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REPORT by CARL EVANS EBN Sales Talk Click Here to Is Brought to Contact IRT, Or You by IRT Visit The World's TUESDAY, 25TH AUGUST 2020 Yearling Sale SEPTEMBERSALE BEGINS SUNDAY 13 EBN SEPTEMBER.KEENELAND.COM EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES SALES TATTERSALLS REPORT by CARL EVANS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com AUGUST SALE A WELCOME ADDITION Tattersalls opened a new three-day sale in Newmarket yesterday as the industry continued its bid to provide selling opportunities in constrained times. The August Sale made a bright start in which 200 horses walked the ring and 167 found a buyer, representing a worthy 84 per cent of those on offer. A top price of 75,000gns, an average of 11,208gns and a median of 6,000gns clarifies that this was a cull of average horses who were being offered at a time of uncertainty in the racing industry, let alone the economy. Those figures also make passing interest in comparison to day one of the July Sale, where the average and median price were Cloud Drifter (Toronado), offered from Fitzroy House as roughly double those achieved yesterday, although that session Lot 188, topped the first session of the Tattersalls August contained a couple of mares who made 130,000gns, and some Sale yesterday. © www.tattersalls.com bigger prices can be expected at today’s second session of this BUY ONLINE AT IRISH SALES IN 2020 Both Gos & Tattersalls Ireland oer online buying. So your next winner is just a click away! Contact ITM for information on Irish breeding and sales: Phone + 353 45 443 000 | Email [email protected] | Website www.itm.ie CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 Michael O’Callaghan Racing T +353 (0)45 456502 M +353 (0)87 9550771 E [email protected] A Proven Source of TALENT BODHICITTA PREVIOUS HORSES SOLD INCLUDE: BODHICITTA sold for 60,000 gns, has since WON the Gr.2 Yellow Ribbon Handicap and 2nd in the Gr.1 Gamely Stakes. DARK PURSUIT sold for 65,000 gns, has since WON the Gr.3 Dukhan Sprint. VENEER OF CHARM sold for £16, 000, has since WON the Gr.3 Fred Winter at Cheltenham. Also sold by Michael O’Callaghan include: Dark Pursuit (races listed are those since sale) I AM POWER - winner of 2 in HK DAN CONTROL - winner in HK l DELIGHTFUL LAOS - winner in HK GARSMAN - winner of 3 in the UK l POINT ZERO - winner of 3 in the UK THE GREAT WALL - winner of 2 in the UK RAPID APPLAUSE - winner of 2 in the UK FUJAIRA KING - winner in the UK Veneer Of Charm We are offering 13 exciting future stars at the TATTERSALLS AUGUST SALE Don’t miss your opportunity to purchase from the Nursery of Stakes winners, such as NOW OR NEVER, BLUE DE VEGA, STEEL BULL, ANGELIC LIGHT, LETTERS OF NOTE and many many more Stakes performers. ALL LOTS ARE AVAILABLE TO VIEW AT: HIGHFLYER Rows N & L For further information contact CALL MICHAEL: +353 (0)87 9550771 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 25TH AUGUST 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS AUGUST SALE – DAY ONE Lot Sex Name (Sire) Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 188 3g Cloud Drift (Toronado) Fitzroy House Al Adiyat Racing 75,000 96 2g Soldierpoy (Sepoy) Barton Sales C Gordon Watson Bloodstock 67,000 51 7m Mzyoon (Galileo) The Castlebridge Consignment Peter Harper, agent 58,000 162 3g Sir Oliver (Dark Angel) Weathercock House Stables Tim Hide 50,000 207 2c Deliver The Dream (Kantharos) Jamie Railton Debbie Mountain/Hassan Al Abdulmalik 50,000 231 3c Royal Appointment (Pivotal) Robert Cowell Racing Blue Square Bloodstock 50,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS new, possibly one-off auction. “We need some clarity from the government about when owners On a warm and pleasant summer’s day it was no hardship for can return and properly interact with trainers and jockeys. It seems buyers or sellers who turned up for the new event, nor apparently wrong that you can drive an owner to the races but not have any for those buyers who were not in Newmarket, but registered bids interaction when you arrive at the course. I went to France recently via an online service that appeared to work without a hitch. with Sheikh Fahad when The Lir Jet ran and we had a good lunch in Until COVID-19 swept into Britain in March traders would have the restaurant, went to the paddock and spent all day together – we had no idea they would be attending or indeed ‘onlining’ a sale need to get that experience back as soon as possible. Then we have a comprising a mixed selection of horses at Park Paddocks in August. Tattersalls’ July Sale was the company’s well-established auction, product to sell. firmly embedded in the calendar, but a lockdown of the nation “Being able to console an owner when a horse runs badly and and ten-week closure of Flat racing changed the playing