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THURSDAY, 3RD DECEMBER 2020 NEW YEAR NEW OPPORTUNITY JANUARY EBN MON. 11 - THURS. 14 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com CINDERELLA FILLY STORMY BELLE OF THE BALL The Juddmonte draft may have led the way at day three of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale, but even that choicely-bred consignment had to concede some of the limelight to a rags-to- riches filly, writes Carl Evans. Rebecca Menzies is not a household-name trainer yet, while Cressida (Dansili), Lot 2005, topped the third session of the Mike and Eileen Newbould of Stonegrave Thoroughbreds are Tattersalls December Mare Sale yesterday when purchased owners who tend to campaign jumpers, but their three-year-old for Peter Brant by Demi O’Byrne for 360,000gns. The filly will filly Stormy Girl (Lot 2045) took the ring by storm when selling be covered next year by the Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for 310,000gns. That was a sweeping profit for the Newboulds, victor Sottsass. © Tattersalls.com who bought her for just €22,000 as a yearling. Shrewd trainer Paddy Twomey made the winning bid, and said the daughter of Night Of Thunder would remain in training and IN TODAY’S ISSUE... bid to extend her record of two wins, including one in Pontefract’s Listed Flying Fillies’ Stakes. Stormy Girl has not been the only Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale updates p9 family member of note this year, for her dam’s half-sister, Miss A Good Year For... Champers Elysees p18 Phillyjinks, produced Tiger Tanaka who won the Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac in October for trainer Charley Rossi. Stakes fields p20 Twomey said he had bought the filly “for an existing owner”, and NEW Parading at the National Stud FOR Today is your last chance to view him in Newmarket 2021 SERGEI PROKOFIEV By Scat Daddy x Orchard Beach (Tapit) Contact: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper 01725 518254 www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 3RD DECEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE – DAY THREE Lot Sex Name (Sire) Covering Sire Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 2005 3f CRESSIDA (Dansili) Juddmonte Farms White Birch Farm/ D O’Byrne 360,000 2045 3f STORMY GIRL (Night Of Thunder) Howe Hills Farm Paddy Twomey 310,000 2002 3f BRINJAL (Kingman) Juddmonte Farms MAB Agency 190,000 2000 3f ARABIAN DREAM (Oasis Dream) Juddmonte Farms Blandford Bloodstock 170,000 1952 3f QUEEN KAHLUA (Kingman) Godolphin Galloway Stud 160,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS added: “She’s a nice filly and has progressive form. Hopefully we can back. She has been amazing for us and has improved as the year has have a good campaign with her next year. She’s shown ability, she’s a gone on. She was in full training until four weeks ago, and since then nice big, strong filly, and she has recorded some good times in races. she has improved a lot physically. There will be loads more to come We’re hoping she can improve again. as a racemare, and she will make a lovely broodmare down the line. “Her dam’s sister has bred a Gr.1-winning two-year-old this year “She’s been racing for Mike and Eileen Newbould, who have a lot of and this filly has residual value as a broodmare.” horses in training, but mostly jumpers. They bought some yearlings a Menzies was at the ring and bid to 300,000gns before giving couple of years ago and she proved to be the flagship horse. Micheal best to Twomey. A former groom who worked her way up and Orlandi of Compas Equine bought her for them for €22,000. became assistant to trainer Ferdy Murphy before gaining her own “I cannot stress what a lovely horse he [Twomey] has bought. She licence, she is now training at John Wade’s home in Co. Durham. is so straightforward and very tough. The Newboulds would have She said of Stormy Girl: “I would have loved to have bought her bought her back, but they decided to be commercially minded, and £17,500 Oct 1, SLF World Champion Cracksman. Dalham Hall Stud, UK By far the best by Frankel. And still the best since Frankel. CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 3RD DECEMBER 2020 Proven G1 Sires Sire of Breeders’ Cup Mile-Gr.1 winner Order Of Australia & St Leger-Gr.1 winner Galileo Chrome in 2020 AUSTRALIA (Galileo) €25,000 4 Gr.1 winners in 2020 including Irish Oaks-Gr.1 winner Even So CAMELOT (Montjeu) €45,000 Gr.1 winners in 2020 included