FRIDAY, 24 JULY 2020 ENABLE FACES BALLYDOYLE TRIO ANOTHER NEW HOME FOR It will be a case of Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) versus Ballydoyle and Galileo (Ire) in Saturday=s G1 King George VI and GORESBRIDGE BREEZE UP Queen Elizabeth QIPCO S. at Ascot, but she=s been there before and connections are confident that the star mare is back in the right spot after her defeat in the July 5 G1 Eclipse S. at Sandown. John Gosden is expecting that comeback effort to have put her right for her historic bid for a third renewal of this prestige affair. AI was very open with everybody that, being the age she is now, she=s found it difficult getting to race-fitness, more than ever before,@ he explained. ASo she=s found that challenging, but has a strong mind and has brought herself forward with the race to bring her on. She=s got older and wiser as she=s gone, but I feel she=s back in the zone now. I=m of the viewpoint that a Flat horse reaches its zenith aged five, so I still see her training A Siyouni colt out of a full-sister to Irish Derby runner-up Tiger Moth beautifully for this. I just went with her ahead of the Eclipse and (above) is consigned by Brendan Holland=s Grove Stud | Racing Post her work on the Limekilns has been perfect since. I=ve let her By DaithR Harvey lead a couple of works too and she=s enjoyed that for a change.@ For the third time in as many years, Friday's Goresbridge With two Derby winners in Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) and Breeze Up will have a different home. Originally developed and Sovereign (Ire) backing up the G1 Juddmonte International and hosted by Martin Donohoe's Kilkenny-based auction house, the G1 Grand Prix de Paris winner Japan (GB) in the three-pronged sale merged with Tattersalls Ireland last year with proceedings Galileo attack, Gosden is aware that tactics could play a part but transferring successfully to County Meath. Another switch, this is happy to let Dettori take control of that aspect. Cont. p4 one not of the strategic kind rather more out of necessity, sees the action move across the water to Tattersalls in Newmarket as the sale, originally slated for two months previously, bids to make up for lost time. Between additional wildcards and withdrawals around 150 horses breezed in Newmarket adjacent to the Rowley Mile Racecourse on Wednesday and while there was reportedly a smallish crowd in attendance it is hoped there will be enough interested parties on hand on Friday to allow for some decent trade to take place. Surprisingly enough trade at the earlier rescheduled European breeze-up sales held up remarkably well given events throughout the world and while it is fanciful to expect Friday=s turnover to match last year's figure of i5,010,500, Tattersalls Ireland's Marketing Director Simon Kerins is hopeful another Enable | Racing Post important metric, the clearance rate, will keep tabs on both previous editions and other breeze-up sales held this year. "All things considered we are reasonably hopeful the sale will IN TDN AMERICA TODAY go well,@ he said. AThe Tattersalls team here in Newmarket have MIKE CLINE TO RETIRE FROM LANE’S END been brilliant, they put together a new stabling plan and they Long term Lane’s End Farm Manager Mike Cline is retiring after 40 have been hugely helpful in accommodating the sale at very years with the Kentucky nursery. Click or tap here to go straight to short notice.@ Cont. p2 TDN America. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 11 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 24 JULY 2020 Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale Cont. from p1 Another wildcard who didn't find a buyer in Doncaster was He added, AI think the transfer has gone relatively smoothly, Robson Aguiar's son of Siyouni (Fr) who is offered as lot 251. The obviously there have been challenges, especially for vendors half-brother to two stakes performers was a i66,000 yearling who were working under the expectation that the breeze would purchase by Deuce Greathouse at Arqana last year, but was be in Fairyhouse with the sale across the road from that in bought back by Aguiar at Goffs UK for ,100,000. Tattersalls Ireland. That plan was changed at short notice but Also among the wildcards, Willie Browne's Mocklershill offers the breeze seemed to go well on Wednesday and given the a couple of well-bred sorts in lot 227, a No Nay Never amazingly resilient nature of this industry and the fact that trade half-brother to the stakes winning filly We Are Ninety (Ire) has held up well at other breeze ups we are hopeful of a good (Thewayyouare) and lot 230, a filly by Night Of Thunder (Ire) solid sale." that Browne bought