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Dubawi Filly Tops Record-Breaking Day Cont SATURDAY, 2 DECEMBER, 2017 "Elaine rang Tattersalls and asked how many Dubawi foals DUBAWI FILLY TOPS there were in the catalogue and when they said none, she replied, 'Well you have one now,'" said Carson. "We're getting RECORD-BREAKING DAY too old to do the yearlings now so we've sold foals for the last three years. This filly was a little poppet but she had some character." The filly's dam Swain's Gold (Swain {Ire}) is now in foal to Golden Horn (GB), who led home her dual Group 1-winning son Jack Hobbs in the Derby, and another of her offspring produced a decent sales result for the Carsons with the preceding lot in the ring, lot 991. The Muhaarar (GB) colt out of Swain's Gold's treble-winning daughter Mrs Greeley (Mr Greeley) sold to Timmy Hyde through Blandford Bloodstock for 220,000gns. "The colt has been improving all the time and really started to do well in the last three weeks," Carson said, adding that he is intending to send one of his 18 flat mares to be covered by Jack Hobbs at his new home at nearby Overbury Stud. cont. p2 Sale-topping Dubawi half-sister to Jack Hobbs | Tattersalls IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Emma Berry AZTECA GOES FOR ELUSIVE GRADE I Newmarket, UK--A perfect storm of some spunky new Flashy MGSW Sharp Azteca (Freud) tries to finally get his first long-term investors, an array of exciting first-season stallions Grade in Aqueduct’s Cigar Mile. Click or tap here to go straight and a lone Dubawi weanling who just happened to be a to TDN America. half-sister to a Classic winner led to a frenetic day during what has already been a week of lively trade at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale. The continued demand for foals ensured a new record average was set at 101,107gns, which was up 12% on last year, though the median remained static at 65,000gns and the clearance rate dropped from 84% to 80%. Despite 17 fewer horses being sold than on the equivalent day last year, the session's turnover improved slightly, by 1%, to 16,986,000gns. Classic-winning jockey Willie Carson is used to playing a starring role on the racecourse, but more recently his exploits as a Classic-winning breeder mean that he's now in the spotlight in the sales ring too. His half-sister to G1 Irish Derby winner Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling) (lot 992), bred with wife Elaine at their Minster Stud in Gloucestershire, had the benefit of being the sole Dubawi foal in the December catalogue and, like so many Dubawis before her and indeed her half-brother, she will join Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation after being knocked down to Jack Hobbs's former trainer John Gosden at 750,000gns. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 DECEMBER, 2017 Dubawi Filly Tops Record-Breaking Day cont. from p1 The Capital Bloodstock buying team of Neil Gilchrist and Peter Vaughan has been busy throughout the last fortnight and spent i1.15-million on four weanlings at Goffs before continuing the spree at Tattersalls. The 10 foals purchased in Newmarket included Ringfort Stud's daughter of Dark Angel (Ire) (lot 927), bought for 600,000gns. "I'm a little overwhelmed," said Ringfort owner and vet Derek Veitch, who bred the filly in partnership with Paul Hancock from the Sir Percy (GB) mare Indigo Lady (GB). The 7-year-old mare was placed in the G3 Prix d'Aumale when trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam and later won a listed race in Ireland for Willie McCreery. "Paul raced the mare initially and then I bought into her privately," Veitch continued. "She won a listed race at The Capital Bloodstock=s Neil Gilchrist | Tattersalls Curragh after I got involved and then we twice tried to sell her here and didn't. Someone up there must have been looking out for us." "Paul's not very well as he's just had his appendix out but he's Indigo Lady's first foal, Expensive Liaison (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), been watching the sale on the web feed. I'd just like to thank who was runner-up recently on her second start, was bought everyone at home who worked so hard to get them all here and from last year's October Book 1 for 155,000gns by Tim Gredley, everyone who bid on the filly. It's the best result we've had and who races the Hugo Palmer-trained filly with his father Bill. probably the best result we'll ever have but the filly had loads of vets--I don't think I've ever had such interest in a horse before." The Ringfort filly wasn't the only expensive Dark Angel foal on the