WEDNESDAY, 11 AUGUST 2021 NO STARLET BUT BALDING JUVENILE STARS TARGET GROUP 1S MONCEAUX STILL AIMING Trainer Andrew Balding outlined some long term Group 1 goals for his juvenile stable stars, with Sandrine (GB) (Bobby=s FOR THE STARS Kitten), Berkshire Shadow (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}), and Majestic Glory (GB) (Frankel {GB}) all bound for Group 1 targets. The G2 Sky Bet Lowther S. at York on Aug. 19 is the next racecourse appearance for Kirsten Rausing=s homebred G3 Albany S. and G2 Duchess Of Cambridge S. heroine. All being well, the dark bay will then take part in the six-furlong G1 Juddmonte Cheveley Park S. at Newmarket on Sept. 25. Balding said of the three-for-three filly, ASandrine looks very good and I=ve been thrilled with her last two runs. She will probably run in the Lowther next then all eyes will be on the Cheveley Park. She will carry a penalty [at York] but we didn=t want to wait until Newmarket to run her again. She seems to be very versatile ground wise. She is a very smart filly and is an absolute pleasure to train.@ Cont. p5 Lot 52 at Arqana is the first Justify yearling set to sell in Europe IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Zuzanna Lupa FASIG-TIPTON SARATOGA SALE WRAPS ON TUESDAY By Emma Berry Tuesday marked the second and final day of selling for the Fasig- Tipton Saratoga Sale. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Since 2012, Ecurie des Monceaux has had a stranglehold of the America. top consignor spot at the Arqana August Yearling Sale. The only unusual thing about last year was the fact that the auction was not actually held in August, with Covid complications forcing it to be renamed the Select Sale and held in mid-September. Otherwise, it was business as usual for Henri Bozo and his team, who sold 32 yearlings for i10,682,000. Almost a quarter of that sum was given for the Dubawi (Ire) filly out of one of Monceaux's crown jewels, Starlet's Sister (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who sold for i2.5 million to lead the sale and is now in training with Roger Varian for HH Shaikh Nasser Al Khalifa and KHK Racing. This time around there may be no starlet, but hopefully plenty of stars, as Monceaux has shipped in 38 yearlings from its Normandy base less than an hour from Arqana's Deauville sales complex. "Everybody has asked me about Starlet's Sister's yearling but, obviously, for reasons that everybody can understand, we've decided to keep her," says Bozo, who, despite having arguably one of the most stressful jobs in French bloodstock as his biggest week of the year approaches, does an exceptionally convincing impression of someone without a worry in the world. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 11 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 11 AUGUST 2021 Ecurie des Monceaux Cont. from p1 He adds, "She's a really nice Dubawi filly, but it would be a huge professional error to sell this filly without having a sister to make sure the family is still in our hands, because all the fillies have been sold so far. They are all in the hands of Peter Brant, except the 2-year-old. We are really happy to keep this one." Perhaps we will see Starlet's Sister's current foal, a full-brother to last year's Arc winner Sottsass (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), at Arqana next August, but for now there are plenty of other youngsters worth perusing, including half-siblings to five Group/Grade 1 winners and the first yearling by Triple Crown winner Justify to be offered in Europe. In fact, as is to be expected at a select sale, the draft is replete with yearlings by some of the biggest stallion names in world breeding, including Galileo (Ire), Frankel (GB), Dubawi (Ire), Siyouni (Fr), Lope De Vega (Ire), Sea The Stars (Ire) and Medaglia d'Oro. That geographical spread also reflects the broad international client base of Ecurie des Monceaux, many of whom are in strategic partnerships which have flourished despite the fact that so many of us have been restricted to our own countries for much of the last 18 months. Henri Bozo with Anne-Charlotte Andre, Angus Gold (far left) and Ed Sackville (right) | Ecurie des Monceaux Bozo says, "For the moment, it feels like we are back to normal, and I think that everybody is happy to get back to normal. Fortunately, our business has been pretty much the same. I mean, the only thing is that we have been travelling less so there has been less linking up with people. But from the technical point of view it has been exactly the same, and maybe even better because we have all been on the farm more and focusing on new projects or trying to improve things. But we meet fewer people, and I think everybody is quite impatient to travel a bit and meet people again." Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 11 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 11 AUGUST 2021 Ecurie des Monceaux Cont. He continues, "I think it's a very positive aspect. It means that we are bringing more people in, and that can be people already in the business or people discovering the business. And I think, for everyone, it gives confidence to join with breeders and to be in partnership with others, to invest in a mare or to invest in yearlings, or to join the game. We now have a wide range of Senior Vice President Gary King partners from America, China, Australia, England, Germany, Twitter: @garykingTDN Greece, and from France too. And I must say that it's very [email protected] challenging. There is great input of ideas at the meetings, for the + 1.732.320.0975 decisions, for everything, and I really enjoy it. It takes more time, of course, but it's interesting. And I think it's something International Editor that many French breeders share now." Kelsey Riley Sottsass and his half-sibling Sistercharlie (Ire) (Myboycharlie Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN {Ire}) hog the top of the leader board on the Monceaux hall of [email protected] fame with 11 Group/Grade 1 wins between them, but they are European Editor just two of nine top-flight winners to have emanated from the Emma Berry farm over the last decade. Another of those is the Prix Jean-Luc Twitter: @collingsberry Lagardere winner National Defense (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Fr}), [email protected] the young Irish National Stud stallion who notched his first stakes winner at Deauville over the weekend with Twilight Associate International Editor Gleaming (Ire). National Defense's half-sister by Siyouni is set to Heather Anderson sell on Sunday as lot 133, and the family has received an extra Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN boost this season as the filly shares her second dam Anna Palariva (Ire) (Caerleon) with the Derby and King George winner Marketing Manager Adayar (Ire) (Frankel {GB}). Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen The aforementioned Justify filly, who appears during Saturday [email protected] evening's opening session as lot 52, is the second foal of Media Mischief, an Into Mischief half-sister to Juddmonte's G1 Prix de Contributing Editors Diane winner Nebraska Tornado (Storm Cat). In keeping with the Alan Carasso heightened online information now provided by consignors in Christina Bossinakis the wake of the pandemic, Monceaux has produced its own mini-catalogue which is available on its website and comes Cafe Racing compete with handy annotated updates. Cont. p4 Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY KENT JNR ON THE FRONT FOOT AT SARATOGA Co-trainer Michael Kent Jnr of Mick Price Racing has secured a War Front colt from the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Click or tap G3 Prix de Lutece heroine Paix=s Kodiac (GB) half-sister is lot 70 here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. Scoop Dyga TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 11 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 11 AUGUST 2021 2019 August Sale at i1,625,000 having finished runner-up in the G1 Prix de Diane and Chicquita's daughter Nicest (Ire) (American Pharaoh) taking third in the G1 Irish Oaks. Promoting Youth When Antoine Bellanger, Ecurie des Monceaux's yearling manager of 10 years, left to set up his own consigning business Arcadia Elevage, into his shoes last year stepped the youthful Jordan Tancrede. "Jordan has been with us for nine years," says Bozo. "He was a really young kid when he arrived and he looked like he was 10 years old. He arrived here one day with his parents and he told me, 'I love animals. I love horses, I love rabbits, I love any animal.' He had a really kind face and he learned to work here with our team. We soon found that he was not only a great horseman but also very good with people, very kind and gentle." Monceaux=s yearling manager Jordan Tancrede | Ecurie des Monceaux Bozo arranged work for his protJgJ at studs in Australia, Ecurie des Monceaux Cont. America and England to give him a better understanding of In the case of this filly, potential buyers can instantly see that different regional practices within the industry. the mare's first foal is in training with Wesley Ward and her He adds, "Then, he came back, and when Antoine started his current foal is a colt by Siyouni. own venture we decided to give a chance to Jordan, who has Monceaux also consigns the sole yearling by another grown up a lot and now looks like he's 12 and a half.