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WEDNESDAY, 7TH OCTOBER 2020 ALL EYES ON KEENELAND NOVEMBER EBN MON. 9 - WED. 18 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com PANTILE’S BEAUTY SNAPPED UP BY BAHRAIN Bahrain’s intent as a growing power within European racing was clearly signalled when Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sunday’s Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe is won by Sottsass Sale opened in Newmarket yesterday, writes Carl Evans. (Siyouni), who has been retired to join the stallion roster Operating for a member of the Gulf state’s royal family, at Coolmore. See story on page 17. bloodstock agent Oliver St Lawrence was underbidder on a 2,000,000gns half-sister to Golden Horn and then secured the session’s top lot, a son of Kingman (Lot 174), whose sale for 2,700,000gns was a windfall of epic size for breeder Colin Murfitt. IN TODAY’S ISSUE... It was also the best ring result for consignor Robin Sharp of Houghton Bloodstock, whose previous auction high was one of Steve Cargill’s Racing Week p20 500,000gns. Racing Round-up p21 The jewel which generated such a sum is a half-brother to the Gr.1 2,000 Guineas winner and sire Galileo Gold, who was First Crop Sire Maidens p26 produced by the Galileo mare Galicuix. She was bought by Pinhooking Tables p28 Murfitt for 8,000gns at the 2013 December Sale, having earlier See pages 3 & 5 – October Yearlings Book 1 Meon Valley Stud have bred the winners 6th-8th October 2020 of 21 Group One Races ANAPURNA – Investec Oaks, Prix de Royallieu SPEEDY BOARDING – Prix Jean Romanet, Prix de l’Opera IZZI TOP – Pretty Polly Stakes, Prix Jean Romanet NECKLACE – Moyglare Stud Stakes ZEE ZEE TOP – Prix de L’Opera 2020 WINNERS AND PLACED KAYF TARA – Ascot Gold Cup (twice) & Irish St Leger (twice) SAN SEBASTIAN – Prix du Cadran 21 Winners of 33 races including 6 Stakes Races ONE SO WONDERFUL – Juddmonte International Stakes LADY CARLA – Oaks Stakes TELECASTER – La Coupe (Gr3) & Grand Prix de Deauville (Gr2) DASHING WILLOUGHBY – Henry II St (Gr3) & Buckhounds St (L) CEZANNE – Irish Champion Stakes AL SUHAIL – Sir Henry Cecil St (L) OPERA HOUSE – Coronation Cup, Eclipse Stakes and King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes Bizzi Lizzi – Cacophonous – Starcaster – Really Super – Bensoon MILLIGRAM – Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Cosmic Princess – Ravens Ark – Island Hideaway – Damage Control COLORSPIN – Irish Oaks Garden Oasis - Value Proposition – Telekinetic – Cristal Spirit Val Winkle – Nabilah – Catch My Breath – Cogital – Dance King www.meonvalleystud.co.uk CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 DERRINSTOWN STUD STALLIONS ESTABLISHED SINCE 1982 DERRINSTOWN STUD CONTINUES TO GIVE ACCESS TO STALLIONS WITH SOME OF THE FINEST BLOODLINES WITH LIMITED BOOKS, BREEDERS ARE GIVEN THE BEST POSSIBLE CHANCE TO REAP THE REWARDS OF THEIR CHOICE UPDATE EBEKO wins the Listed Zuma Beach S. at Santa Anita this week. AWTAAD MARKAZ A GROUP 1 CLASSIC WINNING MILER DUAL GROUP WINNING SPRINTER By the sire of SEA THE STARS Full brother to dual Gr.1 winner His stud career has already started to take off with MECCA’S ANGEL his first crop 2yos includingListed winner EBEKO, His first crop 2yos winners in 2020 include Stakes-placed A TAAD MOODY, and MARK OF THE MAN, MARK OF RESPECT, HEADSHOT, HUDDLETON MAC, ISLA KAI, SNASH, A BOY NAMED IVY, LIVE STREAM, RAINBOW BRIGHT, ROSEABAD, etc. GOTIXTIX, etc. • +353 (0)1 6286228 • [email protected] • www.derrinstown.com • +353 (0)1 6286228 [email protected] TAMAYUZ HAATEF SIRE OF 4 INDIVIDUAL GR.1 WINNERS ASCOT GROUP WINNING SPRINTER His recent black-type winners include: Half brother to STUD DERRINSTOWN MUSTASHRY (Gr.1 Lockinge Stakes, Gr.2 x3 and Gr.3), 3 Black Type winning sprinters GALLIC CHIEFTAIN (Gr.2), Sire of nearly 40% lifetime PRECIEUSE (Gr.1 and Gr.3), etc. winners to runners Look out for their yearlings at Tattersalls this week SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 7TH OCTOBER 2020 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE – BOOK 1 6th – 8th OCTOBER 2020 WEDNESDAY Lot 228 B.C. Intello x Izzi Top PIVOTAL EX ZEE ZEE TOP Dual Group 1 Winner – Oliver St Lawrence signed for the day’s top lot, a Kingman Dam of Prince Eiji and Willie John half-brother to Gr.1 2,000 Guineas winner and sire From the Family of Galileo Gold (Lot 174), on behalf of Bahraini clients for 2,700,000gns. © Tattersalls Colorspin, Opera House, Kayf Tara, etc that year foaled Galileo Gold. Murfitt duly sent her back to Paco Boy and she produced a