THURSDAY, 15TH OCTOBER 2020 ALL EYES ON KEENELAND NOVEMBER EBN MON. 9 - WED. 18 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 PHENOMENAL SALE MATCHES LAST YEAR’S RECORD Ballyhimikin Stud’s Starspangledbanner colt, Lot 1323, who topped the final day of an extraordinary Tattersalls One of the most extraordinary bloodstock sales held this October Yearling Sale Book 2 when purchased by Stroud millennium was completed at Tattersalls’ Newmarket Coleman Bloodstock for 360,000gns. © Tattersalls.com headquarters last night, writes Carl Evans. Book 2 of the October Yearling Sale more or less matched last year’s record event, an astonishing outcome at a time of IN TODAY’S ISSUE... worldwide upheaval caused by COVID-19. Discussions about how to curb the spread of the virus while preventing a meltdown in Racing review p12 the economy and loss of jobs have been filling British media Stallion news p15 reports for the past six months, but at Park Paddocks the parallel universe has this week been gently turning as if the good old days Stakes results p17 had never gone away. Leading sires’ table p26 Of course they have, and the strict protocols and space restrictions placed on attendees acted as a constant reminder, Pinhooking Tables p27 but if Book 2 2020 proves to have stabilised trade, paid bills and Northmore Stud at Tattersalls Book 3 Lot 1758 Lot 1793 Lot 1796 Filly by CHAMPS ELYSEES ex Florentia Filly by CHARMING THOUGHT ex Katabatik Katie Colt by LETHAL FORCE ex Kensington Gardens A sister to FOUR winners (dam has had 5 runners) From the family of ZENDA, KINGMAN, OASIS DREAM etc.. He is out of a full-sister to SRI PUTRA Contact Sue - M: +44 (0)7753 619 880 Available to view at Park Paddocks, Wall Box X, boxes 519 - 521 E: [email protected] CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 15TH OCTOBER 2020 encouraged people to keep breeding and buying it will be horses for 1,375,000gns, the team at Stroud Coleman added remembered for many years to come. another 29 purchases worth 5,420,000gns – some, but not all, The pursuit of the racing dream continued yesterday through would have been destined for Team Godolphin. Sheikh Hamdan’s to the final lot, a Kodiac colt (Lot 1353) who was sold for Shadwell bought 36 for 5,327,000, a reduced spend but partly 120,000gns to trainer Bryan Smart, creating a lovely upturn on his explained by buyer Angus Gold’s frequent place in the 62,000gns foal price for vendors Tally-Ho Stud. Transactions like underbidder’s role. that were commonplace throughout the three days and, while Newsells Park Stud was the leading consignor, trading 25 not every pinhook paid off, or could ever hope to, and some yearlings for 2,938,000gns, including the sale topper, a 675,000gns vendors had particularly difficult weeks, there were plenty of son of Lope De Vega. buyers for the right horse. Proof of that could be seen in yesterday’s clearance rate of 87 SHEIKH MOHAMMED per cent, which was up one point. This was backed up by turnover TAKES SESSION HIGH of 15,138,500gns, little more than 60,000gns behind the session Sheikh Mohammed’s willingness to buy yearlings during Books 1 total last year. The median price dipped four per cent to 50,000gns, and 2 was an important factor in driving trade forwards, and but the average held steady at 72,718gns. culminated in him buying the final day’s top lot. Seasoned observers admitted they had no idea such strong A Starspanglebanner colt (Lot 1323), offered by James Hanly’s trade could be achieved in the circumstances, but the final figures Ballyhimikin Stud, was knocked down to the Sheikh’s Godolphin would have confounded leading economists. It is not as if horse representative Anthony Stroud, whose 360,000gns bid thwarted racing can be added to Amazon’s list of products or used as an plans by underbidder Kia Joorabchian, the football agent who anaesthetic or face mask. was luckless on several other high-value horses. Over three days, an additional 17 horses were offered compared Stroud’s purchase came from a family that is steadily producing to last year, generating turnover of 48,362,500gns, within a winners. He was foaled by Violet’s Gift (Cadeaux