925,000Gns English King Sent to Rule Australia
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THURSDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2020 925,000GNS ENGLISH KING DARK ANGEL LEADS YEOMANSTOWN ROSTER AT €60K SENT TO RULE AUSTRALIA Dark Angel (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) leads the 2021 Yeomanstown Stud roster at €60,000, as the County Kildare- based stud released their fees for next season. All fees have been reduced by 25% due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The grey has enjoyed a great season, and sits eighth on the TDN European General Sires List, with Group 1 winners Battaash (Ire) and Raging Bull (Ire) on top of younger horses of the quality of G1 Prix Morny third Rhythm Master (Ire), SW Fantasy Lady (Ire) and G3 Somerville Tattersalls S. runner-up Dark Lion (Ire). Also on the roster at €7,500 is Invincible Army (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). The MGSW and G1 Derrinstown Stud Flying Five S. third covered 143 maresB60 of which were stakes performers or producersBin his first year at stud, with his first foals on the ground in 2021. American MGSW El Kabeir (Scat Daddy), who ran third in the GI Wood Memorial S., is represented by his first juveniles next English King took top honours on Wednesday | Tattersalls season and is priced at €6,000. Rounding out the quartet is the by Chris McGrath veteran Camacho (GB) (Danehill) at €5,000. NEWMARKET, UKCThere are obviously lessons to ponder, regarding the divergent economies of British and Australian racing. But first and foremost, let's pause and give due credit to those who brought English King (GB) (Camelot {GB}) to the point where he could on Wednesday become much the most expensive colt ever sold at Europe's premier horses-in-training sale. After all, when auctioneer John O'Kelly tried to coax one last effort out of underbidder Ted Voute for lot 1153a, he told him: "There's only one chance to buy English King." But Jeremy Brummitt could tell you otherwise, having picked him out as a yearling at the Arqana October Sale for i210,000. As a result, following a dazzling rehearsal in the Lingfield Trial, patron Bjorn Nielsen was able to savour the exhilaration of fielding the leading home-trained colt for the G1 Investec Derby itselfCan experience that very pardonably, given the vagaries of the game, eludes many a lifelong investor. Dark Angel | Yeomanstown Stud Things did not play out on the day quite as hoped, English King finding himself adrift with most of the field early before staying on for fifth. But all the embryonic attributes perceived by IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Brummitt have now matured to the point that Armando Duarte UNCLE MO COLT LEADS THE WAY AT FASIG-TIPTON was prepared to see off Voute at 925,000gns and send English A colt by Uncle Mo brought $600,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky King from the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale to the October Yearling Sale on Wednesday. Click or tap here to go Ballymore Stables Australia of Mike Moroney. Cont. p2 straight to TDN America. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 29 OCTOBER 2020 Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale Cont. from p1 "But look, it's a great result. Bjorn puts a lot into the game. So I Brummitt, moreover, can also take credit for amplifying the do take great pride. A lot of trainers nowadays are selling marketability of the colt's sire in Australia. For it was in this ring, through professional consignors. But Luca [Cumani, whom 12 days before his Deauville coup, that the agent found another Walker served as assistant] used to take a lot of pride in son of the Coolmore stallion for 120,000gns out of Book 1. As preparing his horse for the sales, and I try to replicate that. Russian Camelot (GB), that colt has this year become the When Luca retired, I wrote and asked for his spot in the pioneering winner of two Group 1 prizes Down Under for trainer Somerville Paddock and Tattersalls kindly gave it to me. We try Danny O'Brien, before finishing third in the G1 Ladbrokes Cox to produce our horses sound and well, and it's always good to Plate only last weekend. get a result. Others have played their part. The Cox Plate winner, Sir "And this has all been a great journey. English King made Dragonet (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), is himself a recent import and lockdown a bit more interesting, that's for sure. Obviously it also gave a boost to the profile of their sire. And then there is didn't end as we hoped. I'm still looking for my first Group 1 the work of trainer Ed Walker, who understandably described winner. I was absolutely certain it would be