MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. KEENELAND NOVEMBER WRAPS UP TATTS DECEMBER YEARLINGS TODAY The Keeneland November Breeding Stock sale ended Tattersalls= one-day December Yearling Sale begins in its 13-day run yesterday in Lexington. When all was Newmarket at 10 a.m. this morning hot on the heels of said and done, 2,779 horses sold for $159,727,800, one of its biggest ever successes. This month=s which represented a 13.92-percent drop from the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile winner Vale of York (Ire) $185,552,300 (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) was bought for just 23,000gns grossed during last by breeze-up consignor Adrian Costello at last year=s year=s 15-day sale. sale. There has been a strong demand all year for The average price of well-bred yearling fillies and, hip 159, a full-sister to $57,477 was down this season=s G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud runner-up 6.48 percent, while Mikhail Glinka (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), is one that should the median of have plenty of appeal. She is offered by the $20,000 remained Castlebridge Consignment for breeder Paul Makin=s unchanged from last Paulyn Ltd and is out of a full-sister to G1 Epsom Derby year. Five horses winner Sir Percy (GB) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}). Among eclipsed the $1-mil- Galileo=s other offerings are hip 196, a Juddmonte-bred lion mark this year, colt out of the listed winner Short Dance (Hennessy); Honest Pursuit Z/Keeneland compared to 19 in and hip 203, a filly who is the first foal of GI Garden 2008. While the fi- City Breeders= Cup S. winner Luas Line (Ire) (Danehill). nal figures where down slightly, the RNA rate was a The sale features the final three yearlings by the great strong 21.59 percent, and the sale concluded with an Sadler=s Wells available public auction. The last of the air of optimism, spurred by the highly successful dis- trio is hip 202, a colt who is a full-brother to G1 persal of Overbrook Farm and wide international partici- Moyglare Stud S. winner Sequoyah (Ire), herself the pation. Topping the event was the $3.1-million mare dam of four-time G1 winner Henrythenavigator Honest Pursuit (Storm Cat--Honest Lady), who was sold (Kingmambo); G1 Fillies= Mile heroine Listen (Ire) by Eaton Sales, on behalf of Overbrook, to Wertheimer (Sadler=s Wells); and the unraced Liffey Dancer (Ire), et Frere. who became the dearest yearling filly sold at Tattersalls AEntering the 2009 sales season, the forecast was when she made 2.5 million guineas at the 2007 Octo- uncertain and market confidence had waned,@ said ber sale. Tattersalls Coverage cont. p6 Keeneland Director of Sales Geoffrey Russell. AOverbrook deserves credit for putting confidence back in the market. The Overbrook dispersal selling without reserve provided a base from which the market could appraise. As a result, there was strong trade and hope that the market has now moved beyond its low point.@ Keeneland Coverage cont. p3-5 KEENELAND NOVEMBER STATISTICS SUNDAY, NOV. 22, 2009 CUMULATIVE 2009 2008 Catalogued 4,702 5,709 No. Offered 3,544 4,188 No. Sold 2,779 3,019 RNAs 765 1,169 % RNA 21.6% 27.9% No. $1 million+ 5 19 High Price $3,100,000 $3,000,000 Gross $159,727,800 $185,552,300 Average (% change) $57,477(-6.5%) $61,462 Median (% change) $20,000 (n/c) $20,000 www.keeneland.com www.overbrookfarm.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/23/09 • PAGE 2 of 8 • thoroughbreddailynews.com MR. SIDNEY TO HARAS DU QUESNAY GISW Mr. Sidney (Storm Cat--Tomisue's Delight, by A.P. Indy) will stand at stud at Haras du Quesnay in Normandy, Racing France, it was announced today by Lee Einsidler and Daniele Churchill, who cam- paigned the horse under their Round-Up Circle E Racing Stable, and Alec Head, the stud farm=s owner. He will stand for an Einstein Works for Clark; Maragh Picks up Mount... introductory fee of i9,000. A Stronach Stable=s Einstein (Brz) (Spend a Buck) $3.9 million KEESEP yearling, worked a half-mile at Churchill yesterday as he prepares the five-year-old captured the for Friday=s GII Clark H. at the Louisville oval. The GI Maker=s Mark Mile at seven-year-old stopped the Horsephotos Keeneland and the GII Fire- clock in :48.60 and gal- cracker H. at Churchill this season. The bay is out of a loped out five furlongs in full-sister to Horse of the Year Mineshaft, the multiple 1:01 early Sunday morning Grade I winning millionaire Tomisue=s Delight. Of the under Kelly Likes. decision to send Mr. Sidney overseas, Einsidler said, Pitts-Blasi has worked Ein- AWe weighed offers, both domestically and internation- stein in the past, but opted ally, but we thought going to France would give Mr. for Likes on Sunday for the Sidney the best chance for success as a stallion. Bill work over a fast track. AI Mott, who trained him, has known Alec Head for many wanted to take some years and has trained for him. That relationship gave us a degree of comfort, as did the recommendation of Bill, weight off him, and Kelly is who was really responsible for the horse=s success.