Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale Continued Third in Each of His Two Prior Yesterday with the Second of Four Sessions in Deauville
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MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED FIGURES RISE ON DEAUVILLE DAY TWO Making his third appearance in the race formerly by Kelsey Riley and Alix Choppin known as the G1 Japan Cup Dirt and having finished The Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale continued third in each of his two prior yesterday with the second of four sessions in Deauville. tries at Hanshin, Hokko While the top prices took a notable dip, positive results Tarumae (King Kamehameha were returned across most key indicators. The average {Jpn}) finally got over the rose 16% from this session last year to i27,848 and hump with a comfortable and was down 1.9% overall to i60,387, while the median sentimental victory in the climbed 17.6% from this day 12 months ago to G1 Champions Cup Sunday at i20,000 and 20% overall to i30,000. The session Chukyo Racecourse. The win aggregate was up 16.4% to i6,321,500 and the was bittersweet, as the 5- cumulative aggregate dropped 1.9% to i23,249,000. year-old=s owner Koichi Yabe The clearance rate for the session and overall dropped passed away just last month. marginally and ended at 1.3% and 2.2%, respectively. AI have no words to express Cont. p3 how happy, relieved and moved I am,@ commented winning trainer Katsuichi Hokko Tarumae Nishiura. Horsephotos (718) 978-8200 Nishiura indicated Hokko www.mersant.com Tarumae would follow the same schedule as he did last Sponsors of the following stats for the: season, with an eye towards a return engagement in ARQANA DECEMBER BREEDING STOCK SALE the G1 Dubai World Cup. Cont. p11 CUMULATIVE 2014 2013 Catalogued 555 525 TURKISH DELIGHT No. Offered 494 480 Turkish (Istan), claimed for $40,000 three starts No. Sold 385 385 back, bound to the lead in upper stretch before grimly RNAs 109 95 holding off the late-charging Royal Blessing (Kitten=s %RNAs 22.1% 19.8% Joy) to win the GIII Valedictory S. on Sunday=s closing- High Price €1,100,000 €800,000 day card at Woodbine, Gross €23,249,000 €23,720,000 Average (% change) €60,387 €61,610 giving veteran owner Median €30,000 €25,000 Lawrence Cordes his first stakes winner. AHe=s a wonderful horse and it=s a privilege to be associated with him, Turkish holds on in Valedictory [trainer] Tino [Attard] Michael Burns and [jockey] Emma [Wilson],@ said Cordes. AIt=s my first stakes win in 45 years in the business.@ Wilson said she was a little worried down the stretch. AI will admit he was getting a little tired in that last eighth of a mile, but he held on courageously and I=m really proud of him,@ Wilson said. AHe really seems to have come into himself. Every time I ride him, three-eighths of a mile out, I just get him going. He=s so big and so long, it takes a while to get his feet. As long as you give him a nice trip and get him moving, he=s tough to catch.@ The stewards ruled Royal Blessing had impeded third- place finisher Pender Harbor (Philanthropist) in the stretch run and reversed the two finishers. Cont. p12 IN THIS ISSUE CO-PUBLISHERS President: Barry Weisbord [email protected] @barryweisbord Vice President: Sue Finley [email protected] @suefinley BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Picchi at Home in Normandy Director of Business Development: Gary King [email protected] Paolo Picchi, who relocated to Normandy nearly three years ago, sends two mares through the Arqana sales ring in Deauville today. EDITORIAL The transplanted Italian has lofty goals in his new home. [email protected] Paolo Picchi Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini and Reyal Managing Editor: Alan Carasso Sue Finley Racing Editor: Steve Sherack Racing Analyst/Social Media Director: Brian DiDonato Page 9 Associate Editor: Justina Severni Assistant Editor: Christie DeBernardis Assistant Editor: Heather Likins Purse Decrease for Sunshine Millions Assistant Editor: Ben Massam ADVERTISING Gulfstream Park’s Sunshine Millions will be open to more than just Florida-breds [email protected] at its Jan. 17 renewal, but will be worth less as purse money is redistributed to other Director of Advertising: Alycia Borer state-bred stakes races. Art Director: Lia Kusch Sr. Ad Coordinator/Dir. of Distribution: Sarah K. Andrew Page 12 Advertising Designer: Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistant: Amanda Foster More Marquardt in Japan Social Media Strategist: Nichola Henry CUSTOMER SERVICE Lucas Marquardt visited Harry Sweeney’s Paca Paca Farm [email protected] on Hokkaido and finds plenty of familiar names. Director of Customer Service: Vicki Forbes Empire Maker INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LM Photo Director of IT: Robert Williams [email protected] Page 13 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale Today WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Fasig-Tipton’s one-day Midlantic December sale gets underway at 11 a.m. International Editor: Kelsey Riley Monday in Timonium. [email protected] Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin Page 1 atw Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Tom Frary [email protected] A Knockout for Barry Family 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 • Red Bank, NJ 07701 Clifford and Elizabeth Barry’s Brookfield Stud bred Itsaknockout (Lemon Drop 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) Kid), a debut winner at Gulfstream Sunday. Clifford Barry admitted, “That’s what www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com we get up early for every day.” Page 3 atw TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/8/14 • PAGE 3 of 15 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Corduff Keeps It In The Family... A little more than a year ago, Blandford Bloodstock spent 215,000gns on behalf of James Egan=s Corduff Stud to secure a colt by Invincible Spirit (Ire) out of Brusca (Grindstone) at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale. That bold pinhook venture came good in October Back To The Well... when John Warren shelled out 680,000gns for the colt Gilles and Aliette Forien of Haras de la Reboursiere at Tattersalls Book 1. Corduff made a move to get into enjoyed a tremendous August yearling sale this year, the family again yesterday when parting with ranking third on the vendors= standings courtesy of the i165,000 for that colt=s 3-year-old half-sister Brynica (Fr) (Desert Style {Ire}) (lot 381) through Blandford s i1-million sale of a Galileo (Ire) filly to Anthony Stroud = as agent for Markus Jooste. This time around, they Richard Brown from the Aga Khan draft. We pinhooked the brother this year--he was an were looking for young mares to reinvest some of the A absolutely gorgeous colt, Brown said. We all thought proceeds and their selection included the Aga Khan @ A very, very highly of him and he sold very well. John Studs= Shamiyra (Fr) Warren bought him in Book 1 and we thought he was a (Medicean {GB}) (lot 262), very special colt. So when the opportunity came up to who was offered in foal to buy the sister, we were pretty keen. She=s a lovely filly Kendargent (Fr), at in her own right. The family has been good to us, so i190,000. The 5-year-old we were keen to get the sister.@ may never have made it to Brynica, who won twice in the Aga Khan=s silks for the racecourse, but her page trainer Jean-Claude Rouget, is a half-sister to the was sufficient to make her Group 3 winner and G1 Prix du Jockey Club-placed one of the day=s major Baraan (Fr) (Dalakhani {Ire}) and her dam--who was sold attractions, as she is a through this ring two years ago for i155,000 while half-sister to the G3 Prix Allez carrying the Invincible Spirit colt--is a half to GI Diana S. France scorer Shemiyla (Fr) victress Somali Lemonade (Lemon Drop Kid). Dual (Dalakhani {Ire}) and a Grade I winner Verrazano (More Than Ready) falls under granddaughter of the G1 Prix the third dam. de Diane heroine Shemaka Brown said Corduff would breed from the mare and (Ire) (Nishapour {Fr}). The sell her foals on the yearling market. latter has proved just as Aliette Forien efficient in the breeding shed, Aga Khan Ever Popular... Scoop Dyga producing three black-type The Aga Khan drafts are generally highly sought after winners and her daughters have already taken up the at breeding stock sales, and yesterday was no torch, their descendants including the stakes scorers exception. A pair of 3-year-old fillies sparked spirited Shimraan (Fr) and Shediak (Fr). bidding wars a short space apart, the first transaction AThis is a wonderful and extremely current family,@ occurring when Ghislain Bozo of Meridian International prevailed at 75,000 for lot 303, the Selkirk filly said Aliette Forien. AThe page will continue to gain i appeal in the coming years, so we thought she was a Vadirima (Fr). "I am very fond of Selkirk as a broodmare sire and good investment. She is also carrying to a very good there is a lot happening in the family, Bozo said. The sire. @ A @ 2-year-old [half-sister], Vadisara, is in training with Concerning the state of the market Forien added, Mikel Delzangles, who is very happy with her and AYou always find them expensive when you are on the Vedouma [under the second dam] was one of this buyer=s side, but I think this was a fair price--it=s what year's exciting juveniles. I have bought her for a the market dictates for such a nice page.@ commercial breeder.@ Cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/8/14 • PAGE 4 of 15 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Vadirima=s dam, Vadiya (Fr) (Peintre Celebre), is a half-sister to this year=s G1 Prix Saint Alary scorer Vazira (Fr) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) and Vadawina (Ire) (Unfuwain), who won the same race in 2005.