SEVEN WEDNESDAY, 29TH AUGUST 2018 GROUP 1 WINS including GROUP30 WINS 93 GROUP 3YO WINS/PLACINGS IN 2018 ROARING LION winner of the EUROPE • ASIA/AUSTRALIA • DUBAI Juddmonte EBN International-G1 #USBRED EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS and Coral Eclipse-G1 FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU AUSTRALIAN NEWS | SCANDINAVIAN NEWS | RACING ROUND-UP | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES SALES GOFFS UK REPORT by CARL EVANS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com NEWSELLS HAS LOOK OF GLENEAGLES AT DONNY Goffs UK’s Premier Sale top price was smashed down the fairway at Doncaster yesterday by a £380,000 son of freshman sire Gleneagles. Offered by Hertfordshire-based Newsells Park Stud, the colt (Lot 20) was sold to SackvilleDonald’s Alastair Donald, whose valuation added a crisp £100,000 to the previous Doncaster best price for a yearling which had been achieved on three previous occasions. In 2011 an Oasis Dream colt who became sire Gale Force Ten made £280,000, and that was matched by Galileo Lot 20, the son of Gleneagles who smashed the record price Gold’s sister Choumicha (Paco Boy) in 2015 and, the following at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale when knocked down to year, by last month’s Gr.3 Hackwood Stakes winner Yafta (Dark SackvilleDonald for £380,000. © Sarah Farnsworth Angel). Donald, whose financially robust clients include King Power Racing, has been enjoying a winning run with his sales-ring stand-out horse at this sale and one of the nicest horses I’ve seen at purchases, highlighted by a four-timer on Saturday that included Doncaster in many a year. He’s a gorgeous individual, a half-brother Glorious Empire’s win in the Gr.1 Sword Dancer Stakes at to a good horse [Listed winner Al Malhouf, who was second in Saratoga. After signing for the Gleneagles colt he said: “He was the June’s Gr.2 Prix Hocquart] and he’s by a potentially exciting stallion.” DON’T MISS THIS YEAR’S STARS ON OFFER AT GOFFS UK PREMIER YEARLING SALE A draft small in size but very Consigning LOT 368 high in quality Colt by POET’S VOICE, Robin Sharp Tel: +44 (0)1638 563238 sire of dual Gr.1 winner Mob: +44 (0)7850 661468 POET’S WORD. Malcolm Bryson Mob: +44 (0)7711 160856. Previous winners include Email: [email protected] Group/Grade 1 performers Go to www.houghtonbloodstock.co.uk for images MAYSON & BELLE ROYALE CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 Europe’s leading 2YOs Timeform’s two highest rated 2YOs of 2018 are by Juddmonte sires Kingman Oasis Dream Sire of CALYX (TF 118p) Sire of PRETTY POLLYANNA (TF 118) (Coventry Stakes Gr.2) (Prix Morny Gr.1 & Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes Gr.2) Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Eoin Fives +44 (0)1638 731115 [email protected] ® www.juddmonte.com Timeform ratings correct to 24.08.2018 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 29TH AUGUST 2018 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld GOFFS UK PREMIER YEARLING SALE – DAY ONE Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (£) 20 c GLENEAGLES – Lady Eclair Newsells Park Stud SackvilleDonald 380,000 256 f EXCEED AND EXCEL – Stravina Abbeville Stud Oliver St Lawrence 200,000 265 f ACCLAMATION – Sweet Nicole Trinity Park Stud Joe Foley 185,000 92 c ACCLAMATION – Miss Gibraltar Rathbarry Stud BBA Ireland/Richard Knight p/s 150,000 175 c OASIS DREAM – Quiet Norris Bloodstock HKJC 150,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS That sire, Coolmore Stud’s six-year-old Gleneagles (Galileo), “Gerry [Meehan, yearling manager] preps all our yearlings [some stood at an advertised fee of €60,000 in the year he covered 60 this year] and is under pressure, but he loved the horse, who was Newsell Park’s Lady Eclair, but the resulting colt was a cracker a real athlete. It is nice to bring a horse that good to this venue.” who attracted plenty of interest ahead of his appearance in the Newsells Park has nine yearlings catalogued for this event and ring yesterday. it was back into six-figure territory minutes after the Gleneagles Quoting Julian Dollar, stud manager for the vendors, auctioneer colt was sold. Its next offering, a Muhaarar colt (Lot 21) out of Henry Beeby said: “He floats when he walks,” but little hyperbole Listed-placed Lady Francesca (Montjeu), made £120,000 to a was needed given the strength of buyers hoping to bring the bid from Shadwell’s Angus Gold. hammer down. Bloodstock