Genereux), whisker of last year’s total of 48,499,000gns. There was no one of seven winners out of the Namid mare Violet Ballerina percentage change in that figure or the 85 per cent clearance and herself the dam of the Stakes-placed Kodiac West. rate. The median fell 10 per cent to 50,000gns, while the average The buyer said: “He’s a very good-looking horse who looks fast lost three per cent at 75,922gns. and he’s by a sire who has done really well. He’s just a good Sheikh Mohammed and his brother Sheikh Hamdan were key specimen.” factors in the outcome and, while Godolphin bought just three Stroud described trade this week as having “a good vibe with IT’S TIME TO GET ON THE RIGHT TRACK Nutrition has always played a vital role in the management of our breeding and youngstock. It’s about laying the best foundations for future success on the track and at stud. Breeding champions is what we all dream about. 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Kilkenny, Ireland Email: [email protected] www.redmills.com 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 15TH OCTOBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 2 – DAY THREE Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 1323 c STARSPANGLEDBANNER – Violet’s Gift Ballyhimikin Stud Stroud Coleman B/S 360,000 1111 f CHURCHILL – Pussycat Lips Croom House Stud Gainsborough T’breds 340,000 1215 f MASTERCRAFTSMAN – Simkana Parkway Farm Cormac McCormac 325,000 1108 c OASIS DREAM – Pure Line Newsells Park Stud Juddmonte Farms 310,000 1270 c KODIAC – Supreme Occasion Cregg Stud Stroud Coleman B/S 300,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS lots of different buyers,” and added: “Tattersalls has done a really CRISFORD POUNCES good job in putting it on.” FOR PUSSYCAT FILLY Of Sheikh Mohammed’s input, Stroud said: “All of us connected to the bloodstock industry should be grateful to the Maktoum family. Roulston Scar’s win at Nottingham last month will have done no They have really shown their true mettle in times that none of us harm to his Churchill half-sister (Lot 1111) who entered the ring have experienced before. For them to come and support the sales in mid-morning from Denis Brosnan’s Croom House Stud. and people’s livelihoods has been amazing. She left it with a 340,000gns valuation after Roulston Scar’s “People have to breed mares for next year, and this gives them trainer Simon Crisford headed interest from Jake Warren, buying hope. It shows this year we have needed them more than ever. You a filly who was foaled by the winning Holy Roman Emperor cannot underestimate how much they have done; it’s humbling.” mare Pussycat Lips. Three of her four foals to race have won, including two-year-old Inter Approach (Dawn Approach), and Three Group or Listed winners already! Belardo: he’s achieved more than Lope de Vega, Shamardal, Giant’s Causeway and Storm Cat at the same stage. The best start in his sire line. Wow! CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 15TH OCTOBER 2020 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Yearlings that are ‘the spit’ of their sire are usually well received at the ring, and such resemblance did no harm to a colt by Oasis Dream (Lot 1108) who was sold for 310,000gns. Few would have recognised this similarity with greater accuracy than the team at Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farm, which is home to Oasis Dream, and it was a member of that famous racing and breeding operation who bought the look-alike yearling. Stud director Simon Mockridge said of the colt, a powerful, loose-walking bay who was bred by the Barnett family and consigned by Newsells Park Stud: “He is the spitting image of Oasis Dream at this stage. He is a lovely horse, a great walker and bred on the same lines as Kingman. He was an obvious choice for us, Yesterday’s top-priced filly was this daughter of Churchill and he’s bred to be a two-year-old.” (Lot 1111) from Croom House Stud. She went to This mirror image of a leading stallion was foaled by the mare Gainsborough Thoproughbreds, on behalf of MV Magnier, Pure Line, a Zamindar daughter of Gr.1 Irish Oaks and Gr.1 for 340,000gns.