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WEDNESDAY, 7 JULY 2021 JULY SALE RETURNS IN ARQANA AUGUST YEARLING CATALOGUE ANNOUNCED TRADITIONAL FORMAT The Arqana August Yearling Sale features a catalogue of 355 blue-blooded colts and fillies as it returns to its regular slot in the calendar from Aug. 14-16 in Deauville. The first two days will begin at 5:30 p.m. and the final day, Monday, will start at 1 p.m. The sale has produced many stakes winners over the years including G1 Qatar Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe hero Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), and fellow Group 1 winners Skalleti (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}), Sealiway (Fr) (Galiway {GB}), Wonderful Tonight (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), and Uni (GB) (More Than Ready) among others. In 2021, the catalogue boasts 19 siblings or half-siblings to Group 1 winners, and in Part I of the sale, over half of the yearlings selected are out of black-type mares and a quarter of the yearlings are siblings or half-siblings to group winners. Cont. p4 The stallion Garswood is the last horse through the ring on Wednesday | Tattersalls IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Emma Berry NEWMARKET, UKCCWith what could be the final sale in HARVEY PACK PASSES AT 94 Britain to be held under Covid restrictions, Tattersalls launches Former New York racing personality Harvey Pack died in New its three-day July Sale in Newmarket on Wednesday, when fillies York City on Tuesday at 94. Click or tap here to go straight to and broodmares form the core of the first all-day session. Trade TDN America. on Thursday and Friday will be conducted in morning and evening sessions around racing on the nearby July Course. Last year's auction was reduced to two days, with an extra mixed sale introduced in August to allow for the fact that racing had only resumed from its enforced shutdown in early June. The number of horses catalogued and the resulting turnover were therefore significantly reduced in 2020, but we can expect to see a return to the level of trade witnessed in the preceding four years, when an aggregate of between 12 and 14 million gns was posted in what can be considered pretty consistent trade at this popular midsummer sale. Granted, there will still likely be fewer international visitors on site for the horses-in-training section but, as we have seen over the past year, the option of online buying platforms and interaction with agents on the ground have been taken up readily by buyers from afar. The death of Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum in March cast a long shadow over the sport, which has been lessened by the recent announcement that his daughter Sheikha Hissa is keen to continue his labour of love that is the Shadwell breeding empire. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 7 JULY 2021 Tattersalls July Sale Preview Cont. son of Dutch Art (GB) from the family of Infallible (GB) (Pivotal The operation has the largest draft of 82 broodmares, {GB}) and Veracious (GB) (Frankel {GB}), makes his third breeding prospects and horses in training spread across the appearance in the ring at Tattersalls, having been sold there as a three days, including the half-sisters Bulbul (Ire) (Shamardal) foal by his breeder in 2010 and the offered during the Craven and Dubai Fashion (Ire) (Dubawi Breeze-up Sale two years later. {Ire}), who are great He went on to win the G1 Prix grand-daughters of one of the Maurice de Gheest and G2 celebrated foundation mare Lennox S. among his four career Height Of Fashion (Fr). Sold victories and now, after standing consecutively as lots 41 and 42, two seasons in France, he will be the mares are in foal to Tamayuz offered as the final lot on (GB) and Blue Point (Ire) Wednesday (340). respectively. Prior to that, the 3-year-old filly Major owner/breeder Auriga (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), will be operations Godolphin, Cheveley put through the ring as lot 155 by Park Stud and Juddmonte are WH Bloodstock. Though unraced, naturally represented by she has much to recommend her consignments, with Cheveley as there has been plenty Park's draft including the former happening in her family in recent champion 2-year-old filly Hooray Garswood is the sire of two group winners | Laura Green seasons. Her mother, the speedy (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). Now Look Busy (Ire) (Danetime {Ire}), 13, she has produced three winners and is offered in foal to the was a prolific winner who was successful in 12 of her 51 starts, stud's Ulysses (Ire) as lot 175. including the G2 Temple S. and the G3 Flying Five, which has The former Cheveley Park Stud stallion Garswood (GB), the subsequently been upgraded to Group 1 status. