WEDNESDAY, 3 OCTOBER 2018 including current 3-year-old Hence (Ire), who has been highly PHOENIX SPRINGS FOR tried this season with 15 starts and was recently third in the G3 Snow Fairy Fillies' S. GALILEO FILLY The top lot was one of five yearlings added to the Phoenix Thoroughbreds roster on Tuesday for a total of i2,790,000. The quintet included a full-brother to G3 Hackwood S. winner and young stallion Heeraat (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) (lot 125), a bold i340,000 foal pinhook by the High Valley Equine syndicate who sold for i360,000 through Anna Sundstrom's Coulonces Sales on his second visit to the Goffs ring. Sell, Sleep, Repeat "Now we need to do it all again tomorrow," said Henry Beeby as he delivered the day's statistics to the press room at the end of an extremely lively opening session, but he could be forgiven if he drove home with a hint of a contented smile on his face. Cont. p2 The session-topping full-sister to Alice Springs | Sarah Farnsworth by Emma Berry IN TDN AMERICA TODAY KILL, IrelandCIt was always likely to be a head-to-head contest KEENELAND CATALOGUES 4,509 HORSES FOR NOVEMBER between two extremely well-related Galileo (Ire) fillies to take The Keeneland November Sale, which has catalogued 4,509 top billing at Goffs and the first to take to the stage, the sister to horses, will run from Nov. 5-16. Click or tap here to go straight Coolmore's treble Group 1 winner Alice Springs (Ire), duly holds to TDN America. that honourCfor nowCas the dust settles on a buoyant first day of trade at the Orby Sale. A bid of i2 million from Phoenix Thoroughbreds' principal Amer Abdulaziz was what it took to ensure that the chestnut daughter of Aleagueoftheirown (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) (lot 165) would one day be part of the team's broodmare band, which is currently under construction. First, though, the racecourse beckons and Abdulaziz, at the Orby Sale for the first time, had to outbid MV Magnier and Laurent Benoit to ensure that the filly will race in the silks which have been carried to Group 1 glory this season by Advertise (GB) (Showcasing {GB}). He said, "The mare has already produced a Group 1 winner and this is the kind of filly we need to be buying. As well as being so well bred she was very athletic, a good walker, and we liked her right from the start. We'll get her home and let her be a horse again before deciding on who will train her." Bred by Lynch-Bages and Longfield Stud and consigned through Glenvale Stud, the filly's dam has been mated consistently with Coolmore's champion sire and, along with Alice Springs, four more of her offspring have earned black-type, TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 3 OCTOBER 2018 Amer Abdulaziz of Phoenix Thoroughbreds | Sarah Farnsworth Goffs Orby Day 1 Cont. from p1 The Goffs Managing Director had noted the increased range of international buyers in position on Monday along with his company's decision to focus on quality and keep a tight hold on numbers at the Orby Sale. Both factors contributed to an impressive set of first-day figures. Most important was the clearance rate of 88% for 167 yearlings sold of the 190 offered. This led to a 14% increase in aggregate to i24,085,000, with the average improving by 33% to i144,222 and the median by 27% to i85,000. Backing up the day's millionairess were 77 yearlings who sold for six-figure King For A Day sums. The profile of Juddmonte's Kingman (GB) among this year's first-season sires has risen swiftly in recent weeks and his son out of Mountarmstrong Stud's Alexander Queen (Ire) (King's Best) did not go unnoticed as he followed the session's top lot into the ring as lot 166 to become the most expensive colt of the day at i850,000. David Redvers bought the half-brother to listed winner Alkasser (Ire) (Shamardal) on behalf of Qatar Racing, part-owner GOFFS ORBY SALE DAY 1 of Kingman's recent winner Sparkle Roll (Fr), the half-sister to SESSION TOTALS 2018 2017 last year's Derby winner Wings Of Eagles (Fr) (Pour Moi {Ire}). $ Catalogued 211 245 "The sire has made a good start and we have a very nice filly $ Number Offered 190 228 by him as well as a couple of others that we like," Redvers said. $ Number Sold 167 195 $ Not Sold 23 33 "We are delighted as in our opinion this was the nicest colt in $ Clearance Rate 88% 85% the sale." $ No. i500K+ 7 2 The colt's dam, a juvenile winner herself, is a half-sister to $ High Price i2,000,000 i1,200,000 Dandy Man (Ire) (Mozart {Ire}) and to G2 Queen Mary S. winner $ Gross i24,085,000 i21,145,000 $ Average (% change) i144,222 (+33%) i108,436 Anthem Alexander (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), all of whom $ Median (% change) i85,000 (+26%) i67,000 were bred at Mountarmstrong by Noel O'Callaghan. Earlier in the session, Redvers also signed for lot 35, Croom House Stud's filly by Iffraaj (GB) out of the G3 Prix Miesque runner-up Pussycat Lips (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), a Goffs Orby Sale Day 2 Outs: 230, 239, 248, 250, 254, 270, 271, half-sister to the dual winner and Group 3-placed Special 272, 276, 308, 344, 346, 357, 361, 374, 382, 385, 406 Purpose (Ire) (Scat Daddy), at i110,000. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 3 OCTOBER 2018 Vice President, International Operations Gary King Twitter: @garykingTDN [email protected] David Redvers | Sarah Farnsworth + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Player's Pleased With Tasleet's Sister Kelsey Riley An outlay of i220,000 for a foal is not for the fainthearted Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN when the aim is to resell at a profit less than a year later. Mick [email protected] Flanagan's purchase of a Whitsbury Manor Stud-bred filly by one of the most in-demand stallions around in Showcasing (GB), European Editor Emma Berry whose full-brother is a multiple group-winning sprinter, may Twitter: @collingsberry have looked bold but the agent, with his partners David Cox and [email protected] David Myerscough, was rewarded when Mark Player went to i850,000 to buy the Baroda & Colbinstown Studs-consigned Associate International Editor sister to Shadwell's Tasleet (GB) (lot 203). Heather Anderson Kerri Radcliffe, David Redvers and Laurent Benoit were among Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN those in pursuit of the filly who also has another top sprinter, Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), under her second dam, but Marketing Manager Player, acting on behalf of an unnamed "international client" Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen prevailed. He said, "We know that Showcasing works well in [email protected] both hemispheres and this filly's full-brother is a terrific horse who will be retiring to Nunnery Stud next year. She looks like Contributing Editor she could be quite an early type and there's such a good Alan Carasso programme for sprinters here now. She's a horse who will be a Twitter: @EquinealTDN lovely addition to a broodmare band in time." Cont. p4 Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Andrew Caulfield John Berry Kevin Blake Tom Peacock Mark Player signing for lot 203 | Sarah Farnsworth 2018 Leading European Sires (By Earnings in Europe & North America) Rank Stallion Sire G1W’s Earnings € 1 Galileo Sadler’s Wells 5 8,248,928 2 Dubawi Dubai Millennium 5 6,127,646 3 Mastercraftsman Danehill Dancer 2 4,681,366 4 Frankel Galileo 3 4,655,300 2018 Leading European Sires of 2YO’s (By Stakes winners in Europe & North America) Rank Stallion Sire SW’s Earnings € 1 Galileo Sadler’s Wells 6 902,625 2 Zoffany Dansili 5 544,508 3 * No Nay Never Scat Daddy 4 1,019,929 * Denotes first crop sire 2018 Leading European Sires of 3YO’s (By Earnings in Europe & North America) Rank Stallion Sire SW’s Earnings € 1 Galileo Sadler’s Wells 16 4,979,958 2 Camelot Montjeu 7 3,253,814 3 Mastercraftsman Danehill Dancer 6 2,984,120 4 Dubawi Dubai Millennium 13 2,699,995 5 Frankel Galileo 9 2,610,330 6 New Approach Galileo 3 2,115,408 Source: TheTDN.com, 02/10/18 Enough said! 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 or Cathal Murphy Tel: 353-25 31966. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.coolmore.com TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 3 OCTOBER 2018 No Flash In The Pan Flash Conroy selected the second foal of the 3-year-old winner Kingman wasn't the only freshman sire to get his name on the Starlet (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) for i52,000 at the November day's leader board. No Nay Never, who currently leads the first Sale from breeder Springbank Way Stud. Her deeper family is season sires' table and notched his first Group 1 winner at the one well known to Coolmore as the filly's third dam Kasora (Ire) weekend following the victory of Ten Sovereigns in the (Darshaan {GB}) has provided them not only with dual Derby Juddmonte Middle Park S., provided an early session topper winner High Chaparral (Ire) (Sadler's Wells) but also his brother, when another filly from the Glenvale Stud draft (lot 100) the G2 Dante S.