DECORATED KNIGHT FRIDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY 2019 DECORATED KNIGHT Multiple Gr.1 winner, £1,326,618 in prize money, 8 wins and 5 places including: 1st Irish Champion Stakes, Leopardstown (Gr.1), beating Churchill (Gr.1), Poet’s Word (Gr.1), Zhukova (Gr.1), The Grey Gatsby (Gr.1) EBN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS | FLAHSBACK FRIDAY | BEST OF BRITISH | TBA STALLION PARADE TODAY’S HEADLINES SALES TATTERSALLS REPORT by CARL EVANS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com TRADE FALLS BACK TO EARTH After a memorable Tattersalls February Sale 12 months ago, it was back to chilly-winter fare when the company threw off its dust covers for the latest renewal of the event in Newmarket yesterday. The figures tumbled by alarming percentages, although there was no shortage of buyers, particularly those looking for a cheap horse for export. The difference lay in the upper reaches. Twelve months ago, this two-day event included a parade of gems, including the three-year-old Willie John who made 1,900,000gns during the second session to a bid from Newmarket Lot 67, All I Need (Peintre Celebre), topped the first day of trainer Roger Varian. The price was a European record for a colt in the Tattersalls February Sale when selling to Oakgrove Stud training. There was also the mare Thetis, the final piece in the for 55,000gns. © Tattersalls Ballymacoll Stud dispersal, and in this auction with her very 2019BACK IN HIGH-CLASS JUVENILE AND SPRINTER BY FEE KUROSHIO €6 EXCEED AND EXCEL ,000 22% Black-type horses to runners in 2018 from a limited first crop of 2yos inc: Dunkerron 2nd Gr.2 Qatar Vintage Stakes, 4th Gr.2 Arqana July Stakes Daphinia 2nd L Marygate Stakes Kurious 4th L “Bosra Sham” Fillies’ Stakes Plus winners Big Ace, Kapona, Moongazer & Special Stars Same number of black-type horses in Europe in 2018 as first seaon sires Bungle Inthejungle, Charm Spirit, etc., and a higher percentage of winners/runners in GB/IRE than Kingman, Australia, etc. Micheál Orlandi, Compas Stallions + 353 (0)83 809 2299 compasstallions.com Standing at Clongiffen Stud, Enfield, Co. Meath, Ireland STALLIONS CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY 2019 young Lope De Vega filly foal because the December Sale took place too close to her foaling date. She sold for 550,000gns on the opening day. Other specialities, rarely seen at a winter mixed sale, included four fillies who were on offer as part of the dismantling of Markus Jooste’s racing assets, and who put nearly 1.8m gns on to the first day’s takings. Deprived of such high-profile lots, yesterday’s turnover was certain to do a u-turn and did not let forecasters down. It fell 77 per cent to 925,700gns, the average price dropped 74 per cent to 7,121gns, while the median was cut in half to a figure of 2,750gns. Eighteen fewer horses were offered and, on a good note, the clearance rate held more or less steady, dipping one point to a Gr.1 figure of 75 per cent. Winner It can be assumed these forgettable figures had nothing to do with Brexit and everything to do with the ‘Law of Sod’, which puts so many prized assets into a catalogue one year and offers nothing 12 months later, but if the industry was hoping Europe’s ZELZAL biggest bloodstock sales company might provide an antidote to € 8.000 LF Backstop/Brexit gloom, it will have been disappointed. → THE FASTEST PRIX JEAN PRAT GR.1 Trading on day two of the sale commences at 10am this WINNER - EVER morning. → TRACK RECORD holder over the mile at Chantilly racecourse FAMILIAR FACE FOR OAKGROVE → From the Sea The Stars x Kingmambo x Sadler’s Wells cross The seven-year-old mare All I Need (Lot 67) was on the short list of horses noted by David Hilton, manager of John Deer’s Oakgrove Stud, and he duly netted her with a bid of 55,000gns. That was enough to head trade on the day, but was not the lowest top-price for a session at the February Sale, which stands THE FASTEST SONS at 47,000gns, given for a colt in the post-crash year of 2009. OF SEA THE STARS Yesterday’s high was a daughter of Peintre Celebre with a Pedro The Great cover and consigned by Voute Sales. All I Need was unraced, but, as a half-sister to the Gr.3 winner Aquamarine and the Listed-placed African Sky, and out of a mare from a black-type-producing family, she had plenty of paddock appeal. That appeal to Hilton lay partly