WEDNESDAY, 14TH OCTOBER 2020 ALL EYES ON KEENELAND NOVEMBER EBN MON. 9 - WED. 18 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com VEGA COLT TOP AT SECOND STRONG SESSION Further strong trade yesterday at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 saw turnover rise four per cent to a figure just shy of Earthlight, Godolphin’s dual Gr.1-winning two-year-old by 18,000,000gns and ensured the remarkable opening day was no Shamardal, has been retired from racing and will stand at one-hit wonder, writes Carl Evans. Kildangan Stud in 2021. Full story on page 12. © Steve Cargill Also up was the average price, which gained a percentage point to reach 84,448gns. The median dropped 20 per cent to 52,000gns, but at a time of so much COVID-19-driven uncertainty another superb clearance rate of 85 per cent will have cheered IN TODAY’S ISSUE... the bloodstock and breeding industry. At the session last year 68 horses made a six-figure sum, yesterday 63 reached or breached Racing Round-Up p13 that mark. It was heady stuff in the circumstances. Stakes Fields p23 Leading the way was a 675,000gns Lope De Vega colt (Lot 945), who was sold to Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin after Pinhooking Tables p26 being consigned by Newsells Park Stud, the Jacobs family’s LOT 584 SHALAA ex Arch Of Colours The son of multiple Gr.1 winner and Champion SHALAA is a half-brother to the Group-placed winner MOISSON PRÉCOCE. He is from the family of Gr.1 winners Don’t miss our SIGNS OF BLESSING, SOPHIE P, NADIA etc... TWO PP on offer at ARQANA October Yearling Sale LOT 642 RECORDER ex Forward Feline Available to view at This exciting son from the first crop by Juvenile Arqana Cour B Group winner RECORDER is a half-brother to two winners. Boxes 173 & 174 He is from the family of the Stakes winners DEXTERITY, Contact: Debra Hooper TOBANN , LANDYM, SMAOINEAMH, LUMINATA etc... +33 (0)768 83 76 18 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 CONCRETE ROSE Princess Of The Turf BORN DOMINANT EXPLOSIVE TO LEAD ON THE TURF TURN OF FOOT Easily defeated the best A four-time graded Winning stakes races at of her class, including stakes winning millionaire Keeneland, Saratoga, Breeders’ Cup winner who went undefeated at Churchill Downs and Newspaperofrecord 3, before notching a total Belmont in spectacular (IRE) and Grade 1 winner of 6 wins in 7 starts over fashion. Cambier Parc. her career. WATCH VIDEO Featured at Keeneland November | Monday, Nov. 9 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 14TH OCTOBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 2 – DAY TWO Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 945 c LOPE DE VEGA – Loch Ma Naire Newsells Park Stud Godolphin 675,000 954 f FRANKEL – Love Is Blindness Norelands Stud De Burgh Equine / Glenhill Farm 460,000 1037 c NEW BAY – Need You Now Ballylinch Stud Stroud Coleman Bloodstock 400,000 986 f CAMELOT – Matorio Baroda Stud Gainsborough Thoroughbreds 340,000 840 c SHOWCASING – Harlequin Twist Kenilworth House Stud White Birch Farm / Demi O’Byrne 310,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS Hertfordshire farm. Last week the same stud sold the Book 1 top Stroud, who headed underbidder Andrew Balding before lot, a 3,400,000gns homebred filly by Galileo out of Shastye. signing for the colt, said: “He represents a lovely cross with a Galileo Despite this notable double, Newsells Park manager Julian mare and he’s an attractive horse who is beautifully bred,” while Dollar was unwilling to accept credit for yesterday’s focus horse, Dollar said: “The team did a great job prepping him, but we are who was bred by Andrew Stone’s St Albans Bloodstock out of the ‘impostors’ who have only had him for eight or nine weeks. The credit winning Galileo mare Loch Ma Naire, a daughter of the high- must go to the breeder, Andrew Stone from St Albans Bloodstock, class racemare Hotelgenie Dot Com and therefore a half-sister to and the farm where he was reared. We put the polish on, but that was Gr.1 Fillies’ Mile heroine Simply Perfect. Loch Ma Naire was a about it.” 210,000gns purchase by Hugo Lascelles on behalf of St Albans at The final session of Book 2 begins today at 10am, but when the October Sale in 2012. She won a race and has foaled two asked if Newsells Park Stud had ever sold the top lot at Books 1 winners. and 2, Dollar said: “I don’t think so, but I don’t look for records. If we BATED BREATH 2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View) 10GROUP Continuing WINNERS BLACKTYPE14 PERFORMERS his rise IN 2020 MAKALOUN 2018 c Bated Breath - Makana (Dalakhani) Prix de Conde Gr.3, 9f, Chantilly VIADERA Bred by S A Aga Khan 2016 f Bated Breath - Sacred Shield (Beat Hollow) Unbeaten in all four starts Noble Damsel Stakes Gr.3, 8f, Belmont Park Bred by Juddmonte Farms Ltd Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 [email protected] ® www.juddmonte.