MONDAY, 7TH DECEMBER 2020 NEW YEAR NEW OPPORTUNITY JANUARY EBN MON. 11 - THURS. 14 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES ARQANA EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com WOOTTON BASSETT FILLY TOPS SUNDAY’S TRADE Coolmore’s new recruit Wootton Bassett has enjoyed another stand-out year on the track and his progeny continue to be well supported in the market place as well, with a filly foal by the sire Lot 251, the La Motteraye-consigned Wootton Bassett filly, topping yesterday’s proceedings at the Arqana December who topped Sunday’s session when bought by Blandford Breeding Stock Sale when purchased for €160,000. Bloodstock for €160,000. © Arqana The winning bid was made by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock, who commented: “She is going to the United States. I don’t know where she’s going to go yet, we’ll make a decision later. Wootton Bassett has had exceptional success and this filly is very IN TODAY’S ISSUE... well bred. The aim is to race her and then keep her at the stud.” Racing review p7 Offered by La Motteraye Consignment as Lot 251, the February- foaled filly is out of an unraced Hat Trick daughter of the Listed Stakes results p13 Prix de Saint Cyr winner Dream Clover (Oasis Dream), who was NH Stakes results p15 also Gr.3-placed and is a full-sister to the Listed winner In Cahoots. TEN SOVEREIGNS 1st July Cup-Gr.1 LAND FORCE 1st Richmond S.-Gr.2 st 1 Middle Park S.-Gr.1 MYSTERY POWER 1st Superlative S.-Gr.2 1st Round Tower S.-Gr.3 SHADN 1st Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte-Gr.2 ALCOHOL FREE 1st Cheveley Park S.-Gr.1 in 2020 CHESTNUT HONEY 1st Premio Federico Tesio-Gr.2 ARIZONA 1st Coventry S.-Gr.2 VITALOGY 1st Palm Beach S.-Gr.3 2nd Dewhurst S.-Gr.1 in 2020 3rd Summer Stakes-Gr.1 WICHITA 1st Park S.-Gr.2 in 2020 LOVE LOCKET 1st 1000 Guineas Trial-Gr.3 1st Somerville Tattersall S.-Gr.3 in 2020 st 2nd 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1 in 2020 NIKISOPHIA 1 P. Carlo e Francesco Aloisi-Gr.3 st NAY LADY NAY 1st Mrs Revere Stakes-Gr.2 MOSS GILL 1 City Walls S.-L.R. in 2020 rd 1st Matchmaker S.-Gr.3 in 2020 3 Nunthorpe S.-Gr.1 in 2020 3rd Flower Bowl S.-Gr.1 in 2020 All from €20,000 and €17,500 nominations! 2020 yearlings from €25,000 nominations sold for 650,000gns, 475,000gns, 350,000gns, 325,000gns etc. Fee for 2021: €125,000 Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. 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E-mail: [email protected] www.coolmore.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: MONDAY, 7TH DECEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld ARQANA DECEMBER BREEDING STOCK SALE – DAY TWO Lot Age Name (Sire) Covering Sire / Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (€) 251 ff WOOTTON BASSETT – Ayelet La Motteraye Blandford B/S 160,000 273 cf SHOWCASING – Dadao Haras du Logis Margaret O’Toole 150,000 434 5m SONJEU (Intello) Attendu Wertheimer et Frère MAB Agency 150,000 332 5m NO FAITH (Le Havre) Bated Breath Haras du Mont dit Mont Etreham/Marmion 112,000 300 3f ANGELISSIMA (Dark Angel) Wertheimer et Frère Trotting B/S 95,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS She is also a half-sister to the top-class stayer Call The Wind Stakes heroine Balisada (Kris), who has also produced the Listed (Frankel), the Gr.1 Prix Rothschild heroine With You (Dansili) and winner and Gr.3-placed Galactic Star (Galileo) and the Listed- the Gr.1 Prix de l’Opéra winner We Are (Dansili). placed El Salvador (Galileo), and is the grandam of the Gr.3 The highest-priced colt foal of the session was Lot 273, winner and Gr.1-placed Folkswood (Exceed And Excel). consigned by Haras du Logis, who was knocked down to Mags O’Toole for €150,000. The March-born chesnut is a son of WERTHEIMER MARES POPULAR Showcasing and hails from the family of On Show, being the first Towards the end of the day, the Wertheimer brothers’ five-year- foal out of an unraced daughter of Intello and the Gr.1 Coronation old Intello mare Sonjeu entered the ring and left with a €150,000 valuation. Lot 434, who was a Listed winner at Maisons-Laffitte as a juvenile, produced a filly by Attendu this spring and was bought in foal to the same sire by the MAB Agency. Another popular foal was Lot 273, a son of Showcasing from Haras du Logis, who was bought by Margaret O’Toole MAB Agency went to €150,000 for this Intello mare, Sonjeu for €150,000. © Arqana (Lot 434), in foal to Attendu. © Arqana LAND FORCE The image No Nay Never of his sire Fee: £5,000 with terms inc* Extremely popular with breeders covering 155 quality mares in 2020 *see website for more info Press play and hear what they have to