The World's THURSDAY, 10TH SEPTEMBER 2020 Yearling Sale SEPTEMBERSALE BEGINS SUNDAY 13 EBN SEPTEMBER.KEENELAND.COM 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 DUBAWI FILLY HEADS ARQANA TRADE Nearly four weeks later than usual and sporting a new name, Arqana’s flagship yearling sale for 2020 got underway in Deauville yesterday with the first session of the three-day Arqana Select Lot 61, a daughter of Dubawi, led the way on the first day of Sale, writes Amy Bennett. trade at the Arqana Select Yearling Sale yesterday, when The company may have been denied its usual role as the curtain- purchased for Godolphin for €620,000. © Zuzanna Lupa raiser for the European yearling sale season, but there was still plenty of sunshine on the sale grounds in Deauville yesterday and, perhaps most importantly, plenty of buyers on hand as well. Trade was topped by a daughter of Dubawi, who was knocked IN TODAY’S ISSUE... down to Anthony Stroud, acting on behalf of Godolphin, after Goffs UK Yorton Sale preview p11 seeing off plenty of competition to secure the good-looking filly, Lot 61, for €620,000. Stakes results p14 Dubawi is enjoying another stand-out season on the track, Pinhooking table p23 while his sons and grandsons are making their own mark at stud, THE GREAT GATSBY YEARLINGS ARE HERE! FIRST CROP Lot 346, Cour C176 • Lot 379, Cour A54 • Lot 419, Cour A57 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 Bay 2011 by Kitten’s Joy – Celestial Woods (by Forestry) BOBBY’S KITTEN AMONGST THE TOP FIRST SEASON SIRES IN EUROPE IN 2020 • ONLY 3YO EVER to win Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint • Won 6 races at 2, 3 and 5 years and $1,424,417 in the USA and Ireland – all on Turf • Sire of 7 individual winners of 10 races (to 7th Sept 2020) • Only stallion son of KITTEN’S JOY (Champion Turf racehorse and multiple US Champion sire) in England and Ireland Bay 2011 by Sea The Stars – Sanwa (by Monsun) SEA THE MOON A LEADING EUROPEAN SIRE IN 2020 • Sire of 25 individual Black-type horses to date including: ALPINE STAR (Gr.1 winner at 3 in 2020 and Gr.2 winner at 2) QUEST THE MOON (Gr.2 winner and Gr.1-placed in 2020, and Gr.3 winner x 2) WONDERFUL MOON (Gr.2 and Gr.3 winner in 2020, and Gr.3 winner at 2) • Sire of 2 Champion 2yo’s in Germany. • 2nd only to GALILEO in order of % Black-type winners to runners in 2020 with 8.33% (as at 17th August 2020) Bay 2003 by Mark of Esteem – Percy’s Lass (by Blakeney) SIR PERCY A POTENT MIX OF SPEED & STAMINA • Undefeated Champion 2yo; Champion 3yo and Derby winner • Sire of 47 individual Stakes horses including Gr.1 winners WAKE FOREST and SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD • Sire of 82 lifetime individual 2yo winners • The last respresentative of the MILL REEF sire line at stud in England and Ireland Bay 2015 by Deep Impact – Second Happiness (by Storm Cat) STUDY OF MAN SON AND GRANDSON OF LEGENDS • Winner of 3 races at 2 & 3, over 1600m - 2100m, including the ‘Stallion Making’ Gr.1 French Derby and £1,033,142 • Only son of DEEP IMPACT (Japanese Super-Sire and multiple Champion) at stud in England • A grandson of the Racing/Breeding Legend MIESQUE, a dual Classic winner and dam of Classic winners First KINGMAMBO, EAST OF THE MOON, etc. Foals 2021 [email protected] • www.lanwades.com • Tel: +44 (0)1638 750222 LANWADES The independent option TM SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 10TH SEPTEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld ARQANA SELECT YEARLING SALE – DAY ONE Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (€) 61 f DUBAWI – Daytona Bay Baroda Stud Godolphin SNC 620,000 23 c LOPE DE VEGA – Attractive Lady Haras du Mezeray Chauvigny Global Equine 480,000 103 c GALILEO – Golden Valentine Ecurie des Monceaux David Redvers 450,000 93 c LOPE DE VEGA – Foreign Legionary Haras des Capucines Michael Kinane 420,000 100 f GALILEO – Giofra Haras de la Perelle France Turf International 380,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS so it is no surprise that the six yearlings by the leading sire by Haras des Capucines and drew a flurry of bids as he strode the catalogued at Deauville would be collectors’ items. ring. Kinane had the final say and afterwards said: “He was my pick Bred by Gesüt Hof Ittlingen, the filly made 300,000gns on her of the sale. I knew I would have to go hard for him but I didn’t think I last