Capital Bloodstock list as Gilchrist later signed for Knocktoran Stud's colt out of dual Group 3 winner Bikini Babe (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) (lot 956) at 325,000gns as part of a total outlay of 2,205,000gns. "All the foals have been bought to race for an established English owner," explained Vaughan. "Obviously we're looking for good individuals with nice pedigrees and the Dark Angel filly is a lovely long-term prospect as a broodmare." CAN’T WAIT TO GET YOUR TDN BREAKING NEWS AND RACE RESULTS? Gay, Derek and Stephanie Veitch of Ringfort Stud | Emma Berry Click Here to sign up for TDN Alerts TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 DECEMBER, 2017 Cooke's Choice Is Invincible... On two consecutive days in April, two daughters of Invincible Spirit arrived at Bernard and Kathy Cooke's Bryanstown House Stud in Kilcock. The breeders would have been entitled to feel optimistic for their future sales prospects as the Irish National Stud stallion has been kind to them in the past, with three foals by him out of their homebred mare Liscune (Ire) (King's Best) bringing a total of 540,000gns in the ring in previous years. This year's foal out of the 15-year-old mare surpassed that tally for the trio when bringing a deal-clinching bid of 600,000gns from Vice President, International Operations agent Charlie Gordon-Watson. Lot 965 was foaled on Apr. 18, Gary King the day after her stablemate by the same stallion out of another Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] of the Cookes' five mares, Pretty Face (GB) (Rainbow Quest), + 1.732.320.0975 who followed her into the ring as lot 966. She added another 185,000gns to the kitty when bought by Hubert Honore of International Editor Cheval Invest. Kelsey Riley "She was a lovely filly from a lovely family we've known for a Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN while, having bought her grandam here some years ago," said [email protected] Cooke of Liscune's foal, a full-sister to G3 Sceptre S. winner European Editor Music Box (Ire) as well as listed winner and G2 Dante S. Emma Berry runner-up Ektihaam (Ire). Twitter: @collingsberry He continued, "Liscune is a good mare who gets good-looking [email protected] stock and I've been very lucky with Invincible Spirit. We keep just five mares as I only have one man and we do it all ourselves. Associate International Editor It's hard to get the foals right but I've been lucky to get them Heather Anderson right in time for the sales." Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Charlie Gordon-Watson, who bought Liscune's filly for a British Marketing Manager client new to racing, added, "She will board at Watership Down Alayna Cullen Stud and will be a future broodmare prospect. The client was Twitter: @AlaynaCullen going to originally buy two, but we decided to buy a queen [email protected] rather than two princesses." Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Andrew Caulfield John Berry Kevin Blake Tom Peacock Charlie Gordon-Watson | Tattersalls TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 2 DECEMBER, 2017 Horn Blowing Hot... Tom Goff warned us in the TDN earlier this week that "we haven't got stuck into Golden Horn yet," and if he was referring to his association with the buying team of Godolphin then Friday was the day that they dug deep to take home several members of the Derby and Arc winner's first crop. Top of the crop was lot 925, a colt from the Fagan family's Deerpark Stud, who sold to Anthony Stroud on Godolphin's behalf for 325,000gns. The near-black weanling is the second son of the Shamardal mare Elegant Shadow, whose firstborn by Sea The Stars (Ire) sold for 1-million gns in the same ring not two months ago to Phoenix Thoroughbreds. Despite two outstanding sales-ring hits from the mare's first two offspring, there's a sting in the tale for the Fagans, who lost Elegant Shadow to colic in July. "In the short time she was with us she did more for the stud and for us than some mares will do in a lifetime," said Peter Fagan, who aids his father John in the running of the County Meath farm. "We sent her to Sea The Stars and she produced such a star that we decided to keep going with the same cross and use Golden Horn." Godolphin also bought Old Buckenham Stud's Golden Horn colt (lot 963) for 300,000gns. The son of the dual Italian listed winner Mia Diletta (GB) (Selkirk) is a half-brother to the G3 Premio Parioli (Italian 2000 Guineas) winner Poeta Diletto (GB) (Poet's Voice {GB}) and was bred by Isabella and Guido Bezzera of Scuderia Blueberry.
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