Bill Oppenheim, February 5-The Price Is Right
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Bill Oppenheim, February 5-The Price is Right 21 APEX SIRES: THE PRICE IS RIGHT From the point of view of immediate practical “The four most prominent February Mixed Sales are due up in the next week. application, the trouble with year-end sire statistics is Tattersalls sells at Newmarket tomorrow, then Fasig-Tipton in Lexington Sunday and Monday. Arqana has their one-day sale next Monday also, then Goffs wraps up the that often the horses which you think look the best, February mixed sale market with a two-day sale next Wednesday and Thursday. and which the numbers confirm are the best, are all Barretts last week showed respectable gains, further suggesting regional markets booked up by the time the statistics are published. We may be sharing in the recovery, too.” – Bill Oppenheim can=t promise some of the sires we=re reviewing today aren=t also already full for 2014--in fact, we=re sure a few of them are--but they all won=t be. These are sires whose numbers we think all read pretty well but aren=t all that expensive to breed to; their prices range from $2,500 for Horse Greeley (Kentucky) and Circular Quay (Florida) to i20,000 for Holy Roman Emperor in Ireland, and $25,000 for English Channel and Curlin in Kentucky. The first group of nine are all sires with first foals 2005-2008, so they are >mature= sires which all had 5-year-olds at least racing in 2013; in that first group of nine, four stand in Ireland, three in Kentucky, and one each in France and Maryland. Then we mention (again, in two cases), three F2009 sires which had their first 4-year-olds last year (two in Kentucky, Silent Name in Ontario), and first 5-year-olds in 2014; then another nine F2010 sires which had their first 3-year-olds last BARRETTS MIXED WINTER SALE year, and now have their first 4-year-olds running. Of YEAR CAT RING SOLD %W/D %S/R %S/C GROSS AVG those nine, six stand in Kentucky and one each stands 2014 316 270 224 14.6% 83.0% 70.9% $1,944,900 $8,683 in Florida, New York, and France. We consider them in 2013 289 239 184 17.3% 77.0% 63.7% $1,536,100 $8,348 2012 294 243 162 17.3% 66.7% 55.1% $982,500 $6,065 alphabetical order within each of the three groups. 2011 408 347 256 15.0% 73.8% 62.7% $1,361,600 $5,319 2010 518 447 275 13.7% 61.5% 53.1% $2,013,000 $7,320 >PROVEN= SIRES: 1st FOALS 2005-2008 2009 315 272 202 13.7% 74.3% 64.1% $1,232,400 $6,288 Azamour: Winner of four Group 1 races, ranging from a mile to 12 furlongs. He=s proving to be a consistently useful sire: his A Runner Index (ARI, 2.34) is well above 2.00; and he has a 1.58 Index for ABC Runners, again quite consistent by age (1.53 for 2-year-olds, 1.55 for 3-year-olds, and he goes up to 2.11 for 5-year-olds+). His only Group 1 winner, the 2012 G1 Prix de Diane winner Valyra, was unbeaten in three starts but unfortunately died on the gallops after her Diane win; he also has three Group 2 winners in his first four crops of 3-year-olds, through 2013. He=s just a very useful sire for an E8,000 fee. Bellamy Road: He won the 2005 GI Wood Memorial with a monster 120 Beyer Speed figure, and, after his first crop of 2-year-olds included three black-type winners, including Grade II winner Position Limit, as a TOTAL US MIXED SALES AS OF FEB 2, 2014 freshman sire in 2010, his 2012 crop numbered over YEAR CAT RING SOLD %W/D %S/R %S/C GROSS AVG 120 (including the top colt at Fasig July last year, at 2014 2,715 2,180 1,714 19.7% 78.6% 63.1% $49,379,100 $28,809 $420,000) after his three intervening crops 2013 2,636 2,108 1,546 20.0% 73.3% 58.6% $49,578,600 $32,069 (2009-2011) totaled fewer than 110 foals. He moved 2012 2,270 1,828 1,403 19.5% 76.8% 61.8% $41,449,700 $29,544 to WinStar for 2012, which won=t hurt his chances 2011 2,757 2,204 1,586 20.1% 72.0% 57.5% $28,987,950 $18,277 either. He still managed three A Runners last year and is 2010 2,740 2,217 1,545 19.1% 69.7% 56.4% $27,564,100 $17,841 2009 3,306 2,468 1,883 25.3% 76.3% 57.0% $36,185,500 $19,217 positioned to get his name back in the news now, with three-figure crops