SUNDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2016 FIGURES UP AT INGLIS CLASSIC SALE THE MAKING OF The opening session of Inglis=s three-day Classic Yearling Sale DUAL-HEMISPHERE STARS posted positive results Saturday evening in Sydney, with increases for most figures. Hosted as an evening session for the first time after racing at Randwick, the session saw 97 offered and 78 sold for a total of A$4,411,000, compared to 136 sold for A$6,143,000 on last year=s opening day. The buyback rate climbed almost four points to 19.6%; however, the average and median both experienced significant gains, up 25.2% to A$56,551 and 18.4% to A$45,000, respectively. The competitiveness of the buying bench was underlined by the fact that 70 different buyers signing for the 78 yearlings sold. Popularity in the sire ranks also proved diverse, with the top 13 yearlings on the day being by 12 different stallions. Cont. p4 Modern-day shuttle pioneer Danehill | Arrowfield Stud GOLDEN WEEKEND FOR MEDAGLIA D=ORO Mshawish (Medaglia d=Oro) added the GI Donn H. to his By John Berry resume at Gulfstream Park, while over on the West Coast There is nothing new about a stallion enjoying widespread >TDN Rising Star= and champion 2-year-old filly Songbird success in both hemispheres. Even in the 19th century there was (Medaglia d=Oro) landed the GII Las Virgenes S. at Santa Anita. scope for a stallion such as Carbine (NZ) (Musket {GB}) to thrive Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. both in Australia and England. In Australia, Carbine sired the VRC and/or AJC Derby winners Wallace (Aus), Amberite (Aus) and Charge (Aus), while his list of big-race winners in England was headed by 1906 Derby winner Spearmint (GB) and 1909 Ascot Gold Cup winner Bomba (GB). However, up until the final years of the 20th century, if a stallion was to take high rank in both hemispheres, he had do so in two separate chapters of his stud career. Once it became common practice, however, to shuttle stallions regularly back and forward across the equator, the dual-hemisphere star could reign in both hemispheres simultaneously--as Danehill (Danzig) did so effectively. Danehill won the first of his eight Australian General Sires' Premierships in 1994/95. That signified really quick-fire success, as in that season the members of his first Australian crop--which included the 1994 Golden Slipper winner Danzero (Aus)--were still aged only three. Success came slightly less quickly in Europe: he registered the first of his four GB/Ire general sires' championships in 2003, when his representatives were headed by the Derby winner North Light (Ire). Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL $ PAGE 2 of 6 $ THETDN.COM SUNDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2016 In the U.S., he has enjoyed 2-year-old success at the Breeders' Cup, courtesy of 2010 GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf winner Pluck, while his six North American Grade I winners include 2013 The Making Of Dual-Hemisphere Stars Cont. Wood Memorial and Haskell Invitational winner Verrazano and North Light's Derby victory, incidentally, proved 2014 Champagne S. winner Daredevil. to be the first leg of a remarkable Derby double Darley did not feature in the vanguard at the start of the for Danehill: five months later his son Elvstroem shuttle-stallion assault, but was fairly quick off the mark in (Aus) took the Victoria Derby at Flemington. joining the reverse-shuttle boom--and the enduring success of Bearing in mind that feature races in Melbourne the aforementioned Exceed And Excel has ensured that it has generally carry more prestige than do their counterparts in done particularly well in this sphere. The coming months are Brisbane, this achievement eclipsed that of Grand Lodge (Chief's going to be particularly exciting ones for Sheikh Mohammed's Crown) in 2000 when he sired the winners of the Derby (Sinndar team as we see how things pan out for two of its best stallions: {Ire}) and the Queensland Derby (Freemason {Aus}) not merely Lonhro (Aus) (Octagonal {NZ}) and Medaglia d'Oro (El Prado in the same year, but on the same day. {Ire}). It was almost inevitable that the elite band of stallions capable Australia's champion sire of 2010/11, Lonhro is thoroughly to some degree of taking up the mantle of Danehill would proven Down Under, and his results there remain excellent. include some of his sons. Of Danehill's European sons, the one Currently the jury is still out in the Northern Hemisphere, and who came closest to matching his father's international 2016 is going to be a crucial year for him. Beginning in 2012, he achievements was Danehill Dancer (Ire). Of Danehill's Australian spent three years Group 1 winners, Exceed And Excel (Aus) and Fastnet Rock (Aus) reverse-shuttling