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SATURDAY, 15 AUGUST 2020 COOLMORE PURCHASES GLOBAL ACTIVITY DURING TATTERSALLS ONLINE SALE WOOTTON BASSETT Tattersalls=s second online sale came to a close on Friday after two days of bidding, with the Donnacha O=Brien-trained 4-year- old colt Great House (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) (lot 12) topping trade of the Tattersalls August Online Sale with a bid of ,175,000 from Highclere Thoroughbred Racing. Previously campaigned by the Coolmore partners, Great House made a belated debut when second in a Gowran Park maiden on June 17 and he got off the mark going a mile and a half at Limerick 12 days later. He looks likely to continue his career in Australia. The Tattersalls August Online Sale attracted 16 entries, with one withdrawal before the start of the sale. Five of the 15 offerings sold for an aggregate of ,590,000, at an average of ,118,000 and a median of ,135,000. Among those not meeting their reserves was the G2 Airlie Stud S. winner Aloha Star (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), who was unsold at ,600,000. The Wootton Bassett | Coolmore stakes-producing mare Solfilia (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}) was bought back for ,340,000, while Sweety Dream (Fr) (Dream Ahead), a Coolmore has purchased champion racehorse and sire young stakes-winning mare in foal to Night Of Thunder (Ire), was Wootton Bassett (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}BBalladonia {GB}, by Primo a ,330,000 buy back. Cont. p2 Dominie {GB}) to join its stallion roster. The 12-year-old has stood at Haras d=Etreham in Normandy since retiring to stud in 2012. Bred by Laundry Cottage Stud, Wootton Bassett was a ,46,000 yearling purchase by Bobby O=Ryan from the St Leger Sale in 2009. Trained by Richard Fahey, he went unbeaten through his first four starts in the UK before capping his 2-year-old campaign with a victory in the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere and thus earning French champion 2-year-old honours. Wootton Bassett stood for an initial fee of i6,000 but has been on a sharp upward trajectory ever since his first runners hit the racecourse. That initial crop yielded just 23 foals, but 15 of those became winners and two stakes winners, headed by the G1 Prix du Jockey Club and G1 Champion and G1 Irish Champion S. winner and European champion 3-year-old Great House | Tattersalls Almanzor (Fr), who for the past three seasons has stood alongside his sire at Etreham. Wootton Bassett continued to churn out high-quality horses over the three next years despite IN TDN AMERICA TODAY having served small books, adding the likes of G3 Prix la COUNTRY HOUSE TO STAND AT DARBY DAN Rochette winner The Black Album (Fr) and G3 Prix Reigning GI Kentucky Derby winner Country House (Lookin At Fontainebleau victor Wootton (Fr) to the coffers, and he has Lucky) will stand for $7,500 in 2021. Click or tap here to go seen a surge in stakes winners this year with his first large crop straight to TDN America. of 92 foals now 3-year-olds. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 16 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 15 AUGUST 2020 Coolmore Purchases Wootton Bassett cont. from p1 AWith his best-bred crops yet to run I have no doubt that he He has had eight stakes winners already in 2020, putting him has a brilliant future ahead of him and the quality of the even with Night Of Thunder (Ire), Kingman (GB) and Lope De broodmare band at Coolmore will give him a wonderful Vega (Ire). Those include the Fontainebleau winner and Prix du opportunity to continue his upward trajectory. It is of course Jockey Club second The Summit (Fr) and G3 Prix Texanita scorer with a touch of sadness that myself and the team at Etreham Wooded (Fr), and his Speak Of The Devil (Fr) and Mageva (Fr) will see him leave the farm, however we are looking forward to were second and third in this year=s G1 Poule d=Essai des the first yearlings this year by his best son Almanzor and to Pouliches. His first crop bred at a five-figure fee, i20,000, are 2- retire the dual Group 1 winner Hello Youmzain in 2021. I would year-olds, and that group already includes Richard Hannon=s also like to thank all the shareholders and all the breeders that unbeaten listed winner Chindit (Ire) and a pair of recent first-out have supported Wootton Bassett during his eight seasons at winners at Deauville including Midlife Crisis (Fr), who was his Etreham." sire=s