agents Oliver St Lawrence, Jamie Later in the session a Zoffany colt (Lot 177) added to Newsells’ Lloyd and Richard Brown all registered their interest, as did spoils when the Rabbah Bloodstock team of James Tate and Jono underbidder Amanda Skiffington, before Donald’s nod proved Mills took him back to Newmarket following a bid of £110,000. decisive. UPS AND DOWNS ON DAY ONE For Dollar the result was justification for his decision to send A £380,000 top lot and an 89 per cent clearance rate were the such a precious commodity to Doncaster and he said: “Tim Kent stand-out figures from day one of Goffs UK’s Premier Sale, and Tony Williams [of Goffs UK] came to see the horses and I said, ‘I’ll although there were falls in some columns. show you one you’ll like, but I’m not certain to send him to you’. The day’s top lot was one of 19 horses to make a six-figure sum, “They loved him and said he was the type of horse that could add down on the 26 who did so 12 months ago, but up on the 15 who to the profile of Doncaster. Don’t get me wrong, Tattersalls is a crossed that mark in 2016. wonderful company and we have sent a lot of good horses to them Other falls have to be considered against some heady trade at [including a 3,600,000gns son of Galileo who in 2013 set a the session last year, when turnover increased 22 per cent. European record for a colt], but these guys really wanted the horse Yesterday it was clipped just four per cent to £10,183,000 and, and it is good to have competition in any industry. We took a punt while the average price dropped 16 per cent to £45,058, the and it paid off. median fared better, dipping five per cent to £35,000. CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 29TH AUGUST 2018 On a day when the list of pinhooks included a mix of plusses and minuses there was a fine result for the newbies at WH Bloodstock, who gained £110,000 off a 35,000gns investment in a Tamayuz colt (see later story), and Paula Flannery’s €13,500 spend on a Toronado colt (Lot 67) gained an £85,000 return, thanks to a bid from Ross Doyle. ST LAWRENCE EXCELS AFTER FIRE DRILL Almost ten and a half hours of trade had rocked and rolled around the ring before Oliver St Lawrence hoisted a £200,000 bid that nailed him an attractive filly by Exceed And Excel (Lot 256). Fending off challenges at Doncaster from the team of Ross Doyle and Richard Hannon, plus Daniel ‘Laurens’ Creighton, is never a cake walk and, given that St Lawrence had endured a torrid night, he deserved the prize. Lot 256, a daughter of Exceed And Excel, who realised Staying at a well-known local hotel, he was stirred from his £200,000 when knocked down to Oliver St Lawrence. slumbers by an internal phone call at two o’clock. He said: “That © Sarah Farnsworth was room service, asking if I would like to receive my order for a burger, then at 3.30am the fire alarm went off and the guests had to MIXED RESULTS FOR PINHOOKERS assemble in the car park for 45 minutes.” A Society Rock colt (Lot 235) bought as a foal for 50,000gns and At least he was in good company, for the gathering included a sold yesterday for £135,000 proved the pick of the pinhooks. number of key bloodstock industry figures wearing a selection of Bought and sold by Mark Dwyer of Yorkshire’s Oaks Farm dressing gowns, pyjamas and night dresses. Stables, the colt became the day’s sole purchase by Sheikh Tired, but unbowed, St Lawrence was revved up and ready for Mohammed’s Godolphin operation after bloodstock agent the Exceed And Excel filly, who was consigned by Eimear Anthony Stroud signed the buyer’s sheet. Mulhern’s Abbeville Stud. The successful buyer, who was joined Dwyer, who described trade as ‘a bit patchy’, had bought the by client Fawzi Nass and trainer George Peckham, who will handle colt from Brian Kennedy’s Meadowlands Stud. the filly’s racing career, said: “She’s a lovely-walking filly whom we 4 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 29TH AUGUST 2018 saw on Sunday and Fawzi loved her then. He was persuaded to buy her by his teenage son Abdullah, who saw photographs of her and said she had to be bought.” A lesson in ringside patience and perseverance became SEPTEMBER SALE apparent when some fabulous females emerged from the gloom GRADUATES IN 2018: among the final few lots of a long day. Creighton missed out on Abbeville’s Exceed And Excel filly, but within minutes had gained a daughter of Gleneagles (Lot 259) from Robin Sharp and Malcolm Bryson’s Houghton Bloodstock.