THURSDAY, 30 AUGUST 2018 “We like this place,” said Trevor Harris with a smile. “I’m ACCLAMATION FILLY LEADS pleased. She’s going to a good home and will be well bred up. Swiss Kiss lost her pregnancy last year but she’s in foal to Dark PREMIER CLOSER Angel.” As with on Tuesday, when he had also been active, Dance was not on the scene and Creighton spoke on his behalf. “She was just a lovely mover--very Acclamation,” he said. “She has the pedigree and John is in to breeding so it’s a very alive page. John and [wife] Jess came here Sunday and Monday and loved her. We’ll decide on the trainer--it might be Karl Burke again if they want to go down the same route. We beat Angus Gold to buy Laurens and have done it again here.” On Laurens herself, who was a slight disappointment in last week’s G1 Yorkshire Oaks S., Creighton revealed: “She’ll go back in trip; basically she didn’t stay. They had to give it a go and see if they could go down the Arc route with her but there’s the likes of the Matron and the Champion S. at Ascot left.” Cont. p2 Session-topping Acclamation filly at Doncaster | Goffs UK IN TDN AMERICA TODAY ACCELERATE TO LANE’S END UPON RETIREMENT By Tom Peacock Leader in the Handicap division Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky) will DONCASTER, UK--Trevor and Libby Harris produced the Goffs stand at Lane’s End upon the end of his racing career. Premier Sale’s top lot two years ago and there was a sense of Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. deja vu as the couple’s Lordship Stud offering delivered the highest point of the second afternoon’s trade. That particular £280,000 individual turned out to be Yafta (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}), recent winner of the G3 Hackwood S. for Richard Hannon and Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, and pattern race dreams will undoubtedly be held by the new connections of his close relative. On that same day at Doncaster in 2016, John Dance had spent an unprecedented £220,000 on the filly who has made his name as an owner, this season’s G1 Prix de Diane S. winner Laurens (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). It was Dance who swooped for Lordship’s lot 267, consigned like Yafta by Highclere Stud, when Daniel Creighton signed for her for £240,000 on his behalf. Their latest acquisition is a daughter of Acclamation (GB) representing the same Swiss Lake family that the Harrises Newmarket operation have nurtured so carefully. Although her dam Swiss Kiss (GB)(Dansili {GB}) did not hit the heights on the track to such an extent as siblings like Swiss Diva (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) and Yafta’s dam Swiss Dream (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), her smart genes make her a valuable commodity. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 30 AUGUST 2018 Acclamation Filly Leads Premier Closer cont. from p1 Angel Rises For Highclere... Action during the rest of the session appeared to reflect the Highclere later provided what was to prove the third-highest wider theme of the current market. As with last week’s events seller of the day by consigning lot 318 for £170,000. The son of at Arqana, there was good money for the right horse and a total Dark Angel {Ire} and G3 Ballyogan S. winner Age Of Chivalry (Ire) of 18 individuals reached six figures on the day. (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), a half-brother to three winners already, Such standards have been set over in recent times that it was ought to be a sharp sort for Richard Hannon to get to grips with understandable to note that trade was still a little patchy. A new after Peter and Ross Doyle secured the final bid. Premier record had still been set through the £380,000 made “I thought he was the best of the sale,” Ross Doyle said whilst early on Tuesday by lot 20, the Newsells Park Stud-consigned Hannon set the wheels in motion for an as-then unnamed son of Gleneagles (Ire), and that figure never looked likely to be owner. “We’ve had a lot of success with the stallion and the toppled. mare looks decent, so it made a lot of sense." The overall clearance race from the 473 yearlings offered was From very similar lines a little later was lot 337, a son of Kodiac a healthy 89%, up 1% on 12 months ago. However, the (GB) out of Age Of Chivalry’s dam Aravonian (GB) (Night Shift), aggregate was £19,084,500, which was 3% down, with the who won a maiden in her racing career but has fared average falling 11% from £50,687 in 2017 to £45,331. The considerably