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Racing Post Friday, January 1, 2016 23 BLOODSTOCK WORLD 16 TO WATCH IN 2016 in the racing and bloodstock industries until Aurelie Branere, the daughter of agent Jean-Louis Branere, took up the gavel at the Arqana Autumn Sale in November. Her performance won warm reviews, so there is a chance she may become a regular face selling at Martin Stevens pinpoints the Deauville over the next 12 months. studs, stallions and industry 13. A grand new auction figures who could be hitting the A new addition to the 2016 sales headlines in the coming year calendar is set to be another select auction of proven jumps performers 1. Frankel fever again conducted by DBS during the Grand Think of the interest that attended the National meeting at Aintree. first two-year-old runners by Sea The The sale will comprise a group of Stars in 2013 and then square it; that bumper runners and point-to-pointers is likely to be the frenzy around the – and possibly the odd National entry debut competitors by unbeaten dual – and take place in the winner’s world champion Frankel when they set enclosure on the first day of the foot on a racecourse this year. meeting. It will be an important fixture Frankel has 58 colts and 50 fillies in for DBS as the company attempts to his first crop, all of whom have regain some ground in this lucrative spectacular pedigrees, so the pressure market from the former Brightwells, is on for the sire to deliver the goods. now Tattersalls Ireland Cheltenham But perhaps we shouldn’t draw any sales. conclusions from what the son of 14. Getaway jumps to it Galileo achieves this year alone, as plenty of stallions – including his own The first two-year-old runners by Frankel – seen here at Banstead Manor Stud – will grace racecourses this year The first crop of foals by dual Group 1 outstanding sire – did not flourish winner Getaway turn four today so we may get some early glimpses of them until their three-year-old progeny ran. Galileo, is as short as 12-1 for the good favour with Coolmore is whom he sourced last year’s Randwick running between the flags or in novice Derby after winning a 1m Newbury Claiborne Farm’s War Front, whose Group 1 winner Grand Marshal. He hurdles under rules. Getaway looks 2. Zoffany the sophomore maiden, while Zarkava’s fourth foal reputation is already lofty and could has also had his reputation burnished well equipped to succeed as a jumps Frankel will be doing well to shine as but first runner Zarak, a son of soar even higher in 2016. He has as the pinhooker of Racing Post Trophy sire as a son of Monsun from a top brightly with his first juveniles as Dubawi, is around a 20-1 shot for the provided the operation’s Group 1 winner and Classic hopeful Marcel. German family with an excellent Zoffany, the star freshman of 2015, did Epsom Classic after scoring easily in a winners Declaration Of War and War racing record over middle distances. by supplying three individual Royal Deauville newcomers’ race. Command and is now the sire of their 10. Mayfair may fare well Ascot winners – Illuminate, brilliant two-year-old colt and 2,000 Another international enterprise busy There will be a few breeders sweating Washington DC and Waterloo Bridge 5. Sale-toppers’ produce Guineas hot favourite Air Force Blue. stocking up on talent at the yearling on the stallion’s early results as he has – plus Royal Lodge Stakes winner Two other Group 1-winning mares Coolmore bought three more sales – and partnering with the China covered in excess of 1,300 mares in his Foundation and Listed scorer who could have their ability as yearling colts at Keeneland in Horse Club on a couple – was Mayfair first five years in Coolmore’s National Argentero. producers put to the test for the first September, headed by a $1.15m Speculators, a group of South African Hunt ranks. But the pressure is not off Zoffany time this year are Dancing Rain and relation to Pulpit, while Darley bought investors spearheaded by Markus Another top-class, well-bred son of yet. It now needs to be proved his Immortal Verse. The pair lit up the two for $900,000 and $525,000 at the Jooste. Monsun whose first crop are four years progeny are equally as impressive at Tattersalls December Breeding Stock sale. The China Horse Club took home With the assistance of Peter and old – although there are fewer of them three and that his early success is no Sale in 2013 when sold for blockbuster the only yearling by the sire sold in Ross Doyle, Mayfair Speculators around – is Overbury Stud resident flash in the pan, by producing more prices of 4,000,000gns and a European Europe last year, a 775,000gns son of signed for around 20 six-figure Schiaparelli. two-year-old