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SATURDAY, 28TH NOVEMBER 2020 NEW YEAR NEW OPPORTUNITY JANUARY EBN MON. 11 - THURS. 14 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 DUBAWI DOUBLE GIVES PREMIER FOALS A POLISH A brace of colts by Champion Sire Dubawi gave the elite session of Tattersalls’ December Foal Sale a touch of glitter at Park Paddocks yesterday, writes Carl Evans. Lot 939, the Dubawi half-brother to Gr.1 Moyglare Stud Darley’s great sire was represented by just three foals – two Stakes winner Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy), who was colts and a filly – in Europe’s highest-grossing auction of bought by Godolphin for 700,000gns. © Tattersalls.com weanlings, but they did not let him down, thanks primarily to Sheikh Mohammed, the ruler of Dubai, head of Darley and Godolphin, and the man who stands the stallion. He bought both IN TODAY’S ISSUE... colts for a combined 1,300,000gns, while Andreas Putsch of Haras de Saint Pair gained the filly for 310,000gns. Racing Review p9 These high-value transactions helped carry turnover to a mark Letter From America p18 of 16,341,000gns, a fall of approximately 750,000gns or four per cent. The average price was down 14 per cent at 86,460gns while Leading Sires’ Table p19 the median price of 57,000gns was a drop of 12 per cent, but in CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 2021 STALLIONS almanzor 30.000€ The european champion city light 7.000€ Multiple Gr.1 performer by siyouni hello youmzain 25.000€ High class sprinter by kodiac persian king 30.000€ The Kingman ! scissor Kick 5.000€ A promising start at stud In 2021 travelling to France is a «must» and Etreham should be your first stop ! SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 28TH NOVEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE- DAY THREE Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 939 c DUBAWI – Dane Street Airlie Stud Godolphin 700,000 944 c DUBAWI – Baisse Fittocks Stud Godolphin 600,000 955 c FRANKEL – Suelita Whitsbury Manor Stud Juddmonte Farms 550,000 954 f DUBAWI – Joyful Hope New England Stud Haras de Saint Pair 310,000 854 c LOPE DE VEGA – Lucky Clio Newtown Stud Oneliner Stables 300,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS the context of COVID-world breeders will know they have when offered as an October Sale yearling in 2010, but she won a navigated a cliff edge. No less importantly and marvellously was couple of races and her 2015 cover by Scat Daddy resulted in the the clearance rate of 87 per cent, up six per cent, while 52 foals aforementioned Skitter Scatter, winner of the Gr.1 Moyglare made a six-figure sum, just four fewer than at the session last year. Stud Stakes for the Rogers family and their long-term partner Who would have thought such solid trade would be possible Robert Clay of Three Chimneys Farm. when continents started locking down in March? What Dubawi can bring to the mix will be interesting, although For those who follow this unique form of business, but cannot he is no stranger to Street Cry mares. Stroud said: “He’s by Dubawi attend international bloodstock auctions because of COVID who we love, and he’s a very athletic individual. In all these decisions restrictions, the figures may well convey an image of trade we are aiming for quality, and David [Loder] and I really like him. carrying on as usual albeit with a correction in values. You have to He’s the first foal we have bought this week and Sheikh Mohammed attend to realise it is a bizarre environment in which face coverings liked the model.” are obligatory, the restaurants are closed, entry to the ring is Minutes later the Stroud/Loder axis swept into action again, securely limited, and respite from the winter weather involves posting a 600,000gns bid that bought a Dubawi colt (Lot 944) hugging a cup of takeaway coffee while standing socially- out of Baisse (High Chaparral), the dam of Best Of Days, a distanced under an open-sided marquee. multiple Stakes winner for the Sheikh’s Godolphin operation. So a That Tattersalls has been able to stage the December Sale, on Dubawi colt selling to Godolphin, which is not so unusual, until time and at its chosen venue, is a godsend for which all breeders, you consider the foal in question was bred by a one-mare breeder. consignors and buyers collectively seem hugely grateful. Gerhard Schoeningh bought Baisse through Crispin de Moubray for 48,000gns at Book 2 of the October Sale, and in his SKITTER SCATTER GILDS AIRLIE’S LILY colours she won