in 2012 and 2013. Data compiled by Brianne Stanley Clodovil: Winner of the 2003 G1 Poule d=Essai des Holy Roman Emperor: A dual Group 1 winner at two Poulaines-French 2000 Guineas, by Danehill out of a who gave Teofilo a scare in the G1 Dewhurst S, in Linamix mare, Clodovil retired to Rathsaker Stud in 2006, Holy Roman Emperor was controversially retired Ireland for the 2004 season. Agent Gill Richardson to stud the next spring when Coolmore=s George bought a filly from his first crop for just 19,000 guineas Washington proved infertile. Dual Group 2 winner at Tattersalls. Named Nahoodh, she won the Banimpire (Ire) was the best horse in his first crop, and G2 Lowther S. for Jaber Abdullah and trainer Mick his two subsequent crops have each included a Group 1 Channon, but by the time she won the G1 Falmouth S. winner, shock G1 English 1000 Guineas winner at the Newmarket July meet as a 3-year-old, she=d been Homecoming Queen and the French 2-year-old Group 1 transferred to Mark Johnston for Sheikh Hamdan bin winner, Morandi, both in 2012. In 2011 Holy Roman Mohammed, Sheikh Mohammed=s son. Clodovil has Emperor was the Leading Sire of 2-Year-Olds in Europe, always been under the radar commercially, but he=s his juveniles scoring in a series of sales races to grab done well enough all the same--last year he had the title from Acclamation, who had six group-winning Gregorian, who won the G2 Hungerford S. for Princess 2-year-olds that year; Holy Roman Emperor had none. Haya, trained by John Gosden. However, he is proving a very useful and prolific sire, with a 2.55 ABC Index for 2-year-olds, and 84 ABC First Samurai: Having had the recently-retired Grade I Runners from four crops to race. They=re precocious, winning 2-year-old Executiveprivilege in 2012, First they win races and quite a few of them make money. Samurai had six A Runners in 2013, including the Grade I winning sprinter Justin Philip, now retired to Castleton Motivator: The 2005 G1 Epsom Derby winner from Lyons, and the Grade II winner Last Gunfighter. Himself Montjeu=s first crop has not had an easy time of it at the winner of the GI Hopeful, the GI Champagne, and stud, starting slowly and then having to miss the entire the GII Fountain of Youth, and from Giant=s Causeway=s 2010 covering season (so no 2-year-olds last year) due first American crop, First Samurai=s 2.27 ARI represents to a tendon injury. By the end of 2011, the year his really good value. One of his 2013 A Runners, the now first 4-year-olds ran, there was a suggestion that he 5-year-old Lea, recently scored his second Grade III win might be a decent sire after all, though more of older when annexing the GII Hal=s Hope S. at Gulfstream Park horses and stayers--his first 4-year-olds registered a in his first start for trainer Bill Mott, and reportedly goes 3.11 ABC Index that year. next for the GI Donn H Feb. 9. In 2012 he broke through with his first Group 1 winner, Ridasiyna, who won the G1 Prix de l=Opera; Footstepsinthesand: He is from Giant=s Causeway=s first then, in 2013 he became the Leading Sire in France, and only Irish crop, and won the G1 English 2000 thanks to the unbeaten Treve, impressive winner of last Guineas in his third, and final, lifetime start. He is only year=s G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe. He=s up to about average (1.10) for A Runners, but had 10 B E15,000 this year--equal with Kendargent as the most Runners last year and must be just about the most expensive sire in France apart from Redoute=s Choice-- useful E10,000 sire in Europe, with 78 ABC Runners so and is probably way past full, which fair enough far (23 in 2013) in five crops through the end of 2013. considering he sired Europe=s hands-down best horse of A lot of people questioned his soundness because he 2013. only had three starts, but it seems like every time you turn around there=s a >Footsteps= showing good form in Stroll: A Grade I and dual Grade II winner at nine decent company, and they=re plenty precocious too, as furlongs on the grass, Stroll=s third book, in 2007 (four his 1.77 ABC Index for 2-year-olds attests.