WEDNESDAY, 2ND DECEMBER 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 PALACE PIER’S DAM IS SOLD TO COOLMORE M V Magnier of Coolmore Stud fended off a plethora of rival stud owners to secure the dam of champion Palace Pier for 2,200,000gns at yesterday’s second session of Tattersalls’ Palace Pier’s dam, Lot 1731 Beach Frolic (Nayef), pictured, December Mares’ Sale, writes Carl Evans. topped trade on day two of the Tattersalls December Mare Beach Frolic (Lot 1731) went straight into seven-figure Sale yesterday as M V Magnier closed the deal at territory when auctioneer Edmond Mahony asked for an opening 2,200,000gns on the Highclere Stud offering in foal to bid, the round 1,000,000gns being offered by Newsells Park Stud’s Darley’s Blue Point. © Tattersalls.com Julian Dollar. Alex Elliott and his client Kia Joorabchian swiftly responded and further bids were taken from Japan’s Northern Farm and Old Mill Stud’s Rob Speers, but Magnier, standing IN TODAY’S ISSUE... outside the ring, had the pistols and the bullets. As a nine-year- old daughter of Nayef with a proven breeding record her appeal Stallion news – Tapizar p14 to the Coolmore team was not hard to spot. Industry news p16 Magnier said of Beach Frolic, who was consigned by Highclere Australian news p18 Stud in a partnership with Floors Stud: “She’s bred an exceptional racehorse and the Highland Reel yearling that Jamie McCalmont Racing review p23 bought this year [320,000gns at Book 1] was very nice, too. She’s a Bloodstock World according to Gary Sanderson p29 special mare and they don’t come up very often. 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Tel: +353 (0)45 521251 www.irishnationalstud.ie Terms & Conditions apply SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 2ND DECEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE – DAY TWO Lot Age Name (Sire) Covering Sire Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 1731 9m BEACH FROLIC (Nayef) Blue Point Highclere Stud M V Magnier 2,200,000 1737 4f KURIOUS (Kuroshio) Whitsbury Manor Stud Hillwood Bloodstock 900,000 1717 4f SONAIYLA (Dark Angel) Athassel House Stud Moyglare Stud Farm 900,000 1727 4m TIME SAVER (Frankel) Kingman Genesis Green Stud Blandford Bloodstock 850,000 1605 11m DULKASHE (Pivotal) Churchill Miltown Park Stud David Redvers Bloodstock 525,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS “I’d say we are going to cover her with Galileo. Palace Pier is a Lady Carolyn said: “I’m not normally emotional, but she’s an wonderful horse and she’s a relatively young mare. Highclere Stud amazing mare and it’s been a long story, dating back to when John and Lady Carolyn did an amazing job with her and she was a credit bought the grandmother for relatively little. The family has given us to their work.” so much pleasure and we just hope she will now do it for M V and the For John and Lady Carolyn Warren the sale stoked a few emotions, Coolmore team – I’m sure she will.” in part because he bought Beach Frolic’s granddam, Miss D’Ouilly, Three-year-old Palace Pier, a dual Gr.1 winner this year and for 50,000gns at the 2000 December Sale. That decision led to a list remaining in training with John Gosden, has not been the only of winners and big-race performers and, 20 years later, to yesterday’s family member achieving good things in 2020. Miss D’Ouilly’s sale-topping mare. The Night Shift foal inside Miss D’Ouilly was granddaughter Karen’s Caper was bought by Highclere Stud in Night Frolic, the dam of Beach Frolic and also of Gr.1 Dante Stakes 2016 and the foal she carried, King’s Caper, won this year’s Gr.2 winner Bonfire and Gr.2 Windsor Forest Stakes winner Joviality. Derby Italiano. Colt ex. Autumn Snow sold by Barton Stud on behalf of The Brigadier Partnership to A.C. Elliott for 88,000GNS To me he was the best “ physical here today and by a very fast horse. We love the Scat Daddy line,“ which has been proven time and time again, and this one looked racy. A.C. Elliott Earlier in the week Castlehyde Stud purchased a pair of colts from The Castlebridge Consignment and Stringston Farm for 65,000GNS and 50,000GNS respectively Royal Ascot and Group 1-winning 2YO by SCAT DADDY - just like young sire sensation NO NAY NEVER Fee: €10,000 Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: 052-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: 025-31966. E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.coolmore.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 Generations OF SUCCESS Bated Breath Kingman 2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View) 2011 b h Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) The best value sire in Europe The Classic winning miler by blacktype performers in 2020 siring Classic winning milers 2021 Fee £12,500 1st Oct, Special Live Foal 2021 Fee £150,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal Expert Eye Oasis Dream 2015 b h Acclamation - Exemplify (Dansili) 2000 b h Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave) A top-class 2YO and The proven source of Breeders’ Cup Mile champion Group 1 speed 2021 Fee £12,500 1st Oct, Special Live Foal 2021 Fee £20,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal Frankel 2008 b h Galileo - Kind (Danehill) The fastest to sire 40 Group winners in history 2021 Fee £175,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal Bated Breath Sire of Gr.1 Matriarch Stakes winner Viadera A SIRE ON THE UP Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 [email protected] www.juddmonte.com SALES TALK EBN: WEDNESDAY, 2ND DECEMBER 2020 Floors Stud, whose founder, the Duke of Roxburghe, died last year, has been steadily carrying out a part dispersal of stock and had consigned a draft of mares earlier in the session (see subsequent article). Asked if that was the reason for selling Beach Frolic, John Warren said: “It’s the end of an era, because we have been involved so closely with Floors for 35 years and it has been poignant this week. I’m delighted that the Duchess and her son George will be carrying on with a few nice mares, but this climaxed the end of a really great friendship with the Duke, who was a special friend – his daughter is my god-daughter and our youngest is his godson, so we were very close. It goes beyond the horses, although this was a magnificent mare, a collector’s item. “We know how hard it is to breed top-class horses and that is what we strive to achieve. Everyone does. When it pays off it proves you can achieve a goal if you keep trying and breeding and rearing the right horses. Rearing is so important and so specific, and to get them L-R: Jake, John and Lady Carolyn Warren consigned the top through hoops to get them to the races or to the sales is a big lot yesterday at Tattersalls, in partnership with Floors Stud, as achievement in itself.” Lot 1731, Beach Frolic (Nayef), dam of dual Gr.1 hero Lady Carolyn paid tribute to the Highclere Stud staff, saying: Palace Pier, found a new home for 2,200,000gns. “They do such an amazing job day in and day out. These are the big © Tattersalls.com days, but behind that there is the daily care and attention in all weathers. The pride in selling a mare like this is huge.” A very good clearance rate of 79 per cent, down just two per FIGURES FOLLOW RECENT TRENDS cent, confirmed demand for high-end horses, but the other key Day two of the December Mares’ Sale, one of the highest-grossing figures were pegged back. 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