FRIDAY, 27TH NOVEMBER 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 TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com TOUGH FOR VENDORS, BUT FOAL BUYERS TUCK IN Breeders may not be booking test drives in Bentleys after this week’s Tattersalls December Foal Sale, but at least the stock they bred this year is in demand, writes Carl Evans Lot 718, the Newsells Park Stud-consigned Sea The Stars It might not be fetching premium prices, but after a 67 per cent colt who topped day two of the Tattersalls December Foal clearance rate on day one, just a point down on last year, the Sale when purchased by Oneliner Stables for 170,000gns. same figure at yesterday’s second session gained five points to © Tattersalls.com reach an excellent 84 per cent. That figure has to be set against downturns in the other key indicators, with some 1.5m gns being wiped off turnover, which fell 18 per cent to a figure of 7,014,800gns, albeit from a session which IN TODAY’S ISSUE... offered 19 fewer foals. The average price was down 17 per cent at 33,888gns and the median took a 24 per cent fall to 25,000gns. Stallion news p12 There were 11 six-figure lots, which compares to 14 last year Racing preview p14 and 18 in 2018, and vendors described trade as tough or tougher, but foal pinhookers have not been thwarted by COVID’s presence Racing review p16 or lockdowns on both sides of the Irish Sea and, if they are hearing Stakes fields p20 dire predictions about the economic future, they are not ready to spare their piggy banks just yet. South African news p22 They are still spending, albeit to a level. First crop foals sold for up to 130,000gns HAVANA GREY By HAVANA GOLD x BLANC DE CHINE by DARK ANGEL Contact: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper 01725 518254 www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 Already sire of 8 Group 1 horses, exactly double that of fellow third crop sire KINGMAN! TEN SOVEREIGNS 1st July Cup-Gr.1 1st Middle Park S.-Gr.1 1st Round Tower S.-Gr.3 ALCOHOL FREE 1st Cheveley Park S.-Gr.1 in 2020 ARIZONA 1st Coventry S.-Gr.2 2nd Dewhurst S.-Gr.1 WICHITA 1st Park S.-Gr.2 in 2020 1st Somerville Tattersall S.-Gr.3 2nd 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1 in 2020 NAY LADY NAY 1st Mrs Revere Stakes-Gr.2 1st Matchmaker S.-Gr.3 in 2020 3rd Flower Bowl S.-Gr.1 in 2020 LAND FORCE 1st Richmond S.-Gr.2 MYSTERY POWER 1st Superlative S.-Gr.2 TEN SOVEREIGNS, European Champion SHADN 1st Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte-Gr.2 3YO Sprinter of 2019, wins the CHESTNUT HONEY 1st Premio Federico Tesio-Gr.2 July Cup-Gr.1 from Advertise in the VITALOGY 1st Palm Beach S.-Gr.3 in 2020 second fastest time ever 3rd Summer Stakes-Gr.1 LOVE LOCKET 1st 1000 Guineas Trial-Gr.3 in 2020 NIKISOPHIA 1st P. Carlo e Francesco Aloisi-Gr.3 MOSS GILL 1st City Walls S.-L.R. in 2020 3rd Nunthorpe S.-Gr.1 in 2020 All from €20,000 and €17,500 nominations! Jeff Smith dreaming of Classic glory with Alcohol Free Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder 2020 yearlings from €25,000 nominations sold for €750,000, €550,000, €405,000, €370,000 etc. Fee for 2021: €125,000 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: FRIDAY, 27TH NOVEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE- DAY TWO Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 718 c SEA THE STARS – La Mortola Newsells Park Stud Oneliner Stables 170,000 603 c SAXON WARRIOR – Aktoria Highclere Stud Camas Park Stud 160,000 751 c CAMELOT – Delta Dreamer Belmont Stud Oneliner Stables 140,000 741 c HAVANA GREY – Satsuma Whitsbury Manor Stud Paca Paca Farm 130,000 743 f SEA THE MOON – Plume Rose Overbury Stud Grangemore Stud 115,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS Today’s third session starts at 10am and will involve the cream of the catalogue. ONELINER ONLINE FOR STAR COLT An online bid for a Sea The Stars colt (Lot 718) led to a session- topping purchase at day two of Tattersalls’ December Foal Sale. The buyer, Gerard Lowry of Oneliner Stables, was present at the sales complex, but opted