SUNDAY, 20 AUGUST, 2017 WINX BLOWS START, WINS ANYWAY IT=S GALILEO DAY Winx (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}), the world=s highest-rated mare IN DEAUVILLE and turf horse, added some drama to her seasonal debut in Saturday=s G2 Warwick S. when missing the break by four lengths, but nonetheless got up to beat stablemate and last-out G1 Coolmore Legacy S. winner Foxplay (Aus) (Foxwedge {Aus}) by a neck, notching her 18th consecutive win (video). Making her 6-year-old debut and her first start since a 5 1/4-length victory in the G1 Queen Elizabeth S. over this same Randwick track on Apr. 8, Winx broke in the air and was well last in the opening stages of the 1400 metre race. Working her way gradually closer as Ecuador (NZ) (High Chaparral {Ire}) made the running and Foxplay sat two lengths off his heels on the rail, Winx and Hugh Bowman were still last with at least six lengths to make up as they came off the turn. Widest of all coming into the straight, Winx blew past the entire field under a handride from Bowman and got up just in time to nip Foxplay on the line, with Ecuador staying on for third. Cont. Worldwide News p26 Team Mayfair Speculators and Peter and Ross Doyle | Zuzanna Lupa IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Emma Berry and Tom Peacock COLLECTED LEADS HOME BAFFERT 1-2 AT DEL MAR The curtain couldn't have fallen in more emphatic fashion on Collected (City Zip) caused a mild upset in Saturday’s GI Pacific the first session of Arqana's August Yearling Sale on Saturday Classic, besting his favored stablemate Arrogate (Unbridled’s Song). when the final lot in the ring (88), a Galileo (Ire) half-brother to Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. the Group 1-winning duo of Most Improved (Ire) and Ectot (Ire), sold for a nicely rounded i1-million to MV Magnier in partnership with Mayfair Speculators and Peter and Ross Doyle. "He was a very nice horse and what Galileo is doing this year we haven't seen before. The mare [Tonnara] has bred two Group 1 winners already. Let's hope he becomes the third," said the man whose family holds the crown jewel of the European bloodstock industry in Galileo, whose offspring filled the top three slots on the leaderboard on Saturday. If the supersire dominates the European stallion tables, it's Henri Bozo and his shrewd team of investors in Ecurie des Monceaux who have come to rule Arqana's high summer extravaganza in recent seasons. Once more the team was the leading vendor after day one, with 17 sold for a total of i6,795,000 and average of i399,706. The Monceaux tally accounted for a significant portion of the day's aggregate of i17,132,000, which was up 18% on the corresponding session last year. Cont. p2 BRILLIANT ROYAL ASCOTWINNING 2YO’S SUBSEQUENT GROUP 1WINNING 2YO’S BY CHAMPION 2YO SIRES BOTH WITH FIRST CROP YEARLINGS IN 2017 By SCAT DADDY Record-breaking winner of the G2 Norfolk Stakes • G1 Prix Morny winner on his next start By WAR FRONT 6-length winner of the G2 Coventry Stakes • G1 Dewhurst Stakes winner on his final 2YO start Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF. TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 26 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 20 AUGUST, 2017 It=s Galileo Day In Deauville cont. from p1 "We've gone back to the family," said Derek Brugman, agent for Mayfair Speculators. "Unfortunately Craven's Legend has The average rose even more dramatically, climbing 40% to had a tendon injury but he should be back in training with Andre i259,576, with the median also rising from i150,000 to Fabre soon and this filly's full-sister is with Aidan O'Brien and is a i180,000. With 66 of the 82 yearlings offered finding a buyer, later-maturing type. This filly will stay in France and go to Andre the clearance rate held steady at 80%. Fabre." The Mayfair Speculators' love affair with Arqana's August Sale It wasn't long before the Mayfair Speculators returned to that and the offspring of the Ecurie des Monceaux matriarch familiar source of Galileo and Ecurie des Monceaux, adding lot Prudenzia (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) continued on Saturday when Peter 65, a filly out of Secrete (Fr) (Cape Cross {Ire}), a half-sister to G1 Doyle went to i950,000 on Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud behalf of the South African winner Plumania (Fr) (Anabaa), conglomerate in partnership “What Galileo is doing this year we haven't seen for i700,000. Brugman with Coolmore for the mare's before. The mare has bred two