Galileo and Green Room Rule Goffs Again
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 2019 GALILEO AND GREEN FRANCIS-HENRI GRAFFARD TO TRAIN FOR THE AGA KHAN ROOM RULE GOFFS AGAIN Trainer Francis-Henri Graffard will begin training for His Highness The Aga Khan from the autumn onwards, The Aga Khan Studs announced on Wednesday. A Godolphin Flying Start graduate, he will be sent 10 of The Aga Khan=s yearlings shortly. Graffard opened his yard at Chantilly in 2012, and has trained over 300 winners to date, including 2019 Group 1 winners Channel (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}) and Watch Me (Fr) (Olympic Glory {Ire}). The Aga Khan=s French-bred homebred yearlings will be distributed to French trainers Alain de Royer DuprJ, Mikel Delzangles, Jean-Claude Rouget and now Graffard. (Click here for a Kelsey Riley feature on Graffard). Breeders Vimal and Gillian Khosla with the Galileo filly out of Green Room and Lindsey Lenane | Sarah Farnsworth By Emma Berry KILDARE, IrelandCAct one went pretty much to script on Tuesday and when the principal players at the Orby Sale were recalled for Wednesday's second act, the stage was set for yet another repeat performance from last year, with lot 262, Green Room's pretty filly by Galileo (Ire), cast in the starring role. At i3 million, she sold for slightly less than her full-sister's Orby record-breaking performance 12 months earlier, but she drew a good crowd, most merely onlookers, with a few determined pursuers nestled in strategic huddles around the auditorium. Amanda Skiffington snared a daughter of the 17-year-old Francis-Henri Graffard | Scoop Dyga Theatrical (Ire) mare five years ago when buying Signe (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) on behalf of Fiona Carmichael for i1.1 million. Involved in the earlier skirmishes this time, Skiffington eventually withdrew to allow a straight head-to-head between the Godolphin team in the gods, and MV Magnier bidding on the IN TDN AMERICA TODAY level beneath Anthony Stroud. FASIG-TIPTON RELEASES NOVEMBER CATALOGUE A year ago, it was Phoenix Thoroughbreds who left the Orby Fasig-Tipton released their November Sale catalogue on Sale with the top two prizesCGalileo sisters to Forever Together Wednesday. Rescheduled for Nov. 5, the 201-strong sale begins (Ire) and Alice Springs (Ire), respectivelyCand this time around, at 3 p.m. and features 86 weanlings followed by racing and Westerberg's Georg von Opel has that pleasure, though he now broodmare prospects and in-foal mares. Amongst the offerings is MGISW and likely GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff favourite Midnight shares the overall sale-topper with Coolmore after MV Magnier Bisou (Midnight Lute). Click or tap here to go straight to TDN came out best of the upstairs-downstairs tussle and signed the America. ticket in joint names. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 17 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 3 OCTOBER 2019 Goffs Orby Sale Day 2 Cont. from p1 beautiful sales horses. Producing her stock is an honour for us. It's wonderful for the KhoslasCthey want everything to be done Vimal Khosla, who bred the to the highest standard and they filly with his wife Gillian, stood are a pleasure to be involved alongside Ballylinch Stud's John with." O'Connor to watch yet another He added, "The mare lives at exciting chapter in the story of Ballylinch and has been with us the remarkable Green Room, since Together Forever was a who is already the dam of Classic foal. She's a nice mare but victrix Forever Together and breeds horses even nicer than fellow Group 1 winners Together herself. She now has a filly foal Forever (Ire)Calso by by Sea The Stars, a full-sister to GalileoCand Lord Shanakill Signe, who is also on the farm (Speightstown). and has a Kingman filly for Fiona There are plenty of mares who Carmichael. The Khoslas also can produce enough of a show have Green Room's daughter by horse to reap the rewards in the MV Magnier & Ballylinch=s John O=Connor | Sarah Farnsworth Dansili (GB), Black Ruby, who ring during the early years of her career but it takes a special has a nice filly by Lope De Vega." one to keep coming up with desirable physical specimens who MV Magnier was notably restrained during the first day of the go on to fulfil the most important element of their existence by Orby Sale but after warming up