@ lighter than I am. And I While he raced strictly in America, Head is confident could watch him,@ that Mr. Sidney will have no trouble finding demand in Pitts-Blasi said. Einstein is Europe. AI think that Mr. Sidney will cross well with the coming off a disappointing European mares,@ he said, adding, AHe is a very well- 11th-place finish in the GI made horse, by stallion of the century Storm Cat, who Breeders= Cup Classic, the has been successful all around the world. His dam is a worst showing of his Einstein and Pitts-Blasi at the winner of two Grade Is, his granddam [Broodmare of 29-race career. AI have no Breeders’ Cup the Year Prospectors Delite] is also a multiple Grade I answer,@ Pitts-Blasi said of Sarah K. Andrew winner, which already is rare. When you go back in his the Breeders= Cup. AWe pedigree, you have Storm Cat, A.P. Indy and Mr. Pros- couldn=t find anything. He went very well this morning pector, three of the best.@ Pedigree expert Andrew and I was pleased.@ Pitts-Blasi also confirmed that Caulfield agreed. AFrench breeders are sure to give Mr. Sidney a warm welcome, not only because he is a jockey Rajiv Maragh will get the mount in the Clark, as Grade I-winning miler, but also because his pedigree regular rider Julien Leparoux will miss the final two combines some of the most influential American stal- days of the meet to ride in the Japan Cup. Among the lions of recent decades,@ Caulfield said. ABetween them, Clark challengers will be Macho Again (Macho Uno), Storm Cat, A.P. Indy and Mr. Prospector topped the who bested Einstein in June=s GI Stephen Foster H. at North American sires= list a total of six times.@ Churchill. P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/23/09 • PAGE 3 of 8 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Gerry Aschinger relates the story, AI had begun to circulate my name among people that I wanted to buy a KEENELAND NOVEMBER SALE stallion for War Horse Place. In the past, we had always bought stallions shares, but we decided that we wanted to be the primary purchaser of a stallion. [In 2007] Dick Lossen, a bloodstock agent, told me there Kitalpha Kiddies Top Keeneland Finale... was a full-brother to Kingmambo in South Africa that Topping Sunday=s session was hip 4490, a weanling needed to be relocated. He was standing in Zimbabwe, colt from the first U.S. crop of Kingmambo=s full- and the country was in the process of confiscating race brother Kitalpha (Mr. Prospector--Miesque). Selling as horse farms. So they shipped him out in the middle of property of War Horse Place, which stands Kitalpha, the night to Johannesburg, and we had to buy him in a the Apr. 15-foaled bay was hammered down to Dr. Lisa very quick period of time while he was in quarantine Lex for $100,000. The colt earned a timely update there.@ when his six-year-old half-brother Twin Sparks (Twin- Kitalpha=s journey to Kentucky, however, wouldn=t be ing) captured his first black-type event in Saturday=s an easy--or quick--process. Caballos Del Sol H. at Turf Paradise. Twin Sparks low- AIt took 120 days to get home,@ Aschinger explained. ered the world record for six furlongs in the process, ANo country will take a stallion out of South Africa for stopping the clock in a blistering 1:06.59. The dam of breeding purposes, except an island off the coast of both is the stakes-winning Sparklin Lil (Mr. Sparkles). South Africa called Mauritius. So we shipped him there, War Horse Place also consigned the day=s second- and he was in quarantine there for 40 days. The next highest-priced horse, another weanling by Kitalpha who country that would accept him was the Netherlands. made $85,000 to the bid of Michael J. Morrison. Cata- Then we shipped him to Paris, from Paris to New York, logued as hip 4411, the filly is a daughter of the five- and finally, he was accepted into Kentucky after being year-old Forestry mare Mama Bear from the family of accepted into North America.