DECORATED THURSDAY, 15TH APRIL 2021 DECORATED KNIGHT KNIGHT TRIPLE GR.1 WINNER OF NOBLE LINEAGE Irish Champion Stakes (Gr.1) NO A M K IN O A Tattersalls Gold Cup (Gr.1) FREE T O I B RETURN O Jebel Hatta (Gr.1) 2022 N IN EBN 2021 Fee: €7,500 1st Oct. EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS Galileo - Pearling (Storm Cat) FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU • L@bloodstocknews TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com CRACKING CRAVEN CLEARANCE RATE BOOSTS THE BREEZE It was no bull run, but Tattersalls’ second and final session of the SackvilleDonald went to 240,000gns for this Caravaggio Craven Breeze-Up Sale generated a very smart clearance rate to colt, Lot 143, from Yeomanstown Stud. © Tattersalls.com send vendors home happy, writes Carl Evans. Of the 61 lots who entered the market yesterday, just five failed to find a buyer, a highly commendable 92 per cent clearance rate, while the overall rate of 88 per cent was the highest at the Craven IN TODAY’S ISSUE... Sale this century. Trade felt ‘softer’ yesterday compared to Tuesday’s opening session, but the exchange of horses will have Racing review p7 given breeze-up consignors confidence as their season moves First Season Sire Focus– Ardad p10 into overdrive. Stakes results p14 After the upheavals of 2020 they will have been delighted this sale went ahead on time, for it was held back until the week after Stakes fields p20 Royal Ascot last year and comprised just a single session. Won the sire-making French Derby Triple Gr.1 winner PERSIAN KING t in course record time! Other recent winners over the reduced 10½-furlong trip include leading sires SHAMARDAL, LE HAVRE and LOPE DE VEGA! SOTTSASS High class 2YO, World Champion 3YO, ‘Arc’ & Prix Ganay-winning 4YO By SIYOUNI, dam by GALILEO and a half-brother to seven-time Gr.1 winner SISTERCHARLIE New for 2021 Fee: €30,000 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 Oasis Dream 2000 Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave) 2021 Fee £20,000 1st Oct, Special Live Foal Class is permanent Leading active European-based sires by lifetime Group performers to runners Group performers/runners 2021 Fee 1 Galileo 20% Private 2 Frankel 17% £175,000 3 Dubawi 16% £250,000 4 Sea The Stars 14% €150,000 5 Lope De Vega 11% €125,000 6 Oasis Dream 10% £20,000 7 Teofilo 10% €30,000 8 Invincible Spirit 8% €80,000 *minimum 60 Group horses. Northern Hemisphere-born progeny Source: www.thoroughbreddailynews.com to 3rd March 2021 Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 | [email protected] | www.juddmonte.com SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 15TH APRIL 2021 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS CRAVEN BREEZE-UP SALE – DAY TWO Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 143 c CARAVAGGIO – Bright Sapphire Yeomanstown Stud SackvilleDonald 240,000 145 c UNION RAGS – Careless Jewel Powerstown Stud Sheikh Abdullah Almalek Alsabah 185,000 96 c ACLAIM – Step Sequence Tally-Ho Stud Opulence Thoroughbreds 150,000 101 c SHOWCASING – Swirral Edge Greenhills Farm Stephen Hillen B/S 150,000 90 c PRACTICAL JOKE – Sky Saver Powerstown Stud Michael O’Callaghan 140,000 133 c DABIRSIM – Araca Aguiar B/S Blandford B/S 140,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS That has to be factored in when making comparisons with the of the mare Bright Sapphire (Galileo): “He is for a new Hong Kong two sales and, with 137 horses walking the ring (just 84 did so last client and will go out there at the end of the season after being pre- year), a marked rise in turnover to a sum of 10,408,500gns (up 57 trained in England. He is a lovely big horse with a nice pedigree and per cent) was not unexpected. The bigger numbers meant the he breezed well for a horse of his size. They don’t race in Hong Kong average price dropped, down nine per cent to 86,021gns, but the until they are three-year-olds, so don’t need a here and now horse.” median rose 11 per cent to 68,000gns. Of Caravaggio, Donald said: “That is the first one I’ve bought by All this against a worldwide pandemic, with restrictions on the sire, but I liked them as yearlings and they are particularly good travel and business for domestic, let alone international buyers. walkers. This horse’s movement