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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here RECORD TURNOVER AT ARQANA DECEMBER Tuesday's fourth day of Arqana's Breeding Stock FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI CASHCALL FUTURITY Sale was a dedicated national hunt affair, with the top lot of the day realising a modest i60,000, but the final session at the Elie de Brignac complex did ensure that turnover broke through the i20-million barrier, establishing a new record for the sale. The auction houses=s i20,642,000 take, including private sales, benefitted from an improved clearance rate and surged forward over 18% compared to last year's corresponding figure. The benchmarks all posted advances as well, with the sale average and median BAFFERT TO ENTER FOUR IN FUTURITY jumping up over 9% each. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will AThe overall results of the four days are extremely have a four-strong contingent in pleasing, especially as we have achieved a new record,@ Saturday=s GI CashCall Futurity at commented Araqana=s Eric Hoyeau at the close of Betfair Hollywood Park as he seeks his trade. AThe aggregate of i20,642,000, as well as the fourth win in the race in the last five 79.21% clearance rate, is very positive, underlining the years. Watson, Pegram, et al=s Really satisfaction of everybody concerned. The activity was Mr Greely (Horse Greeley), looking to constant throughout the sale, and the new format follow up on his half-length victory in worked extremely well.@ Cont. p3 the Nov. 22 GIII Hollywood Prevue S., Bob Baffert and stablemate Title Contender Horsephotos ARQANA BREEDING STOCK SALE (DEAUVILLE) (Pulpit), eighth in the GI Breeders= Cup TUESDAY, DEC. 11, 2012 Juvenile, worked four furlongs at Hollywood Sunday in :47.20. Jill Baffert and Bode Miller=s Carving (Any Given Saturday), winner of the Nov. 10 Real Quiet S. over the SESSION 2012 2011 Futurity=s track and 1 1/16-mile distance, tuned up with No. Catalogued 145 136 a five-furlong work in 1:00.80 Monday. Also working No. Offered 118 105 No. Sold 76 62 that distance Monday was Westrock Stable=s Den=s RNA 42 43 Legacy (Medaglia d=Oro), who moves back to the main % RNA 35.6% 41% track after winning the Nov. 24 GIII Generous S. over Gross €754,500 €555,500 the Hollywood lawn. Average (% change) €9,928 (+10.8%) €8,960 Median (% change) €7,000 (+40%) €5,000 *Private Sales: No. Sold 9 10 Gross €106,500 €42,000 Adjusted Gross €861,000 €597,500 CUMULATIVE 2012 2011 No. Catalogued 930 910 No. Offered 813 788 No. Sold 600 544 RNA 213 244 % RNA 26.2% 31% High €1,175,000 €520,000 No. €500k+ 5 1 Gross €19,587,500 €16,159,500 Average (% change) €32,646 (+9.9%) €29,705 Median (% change) €12,000 (+9.1%) €11,000 *Private Sales: No. Sold 44 51 Gross €1,054,500 €1,295.500 Adjusted Gross €20,642,000 €17,455,000 www.arqana.com In This Issue Lindsay Park Lost to Racing 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Richard Zachariah reflects on the recent sale of the (732) 747-8060 Hayes family’s historic Lindsay Park in South Australia. (732) 747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Coverage begins page 4 Editorial Barry Weisbord, co-publisher [email protected] • @barryweisbord Sue Finley, co-publisher David Hayes Racing Post photo [email protected] • @suefinley [email protected] Jessica Martini, Editor-in-Chief Alan Carasso, Managing Editor Marie Kizenko, Senior Editor Joha to sell at Keeneland Christina Bossinakis, Senior Editor Grade I-winning juvenile Joha (Johar) will sell during Lucas Marquardt, Features Editor Steve Sherack, Racing Editor the first session of the Keeneland January sale Jan. 7. Brian DiDonato, Racing Analyst/Soc. Media Dir. Justina Severni, Assistant Editor Kelsey Riley, Assistant Editor Page 3 Joha Advertising Michael Burns [email protected] Alycia Borer, Director of Advertising Lia Kusch, Senior Advertising Designer Sarah K. Andrew, Adv Assistant/Distribution Amanda Crelin, Advertising Assistant Medication Amendments in NY Amanda Foster, Advertising Assistant Customer Service The New York State Racing and Wagering Board yesterday approved changes [email protected] to the state’s medication rules. The new rules go into effect Dec. 26. Vicki Forbes, Director of Customer Service Information Technology Coverage begins page 1 (atw) Robert Williams, Director of IT [email protected] Gregg Casillo, DB Administrator, Programming [email protected] Business Development Frost Giant Sets NY Earnings Mark Gary King, Director of Business Development With Kelli Got Frosty’s win in Sunday’s East View S. at Aqueduct, Frost Giant [email protected] established a progeny earnings record for freshman sires based in New York, TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing besting the previous mark set by Precise End in 2004. [email protected] Sean Cronin Tom Frary Page 4 (atw) TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/12/12 • PAGE 3 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Record Turnover at Arqana December (cont. from p1) AThe upper end of the market has been very strong whether it be for mares or foals, showing a bigger demand than offered,@ Araqana=s Eric Hoyeau continued. AIt is particularly pleasing to see how many international buyers were active, both new and old faces. The work carried out by Arqana in view to this has borne its fruits, with the team travelling and working in tandem with our overseas correspondents to ensure this. The help of the French Racing and Breeding Committee has also greatly helped us to achieve the best possible promotion of the sale. We would like to really thank the vendors that have put their trust in us and wish all the success in the world for the buyers that have invested during these four days. This year's sales have followed the international trend, and we end the year on a level comparable to 2011, and therefore close to the French sales record." SALES NEWS JOHA TO BE SOLD AT KEENELAND Joha (Johar), winner of the GI Dixiana Breeders= Futurity at Keeneland in October, will be offered as a racing or stallion prospect at Keeneland January. The soon-to-be 3-year-old, catalogued as hip 381, will be consigned by Hill >n= Dale Sales Agency, agent. In addition to the Futurity, Joha won the Colin S. at Woodbine in July and was second in the GII With Anticipation S. at Saratoga in August. He was most recently ninth in the Nov. 24 GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. at Churchill. Joha was bred and raced by Bluegrass Equine Bloodstock, a group which also operates Bluegrass Equine Center in Salvisa, Kentucky. AThis is an excellent opportunity for someone to buy a Grade I winner who is sound and ready to race,@ said Allen Kershaw, general manager of the center. AJoha showed us his ability early on, and he has certainly proven it on the racetrack. I believe he will continue to progress in 2013.@ Kershaw added that Joha, currently stabled at Bluegrass Equine Center, is from the first group of horses bred by the partnership to have been developed at the center. All horses in the TDN are bred in North America, unless otherwise indicated TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/12/12 • PAGE 4 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com The weekend sale was orchestrated by sole owner David Hayes, who inherited the property from his late father Colin in 1990 and bought out his siblings after a decade of training successfully in Hong Kong from 1995. David first attempted to to sell the property in June 2010, when he surprisingly relocated to Victoria where he has established a new A$20 million Lindsay Park at rural Euroa, an hour and a half north of Melbourne. The aim was to train using the same methods as LINDSAY PARK LOST TO RACING AFTER 50 Lindsay Park, SA, but be better placed geographically-- YEARS OF INFLUENCE roughly half way between major racing centers of By Richard Zachariah Melbourne and Sydney. The Hayes family ownership of world-renowned Yet from the SA base, the Hayes father and son, Lindsay Park is over. The show-place horse stud and both Australian Hall of Famers, won a Japan Cup and training property in the beautiful wine growing district three Melbourne Cups plus every other Australian of the Barossa Valley in South Australia nurtured the Classic with horses trained on the gallops of Lindsay careers of leading Australian mentors Colin, Peter and Park, inspired by the English tradition of training on David Hayes for 47 years. private tracks on private estates. The 1550 acres of rolling pastoral country dotted Despite its English heritage, Lindsay Park's breeding with soaring, statuesque red gums and a specific and training operation under the same roof was infrastructure to house, train and breed racehorses has revolutionary in Australia when established in 1965 and been sold to an unnamed family uninterested in the has led to many others being established similar to horse business for a reported A$10 million plus. Lloyd Williams Macedon property outside Melbourne, The sold sign was erected last Saturday, a week that this year gave us Cup hero Green Moon. before the planned auction of the picture-book Apart from the privacy and non-rushed atmosphere of property. The new buyers will breed cattle, a further the place, Hayes always mentioned to visitors to blow to the local SA Thoroughbred industry which Lindsay Park (as he did to me on a tour in the late 80s) flourished in the booming Hayes heyday of the 1970s, that horses liked being horses, spending time in open 80s and 90s.