FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP New Approach (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) Remains One of The
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here NEW APPROACH FILLY LIGHTS UP GOFFS FEATURE PRESENTATION • GI JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP New Approach (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) remains one of the Goffs Orby Sale=s finest graduates, with Jim Bolger=s i430,000 purchase five years ago now the stuff of history. It was therefore fitting that the Darley resident should end up topping the latest renewal with a member of his first crop after his daughter from The Castlebridge Consignment sold for i350,000. Having made a notable first foray into the 2011 European yearling market on Tuesday, Sheikh READY TO QUENCH HIS THIRST? Hamdan bin Rashid Al Mike Repole and trainer Todd Pletcher have Uncle Mo Maktoum=s Shadwell Estate (Indian Charlie) taking on his elders in the GII Kelso H. Co. was responsible for the during Belmont=s ASuper purchase of this prized Saturday@ card, and will also chestnut on a day when the Hip 234 - New Approach filly have a serious contender in the fillies dominated. Hip 234 is a Goffs photo day=s marquee event when Stay half-sister to last month=s Thirsty (Bernardini) struts his G3 Desmond S. winner Future Generation (Ire) stuff in the GI Jockey Club Gold (Hurricane Run {Ire}), and hails from the family of Cup. The bay colt enhanced his MG1SW Halfway to Heaven (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}). That Eclipse Award credentials by ex-Ballydoyle star and her high-class dam Cassandra Go sweeping Saratoga=s GII Jim (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}) featured prominently on day Stay Thirsty Dandy S. and GI Travers S., and one of Goffs, and it was no different as soon as the Adam Coglianese a victory here could see him bidding started on the second session. AShe was one of follow in the footsteps of the highlights of the day for us,@ Shadwell=s Stephen champions Summer Bird (2009) and Curlin (2007), as Collins explained. AShe=s an outstanding yearling with a well as his own sire in 2006. All three of those colts good update and by a very exciting stallion. We were beat older horses in the Jockey Club Gold delighted to get her.@ Cont. p2-7 Cup on their way to Eclipse Award honors. AThe one thing he=s done is he=s made his own resume now,@ said Pletcher. AThe Jim Dandy was certainly a big step in that direction, but when you come back and you put the Travers on top of that, I don=t think he has to be compared to anyone now.@ The Jockey Club Gold Cup is one of five Breeders= Cup Challenge AWin and You=re In@ races at Belmont. Super Saturday fields p7-8 Saturday, Belmont Park, post time: 5:46 p.m. EDT JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP S.-GI, $750,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/4m PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML 1 Ice Box K Pulpit Nakatani Zito 12-1 2 Rodman K Malibu Moon Maragh Hushion 8-1 3 Stay Thirsty K Bernardini Castellano Pletcher 8-5 4 Drosselmeyer K Distorted Humor Lezcano Mott 6-1 5 A. U. Miner K Mineshaft Borel Hanna 10-1 6a Flat Out Flatter Solis Dickey 7-5 7a Birdrun K Birdstone Velazquez Mott 7-5 All carry 126 pounds, except Stay Thirsty, 122. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 9/29/11 • PAGE 2 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com GOFFS ORBY WEDNESDAY - TOP LOTS Hip Sex Sire Dam Price (€) GOFFS ORBY SALE 234 f New Approach (Ire) Posterity (Ire) 350,000 Sept. 27-29, 2011 Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment Purchased by Shadwell Estate Co 237 f Arch Princess Kris (GB) 340,000 Shadwell Stocking Up... Consigned by Airlie Stud A few frenetic minutes after securing what would be Purchased by Shadwell Estate Co the session topper, Sheikh Hamdan=s Shadwell paid 404 f Galileo (Ire) Altitude (GB) 300,000 i340,000 for Airlie Stud=s hip 237, a Consigned by Staffordstown daughter of Arch. That sire=s success Purchased by Sir Robert Ogden 454 c Duke of Marmalade (Ire) Bowstring (Ire) 200,000 with his runners this term, including (€215,000 wnl ‘10 GOFNOV) the GI Arkansas Derby hero Archarcharch, was reflected in Kildare, Consigned by Camas Park Stud Purchased by BBA Ireland and Angus Gold swooped again to 318 c Montjeu (Ire) Spritza (Ire) 200,000 deny trainer Brian Meehan for the Consigned by Oaklawn Stud Claiborne Farm resident s only offering = Purchased by D. L. O'Byrne during the session. A full-sister to the 331 f Duke of Marmalade (Ire) Superfonic (Fr) 190,000 2005 GI Gulfstream Park Breeders Angus Gold = Consigned by Mountain View Stud Goffs photo Cup H. winner Prince Arch, she is also Purchased by Demi O’Byrne a half to the 2009 G1 National S. hero 283 f Teofilo (Ire) Scarlett Rose (GB) 180,000 Kingsfort (War Chant), who cost a bargain i36,000 (€60,000 wnlg ‘10 GOFNOV) here three years ago. AHer pedigree speaks for itself, Consigned by Lynn Lodge Stud with the dam having produced two Group 1 winners Purchased by Hugo Merry Bloodstock already,@ Collins added. AShe=s going to make a 456 c Cape Cross (Ire) Brazilian Samba (Ire) 180,000 fantastic broodmare prospect in time, and she=s an Consigned by Croom House Stud excellent, well-balanced individual from a good farm.