WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2019 LESS DRAMA, BUT A ENABLE TO REMAIN IN TRAINING, 2020 ARC GOAL STRONGER SCRIPT Prince Khalid Abdullah=s dual G1 Qatar Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe heroine Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), who finished runner-up in the Oct. 6 Arc when last seen, will remain in training in 2020, Juddmonte announced via Twitter. Coming out of the Arc in good order, the 5-year-old has made her last start of the season, after a potential appearance in the Breeders= Cup was mooted. She enters winter quarters the winner of 13 of her 15 starts for trainer John Gosden and connections are eyeing another start in the ParisLongchamp showpiece in 2020. APrince Khalid has decided to keep Enable in training for 2020,@ Abdullah's racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe said. "She has come out of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in good form and will not race again this year. Her racing programme will be determined entirely on her well being, so no racing plans will be announced at this stage. The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe remains Co-topper lot 817 is a filly by Night of Thunder | Tattersalls an important target." Cont. p11 By Chris McGrath IN TDN AMERICA TODAY NEWMARKET, UK--Anyone who has hiked in the mountains OMAHA BEACH TO STAY IN TRAINING POST BC knows that what really counts is not the altitude of the Omaha Beach (War Front) will remain in training after the Breeders’ occasional summit, but the aggregate climb. And that certainly Cup. Bill Finley has the info. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN proved the case in the second session of Book 2 at the America. Tattersalls October Yearling Sale: while it could not match the dramatic twin peaks of the previous day, when the sale record was broken twice over, the market actually proved stronger throughout. The tone was set by the very first animal into the ring, who was valued at less than half either of the record-breakers. At 425,000gns, even so, she made a sum that beat anything else achieved the previous day-and would only be matched once during a day of very solid trade. In the opening session, despite those two spectacular sales, the median had been unchanged on last year at 55,000gns. Yesterday, it advanced by 13% from 57,500gns to 65,000gns. The average moved forward 6%, too, from 78,592gns to 83,239gns. Overall, a very similar volume of traffic (240 offered, compared with 247) saw session turnover creep up 3% to 17,230,500gns from 16,661,500gns-with the clearance rate holding firm at a very healthy 86%. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 16 OCTOBER 2019 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 2 DAY 2 SESSION TOTALS 2019 2018 $ Catalogued 263 268 $ Number Offered 240 247 $ Number Sold 207 212 $ Not Sold 33 35 $ Clearance Rate 86% 86% $ No. 200Kgns+ 12 18 $ High Price 425,000gns 450,000gns $ Gross 17,230,500gns 16,661,500gns $ Average (% change) 83,239gns (+6%) 78,592gns $ Median (% change) 65,000 (+13%) 57,500gns CUMULATIVE 2019 2018 $ Catalogued 528 536 $ Number Offered 489 499 $ Number Sold 412 427 $ Not Sold 77 72 $ Clearance Rate 84% 85% $ No. 200Kgns+ 22 32 $ High Price 1,050,000gns 750,000gns $ Gross 33,295,000gns 32,962,500gns $ Average (% change) 80,813gns (+4%) 77,195gns In the event, he had to make do with an opening salvo of $ Median (% change) 60,000gns (+9%) 55,000gns 100,000gns, but bidding quickly spiralled for a Night Of Thunder Longview Filly Lands Running filly consigned by Longview Stud. Once again, with Sheikh Regardless of how things then settled down, there was Hamdan back on the grounds and clearly not sated, Shadwell certainly a pretty slick transfer of the baton after those giddy appeared to be driving the early pace. In the end, however, it proceedings the previous evening. Alastair Pim--who had then was Charlie Gordon-Watson who landed lot 817 at 425,000gns. presided over the first seven-figure sale in Book 2 history, a Dark That represented a terrific profit on the i77,000 she had cost Angel (Ire) filly sold to Sheikh Hamdan--took the rostrum as the Brysheil Stud at Goffs last November as the first foal of a first lot entered the ring and promptly requested 300,000gns for winning sister to G2 Prix Eugene Adam winner Harland (GB) her. (Halling). The pair also have an accomplished half-sister in dual Group 1 runner-up Musis Amica (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}), extending the prolific family under this filly's Kentucky Oaks-winning third dam White Star Line. "It's for a new project," Gordon-Watson said coyly, adding only that it was U.K.