Extravagant-Walking Yearling! Bill Dwan CLICK to See Oasis Dream’S G1-Winning Juvenile Charming Thought Sell for 625,000Gns As a Yearling
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FRIDAY, 17TH FEBRUARY 2017 Gale Force Ten EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS | JOBS BOARD | RACING REVIEW | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS IRELAND CHELTENHAM EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com RECORD PRICE SMASHED FOR A POINTER The record price for a point-to-pointer at auction was smashed over the boundary at Tattersalls Ireland’s Cheltenham sales venue yesterday, writes Carl Evans. Flemenshill (Flemensfirth), who broke the record price Flemenshill (Lot 20), a four-year-old son Flemensfirth, and for a point-to-pointer at auction yesterday when selling the winner of a maiden race on debut at Oldtown earlier this for £480,000 to Ann and Alan Potts at Cheltenham. month, was sold to racehorse owners Ann and Alan Potts for £480,000, hammering from sight the previous best of £370,000, a landmark which had stood for eight years. The former record – auctioneer Richard Botterill had clearly expected big things, for holder, Presenting Forever, was sold at Doncaster and bought he asked initially for £400,000, before accepting Malone’s offer. by Graham Wylie. Colin Tizzard will train Flemenshill, who came Matt Coleman added a circumspect £10,000, which Malone from the family of Hennessy Gold Cup winner Strong Flow. rapidly countered, then Harold Kirk and Kieran McManus joined in. Yesterday’s memorable moment in the ring was set alight by McManus, taking advice by phone, kept the pressure on as the price bloodstock agent Tom Malone with an opening bid of £250,000 spiralled, but Malone had the final word and signed for the horse. Such an extravagant-walking yearling! Bill Dwan CLICK to see Oasis Dream’s G1-winning juvenile Charming Thought sell for 625,000gns as a yearling. Then try to breed one like him... CHARMING THOUGHT Oasis Dream – Annabelle’s Charm (Indian Ridge) Stands at Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket +44 (0)1638 730070 +353 (0)45 527600 www.darleystallions.com Darley CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 TAMAYUZ THE PROVEN SIRE At the sales 2016 yearlings made up to €145,000 2016 foals made up to €120,000 and averaged €50,000 On the racecourse Champion 3yo Sprinter G FORCE 2016 Group 2 winner BLOND ME • 2016 Group 3 winning 2yo MAKING LIGHT 2016 Champion First Crop Sire SIR PRANCEALOT 2017 fee: €8,000 (1st January SLF) All together outstanding value DERRINSTOWN STUD Tel: +353 (0)1 6286228 • [email protected] • www.derrinstown.com SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 17TH FEBRUARY 2017 Gr.2 winner OPAL TIARA BALANCHINE STAKES, Group 2 sold Tattersalls December Mares Sale by Tweenhills Farm & Stud Colin McKeever, trainer of Flemenshill (Lot 20). to Mike Channon Bloodstock for 230,000 gns The result was a jackpot for owner Wilson Dennison – who was following hounds near his home in Northern Ireland as the sale took place – and a great result for his friend, Ian Ferguson, who picked the horse out as a yearling and bought him privately. County Antrim trainer Colin McKeever, who has been associated with such current stars as Ballyandy and Yorkhill, had the kudos of preparing the horse and taking him to the ring. Tattersalls Craven Why should Flemenshill make such a sum? He had page and Breeze Up Sale size, and when winning at Oldtown he beat the strongly-fancied April 17 - 19 Gigginstown debutant Defi Bleu, who had headed last year’s Europe’s Leading Breeze Up Sale Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale with a valuation of €255,000. Malone said: “He ticked all my boxes – he had a page, the form of the race was good, the time was right and he won on a good track. He put the race to bed three out and was still on the bridle, and that Tattersalls, Tel: +44 1638 665931 www.tattersalls.com impressed me. On top of that I loved the horse, yet he’s still a shell. To do what he did at this stage of his life marked him out as special – in every way. He has great conformation, he’s sound and with luck he you won’t see him again until next autumn.” should go all the way. Joe Tizzard, son of the horse’s next trainer, sat on Flemenshill “After he won everyone was on the phone asking to buy him. We yesterday and rode him on the track where he clearly hopes he didn’t want to sell him to one person and upset someone else, so we will be back in just over a year’s