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Goffs November Begins Today Blue-Blood Hillaby Best In MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here BLUE-BLOOD HILLABY BEST IN BESSARABIAN Stonestreet Stables paid $500,000 to secure Hillaby (Distorted Humor) from the Melynk Racing Stables Dispersal at last summer=s Fasig-Tipton July sale, and that investment looked like a bargain after the daughter of Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill (Point Given) added her second consecutive victory in GOFFS NOVEMBER BEGINS TODAY Sunday=s GII Bessarabian S. at Woodbine. Keen right By Kelsey Riley from the start, Hillaby allowed jockey Patrick Husbands The mixed sales scene today shifts across the to cajole her into a stalking position as Cryptic Message Atlantic to Ireland, where Goffs kicks off its six-day (Crypograph) carved out a sharp opening quarter in November Sale with its first of four days of foal sales at :22 3/5. Pressured from the outside by Native the Kill Paddocks in County Kildare. The two-day Bombshell (War Front) down the backside, Hillaby Breeding Stock Sale will bring proceedings to a close spurted away from that rival when Husbands pushed Nov. 21 and 22. Last the pedal and zeroed in on the frontrunner as longshot year=s foal sale wrapped Grace Phil (Philanthropist) briefly entered the fray up with solid statistics, nearing the quarter pole. Undaunted, Hillaby quickly which included a slightly dispensed of the 47-1 shot, reached even terms with increased (1.5%) the weakening Cryptic Message turning for home, and average of i26,264 and opened up a solid advantage with a furlong left to a median of i17,000, negotiate. Asked for her all late, the Ontario-bred had which was up 13% on enough left in reserve to hold off closing Disco Barbie 2013 figures. The (Pure Prize) by 2 3/4 lengths at the wire. AShe left strength of trade was running, but I knew I couldn=t go with [jockey] Eurico highlighted by the [da Silva, aboard Cryptic Message], so I tried to ease buyback rate, which her back and get to the outside,@ said winning jockey The Goffs November Foal Sale dropped 9% to 16%. Patrick Husbands. AJesse [Campbell, aboard Native includes six first-crop Frankel foals The sale is designed as Bombshell] did what he had to do to keep me in...but Racing Post a rising crescendo, with when Jesse went ahead, I put her back on her right prices expected to lead and she just took me around there.@ increase each day, and Goffs Chief Executive Henry Cont. p6 Beeby noted yesterday the Kill Paddocks were bustling, especially with pinhookers eager to uncover the value buys amongst the day one offerings. AThe sales grounds are very busy today--I=ve never seen the sales grounds as busy the day before a foal sale,@ Beeby said. AThere are lots and lots of pinhookers looking at the moment, and we=re expecting another influx tomorrow. It=ll increase as the sales goes on. Things are very active today; more active than we normally see.@ While the action will no doubt reach a monumental peak Thursday when the much-publicized six first-crop Frankel (GB) foals are offered (click here for a Nov. 12 feature), as well as a pair by his peerless sire Galileo (Ire) and offerings by the likes of Sea the Stars (Ire), Invincible Spirit (Ire), Shamardal and Teofilo (Ire), Beeby pointed out that there is much strength in depth amongst the sires on offer, with a particularly exciting group of first-season sires represented, which also includes Excelebration (Ire), Nathaniel (Ire), Sepoy (Aus) and So You Think (NZ). AWhile much of the attention has been on the Frankel foals, there are significant numbers of really cracking looking foals by other first- season sires turning up, and it looks a very solid catalogue,@ Beeby said. Cont. p3 IN THIS ISSUE CO-PUBLISHERS President: Barry Weisbord [email protected] @barryweisbord Vice President: Sue Finley [email protected] @suefinley BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Sky Lantern to Director of Business Development: Gary King [email protected] Dubawi EDITORIAL Four-time Group 1 winner [email protected] Sky Lantern (Ire) (Red Clubs Editor-in-Chief: Jessica Martini {Ire}) will be covered by Dubawi Managing Editor: Alan Carasso (Ire) in her first season at stud Racing Editor: Steve Sherack Racing Analyst/Social Media Director: Brian DiDonato next year. Associate Editor: Justina Severni Assistant Editor: Christie DeBernardis Assistant Editor: Heather Likins Page 6 Assistant Editor: Ben Massam ADVERTISING Ballylinch Riding ‘Vega’ High [email protected] Director of Advertising: Alycia Borer Art Director: Lia Kusch Sr. Ad Coordinator/Dir. of Distribution: Sarah K. Andrew Heading into the Goffs November Advertising Designer: Amanda Crelin sale, which kicks off today at the Kill Advertising Assistant: Amanda Foster Paddocks in County Kildare, Emma Social Media Strategist: Nichola Henry Berry takes a closer look