WEDNESDAY, 6TH JANUARY 2016 JANUARY HORSES OF ALL AGES SALE 2016 11-15 JANUARY EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU STAKES RESULTS | NH LEADING SIRES | SPOTLIGHT | NH ONE TO WATCH TODAY’S HEADLINES MAGIC MILLIONS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com GOLD COAST GETS SALE SEASON UNDERWAY Lot 613, a colt by Sepoy out of Sister Madly, who was sold The Australasian yearling sale season gets underway today with for A$1,200,000 at last year’s Gold Coast Yearling Sale the six-day Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in Queensland, Split into three books, 1068 lots are catalogued for the sale which attracts both domestic and international buyers from both STALLION NEWS hemispheres. All the leading sires are represented, with Snitzel (60) coming EUROPE out on top in terms of numbers catalogued. He is followed by Sebring (50) and All Too Hard (47), with European shuttlers Sepoy (41), Fastnet Rock (36) and Foxwedge (30). DARLEY SHUTTLE STALLIONS The sale begins at 10am each day, with the exception of the RETURN TO EUROPE evening session on Saturday, which starts at 6pm (local time). Ten of Darley’s shuttle stallions, including new reverse shuttlers To view the catalogued see www.magicmillions.com.au Brazen Beau, Hallowed Crown, Shooting To Win and Sidestep, 1ST FOALS IN 2016 OLYMPIC GLORY STANDING AT HARAS DE BOUQUETOT Choisir x Acidanthera France (Alzao) 1st Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère Gr.1 at 2 1st Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Gr.1 at 3 1st Lockinge Stakes Gr.1 & BENOIT JEFFROY 1st Prix de la Forêt Gr.1 AUDREY LEYVAL : +33 (0)2 31 32 28 91 (breaking the race record) at 4. Top class miler & undefeated over 7f. AL SHAQAB RACING : [email protected] €15,000 LIVE FOAL CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 STALLION NEWS EBN: WEDNESDAY, 6TH JANUARY 2016 have safely arrived in the northern hemisphere and are now FRANCE available for breeders to view at their respective studs. Brazen Beau is settling in well at Dalham Hall, together with TO MUCH FUN PRODUCES Poet’s Voice, who recently recorded his first southern hemisphere winner after siring 18 individual first-crop winners, including FIRST COLT FOR MASKED MARVEL three Stakes winners in Europe. Also back at Dalham Hall Stud are The Gr.1 St Leger Stakes winner Masked Marvel was represented Helmet and Sepoy, both of whom will see their first European by his first reported foal yesterday, when a chesnut colt out of the two-year-olds hit the racecourse this year. multiple winner and young broodmare To Much Fun (Act One) Iffraaj has also returned from stud duties in New Zealand, was born at Haras du Ma in Normandy. “The foal is tall and looks where he has enjoyed another successful year, courtesy of Gr.1 powerful,” said Pascale Menard, who owns the stud. winner Turn Me Loose. The son of Montjeu, who stands at Haras d’Etreham, was a They join Casamento, who is standing in Britain for the first €260,000 yearling and was trained by John Gosden for his Classic time, as well as regular Dalham Hall residents Dubawi, Farhh, season, which cumulated in him being crowned the European New Approach, together with new Club stallion Outstrip. Champion Three-Year-Old Stayer, following victories in the St New to the Kildangan roster for 2016 are the Gr.1-winning milers Leger, Gr.3 Bahrain Trophy and Listed Cocked Hat Stakes, as well Hallowed Crown and Shooting To Win, who arrive from Australia as running third to St Nicholas Abbey in the Gr.1 Diamond with Dawn Approach, Epaulette and Exceed And Excel. Jubilee Coronation Cup. Sold to Australia as a five-year-old and They join Cape Cross, Club stallions French Navy and Fulbright, put in the care of Robert Hickmott, the bay was placed a twice in new stallion recruit Night Of Thunder, Raven’s Pass, Shamardal, the Gr.2 Hill Stakes and Gr.3 Craven Plate at Randwick. Slade Power and Teofilo in the Kildangan stallion yard. Bred by Newsells Park Stud, he is from a stout German pedigree Champion juvenile Sidestep completes the quarter of new and is a half-brother to the Gr.3 Prix Penelope winner Waldlerche reverse shuttlers and is now based at Haras du Logis. (Monsun), out of the Gr.2 (then) Falmouth Stakes runner-up All stallions are now available to view and there will also be Waldmark (Mark Of Esteem). His second dam, Wurftaube open days at Dalham Hall Stud on Wednesday 13th and Thursday (Acatenango), took the Gr.2 (then) German St Leger and 14th January, where the stallions may be viewed by appointment produced a number of high-class performers, including the Gr.1 from 11.30am to 2.30pm. Deutsches Derby winner and sire Waldpark (Dubawi). Ivawood “Coolmore newcomerGreen Desert offers what the market craves – high‐class two‐year‐old form from the sire line. Not only that, he was a 220,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 yearling. If he throws€9,000 foals in his mould I can see plenty of breeders gainingNANCY aSEXTON fine return, BLOODSTOCK off hisWORLD, fee [£6,500].”RACING POST 28TH DEC. 2015 July S.