SATURDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER 2016 EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU ITALIAN NEWS | KEENELAND | STALLION PARADE | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES SALES TATTERSALLS IRELAND CHELTENHAM REPORT by CARL EVANS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com went up 4% to £65,871, while the median rose 2% to £50,000. It should be borne in mind that last year’s event included a group of breeze-up horses, but they were absent yesterday having been moved back to the December Sale, when the MARVELLOUS NIGHT FOR adjacent race meeting is a quieter affair than yesterday’s Countryside Day with its many other attractions. MURPHY AND FRIENDS At the sale’s conclusion, Richard Pugh, Director of Horses-in- One year on from making its Cheltenham debut, Tattersalls Training Sales for Tattersalls Ireland, said: “It is great to be back at Ireland returned to Prestbury Park yesterday evening for its Cheltenham for the beginning of our second sales season at this November Sale and created a celebration for a trio of Irishmen. unique venue. As always we are reliant upon vendors to supply us Trainer Denis Murphy and pinhookers Joey Hogan and Alan with the calibre of horse which this sale is adept at rewarding. Harte traded two point-to-pointers who netted a magnificent Realising prices such as £300,000 and £250,000 reinforces the £550,000, putting a glow through a chilly sales ring. message to vendors that selling at public auction guarantees First Hogan netted £250,000 for the Murphy-trained Finian’s maximum return for them. Most of the leading industry players were Oscar, and then his stablemate, the Harte-owned Poli Roi, added either in attendance or represented, which is a testament to the £300,000 to become the day’s sale-topper. quality of graduates who continue to perform to the highest level on Such riches – the pair were among five six-figure lots on a night the track. when Irish pointers dominated bigger valuations – pumped up “It is also encouraging to see rises across many indicators and we the event’s aggregate to a mark of £2,042,000 (+16%), the average look forward to returning here on Friday, 9th December when the Business. ComeShow. and see the new stallions at Kildangan Stud. It could be a rewarding experience... NEW BELARDO NEW BURATINO NEW THE LAST LION €15,000 Oct 1, SLF €5,000 CLUB terms €12,000 Oct 1, SLF Lope de Vega– Danaskaya (Danehill) Exceed And Excel – Bergamask (Kingmambo) Choisir – Mala Mala (Brief Truce) G1 Dewhurst-winning European Stunning G2 Coventry winner Admirably tough juvenile Champion juvenile and G1 who ran Shalaa close in the G1 from the Brocklesby to the G1 Lockinge hero, rated superior Middle Park. Family of Danehill Middle Park. Timeform rates to his sire Lope de Vega. Dancer – and rated above him! him better than Dark Angel. Call +353 (0)45 527600 to arrange a private show and book your mares. See them race and study their pedigrees at www.darleystallions.com Darley CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER 2016 sale will also include a NH Breeze Up of three-year-old horses on the morning of the sale.” DREW DRAWS BLANK AS O’TOOLE GETS A KING A bidding battle between bloodstock agent Mags O’Toole and racehorse owner Bryan Drew created the £300,000 top price at last night’s sale. The focus of their attention was Poli Roi (Lot 32), a four-year-old son of Poliglote, who sauntered home at Rockfield on Sunday and arrived in Cheltenham as a wild card entry. Drew, who keeps horses with David Pipe and who is lucky enough to own the very talented Cheltenham graduate Moon Racer, a runner at Prestbury Park tomorrow, was clearly looking for a bargain, for as the price rose he was keen to trade on in £5,000 increments. When O’Toole offered £290,000, he stuck to his guns, despite being offered the chance to ‘round the price up’, leaving his Denis Murphy trained the top two lots. rival to offer £300,000 and the joust was over. For Murphy and Poli Roi’s vendor, London-based Alan Harte, it was a thumping result, for the gelding was bought as a store at David Pipe missed out on the chance to train Poli Roi, and he Goffs UK’s Spring Sale for £46,000. was also the luckless underbidder for that horse’s stablemate, a Murphy said: “He’s by the sire of Don Poli, which helped, and, four-year-old son of Oscar called Finian’s Oscar (Lot 21). Tom while it was hard to expect that kind of dough, he was a very nice Malone, buying for ‘Sizing’ engineer Alan Potts, brought the horse. When [jockey] Jamie Codd got off him after winning, he said hammer down for this one with a bid of £250,000. ‘Did you see that?” “He’ll be going to Colin Tizzard,” said