TRIPLETUESDAY, GR.1 WINNER 9TH FEBRUARY 2021 TRIPLE GR.1 WINNER WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL PEDIGREE PEDIGREE NO A M K IN O A FREE T O I B RETURN O 2022 N DECORATED DECORATED IN KNIGHT EBNKNIGHT 2021 Galileo - Pearling (Storm Cat) EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS Fee: €7,500 1st Oct. FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU • L@bloodstocknews TODAY’S HEADLINES GOFFS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com VIRTUAL SALES SEASON CONTINUES WITH GOFFS The virtual sales season continues today, with Part 1 of the Goffs February Sale, which gets underway at noon with a catalogue of Lot 92, from the Friarstown Stables consignment, at the 253 horses set for sale over the next two days. No horses, vendors Goffs February Sale today is the placed three-year-old or purchasers will be present at the live virtual sale, for which gelding Rich Law No Law (Lawman), who is out of the prospective buyers must be pre-registered to bid online, with unraced Fallen From Grace, a Singspiel half-sister to the telephone bidding available via the Goffs team. Gr.1 Coronation Stakes winner Fallen For You (Dansili). Today will start with 98 catalogued two-year-olds, by sires such © Caroline Norris as Australia, Belardo, Churchill, Dandy Man, Decorated Knight, Footstepsinthesand, Make Believe, Mehmas, New Bay, Oasis Dream, Starspangledbanner and Zoffany, and will IN TODAY’S ISSUE... be followed by a selection of horses in training. Tomorrow will commence with Lot 115 and will offer breeding stock, including Industry news p5 several Aga Khan re-entries from the November Breeding Stock Pinhooking table p21 Sale, as well as mares in foal to the likes of Magna Grecia, New CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 9TH FEBRUARY 2021 Last year’s sale was topped by the four-year-old filly Sheranda, consigned by the Aga Khan Studs and bought by BBA Ireland for €220,000. Grange Hill Stud’s five-year-old Hergame, a Listed- placed winner, also went to BBA ireland for slightly less, €200,000. Amongst today’s juveniles are: Lot 4, a Zoffany colt out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Big Orange, Lot 6, a Buratino colt from the family of Marju and Salsabil, Lot 21, a Mehmas filly whose grandam is a full-sister to Fantastic Light, Lot 29, a Golden Horn half-sister to Gr.3 winner Mahsoob, Lot 42, an Oasis Dream filly descended from Height Of Fashion through her Listed-placed Mr Prospector daughter Wijdan, Lot 58, a The Gurkha half-sister to Gr.3 winner Thewayiam Whitehorn Bloodstock consigns Lot 140, Soft Lips and Listed scorer Lady Heidi, (Blushing Groom), in foal to leading first season sire New Lot 60, a Coach House filly out of a half-sister to dual Gr.1 Bay. She is the dam of three winners to date and is out of a winner Kingston Hill, Gr.3-winning half-sister to French Classic victor and sire Lot 72, a Galileo Gold filly out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Falco. © Caroline Norris Red Bloom, and Lot 89, a Buratino filly from the family of the Gr.1-winning half- Bay, Ten Sovereigns, Highland Reel, Phoenix Of Spain, siblings Taipan, Ali-Royal and Sleepytime. Mehmas, Camelot and Acclamation, plus possibly the last mare Tomorrow’s breeding stock horses include: to be sold in foal to Zoffany (Lot 214), consigned by Moyglare Lot 126, a four-year-old Zoffany half-sister to Gr.3 winner Stud Farm. Master Carpenter, shares her grandam with Pinatubo’s dam, Part 2 of the sale, made up of Flat and National Hunt yearlings, Lot 128, Graunuaile, a daughter of Gr.3 winner Gothic Dancer will now be held on 2nd March. and from the family of Gr.1 winners Tante Rose, Dubawi Heights and Make Believe, Lot 134, Scholarly, a half-sister to the dam of Gr.1 winner DEADLINE Victor Ludorum, family of Street Cry and Shamardal, in foal to Awtaad, Lot 141, Margarita, a full-sister to the five-time Gr.1 winner Soviet Song, already the dam of Listed winner Mixology and in foal to Starspangledbanner, Lot 162, Princesa Del Sol, out of a half-sister to Classic winner Jack Hobbs and in foal to Free Eagle, FEB US SIRED 2YO’S OF 2021 CAN BE NOMINATED TO THE EBF: 15th FEBRUARY $3,000 FOR FURTHER DETAILS, CONTACT: T: +44 1638 667960 E: [email protected] Lot 208 from Friarstown Stables is the five-year-old mare www.ebfstallions.com Sestriere (Zebedee), who was placed nine times from two to four. She is a half-sister to the Listed scorer Triticum Vulgare (Frozen