Group 1 winners suggested it was mission latest filly by Galileo (Ire) (lot already. Let's hope he becomes the third.” accomplished for the team 51). Twelve months ago the when Doyle signed for the filly, same team bought the filly's who will be owned outright by full-sister, now named Magic Wand (Fr) and in training with Mayfair Speculators. Aidan O'Brien, for i1.4-million, while two years earlier they had "We thought she was one of the two best fillies at the sale, gone to i1.1-million for the dual winner Craven's Legend (Ire) and the other one was lot 51," he said. "She's a very good- (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). This is the sixth of Prudenzia's yearling to moving filly with lots of substance. We hope to be able to breed have graced the ring in August. Four have made seven-figure from these Galileos in the future and she's going to stay in sums while the 'cheapest' of the bunch--who was hardly a snip France and be trained by Nicolas Clement." at i600,000--is so far the best to date, her G1 Irish Oaks-winning daughter Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}). Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 26 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 20 AUGUST, 2017 Arqana August Yearlings cont. Among the many international buyers in Normandy were plenty of Japanese owners and their representatives, including Dr Hiroshi Fukuda, who bought another of the Monceaux draft, a Dubawi (Ire) daughter of the GI Beverly D S. winner Royal Highness (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) (lot 55), for i650,000 on behalf of Koji Maeda. The half-sister to dual Group 2 winner Free Port VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King Lux (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) will be exported to Japan and Twitter: @garykingTDN eventually join a select broodmare band being assembled by the [email protected] + 1.732.320.0975 owner-breeder for his stallion Kizuna (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), a Group 1 winner in his home country and winner of the G2 International Editor Kelsey Riley Qatar Prix Niel during his European foray of 2013. Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Making a first visit to Deauville was Kunimoto Tetsuhide, who [email protected] signed for lot 54, a Frankel (GB) filly out of the Group 2-winning European Editor sprinter Restiadargent (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) for i360,000, Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry shortly after he'd secured a first-crop son of four-time Group 1 [email protected] winner Kingman (GB) for i340,000. The colt (lot 44) is out of Associate International Editor the G2 Park Hill S. runner-up Phiz (Ger) (Galileo {Ire}), whose Heather Anderson listed-winning half-sister Penny Lane (Ger) (Lord Of England Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN {Ger}) had been in action at Deauville earlier in the day in the Marketing Manager G2 Shadwell Prix de la Nonette, in which she finished sixth. Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Bill Oppenheim Andrew Caulfield John Berry Kevin Blake Tom Peacock Charlie Gordon-Watson | Zuzanna Lupa The action had become non-stop with Frankel's lot 66 proving to be another star attraction, this time from the draft of Haras d'Etreham. The chestnut filly was bought for an undisclosed client by Charlie Gordon-Watson at a cost of i650,000. Her dam Sefroua (Kimgmambo) won the Listed Prix de Lieurey just across the road at the Deauville racecourse, and she is the grand-daughter of G1 Coronation S. winner Sophisticat (Storm Cat). "She's going to be trained by Andre Fabre," said Gordon- Watson. "He loved her and we loved her." Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 26 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 20 AUGUST, 2017 The following lot 67 was also from Etreham and is a member If you can combine the hottest second-season sire with a of the second crop of Declaration Of War. The filly is a half-sister similarly hot first-season sire on the page of one colt then the to the Aga Khan's Shareta (Ire) Sinndar {Ire}), who claimed the chances are that this perfect storm will reap rewards in the sales G1 Prix Vermeille and G1 Yorkshire Oaks. Nicolas de Watrigant's ring. Thus it proved for Eric L'hermite of Haras de Grandcamp, Mandore Agency took her for i500,000. "Declaration Of War who sold a Frankel (GB) half-brother to Dabirsim (Fr) (lot 57) for had a good 2-year-old winner here the other week in Olmedo i550,000.