Racing Symposium Coverage HEADLINE ...p. 1-ATW NEWS For information about TDN, DELIVERED EACH NIGHT BY FAX AND FREE BY E-MAIL TO SUBSCRIBERS OF call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2006 DEAUVILLE ENDS ON A HIGH P EDIGREE INSIGHTS Arqana=s Breeding Stock section of the December Sale concluded with record returns yesterday after a BY ANDREW CAULFIELD largely jumps-orientated third session. As on the two previous days, the average represented a major jump BAYAKOA H.-GII, $150,000, HOL, 12-3, 3yo/up, f/m, from 12 months ago, with the 1 1/16m, 1:41 4/5, ft. figure of i15,726 up by 77 per- 1--FOXYSOX (GB), 118, f, 3, by Foxhound cent. In total, the gross of 1st Dam: Triple Tricks (Ire), by Royal Academy i17,706,000 exceeded last 2nd Dam: Tricky Note (GB), by Song (GB) year=s amount by over i10 mil- 3rd Dam: Trickster (GB), by Major Portion (GB) lion, while the average of (40,000gns 2yo 2005 TATHIT; 13,000gns yrl '04 i35,988 was an increase of 92 TATOCT). O-Warren B Williamson; B-B J and Mrs percent on the 2005 equivalent. Crangle (GB); T-Carla Gaines; J-Victor Espinoza; Arqana President Eric Hoyeau $90,000. Lifetime Record: GISP, 14-5-2-2, reflected on a memorable auc- $448,151. tion. AWe are more than satisfied Click for the brisnet.com chart or the free brisnet.com with the results and delighted that the vendors who catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Taylor supported the Deauville market were so handsomely Made. rewarded,@ he commented. AWe will do our best to improve further still the quality of mares, fillies and It was in 1982, at the Academy Awards ceremony in foals on offer in December.@ Sorelia (Fr) (Sillery), a half Los Angeles, that the English-born Colin Welland bran- sister to champion chaser Mid Dancer (Fr), attracted dished his Oscar for his Chariots of Fire screenplay and yesterday=s top price of i100,000. The mare, in foal to shouted, AThe British are coming!@ Turgeon, was consigned by Haras de Grandcamp and Unfortunately for the British movie industry, sold to Irish owner and breeder Olive O=Driscoll. Yester- Welland=s forecast has proved none too accurate. But I day=s top-priced foal was lot 517, a colt by Ballingary am pretty sure that the British will soon be flocking to (Ire) from a top jumping family. Also consigned by Hollywood--the racecourse, not the movie-making Haras de Grandcamp, the foal was purchased for centre--now that the California tracks are converting to i90,000 by Herve Barjot on behalf of Pegasus Farms. synthetic surfaces. And the British will be accompanied Chief among the flat purchases was Haras de la by plenty of other European turf horses, judging by a Cauviniere=s hip 573, the filly Pasta Brown (Fr) (Cape couple of races on Hollywood Park=s new Cushion Cross {Ire}), who is out of a half to the top-class Mas- Track. ter David. Marc-Antoine Bergracht=s MAB Agency paid Dec. 1 saw the ex-French filly Phantom Rose make i50,000 for the four-year-old, who is also from the her main-track debut in an allowance on the Cushion family of Bint Pasha and Nayef. Of the flat foals, hip Track and she handled the new surface extremely well, 453 attracted the keenest attention and it was winning with all the authority she had displayed when McKeever St Lawrence who secured the son of Elusive she easily won a Listed race on a softish turf track at City for i35,000. From the family of the dual group- winning sprinter Eastern Purple (Ire), he was consigned Maisons-Laffitte in May. Andrew Caulfield cont. p2 by Haras de Coulonces. Today sees the one-day Year- lings and Horses in Training Sale beginning at 11 a.m. TDN TODAY Full results, catalogue and updates can be viewed at Headline News.................... 3 pages www.deauville-sales.com. Stats box, p2 www.juddmonte.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/5/06 • PAGE 2 of 3 Two days later, the Bayakoa H. was contested over Foxysox arrived in the U.S. having failed to win in the same course and distance. This Grade II contest five starts in Britain. However, she had more than re- attracted a dozen fillies, with the eight American-bred couped her purchase price of defenders being opposed by one British-bred challenger, 13,000gns when third of 30 in a one Irish-bred and two Chilean-breds. Although the very valuable sales race at American team included the first two choices in the Newmarket, and it took betting, they were out-pointed by the foreign-breds, 40,000gns to buy her at with the British-bred Foxysox just getting the better of