SUNDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2020 NEW YEAR NEW OPPORTUNITY JANUARY EBN MON. 11 - THURS. 14 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES ARQANA EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com DURANCE SECURED IN PURSUIT OF SUCCESS James Delahooke signed the ticket on behalf of Pursuit of Success LC for the top lot of the opening session at Arqana yesterday as James Delahooke signed for the two highest-priced lots the dual Group winner and Gr.1 Preis der Diana third Lot 174, yesterday, topped by Lot 174, Durance (Champs Elysees), Durance waltzed around the ring to the tune of €750,000. bought on behalf of Pursuit of Success LC for €750,000. Consigned by agent Ronald Rauscher, the four-year-old © Thierry Boisson daughter of Champs Elysees claimed the Gr.3 Mehl-Mülhens Trophy prior to her German Oaks placing, before finishing runner- IN TODAY’S ISSUE... up in a Gr.2 and the Gr.1 E P Taylor Stakes in her final starts last term. This year, remaining under the tutelage of Peter Schiergen, National Hunt racing review p7 she won the Gr.2 Gran Premio di Milano, was placed in a Gr.2 in Stakes results p14 Germany and finished fourth to Barney Roy in the Gr.1 Bayerisches Zuchtrennen, just missing out on third place by a head. Spotlight – Tina Rau p20 She was always going to attract the eye on her glittering Stakes fields p23 catalogue page alone, as a half-sister to the Gr.3 scorer Dabbitse CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 For 2021New Group 1 form at 2 years 1st Maiden, Gowran Park, by 2 lengths 4th Futurity Trophy-Gr.1, Doncaster, beaten only a length Dual Group 1 winner at 3 1st St James's Palace Stakes-Gr.1, Royal Ascot, like other multiple Gr.1 winning milers and top sires Kingman, Frankel, Shamardal, Giant’s Causeway, Kingmambo etc. 1st Prix du Moulin de Longchamp-Gr.1, Longchamp 1st Dee Stakes-L., Chester 2nd Sussex Stakes-Gr.1, Goodwood Group 1 winner at 4 1st Queen Anne Stakes-Gr.1, Royal Ascot 2nd Sussex Stakes-Gr.1, Goodwood 2nd Breeders’ Cup Mile-Gr.1, Keeneland 3rd Prix Jacques Le Marois-Gr.1, Deauville 3rd Prix du Moulin de Longchamp-Gr.1, Longchamp Defeated 17 Gr.1 winning milers including: TOO DARN HOT, PERSIAN KING, KAMEKO, SISKIN, PHOENIX OF SPAIN, ROMANISED, MOHAATHER etc. “Circus Maximus is a high-class, quality horse with very good action. He has ample scope, great balance and a marvellous attitude - very much like Giant’s Causeway in so far as he battled every time and refused to quit.” Harry King Fee: €20,000 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, Cathal Murphy or David Walsh: 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: SUNDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld ARQANA DECEMBER BREEDING STOCK SALE – DAY ONE Lot Age Name (Sire) Covering Sire Vendor Purchaser Price (€) 174 4f DURANCE (Champs Elysees) Ronald Rauscher, Agent Pursuit of Success LC 750,000 178 8m TRUTH (Galileo) Siyouni Haras de Bouquetot Minster Stud 580,000 172 3f EUCLIDIA (Maxios) Wertheimer & Frère SAS Larrieu Gerard 525,000 134 5m SPINNING MEMORIES (Arcano) Pascal Bary Shadai Farm 500,000 148 4m PSARA (Invincible Spirit) Churchill Écurie des Monceaux Meridian International 500,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS (Soldier Hollow, also known as Great Storm), another Listed lovely individual and apparently a lovely person.” winner and a further five siblings who were placed at black type In a flurry of activity late in the day Donjah (Teofilo), Lot 182 level. These include a daughter of Königstiger who produced the consigned by Écurie des Monceaux, reached €720,000 before the Gr.2 Meilen Trophy winner Dragon Lips and the Listed winner four-year-old, trained by Henk Grewe to win the Gr.1 Preis von and Gr.2 German 1,000 Guineas-placed Dynamic Lips. Europa, was led out unsold. Whilst Durance’s future home is yet to be confirmed, she was A few lots earlier, Delahooke also signed the ticket for Minster purchased on behalf of American owners who have mares in Stud at €580,000 to secure the coveted Lot 178, Truth, from the Kentucky and England. Delahooke said of the purchase: “She was consignment of Haras de Bouquetot in foal to Siyouni on a 14th my pick of the sale because the family has done so well with stallions February cover. She is a placed Galileo full-sister to the Gr.1 that I’ve never heard of. The first dam fills the whole page, that’s