WEDNESDAY, 26TH APRIL 2017 Dragon Pulse EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU STALLION NEWS | NH REVIEW | CATHY GRASSICK | STAKES RESULTS first-time vendors Star Bloodstock will offer four lots, including TODAY’S HEADLINES Lot 29, a Kendargent grandson of the Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner Porlezza, and Lot 44, a Bernardini grand-daughter of OSARUS Gr.1 winner Malibu Mint. Haras de Saint Arnoult’s horses include Lot 66, a Swiss Spirit colt whose dam is a daughter of the Gr.3 (then) Flying Five Stakes winner Bunty Boo, and amongst HDG’s consignment is Lot 58, a daughter of Style Vendome out of a full- EBN Sales Talk Click here to sister to the US Gr.3 winner Villandry. is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com The horses in training session includes consignments from trainers Simone Brogi, Ana Imaz Ceca, Fabrice Chappet, Christophe Ferland, Charles Gourdain and Philippe Sogorb. Two horses shared the honours at last year’s sale, both from the IRT696 THEEBN Sales Statistics BREEZE Templ_89x20_FA2.indd MEETS 1 THE 8/07/13 12:29 PMHaras du Saubouas consignment. Wootton Bassett’s son Castle Dream was bought by Ferland for €60,000, the same price paid BEACH TODAY AT OSARUS later in the session by Mousquetaire Investments for the Orpen Today’s La Teste Breeze-Up and Horses in Training Sale has 78 filly Optima. More horses sold than twelve months previously catalogued two-year-olds in the main section and 27 listed for raised the aggregate a little, but the average and median prices the latter. The juveniles will breeze from 8:30am and the sale will were down on 2015. The top-priced horse in training was sold for start at 1:30pm. The breeze-up session comprises the progeny of €15,000. 49 sires, including Footstepsinthesand, Kendargent, Lawman, There are several supplementary entries, including the fillies Le Havre, Orpen, Siyouni and Whipper, young sires such as Taimada (Lot 87), who is out of a half-sister to Group winners Casamento, Helmet, Rajsaman and Wootton Bassett, and first- Volta and Calvados Blues, and Dataya (Lot 88), from the family crop sires such as Camelot, Dabirsim, Declaration Of War, of Darjina and Almanzor. George Vancouver, Style Vendome and Swiss Spirit. Haras du Saubouas, which was the leading vendor in 2015 and WITHDRAWALS 2016, will consign five lots, including Lot 18, a Declaration Of War Breeze-Up Lots: 3, 6, 7, 13, 16, 19, 28, 39, 41, 55, 60, 62, 74, 82 grandson of the Gr.1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Goldamix. Horses in training Lots: 90, 93, 106, 110, 111, 117, 118, 125 Rachael Gowland of the British EBF is taking on the four biggest peaks in the Lake District in aid of Racing Welfare at the end of May. Support the challenge and racing’s hard working staff by donating. To donate follow this link: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/RG4peakschallenge CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 It’s time for second thoughts! Just look how well the first three-year-olds by our second-season stallions Sepoy, Helmet, Casamento and Rio de la Plataare doing... Sepoy Helmet Casamento Rio de la Plata Dalham Hall Stud, UK Dalham Hall Stud, UK Dalham Hall Stud, UK Haras du Logis, France Second-season sires ranked by Second-season sires ranked by Second-season sires ranked by 2017 Stakes winners in Europe 2017 Stakes horses in Europe average earnings per runner 1 Sepoy 2 1 Frankel 4 in Europe, 2017 2 Casamento 1 2 Casamento 3 1 Rio de la Plata €7,351 Helmet 1 Sepoy 3 2 Frankel €5,946 Delegator 1 4 Helmet 2 3 Redoute’s Choice €5,893 Excelebration 1 Redoute’s Choice 2 4 Tin Horse €5,464 Frankel 1 6 Rio de la Plata 1 5 Excelebration €4,594 Rajsaman 1 Campanologist 1 6 Foxwedge €3,730 Redoute’s Choice 1 Delegator 1 7 Casamento €3,670 Excelebration 1 8 Harbour Watch €3,400 Foxwedge 1 9 Sepoy €3,363 Power 1 10 Helmet €3,264 Rajsaman 1 11 So You Think €3,171 12 Bated Breath €3,054 13 Sir Prancealot €2,988 14 Nathaniel €2,932 15 Delegator €2,770 15+ runners Call now to enquire about late-season availability: there’s not a second to waste... +44 (0)1638 730070 +33 (0)2 33 36 21 20 www.darleystallions.com Data collected: 24/04/17 Darley STALLION NEWS – NH RACING REVIEW EBN: WEDNESDAY, 26TH APRIL 2017 STALLION NEWS NATIONAL HUNT RACING REVIEW IRELAND PUNCHESTOWN EPAULETTE OFF THE MARK WITH FOX POUNCES ON SCEAUX MAISONS-LAFFITTE WINNER TO LAND CHAMPION CHASE Kildangan Stud-based