to have been notable Jonabell Farm in dual-hemisphere Kentucky. The successes. Each of members of his these three has first US-conceived been champion sire crop, therefore, at home and has have just turned sired Group 1 three. With a winners in the strong other hemisphere. representation of Lonhro=s Grade III winner Isotherm | Horsephotos Fastnet Rock had three Irish-bred Group 1 With three promising winners last year | Coolmore individual 3-year-olds in both the U.S. and Europe including GIII Pilgrim S. Irish-bred Group 1 winner Isotherm, he is potentially set for a year which could put winners in 2015, Fastnet Rock is doing particularly well at him up among the dual-hemisphere elite. present. The next few months also offer mouth-watering potential for It now remains to be seen whether another Australian Medaglia d'Oro. The Sadler's Wells sires who have excelled in champion sire, Redoute's Choice (Aus) (Danehill), can match Australasia include High Chaparral (Ire) and Scenic (Ire), but Exceed And Excel and Fastnet Rock in scaling the heights in Sadler's Wells's excellent grandson Medaglia d'Oro seems to be Europe. The reception given by purchasers around Europe last becoming the most notable dual-hemisphere star from the line autumn to his first batch of French-conceived yearlings suggests to date. that he can. In the U.S., Medaglia d'Oro's 3-year-old daughter Songbird Another dual-hemisphere star has been More Than Ready could be set for an outstanding campaign, while in Australia (Southern Halo), whose years of shuttling between Vinery in Astern (Aus) is currently second favourite for the Golden Slipper. Kentucky and Vinery in New South Wales have yielded Following the success last year of Vancouver (Aus) (who has now consistently excellent results. Thanks to the wins in 2008 and '09 joined Aidan O'Brien's stable in Ireland), victory there for Astern of Sebring (Aus) and Phelan Ready (Aus), More Than Ready would make Medaglia d'Oro only the sixth sire to produce stands proud alongside Star Kingdom (Ire) (Stardust {GB}), Vain consecutive Slipper winners, and would confirm the stallion as (Aus) (Wilkes {Fr}), Danehill and Redoute's Choice as one of only an outstanding shuttling success story. five stallions to have sired consecutive Golden Slipper winners. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL $ PAGE 3 of 6 $ THETDN.COM SUNDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2016 Unibet Cleves S. Cont. Rivellino, a narrow runner-up here in 2014, had been winless in eight starts since annexing last year=s renewal of this sprint and arrived for another go coming off a Nov. 25 handicap fifth at Saturday=s Results: Kempton. Bounced out of the gate to race third before CORAL.CO.UK WINTER DERBY TRIAL S.-Listed, ,45,000, LIN, improving one spot nearing halfway, he was pushed along 2-6, 4yo/up, 10f (AWT), 2:03.68, ft. rounding the home turn and kept on resolutely under 1--GRENDISAR (IRE), 126, h, 6, by Invincible Spirit (Ire)-- stretch-long urging to deny Gamgoom in the dying strides for a Remarkable Story (GB), by Mark of Esteem (Ire). (i15,000 second black-type score. The veteran bay hails from the family Wlg >10 GOFNOV; 30,000gns Ylg >11 TAOC; ,75,000 2yo >12 of G1 2000 Guineas and G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner TATMAY). O-Mohamed Albousi Alghufli; B-Old Carhue & Henrythenavigator (Kingmambo), and G1 Irish 2000 Guineas Grange Bloodstock (IRE); T-Marco Botti; J-Adam Kirby. victor Saffron Walden (Fr) (Sadler=s Wells). ,25,520. Lifetime Record: GSP-Eng, 33-8-13-2, $349,184. 2--Festive Fare (GB), 125, g, 4, Teofilo (Ire)--Al Joza (GB), by ADDITIONAL MAIDEN WINNERS: Dubawi (Ire). (150,000gns Ylg >13 TAOCT). O-Godolphin. Midnight Whistler, c, 4, Henrythenavigator--Ball Gown, by ,9,675. Silver Hawk. LIN, 2-6, 12f (AWT), 2:32.77. B-Kirk Wycoff & 3--Lamar (Ire), 124, m, 5, Cape Cross (Ire)--Deveron, by Cozzene. Deby Wycoff (KY). *$75,000 Wlg >12 KEENOV; i35,000 Ylg >13 (40,000gns Ylg >12 TAOCT). O-Saif Ali. ,4,842. GOFORB. **1/2 to Ball Dancing (Exchange Rate), GISW-US, SW Margins: HF, NK, HD. Odds: 4.00, 1.00, 8.00. Click for the Racing & GSP-Fr, $719,282; and Palomar (Chester House), GSP-Fr, Post result. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. $220,348. Grendisar had fallen short in seven outs since gaining a narrow Hidden Brook Sales Graduate verdict in this contest last year, and went postward coming back from a brace of seconds here in the Nov. 14 Listed Churchill S. and the Dec. 15 Listed Quebec S. last time. Steadied off the pace in midfield fifth after breaking on terms with the front rank, he cruised into contention on the final turn and powered home strongly under a drive once unleashed in the short straight to Saturday=s Results: embellish his tally in game fashion.