MAWATHEEQ Sire of MERCY ME Winner of the 32Red.Com Median Auction Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Lingfield Yesterday
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EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS THURSDAY, 26TH MARCH 2015 – 12 PAGES For more information • T: +44 (0)1638 666512 • F:+44 (0)1638 666516 • [email protected] • www.bloodstocknews.eu Today’s Headlines Sales Talk STALLION NEWS ARQANA SMART STRIKE EBN Sales Talk Click here to PUT DOWN AT 23 is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com Lane’s End stalwart Smart Strke was put down yesterday at the age of 23 after his laminitis took a turn for the worse. A Sam Son Farm homebred, the son of Mr Prospector CLASSY JUVENILES out of the Canadian Oaks winner Classy’n Smart won the Gr.1 Philip Iselin Handicap at four, capping a six-race AT BREEZE-UP SALE winning streak, before finishing fourth behind Cigar in the On Saturday, 9th May from 2pm, the Boussac ring at Gr.1 Woodward Stakes. Saint-Cloud racecourse will be the venue for the 2015 He retired to stud in 1997 and has been responsible for Arqana Breeze-Up Sale. 113 Stakes winners, 14 Gr.1 winners, 12 Champions, four The breezes themselves will take place on the eve of the Breeders’ Cup winners and two Classic winners. Among sale on Friday, 8th May from 10am on the racecourse’s turf his progeny are the dual Horse of the Year Curlin, the dual track. The catalogue, which is available at Champion Lookin At Lucky, Champion Turf Horse www.arqana.com, offers a quality selection of 134 two- English Channel, and Canadian Horses of the Year year-olds, including 91 which carry the ‘Fr’ suffix or are Soaring Free and Never Retreat. His daughters have assimilated as such. produced at least eleven Stakes winners, including last Organised on the eve of the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des October’s Gr.1 Alcibiades Stakes victrix Peace And War. Poulains and Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, this sale is “We are very saddened by the loss of Smart Strike,” said the only one in Europe to have produced two Classic William S Farish, owner of Lane’s End Farm. “He has been winners in the last three years. The sale was responsible one of our flagship stallions for many years. He was an for the exceptional The Grey Gatsby (Mastercraftsman), exceptional sire and his influence on the breed will be felt who turned the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey-Club into a procession for a long time. I want to thank Sam Son Farm for entrusting us with his stallion career, as well as the other shareholders and breeders that have supported him.” POINTS 0f VIEW Today’s New Zealand Racing and Bloodstock News is on page 10 with Carl Evans Another individual winner for MAWATHEEQ Sire of MERCY ME Winner of the 32red.Com Median Auction Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Lingfield yesterday. Breeder: Aston Mullins Stud +44 (0)1842 755913 I [email protected] I www.shadwellstud.co.uk 1 EBN Thursday, 26th March 2015 SALES TALK when winning it by three lengths last June, and then QUALITY LOTS FROM QUALITY CONSIGNORS Australia (Galileo) in the Gr.1 Irish Champion Stakes later The catalogue is made up of 134 well-bred two-year-olds last season. Following a very successful year, The Grey which have been prepared by the best consignors in Gatsby was rated the joint-highest three-year-old in the Europe. world in the Longines World Rankings of 2014. The Channel Consignment will offer a draft of 16, This sale has also produced the Classic winner Lucayan including Lot 126, a son of Sea The Stars out of (Turtle Bowl), who won the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Stunning, who was placed in the Gr.2 Critérium de Poulains in 2012. Amongst the numerous other winning Maisons-Laffitte; Lot 79, an Invincible Spirit half-brother graduates is Mshawish, who won the Gr.1 Gulfstream to triple Listed winner Prince Fasliyev, as well as Lot 23, Park Turf Handicap last month as well as the Gr.2 Fort a Kitten’s Joy half-sister to Bold Union, a Gr.3 winner in Lauderdale Stakes, thereby becoming a first US Gr.1 the US. winner for the Al Shaqab Racing operation. This son of Jamie Railton and Alban Chevalier du Fau will offer Lot Medaglia D’Oro could line up for the Gr.1 Dubai Turf on 15, one of the last offspring by the great Monsun to go 28th March this year. Another successful horse to have through the ring, and Lot 98, a son of Siyouni, who was emerged from the sale is Palang, a son of Hat Trick, who bought at the 2014 October Yearling Sale when consigned