FRIDAY, 7TH OCTOBER 2016 EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU RACING RESULTS | GERMAN NEWS | SOUTH AFRICA | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com RECORD EUROPEAN TURNOVER AT © Tattersalls, Laura Green STELLAR YEARLING SALE The second 2,600,000gns Dubawi colt of the sale; Lot 427, Meon Valley Stud’s colt out of their Gr.1 winner Zee Zee Top, Racing’s international appeal is carrying top-end bloodstock sales who was bought by Shadwell Estate Company. through the choppy seas, which are making other industries queasy, as has been proved once more at Tattersalls’ October Sale Book 1 this week, writes Carl Evans. potential stallions and fillies who could become foundation When the three-day sale came to a close yesterday evening, mares. The attraction is obvious, for even the world’s very richest record turnover for a European auction, in excess of 88,000,000gns, people cannot guarantee success with thoroughbreds, and yet had been achieved for the fourth year in succession, as very they love the game and know they must reinvest to keep enjoying wealthy buyers with Dollars, Dirhams, Euros, Yen and the good the glow of winning a big race, or breeding a Champion. old British Pound bought some of the cream of the European When Tattersalls had knocked down the last of 493 horses, an yearling crop. increase of 31 on last year, turnover for the whole show had Many of the best of the generation are still on their breeders’ reached 88,038,000gns, up 6% on 2015’s record total. That sum farms and about to head straight into training, but Book 1 was boosted by a cracking final day, when turnover rose 25% and provides buyers with genuine chances to buy Group winners, the average raced up 30%. THE AGA KHAN STUDS Success Breeds Success SEA THE STARS 5-time Gr.1 sire flying at Tattersalls Book 1 Sold Average Total 16 199,063gns 3,185,000gns Sea The Stars ex. Gotlandia Don’t miss his Book 2 yearlings selling from Monday sold for 700,000gns to Charlie Gordon-Watson CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 THOSE AMAZING C CLUB TERMS... 1/Pay upfront for a single 2017 nomination. 2/Send a mare for L free in both 2018 and 2019. 3/Use all three nominations and earn a loyalty U bonus – a free lifetime breeding right. B A lasting stake in a stallion’s future all for the price17 of a single nomination BOW CREEK BURATINO TOORMORE Shamardal – Beneventa (Most Welcome) Exceed And Excel – Bergamask (Kingmambo) Arakan – Danetime Out (Danetime) €4,000 CLUB terms €5,000 CLUB terms £5,000 CLUB terms Haras du Logis, France Kildangan Stud, Ireland Dalham Hall Stud, Britain Notably gifted multiple A brilliant Royal Ascot Undefeated European G2 winner by the juvenile from the family Champion juvenile phenomenal Shamardal. of Danehill Dancer. and a splendid G1 miler. Power Find out more: go to www.darleystallions.com/darley-club to the or call the team: +44 (0)1638 730070 or breeder. +353 (0)45 527600 or +33 (0)2 33 36 21 20 Darley SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 7TH OCTOBER 2016 The average for the entire sale settled at a mark of 228,078gns, up 3%, although the median took a dip to 130,000gns, down 13%. Nine horses made a million guineas or more, three more than the previous best for the event. The leading buyer was John Ferguson of Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin organisation and, given Ferguson’s passion for all things Dubawi over the week, it was no surprise that Darley’s top stallion was also leading sire at the sale. His 15 yearlings sold for a remarkable average of 972,667gns, heading the Galileo average of 16 for 610,313gns. For a sire whose first crop is only two, Frankel’s ten at an average of 733,500gns was also pretty amazing, but maybe not, given the adulation in which he is held. Ferguson spent 13,910,000gns on 26 horses, heading a Coolmore partnership of MV Magnier, Markus Jooste and Peter and Ross Doyle, who bought 12 for 9,010,000gns. Just below that was Mark Weinfeld of Meon Valley Stud, who sold the final day’s Shadwell Estate Company, with 16 for 8,955,000gns, and it is certain top lot, a son of Dubawi. (Ce) that trainer Roger Varian, representing Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, would have been higher than fifth (13 for a total of 4,468,000gns) had he not been underbidder on countless occasions. Trainer Roger Varian acted for