is very good.” Hopefully normal service is not long in coming. Caravaggio, whose oldest crop are now two, opened his stallion career at Coolmore Stud, but moved to the same O’CALLAGHAN’S FAITH PAYS OFF operation’s US-based Ashford Stud for this breeding season. He David O’Callaghan’s decision to retain a Caravaggio colt (Lot has had one winner to date, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Tenebrism, 143) when he failed to sell as a yearling was amply rewarded who scored on debut at Naas last month. when the same horse topped the second session of the Craven O’Callaghan, who consigned the colt under the name of his Breeze-Up Sale. family’s Yeomanstown Stud, said: “We brought him back to Book 1 Kildare trainer Michael O’Callaghan and an online bidder and, while it didn’t quite work out, he’s a beautiful colt who breezed ensured the March foal’s valuation would outstrip the 130,000gns very well and had a great attitude. Why he didn’t sell at Book 1 I don’t price he was bought in at last year, but, at 240,000gns, the know; it was the first day and perhaps a bit quiet, but it just didn’t hammer fell in the direction of Alastair Donald of SackvilleDonald, happen. We took him home and he never missed a beat, and is even who was acting for a Hong Kong client. This was the breezer’s nicer now than he was then. third visit to the ring, for he had been bought by O’Callaghan as a “We’ve been rewarded and are very pleased. I’ve offered three foal for 155,000gns at the 2019 December Sale. horses and they’ve all sold, so I’m happy enough. It feels a little softer Donald said of his purchase, a half-brother to four winners out tonight compared to yesterday, but it’s okay and the clearance rate is DABIRSIMIn demand! Two top lots at the Craven Breeze Up Sale on Tuesday Aguiar Tally-Ho Stud Bloodstock Ltd to Michael to Roger Varian O’Callaghan © Agence G 240.000gns 190.000gns 4th top lot 7th top lot Eric Lhermite +33 (0)6 87 82 12 76 Lot 25 (F. ex Ironique) Lot 83 (C. ex Sablerose) Écurie Normandie Pur-Sang Solenn Gouesnard +33 (0)6 22 92 55 26 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 15TH APRIL 2021 pretty good, so I think most people are pleased. Horses are selling so we’re thankful.” DABIRSIM SCORES FOR AGUIAR Robson Aguiar’s Aguiar Bloodstock Ltd brought one of the largest drafts to this sale, his 11 lots turning over 841,000gns at an average of just over 76,000gns. The consignment was headed by a 240,000gns Dabirsim filly who was sold to Roger Varian on day one, but was complemented by a 140,000gns colt by the same sire (Lot 133), who was knocked down to Blandford Bloodstock’s Richard Brown during the second session. Given that Aguiar bought the colt for €22,000 at Arqana in October, this one could be marked down in the ‘smart pinhook’ column. Brown said the colt would be joining Newmarket trainer David Simcock, and added: “I bought a horse at the breeze-ups last year from Robson called Cordouan, who won nicely at Newcastle last This striking Union Rags colt, Lot 145, is probably returning night for John Gosden. I have gone back to the same hotel, but I think to the US after being knocked down to Sheikh Abdullah John’s horse is a nice horse and I hope this one is, too. Almalek Alsabah for 185,000gns. © Tattersalls.com “He breezed well, although he came across the track a little bit green, and is a good-looking horse. He’ll need plenty of time, but he Joke colt (Lot 90) whom he bought for $75,000 at Fasig-Tipton, will get that with David, and he’s likely to be an August or September and the Union Rags, already named Tattered Flag, completed a horse over seven furlongs.” handy double when making 185,000gns to a bid from Sheikh STARS AND STRIPES FOR POWERSTOWN Abdullah Almalek Alsabah, having been bought for $115,000 at A son of Union Rags (Lot 145) completed a Yankee-doodle- Keeneland in September. The latter colt, who it is thought will dandy day for Tom Whitehead of Powerstown Stud. take up a racing career back in his homeland, was a son of the Whitehead had already secured 140,000gns for a Practical Tapit mare Careless Jewel, winner of the Gr.1 Alabama Stakes. This was the Sheikh’s second purchase of the day, for he also invested 70,000gns in a Distorted Humor colt (Lot 112) consigned by Jim McCartan of Gaybrook Lodge Stud.