Epaulette got off the mark with his first The feature race on day one of the Punchestown Festival was the winner at Maisons-Laffitte yesterday, when his daughter Fas Le Gr.1 Champion Chase, a two-mile contest worth €147,500 to the Fios scored a short-head win in the Prix de Rueil, a 1000m claimer. winner. The Willie Mullins-trained Un De Sceaux (Denham Red) Trained by Stan Moore, the filly, who was making her third start, was sent off favourite to land his eighth top-flight victory over raced in midfield and was ridden after halfway, but picked up well fences and he raced up with the pace throughout, still holding down the outside to take the lead with 200m to run. Bred by sway at the last, at which point Fox Norton (Lando) put his head Mattock Stud, she is a half-sister to winners by Elnadim, Fast in front. The Colin Tizzard-trained seven-year-old was ridden out Company and Singspiel, out of Saffa Garden, a King’s Best half- to beat Un De Sceaux by a length and a half, with last year’s winner sister to the Listed winner, Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas-third and sire God’s Own (Oscar) a close third, despite a mistake at the last. He’s A Decoy (In The Wings) and the multiple winner and dual The winning jockey Robbie Power, who won the Gr.1 Cheltenham Gr.1-placed sire Danetime (Danehill). Gold Cup on Sizing John in the same colours of Alan and Ann Epaulette is a three-quarters-brother to last season’s Gr.1- Potts, said: “It has been an unbelievable season and getting a Grade producing first season sire Helmet (Elusive Quality) and the Gr.3 One at Punchestown as well for Mr and Mrs Potts is fantastic. winner and sire Bullbars (Elusive Quality), out of the unraced “I didn’t want to give Un De Sceaux too much rope. Because of that Singspiel mare Accessories. On the track, the son of Commands I was flat out the whole way and he made one or two little mistakes, won twice from four starts at two and was runner-up in the Gr.2 but once we turned in I knew I would pick him up. Two miles is sharp Todman Slipper Trial. At three he landed three races from eight enough for him. He’s a very relaxed horse and he will have no bother starts, including both the Gr.1 Golden Rose Stakes and the Gr.1 going further.” Doomben 10,000. He was also runner-up in the Gr.1 T J Smith Fox Norton, bred in France by Scuderia del Bargelo, had made a Stakes to Black Caviar and third in the Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas winning debut over hurdles before being placed at Gr.1 level a behind All Too Hard and Pierro. Epaulette is available at a fee of €7,000 1st Oct SLF. FRANCE SEDARY TURNS ON THE STYLE FOR VENDOME’S FIRST WINNER In the second race at Maisons-Laffitte, the Prix Sylvan, a 1000m maiden for two-year-olds, it was the turn of Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Style Vendome (Anabaa) to land his first winner, courtesy of the Henri-Francis Devin-trained Sedary. Third at Chantilly earlier in the month, the filly raced to the front, was challenged in the final 200m, but retained her lead near the line to score a nose victory. Bred by Scea des Prairies, Mandore International and Mlle A Leyval, and a €30,000 Arqana August Yearling Sale purchase, she is the first winner out of the unraced La Marisma, a Sinndar half-sister to the Gr.1 Champion Stakes winner and sire Literato. Trained by Nicholas Clement, Style Vendome, a half-brother to the Listed winner and dual Gr.1-placed Prestige Vendome (Orpen), made his debut in the Listed Prix Yacowlef, in which he was second and, having scored in a Dieppe maiden, he won the Listed Prix Francois Boutin. He re-appeared in the Listed Prix Montenica, which he won, and then scored a two and a half- length win in the Gr.3 Prix Djebel before his Classic success. Standing at Haras de Bouquetot, he is available at a fee of €5,000 LF. Follow EBN on Twitter @bloodstocknews CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 NH RACING REVIEW EBN: WEDNESDAY, 26TH APRIL 2017 year later, and had also made a successful start to his chasing Coming to the final flight, the latter jumped the last with Melon career at Huntingdon nearly two years ago. Last spring he was and, after a sustained battle, it was Cilios Emery who came out placed twice in Gr.1 company behind Douvan, but has been in the victorious by a length, with three and a quarter lengths back to form of his life twelve months on, finishing a head second in Pingshou.