Power). © Caroline Norris 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: TUESDAY, 9TH FEBRUARY 2021 WHAT BREEDERS SAY ABOUT CRACKSMAN’S FIRST YEARLINGS One of the nicest I have ever had. Great action, balance, quality and a wonderful temperament. She is very special and I have high hopes for her. Brendan Holland £17,500 Oct 1, SLF Dalham Hall Stud, UK Lot 163, Musical Rue, a winner out of a half-sister to the triple SUPPLEMENTARY ENTRIES Gr.1 winner Finsceal Beo, Among the 16 remaining supplementary entries are: Lot 171, Silver St Cloud, by No Nay Never out of a half-sister Lot 22A, a two-year-old Aclaim colt who shares his to Tapit, family of Summer Bird and Rubiano, Kingmambo-sired grandam with Classic winner The Grey Lot 179, Laurel Grove, a Zoffany four-year-old out of a full- Gatsby, sister to dual Gr.1 winner Roderic O’Connor, Lot 88A, a two-year-old Great Pretender filly out of a half- Lot 190, Gracefully Done, an Australia half-sister to a Listed sister to the Gr.1-winning chaser Cyrname, winner, out of the Gr.1 winner Sense Of Style and in foal to Ten Lot 92A, three-year-old Drish Venture, a dual winner at Sovereigns, Dundalk over sprint trips this winter, Lot 193, Shehreen, a half-sister to the Group winners Lot 113A, three-year-old Never Seen Before, a 7f winner at Shamreen and Shahroze, Dundalk on 1st February, Lot 197, Shringara, a winning Dansili daughter of Gr.3 winner Shreyas, who is a half-sister to Gr.1 winners Youmzain and Creachadoir, STAR GRADUATES Lot 206, Maria Christina, a winning Kodiac half-sister to triple Group winner Speaking Of Which, and RASHAAN Lot 225, Ahaaly, daughter of the Classic-placed Gr.2 winner Manduro – Rayyana (Rainbow Quest) Alshakr, close family of Harayir, in foal to Mehmas. picture by Caroline Norris Caroline picture by €8,500 2015 Goffs February Sale by Colin Kidd, consigned by Aga Khan Studs Breeder: H H The Aga Khan Studs Lot 240 from The Castlebridge Consignment is the four-time THE LOWDOWN winner Blue Dahlia (Shamardal), who has produced three Winner of a Gr.2 hurdle at Fairyhouse (pictured), Rashaan winners to date and is in foal to Sioux Nation. She is out of an (Manduro) went on to Gr.1 glory in the New York Turf Writers unraced half-sister to the grandam of the Gr.1 Gold Cup and Cup Hurdle at Saratoga last August. Gr.1 St Leger winner and sire Leading Light. © Caroline Norris CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK ~ NATIONAL HUNT RACING REVIEW EBN: TUESDAY, 9TH FEBRUARY 2021 Lot 218A, three-year-old New York Queen, a Kodiac half-sister to Listed winner Ennaadd, and follow EBN on twitter Lot 251A, four-year-old Helsa Du Mazet, out of a half-sister to the Gr.1-winning chaser Cyrname. @bloodstocknews EBF STATUS All two-year-olds entered in this sale have been correctly identified as to their EBF status. The seven-year-old daughter of Beat Hollow, who races in the colours of JP McManus, was held up by Mark Walsh as Delvino WITHDRAWALS (Dylan Thomas) set an even gallop on the front end. With Today Delvino tiring from three out, the challengers stacked up in Lot: 7, 11, 14, 15, 17, 23, 24, 26A, 27, 28, 29, 31, 34, 35, 36, 40, 44, behind her before Roseys Hollow and favourite Royal Kahala 45, 47, 48, 51, 57, 59, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 68A, 69, 74, 77, 80, 82A, 84, (Flemensfirth) breezed to the front on the run to the second 88, 89, 93, 94, 94A, 100, 102, 103A, 110, 113 last. Roseys Hollow was marginally better over the final two Tomorrow Lot: 117, 119, 120, 123, 148, 149, 152, 154, 171, 178, 182, 184, 187, flights and ran on to score by two lengths after battling well. The 188, 193, 194, 198, 202, 205, 206, 209, 225, 228, 231, 233, 242, 245, hitherto unbeaten Gauloise (Samum) was third, three and a half 250, 251 lengths further adrift of Royal Kahala. This was just the fifth start for the winner, who landed a Cork NATIONAL HUNT RACING REVIEW bumper and got off the mark over timber at the third attempt over half a furlong further here in January. She holds an entry in IRELAND the Gr.2 Dawn Run Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival. IMPROVING ROSEYS HOLLOW Bred by Philip O’Connor, she is a half-sister to the Listed LANDS FAIRYHOUSE FEATURE bumper-placed Mason Daughter (Sandmason), who also won The Gr.3 Solerina Mares Novice Hurdle was the feature race at twice over hurdles, out of another bumper winner in Saoirse’s Fairyhouse yesterday and it was won by an improving sort in the Sister (Hubbly Bubbly).