-based. "She's a very nice type, with a good back pedigree, and the sire's doing very well so it's all there." The consignors were following up some good work in Book 1 last week, where they banked 1,975,000gns for two sales, and they realised another good price for lot 866, a Kingman (GB) half-sister to Group 3 winner Chilean (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}) who made 200,000gns from Mick Murphy. A bold enough pinhook, on the face of it, but Murphy turned a great profit (i125,000 at Goffs to i650,000 at Arqana) when raising the stakes to breeze Charlie Gordon-Watson | Tattersalls another Kingman filly this spring. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 16 OCTOBER 2019 Holland Rolls the Dice Brendan Holland made a still more nerveless punt than Murphy when giving 310,000gns for another member of James Hanly's remarkable Ballyhimikin Stud consignment, which had produced the record-breaking filly the previous day. Well, hardly "nerveless"--a glass and a smoke were Vice President, International Operations conveniently at hand after Holland signed the docket for a Gary King Kodiac (GB) colt out of a Pivotal (GB) sister to the stakes-placed Twitter: @garykingTDN La Conquistadora (GB), offered as lot 1041. Nobody needed to [email protected] tell 'Blarney' how giddily he had raised the stakes, outbidding + 1.732.320.0975 Shadwell and William Haggas with a view to bringing the colt back to the Craven Sale next spring. But if anyone can pull it off, International Editor it's the Grove Stud maestro. Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN "I know it's an enormous amount of money," Holland said. [email protected] "But it makes sense to me. Well it does at the moment, anyway. I hope it still does in the morning. I've spent more on a yearling European Editor before, two years ago, and I still own her. I keep telling myself Emma Berry she's got residual value, but this is a colt so fingers crossed he Twitter: @collingsberry can run. [email protected] "Look we've had a great run on the track recently and sold a lot of nice horses. People expect us to line up nice horses, so Associate International Editor Heather Anderson that's what I want to do: year in, year out, we've tried to get Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN better horses. And he's a great, great physical, he vetted great, and has the mind too. He was my pick of the three days, and the Marketing Manager mare's thrown two winners by lesser sires than Kodiac. If a Alayna Cullen horse like that wins a maiden on a Saturday, believe me, Twitter: @AlaynaCullen 310,000gns won't buy him. I love him, he's as good a physical as [email protected] you'll see, never mind just by Kodiac. And I love James as a breeder." Contributing Editor He's not alone there, with Ballyhimikin now showing an Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN aggregate of 1,750,000gns for five Book 2 sales. It was only last week, incidentally, that this colt's juvenile half-brother High Cafe Racing Accolade (Ire) (Outstrip {GB}) had boosted his page with a debut Sean Cronin success at Newcastle. Cont. p4 Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | Andrew Caulfield John Berry | Kevin Blake IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY THE LEGACY OF MORE THAN READY DOWN UNDER John Boyce examines the legacy of successful shuttle stallion More Than Ready (Southern Halo). Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. Brendan Holland | Tattersalls TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 16 OCTOBER 2019 No Stealing Thunder's Brother diverse interests on and off the track but was making its only It took nearly four hours for the day's opening price to be Book 2 offering here. "We've always loved him, and due to his matched, the Hong Kong Jockey brother there's been a lot of Club giving 425,000gns for lot interest, but we'd have been 910, a full-brother to Flying very happy with anything above Thunder (HK) (Archipenko)-- 300,000gns," admitted manager originally known, in this part of Stuart Millar. the world, as Archie McKellar The colt was bred by stud boss (GB) and now a rising star in Gary Robinson from a winning their jurisdiction. Green Desert mare who has Their ill-fated sire is already hitherto been trading in rather esteemed over there for dual lower numbers. She is in foal to Group 1 winner Time Warp (GB), Al Kazeem (GB). and this member of his final crop It's already a conspicuously now ranks as the most expensive international page, whatever yearling he ever sired.