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TRIPLETHURSDAY, GR.1 WINNER 4TH FEBRUARY 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 TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com VIRTUAL FEBRUARY SALE GOES LIVE TODAY The two-day Tattersalls February Sale is being held as a live virtual auction, with no horses, vendors or purchasers on site, due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. All bidding is to be placed either online through the Tattersalls live internet bidding platform or by telephone bidding through members of the Tattersalls team. The Supplementary entry Noble Yeats (Yeats; Lot 256A) sale will start at 10:00am on both days. winning by 19 lengths at Thurles on 27th January. The 497 catalogued horses comprise 192 fillies in/out of He will be consigned late today by Friars Lough Stables training, 41 broodmares, 202 colts or geldings in/out of training, at the ‘virtual’ Tattersalls February Sale. © Caroline Norris 38 yearlings and 24 two-year-olds. Last year’s highest-priced lot was the Listed-winning four-year- old filly I’ll Have Another (Dragon Pulse), who was consigned by the National Stud and bought by Cormac McCormack for IN TODAY’S ISSUE... 200,000gns. The 2020 sale saw rises in all the key indicators, with Racing Review p4 the clearance rate up to 87 per cent, the average by 16 per cent to 12,350gns and the median by nearly a third to 6,500gns. Racing News p5 This year’s catalogue includes consignments from many Sales Talk p6 leading owner-breeders, including Godolphin, Juddmonte Farms and Shadwell Estate Company, which have 49 lots catalogued Stakes Fields p12 between them. First crop foals sold for €135,000, 130,000gns, etc. 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 1 RunThe over Newmarket’s Guineas. Rowley Mile, the renowned ‘sire making’ race has been won by the likes of leading European sires Frankel, Sea The Stars, Camelot and Night Of Thunder. This bodes well for the stud careers of three recent winners of the classic. CHURCHILL Fee: €30,000 The only son of GALILEO to win at Royal Ascot as a juvenile. Winner of 4 Group 1 races. His first crop yearlings sold for €405,000, €395,000, €370,000, €245,000, €245,000 etc. SAXON WARRIOR Fee: €20,000 The only son of DEEP IMPACT at stud to win a Gr.1 at 2 and 3. Out of Champion 2YO Filly Maybe (GALILEO). His first foals sold for €335,000, €325,000, €185,000, €115,000, €100,000 etc. MAGNA GRECIA Fee: €18,000 The only son of INVINCIBLE SPIRIT to win a Gr.1 at 2 and 3. His dam, Cabaret (GALILEO), was a Group-winning 2YO over 7f and is also the dam of 2020 European Champion 2YO ST MARK’S BASILICA. His first in-foal mares sold for up to €280,000 All three are by proven sires of sires, are from great families and were all top class two-year-olds to boot! 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 or Cathal Murphy: 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: THURSDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY 2021 The largest consignment is the team of 47 from The Castlebridge Consignment, Godolphin has a draft of 20 on the first day, including 17 fillies out of training, and Juddmonte Farms has seven catalogued fillies in training on the second day, along with four colts/geldings. The sale includes mares in foal to proven sires such as Acclamation, Bated Breath, Cable Bay, Havana Gold, Showcasing and Territories, as well as young sires Advertise, Eqtidaar, Expert Eye, Harry Angel, Havana Grey, Masar and Tasleet. Buyers looking for colts and geldings in training have plenty to choose from. Amongst the potential highlights are the Gr.2 winner Raymond Tusk (High Chaparral; Lot 434), four-year-old Bluebeard’s Castle (War Front; Lot 202), who has won twice this winter, the debut winner Affwonn (Free Eagle; Lot 425) and the 7f winner Alexej (Muhaarar; Lot 454). Pinhookers also look well catered for, with yearlings catalogued by proven Gr.1 sires Bated Breath, Camacho, Havana Gold, Lot 99, a first-crop son of Cracksman, out of South African Nathaniel and Zoffany, as well as by first-crop sires Cracksman, Gr.2 winner Tamaanee, inbred 3x3 to Galileo and from Harry Angel, Massaat, Rajasinghe and Seahenge. Hazelwood Bloodstock. © Tattersalls.com Amongst the catalogued horses are: Lot 13, the French Gr.3 winner Synergy, Lot 16, Evolica, a four-year-old full-sister to Gr.3 winner Strath Lot 153, Swiss Kiss, a winning half-sister to Gr.3 winners Swiss Burn, Spirit