Sheikh Hamdan=S Daughter to Carry on at Shadwell
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WEDNESDAY, 30 JUNE 2021 SHEIKH HAMDAN=S ARDAD BREEDING RIGHT TOPS TATTERSALLS DAUGHTER TO CARRY ON A breeding right in Overbury Stud=s Ardad (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) (lot 83) brought 52,000gns from Ed Player of Whatton Manor AT SHADWELL Stud to top the Tattersalls Online June 29th Sale on Tuesday. The bay, who stood for ,4,000 this term, already has 13 winners this season to lead the European first-crop sires by that metric. He also sired the G2 Norfolk S. hero Perfect Power (Ire) at Royal Ascot, and another colt, Vintage Clarets (GB), ran third at that meeting in the G2 Coventry S. AArdad has made a remarkable start,@ said Player. ALots of winners, yes, but I am especially impressed by their quality. Six juvenile runners at Royal Ascot is great going, and Perfect Power looks like a colt with a big future. They've got such incredibly sound minds. I'm really looking forward to breeding to him in the years ahead.@ Cont. p2 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY The late Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Horsephotos UNIFIED, MOHAYMEN, GORMLEY THE ONES TO WATCH Sid Fernando examines the stallions that bear watching in the lower fee categories that have first runners this year in his latest Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum, daughter of the late Taking Stock. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, will continue her father=s legacy at Shadwell Estate, with Angus Gold, Shadwell=s longtime racing manager, telling Racing Post that Sheikha Hissa will take over as head of the powerful racing and breeding operation. The news comes on the heels of Monday=s announcement that Shadwell Stud Director Richard Lancaster would step down. "We've been communicating with Sheikha Hissa over the past couple of months since Sheikh Hamdan sadly died and I'm currently on my way back from a trip out to Dubai to meet her to discuss things in person,@ Gold told Racing Post. "She confirmed to me that she and her family are very keen to honour Sheikh Hamdan's legacy and keep the whole thing going, which is fantastic. It's wonderful for his memory that she has the passion and her brothers are going to support her taking it forward and we'll do our best to do the same." Little is known about what the scale of Shadwell will be going forward, including whether Sheikha Hissa will combine the handful of runners she currently has in her own name under its banner, but Gold expressed that Sheikha Hissa shares her father=s passion for the animal. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 9 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 30 JUNE 2021 Shadwell to Carry On Cont. from p1 "Sheikh Hamdan used to involve Sheikha Hissa quite a bit,@ he TATTERSALLS ONLINE JUNE 29TH SALE said. AShe knows horses, loves horses and has horses of her own SESSION TOTALS 2021 in Dubai. She enjoys the racing and has very much taken over his $ Catalogued 83 mantle since he died. Sheikh Hamdan had six children, of whom $ Number Offered 69 Sheikha Hissa is going to be the spokesperson on the horse $ Number Sold 29 $ Not Sold 40 front." $ Clearance Rate 42% $ High Price 52,000gns $ Gross 274,300gns Ardad Cont. from p1 $ Average (% change) 9,459gns $ Median (% change) 4,200gns The breeding right in Ardad is the first breeding right to be offered in an online sale in Britain or Ireland. In 2021, the stallion enjoyed a busy breeding season, covering 152 mares. buyers have in our online product. We were delighted to be the Added Overbury Stud Manager Simon Sweeting, AI=m delighted first online platform in Britain or Ireland to host the sale of a that the breeding right has been bought by as successful a breeding right and we are confident that the sale of the commercial breeder as Whatton Manor Stud. It is a tremendous breeding right to Ardad will be the first of many that we offer on endorsement of what Ardad=s first crop have achieved so far.@ Tattersalls Online.