THURSDAY, 5TH APRIL 2018 GALE FORCE EBN TEN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU POINTS OF VIEW | STALLION NEWS | NEW ZEALAND NEWS | BLOODSTOCK WORLD SALES TALK TATTERSALLS IRELAND ASCOT EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com ASCOT SALE RAISES CURTAIN ON EUROPEAN BREEZE-UP SEASON Lot 95, Bansha House Stables’ Kodiac colt out of the Giant’s The European breeze-up season gets underway at Ascot today Causeway mare Elpida, whose dam is a half-sister to the with the Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Breeze-Up Sale. Selling begins at recently-deceased Gr.1 winner Poet’s Voice. The colt is one midday. of five two-year-olds by Tally-Ho Stud’s ever-popular Kodiac A total of 146 lots have been catalogued for the curtain-raiser in today’s sale. © Steve Cargill to the busy breeze-up season, featuring juveniles by 16 first-crop sires. Among those with the largest number of representatives are Bungle Inthejungle, who has made such a flying start to his Mocklershill draft by Peter and Ross Doyle for £130,000. In the Al stud career, Gale Force Ten and Morpheus. Shaqab colours, Bustam has been placed four times at two and Last year’s renewal saw 67 lots change hands for an aggregate three for trainer John Quinn. of £2,041,600, a gain of over six per cent on the 2016 total. The This sale continues to produce Group performers purchased at sale recorded an average of £30,472 and a median of £21,000, reasonable prices, headed last year by the Gr.2 Gimcrack Stakes with a clearance rate of just under 80 per cent. The sale was victor Sands Of Mali (Panis), bought for £75,000 by Stroud topped by Bustam (Worthadd) who was purchased from the Coleman on behalf of the Cool Silk Partnership. THIS COULD BE YOU! 22 GR.1 AND 96 GROUP & LISTED HORSES SO FAR AND COUNTING... including Royal Ascot winners PRINCE OF LIR Norfolk Stakes Gr.2 Prince Of Lir (2016) Owners: The Cool Silk Partnership and Different League (2017) DIFFERENT LEAGUE Purchased by: Stroud Coleman Bloodstock Albany Stakes Gr.3 BANSHA HOUSE STABLES www.banshahousestables.com #BUYSMARTBUYBANSHA Mobile: +353 (0)86 255 9903 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 Filly ex. Reem Bred by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum Colt ex. Michael’s Song Bred by Knockainey Stud Colt ex. Yeah Baby Bred by Brian O'Neill Colt ex. Boca Raton Colt ex. Vibe Queen Bred by Woodford Stud Bred by Sebastian & Thea Curran Brilliant dual Gr.1-winning 2YO from the family of Invincible Spirit & Kodiac Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller or Neil Magee. Tel: +353-52-6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon, John Kennedy or Cathal Murphy. Tel: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) Tel: +44-7827-795156. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.coolmore.com SALES TALK EBN: THURSDAY, 5TH APRIL 2018 pictures courtesy Cargill of Steve Lot 8, one of three by Toronado in Lot 20, Ballinahulla Stables’ Sixties Lot 21, a first-crop son of Es Que Love today’s sale. This filly is from the Icon colt; a full-brother to a winner from the extended family of Scorpion, Brackile House Stables consignment. and from the family of Time Charter. Ardross and Electrocutionist. All lots breezed yesterday at Ascot. EBF STATUS Notable lots include: All two-year-olds entered in this sale have been correctly Lot 7, a Havana Gold filly out of a full-sister to the Gr.1 July Cup identified as to their EBF status. The horses listed below can be heroine Fleeting Spirit, nominated to the EBF at a cost of $6,000 (or £/€ equivalent) at Lot 11, a Gio Ponti colt from a useful US family, any point before 30th June 2018: Lot 17, a Rock Of Gibraltar half-brother to the Italian Listed winner Gold Tail (Dream Ahead), from the family of Red Clubs, Lot 50 Verrazano – Young Royalty Lot 23, a colt by Born To Sea who is the first foal out of Saxon Lot 57 Shanghai Bobby – Anysaturdayinmay Princess, herself a half-sister to the Gr.1 Champion Stakes victor Lot 74 Elusive Quality – Casting Director Cracksman and a full-sister to the Gr.3 winner Fantastic Moon, Lot 44, a Kodiac filly out of a full-sister to the Gr.2 winner For further information, please contact the EBF Office on +44 (0) Turning Top, from the outstanding family of Postponed and 1638 667960 or email [email protected] Simply Perfect, Lot 46, the most expensive pinhook in the catalogue, with this