THURSDAY, 29TH 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 PRICE FIT FOR A KING AT 925,000GNS English King (Camelot) became the most valuable colt to sell at Listed Lingfield Derby Trial winner English King (Camelot), Tattersalls’ annual Autumn Horses in Training Sale when changing Lot 1153A, became the highest-priced colt to sell at hands yesterday for 925,000gns. The buyer was Mike Moroney’s Tattersalls’ Autumn Horses in Training Sale when knocked Ballymore Stables, which is based in Melbourne, Australia, writes down to Armando Duarte on behalf of Ballymore Stables Carl Evans. Australia for 925,000gns © Tattersalls Moroney’s representative at this week’s sale, Armando Duarte, fought off interest from Ted Voute who hoped to buy the three- year-old colt for clients in Saudi Arabia. The valuation trumped that of Summer Sands, who made 625,000gns last year, but was IN TODAY’S ISSUE... shy of the 1,000,000gns given for the Gr.1-winning filly Aljaazi in Stallion News p7 2018. His sale contributed to another remarkable day at Tattersalls’ Leading Sires’ Table p8 Park Paddocks headquarters, where despite the implications of Stakes Fields p17 living in a COVID-dominated world the demand for racehorses EVEN SO Irish Oaks Gr.1 RUSSIAN CAMELOT Underwood Stakes Gr.1, SIR DRAGONET South Australia Derby Gr.1 $5 million Cox Plate Gr.1 on Saturday European Champion at 2 & 3 by MONTJEU 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 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 29TH OCTOBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS AUTUMN HORSES IN TRAINING SALE – DAY THREE Lot Sex Name (Sire) Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 1153A 3c ENGLISH KING (Camelot) Ed Walker Racing Armando Duarte/Ballymore Stables 925,000 Australia / Paul Moroney Bloodstock 1100 3c BULLFINCH (Kodiac) The Castlebridge Consignment Chris Waller Racing 370,000 1126 3c EMISSARY (KIngman) Juddmonte Farms Armando Duarte/Ballymore Stables 350,000 Australia / Paul Moroney Bloodstock 1130 4c DEREVO (Dansili) Juddmonte Farms Voute Sales 340,000 1052 4c URBAN ICON (Cityscape) East Everleigh Stables Voute Sales 320,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS was unabated – which was just as well when you consider 305 Lambourn trainer Ed Walker, who campaigned English King on were there to be sold. Turnover of 9,779,600gns was up 19 per behalf of racehorse owner and breeder Bjorn Nielsen. Walker cent – admittedly helped by the inclusion of a Juddmonte draft entered the month of June dreaming of saddling the colt to which had been sold on Monday last year – and the clearance rate become his first Gr.1 winner in the greatest race of all, the Derby. gained three points to reach 92 per cent. There was a 15 per cent English King had won Lingfield’s Listed Derby Trial and was improvement in the average price to 34,803gns, and the median near the head of bookmakers’ lists for the big race, but he finished lost just three per cent at 16,000gns. fifth as Serpentine made all for an improbable triumph. Australia’s When John O’Kelly’s hammer fell on the new record price most famous race, the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup, has now become a yesterday a ride of highs and lows was completed by Upper target. A Great LOVE story... PIKABOO, sold for just 50,000 guineas at the Tattersalls December Sale 8 years ago, is now the dam of outstanding dual Classic winner LOVE. Another CHAPTER in the history of an extraordinary sale. DECEMBER SALE 2020 YEARLINGS: November 23rd FOALS: November 25th-28th BROODMARES, FILLIES IN TRAINING, etc: November 30th-December 3rd T: +44 1638 665931 [email protected] www.tattersalls.com 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 29TH OCTOBER 2020 BOBBY’S KITTEN Bay 2011 by Kitten’s Joy – Celestial Woods (by Forestry) A LEADING EUROPEAN FIRST CROP SIRE IN 2020 Sire of 9 individual first crop 2yo winners of 15 races, including Group 2 Beresford Stakes runner-up MONAASIB and multiple winners MIRAGE MAC, MIAMI JOY and MYSTIC MALEFICENT (to 28th Oct. 2020) Ed Walker and his wife Camilla watch as English King is sold to Australian interests. © Tattersalls After congratulating Duarte, Walker said: “I’d far rather win that SEA THE MOON Bay 2011 by Sea The Stars – Sanwa (by Monsun) money on the track and I’d much rather win the Derby, but he [English King] has become part of a perfect storm. In a normal year A LEADING EUROPEAN SIRE IN 2020 Bjorn may have sold more yearlings and, in a normal year, he might have been up for campaigning the horse internationally. 