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 14TH OCTOBER 2020 wanted to keep was a very nice colt by Dubawi out of Dank, who I keep looking at admiringly in the paddock, and the second was the Siyouni. Again, we were very lucky to be entrusted with such a lovely horse, and while the team at home did a great job, I haven’t done anything.” BERNICK’S GLOBAL ASPIRATIONS Racehorse owner Craig Bernick may be based in the USA, but that does not restrict his interest in the sport to his native country. Grandson of Leonard Lavin, the entrepreneur who drove Alberto V05 shampoo and hairdressing products to the position of world no.1, Bernick has racing and breeding aspirations in Europe and Australia as well as his homeland. Yesterday he sent bloodstock advisor Hubie de Burgh and trainer Fozzy Stack to the ring hoping to snare a filly with a page, and the two men came out with a 460,000gns Frankel filly (Lot 954), who was bred by Lot 945, the Newsells Park Stud-consigned session-topping Australian John Camilleri and raised at and consigned by Harry Lope De Vega colt who was bought by Godolphin for McCalmont’s Norelands Stud. Their purchase was foaled by Love 675,000gns. © Tattersalls Is Blindness (Sir Percy), an unraced half-sister to Classic winner and sire Reliable Man and a granddaughter of Gr.1 Oaks heroine meet our budgets the people that look after Newsells Park Stud are Fair Salinia. happy. It could be said de Burgh had an unfair advantage when it “In this climate we didn’t expect it to be easy, but this sale has taken came to knowledge of the yearling, for he and agent James off incredibly. There was value last week, for in among those Harron bought Love Is Blindness for Camilleri with a bid of incredibly high lots there were some lovely horses who were making €380,000 at Goffs’ November Sale in 2016, and he has followed nothing like this sort of money. her and her foals. “I’m not complaining. Thanks to all the people who are prepared De Burgh said: “I’ve bought her for Craig Bernick of Glenhill Farm to take their hands out of their pockets and spend money on [based in Florida] and to go into training with Fozzy. We tried all last racehorses. Long may it continue.” week without any luck to get a Classic filly by one of the great sires This was not Godolphin’s only high-value purchase of a yearling from the modern era. This filly has a Classic page and she could be a consigned by Newsells Park Stud, for Stroud also signed for a Guineas and Oaks winner. 300,000gns son of Siyouni (Lot 843). “Apart from that she’s a beautiful-looking filly and she comes from He was bred by James and Anita Wigan out of the Halling mare a great farm where I keep a lot of mares. I bought this filly’s dam for Havant, winner of the Gr.3 Oh So Sharp Stakes and the dam of John Camilleri, so I have known her since she was born and watched two winners. A half-sister to Gr.1 (then) Gran Premio di Milano her. Every time I’ve seen her she’s got better and better. Now it’s winner Leadership, Havant’s five-year-old son Jamil scored his fingers crossed and let’s hope she proves as good as she looks. third victory when winning last week for Tina Jackson’s stable. “Craig Bernick is a great lover of the horse industry and he’s going Dollar said: “He was a lovely-looking horse with a great to be a very serious breeder. He is thinking 20 years ahead and wants temperament and the Wigans were very happy with the result. to collect this quality of bloodstock. This filly could be one of his James rang me and said I’ve got two yearling colts, one that I want to foundation mares. Craig is developing operations in Australia, sell and one that I want to keep, will you look after them? The one he Europe and America, so he’s going global and it’s very exciting.” A consistent source of tough, high-class sprinters..