Taylor Made’S Average Sales Price MADE Was 237% Higher Than the Sales Average
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LEFT BANK DIES HEADLINE p. 2 NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT call 732-747-8060. BY FAX AND INTERNET www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2002 SADLER’S WELLS COLT TOPS ORBY OPENER GOFFS ORBY -- TUESDAY A colt by top sire Sadler’s Wells led the bidding at TOP SIX COLTS yesterday’s opening session of the Goffs Orby Yearling Lot Sire Dam Price (i) Sale in Kildare, Ireland. The bay, consigned by Timmy 149 Sadler’s Wells Puck’s Castle (GB) 825,000 Hyde’s Camas Park Stud, Consigned by Camas Park Stud was purchased for Purchased by D L O’Byrne i825,000 by Demi O’Byrne. 85 Danehill Marlene-D (GB) 700,000 He is out of Puck’s Castle Consigned by Abbeville & Meadow Court Studs (GB) (Shirley Heights {GB}) Purchased by John Warren Bloodstock and is a half brother to group 26 Kingmambo Insight (Fr) 525,000 placed Emerald Peace (Ire) Consigned by Camas Park Stud (Green Desert). His second Purchased by Shadwell Estates Ltd dam is Irish champion juve- 114 Grand Lodge Music and Dance 510,000 Consigned by Barronstown Stud nile Pass the Peace (Alzao). Lot 149 Purchased by D L O’Byrne “The Sadler’s Wells/Shirley Goffs photo Heights cross has been a 132 Sadler’s Wells Old Domesday Book (GB) 500,000 winner before,” commented O’Byrne. “Let’s hope it can (65,000gns wnl ‘01 TATDEC) be again.” The underbidder on the session topper was Consigned by Ashtown House Stud Irish bloodstock agent Brian Grassick. The second-high- Purchased by McKeever-St. Lawrence est price at Tuesday’s session was brought by hip 205 Kingmambo Spirit of Tara (Ire) 500,000 number 85. The son of Danehill is the first foal from the Consigned by Kilcarn Stud winning Selkirk mare Marlene-D and brought a final bid Purchased by Shadwell Estates Ltd of i700,000 from John Warren. “He was a very im- Top Five Fillies posing individual with wonderful conformation,” Warren Lot Sire Dam Price (i) commented. The colt sold in utero for 100,000gns at 176 Distant View Sassy Bird 440,000 the 2000 Tattersalls December sale. He will be trained Consigned by Loughbrown Stud & Martinstown Farm by Michael Stoute. After the close of business Tuesday, Purchased by Shadwell Estates Ltd Matt Mitchell, Goffs Managing Director, commented, 101 Danehill Moment of Truth (Ire) 400,000 “Trade is solid, with strong competition for the better Consigned by Barronstown Stud lots.” The sale continues today at 11 a.m. Purchased by John I O’Byrne 113 Kingmambo Musicale 320,000 GOFFS ORBY STATISTICS Consigned by Barouche Stud TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2002 Purchased by Shadwell Estates Ltd 150 Diesis (GB) Pump 280,000 Consigned by Airlie Stud Purchased by J S Bolger SESSION TOTALS 2002 2001 156 Grand Lodge Ragtime Rumble 240,000 Offered 205 207 Consigned by Croom House Stud No. Sold 182 184 Purchased by Charles O’Brien RNA 23 (11.2%) 23 (11.1%) Gross (i) (% change) 20,146,000 (+7%) n/a Average (i) (% change) 110,692 (+8%) n/a TDN TODAY www.goffs.com Headline News .................... 6 pages Entries for Keeneland January close November 1 TAYLOR Last January, Taylor Made’s average sales price MADE was 237% higher than the sales average. phone (859) 885-3345 fax (859) 887-1754 Isn’t it time you came to Taylor Made? www.taylormadefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/9/02 • PAGE 2 of 6 P N E W S T O D A Y P BREEDERS’ CUP NOVERRE TO KILDANGAN STUD Champion miler BULLETIN Noverre (Rahy--Danseur Fabuleux, by Northern Dancer) will commence his stud career in 2003 at Darley’s Kildangan Stud in Ireland. The blaze-faced bay is cur- Medaglia d’Oro Works rently in training for the G1 Champion S. Oct. 19 at GI Travers S. winner Medaglia d’Oro (El Prado {Ire}) Newmarket. Winner of the G2 Champagne S. and the worked a bullet six furlongs yesterday at Belmont Park G3 July S. at two, Noverre finished first in the G1 in 1:13. Jockey Aaron Gryder was in the irons. “I’ve Poule d’Essai des Poulains, but was disqualified for a worked him four times, but today was the most impres- medication violation. He captured the G1 Sussex S. in sive he’s worked,” Gryder said. “He is a great work August and was the highweighted three-year-old colt horse, anyway. He’ll go six furlongs in 1:16 if you over a mile in England. This year, he finished second to want, or he’ll go in 1:12 if you want. Today, he Rock of Gibraltar (Ire) in the Sussex and third to Nayef warmed up great and really acted like he wanted to get and Golan (Ire) in the G1 Juddmonte International S. A into