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TUESDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2019 JOHN HAMMOND TO CEASE TRAINING POSITIVE MOOD AHEAD OF By Emma Berry TATTERSALLS IRELAND Multiple Classic-winning trainer John Hammond has announced his decision to retire from the French training ranks at the end of this year. "If you'll forgive the pun, I've had a great trot," he told TDN on Monday. "I have been spoilt with good owners, good staff, some great horses and some fantastic memories that I will cherish forever. However, everything has a lifespan and it was never my intention to train until I dropped." Famed for his association with the brilliant Montjeu (Ire), the Englishman has been based in Chantilly for the entirety of his training career, which began in 1987. It wasn't long before his name featured regularly alongside the names of group winners, his first Classic success coming with the victory of Suave Dancer in the Prix du Jockey Club in 1991. Cont. p4 Tattersalls Ireland yearling graduate Soffia | racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY SPAN OF ARCH LEGACY GROWING By Daithi Harvey Chris McGrath looks into the legacy of late Claiborne sire Arch Eight years of sustained growth in the key metrics was and his son Preservationist. Click or tap here to go straight to interrupted at last year's Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling TDN America. Sale, but with trade at the mid to high end ticking along nicely so far this European sales season, the powers that be at Tattersalls Ireland are hopeful that the graph can be recalibrated upwards after this week's edition. The two-day sale will be followed by the single session September Yearling Sale Part II on Thursday. Last year 411 of the 526 offered yearlings grossed i10,488,000 at an average of i25,518 and a median of i20,000. The 2018 clearance rate fell to 78% from 89% the year before and in an effort to arrest that decline this year's catalogue has been compressed to 480 lots, a similar number to 2017. "We deliberately tightened up our numbers after last year and as a consequence we have seen a very positive response to the catalogue," said Tattersalls Ireland Chief Executive Officer Matt Mitchell. "We are encouraged by trade at the yearling sales so far this autumn and the recently announced Ballyhane Stud sponsored median auction series will provide another incentive for trainers to buy on spec or for new owners to get involved.@ Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY •24 SEPTEMBER 2019 Positive Mood Ahead of Tattersalls Ireland Cont. from p1 O'Callaghans= resident stallions Camacho (GB) out of the Mitchell continued, AAlso, we are hoping for increased activity Scandinavian stakes winner Cover Girl (Ire) (Common Grounds). from buyers from continental Europe while there will also be a The dam-line is replete with black-type horses such as G1 Chinese presence at the sale.@ Keeneland Phoenix S. winner Sudirman (Henrythenavigator), Some of the likelier types on paper could include lot 97, a colt while Castle Hill Cassie (Ire) (Casamento {Ire}) is the latest stakes by Awtaad (Ire) from Ballyhane winner to bolster the pedigree. Stud out of French stakes winner Bill Dwan's Castlebridge Ziria (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}). Consignment sold the second- The mare has produced six highest priced horse last year winners from nine runners with and among his large draft of 33 four of those winning at stakes yearlings are some potential level. Michael Tallon offers a stand-out horses. Lot 202 is a draft of four yearlings and the Dawn Approach (Ire) most interesting from a pedigree half-brother to G3 Ballysax S. perspective is lot 145. The colt winner Puncher Clynch (Ire) by Mukhadram (GB) is a (Azamour {Ire}), while lot 369 is half-brother to Foxtrot Liv (GB) the only yearling by Kingman (Foxwedge {Aus}), who finished (GB) in the sale. The colt is out third in the G1 Tattersalls Irish of stakes winner Mary Boleyn 1000 Guineas earlier this year First-crop yearlings by Awtaad include a colt out of French (Ire) (King's Best), who has stakes winner Ziria | Derrinstown Stud and could prove a nice pinhook already produced a stakes having been bought by Tallon last year at Tattersalls Ireland for performer in Clotilde (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and whose 2-year-old i13,000. What An Angel (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) was runner up in a Lot 191 from Yeomanstown Stud is a filly by one of the maiden at Ascot earlier this month for Richard Hannon. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY •24 SEPTEMBER 2019 Positive Mood Ahead of Tattersalls Ireland Cont. Another elite sire with single representation in the sale is Sea The Stars (Ire). The Cosgrove family's Kilcarn Park Stud offer a daughter of the brilliant Gilltown stallion as lot 297. The filly is the first foal out of the dual winner Holy Spring (Ire), who was placed in listed races in both Germany and Italy. One certainly bred for speed is lot 213 from Lodge Park Stud. Vice President, International Operations Gary King The colt by Muhaarar (GB) is a half-brother to five-time Group 1- Twitter: @garykingTDN winning sprinter Sole Power (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}). The [email protected] globetrotter's former trainer Eddie Lynam has enjoyed great + 1.732.320.0975 success from this sale having purchased the catalogue's cover girl Soffia (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}} for i52,000 in 2016. That filly's International Editor subsequent exploits should guarantee the trainer's presence on Kelsey Riley the sales grounds this week. Michael Ryan of Al Eile Stud Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN enjoyed some good days on the track with Duchess Andorra (Ire) [email protected] (Duke Of Marmalade {Ire}), and Ryan offers the first foal out of European Editor his G3 Denny Cordell-Lavarack S. winner. Lot 226 is a colt by Emma Berry Dark Angel (Ire) and the grandson of champion 2-year-old Pass Twitter: @collingsberry The Peace (GB) (Alzao) should be popular. [email protected] Connections of lot 372, a filly by first-crop stallion Harzand (Ire) out of Mean Lae (Ire) (Johannesburg), could be set for a Associate International Editor bittersweet sale. Having purchased the mare Mean Lae privately Heather Anderson for small money just before her daughter Jet Setting (Ire) (Fast Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Company {Ire}) won the G1 Irish Tattersalls 1000 Guineas in Marketing Manager 2016, they then lost the mare last year. However, they received Alayna Cullen some significant consolation recently when two horses out of Twitter: @AlaynaCullen Mean Lae that they have in training with Gerry Keane both won. [email protected] Mean Fomhair (Ire), a full-sister to Jet Setting, got an important winning bracket when scoring for the first time at Roscommon Contributing Editor earlier this month while a more significant update arrived last Alan Carasso week when the mare's juvenile colt Eloy D'amerval (Ire) (Capella Twitter: @EquinealTDN Sansevero {GB}) made a smart winning debut at Naas. Cafe Racing Speaking in between inspections on Monday the yearling's Sean Cronin owner and breeder Brian Duffy said, "She is a nice filly and she is Tom Frary now a half-sister to three winners instead of one as it states in [email protected] the catalogue. She is a big rangy filly, quite like the sire Harzand, and she has a great attitude to everything. Unfortunately we lost Irish Correspondent the mare last year due to colic when this filly was three months Daithi Harvey old. I suppose we were very lucky to have bought the mare in the first place, just before Jet Setting came out and won the Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | Andrew Caulfield Guineas. Thankfully we kept Mean Fomhair to keep the family John Berry | Kevin Blake going in the future and she won nicely last month. We might race her on next season. Eloy d'Amerval looks fairly smart too so there is plenty happening in the family." Another yearling to benefit from a significant recent update is IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY lot 51, a filly by Ivawood (Ire) from Mount Pleasant Farm. The A CORNER OF OLD KENTUCKY filly's half-sister Encapsulation (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) landed the Trevor Marshallsea delves into the inner workings of Listed Doonside Cup at Ayr last Friday for trainer Andrew Spendthrift Australia. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Balding, who is a good supporter of this sale. Cont. p4 Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY •24 SEPTEMBER 2019 Positive Mood Ahead of Tattersalls Ireland Cont. Richard Hannon introduced a useful-looking filly at Newbury also last Friday when Theotherside (Ire) Dandy Man {Ire}) made a successful debut in a 2-year-old maiden and her half-sister will be offered by Tradewinds Stud as lot 408. The Dragon Pulse (Ire) filly is out of the stakes placed four-time winner New Magic (Ire) (Statue Of Liberty), who has now bred two winners from two runners of racing age. The sale will commence at 10 a.m. on each day with all lots eligible to run in the i300,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales S. at The Curragh next September. John Hammond to Cease Training Cont. from p1 Later that year the son of Green Dancer went on to become the first of the trainer's two winners of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, having also won the Irish Champion S. following his three-length defeat by Generous (Ire) in the Irish Derby. Further international success came the following year when Dear Doctor (Fr) won the Arlington Million--one of 15 individual Group/Grade 1 winners for the trainer in six different countries.