-Gr.2 Richmond S.-Gr.2 Won the and in faster times than Shalaa Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh Tel: 353-52 6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy Tel: 353-25 31966. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF. 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 STALLION NEWS ~ RACING NEWS ~ MEMORIAL SERVICE EBN: WEDNESDAY, 6TH JANUARY 2016 NORTH AMERICA Itsmyluckyday was a nine-time winner and earner of $1,706,350, including the 2014 Gr.1 2014 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga as a four-year-old, and the Gr.3 Salvator Mile and the Gr.3 Holy Bull FIRST FOALS FOR WINSTAR’S FED BIZ Stakes at three. AND SPENDTHRIFT’S ITSMYLUCKYDAY By Lawyer Ron, he retired sound to Spendthrift where he covered 127 mares in his first season at stud in 2015. Itsmyluckyday FED BAY is set to stand his second season for a fee of $6,500 S&N, and is Fed Biz, the multiple Gr.2 winner and multiple track record-setter available through Spendthrift’s “Breed Secure” program at a fee of by Giant’s Causeway, sired his first reported foal on Sunday, 3rd $8,000. January when a dark bay or brown filly was born at Brandywine Farm in Paris, Kentucky. Bred by Jim and Pam Robinson, the filly is out of the young RACING NEWS Distorted Humor mare Exotic Storm, who hails from the immediate family of Champion and sire One Cool Cat and Gr.1 BRITAIN winner Aragorn. “This filly has plenty of substance, personality and good bone,” said Pam Robinson. “She is as cute as a button, but solid as a rock.” CLOSING DATE FOR TATTERSALLS On the racetrack, Fed Biz scored his biggest career victories in OCTOBER AUCTION STAKES the Gr.2 San Fernando Stakes, Gr.2 Pat O’Brien Stakes, and Gr.2 Entries close on at noon on Tuesday, 12th January 2016 for San Diego Handicap, setting track records in the latter two at Del the Tattersalls October Auction Stakes, which will be held at Mar. He is out of the Wild Again mare Spunoutacontrol, a Newmarket’s Rowley Mile on 10th October. The six-furlong Stakes-winning half-sister to Tale Of The Cat and Myth, the dam contest is exclusively for yearlings sold or bought in at the 2014 of Johannesburg. Fed Biz’s second dam, Yarn, is a full-sister to Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 3 & 4 and the Weatherbys the dam of Pulpit. race ID is 31505. “We’re extremely excited for the Fed Biz foals,” said Elliott Walden, WinStar President and CEO. “He showed brilliance on the track, has a true stallion’s pedigree and the looks to match his $950,000 price tag. He was received extremely well by breeders last year and the MEMORIAL SERVICE support has continued this season. We have full confidence that having his foals on the ground will only add to his popularity.” BRITAIN Fed Biz covered 147 mares in his first season at stud in 2015. He is set to stand his second season at WinStar for a fee of $12,500, MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR ALAN LEE stands and nurses. The family of Alan Lee will be holding a private family funeral in ITSMYLUCKYDAY the very near future. They are also planning a memorial service for all his many friends and colleagues in the spring. While details are Spendthrift Farm’s Itsmyluckyday, a record-breaking Gr.1- yet to be finalised, it is anticipated that the memorial service will winning millionaire, sired his first reported foal on Monday when appropriately be between the Cheltenham and Aintree Festivals. a chesnut filly was born at Lake Hamilton Equine, Arkansas. Bred by Tim Harris, the filly is the first foal out of the five-year- old mare Mama’s Mad Money, a juvenile Stakes winner and www.bloodstocknews.eu multiple stakes-placed performer on the racetrack. OPEN HOUSE: 22 AND 23 JANUARY OR CALL TO ARRANGE Hallowed and clear A PRIVATE SHOW PERFORMANCE Hallowed Crown, the star miler of his generation with two G1 triumphs at three.