with a i525,000 purchase of being superior athletes. Glenvale Stud's Australia (GB) half-brother to G2 Superlative S. "Both on the track and in the sales ring, [Green Room] is one winner Mystery Power (Ire) (No Nay Never) (lot 255), he soon of the most consistent mares there has ever been," said John made his intentions clear when it came to the top lot. O'Connor. "She keeps producing really good racehorses and Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 17 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 3 OCTOBER 2019 Vice President, International Operations Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Kelsey Riley Lot 262 prior to entering the ring | Sarah Farnsworth Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] Goffs Orby Sale Day 2 Cont. He said, "Firstly I would say that I'm delighted for Vimal and European Editor Gillian. It's a great result for them and they've been rewarded Emma Berry for putting a lot of faith in Galileo over the years. Twitter: @collingsberry "Obviously it's been a very lucky family for us already with [email protected] Together Forever and Forever Together, and this mare has produced another Group 1 winner in Lord Shanakill so she's an Associate International Editor Heather Anderson outstanding producer. We are lucky to be able to buy a filly like Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN this as she really is a collector's item." Cont. p3 Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editor GOFFS ORBY SALE DAY 2 Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN SESSION TOTALS 2019 2018 $ Catalogued 236 208 Cafe Racing $ Number Offered 209 179 Sean Cronin $ Number Sold 176 160 Tom Frary $ Not Sold 33 19 $ Clearance Rate 84% 89% [email protected] $ No. i500K+ 4 3 $ High Price i3,000,000 i3,200,000 Irish Correspondent $ Gross i19,738,000 i19,372,000 Daithi Harvey $ Average (% change) i112,148 (-7.4%) i121,075 $ Median (% change) i63,000 (-17.6%) i76,500 Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | Andrew Caulfield CUMULATIVE 2019 2018 John Berry | Kevin Blake $ Catalogued 472 419 $ Number Offered 428 369 $ Number Sold 363 328 $ Not Sold 65 41 $ Clearance Rate 85% 89% IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY $ No. i500K+ 8 10 SHARE IN MUSTAJEER TO BE AUCTIONED $ High Price i3,000,000 i3,200,000 A quarter share in Cups contender Mustajeer (GB) (Medicean $ Gross i42,797,500 i43,497,000 {GB}) will be auctioned via Inglis Digital’s Online Sale platform. $ Average (% change) i117,899 (-11.1%) i132,613 $ Median (% change) i65,000 (-18.8%) i80,000 Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. 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With 36 more horses sold this year, the aggregate was down by just 1.6% to i42,797,500 after another i19,738,000 was added to the tally from Wednesday's trade of 176 horses. With four horses exceeding the million-euro mark across the two days, Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby was pleased with the sale's performance. He said, "A superb top price of i3 million heading a quartet of millionaires clearly shows that the Orby Sale sits at the top table of the international yearling market and is the measure of any sale anywhere for the best. We remain eternally grateful that the breeders/vendors of such blue-bloods are prepared to place their trust in the Goffs service and delighted when those decisions are vindicated with such good results. AOrby 18 was a record-breaker and ultimately proved to be the best performing European yearling sale of the year from a statistical viewpoint. From a smaller catalogue demand grew and vendors were very happy. That success drove an increased application for places this year and the 2019 catalogue returned to previous year's numbers which has probably resulted in a More Stars For Aquis small drop in clearance rate, although we would submit that Aquis Farm made significant purchase during the first session, 85% is still a figure that reads well. Our average and median both in their own name and in partnership with Phoenix have not quite kept pace with last year but the average is still Thoroughbreds, and through the company's European 8% ahead of the 2017 level (the median is the same) so we are bloodstock advisor Demi O'Byrne, they added another well-bred quite satisfied our trade has proved in line with the year to date, colt to the list on Wednesday.