at the Goffs February Sale this year for Last year's top lot was a son of Lope De Vega (Ire) that Norman i30,000. Williamson's Oak Tree Farm sold to Blandford Bloodstock for In the original catalogue an early lot that could make a splash i175,000 and subsequently is lot 28, a filly by Siyouni (Fr) named Haqeeqy (Ire). He has from Brendan Holland's Grove done well this summer for Stud. The bay is the first produce trainer John Gosden winning out of the Galileo (Ire) mare twice at Yarmouth and Surprisingly (Ire) who is a Newmarket. Meanwhile Parent's full-sister to G3 Balanchine S. Prayer (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), runner up Butterscotch (Ire) and bought by BBA Ireland for a half-sister to the speedy Coach i165,000 in 2019, got off the House (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}). mark at the third time of asking However, what doesn't appear in a maiden at Ayr for Archie in the catalogue, is the fact that Watson on July 14. Surprisingly is also a full-sister to With so many withdrawals Tiger Moth (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), from the main catalogue it was a Goresbridge graduate and recent winner Parent=s Prayer | Racing Post who broke his maiden last welcome boost for the sale to month at Leopardstown before recently receive a number of well-bred wildcards to make up for running second to Santiago (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) in the G1 some of the shortfall on offer and those late comers include an Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby. American Pharoah filly catalogued as lot 254, the last offering of The only remaining juvenile in the sale by leading stallion the day. Offered by Tom Whitehead's Powerstown Stud, the filly Kingman (GB) is lot 48, a colt out of the stakes winning mare was purchased by her vendor as a yearling at Keeneland last Mary Boleyn (Ire) (King's Best). Although a relatively cheap year for $67,000. The daughter of stakes winner Innocent Love yearling purchase at i20,000 by Egmont Stud's Mark Flannery, (Grand Slam) was actually knocked down to Richard Hughes and the same vendor topped this sale two years ago with a Bated Paul Shanahan for ,100,000 at the Goffs UK breeze-up at the Breath (GB) colt that went from a 5,000gns yearling to a beginning of the month but returns for another shot at it on i210,000 breezer, so Flannery certainly knows how to prepare Friday. one for this sale. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 24 JULY 2020 Given the amazingly resilient nature of this industry and the fact that trade has held up well at other breeze ups, we are hopeful of a good solid sale. Senior Vice President Gary King Tattersalls Ireland Marketing Director Simon Kerins Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale Cont. Kelsey Riley Egmont also offers a well-bred Gleneagles (Ire) filly (lot 153) Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN out of a half-sister to Group 1 winners Excelebration (Ire) [email protected] (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) and Lancaster Bomber (War Front). European Editor Johnny Collins is another master of his trade and he offers an Emma Berry interesting 2-year-old as lot 75. The colt is a son of US-based Twitter: @collingsberry first-season sire Mshawish (Medaglia d'Oro), who Collins also [email protected] pinhooked in Keeneland, before the horse went on to win twice at Grade I level in America for Al Shaqab Racing. This current Associate International Editor pinhook cost Collins $60,000 at Keeneland last year and is out of Heather Anderson the stakes producing Invincible Spirit (Ire) mare Refreshing (GB) Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN from the brilliant family of Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy). Marketing Manager Ambrose O'Mullane and Mary Reynolds of Ardglas Stables Alayna Cullen have enjoyed some good results at this sale in its former guise Twitter: @AlaynaCullen and they offer a nicely bred filly on Friday as lot 139. The [email protected] daughter of Footstepsinthesand (GB) is the second produce out of Miss Brazil (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), whose first foal Contributing Editors Elaire Noire (Ire), a full-brother to this filly, was a stakes winner Alan Carasso in Italy last year and also finished second in the G2 Premio Gran Christina Bossinakis Criterium. Cafe Racing Among those who that caught the eye when being put through Sean Cronin their paces on Wednesday was lot 87 from Longways Stables, a Tom Frary colt by Awtaad (Ire) who is a half-brother to four winners [email protected] including the speedy Miss Elizabeth (Ire) (Intense Focus).