Tattersalls= Horses in Training the Irish-bred Round Heels, with the Chilean imports Sale. She has proved an excel- being next across the line. lent buy, as she has now won Interestingly, Phantom Rose is a daughter of the great five of her nine starts and it was Danzig, whereas Foxysox is by Danzig=s son Foxhound, by only a head that she was Foxysox Horsephotos and these two fillies lend support to the theory that the beaten by Arravale in the GI Del Danzig male line is heading for a resurgence in America, Mar Oaks. as more and more tracks are changed to synthetic. Foxysox=s sire Foxhound is a true globe-trotter. In- Castleton Lyons has imported Danzig=s proven son deed, I made the following comment about him back in Anabaa, while Coolmore has switched Danzig=s royally 2001: bred son Mull of Kintyre to Ashford, where he will join AThere is no denying the potential of Foxhound, an Monashee Mountain, another Danzig horse who started extremely well-bred stallion son of Danzig, but the his career in Ireland. Adena Springs is also gearing up question exists as to whether he has been in any one for the switch away from traditional dirt, with a team place long enough to build up a sound future. His his- which includes Danehill s Derby-winning son North = tory so far is that he spent his first season in 1996 in Light. Ireland, at a fee of IR4,000gns, before being transferred to Kentucky, where he initially stood for as little as DEAUVILLE DECEMBER MIXED SALE $4,000 at Hill =n= Dale Farms. Then Foxhound=s Irish MONDAY, DEC. 4, 2006 crop reached the track in 1999, with several of them SESSION TOTALS 2006 2005 doing so well that Foxhound was whisked back across No. Offered 180 67 the Atlantic to stand at Castle Hyde Stud in 2000. His No. Sold 137 42 connections then faced the task of maintaining interest RNA 43 25 and support in a stallion whose stock is racing mainly at % RNA 23.9% 37.3% minor tracks in the States and it was decided to lease Gross €2,154,500 €375,500 Foxhound to stand the 2002 season in England.@ Average (% change) €15,726 (+76.8%) €8,940 Foxhound has also stood in Chile and has spent sev- Median (% change) €9,000 (+71.4%) €5,250 eral Southern-Hemisphere seasons in Australia, which CUMULATIVE 2006 2005 appears to have become his permanent home since No. Offered 597 506 2004. Andrew Caulfield cont. p3 No. Sold 492 375 RNA 105 131 % RNA 17.6% 25.9% “Record Surge” Gross €17,706,000 €7,042,500 Bill Oppenheim on the state of the sales market. Average (% change) €35,988 (+91.6%) €18,780 Click here to read the article! Median (% change) €17,000 (+70%) €10,000 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 12/5/06 • PAGE 3 of 3 Andrew Caulfield cont. Deerhound and Foxhound are brothers and they are also closely related to Honor Grades, another son of Foxhound generally covered very ordinary mares in Danzig. Incidentally, Missy Baba=s grandson Gay his first season in Ireland, but still managed to sire the Mecene ranks as the broodmare sire of Anabaa, one of group winners Mount Abu (G1 Prix de la Foret) and Kier Danzig=s champion sprinting sons, and of Anabaa=s Park and the Listed winners Scarteen Fox and Peruvian highly talented three-parts brother Key of Luck. A Chief. His best representative in the USA before grandson of Danzig, Key of Luck sired the Derby winner Foxysox=s arrival was probably the Grade II-placed Alamshar. USS Tinosa. Although Foxysox was an inexpensive yearling, she comes from a sprinting family which has produced I fear that Foxhound=s many changes of location have some very fast horses, including Fayruz, Jester, Averti ultimately counted against him, but he had every right and Reesh. Her broodmare sire Royal Academy was to be a successful stallion, as his first three dams are also an excellent sprinter, but he stretched his stamina those celebrated mares Lassie Dear, Gay Missile and to a mile when he scored on Breeders= Cup day. The Missy Baba. under-valued Royal Academy is developing into a suc- You=ll hardly need me to recount all of this female cessful dam sire, this year=s top European juvenile filly line=s magic moments. Suffice it to say that Missy Finsceal Beo being another notable winner out of one of Baba=s six stakes winners included champion sire Raja his daughters. Baba; that Gay Missile produced four stakes winners headed by the top-class Gay Mecene; and that Lassie Dear also produced four stakes winners, including P N E W S T O D A Y P Weekend Surprise, the phenomenal producer who was voted 1992=s Broodmare of the Year.