TRIPLEFRIDAY, GR.1 5THWINNER 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 TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com VENDORS BYPASS COVID AT ONLINE SALE Vendors were given a chance to bypass COVID restrictions and sell stock at a public auction yesterday when Tattersalls staged its first virtual sale in Newmarket, writes Carl Evans. Yesterday’s top lot was Godolphin’s Shamardal filly Staff were on the premises at Park Paddocks for the annual Beautiful Illusion, Lot 194, who was bought by February Sale, but horses there were none. The 167 lots who went Avenue Bloodstock for 120,000gns. © Tattersalls.com under a timed sale rather than an auctioneer’s hammer were all happily resting at home, their futures dependent on a button press on a keyboard or a transaction by telephone. IN TODAY’S ISSUE... The results were pretty good in the circumstances, with 118 lots (71 per cent) finding a buyer and generating turnover of Stakes results p12 1,163,600gns, a fall of 34 per cent. The median price gained 15 per Stakes fields p17 cent when achieving a figure of 5,750gns, while the average mark was down 22 per cent at 9,861gns. Bear in mind that the figures Flashback Friday p19 on the opening day of last year’s sale had made huge gains on the South African news p20 same session in 2019. Don’t get a red card! Register your 2019 Flat fillies before stage 3 closes on Sunday 28th February 2021. 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YOs in training include: A colt out of Champion A fi lly out of Gr.2 winning A half-sister to 2yo fi lly Superstar Leo 2yo Jewel In The Sand Gr.1 winning sprinter Krypton Factor A half-brother to Gr.2 in training with winner Agnes Stewart Richard Hannon in training with James Tate both in training with A half-sister to Stakes John Gosden winning sprinter Tarboosh in training with Mark Johnston Contact Alice Thurtle at Tweenhills on T: +44 (0) 1452 700177 E: [email protected] SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 5TH FEBRUARY 2021 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS ONLINE FEBRUARY SALE – DAY ONE Lot Age Name (Sire) Covering Sire Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 194 4f BEAUTIFUL ILLUSION (Shamardal) Godolphin Avenue B/S 120,000 185 4f SYMBOL OF LOVE (Shamardal) Godolphin Tally-Ho Stud 65,000 153 10m SWISS KISS (Dansili) Acclamation New England Stud Pegasus 48,000 156 3f LADY OF ACCLAIM (Acclamation) Castlebridge Consignment Orange County B/S 42,000 193 3f RUSTIC CHARM (Dubawi) Godolphin Pantile Stud 40,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS Online and telephone bidding for today’s second and final of last year won at Wolverhampton and Chelmsford for Charlie session of the February Sale kicks off at 10am. Appleby’s stable. She was subsequently placed in a Haydock handicap and was not beaten far in York’s Listed Lyric Fillies’ AVENUE LANDS TOP LOT Stakes. A subsequent transfer to Henri-Alex Pantall’s stable and Avenue Bloodstock’s Mark McStay found the online process three runs in France failed to produce further success but, as a worked a treat when securing the four-year-old filly Beautiful good-looking breeding prospect by a top-class sire and out of a Illusion (Lot 194) with a bid of 120,000gns that headed the day’s talented racemare, she was always likely to feature on day one of trade. this sale. Bred by Godolphin, a daughter of ace sire Shamardal and the Newmarket-based McStay said: “I’ve bought her for an existing Gr.3 Sweet Solera Stakes winner Long Lashes (Rock Hard Ten), client in Ireland. She’s been bought as a broodmare and, given that Beautiful Illusion did not race as a two-year-old, but at the start she is by a world-class broodmare sire and her dam was a good CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 5TH FEBRUARY 2021 racemare, she has plenty of appeal. I don’t know about covering plans at this stage. “Well done to Tattersalls for getting this sale on. My internet didn’t fail, which was the only worry, and the system worked very smoothly. In the circumstances everyone involved in the sales side must be praised and the vendors have been very helpful. The quality of photographs and videos has been very good. “Looking at the prices