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 7 JULY 2021 Senior Vice President Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] The sales grounds at Park Paddocks | Tattersalls European Editor Tattersalls July Sale Preview Cont. Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry Her daughter Keep Busy (Ire), a 4-year-old Night Of Thunder [email protected] (Ire) half-sister to Auriga, shows similar sprinting prowess, with her five wins including this season's Listed Land O'Burns Fillies' S. Associate International Editor Furthermore, Look Busy's half-brother Unfortunately (Ire) Heather Anderson (Society Rock {Ire}) was France's champion 2-year-old in 2017 Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN after winning the G1 Darley Prix Morny and G2 Prix Robert Marketing Manager Papin. Alayna Cullen Another family which has been in the news often in recent Twitter: @AlaynaCullen years is that of Roodica (GB) (Due Diligence), who is catalogued [email protected] as lot 162. An unraced 4-year-old half-sister to G1 Queen Anne S. winner Accidental Agent (GB) (Delegator {GB}), she is offered Contributing Editors by Baroda Stud and is in foal to New Bay (GB) on a Mar. 31 Alan Carasso cover. Her dam Roodle (GB) (Xaar {GB}), a dual winner, is a Christina Bossinakis half-sister to new Shadwell stallion Mohaather (GB) and the GII Cafe Racing Monrovia S. winner Prize Exhibit (GB), both of whom are by Sean Cronin Showcasing (GB) from a clan which has served the Johnson Tom Frary Houghton family very well over a number of generations. [email protected] Kirsten Rausing's >Al' family continues to go from strength to strength, with the most recent group winner to emerge being Irish Correspondent Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}), heroine of Saturday's G2 Daithi Harvey Lancashire Oaks. There are two chances to buy into this family's from Rausing's Lanwades draft, which offers the young mare Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Alchimista (GB) (Archipenko), a grand-daughter of the Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele champion racemare Alborada (GB) (Alzao) in foal for the first time to Sir Percy (GB) (lot 81). Two lots later (83) comes another Archipenko mare in foal to Sir Percy, Alveda (GB), who is a half-sister to Sir Percy's listed winner Madrileno (GB). IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY Wednesday's session also features eight wildcard entries. THE 100 CLUB Among them is the 86-rated Bringsty (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}), the Sixteen stallions have sired 100 or more winners in Australia recent winner of a seven-furlong novice contest for David during the 2020/21 racing season. Click or tap here to go Simcock. Cont. p4 straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 7 JULY 2021 Tattersalls July Sale Preview Cont. The 3-year-old gelding is out of a Zamindar half-sister to Juddmonte's G1 Prix Jean Prat winner Mutual Trust (GB) (Cacique {GB}) and is offered as lot 283B. Selling gets underway at 9:30 each morning, with the evening sessions on Thursday and Friday beginning at 5:15 after racing. Arqana August Sale Catalogue Cont. from p1 Some of the best European and international sires are MG1SW Wonderful Tonight, a sale alum, has a Recorder (GB) half- represented including: Galileo (Ire) (4), Dubawi (Ire) (7), Frankel sister in the catalogue | Scoop Dyga (GB) (8), Kingman (GB), Invincible Spirit (Ire) (2), Siyouni (Fr) (22), Wootton Bassett (GB) (18), Dark Angel (Ire) (2), Camelot There is also another Galileo filly, consigned by Ecurie des (GB) (8), Fastnet Rock (Aus) (1), Iffraaj (GB) (2), Kendargent (Fr) Monceaux, who is a half-sister to Group 3 winner and dual (2), Kodiac (GB) (11), Le Havre (Ire) (9), Lope De Vega (Ire) (11), Group 1-placed mare Wind Chimes (GB) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) Mehmas (Ire) (1), Night Of Thunder (Ire) (4), No Nay Never (10), (lot 56); and a Galileo colt out of Wind Chimes herself as lot 114 and Sea The Stars (Ire) (12). from the Haras des Capucines draft. The Coulonces consignment International sires are sprinkled throughout the catalogue, offers the final Galileo in the sale, lot 166, a half-sister to two- with some of the yearlings by such sires as American Pharoah time group winner Besharah (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), who also ran (4), the late Arrogate (1), Kitten=s Joy (2), American Pharoah (4), third in the G1 Cheveley Park S. Into Mischief (1), Ghostzapper (1), Justify (1), Medaglia d=Oro Lot 16, is an Elevage de Tourgeville-consigned half-sister by (1), More Than Ready (1), and Lord Kanaloa (Jpn) (1). First- Frankel to G1 Prix Marcel Boussac scorer Lily=s Candle (Fr) (Style season sires are also well represented, with lots by Cloth Of Vendome {Fr}).