field. celebrate when they win is important, but it is also about the With little racing before the July Sale was staged, numerous horses were withdrawn, it was reduced in size to two days and the idea of an August auction, which would give owners more time in BE PART OF which to assess plans for their horses, took shape. The result was another well-run Tattersalls production involving THE JOURNEY social distancing, face masks, restricted movement and limitations on food and drink sales. It would have been a perfect occasion for sharing sundowners with friends and colleagues after the final lot 34 had been offered, but such delights are on hold for now. The fun Individual 2yo winners to date has been reduced, but the industry is picking its way through a minefield of inconvenience. That backs-to-the-wall attitude is proving essential, and perversely wholesome. £12,000 Average purchase price of BELL GIVES A TRAINER’S VIEW winners 2019 - August 2020 Among those who liked the timing of Tattersalls’ inaugural August Sale was Newmarket trainer Michael Bell, whose draft of horses included session-topper Cloud Drift. Nine Bell said: “It’s a very good time of year for a sale like this. It opens Black-type winners up the opportunity to sell a horse ahead of the yearling sales and equally gives you [trainers] another month in which to run them. ASCOT July comes around very quickly in terms of racing and then deciding MISS AMULET to sell a horse; this gives owners another bite of the cherry before winner Lowther YEARLING deciding whether to sell a horse, and brings in race meetings such as Stakes, Gr. 2 Goodwood and York. I think this is worth considering again for next SALE year.” NEW DATE Asked for his appraisal of racing ahead of the important 7 SEPTEMBER 2020 European yearling sales season which begins in earnest next PARK PADDOCKS, NEWMARKET month and ramps up in October, Bell said: “All industries are pretty precarious at the moment, but the important thing for us is to open T: +44 1638 665931 [email protected] tattersallsascot.com a window so that owners can return to the racecourse. It’s quite a difficult product to sell when owners cannot go and watch it. CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 25TH AUGUST 2020 Jet, saying: “He might go for the Flying Childers Stakes, he might go straight to the Middle Park Stakes or he might go to the Breeders’ Cup. He could run in one or all three, but he’s in good form.” ONLINE BIDDING IS ALL IN THE CLOUD Technology created a 75,000gns top lot on day one of the sale, when online bidder Sheikh Isa of Bahrain brought the hammer down. A winner of two races, Cloud Drift (Lot 188) was bred by and has been racing for Her Majesty The Queen, and he will continue operating for royalty after being sold to the Sheikh, a member of the Bahrain royal family, and head of Al Adiyat Racing. His purchase, a three-year-old gelding by Toronado and one of five winners produced by the Dr Fong mare Humdrum, has been in training with Bell. Speaking from his home, Sheikh Isa said: “I am excited to have purchased the horse with the target of running in a valuable 0-100 Michael Bell, whose draft included yesterday’s session-topper Cloud Drift (Toronado), gave a thumbs up to the inaugural mile handicap on Bahrain International Cup day. It is a day which Tattersalls August Sale. © Ce also features the £500,000 Bahrain International [run for the first time last year when won by Royal Julius, trained in France by Jerome Reynier]. Entries for that race are now open.” Bell was at the ring to watch the sale and said: “That’s a good opportunity to meet people who might never have owned a price, but he’s a very attractive horse and I’m sure he will do well for racehorse, but enjoy the racing experience and would like to give it a his new owner. He’s relatively lightly-raced, he’s a good mover and try. That’s how you generate business, and it’s crucial we get that good looking, so hopefully there is more to come. back.” “Things didn’t work out for him in a mile handicap at York [last week] Bell gave an update on plans for his Royal Ascot winner The Lir when he was badly drawn, but you can put a line through that.” Small Investment Big Return 2020 Cheltenham Festival winner THE CONDITIONAL purchased at the AUGUST NH SALE for €9,000 by Deirdre Hassett winner of Ultima Handicap Chase, Grade 3, current career earnings £175,829 August NH Sale Part I Select Sale, 27 August Part II, 28 August National Hunt 2, 3 & 4yo Stores T: +353 1 8864300 [email protected] tattersalls.ie 4 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 25TH AUGUST 2020 DOUGLASS PLOY WORKS WITH SOLDIERPOY Smart two-year-old Soldierpoy (Lot 96) completed a happy 12-month association with Newmarket trainer Tom Clover when selling for 67,000gns.
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