better as a broodmare. He caught the attention of median also dropped 5% to £35,000 from £37,000. Shadwell’s Angus Gold at £135,000. “The mare has a bit of age on her now, but he’s a good, athletic sort who was bought to go to Mark Johnston,” THIS SALE HAS UNDERGONE SIX Gold said. Gold had to dig deeper into the Shadwell reserves and up to £190,000 for lot 388, a professional-looking son of the CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF GROWTH. WE increasingly popular Showcasing (GB). He is a third foal of listed HAVE ACHIEVED THE SECOND- winner City Image (Ire) (Elusive City), and from the immediate HIGHEST FIGURES IN THIS SALE’S family of the outstanding French mare Elusive Wave (Ire) (Elusive City). HISTORY. “He’s a smashing horse - one of the most straightforward I’ve Goffs UK Managing Director Tony Williams seen all week,” Gold said. “He looked a 2-year-old and I think a lot of people wanted him so I thought we might struggle. I valued him at around £200,000, so I’m thrilled we got him.” Shadwell ultimately laid out £1,435 on 13 yearlings and were jostling for supremacy with SackvilleDonald as the sale’s top purchaser. That honour narrowly fell to the latter, with 25 at a Goffs UK’s managing director Tony Williams said: “We came total of £1,453,000 including the Gleneagles top lot. into this sale determined to break the £300,000 mark and to do so is a huge achievement as we smashed the previous record by £100,000, setting a new high of £380,000. That’s a real statement for this sale and the type of yearling it now attracts and, along with the Classic winner Laurens, encapsulates the evolution this sale has undergone.” “This sale has undergone six consecutive years of growth and to match last year’s record-breaking figures was always going to be tough. However, we have achieved the second-highest figures in this sale’s history for which we are delighted and to finish with a clearance rate of 89% demonstrates the strength of the market here at Doncaster.” “We have received overwhelming praise from our vendors and buyers alike on what has been a very strong sale and it will be interesting to reflect on the figures as the sale season continues. John, Lady Carolyn and Jake Warren | Goffs UK I would like to thank our vendors and buyers who came from around the world and wish them all the very best.” TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 30 AUGUST 2018 Cheveley Repeats Pattern... David and Patricia Thompson’s Cheveley Park Stud might generally be regarded as sellers but such a successful business will always need to replenish its stocks and managing director Chris Richardson saw off the likes of Joseph O’Brien for lot 301, a Dark Angel (Ire) filly out of Wiltshire Life (Ire) (Camacho {GB}) for £150,000. “She was very athletic and Mrs Thompson was interested in her from a pedigree point of view because it’s the same cross as with Juliet Capulet, who we won the Rockfel S. with,” Vice President, International Operations Richardson explained. Gary King It was two years ago that at Goffs Orby that Cheveley Park had Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] acquired Juliet Capulet from Yeomanstown for €235,000. + 1.732.320.0975 Richardson has a little more on his plate at the moment with the Thompsons reviving their interest in the National Hunt International Editor sphere. Their most famous chaser to date was Party Politics Kelsey Riley (GB), who carried Patricia Thompson’s purple and pink silks to Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN success in the 1992 Grand National at Aintree. Those colours, [email protected] however, have been retired and in future, the National Hunt horses will also run in the usual Cheveley Park livery of red, European Editor Emma Berry white and blue. Twitter: @collingsberry “Jumping is more Mr Thompson’s interest and Mrs Thompson [email protected] thought it was better that the colours were changed around,” Richardson added. “There are quite a few more horses now, Associate International Editor with some trained in Ireland by Willie Mullins, Gordon Elliott and Heather Anderson Henry de Bromhead.” Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Ross Doyle and Richard Hannon | Goffs UK Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Andrew Caulfield First Crop Update... John Berry There will be scant opportunities to purchase the progeny of Kevin Blake The Wow Signal (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), who died from Tom Peacock laminitis earlier in the year after producing only two tiny crops.