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SUNDAY, 8 APRIL, 2018 WHAT IS THE PRICE OF A GOOD HORSE? STANDING OVATION By Kelsey Riley FOR TEOFILO SYDNEY, Australia--The Australian bloodstock industry is a more commercial one than its counterparts in Europe and America, in the sense that a greater percentage of the better- performed horses in a given crop are put on the market. This is backed by figures produced by Aushorse earlier this year that showed that 67% of Group 1 winners in Australia in 2014, 2015 and 2016 were offered at public auction before their Group 1 win; that percentage was 61% in the U.S. and 46% in Europe. A large percentage of the fields for some of Australia=s most important races have passed through a sales ring (for instance, 17 of the 20 runners in this year=s G1 Golden Slipper had gone under the hammer), and that gives us an opportunity to look at what segment of the market these top horses are coming from. The Golden Slipper winner, Estijaab (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}, out of the dual Group 1 winner Response {Aus}, by Charge Forward {Aus}) cost Emirates Park Stud A$1.7-million at Easter last year, and was the second-most expensive filly and fourth most Happy Clapper | Bronwen Healy expensive yearling sold at the sale. Naturally, she leads last year=s Easter graduates by earnings and is the lone Group 1 By Kelsey Riley graduate of that Easter crop at this very early stage (just three SYDNEY, Australia--Happy Clapper (Aus) is the leading earner Group 1s for juveniles have been staged thus far this season). worldwide for Darley shuttler Teofilo (Ire), and the 7-year-old Last year=s Slipper winner, She Will Reign (Aus) (also out of a gelding widened the gap by a significant margin on Saturday mare by the Red Ransom stallion Charge Forward), had cost just when taking the A$3-million G1 Doncaster H., the headliner of a A$20,000 at Inglis=s Classic sale the year prior, thus giving proof four Group 1 card on the opening day of The Championships at to the theory that top-class winners emanate from all levels of Royal Randwick, taking his bankroll past A$5.8-million. Happy the market. Clapper, who was claiming his third Group 1, became Teofilo=s Irish Bet wasn=t a rare buy at the middle to lower end of the second winner of this mile showpiece, with Kermadec (NZ), who market. Flanagan said, AWe bought a couple of those cheaper stands alongside the sire at Darley=s Kelvinside Stud, having won ones last year in New Zealand and Australia. He wasn=t the only it in 2015. one, and we=ve done that in America and Europe a bit as well. Teofilo, who will stand Southern Hemisphere time for We bought eight or nine yearlings in Europe and they didn=t A$44,000 this year, has sired five Group 1 winners Down Under really go more than 300,000, and there were a few in there for and is in his sixth season with runners. less than 100,000 as well.@ The sire taking the honour of most winners on the card was I Cont. p2 Am Invincible (Aus), whose progeny took out three of the first four races on the card. Last year=s Magic Millions 2YO Classic IN TDN AMERICA TODAY winner Houtzen (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) won for the first JUSTIFY VALIDATES THE HYPE AT SANTA ANITA time this prep when taking the G3 PJ Bell S., while the 2-year-old What appeared to be a two-horse race on paper essentially boiled Paquirri (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) was a 51-1 winner of the down to a one-horse affair, as ‘TDN Rising Star’ Justify (Scat Daddy) opening G3 Kindergarten S. officially earned his way into the GI Kentucky Derby with a three- Cont. p2 length defeat of Bolt d’Oro (Medaglia d’Oro) in the GI Santa Anita Derby. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 13 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 8 APRIL, 2018 Standing Ovation For Teofilo cont. What Is The Price Of A Good Horse cont. I Am Invincible was unlucky to not have four winners on the The only other stakes winner so far from last year=s Easter sale card, his 2-year-old filly Oohood (Aus) placed in yet another also comes from the lower market: China Horse Club=s Irish Bet Group 1 when missing in a photo finish with the 81-1 shot El (Aus) (Smart Missile {Aus}), winner of the Listed Restricted Inglis Dorado Dreaming (Aus) (Ilovethiscity {Aus}) in the G1 Inglis Nursery on debut in December. Mick Flanagan, who signed the Sires= S. There have now been three juvenile Group 1s staged in sales ticket on Irish Bet, told the TDN after that win, AIrish Bet Australia this season and Oohood, amazingly still a maiden, has was a cheap, good-looking horse and the other cheap one I hit the board in all three: she was also third in the G1 Blue bought at that sale a few years ago was Vanbrugh [cost Diamond S. and second in the G1 Golden Slipper. A$100,000 and won the G1 Spring Champion S.].