say +44 (0)1635 253 212 +44 (0)7730 272 895 [email protected] www.highclerestud.co.uk CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: MONDAY, 7TH DECEMBER 2020 The best of the three winners produced by the Gr.3 Prix been placed three times, including as recently as 30th November, Vanteaux runner-up Wait And See (Montjeu), she has the Gr.1 and is a half-sister to Listed-placed fillies by Pivotal and Coronation Stakes winner Golden Opinion (Slew O’Gold) as her Motivator. Their dam is a half-sister to French Gr.3 winner third dam, while the further family includes Irish Classic winner Aboulie (Exceed And Excel), the grandam is a half-sister to Samitar (Rock Of Gibraltar). French Classic winner Anabaa Blue (Anabaa) and the third dam, Marc-Antoine Berghgracht said of his purchase: “She is a Gr.3 winner Allez Les Trois (Riverman), is a half-sister to Urban magnificent mare. She is a Listed winner and in foal to a stallion Sea (Miswaki). whose yearlings have impressed me. I bought one of his yearlings here in October. She will go to Ireland.” ETREHAM AND MARMION HAVE FAITH The Wertheimer brothers were also the consignors of the most The young Le Havre mare No Faith, who triumphed three times expensive lot just below the six-figure horses, Lot 300. Three- from 1200m-1500m when trained by Christophe Ferland, was year-old Angelissima (Dark Angel), offered as a filly in training, signed for jointly by the teams at Haras d’Etreham and Haras has run only twice in the Wertheimer colours for Carlos Laffon- Marmion, which saw off the opposition at €112,000. Offered as Parias, finishing second on her debut at Chantilly last November Lot 332 from the draft of Haras du Mont dit Mont, the five-year- and eighth on her next start a year later. The grey is a daughter of old was offered in foal to Bated Breath on an early cover. Listed winner Foreign Tune (Invincible Spirit), a full-sister to She is a half-sister to Tigah (Dalakhani), who won the Gr.3 San dual Gr.2 winner Impassable and half-sister to Gr.3 winners Francisco Mile, and Practitioner (Dr Fong), who was runner-up in Spotify (Redoute’s Choice) and the young sire Attendu the Listed Washington Singer Stakes before going on to be (Acclamation). The winning €95,000 bid for Angelissima was Stakes-placed on Hong Kong as Fat Choy Oohlala. Another half- made by Trotting Bloodstock. sister, Royal Punch (Royal Applause), produced the Listed Rockingham Stakes winner Royal Rascal (Lucky Story), who was also placed in the Gr.2 Lowther Stakes, and they are out of the Macina (Platini), who was twice Listed-placed in Germany. ROSEYA OFF TO JAPAN The highest-priced horse from the Aga Khan Studs on show yesterday was Lot 390, the four-year-old Invincible Spirit mare Roseya. She will be heading for Japan after being purchased by Ever Union Shokai for €87,000. Placed in France at three and carrying her first foal to a March overing by Intello, she is a daughter of the Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Rosanara (Sinndar), who was second in the Gr.1 Prix de Diane the following summer and is out fo a Listed-winning Linamix full-sister to dual Gr.2 winner and sire Rajsaman. There were only four six-figure lots yesterday, compared to 11 last year, but there was plenty of demand a step below that mark. During the session, 133 lots were sold for an aggregate of Lot 300, three-year-old Angelissima (Dark Angel), who €3,873,500, which was considerably down on the same session was bought by Trotting Bloodstock for €95,000. © Arqana 12 months ago. Thanks to far fewer horses offered and sold compared to 2019, average of €29,124 was only down by 16 per Lot 316, the Wertheimer-consigned filly Kyra, was sold for cent, while the median ended at €24,000, just €2,000 below last €80,000 to Jean-Philippe Dubois. By Mastercraftsman, she has year’s figure. in FRANCENEW for 2021 NEW in FRANCE for 2021 BYMONDIALISTE RECORD BREAKING SIRE GALILEO BY IFFRAAJHOT FROM STREAKAN EXCEPTIONAL FAMILY Photo Étalons Haras d’Annebault Photo Étalons Haras d’Annebault Dual Gr.1 winner and multiple THE FASTEST 2YO OF HIS GENERATION Gr.1 placed (8-10f) WON Gr.2 Temple Stakes, 5f Defeated 16 Gr.1 winners WON Gr.3 Cornwallis Stakes, 5f 2nd Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes, 6f Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Mile second 3rd Gr.1 King’s Stand Stakes, 5f Out of the Champion racemare and 3rd Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes, 6f multiple stakes producer OCCUPANDISTE Yearlings have made up to 220,000gns EXCELLENT RESULTS IN THE RING A TWO-YEAR-OLD GROUP SIRE IN 2020 From only two crops, already sire of Yearlings have made 60,000gns, 47,000gns, etc.