twice including a Listed race in Germany. He now The name of Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Skitter Scatter gave boards Baisse at the Cumani family’s Fittocks Stud near the page of her Dubawi half-brother (Lot 939) an exotic uplift, Newmarket, and it was from their farm that her Dubawi foal was and he duly headed trade when selling for 700,000gns at consigned yesterday. yesterday’s third session of the December Foal Sale. The valuation Sara Cumani said: “Whenever anyone sells a big-priced horse they was the joint-second-highest for a colt at this famous auction. say it was a gorgeous horse, but he really was. We’ve had him since Anthony Stroud brought the hammer down on behalf of he was born and he’s been a complete charmer all along. He had Sheikh Mohammed, completing another good ring result for grade one X-rays, a grade one scope and no one could fault him. Sonia and Anthony Rogers of Airlie Stud. Their mare Dane Street, “The full-sister [unraced two-year-old Summerland, who was a half-sister to sire Intense Focus, was knocked down to vendor sold for 725,000gns at this sale in 2018] is with Charlie Appleby and NEW Parading at the National Stud FOR from Today until Thursday 3rd December 2021 SERGEI PROKOFIEV By Scat Daddy x Orchard Beach (Tapit) Contact: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper 01725 518254 www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 The biggest catalogue update in the entire sale! Your route to the Breeders’ Cup! T A T A T T E R G S N A I L L L L S E S D E E C L E A DECEMBER1 M S B E E R R A M “It would be no surprise if she ended up as the stable’s top three-year-old prospect by the end of the season.” Santa Barbara “Could be the best out of the family, I won on both her siblings. She’s top of my ratings.” Seamie Heffernan, Jockey of Santa Barbara IN FOAL TO SPRINTING SENSATION & 4X GR.1 WINNER BLUE POINT HALF SISTER TO 2020 BREEDERS’ CUP MILE WINNER ORDER OF AUSTRALIA HALF SISTER TO CHAMPION RACEMARE AND 2019 BREEDERS’ CUP WINNER IRIDESSA +44 (0)7836 671571 (UK mobile) | [email protected] | @tedvoute www.voutesales.com SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 28TH NOVEMBER 2020 “UNBELIEVABLY GOOD VALUE” Sire of 21 Group/Stakes performers from just 134 runners including Gr.1 winning 2YOs The Wow Signal & Millisle (2019 European Champion 2YO Filly, pictured winning the Cheveley Park StakesGr.1) Another Dubawi colt, Lot 944, a half-brother to Australian “he is unbelievably good value and has Gr.1 winner Best Of Days (Azamour), went the way of Godolphin, selling for 600,000gns. © Tattersalls.com had a very good last couple of years” Ed Sackville, TDN, 25th Nov “an outstanding individual by the [Nathaniel] yearling filly is called Beau Rivage [and has been a sire who is doing really well” retained]. The mare is in foal to Frankel and is going to Sea The Anthony Stroud, purchaser for Godolphin Moon. Gerhard owns Hoppegarten racecourse and this is the only of the 360,000gns colt that topped Day 3 broodmare he owns. at Tattersalls Book 2 “We tried to get him to sell half of the half-sister to us, but since he has just the one mare he wanted to keep her daughter.” “a very good, popular stallion The sole Dubawi filly (Lot 954) in the catalogue sold to Andreas who does very well” Putsch having been consigned by Peter Stanley’s New England Daniel Creighton, purchaser of the 130,000gns Stud on behalf of her breeders Watership Down Stud and Andrew yearling filly at Tattersalls on Monday Rosen. She is a daughter of the Shamardal mare Joyful Hope, a half-sister to the dam of Thursday’s session-topping Sea The Stars colt who realised 170,000gns. WHITSBURY WONDERS KEEP COMING Ed Harper will not forget this sale for many years to come after his Whitsbury Manor Stud enjoyed its second rollicking result in two days with foals out of inexpensive mares. On Thursday a home-bred colt by resident sire Havana Grey sold for a superb 130,000gns, a colossal result for a new sire off an £8,000 covering fee, and yesterday the Hampshire stud traded a 550,000gns son of Frankel (Lot 955) which completed a superb piece of business by Harper’s father Chris. He bought the foal’s dam, Suelita (Dutch Art), for 21,500gns at this ring in 2013, and Other yearlings in 2020 (from €15,000 fee) sold for she has hardly been out of the news since – her offspring have 200,000gns, 170,000gns, £170,000, 140,000gns, included three Stakes earners, headed by this year’s Gr.2 Mill Reef 125,000gns, £130,000, 125,000gns, £130,000, €125,000 etc.