2020 yearlings sold at “When I tried to convince him to keep the horse and run in big Tattersalls October Sales Book 1 & 2 made races in Australia and Hong Kong and around the world he was quite 480,000 gns, 210,000 gns, 200,000 gns, etc., rightly worried whether racing will happen and will the horse be able averaging £154,975 to travel and would he [Nielsen] be able to travel. – over 10 times his 2018 fee “It’s a great result in the ring, and Bjorn puts so much into this game that he deserves a big result like that. It’s not so good for me, as a youngish trainer, but that’s the way it is. “We’ve had a great journey with him, and he made lockdown a lot more interesting, but it didn’t end as we hoped. I’m still looking for my SIR PERCY first Gr.1 winner and I was convinced he would be it. He had a couple Bay 2003 by Mark of Esteem – Percy’s Lass (by Blakeney) of hard races, and you don’t break a 30-year track record [in the Lingfield Derby Trial] without giving it your all. He had a hard race A POTENT MIX OF SPEED AND STAMINA there and a very hard race at Epsom when running a blinder. 2020 yearlings sold at “His next two races were not up to that level, but he is not a big Tattersalls October Sales Book 2 made horse and they took their toll. I still believe he’s a very good horse and 150,000 gns (x2), 80,000 gns & 50,000 gns, I wish the guys who bought him the best of luck. I hope he wins the Melbourne Cup for them.” averaging £112,875 Nielsen’s breeding exploits have focussed on creating a Derby – over 16 times his 2018 fee winner, but it was thought he might have bought, not bred, one when English King became a contender for Epsom’s famous Classic race. He had been purchased for Nielsen at Arqana’s October Yearling Sale for €210,000 by bloodstock agent Jeremy Brummitt, sent into training with Walker, and then made two late- STUDY OF MAN season appearances as a two-year-old. Bay 2015 by Deep Impact – Second Happiness (by Storm Cat) Unplaced on the Rowley Mile in October he won at Newcastle SON AND GRANDSON OF LEGENDS the following month, and when the turf season reopened in June after the COVID lockdown he made a big impression by landing Winner of the “Stallion Making” the Listed Lingfield Derby Trial. Further headlines followed when Group 1 French Derby Frankie Dettori was booked to replace Tom Marquand in the Supported by Europe’s leading breeders Derby, in which he finished fifth of 16, beaten just over six lengths in his first season by shock winner Serpentine. English King failed to get back on the winning trail in FIRST FOALS 2021 subsequent runs at Goodwood and Longchamp, but with his profile, breeding and 111 rating he was always going to be one of the stars of this week’s sale. Tel: +44 (0)1638 750222• [email protected] • www.lanwades.com In a message sent from Australia, Moroney’s brother Paul, who does much of the scouting for the stable, but is unable to travel to Britain due to COVID restrictions, said: “English King’s track-record LANWADES The independent option TM performance winning the Lingfield Derby Trial, beating St Leger CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 29TH OCTOBER 2020 runner-up Berkshire Rocco, was one of the most breathtakingly dominant performances anywhere this year. He is clearly a highly talented colt with loads of quality and we are thrilled to have secured him. “Through their joint sire Camelot and with similar race records at the same stage, English King maps the same as last weekend’s Gr.1 Cox Plate winner Sir Dragonet. We’ve bought him for a syndicate headed by two New Zealand businessmen and a collection of Ballymore Stables’ Australian clients. “He’s certainly an exciting addition to the team and our first time playing at this very high level, so it could be said the pressure is on for him to perform. He will head down under in December to join Mike’s Flemington stable in early January and we’ll play things by ear.” English King is one of seven winning foals produced by Platonic (Zafonic), the pick being Gr.3 winner Pacifique, but including Prudenzia, the dam of Gr.1 winners Chicquita and Armando Duarte, who signed for the session-topping Magic Wand.