Malone. “I fell in love with the Gordon Elliott was among the first to congratulate Harte, and horse when I saw him win his point-to-point [at Portrush three the vendor said: “I treat this as a business in partnership with Joey weeks ago] and Jamie Codd, who rode him, and is not the sort of Logan. We buy foals, yearlings and stores, and last year traded man to make a song and dance, said the horse was very special. I had Champers On Ice [who was bought by Drew for £205,000 at the him vetted in Ireland because I was so keen that everything should be Cheltenham Festival Sale].” in place for tonight. Richard Tattersall Edmund Tattersall Edmund Somerville Tattersall Captain Kenneth Watt (1724 _ 1795) (1758 _ 1810) (1863 _ 1942) (1914 _ 1998) ONE SALE embodies the 250 year history of Tattersalls more than any other. TATTERSALLS DECEMBER SALE T: +44 1638 665931 [email protected] Europe’s Premier Foal & Breeding Stock Sale www.tattersalls.com 2016 #whereitallbegins Yearlings, November 21, Foals, November 23 - 26 Air fare assistance available Broodmares, Fillies, etc. November 28 - December 1 subject to purchase 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER 2016 fees having bought the youngster as a store, added: “We bought him from Dick Frisby, who is a really good man in producing a store, and he’s by a leading sire. It’s a great result.” Tizzard, whose Dorset stables have never been so well endowed with jumping talent, said: “He’s a lovely horse and he’s fit and well, so I can’t see why we shouldn’t run him in a novices’ hurdle in three or four weeks.” SPREADING THE LOVE The recent arrival of horses owned by Ann and Alan Potts has put added spotlight on the Colin Tizzard academy, although his best horses, Cue Card, Thistlecrack and Native River, are all paid for by different owners. Further proof of the stable’s strength in depth came later in the sale when the trainer’s £130,000 bid secured Storm Home (Lot Lot 21, Finian’s Oscar, who was bought for £250,000 by 39), a rarity in that he had not been seen in public since April. Tom Malone and Colin Tizzard. (Ce) John Romans, another long-standing client of Tizzard’s, is the new owner of the four-year-old, a son of King’s Theatre, and he said it “He’s by a champion sire and out of a half-sister to Finian’s was that sire which caught his eye. Rainbow [a Grade One winner for Nicky Henderson’s stable], so Storm Home’s form line was ‘F’, denoting a fall on his only start there’s pedigree to back it up. He was a €50,000 store [from the at Largy in April, and trainer Warren Ewing said: “He did the splits Derby Sale], so you would expect him to make good money after when he fell, so we had to wait and give him time off. We’ve only been winning a race in the way he did.” riding him for the past five weeks and, while we didn’t want to wait until he was a five-year-old to run him again, we would have happily Murphy, who trains some “50 to 60 pointers”, said: “I’ve had the taken him home. I’m delighted he’s going to such a good yard.” horse for four months. He’s always been gorgeous and he’s by the right sire out of a half-sister to Finian’s Rainbow. C’EST BON, FOR BAUDRON “He could have made it as a show horse and he had the engine to Normandy trainer Louis Baudron made his first visit to a go with it,” while Kildare-based Joey Logan, who paid the training Cheltenham sale, and left having sold a horse for £130,000 – the An absolute He’s perfect! cracker! The best foal we’ve ever had! A beautiful filly! Absolutely magnificent! Power up, go online and see our film about the Slade Power foals and find out what their breeders love most about them... Then rush out and see the real things for yourself at the foal sales www.darleystallions.com SLADE POWER €20,000 Oct 1, SLF Dutch Art – Girl Power (Key Of Luck) Stands at Kildangan Stud, Ireland +353 (0)45 527600 +44 (0)1638 730070 Darley CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: SATURDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER 2016 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld www.bba-ireland.ie TATTERSALLS IRELAND CHELTENHAM [email protected] SALE ~ Get Covered Mind? Lot Age Name (Sire) Vendor Purchaser Price (£) Insurance - Peace of 32 4g POLI ROI (Poliglote) Ballyboy Stables Gordon Elliott 300,000 21 4g FINIAN’S OSCAR (Oscar) Ballyboy Stables Tom Malone/Colin Tizzard Bloodstock250,000 39 4g STORM HOME (King’s Theatre) Bernice Stables Colin Tizzard 130,000 30 3g DEMON D’AUNOU (Martaline) Haras des Rouges Terres Frank Berry 130,000 18 4g CELEBRE D’ALLEN (Network) Skehanagh Stables David E Pipe 100,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS buyer was J P McManus’s racing manager, Frank Berry.