THE GREY GATSBY Selling at Arqana This Week! Winner of the Gr.1 Prix Du Jockey Club in a Faster Time Than Almanzor, Le Havre, Lope De Vega Etc
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THURSDAY, 22ND OCTOBER 2020 ALL EYES ON KEENELAND NOVEMBER EBN MON. 9 - WED. 18 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 LOPE DE VEGA HEADS STRONG CLEARANCE Demand remained strong during yesterday’s third session of the Arqana October Yearling Sale, with the clearance rate of 82 per cent a reflection that there are still plenty of buyers for horses. Lot 465, a son of Lope De Vega, topped yesterday’s Lope De Vega is enjoying a red-hot season both on the track continued trade at Arqana when finally knocked down to and in the sale ring and yesterday trade was topped when the Al Paul Hensey of Al Shaqab Racing for €95,000. © Arqana Shaqab team went to €95,000 for a colt by the Ballylinch Stud stallion. Consigned as Lot 465 by Haras de Castillon, the colt is a half- brother to Mohab (Sir Percy), third in the 2015 Listed Flying IN TODAY’S ISSUE... Scotsman Stakes for Kevin Ryan. They are out of the unraced Goffs UK Autumn Sale preview p7 Princess Aurora, whose Camelot colt was purchased for €110,000 in this ring 12 months ago, a half-sister to the Listed Stakes results p10 winner and Gr.3-placed Willard Straight (Lion Cavern) and the Pinhooking tables p21 Listed-placed black-type producer Jesse’s Justice (Lear Fan). Don’t miss his first yearlings THE GREY GATSBY selling at Arqana this week! Winner of the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club in a faster time than Almanzor, Le Havre, Lope de Vega etc. Lot 701 Lot 731 Lot 739 JOIE DE PAQUES, Filly TRAOULANDLIVESKILL Filly ex Queen To Be. ex Makweti. From the Colt ex Peldrine. From the family of the family of Gr.1 winner Dam is a 3x winner dual Gr.3 placed ANNA NADIA. Presented by Presented by PIVOLA. Presented by Haras de Cordelles Elevage de Traou Land Haras du Logis Haras du Petit Tellier - Patrick Chedeville +33 (0) 6 08 83 27 62 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 22ND OCTOBER 2020 Hensey said of Lot 465: “He’s a lovely colt with a great walk and is by a very proven sire. He is out of a Mr Greeley mare, which adds some brilliance to his pedigree and we were strong on him. “Up to this point, we have bought around 15 yearlings at the sales. It’s a tough year for breeders. Sheikh Joaan particularly wanted to support the breeders who used our stallions, but we have bought yearlings by other stallions as well.” At the close of the session the clearance rate was maintained at a healthy 82 per cent for the Part II Sale, with trade topping €6,265,500 for an overall average of €25,381. Yesterday’s trade had added an aggregate of €3.17m towards that sum, with an average reaching €24,267 for the 131 lots sold and a clearance rate of 81.3 per cent of the 160 lots offered. Fresh from winning the Gr.3 Preis der Winterkönigin at Baden- Baden on Sunday with Noble Heidi, trainer Henk Grewe was busy adding to his string at Arqana yesterday, securing a Rajsaman Lot 442, a son of Gutaifan, went to Nicholas de colt for €85,000. Watrignant’s Mandore International Agency for €65,000, From the draft of Haras de la Perelle, the colt, Lot 436, is a half- who also secured Lot 514 in the top five lots of the day brother to five winners, most notably Beaulieu (Motivator), who for €70,000. © Arqana was third in the Gr.3 Prix du Lys, out of an unraced half-sister to the Gr.1 winner and outstanding sire Monsun, with such as the dual The colt was the highest-priced lot of a trio signed for by Al Classic winner and young sire Brametot, bred on the same cross as this colt, and the Gr.1 Prix du Cadran heroine Molly Malone Shaqab chief operating officer Paul Hensey in the Al Shaqab Racing among other stand-outs on the page. The colt also provided an name at yesterday’s session, along with Lot 452, an Al Wukair filly impressive return on the €8,000 fee at which he was conceived. snapped up for €60,000, and Lot 458, an Olympic Glory filly for Nicholas de Watrignant’s Mandore International Agency signed €50,000. The operation has added a substantial €1.7m to the for two of the top five session lots, including Lot 442 along with industry at the venue this week with 19 purchases so far. trainer Fabrice Chappet, going to €65,000 for the son of Gutaifan. 