very winner Magic Wand, who also gained no less than nine Gr.1- rare these days, and she herself had an admirable race record. She’s a places and was runner-up in all bar one of those, having been a NEW FOR SHAMAN 2021 BEAUTIFULLY BRED TOP CLASS SON OF SHAMARDAL GROUP 1 PERFORMER AT 2, 3 AND 4 GROUP 2 WINNER AND CLASSIC 3YO Fee: €6,000 Oct.1st • Visit YEOMANSTOWN.IE for more Standing alongside: CAMACHO, DARK ANGEL, EL KABEIR and INVINCIBLE ARMY Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland • T: +353 (0)45 897314 E: [email protected] • www.yeomanstown.ie CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: SUNDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2020 Delahooke said of the purchase: “I was underbidder here when Magic Wand was sold in this ring and I’ve followed her career with great excitement and sadness that we hadn’t been able to buy her on that occasion. Now we’ve bought her older sister for Willie Carson.” WERTHEIMER & FRÈRE LISTED HOMEBRED TOPS CONSIGNMENT The Gr.1-winning Monsun stallion Maxios proved the busiest in the business in either Britain or Ireland this spring after moving to Castlehyde Stud and his three-year-old daughter Euclidia caught the eye at Arqana yesterday. The Wertheimer brothers’ homebred won the Listed Prix Panacée and was offered by them as Lot 172, her attraction enhanced as a half-sister to Gr.3 winner Soustraction (Lope De Vega) and another Listed winner in Matematica (Rock Of Gibraltar). From the family of Gr.1 winners Lot 338 at the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale today is a Haras such as Solemia, Silasol and The Gurkha, she was bought by d’Ombreville-consigned Adlerflug colt out of an unraced SAS Larrieu Gerard for €525,000. Another from the Wertheimer Areion half-sister to the Gr.3 Schwarzgold Rennen winner consignment, Gr.1 winner Left Hand’s three-year-old half-sister Meerjungfrau (Manduro), from the family of Gr.1 Preis der Right Hand (Lope De Vega; Lot 168) was bought for €370,000 Diana winner Miss Yoda (Sea The Stars). by Victor Langlais’s of Langlais Bloodstock. Langlais commented: “We have bought her in association with €1.4m Arqana August Yearling Sale graduate herself. The pair are Victor Langlais, l’Écurie des Monceaux and Bertrand Le Metayer. She also full-sisters to the Gr.3-placed Je Ne Regretterien and half- is a mare that we love very much, she is beautiful and she walks very sisters to the Gr.1 Irish Oaks heroine Chicquita (Montjeu), who well. She comes from one of the biggest European studs with which has already produced the Gr.3 Silver Flash Stakes third Secret we have already had a lot of success. She will join Écurie des Thoughts and the juvenile winner Nicest. Monceaux.” CLASSIC WINNER, CLASSIC SIRE €15,000 MAKE BELIEVE 5 first crop Stakes winners including Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club victor MISHRIFF 47% winners/runners in GB & Ireland in 2020, higher than DUBAWI, FRANKEL, GALILEO and KINGMAN Mishriff BALLYLINCH STUD Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland Tel: +353 (0)56 7724217 • [email protected] • www.ballylinchstud.com 4 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: SUNDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2020 YOUNG MARES IN DEMAND The dual Gr.3-winning sprinter Spinning Memories (Lot 134) is on her way to Japan after being knocked down for €500,000 to Shadai Farm, Teruya Yoshida’s online bidding having seen off Satoshi Kobayashi, who was present at the ringside. The Arcano five-year-old, consigned by trainer Pascal Bary, also won three times at Listed level and her dam is out of a half-sister to US Gr.1 winner Winter Memories. Her €500,000 price tag was matched soon afterwards by Lot 148, the Haras des Monceaux-consigned four-year-old Psara. A winner at Maisons-Laffitte and in foal for the first time to Churchill, the Invincible Spirit mare was snapped up by Meridian International. Her Gr.3-winning dam Pacifique (Montjeu) has also produced the Gr.3 Prix de Lutèce winner Paix (Muhaarar) and is herself a half-sister to Listed winner Prudenzia (Dansili), dam of Gr.1 winners Magic Wand and Chicquita. The first of two lots to achieve €500,000, Spinning Meridian’s Ghislain Bozo said of his purchase: “I loved everything Memories (Arcano), Lot 134, is a dual Gr.3 winner. about her. She is a magnificent mare, with a lot of quality and very © Thierry Boisson well-bred.