@ Schiaparelli (Ger) gelding Sir Jackschiaparel (Ire) (lot 25) For the full sale results, please visit www.tattersalls.com. brought the second highest price at 29,000gns. Richenda Ford Racing snapped up the winning point-to-pointer from the consignment of E. Holden=s Coolmean Stables. KING GEORGE FOR GLASS SLIPPERS The gross for the 29 lots sold (42%) was 274,300gns. The Bearstone Stud=s Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead) is on track average was 9,459gns and the median was 4,200gns. to make her first start since winning last year=s GI Breeders= Cup Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said, ATattersalls Online Turf Sprint in Goodwood=s G2 King George S. on July 30. The has quickly established itself as Europe=s leading online platform three-time Group 1 winner finished second in that race last year and the catalogue for the Tattersalls Online June 29th Sale was to Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), and is set to meet that the largest yet, reflecting the confidence that both vendors and champion sprinter again. Trainer Kevin Ryan said of Glass Slippers, AShe=s great and is heading for Goodwood now. She=ll start her season down there.@ A winner of the 2019 G3 Prix du Petit Couvert and G1 Prix de l=Abbaye in consecutive starts, Glass Slippers had been set to return in the G1 King=s Stand S. at Royal Ascot, but was sent to the sidelines with a pulled muscle. She captured her second Group 1 in the Flying Five S. at The Curragh last September and the bay ran second in the 2020 l=Abbaye prior to her Breeders= Cup heroics. AShe just pulled a muscle and had to have a couple of days easy,@ Ryan explained of the daughter of the Mind Games (GB) mare Night Gypsy (GB). AWe weren=t going to take any chances with her. She=s fine now and we=re looking forward to Goodwood.@ Ardad | Overbury Stud TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 30 JUNE 2021 SUMMER SALE SET TO KICKSTART NEW SEASON AT DEAUVILLE There is a hint that normalcy is returning to the Deauville sales ring, with the Arqana Summer Sale back up to its normal two- day stand beginning on June 30. A quality mix of 593 National Hunt and Flat horses plus wild cards are slated to be offered Senior Vice President over the next two days, and the unraced 2-year-olds were put Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN through their paces over the Deauville-La Touques Racecourse [email protected] on June 29. + 1.732.320.0975 The juveniles kick start the sale, which begins at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, and continues with 156 young store horses and International Editor finishes with the Ecurie Central dispersal. On Thursday, there Kelsey Riley will be 127 fillies and mares, as well as one stallion and 206 Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN horses-in-training will go under the hammer. [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editors Alan Carasso Lord Glitters (Fr) (Whipper), a winner of the G1 Queen Anne S., is a Christina Bossinakis i270,000 Summer Sale alumni | Erika Rasmussen/DRC Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary Among the juvenile lots of note are: lot 3, a Kodiac (GB) filly [email protected] out of a Mount Nelson (GB) half-sister to G1 King=s Stand S. hero Equiano (Fr) (Acclamation {GB}) from Knockatrina House; lot 18, Irish Correspondent an Exceed And Excel (Aus) colt who is a half-brother to the Daithi Harvey MGSW and GISP Elysea=s World (Ire) (Champs Elysees {GB}) from Ecurie Yann Creff; Ecurie Prevost-Baratte=s lot 37, a Regular Columnists granddaughter of GI Mother Goose S. heroine Buster=s Ready Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele (More Than Ready) by Lope de Vega (Ire); a Siyouni (Fr) colt (lot 67) from the extended family of two-time Group 1 winner Ectot (GB) (Hurricane Run {Ire}) consigned by Ecurie Yann Creff; and Knockanglass Stable=s lot 81I, a son of Night of Thunder (Ire) out of Clowning (Distorted Humor), herself a daughter of GI Gazelle S. heroine Flashing (A.P. Indy). Leading the horses-in-training portion is G2 Italian 2000 Guineas hero Fayathaan (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) as lot 503. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 30 JUNE 2021 Arqana Summer Sale Cont. He=s fit and he doesn=t need to do any more [work]. At some stage we=ll take an easy run and then go back into something One of four from Roberto Biondi's Channel Consignment, the big. I=d love to have a crack at the Leger, but we=ll see how we 3-year-old colt is joined by group winner Elisa Again (GB) go.@ (Champs Elysees {GB}) (lot 487); 2021 G2 Derby Italiano runner-up Juan de Montalban (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) (lot 488); and the black-type winner and G3 Italian St Leger-placed Agnes (Fr) (Planteur {Ire}) (lot 502). Another Flat lot of interest is Jean-Claude Rouget's lot 489, Darkness (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), a winner of the Listed Criterium de Lyon and third in the 2021 G3 Prix La Force. Topping the COVID-19-condensed one-day sale in 2020 was the National Hunt horse-in-training Prunay (Fr) (Prince Gibraltar {Fr}), who changed hands for i240,000.