in his knowledge of the mare Altesse Imperiale, a winning half-sister to All I Need’s dam, yet whose achievements, including the production of four winners, could not get on to the congested catalogue page. Hilton said: “We have Altesse Imperiale at home and she has bred four winners, three of them black-type horses, including Altruistic, who finished third in the [Gr.1] Racing Post Trophy [now Gr.1 Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes]. It is a very active family and she Winner suits us physically.” SNAZZY FILLY FOR FLANAGAN David Cox of Baroda Stud was another bidder to secure a well- bred filly, but his offer of 52,000gns for Snazzy (Lot 159) was M E K€ 5.000 H TA LF A L made on behalf of Mick Flanagan, well-known as a buyer for China Horse Club. → WINNER OF THE PRIX D’ISPAHAN GR.1, Cox said: “Mick rang me and asked me to bid for him and I believe defeating Gr.1 winners Robin Of Navan and Zarak the filly is for him [not China Horse Club]. I don’t know what his plan → IMPRESSIVE WINNER OF THE PRIX HOCQUART GR.2, is, but she’s shown a bit of form, is handy and moves well.” by 6 lengths The sole representative of Highclere Stud in the sale, Snazzy, a daughter of Kodiac and the Acclamation mare Tilthe End Of → A stunning & impeccably bred individual, free from the lines of Sadler’s Wells, Danehill, Kendor or Linamix Time, scored on debut as a two-year-old for Charlie Fellowes and was later Listed-placed. Her appeal to breeders extended beyond her own black-type achievement, for her third dam was the high- STANDING AT HARAS DE BOUQUETOT class racemare and excellent broodmare Cassandra Go. +33 (0)2 31 32 28 91 . [email protected] www.alshaqabracing.com Cox and his consigning partner David Myerscough had offered the mare Kalandara (Lot 69), a half-sister to stallion Kalanisi and 2 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY 2019 SIRE OF CHAMPIONS Led by Ribchester SIRE OF JUVENILES Wootton Bassett, Chriselliam, Rizeena, Jungle Cat... SIRE OFYEARLINGS They’ve made up to £551,000 David Cox, who bought Snazzy from Highclere Stud on behalf of Mick Flanagan. (Ce) – and £263,000 in 2018 with a Lope De Vega cover, but she failed to meet her reserve and SIRE OF SIRES was led out at 230,000gns. One lot before, the same consignors First stallion son sires Almanzor. had better luck with Art Of Dance (Lot 68), who made 50,000gns to a bid from Eamonn Reilly of BBA Ireland. Ribchester and Jungle Cat An 11-year-old daughter of Medicean with a desirable No Nay Never cover and a yearling filly by the same sire on the ground, stand on the Darley roster she was placed on the racecourse and was foaled by the Gr.2 (then) Sun Chariot Stakes winner Danceabout. The catalogue page showed she came from the Bloomsbury Stud’s Mrs Moss family. Reilly, who said he was acting for an Irish breeder, had bought Art Of Dance’s Bated Breath colt at Book 2 in 2017, and he said: “He is in training with Jessie Harrington and has run well so far, hopefully he will win a maiden as a three-year-old.” IFFRAAJ The proven stallion in profile Lot 159, Snazzy, was bought by David Cox, on behalf of Mick Flanagan, for 52,000gns. © Tattersalls £35,000 Oct 1, SLF BUICK BUYS A BEAUTY Zafonic – Pastorale (Nureyev) Ask most followers of British racing for a connection with the Stands at Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket sport in Scandinavia and they may name the Buick family. +44 (0)1638 730070 Ace Godolphin jockey William Buick was born in Norway, while +353 (0)45 527600 his father, Walter, was Scandinavia’s Champion Jockey on eight darleystallions.com Darley CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY 2019 Stakes horses including Gr.1 St James’s 15 Palace Stakes winner Barney Roy. Yearlings in 2018 sold for 220,000gns (Alex Elliott), €120,000 (Joe Foley) etc. Walter Buick signs for Unwanted Beauty from Ismail “The Excelebration I purchased for 220,000gns at Mohammed’s stable. (Ce) Book 1, was a lovely colt with great strength and quality. He is a stallion that I have been lucky with occasions. William may be soaking up the sun in Dubai at this having purchased Listed winner Tilly’s Chilli and also time of the year, but his father was in snow-spattered Newmarket, the smart two-year-old winner, Reloaded.” hunting for an in-training horse that could raise its game in the Alex Elliott land where he was once top of the pile.