TRIPLETUESDAY, GR.1 WINNER 26TH JANUARY 2021 TRIPLE GR.1 WINNER WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL PEDIGREE PEDIGREE NO A M K IN O A FREE T O I B RETURN O 2022 N DECORATED DECORATED IN KNIGHT EBNKNIGHT 2021 Galileo - Pearling (Storm Cat) EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS Fee: €7,500 1st Oct. FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU • L@bloodstocknews TODAY’S HEADLINES GOFFS UK EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com LA BAGUE AU ROI HEADS JANUARY SALE OFFERINGS This year’s Goffs UK January sale will be markedly different in how it is conducted, but offers plenty of eye-catching lots. The sale has been divided into two sections, the horses in training La Bague Au Roi (Doctor Dino), pictured triumphing in the and breeding stock being offered today without an auctioneer and 2018 Gr.1 Kauto Star Novices’ Chase at Kempton, will be as an online sale only, available at Goffsonline.com. offered at the digital Goffs UK January Sale today as Lot 62. Bidding will start at 10:00am and it will be a timed online © Steve Cargill auction, with lots closing in two-minute intervals from 12 noon. Part 2 of the sale, the National Hunt yearlings, was due to be held on 17th February, but has been postponed until August. IN TODAY’S ISSUE... The initial catalogue comprises 90 horses, with several supplementary entries, and they include the dual Gr.1-winning Stallion news p7 novice chaser La Bague Au Roi (Doctor Dino; Lot 62), the dual Gr.3-winning hurdler Stormy Ireland (Motivator; Lot 65), a ITM Stallion Showcase – Rathbarry Stud p12 runner-up twice at Gr.1 level, and the Gr.2-winning hurdler Steve Cargill’s Racing Week p13 Eglantine Du Seuil (Saddler Maker; Lot 69). ‘a breakthrough year’ In 2020 “Galileo further underlined his growing importance as a sire of sires with his stallion sons supplying a slew of significant 10 Group/Stakes winners. winners of their own... 14 yearlings sold for upwards of €100,000 Most prominent of those [on the GB & Ireland Sires table] was ... (top price €665,000). Australia, who enjoyed something of a breakthrough year Weanlings sold for €165,000, €145,000 etc. thanks to Galileo Chrome's St Leger success… swiftly followed by the Grade 1 victory of Order Of Australia in the Breeders' Cup Mile, and supplemented by Group 2 wins for Cayenne Pepper and Leo De Fury... One place below Australia was Frankel...” James Thomas, Racing Post Bloodstock, 4th January 2021 9 Gr.1 performers to date (fellow fourth crop sire Kingman has 5) 2021 Fee: €25,000 Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: +353-25-31966. E-mail: [email protected] www.coolmore.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 26TH JANUARY 2021 Amongst the other entries are: follow EBN on twitter Lot 13, the placed point-to-pointer Tom Creen, from the family of the Gr.1-winning hurdlers Catch Me and Cash And Go, @bloodstocknews Lot 14, an unnamed Walk In The Park filly out of a full-sister to Gr.1 winner Nacarat, Lot 32, the placed point-to-pointer Get The Game, a Getaway La Bague Au Roi won her first three bumpers up to Listed level mare from the family of Gr.1 winner Trafford Lad, and, after progressing to hurdles, won seven of 11 starts, including Lot 33, Le Bateau, a bumper winner in December and from the a 16-length victory in an Ascot Gr.2 for mares. She has won four of family of the star Italian jumper Notte Magiche, 13 outings over fences, including when beating the boys in Lot 52, Hollymount, an impressive debut bumper winner in Kempton’s Gr.1 Kauto Star Novices’ Chase and the Gr.1 Flogas December and a half-sister to two Gr.2-placed jumpers, Novice Chase at Leopardstown, and was second in the Gr.1 Lot 67, Madam Fontaine, a half-sister to the Gr.1-winning Manifesto Novices’ Chase at Aintree. A half-sister to two black- hurdlers All Yours and Lac Fontana, in foal to Masterstroke, Lot 68, Queens Present, a winning hurdler out of a full-sister type winners by Poliglote, she is out of a half-sister to Gr.3 to Kicking King and in foal to Jack Hobbs, winners Walt and Plaisir Du Roy. Lot 70, A Cappella Lido, a half-sister to the triple Gr.1-winning Stormy Ireland was placed on the Flat and over hurdles in chaser Valseur Lido, in foal to Linda’s Lad, France, then moved to the Willie Mullins yard, from where she has Lot 72, Sorry About That, an unraced daughter of Kayf Tara won six times over obstacles, including a mares’ Gr.3 at whose winning half-brother Lecale’s