trip through the sale ring, when knocked down to Madison would have to go quite that hard. He’s a lovely model, seems to have Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, and the April- a lovely mind and hopefully he will be a racehorse.” born filly was offered yesterday by David Cox’s Baroda Stud. She is The colt is a half-brother to Mantastic (Fastnet Rock), who a half-sister to fillies by Pivotal and Kingman, both as yet unraced, scored in Listed class in Australia, and they are out of the once- and is out of the Motivator mare Daytona Bay, who claimed her raced Foreign Legionary (Galileo), a half-sister to the star mare own biggest prize in the Gr.3 Hamburger Stutenpreis. She in turn and multiple Gr.1-winning globetrotter Alexander Goldrun is a half-sister to the Gr.3 La Coupe winner Dallas Affair (Soldier (Gold Away). Hollow), out of the dual Listed winner Daytona (Lando). The early exchanges were headed by another son of Lope De “She’s a lovely filly and she’s shown herself really well all week,” a delighted David Cox commented after the sale. “She had lots of fans in the ring but Godolphin won the fight for her in the end. “She was a forward kind of filly and this sale comes a little bit earlier than the other sales so she was up to it physically and we just thought she might stand out here. It worked and we’re very happy.” “She’s a lovely filly - very athletic and with great conformation,” Stroud added. “There was a lot of interest in the filly and so we are very happy. We’re delighted to be here at Deauville.” LOPE DE VEGA A POPULAR DRAW Less than hour into selling, Sebastien Desmontils’ Chauvigny Global Equine saw off all bidders at €480,000 to secure Lot 23, a Lope De Vega colt from Haras du Mezeray, on behalf of a Japanese client. Out of the 1800m winner Attractive Lady (Teofilo), the colt boasts a lively page, as his dam is a half-sister to not only the Gr.1 Manhattan Handicap victor Desert Blanc (Desert Style), but also the Listed winner Lumiere Noire (Dashing Blade), who went on to produce Wichita (No Nay Never), runner-up in this year’s Gr.1 2,000 Guineas and also placed in the Gr.1 St James’s Palace Stakes, as well as finishing third in the Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes last year to add to his victory in the Gr.3 Somerville Tattersall Stakes. “He’s a son of Lope De Vega out of a very current family that we know well in France. We are very happy. I’ve bought him for a Japanese client. We don’t yet know where he’ll go into training, all will be decided after he is broken and in view of the other colts that we might buy. However, he will stay in France,” Desmontils said. Lope De Vega’s progeny are always a popular draw and Mick Kinane was forced to go to €420,000 to land Lot 93 by the Ballylinch Stud stalwart on behalf of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Bred by a partnership of Eric Puerari, Ariane Gravereaux, OTI Management and Oceanic Bloodstock, the April colt was offered CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 KINGMAN 2011 b h Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) Two of the best milers in Europe. PALACE PIER PERSIAN KING Kingman - Beach Frolic (Nayef) Kingman - Pretty Please (Dylan Thomas) Bred by Highclere Stud And Floors Farming Bred by Dayton Investments (Breeding) Limited Sire of lots 24, 53, 149, 250 at the Arqana Deauville Select Sale Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 [email protected] ® www.juddmonte.com SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 10TH SEPTEMBER 2020 before finishing third in both the Gr.3 Lillie Langtry Stakes and the Park Hill Stakes, in a season that saw her race 12 times. Yesterday’s page received a timely boost when the mare’s first foal Poet’s Quest (Poet’s Voice) struck at Moulins last month “He’s a lovely colt that hails from a very good stud and walks very well. We don’t know yet where he will go into training, nor if he’ll stay in France. It all depends on what happens next,” Stroud commented. GALILEO IN COMMAND A trio of colts by the perennial champion sire Galileo are catalogued at Arqana this week, with two of them coming under the hammer yesterday. Avenue Bloodstock secured the first of them, purchasing Lot 4, a half-brother to the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches heroine Precieuse (Tamayuz) from the La Motteraye Consigment for €210,000.