it.” Medaglia d’Oro, who galloped out seven fur- great-grandson of fabled broodmare Native Partner longs in 1:25 4/5 yesterday, will likely ship Oct. 21 to (Raise a Native), Noverre is a three-quarters brother to Arlington Park for the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Trainer multiple champion Arazi (Blushing Groom {Fr}). Bobby Frankel also sent out Classic hopeful Milwaukee “Noverre is a horse with a lot going for him,” said Sam Brew (Wild Again) to work a half mile in :47 2/5 yester- Bullard, Darley’s head of nominations. “He was excep- day. tionally tough and a ferocious battler, and precocious enough to get off the mark over five furlongs in May as Lido Palace to Skip Classic a two-year-old. He’s from one of the finest families in GI Woodward S. winner Lido Palace (Chi) (Rich Man’s the book, and is a strongly made, very attractive horse Gold) will not be supplemented to this year’s Breeders’ well worth coming to see once he’s at Kildangan.” For Cup Classic, co-owner John Amerman said yesterday. more information, go to www.darleystallions.com. Amerman had been considering making an $800,000 supplemental payment to make the horse eligible for LEFT BANK DIES Left Bank (French Deputy-- Marshesseaux, by Dr. Blum) died Monday after a severe the $4-million race. Though Amerman said he believed bout of colic. Shortly after equalling the Saratoga track Lido Palace was the best older dirt male in the country record while winning the GI Whitney Aug. 3, the five- and would have liked a chance to prove it, he did not year-old came down with colic and had surgery. He believe putting up the money to run in the Classic was was retired from racing and sent to Ashford Stud near necessarily practical. “It strikes me that if the Breeders’ Versailles, Kentucky to recuperate. Left Bank, running Cup and the NTRA wants to make this a true world in the colors of Michael Tabor, set a track record at Thoroughbred championship, they’ve got to come up Belmont Park while winning the seven-furlong GII Tom with a supplemental situation that works for horses Fool H. He also won last year’s GI Cigar Mile H. and GI from both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. If a Vosburgh. On the board in 16 of 24 starts, Left Bank horse is born in the Southern Hemisphere, he is almost won 14 races and earned $1,402,805. automatically excluded. I believe it would be very easy to solve this without affecting the whole Breeders’ Cup MANHATTAN CAFÉ RETIRED Manhattan Café payment system that much, but they have chosen not (Jpn) (Sunday Silence--Subtle Change {Ire}, by Law to do anything about it.” Amerman said Lido Palace will Society), a disappointing 13th in Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc now be pointed for the Nov. 29 $400,000 GII Clark H. de Triomphe, has been retired from racing with a leg at Churchill. “It’s certainly not quite the same purse, infection, according to a report in Japan Today. Trainer but I think we’ll do very well. Then we’ll have a fresh Futoshi Kojima told reporters on Monday that the four- horse for 2003.” year-old is possibly suffering from tendinitis. The Japa- nese star won the 2001 G1-JRA Kikuka Sho (Japanese A # will distinguish first-time stakes-winners, a @ will St. Leger) and G1-JRA Arima Kinen Grand Prix, as well indicate first-time graded stakes-winners, a s will as this year’s G1-JRA Tenno Sho. He won six of 11 denote a first-time Grade/Group 1 winner, a + will starts and earned $4,164,517. denote winners who are first-time starters. Arrowfield has bred, raised or sold over 40 stakes winners Breeding including 8 individual Group One winners in the past five years. tomorrow’s Arrowfield... Australia’s premier thoroughbred nursery. Contact: John Messara Tel:+612 9223 8277 Fax:+612 9223 5795 champions [email protected] www.arrowfield.com.au TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 10/9/02 • PAGE 3 of 6 WEEKEND PEDIGREE Awesome Again, Deputy Commander and Touch Gold were all members of the outstanding 1994 crop PERSPECTIVES sired by Deputy Minister, which contained nine stakes by Alan Porter winners including additional GISW Fabulously Fast and Toyo Rainbow, a millionaire in Japan. Although the Saturday, Belmont Park three were contemporaries with similar aptitudes, cir- CHAMPAGNE S.-GI, $500,000, BEL, 10-5, 2yo, cumstances conspired to ensure that they rarely met in 1 1/16m, 1:44 2/5, ft. meaningful head-to-head competition. Awesome Again 1--#@sTOCCET, 122, c, 2, by Awesome Again was unraced at two and at three captured the Queen’s 1st Dam: Cozzene's Angel (MSP), by Cozzene Plate and GII Jim Dandy S.