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FRIDAY, 2 FEBRUARY, 2018 It was as vivid an image as you could hope to see, to condense TWO LOTS SET NEW TATTS the quest that brings so many horsemen and women to places like this, year after year, in the hope that the patient cycles of FEBRUARY RECORD their business will result in the breeding or buying of a champion. A mare standing guard over her tiny, anxious filly, the pair representing decades of experience and judgement by the Weinstock family and the long-serving Ballymacoll manager, Peter Reynolds. And some premier breeders were duly inspired to contest the opportunity to tap into a family tree nostalgically evocative of the pale blue silks, with the yellow and white checked cap. For Thetis, herself runner-up in the G2 Rockfel S., is a half- sister to the lightly raced G3 Musidora S. winner Liber Nauticus (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}) out of a half-sister to the champion Conduit (Ire) (Dalakhani {Ire}); in turn out of a half-sister to Classic winner Spectrum (Ire) (Rainbow Quest). Having been unable to make her intended engagement in the December Sale, she had since delivered a filly by Lope De Vega (Ire) (Shamardal). Cont. p2 Tatts co-topper Thetis & her foal | Tattersalls IN TDN AMERICA TODAY by Chris McGrath INTO MISCHIEF COLT HAS SWALE ON ‘TO DOO’ LIST For the first five hours or so of their selling year, the Tattersalls Lael Stables’ Tricks to Doo (Into Mischief)’s reins broke when auctioneers must have looked down from the rostrum yesterday graduating at Laurel Park, and now the colt goes to Saturday’s and wondered if all those giddy records set in 2017 had just GIII Swale S. Joe Bianca has the scoop. Click or tap here to go been a dream. They made all their usual exhortations, they straight to TDN America. implored by word and gesture--but found themselves resembling the conductor whose orchestra can only persist neurotically in scales and sound checks. Meanwhile a crisp winter day had already faded into rainy dusk. And then, all of a sudden, the February Sale found its keynote. Within a few hectic minutes, at an auction which only registered its first 500,000gns sale through Easton Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) last year, 2,100,000gns was spent on four lots. The circumstances, of course, were highly singular. For the usual flotsam and jetsam you might expect at a midwinter breeding stock sale had been joined, thanks to an unusual tide of fortune, by some of the most precious driftwood in European bloodstock. First there was the fire sale resulting from the Steinhoff accounting scandal in South Africa, which has evidently required some partnerships involving Markus Jooste to be dissolved. And then, in contrast with that embarrassment, there was a rather charming epilogue to the Ballymacoll dispersal: the sale, as one lot, of the 5-year-old mare Thetis (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and her first foal--a filly just 19 days old. “WE’RE SENDING 25 OF OUR BEST MARES TO DECORATED KNIGHT. WE TRULY BELIEVE IN THIS HORSE” BLUE DIAMOND STUD ACCLAMARE MAID TO MASTER Half-sister to Listed winner Bold Thady Quill Full sister to multiple Gr.1 winner and highly successful Sire Mastercraftsman ALFAJER Listed-placed half-sister to MAY ROSE Gr.2 placed Taayel Dual winning three-part sister to Gr.1 placed and Gr.2 winner and exciting Sire Cable Bay ARWA Winning half sister to European Champion NAZLI Order of St. George Sister to Gr.3 placed Promising from the close family of Gr.1 Sire Zafeen and Gr.2 placed, BELLA NOUF Dual Listed and Gr.3 winning Aljazzi Dual winner, half-sister to dual Listed winner Nouriya, Listed and Gr.1 placed Yuften NOURIYA & dual Listed placed Lady Nouf Dual Listed winning dam of dual & winner Aljazzi. BOUYRIN Listed Gr.3 Nouriya is a half-sister to Gr.1-placed Yuften Winning half-sister to Gr.3 winner Alsindi and Listed-placed Lady Nouf COSMOPOLITAN GIRL Winning daughter of Gr.3 placed PRINCESS NOOR winner and placed Absolute Music Gr.3 Gr.1 DAWN OF HOPE ROSE OF MIRACLES Close relation to champion racemare and Listed-winning and Gr.3 placed half-sister to multiple winner Goldikova Gr.3 placed and dual Listed winner Ayrad Gr.1 ELLBEEDEE SHADEN Three time winner including the Winning half sister to dual Gr.2 winner Uncharted Haven Gr.3 Firth of Clyde Stakes FOL O’YASMINE TALAWAT Winning half-sister to Gr.2 winner & Gr.1 placed A winner out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winner and Sayif and Gr.3 winner Hunter Street Gr.1 producing sire Zoffany GADWA TURAMA Half-sister to Listed winner and Gr.1 placed Dam of a winner and half-sister to Lady Of Dubai Gr.1 winner Spinning Queen LADY WINGSHOT ZARI Gr.3 & dual Listed winner Half-sister to Listed winning 2yo Vik The Billy Contact: Cathal Beale, Sinéad Hyland, Gary Swift, Patrick Diamond or Helen Boyce Tel: +353 (0)45 521251 www.irishnationalstud.ie TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 15 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 2 FEBRUARY, 2018 Tattersalls February Sale Cont. client and said that Thetis will remain in Europe to be bred. AYour last chance to buy a bit of history,@ urged auctioneer AShe=s a very pretty mare, and the foal at foot is encouraging,@ Alastair Pim, quite rightly. ATwo for the price of one.