@ Purchased by Hong Kong Jockey Club P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 9/29/11 • PAGE 3 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com High Altitude... After a lull in proceedings during mid-afternoon, a daughter of Galileo (Ire) with all the right connections cranked up the pressure. Staffordstown Stud's hip 404 is out of Kirsten Rausing's Altitude (GB) (Green Desert), who managed only to win a lowly maiden on Southwell's fibresand, but who more importantly is a half-sister to that owner-breeder's Group 1-winning Alzao duo of Alborada (GB) and Albanova (GB). Opportunities to acquire female descendants from this famed Alruccaba (Ire) dynasty are few and far between, and Henry Beeby took his usual positive stance as he instigated the bidding. Proclaiming the page to feature "the pedigree of the book" and to have "everything you want,@ he mustered a i100,000 starting bid. In the end, it was Sir Robert Ogden, who had taken home the day one topper by Montjeu (Ire), who won the bidding with i300,000 offer. As during Tuesday=s opening session, Racing Manager Barry Simpson took instructions by phone. AShe=s a really good filly from an outstanding pedigree,@ Simpson said. AHopefully, she can run as well as her pedigree suggests. She was a filly we liked a lot from the moment we saw her, although we were probably at our limit there.@ Deja Vu For Montjeu... Inquiries to Kyle Wilson Montjeu (Ire), responsible for Tuesday=s topper, [email protected] provided the joint top-priced colt yesterday in Oaklawn Stud=s hip 318. The March foal is a full-brother to this term=s well-regarded maiden winner Rougemont (Ire) from the family of 2004 G1 Irish Derby hero and GOFFS ORBY YEARLING SALE MG1SW Grey Swallow (Ire) (Daylami {Ire}). Demi WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 2011 O=Byrne saw off David Redvers with a bid of i200,000 SESSION 2011 2010 and was on top again soon after when going to Catalogued 227 215 i170,000 for hip 320, a son of Galileo (Ire) consigned No. Offered 205 191 by Roundhill Stud. That February foal is out of a No. Sold 158 155 winning full-sister to 1997 G2 Flying Childers S. heroine RNAs 47 36 Land of Dreams (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}), who is % RNA 22.9% 18.8% herself the dam of this term=s G1 July Cup and G1 No. €500k+ 0 2 Haydock Sprint Cup victor Dream Ahead (Diktat {GB}). Highest Price €350,000 €950,000 The renowned vet went on to complete a quick-fire Gross €9,808,000 €10,215,500 treble when usurping trainer Ger Lyons at i190,000 for Average (% change) €62,076 (-5.8%) €65,906 a daughter of Duke of Marmalade (Ire) from Mountain Median (% change) €42,000 (+5%) €40,000 View Stud. Presented as hip 331, the April foal is out of a winning daughter of Born Gold (Blushing Groom CUMULATIVE 2011 2010 {Fr}), herself a full-sister to 1992 G1 Prix Marcel Catalogued 460 432 Boussac and 1993 G1 Coronation S. heroine Gold No. Offered 414 388 Splash and the dam of 14-time Group/Grade 1 No. Sold 333 305 champion Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa) and recent G1 Prix RNAs 81 83 Vermeille victress Galikova (Fr) (Galileo {Ire}). AShe=s a % RNA 19.6% 21.4% fantastic filly,@ O=Byrne said of the latter. AShe is an No. €500k+ 0 2 outstanding individual from the immediate family of Highest Price €350,000 €950,000 Goldikova, and you couldn=t ask for any more. She=s by Gross €20,494,000 €19,952,000 a very exciting stallion who was a top-class racehorse Average (% change) €61,544 (-5.9%) €65,416 and must have every chance of making it when his Median (% change) €42,000 (-6.7%) €45,000 runners hit the track next year.@ www.goffs.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 9/29/11 • PAGE 4 of 10 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Pinhooking Success For Knockenduff... Significant First Approaches... After the early fireworks, Shadwell=s name was absent Those involved with the first-crop sires Tamayuz from the returns until later in the afternoon when Angus (GB), Duke of Marmalade (Ire) and New Approach (Ire) Gold fired a i170,000 winning salvo to deny Ed enjoyed a jamboree over the two days, with the latter Sackville, alongside trainer Jeremy Noseda, for a filly making a particular mark on yesterday=s action.