time. Tizzard said: “I had a little trot said let’s put him in the ring and it’s fair to everybody. It’s a great and a canter on him, and it was clear he was a big, scopey horse.” result for Wilson Dennison, but he puts a lot of money into the game, McKeever, who was joined at Cheltenham by his son Graham, and buys plenty of yearlings each year.” who also trains pointers, said: “We were sent the horse last spring, This highlight set the tone for a terrific trade, with increases in broke him in, then turned him out to grass before getting him back in all the key categories. From a similarly-sized catalogue to last year last autumn. His win was very good, very professional, but I liked him an extra ten horses walked in, but turnover soared ahead, hitting Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS IRELAND CHELTENHAM JANUARY SALE Lot Sex Name (Sire) Vendor Purchaser Price (£) 20 4g FLEMENSHILL (Flemensfirth) Loughanmore Farms Tom Malone/Joe Tizzard 480,000 49 5g ON THE BLIND SIDE (Stowaway) Glenview Stables Highflyer Bloodstock 205,000 36 4g BITINGTHEBULLET (Gold Well) Monbeg Stables Evan Williams 170,000 33 4g FROZEN FLAME (Frozen Fire) Redbridge Stables Stroud Coleman Bloodstock 145,000 41 4g GETAREASON (Getaway) Bernice Stables Harold Kirk / WP Mullins 140,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 Filly ex Musical Peace. Colt ex Sharp Applause. Owned by John Malone. Owned by David Byrne & Pierce Molony. Filly ex Persian Filly. Owned by Anthony Phelan. Colt ex Rainbow Song. Owned by Allevamento Colt ex Beauthea. Gialloblu S.R.L. Owned by Fiona McStay. One of the fastest 2YO’s in Europe in 2014: won the July Stakes-Gr.2 (by 2¾ lengths beating Muhaarar and Belardo) and the Richmond Stakes-Gr.2 (by 4½ lengths) in faster times than Shalaa. OUTSTANDING VALUE AT €7,500 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 17TH FEBRUARY 2017 EBN Read All About It! The breeder of the sales-topper and record breaking point-to- pointer at Cheltenham yesterday was jockey and Conna native Jane Mangan. Delighted with the success that Flemenshill (Flemensfirth) has achieved so far, she said: “We actually sold him privately as a foal, so there is not much record of him, and we kept it nice and quiet, but he has done the business and now he has gone to the right people. He was always very nice. His dam has bred four winners so she is a good mare without having a black-type Colin McKeever (right) can’t hide his delight as he and son horse, so hopefully he is the horse to make the family current again.” Graham walk back with Flemenshill. A daughter of Grand National-winning trainer Jimmy, Jane has always had a sharp eye for a good one and explained how £2,562,000, up 110%. The median price rose 25% to £50,000, she came to breed him. “Stormy Skies [his grandam] is the first while the average climbed to £77,636, an increase of 46%. A total mare I ever owned. Dad let me pick her out of the field, so I picked of 33 of the horses found a buyer (79%). her from a bunch. It all went on from then as Strong Flow won the Hennessy soon after that and she also produced Carrig Millie, Tattersalls Ireland Director of Horses in Training Sales, Richard who I think was the first Milan mare to get black-type.” Pugh, said: “We are delighted with the returns of the rescheduled Second generation Mangan breeding, his dam Southern Cheltenham January Sale. We have sold a four-year-old point-to- Skies (Dr Massini), is now 16 and having produced winners point maiden winner for the highest price on record of £480,000 and already by both Flemensfirth and Westerner, the two horses concluded the sale with record breaking results which reinforces the she visited for eight out of the last nine years, she visited Sans widely-held sentiment that Tattersalls Ireland Cheltenham is the Frontieres last year and is due in May, as Mangan explains: “We choice venue to reap rewards for proven and potential performers. sold a four-year-old full-brother to the Monbeg syndicate last year. “Our attention now turns to the Cheltenham Festival and the Then the three-year-old full-brother is with John Nallen and I’m Festival Sale, which will be staged after racing on Thursday 16th sure he will come through as he was a very nice horse too. So there March. Already, a collection of high-class horses are committed to are two full-brothers there and we have a Sans Frontieres yearling the sale.” filly, who we will keep as she is the only filly out of the mare and we GREATREX GETS ON have had the family a long time.