TUESDAY, 14TH FEBRUARY 2017 Elusive Pimpernel EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU JAPANESE REVIEW | ACROSS THE POND | NATIONAL ACCOUNTS | STALLION NEWS partnership between Ecurie Sagara and Francois Nicolle, and they TODAY’S HEADLINES start with Lot 100, the Listed-winning chaser Ivresse Du Berlais, who is from a top-class National Hunt family and in foal to ARQANA Bathyrhon. She will be followed into the ring by her yearling Saint Des Saints filly and then her two-year-old daughter by Cokoriko, while the Poliglote five-year-old Roi Mage (Lot 106) EBN Sales Talk Click here to was only beaten a short-head in last year’s Gr.1 Prix Ferdinand is brought to contact IRT, or Dufaure over fences. you by IRT visit www.irt.com The 46 yearlings catalogued include a first-crop daughter of Olympic Glory and Blissful Beat (Lot 292), whose Gr.3-winning daughter Home Of The Brave was recently sold for €235,000 on PLENTY OF APPEAL IN arqanaonline.com. Among the two-year-olds are representatives by Authorized, VALENTINE’S DAY SALE Lord Of England and Motivator, as well as by first season sires There is a 10:00am start to today’s Arqana February Sale, which Cokoriko, George Vancouver, Masterstroke and Penny’s Picnic. has a 307-lot catalogue comprising 110 mares, 54 maiden fillies, There are 110 catalogued mares, including several Stakes 74 horses in training, 21 two-year-olds, 46 yearlings, one stallion performers, and among them are: and one stallion prospect. The 2016 sale achieved a 81% clearance Lot 12, the Listed-placed Princesse Jasmine, dam of two rate (up from 75%) and aggregate sales of €1,691,400, plus an Listed-placed winners and in foal to Intello, average sale price of €7,137 and median of €4,500, both pretty Lot 46, Freezing, a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Goldamix, dam of much on a par with twelve months earlier. two Listed-placed winners and in foal to Wootton Bassett, Today’s action is due to start with the sale of stallion prospect Lot 70, Hold The Thought, the only Galileo mare in the Sarek (Lot 1), an unraced four-year-old Teofilo half-brother to catalogue and a half-sister to Gr.1 Classic winner Tin Horse, in foal Champion French Sire Le Havre, and he will be followed by the to Zanzibari, stallion Sandwaki, a Gr.3 winner who has been at stud since Lot 115, Xanadu Bliss, a winning half-sister to Gr.1 victor 2008. Kasbah Bliss and already the dam of the Classic-placed Gr.3 There are eight horses which form the dissolution of the winner Xcellence, Out of this world! New: Champion sprinter rated superior at three to Exceed And Excel, Fastnet Rock, Redoute’s Choice, Choisir and Starspangledbanner. See Exosphere’s amazing wins on www.darleystallions.com THE FASTEST SPRINTERSSPRINTERS AREAUSTRALIAN EXOSPHERE €6,000 Oct 1, SLF Lonhro – Altitude (Danzero) www.harasdulogis.comwww.darleystallions.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 You will love this Valentine... All The Tin Man ever wanted Fee: £8,000 was a heart. 1st Oct SLF I gave him one! There is plenty more to love about me too: Sire of 7 Gr/Stks winners in 2016 More Group winners, 2yo black-type winners and total winners than DARK ANGEL from our first 3 crops Julian Dollar or Gary Coffey +44 (0)1763 846000 newsells-park.com SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 14TH FEBRUARY 2017 Lot 146, Briska Des Bordes, related to Gr.1 winner Utopie Des INGLIS Bordes and several other Stakes-winning jumpers, in foal to Scalo, Lot 158, Park Melody, a half-sister to the dams of Gr.1 winners FASTNET FILLY TOPS FINAL DAY OF SALE Winchester and Star Of Seville, in foal to Poet’s Voice, THAT POSTED IMPRESSIVE FIGURES Lot 231, Gr.3 winner Villadolide, dam of five winners and in The momentum built up over the first two days trading carried foal to Motivator, over into yesterday’s third and final session of the Inglis’ Classic Lot 259, Alabastrine, a Green Desert half-sister to Gr.2 winner Sale in Sydney, writes Glen Latham. Unlike the opening sessions, Last Second (dam of Gr.1 winner Aussie Rules), Gr.3 winner only two lots passed A$200,000, but there was sufficient interest Alleluia (dam of Gr.1 winner Allegretto) and Listed winner across the board to ensure a new record average was set, going Alouette (dam of Gr.1 winners Albanova and Alborada), with the new aggregate figure which had