing Round-Up p7 The day also featured a dispersal of stock from Michael O’Leary’s Australian News p9 Gigginstown House Stud and, unsurprisingly, the choice lots on offer from both dispersals dominated trade. Stakes Fields p17 The dual Gr.1 winner Petit Mouchoir (Al Namix) recorded his First Crop Sire Maidens p18 first victory under Rules in the Goffs Land Rover Bumper for The highest-rated 2YO in Europe THUNDER MOON landed Sunday’s National Stakes-Gr.1 for Joseph O’Brien and Mrs C C Regalado-Gonzalez to remain unbeaten and is now favourite for the 2000 Guineas-Gr.1. RATED 120P BY TIMEFORM 2020 Leading 2YO Sires in Europe (by number of Group winners) THUNDER 1 ZOFFANY 3 ❝the winner is a serious talent. 3 MOON was taking a big step up here having KODIAC 3 GALILEO 2 won just a maiden and could not really have DUBAWI 2 been more impressive. ❞ RACING POST STALLIONGUIDE.COM, 15/9/20 Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: +353-25-31966. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.coolmore.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER 2020 Trained by Gordon Elliott, Mengli Khan earned his biggest victory in the famed maroon and white colours when triumphing in the Gr.1 Royal Bond Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse in December 2017. Also Gr.1-placed three times over fences, including when third in the JLT Novices’ Chase at last year’s Cheltenham Festival, the seven-year-old has scored twice since jump racing resumed in July in Ireland, winning a 2m4f hurdles contest at Kilbeggan in July and making all to score impressively by 26 lengths most recently over fences at Ballinrobe. In Your Shadow (Stowaway) arrived in the sale ring at Doncaster as Lot 167, having scored in a 2m6½f handicap chase at Galway eight days earlier, and will now head to the Co. Meath stables of Noel Meade. Mags O’Toole signed the ticket for the six- year-old half-brother to the Gr.3 novice hurdle winner Corbally Ghost (Central Park) at £60,000. The four-time Graded winner Sub Lieutentant (Brian Boru) was signed for by David Phelan, who went to £50,000 for the Dual Gr.1-winning hurdler Petit Mouchoir (Al Namix) was 11-year-old (Lot 168), a half-brother to the Gr.1 Cheltenham Gold bought by Aidan O’Ryan and Gordon Elliott from the Cup victor Lord Windermere. Gigginstown House Stud draft for £70,000. © Goffs UK TRAINERS SWOOP FOR HEMMINGS STOCK Trainer James Moffatt secured Hemmings’s Burbank (Yeats) for £62,000 from the Seven Barrows yard of Nicky Henderson. Gordon Elliott and the top performer will return to Cullentra Last seen when pulled up in the Gr.3 Ultima Handicap Chase at House Stables, having been snapped for £70,000 by Aidan O’Ryan the Cheltenham Festival this year, the eight-year-old won twice on behalf of the trainer. over fences last year, having previously scored over hurdles and in Since that maiden victory, Petit Mouchoir (Lot 169) spent time a bumper. in the yards of Willie Mullins, for whom he was Gr.1-placed three Middleham trainer Simon West went to £52,000 to secure times over hurdles, and Henry de Bromhead, who trained him to Touch Kick (Lot 190), who struck twice over fences last year for victory in the Gr.1 Ryanair Hurdle at Leopardstown in December Paul Nicholls. The nine-year-old Presenting gelding, a full- 2016 and the Gr.1 Irish Champion Hurdle in January 2017. brother to the Gr.1 Kauto Star Novices’ Chase victor Slate House, The nine-year-old has also been placed in Gr.1 company 11 has not been seen since finishing fourth in a 3m handicap chase times, including when third in the 2017 Champion Hurdle and at Kempton in early February. the 2018 Arkle Novices’ Chase. Kerry Lee signed for Ballybegg at £50,000, offered as Lot 111 The second most pricey lot of the Gigginstown House Stud from Warren Greatrex Racing. The five-year-old son of Mahler dispersal was Dommage Pour Toi, offered as Lot 176, for whom was runner-up in a 3m 4yo maiden point-to-point at Kirkistown in Ted Durcan had the final say at £68,000. Another from the yard of November, when in the care of Colin McKeever, and went on to Henry de Bromhead, the seven-year-old son of Magadan finish third in a bumper over an extended 2m at Doncaster in recorded his biggest success in the Gr.2 Fairyhouse Easter Festival February on his first start under Rules. Novice Hurdle in April last year. Also popular among the Gleadhill House Stud offerings was Just a tick below that price tag was Lot 97, Mengli Khan (Lope Lot 124, Hill Sixteen, who was another to go the way of Highflyer De Vega), who fell to Highflyer Bloodstock at £65,000. Bloodstock when the hammer fell at £46,000. Top-class two-year-olds... GOFFS SPORTSMAN’S SALE 24-25 September 2020 BUY ONLINE Contact ITM for information and assistance Phone + 353 45 443 000 | Email [email protected] | Website www.itm.ie ISABELLA GILES (IRE) 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld GOFFS UK SEPTEMBER HORSES IN TRAINING SALE Lot Sex Name (Sire) Vendor Purchaser Price (£) 183 7g STONEY MOUNTAIN (Mountain High) Downton Hall Stables Tom Malone/Anita Gillies 140,000 169 9g PETIT MOUCHOIR (Al Namix) Gigginstown House Aidan O’Ryan/Gordon Elliott 70,000 176 7g DOMMAGE POUR TOI (Magadan) Gigginstown House Durcan Bloodstock 68,000 97 7g MENGLI KHAN (Lope De Vega) Gigginstown House Highflyer Bloodstock 65,000 187 8g BURBANK (Yeats) Seven Barrows James Moffatt 62,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS The Court Cave gelding is already familiar to the Highflyer Colin Bell went to £24,000 to secure the lightly-raced State team, which secured him for £100,000 at the Goffs UK Aintree Crown (New Approach), who was placed third on his only start Sale in April 2018 off the strength of his maiden point-to-point at two and filled the same spot on his return at Doncaster in June victory over 3m at Dromahane four days earlier. Trained by Sue for Charlie Appleby. He is a half-brother to the 2018 Gr.1 Jebel Smith, the seven-year-old went on to score in a hurdles contest at Hatta victor Blair House (Pivotal) and the Listed Newmarket Carlisle last February and also won a novice chase at Sandown in Stakes winner Key Victory (Teofilo), out of a full-sister to the top January. miler and sire Poet’s Voice (Dubawi). Later in the session, AGC Bloodstock went to £60,000 to END OF SALE STATEMENT purchase Dinons (Balko) from the draft of Gordon Elliott. Offered Direct comparisons between the final figures for yesterday’s trade as Lot 235, the seven-year-old has won seven times over hurdles and that of 12 months ago is not possible, as last year’s sale was and fences, most recently lifting a 2m3½f chase at Limerick in held over two days and also included a yearling session. October last year. Goffs UK reported 221 horses sold yesterday for a total of £2,731,200, for an average of £12,358 and a median of £6,000. The GODOLPHIN DRAFT PROVES POPULAR clearance rate was 91 per cent. The Godolphin draft was once again a popular draw, with all 22 of At the end of the sale, Goffs UK Managing Director Tim Kent the lots offered finding new homes for an aggregate of £235,800 said: “Today has been a big success and it’s great to finish with a and an average of £10,718. clearance rate of 91 per cent, which demonstrates the huge demand Leading the was Lot 157, Trebizond, who fell to the bid of Ted for horses in training. The two dispersals added a great depth to the Durcan for £34,000.