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RACING POST Thursday,October 4, 2012 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE 2012 THE COMPLETE GUIDE Derbydream Is there another Camelot waiting to be discovered? Book 1 October9-11 Book 2 October15-18 Book 3 October19 2 Thursday, October 4, 2012 racingpost.com INSIDE The lots to follow at Marsh, manager of the who have previously passed Tattersalls Lloyd-Webbers’ Watership through the ring Nancy Sexton with her pick of Down Stud, which is sending Pages 9-11 the top lots on paper from “the strongest draft as a group that we’ve taken to the sales” Books 1 to 3, and those by Catalogue updates sires with their first yearlings to Park Paddocks Page 8 Check out the pedigrees that Pages 2-7 have received welcome recent additions prior to the High achievers Pinhooked yearlings sale Emma Berry talks to Simon Full details of all yearlings Pages 12-15 Anticipation at fever pitch with promise St Leger third Michelangelo, a Book 1 graduate, is a brother to lot 40, a Galileo colt of a perfect storm Exceptional showcase for AS WITH last year’s auction, the anticipation surrounding this Tattersalls October Yearling Sales a stellar cast of yearlings year’s Book 1 of the Tattersalls Where/when Park 25,284,500gns (+14%), an October Sale is immense; a vv AN EXCEPTIONAL catalogue for Book 1 of this Michelangelo, a 550,000gns purchase by feeling that the catalogue Paddocks, Newmarket; average of 39,818gns (+22%) year’s Tattersalls October Sale contains full- or Charlie Gordon-Watson at this sale who has contains a perfect storm of Book 1 Tuesday to Thursday, and median of 30,000gns half-siblings to no fewer than 56 Classic or finished third in the St Leger since publication well-bred yearlings with the sessions start at 11am; (+20%); Group/Grade 1 winners. And of the 577 of the catalogue. Their Listed-placed dam is a conformation to match, writes Book 2 October 15-18, Book 3 From 308 offered, yearlings catalogued, 72 are either by the half-sister to Classic winner Aussie Rules as Richard Griffiths, bloodstock sessions start at 10am; 223 sold (72%) for a total of dominant sire of our time, Galileo (responsible well as Listed winner Approach, who clicked editor. Book 3 October 19, starting 1,864,500gns (+1%), an for 42 yearlings), or from the first crop of his with Galileo to produce Irish Derby runner-up So good has been the pre-sale at 10am average of 8,361gns (+29%) champion half-brother Sea The Stars Midas Touch. They are out of the high-class vibe there has been little talk and median of 5,500gns vvWebsite tattersalls.com (responsible for 30). miler Last Second, a daughter of the of how to live up to the amazing (+57%) The depth of Sea The Stars’ first book is well outstanding mare Alruccaba and thus related feats of last year, when a vv2011 results Book 1 From 446 offered, 364 sold Record price illustrated by the fact that a third of his to the top fillies Allegretto (by Galileo), catalogue containing siblings to vv Alborada, Yesterday and Quarter Moon. (82%) for a total of 3,400,000gns paid by Demi catalogued yearlings, who are discussed in more 49 individual Group or Grade 1 Galileo’s first day group of colts also includes 51,634,000gns (+7%), an O’Byrne for Group 1 detail in the first-crop sires’ section, are the winners soared to a 32 per cent half-siblings to Group or Grade 1 winners. The the brothers to St Leger runner-up Kite Wood increase in average, a 43 per cent average of 141,852gns Audemars Piguet QEII Cup (54) and Group 2 winner Mikhail Glinka (65), (+32%) and median of winner River Dancer (c by pick on paper of those yearlings by proven sires rise in median and a growth in are listed below. a half-brother to German champion Night Magic turnover of seven per cent 100,000gns (+43%); Sadler’s Wells-Darara) from (160) and a son of the Classic-placed Kitza despite 85 fewer yearlings Book 2 From 750 offered, Watership Down Stud in BOOK 1 COLTS (56). selling. 