him, but things just the sale of his most cherished charge as a "very bittersweet" played against him." spectacle. The eccentric way in which the Derby unfolded this year "I'd far rather have won the same money on the track," Walker certainly made strenuous demands of English King, and Walker admitted after congratulating Duarte. "I'd far rather have won it is certain that he will regroup for his new connections after in the Derby, obviously. But it was all a bit of a perfect storm. I twice disappointing since. suppose in a normal year, Bjorn may have sold more yearlings, "He'd had a couple of hard races," he said. "You don't break a and might have been up for competing internationally with this 30-year-old track record, like he did at Lingfield, without giving horse. But when I tried to persuade Bjorn to keep him, and aim your all. And he had a very hard race in the Derby when he ran for all these big races in Australia and Hong Kong and around the an absolute blinder. His next two races weren't up to that level, world, quite rightly he was worried as to whether we'd be able but he's not the biggest horse and those probably took their toll. to race in those races. Will racing be happening? Will we be able For me, he's tailormade for the Melbourne Cup.@ to travel? Will the horse? Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 29 OCTOBER 2020 Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale Cont. He added, AHe stays, he travels, and he loves that fast ground. I am very grateful to the guys who bought him, and wish them every bit of luck." This transaction set a spectacular seal not just on Duarte's purposeful shopping for brothers Mike and Paul Moroney over the preceding couple of days, but on the critical value of the Senior Vice President Gary King Australian export market this week. Twitter: @garykingTDN Duarte admitted that this was a real stretch but had [email protected] anticipated a price between 750,000gns and 1,000,000gns and + 1.732.320.0975 played his cards accordingly. Voute, seated to the right of the rostrum, was on a video call to his client in Saudi Arabia as International Editor Duarte lurked outside the ring, bidding through a spotter. At Kelsey Riley 875,000gns, Voute appeared to quit, only to bounce back just as Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN the gavel was coming down with a last-ditch sally of 900,000gns. [email protected] That caused a chuckle around the ring, but Duarte quickly closed European Editor in for the kill. Emma Berry Paul Moroney outlined his thinking from home. "English King's Twitter: @collingsberry track-record performance at Lingfield, beating [G1] St Leger [email protected] runner-up Berkshire Rocco (Fr) (Sir Percy {GB}), was one of the most breathtakingly dominant performances anywhere this Associate International Editor year," he said. Heather Anderson "He is clearly a highly talented colt with loads of quality and Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN we are thrilled to have secured him. Through their joint sire Marketing Manager Camelot, and with similar race records at the same stage, Alayna Cullen English King maps the same as Sir Dragonet. Twitter: @AlaynaCullen "We've bought him for a syndicate headed by two New [email protected] Zealand businessmen and a collection of Ballymore Stables' Australian clients. He's certainly an exciting addition to the Contributing Editors team, and our first time playing at this very high level, so one Alan Carasso could say the pressure is on for him to perform. Christina Bossinakis "He will head Down Under in December to join Mike's Cafe Racing Flemington stable early January and [we'll] play things by ear. Sean Cronin He will likely race in our autumn but next spring will be the main Tom Frary focus going forward." Cont. p4 [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele Armando Duarte | Tattersalls TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 29 OCTOBER 2020 Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale Cont. Bullfinch Joins the Migration With stronger domestic prizemoney apparently reserved for Congratulations to all concerned, then, most obviously to Shangri-La, this sale has certainly reiterated how precious is the Nielsen himself. It was a bold idea to come here, as a wildcard, symbiosis between the British and Australian Turf; between the and presumably there was an equally bold reserve. But the heritage of one, and the quality of stock duly attracted, and the reward was a deal that blew the previous record for a colt at this prosperity of the other. auctionCthe 625,000gns paid by Joseph O'Brien for Summer As John Ferguson stressed, after signing a 370,000gns docket Sands (GB) (Coach House {Ire}) last yearCout of the water.