first >TDN Rising Star=. Wootton Bassett=s yearlings and foals of 2020 were bred on a i40,000 fee, the same price for which he stood this year. Global Activity During Tattersalls Online Sale cont. from p1 Also among those sold through the online platform, however, WE ARE THRILLED WOOTTON BASSETT was the 7-year-old mare Akhania (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) with her Night Of Thunder colt at foot and in foal to Golden Horn (GB) IS COMING TO COOLMORE AND ARE (lot 1). The mare and foal combination fetched ,155,000 from VERY EXCITED ABOUT WHAT HE MIGHT Alex Elliott. Though small in number, the Tattersalls August Online Sale ACHIEVE WHEN PAIRED WITH OUR attracted attention from around the globe. Hong Kong-based GALILEO MARES. owner Peter K. L. Chu swung for the 3-year-old colt Meaningful Vote (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) (lot 6)Blike Aloha Star from Fozzy Stack=s David O’Loughlin yardBand secured the dual winner for ,135,000. Two-year-old filly Inner Beauty (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) (lot 4), like Great House, broke her maiden at Limerick on June 29 before finishing fourth in both the G3 Coolmore Irish EBF Fillies= Sprint S. and the Airlie Stud S. "From his initial small crops in France, Wootton Bassett has achieved outstanding results," said Coolmore's David O'Loughlin. "His first crop of just 23 foals included Classic winner and European champion 3-year-old Almanzor; he's had two other colts finish second in the Prix du Jockey Club and two fillies finish second, beaten only a nose, and third in this year's French Guineas, and this all from i6,000 nominations or less. He strikes us as a real Classic stallion, he gets a very good type and is a total outcross with his pedigree free of the major European forces like Sadler's Wells, Galileo (Ire), Montjeu (Ire), Danehill, Green Desert, Invincible Spirit (Ire), Danehill Dancer (Ire) and Dubawi (Ire). We are thrilled that he is coming to Coolmore and are very excited about what he might achieve when paired with our Galileo mares." Haras d=Etreham=s Nicolas De Chambure added, "It has been an amazing journey, a real pleasure and a great pride for everybody at Etreham to be involved in Wootton Bassett's stud career as he established himself as the most exciting up-and-coming sire in Europe. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 16 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 15 AUGUST 2020 Global Activity During Tattersalls Online Sale cont. Inner Beauty will leave Ken Condon=s yard and head for America after Joe Miller=s Kern Thoroughbreds bought her on behalf of Tim Cohen's Red Baron's Barn and Rancho Temescal for ,100,000. The same connections purchased the future Grade I winner River Boyne (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) from the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-in-Training Sale in 2017. Senior Vice President Gary King "The whole Tattersalls Online Sale process went very smoothly Twitter: @garykingTDN and it is a well-constructed easy to use platform,@ said Miller. [email protected] AWe were delighted to buy Inner Beauty for Tim Cohen who has + 1.732.320.0975 always done well buying at Tattersalls, most notably with Grade I winner River Boyne." International Editor Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said, "This was only the Kelsey Riley second Tattersalls Online Sale and the feedback has been Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN extremely positive. The international participation was [email protected] particularly encouraging with three of the five purchases set to European Editor continue their racing careers abroad in Australia, Hong Kong and Emma Berry the U.S." Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor PHOENIX REPORTEDLY BANNED FROM Heather Anderson FRANCE Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Phoenix Thoroughbreds and the Phoenix Ladies Syndicate have been allegedly banned from running horses in France, Racing Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Post reported late on Friday. France Galop has not confirmed Twitter: @AlaynaCullen the ban. [email protected] Phoenix Thoroughbreds has been shrouded in controversy since last November when its founder and chief executive Contributing Editors officer Amer Abdulaziz Salman was named in a U.S. federal court Alan Carasso trial as being involved in a money-laundering operation. 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