SATURDAY, 17TH OCTOBER 2020 ALL EYES ON KEENELAND NOVEMBER EBN MON. 9 - WED. 18 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com STRENGTH CONTINUES TO END OF BOOK 3 The extraordinary strength of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales continued through to the end of Book 3 in Newmarket yesterday evening, with the two-day sale recording gains in the The session-topping son of Authorized, Lot 1923, key indicators of aggregate, median and clearance rate, writes who was purchased by Alex Elliott for 90,000gns Amy Bennett. at the second and final session of Book 3 of the In a week when news of tightening local lockdowns across Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. © Tattersalls.com Britain came with increasing regularity, the yearling market remained resolutely robust, against all fears and predictions. Last year’s renewal of Book 3 may have seen a downturn in aggregate IN TODAY’S ISSUE... from the preceding two years, but for this year’s sale to have surpassed the 2019 aggregate in this most exceptional of years is BBAG October Mixed Sale – Day One p7 nothing short of astonishing. At the close of play yesterday, 538 lots had changed hands Racing Preview p10 during Book 3 for 7,367,200gns, an increase of five per cent on Pinhooking Tables p26 last year’s final figure. 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The only blip was a Alex Elliott had a long wait for Lot 1923, but his patience paid off negligible drop of one per cent in the average, to 16,051gns. No-one can pretend that the bloodstock industry is immune to in the final hour of the sale when he secured the son of Authorized the present travails, but as we continue into the next round of for 90,000gns to top the second and final session of Book 3. sales it is heartening that demand for the product clearly remains Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock and offered by The Castlebridge strong. Consignment, the May-born colt strode into the ring and attracted The curtain will fall on the 2020 Tattersalls October Yearling a flurry of bids from buyers including Anthony Bromley and Mark Sales today, following the Book 4 session which gets underway at Johnston, with Elliott out-lasting Jedd O’Keeffe for the attractive 10.00am. colt. 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 17TH OCTOBER 2020 He is the fifth foal out of the unraced Sweet Rose (New Approach), whose progeny to date are headed by Scentasia (Cape Cross), who annexed the Listed Fleur De Lys Fillies’ Stakes and the Listed Gillies Fillies’ Stakes, both at Lingfield, last autumn. Sweet Rose is herself a half-sister to a trio of Listed winners, including the Buckhounds Stakes victor Elite Army (Authorized), from the excellent German family of Wild Romance that includes such luminaries as the Gr.1-placed Wild Coco. “It’s been a long day waiting for him!” Elliott joked. “He has been bought for a client to go back to Ireland and there are a lot of options with him. He’s by a sire that we love and you could either run him next year on the Flat – he’s a half-brother to a 106-rated filly – or we could go the National Hunt route. He’s also got French premiums - the list of options is endless. He’s a beautiful horse with a great outlook.” Elliott confirmed that the colt’s future will lie over jumps eventually, noting that he was “one for Cheltenham, not Melbourne!” Of this week’s trade, Elliott said: “Everyone expected a bloodbath Lot 1839, a son of Night Of Thunder, who was purchased but it was very strong. For me, it was harder but I had some good by Rabbah Bloodstock for 46,000gns at Tattersalls yesterday. clients and bought some good staying horses. Book 3 is my favourite, © Tattersalls.com you can really trawl through the catalogue and find the pedigrees. It’s just a great sale; I bought Dave Dexter here who was a Listed one of his colts was a joint session-topper at 130,000gns. At winner and it is a fun sale because it gives you a chance to buy a few yesterday’s second session of Book 3, a colt by Darley ‘s successful sleepers.” young sire brought the second-highest price of the day when NIGHT OF THUNDER knocked down for 46,000gns. IN DEMAND AGAIN The winning bid for Lot 1839 was made by James Tate on Twelve months ago, Book 3 of the Tattersalls October Yearling behalf of Rabbah Bloodstock, the entity in which name Night Of Sale was topped by a son of Night Of Thunder, while on Thursday, Thunder himself was purchased at the 2012 Tattersalls October NEW Earthlight The brilliant son of Shamardal who was an undefeated Champion at two and unbeaten at six furlongs and less. Winner of the G1 Morny and the G1 Middle Park — in the fastest time ever. Standing at Kildangan Stud in 2021 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 17TH OCTOBER 2020 Sales, albeit in Book 1, prior to landing the Gr.1 2,000 Guineas and Gr.1 Lockinge Stakes. “He was a really lovely example of the stallion and we liked the way he walked around the ring so fingers crossed he will be a good horse,” Tate commented. Bred by Sean Gollogly, the colt was offered by Eric Cantillon’s Plumton Hall Stud near Bury St Edmunds. While his page might have been one of the shortest in the catalogue, it still contained plenty of class, with Lot 1839 being out of the 7f Brighton scorer Moonstone Rock (Rock Of Gibraltar), a half-sister to the 2009 Gr.2 Norfolk Stakes runner-up Reignier (Kheleyf), who was also consigned by Cantillon when topping the October Sale at Doncaster in 2008. “It’s a great price but I suppose the stallion is doing very well; sire power is everything isn’t it. We came to the sale hoping for the best and maybe we were better off being the big fish in a small pond,” Cantillon commented. “Sean is thrilled. [Consigning yearlings] is The National Stud’s Stud Director Tim Lane was on brand at not really what we do but Sean is a very good friend of mine.” Tattersalls yesterday. © Tattersalls.com Moonstone Rock has returned to Night Of Thunder since producing this colt, foaling a filly in May. Among the most pricey was Lot 1807, a filly by Time Test who TIME PASSING THE TEST was picked up by Nick Bradley for 45,000gns, after he saw off Federico Barberini, and will now join Richard Fahey. Dubawi had 14 of his yearlings sell for an aggregate of Bred by Lady Richard Wellesley and offered by The Castlebridge 7,955,000gns and an average of 568,214gns during Book 1. With Consignment, the filly is the third foal out of the unraced Leap Of no lots on offer by the leading sire during Book 2, it was left to his Joy (Canford Cliffs), a half-sister to two winners, out of a winning sons to carry on the good work and the appetite for progeny of half-sister to the Gr.1 Coronation Stakes heroine Maids Causeway. sons of Dubawi was still very much in evidence at yesterday’s “She didn’t belong in this catalogue, her pedigree put her in this final session of Book 3. catalogue, but she is a Book 1 physical in my opinion. I didn’t want to pay 45,000gns but Federico is a fair judge and generally if I am on one, then he is on one. He made me pay – on another day, I’d have been able to get her for 5,000gns!” Bradley said.