stars to justify his lofty broodmare record of 4,700,000gns. Group 3 winner River Belle. yearlings in 2015, headed by a 15. A golden chance at stud reputation and a more than threefold Both were sold in foal to elite 650,000gns Sea The Stars half-brother fee increase for 2016. stallions for their first matings and the 8. Club on the rise to Yorkshire Oaks winner Shareta who A harem of talented racecourse resultant offspring are now two years The China Horse Club – whose is with Andre Fabre. Many of the performers, proven producers and 3. New Approach upsurge old. A Frankel filly out of Dancing chairman Teo Ah Khing is best known purchases may end up in France, well-bred mares no doubt awaits A young stallion who received a hefty Rain, who was bought by Darley, has as the joint-owner of 2013 Derby hero where the group is laying down the Golden Horn in his first year as a fee increase and a better book of mares yet to be named or assigned to a Australia – has a fair chance of a roots of a breeding operation, stallion at Dalham Hall Stud in after his first two-year-olds dazzled trainer, while a Dansili colt out of second winner of the Epsom Classic in although Galileo half-brothers to Newmarket with part-owner Darley was New Approach in 2013, so there is Coolmore purchase Immortal Verse is Johannes Vermeer, a Galileo colt Harbinger and Sent From Heaven are and breeder Anthony Oppenheimer a reasonable expectation that the also without a name but is recorded by owned and bred by the organisation with Aidan O’Brien. likely to give him strong support. resultant foals, who turn two years old Weatherbys as having joined Freddy with Coolmore who was second in the Outside breeders will be enticed by today, will be a vintage crop. Head in France. Racing Post Trophy and won the 11. A consignor on the up his fine race record – which included The price of the Galileo stallion’s Criterium International. A consigning operation on the rise and resounding triumphs in the Derby, services was more than doubled to 6. Bestselling yearlings The China Horse Club redoubled its bound to be in the news again in 2016 Eclipse and Arc – handsome looks and £50,000 that year and the ratio of On the topic of sale-toppers, there is efforts to remain at the top table of is Richard Powell’s Haras du Lieu des prestigious pedigree, as a son of Cape black-type performers he covered rose also the prospect of last year’s most European owners by signing for Champs in Normandy. Cross out of a half-sister to Coronation 12 points year-on-year to 55 per cent. expensive yearlings being unleashed to several seven-figure yearlings at Powell bought the stud from his Stakes winner Rebecca Sharp. Among the star mares he covered who look forward to in 2016. auctions worldwide last year. Among parents in 2013 and he has enjoyed a have named juveniles are Fallen For The Dubawi filly out of its biggest purchases was the most charmed start as the stud has been 16. American dream of a sire You (a filly called Embraceable You), Loveisallyouneed who was the most expensive Frankel yearling, a €1.7m advertised as the birthplace and American Pharoah will also be greeted Meeznah (a colt called Buldan) and expensive yearling sold worldwide in filly out of multiple Group 1 heroine nursery of brilliant young French by a glittering book of mares as he Spacious (a filly called Spatial). 2015 when sold to MV Magnier at Alexander Goldrun who has joined hurdler Blue Dragon. Top chaser starts his stallion career at Ashford Tattersalls for 2,100,000gns will that brilliant mare’s trainer Jim Bolger. Milord Thomas was also born there, Stud in Kentucky, as befits the first 4. Midday and Zarkava foals presumably be trained by Aidan while talented four-year-old hurdler winner of the US Triple Crown in 37 Outstanding racemares don’t always O’Brien and given a Beatles-inspired 9. Flanagan the man again? Mocalacato Has was sold by the stud. years and a breathtakingly impressive pass on their talent to their offspring name like her relatives All My Loving Purchases by the China Horse Club at Lieu des Champs is also making a winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic. and where the likes of Balanchine, and Yesterday, while the colt by the the yearling sales were made by name for itself as a Flat vendor under The son of Pioneerof The Nile will Bosra Sham or Pebbles failed, Miesque, same sire who smashed the Arqana Michael Wallace, assisted by affable Powell’s stewardship and last year its command a fee of $200,000 – the most Ouija Board and Urban Sea have August Yearling Sale record when sold young agent Mick Flanagan, whose first Arqana August Yearling Sale draft expensive new recruit to the stallion shone.