SATURDAY, 6TH MAY 2017 EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU ITALIAN NEWS | LEADING SIRES’ LIST | TBA AWARDS WINNERS | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES SALES TALK RACING PREVIEW TATTERSALLS SMALL BUT SELECT FIELD EBN Sales Talk Click here to FOR NEWMARKET CLASSIC is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com One of Sir Winston Churchill’s many famous quotes was: “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it” and his namesake holds a favourite’s chance of making his own small piece of history at Newmarket this afternoon. Last year’s Champion Two-Year-Old KODIAC PROVES HIMSELF and three unbeaten winners of Classic trials are among the small but select field of ten for today’s Gr.1 2,000 Guineas. The victory KING ONCE AGAIN two years ago by Gleneagles was the seventh for trainer Aidan The Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up and Horses in Training Sale O’Brien and equalled the record set in the 19th century by John concluded yesterday with each of the key indicators showing Scott. The Ballydoyle handler will be hoping to go one better this positive results, writes Rob Davey. afternoon with another Galileo colt, Churchill, though the Gr.1 The headline act proved to be a son of Kodiac, who was offered Vincent O’Brien National Stakes and Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes winner late in the day as Lot 298. There was a duel between Stephen Hillen will be the only starter who has not had a prep run. His stablemate on the phone and David Redvers for the Knockanglass Stables Lancaster Bomber (War Front) has only won a maiden, but was offering and it was the former who came out the victor at 240,000gns. second in both the Dewhurst Stakes and the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Out of the winning Green Desert mare Greenflash, his sale proved Juvenile Turf and was a two-length fourth over a longer trip in to be a quality pinhook, having been secured for £28,000 at Goffs UK March’s Gr.2 UAE Derby, a race in which the third O’Brien runner, August Yearling Sale by Howson and Houldsworth. the Gr.3-placed Spirit Of Valor (War Front), was a further four Hillen said, “He is by a tremendous sire and did a really good places and ten lengths behind. continued on page 13 breeze and finished it out really strong, which is what we are looking Our Facilities: • 37 acres of well-maintained & securely fenced grazing, • Stabling for 28 horses, • Galvanised turnout Gow Equine is situated in the tranquil Suffolk countryside in Our Services: pens for horses requiring striking distance of Newmarket, the home of British Horse Racing. • Broodmare Boarding restricted turnout, • Foaling • 5 bay enclosed We are passionate about delivering first class care to the • Sales Preparation horse walker. individual horse & offer a series of tailored services to the • Breaking • All weather arena. Thoroughbred Training, Racing and Breeding Industry. • Rest and Rehabilitation Please contact Jamie Peel: +44 (0)7703 503100 Woodhall Stables, Balsham, Cambridgeshire, CB21 4DU www.gowequine.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 EUROPEAN CHAMPION SPRINTER & CARTIER SPRINTER 2015 MUHAARAR Highest rated son of emerging sire of sires Oasis Dream PRECOCIOUS Colt ex THE LARK (PIVOTAL) “This is a seriously good foal by Muhaarar, owned by Lady Bamford. He has size,scope, strength and a quality head. He has extra action, this is a very good foal.” HUGO LASCELLES LOOKS SPEED Colt ex RISKIT FORA BISKIT (KODIAC) “He is quite simply an exceptional foal with a great walk, temperament and conformation. We will definitely be sending more mares to Muhaarar.” DIEGO ROMEO, LONGVIEW STUD And his first foals are following suit ... Colt ex WHATDOIWANTTHATFOR (KODIAC) “He looks a real sprinter - very deep and powerful as well as having very good bone.” JOHN O’CONNOR, BALLYLINCH STUD Colt ex DUSKY QUEEN (SHAMARDAL) “He’s a very nice, compact colt owned by the China Horse Club. He’s correct, with a nice outlook and a good step. He is really stamping his stock. I really like what I’ve seen so far.” JOHN O’CONNOR, BALLYLINCH STUD Colt ex TWILIGHT MISTRESS (BIN AJWAAD) “We’re delighted with our foal, which is demonstrated by the fact we have returned to Muhaarar again this year with the dam of Twilight Son.” CAROLINE WILSON, BREEDER Discover more about the Shadwell Stallions at www.shadwellstud.com Or call Richard Lancaster, James O’Donnell or Tom Pennington on 01842 755913 Email us at: [email protected] SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 6TH MAY 2017 for. We tried