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 22ND OCTOBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld ARQANA OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART II– DAY TWO Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (€) 465 c LOPE DE VEGA – Princess Aurora Haras de Castillon Al Shaqab Racing 95,000 436 c RAJSAMAN – Morning Sun Haras de la Perelle Henk Grewe 85,000 514 f BORN TO SEA – Speed Song Haras des Faunes Mandore International Agency 70,000 442 c GUTAIFAN – Nidina Coulonces Sales Mandore International Agency 65,000 487 c TORONADO – Sans Retenue Haras des Embruns Jean-Claude Rouget 65,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS The only colt in the catalogue by his sire, the colt from the draft winners, including the dam of the Flat and Hurdle winner So of Anna Sundstrom’s Coulonces Sales is out of the winning Enjoy, who was third in a Cheltenham Gr.3 over flights. The Hurricane Run mare Nidina, a full-sister to Joanna, who capped second dam is the Gr.2 winner Superstar Leo (College Chapel), a great career in Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s colours when who was also runner-up in the Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes and Gr.1 Prix winning the Gr.2 Prix Sandringham, as well as being Gr.1-placed de l’Abbaye and produced the dual Gr.3 winner Enticing (Pivotal), on three occasions, including the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches. She dam of triple Gr.1 heroine One Master, from the further family of has since produced the Listed winner Rafaadah, herself dam of Gr.1 hero and sire Footstepsinthesand. this season’s Gr.1 Prix Saint-Alary heroine Tawkeel (Teofilo). Purchasing on behalf of François Nicolle, Watrignant said: “She’s Later in the evening Watrignant went to €70,000 to secure Lot a lovely filly with good size and a great walk. We really wanted her as 514, a daughter of Born To Sea from the consignment of Haras we thought that she could make a good National Hunt prospect. She des Faunes. Bred by Sunderland Holding, she is a half-sister to five is by the sire of Irish Gr.1-winning hurdler A Wave Of The Sea. TATTERSALLS AUTUMN HORSES IN TRAINING SALE Winners of 100 Group/Listed races since 2018 RIVER BOYNE FIERCE IMPACT winner of Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes, Gr. 1 winner of Makybe Diva Stakes, Gr. 1 70,000 gns purchase OCTOBER 26 - 29 120,000gns purchase THE WORLD’S LARGEST HORSES IN TRAINING SALE Tel: +44 1638 665931 [email protected] www.tattersalls.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 22ND OCTOBER 2020 from a classy family that includes the 2018 Gr.1 Preis der Diana heroine Well Timed (Holy Roman Emperor) and goes back to such luminaries as Hernando. A colt from the first crop of the Gr.1 Derby victor Wings Of Eagles had also taken the eye when knocked down to Jeremy Brummitt for €60,000. Offered as Lot 432 by Haras des Granges, the March-born colt benefited from a timely boost to his page when his year older half-brother Mexico City (No Nay Never) finished third in the Gr.3 Killavullan Stakes for Aidan O’Brien on Saturday. Their dam Mixfeeling (Red Ransom) has already produced a trio of winners and was herself successful at two. She is a half-sister to Sismix (Diesis) who was twice Gr.3-placed and they are out of the Gr.1 Critérium de Saint-Cloud heroine Goldamix (Linamix). Later in the session, Tina Rau matched that price tag for another son of Wings Of Eagles, having the final say at €60,000 for Haras du Hoguenet’s colt, Lot 485. The February-born colt is out of Lot 487, a son of Toronado, was the sole lot purchased by Sajida (Medicean), who scored over 2600m for Alain de Royer Jean-Claude Rouget yesterday, from the Haras des Embruns Dupre in the Aga Khan colours, and she is a half-sister to the consignment for €65,000. © Arqana Listed Derby du Midi third Sadarak (Myboycharlie), from the further family of the top-class performers Sagamix, Sagacity “I’ve bought her for François Nicolle, who has already had a lot of and Sageburg, as well as the top producer Shastye. success with horses by Born To Sea, notably with Born To Hold that Wings Of Eagles began his stud career at Haras de Montaigu recently won a Listed at Compiegne.” before moving to The Beeches Stud in Ireland last year, where he The sole lot purchased during the session by Jean-Claude commanded an advertised fee of €6,000 this season.