filly called Choumica who topped Lot 311 B.C. Doncaster’s Premier Sale when making £280,000, but yesterday’s result, spiced by the appeal of Juddmonte’s superb sire Kingman, Mukhadram was from another orbit. Murfitt, a property developer who has been involved in x Miss Dashwood breeding for just 15 years yet now has 28 mares, and whose DYLAN THOMAS EX DASH TO THE FRONT Pantile Stud is based near Soham in the Cambridgeshire fens, said: “I’d have gone to Kingman [with the mare] sooner but they Half brother to Dashing Willoughby wouldn’t have me! This is all down to Bo [Hicks-Little, who manages Family of Speedy Boarding, Pantile]. She’s done it all, she’s foaled this colt, slept with it and did Anapurna, Milligram, etc everything. “Galicuix did not have a foal this year, but she’s in foal to Too Darn Hot. I keep my horses on good black fen land and it’s good for them.” Lot 355 B.F. Hicks-Little said: “He’s been so straightforward, and not just a great specimen physically, but mentally as well. He’s been very easy to look after. It wasn’t easy when he foaled and we nearly lost his Pivotal mother that night, so this is pretty emotional.” x Perfectly Spirited St Lawrence, taking telephone instructions, headed interest from agent Ross Doyle, who was standing alongside M V Magnier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT EX DESIGN PERFECTION of Coolmore Stud. The successful bidder said of the colt, who will From the family of race in Europe: “His appeal lay in the all the obvious things – he was Stagecraft, Ballet Concerto, a lovely mover, had presence, and he’s a half-brother to a 2,000 Telecaster, Quest The Moon, Guineas winner. He’s a Classic prospect, a horse for whom his three- year-old career will be all important, and hopefully he can become a Casper Netscher, Alkaadem stallion and earn the money back. “I really didn’t think they [his Bahraini clients] would go that strong to that figure. At this stage I’ve bought him for Fawzi Nass [his long-standing client, owner of Aislabie Stud and a trainer in Bahrain] for Bahraini interests and a trainer will be decided later.” FIGURES DOWN, BUT NOT OUT Strong trade for choice lots at the opening session of Book 1 1983-2020 – Meon Valley Stud included sales of four horses for 1,000,000gns or more. have bred the winners of 1070 races, £18,931,347 (approx) This illustrious quartet could not prevent declines in all the key indicators, but not for the first time in this pandemic-affected year www.meonvalleystud.co.uk trade had to be considered remarkably good. CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 7TH OCTOBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 1 – DAY 1 Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 174 c KINGMAN – Galicuix Houghton Bloodstock Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock 2,700,000 109 c DUBAWI – Cushion Floors Stud Godolphin 2,100,000 162 f FRANKEL – Fleche D’Or Norelands Stud Godolphin 2,000,000 41 c FRANKEL – Attraction Floors Stud Godolphin 1,100,000 122 f GALILEO – Dialafara Camas Park Stud McCalmont Bloodstock 850,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS Turnover of 27,750,000gns was down 22 per cent, while the significant impact yesterday with eight purchases worth just over average dipped 14 per cent to 223,790gns and the median fell by 7m guineas. a third to 120,000gns. The clearance rate was down five per cent Session two of the sale starts this morning at 11am. at 78 per cent and, while Book 1 horses tend to appeal to very rich international racehorse owners and breeders whose wealth is ATTRACTION STARS AS unaffected by short-term economic downturns, most in the trade FLOORS PLANS NEW FUTURE would have been glad to see their appetite for bloodstock was Floors Stud is to close as a breeding operation in the Scottish still evident. Borders, but another chapter in its short history was written The key player is invariably Sheikh Mohammed, who chose not yesterday with two seven-figure sales. to spend at last week’s Orby Sale in Doncaster, but who made a The late Duke of Roxburghe’s famous breeding operation will continue to trade, but its mares will board at another, unnamed stud, most likely in the south of England. That plan was revealed at Tattersalls yesterday by the Duke’s widow, Virginia, following the sale of Floors Stud-bred colts by Frankel (Lot 41) and Dubawi (Lot 109) who were knocked down to Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin operation for 1,100,000gns and 2,100,000gns respectively. The Duke died last year at the age of 64, a victim of cancer.