hard for the Dawn Approach [Lot 214] and the two were on our list. If this colt had been in the Craven [Sale], he would have been more expensive. He is for Pat Gallagher [racing under the name of Gallagher Equine Ltd] and will join Richard Hughes.” Hillen was also the successful bidder on the first six-figure juvenile through the ring, Lot 112, a daughter of Acclamation, who was offered by Baroda & Colbinstown Studs. The agent secured her for 110,000gns. The filly is out of the dual winner La Reine De Pearls (Dubawi), while the third dam, Cox Orange picture courtesy of www.tattersalls.com (Trempolino), was a Gr.3 winner on either side of the Atlantic in France and America and subsequently produced the Listed winner and Gr.1 1,000 Guineas-third Vista Bella. Hillen said, “She has been bought to go to Mick Quinn and a new client of his, Kenny Bruce. She did a quick breeze, actually the quickest, looks fast and is ready to go.” Later in the session, the ring filled in anticipation of the aforementioned Kildaragh Stud-bred and Glending Stables- Bloodstock agent Stephen Hillen bought the top lot, who is offered son of first season sire Dawn Approach, whose first and to be trained by Richard Hughes, for 240,000gns only runner thus far, the James Tate-trained Haddaf, failed by only a neck at Leicester late last month. The bidding was opened by Hillen at 100,000gns, but it was Richard O’Gorman who won Richard Frisby who came out victorious to take home the Church the day at 170,000gns. The agent said, “This colt did a very good Farm and Horse Park Stud offering. The first-named sourced the breeze and the first runner for the sire did extremely well this week. colt from Goffs Orby Yearling Sale for €60,000. The purchaser said, He was bought for John Ferguson.” “He has been bought for Godolphin and will be taken home for a few days. Sheikh Mohammed will then decide where he goes. The colt The colt is from a strong German family and out of the unraced has a stallion’s page, if good enough.” Rainbow Quest mare Whisp, whose dam is the German Hailing from Kilfrush Stud’s famous Mill Princess family, which Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and Listed winner WIld Romance contains multiple Gr.1 winner and leading sire Last Tycoon, as (Alkalde). She also produced the Gr.2 winners Wild Side (Sternkonig; dam of among other Group winners, the Gr.2 Park Hill Stakes winner Wild Coco) and Win For Us (Surumu; dam of the Listed winner and Gr.1-placed Win For Sure), as well as the Gr.3 winner and dual Classic-placed White Rose (Platini; dam of three Listed winners). Later on O’Gorman snared the Knockanglass Stables-offered Lot 262, a son of Dandy Man, who is a half-brother to the Gr.3 Prix des Reservoirs-placed Turf Laurel, for 160,000gns. He had been a vendor buyback for £18,000 in the Doncaster ring last August at Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale. Not long after the first 170,000gns lot, it was the turn of an Acclamation colt (Lot 223) to take a star turn. In the end it was picture courtesy of www.tattersalls.com Lot 298, the top lot, a colt by Kodiac, who was bought by Stephen Hillen for 240,000gns CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 RAPPER DRAGON GROUP 1 CHAIRMANS SPRINT PRIZE MR STUNNING LUCKY BUBBLES GROUP 1 NOT LISTENIN’TOME CHAMPIONS MILE BLIZZARD CONTENTMENT SUN JEWELLERY RAPPER DRAGON THEWIZARDOFOZ STRATHMORE DASHING FELLOW Tom Reilly Jessica McKeown CEO Aushorse Marketing Communications Manager M | +61 (0) 423 146 334 M | +61 (0) 498 807 205 E | [email protected] E | [email protected] Aushorse.com.au SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 6TH MAY 2017 well as the Gr.1-winning fillies Immortal Verse, Tie Black and Valentine Waltz, the colt is out of a winning Cape Cross half- sister to the Gr.2 Prix du Gros-Chene winner Beauty Is Truth (Pivotal), already the dam of one Gr.1 winner in the shape of The United States and who could become the dam of two top-level winners tomorrow, when her daughter Hydrangea lines up in the Gr.1 1,000 Guineas. Also selling for 170,000gns was the Mocklershill-offered son of first season sire Lethal Force (Lot 254). The winning bid was picture courtesy of www.tattersalls.com landed by Jeremy Brummitt, after Chris Richardson of Cheveley Park Stud shook his head when invited to raise his offer. The grey was a €55,000 purchase from Goffs Sportsman’s Sale last October by Church Farm and is out of an unraced One Cool Cat half-sister to the Gr.2 Rockfel Stakes runner-up Cochabamba (Hurricane Run) and the dam of last May’s Listed National Stakes hero Global Applause.