Article (Malinas) is second Leopardstown, and an open Gr.3 at Naas, and has been twice favourite in Saturday’s Gr.2 Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle, second at Gr.1 level. She is out of the French Listed-winning Lot 73, Cut The Mustard, a Listed-winning and Gr.2-placed chaser Like A Storm (Ultimately Lucky), from the family of the chaser, high-class Flat siblings Stormy River and Silverwave. Lot 76, the Polish winner Tyfona, a half-sister to the triple Eglantine Du Seuil, a bumper winner in her native France, has French Graded winner and young sire Tunis, in foal to Gemix, also spent most of her time with Willie Mullins. Her biggest victory Lot 77, Bit Of A Geordie, a half-sister to Gr.1 winner came in the Gr.2 mares’ novices’ hurdle at the 2019 Cheltenham Bitofapuzzle, in foal to Gentlewave, and Festival and she was third a few weeks later in Punchestown’s Gr.1 Lot 84, the Listed-winning hurdler Chica Buena, in foal to Champion Novice Hurdle. Elusive Pimpernel. Frankel 2008 Galileo - Kind (Danehill) 2021 Fee £175,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal Classic sires by blacktype 2YOs in 2020 9 Leading Frankel 29 individual 2YO winners in 2020 including track record-breaking the big six Gr.1 winner Grenadier Guards 8 7 Galileo Lope De Vega 6 5 Dubawi Kingman Siyouni Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 | [email protected] Source: www.thoroughbreddailynews.com | www.juddmonte.com Active European stallions who have sired a Classic winner in GB/IRE/FR 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 26TH JANUARY 2021 Last year’s sale was headed by Henrietta Knight’s £370,000 purchase of the then five-year-old Keskonrisk, a bumper- winning half-brother to Gr.2 winner Grand Sancy. He was a debut hurdles winner in November and Gr.1-placed at Leopardstown just after Christmas. The 2020 sale, which included the young yearlings, achieved a clearance rate of 70 per cent, with aggregate sales of £2,693,100 and average and median prices of £15,302 and £9,000 respectively. WITHDRAWALS Lot: 3, 7, 9, 10, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 35, 38, 39, 40, 41, 46, 48, 50, 54, 56, 57, 82, 94. SALES TALK continued BOOK NOW! NZB New auction begins CLEARANCE RATE CLIMBS BUT KEY INDICATORS DOWN ON DAY TWO tomorrow at 11am Common sense and a feeling of just getting 2021 out of the way and preparing for a strong 2022 drove the market at Karaka yesterday, writes Glen Latham. After Sunday’s opening session, when the average held up surprisingly well against the 2020 number, but the clearance rate dropped a few points, the market, BID NOW! or more likely vendor expectations, adjusted overnight. This was to the point where the overall clearance rate of 80 per cent is considered relatively healthy but the average is down Current auction closes around ten per cent, although that is a mark New Zealand Bloodstock’s Managing Director Andrew Seabrook felt satisfactory at the start of the week. tonight from 7pm PENCARROW DRAFT IN COMMAND Yesterday we wrote of Sir Peter Vela’s Pencarrow Stud offering its complete 2019 crop here and the buying power of David Ellis’s Te Akau Stud. As with Groundhog Day, the same combination were at the top of the table yesterday when Ellis bought Pencarrow’s colt by Tavistock out of Echezeaux for NZ$520,000. Going through as Lot 367, it was Te Akau’s trainer Jamie Richards who did the bidding and signed for the bay from a family both Ellis and Vela have had tremendous success with previously. For enquiries ring or email Michael Harris 01483 273377 [email protected] The late Tavistock, sire of yesterday’s top lot at Karaka. CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 26TH JANUARY 2021 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld NEW ZEALAND BLOODSTOCK KARAKA YEARLING SALE BOOK 1 – DAY TWO Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (NZ$) 367 c TAVISTOCK – Echezeaux Pencarrow Stud Mr D C Ellis 520,000 254 f SAVABEEL – Asama Blue Pencarrow Stud Nearco Stud 450,000 311 c OCEAN PARK – Charmeuse Valachi Downs Mulcaster Bloodstock/ C Waller Racing 380,000 273 c IFFRAAJ – Bellazeel Trelawney Stud Good Fortune Bloodstock 370,000 233 c FASTNET ROCK – Addison Trelawney Stud Mr T Fung 350,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS The colt has as his third dam Richebourg, an exceptionally enough precocity about him to be racing in the autumn as a two-year- good daughter of the influential broodmare sire Vice Regal.