already eclipsed the Lot 295, Ile De See, a winning Saint Des Saints half-sister to previous record by close of trade on Sunday. Gr.2 winner Royal Auclair and to the dam of Gr.2 winner Don The team at Inglis will have a pair of challenges to deal with Mirande, in foal to Kapgarde, and when the 2018 Classic Sale is conducted, ensuring a smooth Lot 300, the Listed-winning hurdler Cutting Edge, a half-sister transition for customers and vendors to their new complex at to Gr.3 winner Martalette and in foal to Saint Des Saints. Warwick Farm in Sydney’s west and how to build further on the Among the broodmare prospects are Lot 235, Jamaica Inn, a outstanding results of this weekend. A catalogue expanded by 25 daughter of Fastnet Rock and the Gr.1 Classic winner Vintage lots saw 24 more yearlings sell than in 2016, 498 in total, meaning Tipple, and Lot 251, Live Miracle, out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winner a slight dip in the clearance rate of 88%, pending further private Leroidesanimaux and whose grandam is a half-sister to Hasili. sales. The new record average figure of A$71,593 is 25% up on the The horses in training include Prestige Vendome (Lot 169), a same sale last year and the aggregate finished at A$35,653,500 or Listed-winning two-year-old, who was also Classic-placed at three. A$8.6 million higher. The new median benchmark of A$55,000 is a 29% improvement on twelve months prior. As could be expected, Mark Webster, Inglis Managing Director, WITHDRAWALS was delighted with the outcome. “I’d really like to thank all the Lots: 5, 6, 18, 21, 25, 47, 61, 67, 73, 78, 84, 85, 89, 95, 112, 133, 156, vendors and breeders for trusting us with their better quality 161, 164, 165, 167, 172, 176, 182, 187, 200, 202, 208, 210, 224, 226, yearlings and I’m so happy that we were able to get the vast majority 237, 242, 247, 266, 277, 278 sold for them,’’ Webster said. Referring to the stifling heat that €22,000 Kendargent LIVE FOAL Grey 2003, 1.63m, Kendor - Pax Bella (Linamix) LEADING ACTIVE FRENCH SIRE 2011 - 2016 IN ORDER OF BLACK-TYPE HORSES TO RUNNERS IN FR (15%) Fantastic results at the Sales 2016 yearlings have sold for 525,000gns, €175,000, €155,000, €150,000, €140,000, €135,000, €125,000, etc. Over 480 mares covered from 2014 to 2016 AN OUTSTANDING SOURCE OF STAKES HORSES A five-generation outcross to Also standing NORTHERN DANCER, MR PROSPECTOR, NEVER BEND, etc. GALIWAY €3,000 L.F. Contact: GUILLAUME VITSE HARAS DE COLLEVILLE • T: +33 (0) 2 31 74 29 22 • M: +33 (0) 6 22 94 25 76 E: [email protected] Also: SALLY ANN GRASSICK • M: +353 (0) 87 763 7125 W: www.harasdecolleville.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 14TH FEBRUARY 2017 prevailed from Thursday through to Saturday evening, Webster this filly. He hasn’t raced yet, so I might be proven an idiot, but I really said: “I also want to mention the vast array of buyers who attended like the family and I love this filly.’’ the sale and all the stable staff, who worked tirelessly through some The other horse to break past A$200,000 was a colt that looks very hot conditions and very long days and nights.’’ destined to venture to a breeze-up sale in the Spring. Lot 562 is a For the second day running a Fastnet Rock filly topped trading. New Zealand-born colt who was bought by respected pinhookers Offered at the unusually early time of 9.45am, selling having Mark and Shelley Treweek of Lyndhurst Farm at Hamilton. The son started at 9am to avoid a clash with the rescheduled Randwick of Savabeel and Montjeu’s New Zealand-bred daughter La Belle race meeting, Lot 470 from the draft of Newgate Stud at Epoque cost the Treweek’s A$220,000 and came from the draft of Aberdeen in the Hunter Valley was the subject of some spirited Sledmere Stud at Scone. bidding before eventually falling to a A$230,000 offer from Winner of a mile maiden at Waikato, La Belle Epoque is out of Victorian trainer Matt Laurie. the speedy Zeditave mare Andra, winner of the Listed Queen A bay very much in the mould of her sire, the filly is the third Adelaide Stakes for two-year-old fillies in South Australia. She is a foal of her American-bred dam Esprit De Bleu, who was twice a full-sister to the Perth Gr.3 winner Zedamoss and a half-sister to winner in her homeland, including a Graded Stakes success at the Hong Kong Listed winner Super Molly.