to give the technology a try and with a button press at 170,000gns secured the prize. His purchase was another repayment for breeder Graham Smith-Bernal, who bought the colt’s dam, the Dubawi mare La Mortola, for 350,000gns via agent Jill Lamb at this sale in 2017. La Mortola is a half-sister to nine successful foals, including Jakkalberry, Crackerjack King and Awelmarduk, who were all Gr.1 winners in Italy, out of the Barathea mare Claba Di San Jore, but she inherited little of their racing ability, and, in a brief and moderate career from John Gosden’s stable, she failed to add to Gerard Lowry of Oneliner Stables (Ce) the family laurels. Her owner/breeders, the Lloyd-Webbers of Watership Down Stud, opted to cull her and, after a cover by “He is a lovely mover and was our pick of the day. We’re delighted Frankel, she went to the ring where Lamb was waiting. to get him and with a bit of luck he will come back here next year to The Frankel foal was subsequently sold to Godolphin for Book 1 and do us proud. Newsells Park are such noted breeders and 300,000gns as a yearling and, while the Sea The Stars 2019 consignors and they had done a fantastic job with this colt. covering fee of €135,000 has to be factored in, yesterday’s “We’ve had luck in the past with Sea The Stars foals and it helps to transaction means La Mortola’s offspring are on the cusp of understand a stallion’s stock and what they can do on the racecourse. paying for their mother. You are watching their stock and what two-year-olds they have Lowry, who said of his online bid: “It is an interesting tool and coming up, which all helps when you buy a foal. If the stallion is lucky nice to try it out”, said of the foal he had just bought: “He was a Sea for you, it’s hard to go away from them and this colt’s grandam is by The Stars colt out of a Dubawi mare, so had it on both sides and he Barathea, so you are bringing in Sadler’s Wells over Urban Sea is from an outstanding family. which is a cross that works. The image LANDNo Nay FORCE Never of his sire Fee: £5,000 with terms inc* If you’re an inquisitive breeder, PRESS THE ICON → to see Land Force’s excellent first book *see website for more info 155 mares covered +44 (0)1635 253 212 +44 (0)7730 272 895 [email protected] www.highclerestud.co.uk CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 27TH NOVEMBER 2020 “He wouldn’t have looked out of a place at tomorrow’s session [which contains the pick of the catalogue].” Julian Dollar, stud manager at Newsells Park Stud, said: “We had two Sea The Stars colts to sell tomorrow and decided it was best to split them up, although we’ve done well with the horses we’ve offered on Thursday evening. It’s great for Graham Smith-Bernal, who is a THE AGA KHAN STUDS keen new man into the breeding side of the industry and deserves Success Breeds Success some luck. He has had horses in training with John Ryan and, more recently, with William Haggas, and is taking a greater interest in breeding.” Oneliner’s other day two purchases included a Camelot colt Stallion Roster 2021 (Lot 751) who was sold for 140,000gns by Belmont Stud. A February foal, he is out of Delta Dreamer (Oasis Dream), a half- DARIYAN sister to Gr.3 winner and Gr.1-placed Juliet Foxtrot (Dansili) and Sire of 2 Group horses from the family of champion racehorse and sire Dancing Brave. It with his first 2yos was not lost on Lowry that recent Australian Gr.1 winner Sir €8,000 Dragonet was the result of a Camelot cross with an Oasis Dream mare. HARZAND Dual Derby winner by Sea The Stars €8,000 SEA THE STARS Sire of 14 Gr.1 winners & over 120 Stakes performers €150,000 SIYOUNI The 2nd leading sire in Europe in 2020 Fully Booked Lot 751, Belmont Stud’s Camelot colt from the family of ZARAK Dancing Brave, was another Oneliner Stables purchase. Group 1 winning son © Tattersalls.com of Dubawi and Zarkava €12,000 WARRIOR FOAL FOR HYDE Contact us to discuss terms Camas Park Stud’s Tim Hyde signed for the week’s first six-figure foal, a 160,000gns son of Saxon Warrior (Lot 603) who was consigned by Highclere Stud.