One Master, winner of the Prix de la Foret-Gr.1 for the third straight year FASTNET ROCK (Danehill) €50,000 Trainer Rebecca Menzies watched Stormy Girl (Night Of Sire of 65 Group/Stakes winners worldwide including Gr.1 winners Thunder) sell for 310,000gns yesterday to Paddy Twomey. Chachamaidee & Shamalgan © Tattersalls.com FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND (Giant's Causeway) €12,500 9 Gr.1 winners in 2020 including Epsom Derby & Oaks winners hopefully they can now find another one. She had gained black type Serpentine & Love and with her pedigree and the way she looks we thought she would be popular. GALILEO (Sadler’s Wells) “We only have a small yard and she will leave a massive hole, but I’m really looking forward to watching her – not many trainers would 15 Group/Stakes winners in 2019/20 including dual Gr.1 winning say that [after selling such an asset] but I’ll get a lot of pleasure out miler Romanised of seeing her next year. It’s a great result for the Newboulds and a HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (Danehill) €12,500 very big day for them.” It was also a good day for mare and filly vendors in general, for 75 Group/Stakes winners worldwide including 14 Gr.1 winners the day’s figures stood up remarkably well against the same session 12 months ago. That was a time when talk of a mystery MASTERCRAFTSMAN (Danehill Dancer) €15,000 virus was emanating from China, and the BBC’s health correspondent was claiming reassuringly that it would be less 23 Group/Stakes winners including Champion 3YO Sprinter Ten Sovereigns & potent than flu. He, and we, know better now. 2020 Cheveley Park Stakes-Gr.1 winner Alcohol Free Yesterday’s clearance rate of 88 per cent was a rise of three per NO NAY NEVER (Scat Daddy) €125,000 cent and the median was unchanged at 14,000gns. Turnover, from a nearly-identically-sized catalogue, was down 11 per cent Sire of 134 Group/Stakes winners worldwide including 16 Gr.1 winners at 5,312,500gns, while the average was clipped 13 per cent at 26,562gns. ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (Danehill) €5,000 CRESSIDA SET FOR SOTTSASS DATE Sire of 21 Group/Stakes performers from just 134 runners including Gr.1 Juddmonte Farms’s annual December Sale cull produced the winning 2YOs The Wow Signal & Millisle session topper 12 months ago, and it repeated the trick yesterday. STARSPANGLEDBANNER (Choisir) €22,500 A total of 20 horses from Khalid Abdullah’s iconic racing and breeding operation graced the occasion, turning over One of the most exciting sires in Europe, top performers in 2020 include 1,526,000gns, a figure helped by the sale of Cressida (Lot 2005), dual Gr.1 winner Audarya & Gr.1 winning sprinter Wooded a three-year-old by Dansili and now set for a date with this year’s Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Sottsass. WOOTTON BASSETT (Iffraaj) €100,000 His owner, White Birch Farm’s Peter Brant, put down a bid of 360,000gns that gained the prized breeding prospect, a maiden 37 2YO winners in 2020 including Gr.1 winner Thunder Moon & race winner from John Gosden’s Clarehaven Stables having been Group winners Mother Earth & Minaun foaled by Modern Look (Zamindar). ZOFFANY (Dansili) €20,000 Her four victories included the Gr.2 Prix de Sandringham and she was also fourth in the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, talent that she seems to be passing on to her offspring. Her subsequent mating with Dansili produced Cressida’s talented full-sister Grand Jete, a winner at Gr.3 level in the US and placed in the Gr.1 Beverly D Stakes and Gr.1 Flower Bowl Stakes. Coolmore Stud Tel: 052-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: 025-31966. www.coolmore.com Those American performances will not have been lost on Brant, 4 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 3RD DECEMBER 2020 Demi O’Byrne, who secured yesterday’s top lot Cressida from the Juddmonte draft for Peter Brant. © Tattersalls.com who used the services of Tammy Twomey and Demi O’Byrne to check Cressida over and then do his bidding in the ring. Cressida’s new date, a son of Siyouni, takes up stallion duties at Coolmore Stud in the New Year off a covering fee of €30,000. Brant has shown his intention to get behind Sottsass by lining up a stellar list of mares to grace the young sire’s domain. They include such Gr.1 producers as Unaided, the dam of multiple Gr.1 winner Uni, Rosa Bonheur, the dam of Raging Bull, and Azafata, who foaled Classic-placed Fleeting.