the Godolphin fillies made, I don’t think they made any less than they would have done at a conventional sale. Of course we would love to be inspecting horses on the sales ground, but Godolphin were very kind and allowed me to inspect her [Beautiful Illusion] last week. Physically she is very nice and she has gained a rating of 89. Given that my client lives in Ireland, I would have thought she will be heading there next.” LOVE AT FIRST BID Tony O’Callaghan of Ireland’s Tally-Ho Stud was another investor Lot 185, Godolphin’s Symbol Of Love (Shamardal), who is in a Godolphin filly, his winning bid falling on Symbol Of Love set for a date with Kodiac after being purchased by Tally-Ho (Lot 185). A four-year-old filly who shared her sire, Shamardal, Stud for 65,000gns. © Tattersalls.com with the sale’s top lot, Symbol Of Love fell to O’Callaghan’s 65,000gns bid, the only one he made but delivered with a clear win by landing Royal Ascot’s Golden Jubilee Stakes. The two-year- plan in mind. He said: “She is for Kodiac [who stands at Tally-Ho]. old filly Umm Kulthum became another advertisement for the She is by Shamardal and they go well together. She has a good page cross by winning Ayr’s Gr.3 Firth of Clyde Stakes before taking and she looks a nice filly.” third place in the Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes. The cross of Kodiac on Shamardal mares has certainly worked, Symbol Of Love had appeal for Kodiac’s master on her dam’s with 15 winners from 24 runners, a success rate of 63 per cent. side too, for she was out of the winning mare Policoro, a daughter Last season the nick worked in top-class style when Kodiac’s son of Pivotal, whose progeny by the Tally-Ho sire out of his daughters and subsequent stallion Hello Youmzain gained a second Gr.1 have a 70 per cent strike rate. “At stud Mastercraftsman has built a strong reputation for himself as a source of top-class international runners. In recent years the brilliant Alpha Centauri was one of the best of her sex… successful in four Group 1 races. Mastercraftsman’s first crop included the classic winners The Grey Gatsby and Kingston Hill, as well as the dual Group 1 winner Amazing Maria. By my reckoning Mastercraftsman has sired Group 1 winners on the flat in Argentina, Australia, Chile, England, France, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA.” Breeding Insights by Leo Powell, , 9th January 2021 77 Group/Stakes winners worldwide 2020 yearlings made €375,000, €245,000, €160,000, €150,000, €145,000, €135,000 etc., Latest news: TECHNIQUE, bred by foals made up to €150,000 The Pocock Family, made a winning debut at Wolverhampton on 26 Jan for Fee €15,000 Martyn Meade and Mantonbury Stud Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52 6131298 Castlehyde: +353-25-31966.| Email: [email protected] | www.coolmore.com 4 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 5TH FEBRUARY 2021 Tally-Ho Stud subsequently lifted another member of the Godolphin consignment with a 35,000gns bid that secured the unraced Territories filly French Braid (Lot 188), who is a half- sister to the dual Gr.3 winner Breathtaking Look (Bated Breath). Another half-sister, Kylla Looks (Kyllachy), failed to sell at the December Sale when bidding halted at 28,000gns, but trainer Mike Murphy was happy to take her back to his yard, saying she would soon be seen again in the winner’s enclosure. Sure enough she was second at Chelmsford within a week of the sale, won at Wolverhampton early last month and more recently was third of ten at Lingfield. SEALED WITH A KISS Swiss Kiss, a ten-year-old daughter of Dansili out of the top-class broodmare Swiss Lake and with a cover by Rathbarry Stud sire Acclamation, was sold for 48,000gns. Canice Farrell of the County Laois-based Knockatrina House Stud secured the mare (Lot 153) via a telephone link, and later Colin Murfitt of Pantile Stud (Ce) thanked Tattersalls’ Shirley Anderson-Jolag for encouraging him to “go one more” while registering his bids. Although unable to was a winner, while the second dam is the dual Gr.1 winner gauge the intent of Farrell’s online/telephone rival bidder, her Hibaayeb (Singspiel), who landed the Gr.1 Fillies’ Mile and Gr.1 advice proved spot on.