HELLO YOUMZAIN HIGH CLASS EUROPEAN SPRINTER by Kodiac Carrying the Blood of Shamardal and Sadler’S Wells
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SATURDAY, 19TH DECEMBER 2020 NEW YEAR NEW OPPORTUNITY JANUARY EBN MON. 11 - THURS. 14 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES GOFFS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com MEHMAS COLT TOPS FIRST FOAL SESSION There was a fitting beginning to the Goffs November Foal Sale yesterday as a colt hailing from the third crop of Mehmas, who has made an absolutely sensational start to his career at stud, Lot 279, Ringfort Stud’s son of Mehmas, led the way during emerged as the star turn when selling for €75,000. the opening session of the Goffs November Foal Sale Given the remarkable exploits of Mehmas this season it was yesterday when purchased for €75,000. © Goffs. entirely appropriate that he should supply that star of the show and this colt hailed from the noted nursery that is Ringfort Stud. The colt’s position right at the end of the session did nothing to diminish IN TODAY’S ISSUE... his appeal and he was snapped up by Tally-Ho Stud, where Mehmas resides, after they outlasted the attentions of Guy O’Callaghan. A Irish National Stud Mares Syndicates p13 return to the sales ring next autumn is the plan for Lot 279, a Spotlight on River Boyne p16 grandson of Acclamation. He is closely related to a smart horse by that sire as he is the second produce of a Lope De Vega half-sister to Stakes fields p22 the dam of the Listed Westow Stakes winner Garrus. HELLO YOUMZAIN HIGH CLASS EUROPEAN SPRINTER By Kodiac carrying the blood of Shamardal and Sadler’s Wells st st 1 Sprint Cup Stakes Gr.1 - 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes Gr.1 st st 1 Sandy Lane Stakes Gr.2 - 1 Critérium de Maisons-LaffitteGr.2 at 2 nd rd 2 Prix Maurice de Gheest Gr.1 - 3 Commonwealth Cup Gr.1 Precocious, fast, sound and genuine! NEW for 2021 25.000€ LF - Limited to 140 mares CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 Won the sire-making French Derby in course record time! Other recent winners over the reduced 10½-furlong trip include SHAMARDAL, LE HAVRE and LOPE DE VEGA! Click or scan to watch him SOTTSASS wins the French Derby-Gr.1 in action from triple Gr.1 winner PERSIAN KING ❝ the Arc was more about speed than stamina and Sottsass had the best turn of foot ❞ David Jennings, RACING POST High class 2YO, World Champion 3YO, ‘Arc’ & Prix Ganay-winning 4YO By SIYOUNI, dam by GALILEO & a half-brother to a 7-time Gr.1 winner New for 2021 Fee: €30,000 Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 052-6131298. Fax: 052-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Jason Walsh, Mark Byrne, Tom Miller, Neil Magee or Hermine Bastide. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon, Paddy Fleming, Cathal Murphy or David Walsh: 025-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) +44-7827-795156. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF. SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 19TH DECEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld GOFFS NOVEMBER FOAL SALE – DAY ONE Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (€) 279 c MEHMAS – Vida Amorosa Ringfort Stud Tally-Ho 75,000 73 c DAWN APPROACH – Dorraar Boherguy Stud Avenue Bloodstock 70,000 208 c DANDY MAN – Rip Van Music Arglo House Stud Avenue Bloodstock 60,000 86 f SEA THE MOON – Exploitation The Castlebridge Consignment Grove Stud 50,000 81 f MASTERCRAFTSMAN – Eccellente Idea Galbertstown Stables Ballyphilip Stud 45,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS AVENUE TAKES THE LEAD MOON SHINES ON The sale sprang to life after a couple of hours when a taking son The increasingly popular Sea The Moon was responsible for a of Dawn Approach made his way into the ring and Mark McStay smart filly from The Castlebridge Consignment who cost Brendan had to go to €70,000 to secure this well-credentialled bay. Holland’s Grove Stud €50,000. This attractive and popular filly Offered as Lot 73 by Claire Manning’s Boherguy Stud, he is a (Lot 86) is the first produce of an unraced Excelebration mare half-brother to Far Above (Farhh) whose racing career took in who is a half-sister to the Gr.3 Prix Penelope third Rythmique wins in the Gr.3 Palace House Stakes and the Listed Prix Kistena, (Casamento). and who takes up stud duties at