@ El Dorado Dreaming=s small-time trainer Ben Smith wrapped China Horse Club has spent aggressively on colts at this sale in up what was a productive day when his Group 1-winning mare recent years, and its efforts were rewarded this season with In Her Time (Aus) (Time Thief {Aus}) finished third in the dual Group 1 winner Russian Revolution (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}), a Doncaster. A$320,000 purchase, retiring to Newgate Farm as one of the As can nearly be expected at the Saturday races in Australia, more popular new sires for 2018. Snitzel (Aus) also made an impact, siring the quinella in two races, including the G1 TJ Smith S. Last season=s The Everest winner Redzel (Aus) set the pace and was brave to the line, but was run down late by last season=s G1 Golden Rose S. winner Trapeze Artist (Aus), trained by Gerald Ryan, who also trained the sire. Snitzel had earlier on the card delivered the quinella in the G3 Carbine Club S. for 3-year-olds when the TDN Rising Star Muraaqeb (Aus) led home Jadeskye Racing and partners= progressive Dissolution (Aus). Damion Flower of Jadeskye raced Snitzel. Snitzel=s sire, Redoute=s Choice (Aus), also gained plaudits on the day as the broodmare sire of the first three home in the G1 Australian Derby. Snitzel and I Am Invincible currently sit one-three on the general sires= table and have 64 and 41 yearlings, respectively, catalogued for this week=s Inglis Easter sale. They are split in the Estijaab is the leading earner from last year=s sires= standings by the much-missed High Chaparral (Ire), who Easter sale | Bronwen Healy nearly got a Group 1 win on the board himself on Saturday when his G1 Victoria Derby winner Ace High (Aus) was nosed out by Last year=s Easter sale has yielded three stakes-placed horses: Levendi (Aus) in the Australian Derby. The winner is a new the A$100,000 Cristal Eyes (Aus) (All Too Hard {Aus}), bought by Group 1 winner for Pierro (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}), who stands at Echo Beach Bloodstock and in training at Lindsay Park; High Chaparral=s former home, Coolmore Australia. A 2-year-old Canyonero (Aus) (Pierro {Aus}), a A$130,000 purchase by trainer Triple Crown winner who was also a mile Group 1 winner at Mark Newnham; and the Team Hawkes-trained Wild Planet three, Pierro is shaping up into a very valuable outcross for (Aus) (Animal Kingdom {Aus}), a A$280,000 buy. Three of those Australian breeders, being free of Danehill and Danzig. The five black-type 2-year-olds, including Estijaab, were offered by current wide-margin leading second-season sire is also Arrowfield Stud. responsible for the G1 VRC Oaks winner Pinot (Aus), as well as Last year=s A$2.5-million top lot, Melik (Aus) (Redoute=s Choice Group 3-winning sprinters Tulip (Aus) and Pierata (Aus), both {Aus}), is in training with Peter and Paul Snowden for Sheikh Group 1-placed. Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum and was third in a trial on Feb. 12. Meticulous (Aus), the A$2.4-million son of Medaglia d=Oro split between the likes of Coolmore, Nordic Racing and Breeding, Stonestreet and Aquis, is in the same stable but is yet to trial. The A$1.8-million filly Al Naifa (Aus) (Redoute=s Choice {Aus}) won at second asking on Jan. 21 also in the colours of Sheikh Khalifa for trainer Tony McEvoy. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 13 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 8 APRIL, 2018 What Is the Price of a Good Horse cont. Looking at the 2016 Easter sale results naturally allows for a clearer picture, and that sale is thus far performing admirably in comparison to 2015, with so far 17 group-winning graduates (equal to 2015) and seven Group 1 winners (one more than 2015). With the exception of the Golden Rose winner Trapeze Artist (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}), who was passed in at A$250,000, Coolmore Stud offered the two least expensive of those Group 1 winners: Eclipse Thoroughbreds=s VRC Oaks winner Pinot (Aus) (Pierro {Aus}) (A$200,000) and the Blue Diamond winner Catchy Vice President, International Operations (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) (A$220,000).