Sheikh Obaid, bidding from Australia’s Sun Stud was another welcome face, helping drive the stairwell opposite auctioneer Edmond Mahony, while up prices, if not always successfully, yet the China Horse Club was, Angus Gold, representing Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell interests, apparently a, notable absentee. hovered in the entrance to the ring. The two men, both taking The pleasure of leaving as leading consignor fell to Lord and telephone instructions, traded circumspect blows until the Lady Lloyd Webber’s Watership Down Stud, which traded 13 price reached 2,000,000gns, when the game of cat and mouse yearlings for 6,737,000gns, heading the two farms who have changed pace. Varian had rounded the figure up, but Gold been carving up the honour in recent years, Highclere Stud responded immediately as Mahony added another 200,000gns (5,856,000gns) and Newsells Park Stud (5,722,000gns). to the total. His rival wasted no time in coming back, but again, Gold’s quick response bore the hallmark of a buyer who had MORNING AFTER AT MEON VALLEY just been told to put his ears back and grab the prize and, when It is not a good day to telephone Meon Valley Stud’s Mark Varian turned and headed down the stairs, Mahony’s hammer Weinfeld, for he claims it is “the worst day of the year”. Weinfeld’s was poised to fall. dislike of the first or second Friday in October relates to the Following the sale, Gold said: “Sheikh Hamdan really wanted a morning after the finish of Tattersalls’ October Yearling Sale Book good Dubawi. We didn’t get one on the first two days, but he loved 1. He has sold the latest crop of blue-bloods from his farm and this horse; everybody loved this horse. He was a lovely individual abhors that empty-box feeling. with a great outlook. I saw him at the stud three weeks ago and liked At least he can now plan how to spend 2,600,000gns, the sum him then and, while he always had a lot of presence and scope, he he reaped yesterday for a Dubawi colt (Lot 427) whose valuation really pulled together when he came up to the ring today. created the three-day sale’s joint-top price. It was achieved when “If you want to make a stallion you have to get a horse with this Sheikhs Hamdan Al Maktoum and Mohammed Obaid locked sort of background and I felt Meon Valley had a tremendous draft of horns in a tussle for the youngster. He had the page, being a son horses this year.” of Gr.1 Prix de l’Opera winner Zee Zee Top, and therefore a half- Breeder Mark Weinfeld looked delighted with the outcome, brother to the dual Gr.1 winner and Classic-placed Izzi Top, and and why not, when his own expectation had been for “a million, or also to Jazzi Top, who was successful at Gr.2 level. a million plus”? He said that Zee Zee Top had earlier this year Adding a late bit of seasoning to the occasion was Dreamfield, produced an Invincible Spirit filly foal, who would be retained, the first foal of Izzi Top, and who romped home on his debut by and, having been rested, would be visiting a nice stallion next eight lengths at Nottingham on Wednesday. year. She won’t be short of suitors. CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 7TH OCTOBER 2016 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 1 – DAY THREE Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 427 c DUBAWI – Zee Zee Top Meon Valley Stud Shadwell Estate Co 2,600,000 441 f GALILEO – Aleagueoftheirown Glenvale Stud MV Magnier/Mayfair/P&R Doyle 2,100,000 475 c FRANKEL – Attraction Floors Stud Shadwell Estate Co 1,600,000 385 c FRANKEL – Tyranny Croom House Stud MV Magnier/Mayfair/P&R Doyle 1,100,000 522 f FRANKEL – Cassydora Barronstown Stud Moyglare Stud 900,000 422 f SHAMARDAL – Yummy Mummy Newsells Park Stud Blandford B/S 870,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS “We didn’t expect that,” he added. “We’ve had a lucky patch for the great attitude and temperament. Frankel is the best thing around last couple of years. This has been a great family, very sensible this year and for many a year, and she [Attraction] was the most mentally and tough, going right back to the foundation mare exciting thing in my racing life. Reprocolor. “I’m so delighted he’s been bought by Sheikh Hamdan and it “We’ve always prepared our own stock for the yearling sales and I reflects so well on our breeding operation. I would have loved to have like the pressure.