WITHDRAWALS son of Shamardal, from the family of Virginia Waters and Lots: 1, 16, 27, 29, 52, 59, 73, 74, 78, 91, 97, 98, 110, 113, 118, 119, Chachamaidee, having been purchased for 140,000gns as a 140, 142, 144. yearling at Tattersalls October Book 1, Lot 71, a Clodovil half-brother to Gr.3 winner Lady Lahar, dam AUSTRALIA of the Stakes-winning duo Jallota and Classic Legend, and Listed winner Miss Lahar, Lot 72, a Kodiac filly out of a half-sister to the dual Gr.1 winner ELITE CATALOGUE FOR CHAIRMAN’S Indian Ink, SALE OF RACING PROSPECTS Lot 75, a filly by first-crop sire Bungle Inthejungle from a strong An ultra-select catalogue of just three lots will be offered by Inglis black-type family, today for the Chairman’s Sale of elite racing prospects, held at the Lot 79, one of 11 lots catalogued by Dandy Man, a colt out of Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. the Listed-placed Clare Glen from a strong black-type family, Only 10 lots were catalogued for the 2017 renewal and the sale Lot 109, a colt from the first crop of Goldikova’s high-class was topped by the Gr.2 Todman Stakes victor Gunnison (Not A miling brother Anodin, from a strong Argentine black-type Single Doubt), who was snapped up by Chris McAnulty for family, A$1.4m. Another eye-catching price was the A$900,000 paid by Lot 135, a colt by first-crop sire Gale Force Ten out of a half- George Moore for the Listed-placed Eden Roc (Star Witness), sister to the high-class sprinter Balthazaar’s Gift. who, like Gunnison, went to continue his career in Hong Kong. NEXT SALE: TATTERSALLS IRELAND Did you know... ASCOT SALE TODAY There have been 9 Group 1 winners since 2015? 141 Group performers since 2008? Will you find Over 50% of breeze-up graduates are winners? your superstar? There were 106 2yo winners in 2017? There have been over 1,000 2yo winners in the past ten years? And over 1,200 3yo winners in the same time? www.breezeupwinners.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 STALLION NEWS EBN: THURSDAY, 5TH APRIL 2018 pictures courtesy Cargill of Steve Lot 28, Lynn Lodge Stud’s Kyllachy Dandy Man has 10 in today’s sale and Lot 49, an Excelebration colt colt from the family of the Gr.1- this is Lot 36, a filly related to Yesterday, descended from Gr.2 winner winning sprinter La Cucaracha. Quarter Moon and Eminent. Kingscote, from Dunsany Stables. This year’s auction looks certain to become the quickest sale of Saglawy, a winner on the Flat at two, Listed-placed at three in the 2018 calendar when the trio are offered in the rarified setting. France and the 15-length winner of a maiden hurdle at Gowran All three are offered by James Harron Bloodstock and include Park for Willie Mullins last month. Youmzain is also responsible for Siege Of Quebec (Fastnet Rock), a A$1.2m purchase at Inglis’s Delire D’Estruval, winner of a Listed novice hurdle at Haydock Easter Yearling Sale and a triple-winning full-brother to the Gr.3 Park in November for Ben Pauling. winner and Gr.1-placed Bull Point. Harron also offers a pair of He recorded his own biggest racecourse successes in the Gr.1 well-bred winners, namely Almighty (Exceed And Excel) and Preis von Europa at Cologne and the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Saint- Hypnotist (Snitzel). Cloud. Those victories were interspersed with his trio of bridesmaid visits to Longchamp, where he finished runner-up in the Arc to such luminaries as Dylan Thomas, Zarkava and Sea STALLION NEWS The Stars. Trained by Mick Channon, he won six of his 32 starts, finishing placed a further 16 times, and earned over £3.3m during IRELAND his six seasons of racing. YOUMZAIN MOVING TO GLENVIEW NEW ZEALAND Youmzain, the dual Gr.1 winner who was runner-up in the Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe three times, is to take up stud duties at RICH HILL TO STAND Glenview Stud, Co. Cork, after spending the last seven years at GR.1 SON OF DEEP IMPACT Haras du Quesnay. Satono Aladdin, a Gr.1-winning son of Deep Impact, will take up The 15-year-old son of Sinndar is the sire of Gr.1 Beverly D stud duties at Rich Hill Stud in New Zealand for the 2018 season. Stakes heroine Sea Calisi, as well as Royal Youmzain, who won The pinnacle of the seven-year-old’s career came when winning the Gr.2 Gran Criterium last year for Jaber Abdullah, in whose the Gr.1 Yasuda Kinen over a mile at Tokyo in June last year, and he colours Youmzain raced.