@ he said. His own task, ultimately, was to reduce the last two men The new sale record would be matched moments later, by the standing--John McCormack and very next lot into the ring, one of Stephen Hillen--to one. And that the Jooste horses. By the time turned out to be McCormack, who these had all been through the coolly intervened with a single bid ring, the indices for the opening of 550,000gns. That took the final session were guaranteed to have aggregate of the dispersal to soared on those recorded last 12,077,500gns, at least in formal year, which had been the first terms. To McCormack, the whole extended into a second day. legacy is evidently priceless. Sure enough, despite a reduced AI=d say this is probably one of clearance rate, the aggregate the best tap-lines of Ballymacoll. climbed by 22% to 3,992,650gns And that history will identify Peter from 3,273,300gns, and the Reynolds as one of the greatest average by 32% to 27,536gns stud masters of our time,@ he said. from 20,849gns. With the AHimself and Michael Stoute made clearance slipping from 85% to John McCormack | | Tattersalls for a great team. They tailored 76% (145 sold out of 192 offered), and crafted some really good horses, and not from big numbers. the median dwindled from 7,000gns to 5,500gns (-21%). But It=s a great credit to them. And hopefully in 15, 20 years from sales like this will always be prey to random, fairly extreme now, you=ll still be reading about Ballymacoll.@ variations in quality, and that was certainly the case here. McCormack acquired the pair, sold as lot 149, for an existing Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 15 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 2 FEBRUARY, 2018 TATTERSALLS FEBRUARY SALE DAY 1 SESSION TOTALS 2018 2017 $ Catalogued 219 226 $ No. Offered 192 185 Vice President, International Operations $ No. Sold 145 157 Gary King $ RNAs 47 28 Twitter: @garykingTDN $ % RNAs 24% 15.1% [email protected] $ No. $500K+ 3 1 + 1.732.320.0975 $ High Price 550,000gns 500,000gns $ Gross 3,992,650gns 3,273,300gns International Editor $ Average (% change) 27,536gns (+32%) 20,849gns Kelsey Riley $ Median (% change) 5,500gns (-21.4%) 7,000gns Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] SESSION TOPPERS European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry TATTERSALLS FEBRUARY SALE DAY 1 [email protected] TOP FIVE LOTS Associate International Editor Lot Name Status Price (gns) Heather Anderson 149 Thetis (Ire) w/filly by Lope de Vega (Ire) 550,000 Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN (m, 5, Invincible Spirit {Ire}--Serres {Ire}, by Daylami {Ire}) Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment Marketing Manager Purchased by John McCormack Bloodstock Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen 150 Smoulder (GB) Horse Out of Training 550,000 [email protected] (f, 4, Redoute=s Choice {Aus}--Yummy Mummy {GB}, by Montjeu {GB}) (725,000gns yrl >15 TATOCT) Contributing Editor Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment Alan Carasso Purchased by Lordship Stud Twitter: @EquinealTDN 154 Key To My Heart (Ire) Horse Out of Training 525,000 Cafe Racing (f, 4, Galileo {Ire}--A Z Warrior, by Bernardini) Sean Cronin (1,300,000gns yrl >15 TATOCT) Tom Frary Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment [email protected] Purchased by BBA Ireland Irish Correspondent 152 Pocketfullofdreams (Fr) Horse Out of Training 475,000 Daithi Harvey (f, 4, Invincible Spirit {Ire}--Dubai Rose {GB}, by Dubai Destination) (i550,000 yrl >15 ARAAUG) Regular Columnists Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment Andrew Caulfield Purchased by Stephen Hillen Bloodstock John Berry 148 Longing (Ire) Horse Out of Training 220,000 Kevin Blake Tom Peacock (f, 4, Galileo (Ire)--Like A Dame {GB}, by Danehill) (1,000,000gns yrl >15 TATOCT) Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment Purchased by Cormac McCormack Bloodstock TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 2 FEBRUARY, 2018 Tattersalls February Sale Cont. The 4-year-old is closely related to one multiple Group 1 winner Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) and out of a full- Smoulder Co-Tops Thursday=s Session... sister to another in Fame And Glory (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}). This is It is only technically, of course, that the next filly into the ring also the family of Farhh (GB) (Pivotal {GB}).