THURSDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER 2020 2020 KEENELAND SEPTEMBER SALE CONTINUES UNTIL The World's Most Accomplished SEPTEMBER 25 Yearling Sale 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 GOFFS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com QUALITY CATALOGUE FOR SPORTSMAN’S SALE The Goffs Sportsman’s Sale becomes the next in a line of sales transplanted across the Irish Sea due to COVID-19 restrictions, as Triple Gr.3 winner Anna Nerium (Dubawi) kept on yesterday the action gets underway at the Goffs Sales complex in Doncaster to return to the winner’s enclosure in the Listed Foundation today, with around 280 yearlings on offer over the next two days. Stakes at Goodwood. Report on page 4. Graduates of the 2019 renewal have been strutting their stuff © Steve Cargill on the track during this interrupted season and they include the Gr.3 Prestige Stakes winner Isabella Giles (Belardo), who was bought for €45,000 by Kevin Ross Bloodstock, as well as Star Of IN TODAY’S ISSUE... Emaraaty (Pride Of Dubai), who cost Robson Aguiar just €3,500 last year and went on to win the Gr.3 Sweet Solera Stakes, and the Stakes results p8 Gr.3 Marble Hill Stakes winner Minaun (Zoffany), purchased for €8,000 by Leamore Horses. The Castlebridge Consignment are Stakes fields p14 offering an El Kabeir half-brother to Minaun, whose third dam is Goffs Sportsman’s Sale pinhooking tables p20 the Champion racemare Marwell, as Lot 519. GALILEO CHROME th 2020 Leading Sires St Leger Stakes-Gr.1 on Sept 12 (by number of Group winners in GB & Ire) CAYENNE PEPPER Rank Sire GWs Blandford Stakes-Gr.2 on Sept 13th 1 Galileo 20 EPONA PLAYS 2 Dubawi 7 Denny Cordell Lavarack & Lanwades Stud 3 Australia 6 Fillies Stakes-Gr.3 on Sept 19th ­ Sea The Stars 6 5 Kodiac 5 6 Kingman 4 Stallionguide, 21/9/20 Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: +353-25-31966. E-mail: [email protected] www.coolmore.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 Bay 2011 by Kitten’s Joy – Celestial Woods (by Forestry) BOBBY’S KITTEN A LEADING EUROPEAN FIRST CROP SIRE 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 8 individual first crop 2yo winners of 13 races (to 22nd Sep. 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. • Amongst the top European sires in 2020 with 8.33% Black-type winners to runners 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, & BERKSHIRE ROCCO (Gr.1 Classic & Gr.2-placed in 2020) • Sire of 83 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, 24TH SEPTEMBER 2020 DECORATED KNIGHT Galileo – Pearling (Storm Cat) Triple Gr.1 Winnner with an Exceptional Pedigree Isabella Giles (Belardo), who won the Gr.3 Prestige Stakes last month by seven lengths, was purchased at last year’s Goffs Sportsman’s Sale for €45,000. © Steve Cargill Formerly trained by Gordon Elliott, River Boyne (Dandy Man), a €65,000 graduate of the 2016 Sportsman’s Sale, had won four Graded Stakes in California since transferring to Jeff Mullins and went even better in March when landing the Gr.1 Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes at Santa Anita. Tara Stud are consigning his Divine Prophet half-sister as Lot 560. An Exceed And Excel colt from Derrinstown Stud made the REPRESENTED AT GOFFS highest price for a dozen years when snapped up by Joe Foley for SPORTSMAN’S SEPTEMBER SALE a sale-topping €135,000 last year. A considerably larger catalogue than 12 months previously saw the average and median fall to LOT 514 €17,155 and €13,000 respectively, while the clearance rate was Colt ex Babberina (Danehill Dancer) also down a little, to 79 per cent. Ballybin Stud Last year’s leading purchaser by aggregate was BBA Ireland, which collected 14 yearlings for an outlay of €246,000, while the Castlebridge Consignment led the sellers, their 23 sold lots LOT 594 bringing in €532,200. Castlebridge has plenty on offer over the Filly ex Dolphina (Kingmambo) next two days, its consignment of 32 being much the largest this Lewinstown Farm year, followed by Ballyhane and the Irish National Stud (12 each). Among the catalogued yearlings over the next two days are: Lot 482, a Buratino half-brother to the Gr.2-winning two-year- LOT 696 old Conquest and Listed scorer Victory Command, Filly ex Lisabella (Fastnet Rock) Lot 491, a Time Test granddaughter of dual Gr.1 winner Highpark Alborada, dam of four Stakes horses, Lot 504, a Lope De Vega half-brother to US Gr.3 winner Guilty Twelve and Listed winner Iltemas, LOT 707 Lot 549, a Cotai Glory filly out of Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes Colt ex Magic Mirror (Montjeu) victrix Carry On Katie, Lewinstown Farm Lot 560, a Divine Prophet half-sister to March’s US Gr.1 winner River Boyne, s Lot 570, a Mehmas colt out of a half-sister to dual Classic winner Cockney Rebel, Lot 641, a Mehmas half-sister to the triple US Gr.2 victrix Beau Recall, Lot 663, a Clodovil three-parts-brother to Australian Gr.1 winner Moriarty, Lot 731, a Bated Breath filly out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Contact: Gary Swift or Patrick Diamond Irish National Stud • Tel: +353 (0)45 521251 Blond Me, www.bluediamondstud.co.uk/dk Lot 732, a Gutaifan half-brother to the four-time Gr.3 winner Mac Love, CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK ~ RACING REVIEW EBN: THURSDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER 2020 Lot 733, a Zarak filly out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winners Sagamix and Sagacity and to the dams of Gr.1 winners Sageburg, Sagawara, Secret Gesture, Japan and Mogul, Lot 740, an Acclamation filly out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winners Lord Shanakill, Together Forever and Forever Together, Lot 741, a Camacho colt out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Nahoodh, Lot 753, a Highland Reel half-sister to South African Gr.2 and Gr.3 winner Gorongosa, CONSISTENTLY Lot 766, a National Defense filly out of a half-sister to the Gr.1- winning juvenile Anees, PRODUCING Lot 775, a Galileo Gold half-sister to Gr.3 winner Red Badge, Lot 791, a New Bay filly out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winner INTERNATIONAL Relaxed Gesture, Lot 795, a Holy Roman Emperor colt out of a half-sister to QUALITY multiple Gr.1 winners Silvano and Sabiango, Lot 808, an El Kabeir filly out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Ransom O’ War, and Lot 817, a Gutaifan colt out of a half-sister to dual Gr.1 winner 2020 GR/STAKES PERFORMERS: Slade Power. EBF STATUS GUILDSMAN (US), All yearlings entered in this sale are EBF Nominated and have SECRET ADVISOR (UK, UAE), been correctly identified as to their EBF status. For further information please contact the EBF office on VOLFANGO (FR), GLYCON (FR), +44(0)1638 667960 or email nominations@ebfhorseracing. PEARLS GALORE (IR) co.uk. WITHDRAWALS Today Lots: 476, 480, 481, 485, 486, 489, 495, 497, 498, 506, 507, 515, 519, 521, 525, 528, 531, 532, 534, 536, 538, 539, 561, 564, 566, 568, 569, 573, 574, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 583, 587, 588, 591, 592, 593, 595, 606, 608, 611, 612, 613, 614, 615, 616, 618, 622, 632, 633, 634, 636, 637, 639, 640, 643, 656, 661, 662, 665, 668, 670, 672, 675, 679 Tomorrow Lots: 690, 692, 693, 697, 699, 700, 711, 712, 713, 717, 720, 726, 734, 738, 743, 744, 747, 748, 750, 770, 772, 786, 793, 797, 800, 801, 804, 816, 826, 832, 837, 839, 841, 847, 852, 854 GLYCON RACING REVIEW BRITAIN GLYCON (FR) WINS GR3 ANNA NERIUM RETURNS TO COUP DE MAISONS-LAFFITTE WINNING WAYS WITH LISTED SUCCESS Richard Hannon’s triple Gr.3 winner Anna Nerium returned to AT PARISLONGCHAMP winning ways in the Listed Foundation Stakes at Goodwood yesterday over 1m2f.