at Ballylinch CUSTOMER SERVICE Stud and the glowing succes of the County Kilkenny operation’s up-and- [email protected] coming sire Lopa De Vega (Ire) Director of Customer Service: Vicki Forbes (Shamardal). INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Director of IT: Robert Williams [email protected] Page 4 WORLDWIDE INFORMATION Lachesis Snares G1 QEII Cup International Editor: Kelsey Riley [email protected] Lachesis (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), second in last year's G1 Queen Elizabeth Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Sean Cronin II Cup behind G1 Japanese Oaks and G1 Japanese Fillies' St Leger heroine Meisho Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing: Tom Frary Mambo (Jpn) (Suzuka Mambo {Jpn}), bested this year's Oaks winner, Nuovo [email protected] Record (Jpn) (Heart's Cry {Jpn}), in this year's renewal yesterday to earn her first stakes score. 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 • Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.thoroughbreddailynews.com www.thetdn.com Page 9 Photos Courtesy Racing Post TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/17/14 • PAGE 3 of 12 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Goffs cont. from p1 AWe=d expect another international buying bench Last year=s Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale backed up by a strong representation from India and created unprecedented waves thanks largely to the Turkey, which comes to our sale every year, and some Paulyn Dispersal, which included 24-head worth Southern Hemisphere people coming again. I would be i12,734,000--headed by the i6 million Chicquita (Ire) hopeful it will be a good finish to the sale.@ One (Montjeu {Ire})--and returning alumni from last year=s sale is the 8-year-old contributed to an average mare Song (Ire) that was up a whopping (Sadler=s Wells), 166% (i73,982) and a who was a median that swelled by i1 million purchase 36% (i15,000). It is by Friarstown Stud important to note, from the Paulyn however, that with the Dispersal. The Paulyn Dispersal aside, Frankel filly Song the breeding stock sale was carrying at the last year posted an time will be offered average of i40,159 (up Thursday, while Henry Beeby Song selling at Goffs Nov last year Goffs 44%) and a median of Song will go through i14,500 (up 32%), the ring Friday as lot Racing Post highlighting the strength across the catalogue. Like last 1184 in foal to Dubawi (Ire). Song is a full-sister to year=s foal sale, the breeding stock sale also Classic winner Yesterday (Ire) and champion Quarter experienced a dramatic drop in buybacks--last year=s Moon (Ire). As highlighted in the TDN of Nov. 14 figure was 15%, whereas in 2013 it was 39%. (click here), Jim Bolger=s Redmondstown Stud will offer While acknowledging that those highs wouldn=t be hit 10 mares, including dual Group 3 winner Maoineach this year, Beeby noted that the strength of the market (Congaree), carrying to the first crop of Dawn Approach for Thoroughbreds both at Goffs and around the world (Ire) (lot 1141) and Wake Me Up (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar in the past year is a reason for optimism that trade will {Ire}), a half-sister to Dawn Approach in foal to that be strong. AThere=s no question we won=t get the high Classic winner and champion=s sire New Approach (Ire) spots we did last year, because there are only a few (lot 1139). The ever-popular draft of the Aga Khan will Chicquitas in the world and they only come around this year feature the 5-year-old stakes-winning mare once in a while,@ he said. ABut by the same token [the Dalkova (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) (lot 1151). Dalkova hails catalogue] measures up to any previous years we=ve from the family of Group 1 winners Daliapour (Ire), had. We=re quietly hopeful we=ll have a strong market Darshaan (GB), Dar Re Mi (GB), Rewilding (GB), for that as well.@ The European breeding stock sector Diaghilev (Ire) and Darazari (Ire). AIt was always going provided more than its share of fireworks 12 months to be a very difficult job to follow up what we had last ago, with the sales of the record-breaking Immortal year, because that was, by comment consent, once in a Verse (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) (4.7 million guineas) and generation,@ Beeby noted. ABut I think what the Goffs Dancing Rain (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) (4 million November Sale produces is a good, strong two days of guineas) at Tattersalls December immediately following Irish breeding stock. There are a few gems in there, so I Goffs= history-defining sale, and Beeby noted that think it=s a catalogue that should appeal to a wide caliber of horse seems to be largely absent from the audience.@ The Goffs November Foal Sale begins each scene this year.
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