finished second in the Gr.1 Critérium de Saint-Cloud in by the Haras de Colleville. The leading consignor at the 2014 sale, Irishman Willie 2014. Brown (Mocklershill), will make the trip with 14 two-year- The sale also numbers numerous Classic hopes for the olds. Standouts among these include Lot 124, a Siyouni 2015 season, such as Zvarkhova (Makfi) and half-brother to the dual Group winner Myasun; Lot 86, a Kencharova (Kendargent), who are both entered in the half-brother by Giant’s Causeway to Poupée Flash, who Gr.1 Prix de Diane, as well as High Dynamite (Kentucky was placed several times at Group level, as well as Lot 2, Dynamite), who has recently finished second in the Listed a son of Canford Cliffs and the first foal out of a daughter Prix Maurice Caillault. High Dynamite is entered in the Gr.1 of a Montjeu half-sister to Ice Queen, who finished Prix du Jockey-Club and the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Paris. second in the Gr.1 Irish Oaks. Other graduates of the 2014 sale include Yeenaan (Rip Brendan Holland (Grove Stud), who most notably Van Winkle) trained by Marco Botti, who is entered in the consigned The Grey Gatsby at last year’s sale, will go to Chantilly Classic and made a strong impression when Saint-Cloud with 13 of his best two-year-olds. Among them running out the classy winner of his last two starts, as well are Lot 59, a son of Galileo out of Gr.3 winner as Karar (Invincible Spirit), who totally dominated his Kamarinskaya and Lot 132, an Oasis Dream half-brother maiden on 19th March this year at Saint-Cloud. to the Gr.1 Coronation Stakes victrix Maids Causeway. 2 EBN Thursday, 26th March 2015 SALES TALK Ecurie Philip Prévost-Baratte, who prepped and consigned Classic winner Lucayan, will send out a contingent of eleven two-year-olds, including Lot 7, a Diktat half-brother to the promising Listed winner Wag’n Tail, who is entered in the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains; Lot 8, a Myboycharlie half-brother to Group winners ! Stellar Path and Weary (ex Sir Patrick Moore), and Lot 19, a Rip Van Winkle half-sister to the Gr.3 Prix Penelope winner Don’t Hurry Me. Among the two-year-olds presented by Paul Basquin, at the helm of Haras du Saubouas, are Lot 30 and Lot 134. The first is a daughter of Siyouni, who was bought at the v.2 Yearling Sale and is from the family of US Gr.1 winner Sarafan. The second is a son of the French stallion Kendargent out of Vital Body, who finished placed three times at Listed level. Con Marnane (Bansha House Stables) will travel over with eleven two-year-olds, including Lot 123, a Dream Ahead half-brother to the Champion racemare Sahpresa, who won the Gr.1 Sun Chariot Stakes three times, and Lot 6, a daughter of Le Havre from the high-class family of Angelina Ballerina. Others with eyecatching pedigrees include Lot 9 (presented by Gaybrook Lodge Stud), a result of the mating between New Approach and Anabaa’s Creation, who was placed several times at Gr.1 level; Lot 27 (presented by Meadowview Stables), a son of Smart Strike out of Cable, who was placed three times in Gr.3 races in the US, and Lot 54 (presented by Yeomanstown Reliable Man, the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey-Club and Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner, has had his first Northern Hemisphere foals. He stands at Gestut Rottgen near Cologne in Germany, at a fee of €6,000, with travel allowances available for mares coming from outside Germany, and already has 70 mares booked for 2015. The 57 mares he covered in his first season include several of Rottgen’s better mares, including Gr.2 winner Wild Side, pictured above with her filly foal born on 11th March. Wild Side is already the dam of four Stakes horses, including the triple Group winner Wild Coco, the five-times Group-placed Wilddrossel, last season’s Gr.2 ! runner-up Weltmacht and the Listed-placed Wild Silva. Others mares covered by Reliable Man in 2014 included the Gr.1 winners Pride and Enora. ! 3 EBN Thursday, 26th March 2015 RACING NEWS Stud), a Medaglia D’Oro half-brother to Morning Line, who lifted the Gr.1 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct. Lot 92 BRITAIN (presented by Sherbourne Lodge Stables) is a Lope De Vega half-brother to the Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin winner ENTRIES UNVEILED FOR New Girlfriend, and Lot 111 (presented by Brown Island TOPHAM AND FOX HUNTERS’ Stables) is a daughter of Street Cry out of Real Fancy Runner, who was placed in the Gr.3 La Habra Stakes at Entries were revealed yesterday for the races over the Santa Anita.