635 sold (85%) for a total of 2000 So strong was Book 1 that Lot 6 bay Dansili-Heaven Sent 172 ch Galileo-Ouija Board many unfulfilled orders floated When an October sale So much so that Book 2 this year (Pivotal) Stanley House Stud offers this colt, the first blithely into Book 2 which, with graduate such as our cover star contains more than 1,000 progeny out of the brilliant Ouija Board to be 833 catalogued lots, saw record Camelot strikes in the 2,000 individuals. Cheveley Park Stud has enjoyed plenty of good offered at auction. Ouija Board won the heart of turnover of 25,300,000gns and Guineas and Derby at Epsom and Whatever happens at days with the Heavenly Ray clan thanks to her the racing public during an illustrious career in a 23 per cent increase in average the Curragh, vendors inevitably Newmarket next week, it is Pivotal daughters Megahertz, a dual Grade 1 which she earned more than £3.5 million and and median. want to be where the action is. certainly going to be interesting. winner, and the Group 1-placed Heaven Sent. captured ten races, including the Epsom and And now its policy of selling yearling colts Irish Oaks, Nassau Stakes, Prince of Wales’s means outside buyers will also be able to try GROUP 1-WINNING GRADUATES SOLD IN THE RING 2008-11 Stakes, Hong Kong Vase and two renewals of the their hand with the family. First up is the first Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Her first foal, horse year price (gns) buyer(s) race(s), year foal out of Heaven Sent, whose six victories for Voodoo Prince, has won again and been Pedro The Great 2011 150,000 Demi O’Byrne Phoenix S-12 Sir Michael Stoute included two renewals of the Listed-placed since publication of the Camelot 2010 525,000 Demi O’Byrne Racing Post Trophy-11; 2,000 Guineas, Derby, Dahlia Stakes. The tough filly was also second catalogue. Irish Derby-12 in the Matron and Falmouth Stakes. Her colt is Imperial Monarch 2010 210,000 Kern/Lillingston Assoc. Grand Prix de Paris-12 followed into the ring by the latest yearling 314 b Danehill Dancer-Twyla Samitar 2010 39,000 Gill Richardson Bloodstock Irish 1,000 Guineas, Garden City H-12 out of Heavenly Ray, a Pivotal brother to Tharp (Sadler’s Wells) Megahertz and Heaven Sent (7). Was 2010 1,200,000 Demi O’Byrne Oaks-12 Sumoto’s 920,000gns purchase by Wrote 2010 145,000 MV Magnier Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf-11 40 gr Galileo-Intrigued Watership Down Stud in December 2000 followed on the heels of the Colour Vision 2009 100,000 Mark Johnston Racing Ascot Gold Cup-12 (Darshaan) victory of her second foal, Compton Krypton Factor 2009 20,000 Sir Mark Prescott Dubai Golden Shaheen-12 Families do not get much deeper Admiral, in the Eclipse Stakes and Temida 2009 13,500 Litex Commerce AD Grosser Preis von Bayern-12 than that belonging to this within the year she boasted another Zoffany 2009 220,000 John Magnier Phoenix S-10 Denford Stud-homebred. Group 1 winner in Queen Elizabeth II Not only is he bred on the revered Alfred Nobel 2008 220,000 John Magnier Phoenix S-09 Stakes hero Summoner. Today the Sadler’s Wells-Darshaan cross but stud still reaps the rewards of that Arcano 2008 90,000 McKeever St Lawrence Prix Morny-09 he is a brother to this season’s purchase through her Sadler’s Wells Arctic Cosmos 2008 47,000 Blandford Bloodstock St Leger-10 high-class three-year-old daughter Twyla Tharp, the 2005 Together 2008 280,000 Demi O’Byrne Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup-11 Ribblesdale Stakes runner-up whose Chachamaidee 2008 135,000 Blandford Bloodstock Matron S-12 The Fugue: the Nassau Stakes second foal is this season’s top Dubawi Heights 2008 75,000 N A Callaghan Yellow Ribbon S, Gamely S-11 heroine is a three-parts three-year-old filly The Fugue. This colt is bred on the same Danehill line as The Europa Point 2008 60,000 Form Bloodstock Empress Club S, Champion Challenge-12 sister to lot 314, a son of Danehill Dancer vvContinues page 4 I’m A Dreamer 2008 40,000 Blandford Bloodstock Beverly D S-12 Joshua Tree 2008 360,000 Demi O’Byrne Canadian International-10 TOP-PRICED COLTS 2007-11 Lillie Langtry 2008 230,000 McKeever St Lawrence Matron S, Coronation S-10 year name breeding consignor buyer price (gns) Rewilding 2008 500,000 John Ferguson Bloodstock Prince Of Wales’s S, Dubai Sheema Classic-11 2011 Illustrate Oasis Dream-Kassiopeia Furnace Mill Farm Demi O’Byrne 700,000 Sarah Lynx 2008 60,000 C de Moubray Canadian International-11 2010 Michelangelo Galileo-Intrigued Denford Stud Charlie Gordon-Watston 550,000 Society Rock 2008 75,000 BBA Ireland Golden Jubilee S-11; Haydock Sprint Cup-12 2009 Rudolf Valentino Oasis Dream-Maganda Oakgrove Stud Demi O’Byrne 700,000 St Nicholas Abbey 2008 200,000 Demi O’Byrne Racing Post Trophy-09; Coronation Cup, 2008 September Morn Montjeu-Vanishing Prairie Templeton Stud Demi O’Byrne 650,000 Breeders’ Cup Turf-11; Coronation Cup-12 Berling Montjeu-Danaskaya Ballylinch Stud Peter Doyle Bloodstock 650,000 Wigmore Hall 2008 60,000 Kern/Lillingston Assoc. Northern Dancer S-11; Northern Dancer S-12 2007 Spirit Of Emirates Gone West-Myth To Reality Highclere Stud John Ferguson 1,000,000 Racing Post Thursday, October 4, 2012 3 Tattersalls October YearlingSales2012 Azamour Night Shift–Asmara(Lear Fan) SireofGroup 1 Prix de Diane winner VALY RA in 2012.