Starfield Stud next year. They are Elsewhere, a return to the sales ring next autumn is the plan for out of a winning daughter of Shamardal who is a granddaughter a daughter of Mastercraftsman from Galbertstown Stables who of the Gr.2 Ribblesdale Stakes heroine and multiple Gr.1-placed was snapped up by Paul McCartan’s Ballyphilip Stud for €45,000. Bahr (Generous). Bahr is the dam of the Gr.1-winning Nahrain This chesnut is out of a very useful seven-time winner in Italy in (Selkirk) who in turn is the dam of the top-class miler Benbatl Eccellente Idea (Excellent Art) who is already the dam of Prince (Dubawi). Of Fjords (Prince Of Lir), a very impressive two-year-old maiden “He’s a half-brother to a very good and very fast horse who could winner in Sweden this year. In addition Eccellente Idea is a half- be a promising young stallion. I’ve bought him for an existing client sister to Off Limits (Mastercraftsman), who was a Listed winner and he is likely to be kept to race. He looks a runner and I’ve had a bit in Ireland before going on to land the Gr.1 Matriarch Stakes in of luck with the sire already and we were just very pleased to get America. him,” commented McStay. The Avenue Bloodstock man was again to the fore later in the PINHOOKERS KEPT BUSY day when he forked out €60,000 for an attractive and well-touted The early exchanges were headed by a Churchill filly from Oak son of Dandy Man from Arglo House Stud. Lot 208 is the fourth Lodge & Springfield House Stud who cost John Walsh €42,000. produce of Rip Van Music (Rip Van Winkle), who is already the Lot 15, whose sire’s first runners will hit the track in 2021, is out of dam of a winner. She in turn is a daughter of the tough and classy the Gr.3 runner-up and Gr.2 Oaks d’Italia third Alambra Danehill Music (Danehill Dancer) who won the Gr.3 Park Express (Shamardal). Stakes and the Listed Celebration Stakes. Over the course of the day a host of pinhookers made their “We had to stretch a bit to buy him but he is just a very good mark and one of those was Jimmy Murphy who forked out individual. He’s been bought for a pinhooking syndicate and he will €40,000 for Lot 180, a son of the late Fast Company from be re-offered next year through Baroda Stud,” reported McStay. Ballyogue Stud. This March-born colt is out of a placed Montjeu Impressive first foals by the Group 1 winning sprinter HAVANA GREY By HAVANA GOLD x BLANC DE CHINE by DARK ANGEL Contact: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper 01725 518254 www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 19TH DECEMBER 2020 “UNBELIEVABLY GOOD VALUE” Sire of 21 Group/Stakes performers from just 134 runners including Gr.1 winning 2YOs The Wow Signal & Millisle (2019 European Champion 2YO Filly, pictured winning the Cheveley Park StakesGr.1) “he is unbelievably good value and has had a very good last couple of years” Ed Sackville, TDN, 25th Nov “an outstanding individual by Boherguy Stud’s son of Dawn Approach (Lot 73) was a sire who is doing really well” purchased by Avenue Bloodstock for €70,000. © Alex Cairns Anthony Stroud, purchaser for Godolphin of the 360,000gns colt that topped Day 3 at Tattersalls Book 2 mare whose siblings include the Listed-placed Militante “a very good, popular stallion (Johannesburg) who is the dam of the Gr.3 Prix de Lieurey who does very well” heroine and Gr.1-placed Wind Chimes. Daniel Creighton, purchaser of the 130,000gns “He’s a gorgeous foal and you’ll see him back for sale next autumn. yearling filly at Tattersalls December I haven’t bought one by the sire before but he’s a proven stallion and then this colt is out of a Montjeu mare from a very nice pedigree. It all added up,” reflected Murphy who paid €29,000 for a daughter of Dandy Man two lots later. Elsewhere, Peter and Ross Doyle spent €37,000 on a son of Holy Roman Emperor from Skara Stud. Lot 113 is out of an unraced Iffraaj mare whose dam is the Listed Swinley Stakes third Red Top (Fasliyev). Among the sires being represented by their first foals is the Gr.1-winning sprinter Havana Grey and he supplied a taking colt from Awbeg Stud, who cost Eddie O’Leary’s Lynn Lodge Stud €36,000. Lot 127 is out of a Kendargent full-sister to the Gr.3 Prix Other yearlings in 2020 (from €15,000 fee) sold for Eclipse winner Kendam and Listed Prix Roland de Chambure 200,000gns, 170,000gns, £170,000, 140,000gns, scorer Kenfreeze.