and Swiss Diva, her first two foals are winners and she is in Lot 33, Burlesque Star, a half-sister to Group winners Dominant, Es Que Love and Listen In, foal to Acclamation, Lot 99, a yearling Cracksman colt out of South African Gr.2 Lot 162, three-year-old Coloratura Soprano, a Golden Horn winner Tamaanee, half-sister to Gr.2 Oaks d’Italia winner Auyantepui, Lot 151, the 2016 Gr.3 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1,000 Lot 164, three-year-old Trust, by Kingman out of a full-sister to Guineas) winner Conselice, Classic winner Trading Leather, Kingman 2011 Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) 2021 Fee £150,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal King of the milers The highest-rated son of sire of sires Invincible Spirit, Kingman sired two of the best milers in Europe in 2020 - Persian King (triple Gr.1 winner) & Palace Pier (dual Gr.1 winner) Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 | [email protected] | www.juddmonte.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK ~ NATIONAL HUNT RACING REVIEW EBN: THURSDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY 2021 STAR GRADUATES CAPE CASTLE Cape Cross – Kaabari (Seeking The Gold) picture by Caroline Norris Caroline picture by Lot 151, Italian Classic winner Conselice (Showcasing), from Salcey Forest Stud. © Tattersalls.com 32,000gns 2017 Tattersalls February Sale 128, 130, 131, 132, 135, 138, 139, 140, 141, 144, 148, 150, 154, 159, by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock, 160, 163, 165, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 182, 186, 198, consigned by Godolphin 199, 200, 201, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 210, 211, 213, 216, 217, 222, Breeder: Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd 227, 228, 235, 237, 238, 242, 243, 245, 246, 247, 251, 252, 254 Tomorrow Lots: 257, 258, 262, 265, 267, 268, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279, 281, 282, THE LOWDOWN 283, 284, 287, 288, 289, 290, 295, 297, 299, 300, 301, 302, 309, 311, Cape Castle (Cape Cross) produced her first foal the 313, 316, 317, 319, 320, 328, 329, 335, 336, 338, 339, 342, 344, 346, following month post sale, Thundering Nights (Night Of 347, 351, 352, 353, 354, 356, 358, 359, 360, 362, 363, 367, 368, 370, Thunder, pictured), a juvenile winner who landed a Gr.3 race 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 382, 383, 384, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, and was placed in the Gr.2 Blandford Stakes last season. 394, 400, 402, 403, 406, 407, 408, 420, 424, 426, 432, 438, 439, 440, Lot 385, four-year-old At Ease, a winning daughter of Oasis 441, 442, 443, 445, 446, 447, 448, 452, 456, 457, 461, 463, 464, 465, Dream and dual Gr.1 winner Jostle (dam of two Stakes winners), 470, 471, 474, 475, 476, 478, 479, 480, 481, 484, 486, 489, 495, 496, and 497 Lot 387, three-year-old Courcelles, out of a full-sister to Bated Breath. Recently supplemented to the sale is six-year-old Noble Yeats (Lot 256A), a Yeats gelding who won a Thurles bumper by 19 NATIONAL HUNT RACING REVIEW lengths on 27th January and holds an entry in the Gr.2 bumper at Leopardstown on Saturday. BRITAIN ANNIE MC DOUBLES UP ON WITHDRAWALS LISTED SUCCESS THIS TERM Today Favourite Annie Mc provided a workmanlike performance for the Lots: 4, 7, 10, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26, 29, 31, 40, 45, 46, 47, 49, 57, 69, 73, second of back-to-back Listed wins this season in yesterday’s 76, 79, 80, 84, 95, 96, 98, 102, 103, 105, 106, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, feature, the Lady Protectress Mares’ Chase over 2m4f at Warwick. TATTERSALLS FEBRUARY SALE LOTS Success is just a away! Live Online Sale TODAY Adrian O’Brien Tel: +44 (0)7468 456488 LOT 99 LOT 100 LOT 122 LOT 123 E: [email protected] Hazelwood Bloodstock, Red House Stud Colt by CRACKSMAN Filly by ZOFFANY Filly by GOLDEN HORN Filly by CRACKSMAN Landwade, Exning, Newmarket CB8 7NE 4 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 NATIONAL HUNT RACING REVIEW ~ RACING NEWS EBN: THURSDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY 2021 STAR GRADUATES DARSAN Iffraaj – Coolrain Lady (Common Grounds) picture by Francesca Altoft Francesca picture by Annie Mc (Mahler), pictured on her way to victory at Bangor last February, won her second Listed start yesterday in the 7,000gns 2013 Tattersalls February Sale feature race at Warwick.