For More Information T: +44 (0)1638 666512; F:+44 (0)1638 666516; E: [email protected] SPONSORED BY European Juddmonte Bloodstock FARMS “Produced by Europeans for a News WORLDWIDE READERSHIP” THURSDAY, 30TH AUGUST 2007 – SEVENTEEN PAGES DONCASTER BLOODSTOCK SALES TALK RAHY IN THE GROOVE SALES FOR GROVE TALK Rio De La Plata’s growing reputation as a juvenile who CARL EVANS could go to the top was influential at day two of by Doncaster’s St Leger Sale. His sire, Rahy, was responsible for the day’s top lot, a Ballyglasane Stud team who bought the yearling at 175,000gns yearling (Lot 205) now in the same Keeneland last year for $70,000 and subsequently sent ownership as Rio De La Plata having been bought by him to Brendan Holland’s Grove Stud at Fermoy. Dick O’Gorman, acting on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed. Holland said of the colt, who was produced by the O’Gorman, who saw off underbidder Dermot unraced Silver Hawk mare Helwa: “He was a real Farrington said: “He’s a lovely horse with a good outlook, good model, and a similar type to Rio De La Plata, with and, of course, we’ve got a top two-year-old by the sire.” good balance and attitude.” Rio De La Plata’s impressive win in the Gr.2 Veuve Based on 75 acres, Grove Stud specialises in Clicquot Vintage Stakes was no bad thing for the pinhooking yearlings and breeze-up horses, and is in the Today’s Italian Racing and Today’s New Zealand Racing and Bloodstock News is on page 7 Bloodstock News is on page 9 DONCASTER ST LEGER YEARLING SALE DAY TWO – TOP LOTS Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Buyer Price (gns) 205 c RAHY – Helwa Grove Stud Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock 175,000 177 c ACCLAMATION – Global Trend Raven House Stables Shadwell Estates 130,000 325 f INVINCIBLE SPIRIT – Oatey Jamie Railton Blandford Bloodstock 130,000 335 c KYLLACHY – Palacegate Episode Oak Grove Stud E Lynam 130,000 192 c FAYRUZ – Grandel Rathmore Stud J Gosden 120,000 276 c DANSILI – Maraami John Osborne J McCalmont 115,000 302 c DANETIME – Muckross Park Tally-Ho Stud Stephen Hillen Bloodstock 115,000 209 f EXCEED AND EXCEL – Ikan Ballydrehid House B Smart 110,000 184 c JOHANNESBURG – Golden Flyer Plantation Stud P Chapple-Hyam 100,000 BBAG Group Success PERSIAN STORM lands his second Group success of 2007 in the Group 3 Furstenberg-Rennen at Baden Baden yesterday. BADEN BADENER AUKTIONSGESELLSCHAFT E.V. A 2005 September yearling sale graduate BADEN BADEN SALES COMPANY AN DER RENNBAHN 18 D – 76473 IFFEZHEIM TEL +49(0)7229-1400 Yearling Sales FAX +49(0)7229-308512 31st August - 1st September 2007 www.bbag-sales.de 1 w 8 e 00 N 2 Brilliant 2yo by DANSILI. r Out of a stakes-winning full-sister Very impressive in o G2 July Stakes... f to Champion filly RAMRUMA. 1st Vintage Stakes-Gr.2 cquickened up to , 7f., Goodwood 1st lead in the final July Stakes-Gr.2, 6f., Newmarket 100 yards 1st Maiden, 5f., Salisbury and pulled 3rd Dewhurst Stakes-Gr.1, 7f., behind clear Teofilo & Holy Roman Emperor d RACING POST, 14 July 2006 STRATEGIC PRINCE HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR TEOFILO Close-up third in G1 Dewh urst Sta cStrategi kes... th c Prince tra an most th velled bett fear rough the r er s over the g ace despite battled round for h on well for im. He contain t third but c he big two.d ould not RACI NG POST 14 Oct , Concedes 3lbs all round ober 2006 in G2 Vintage Stakes... cMost significant of the two-year-old races at Goodwood was probably the Group 2 Vintage Stakes over seven furlongs on Wednesday, when the Paul Cole-trained July Stakes winner Strategic Prince confirmed his talent when holding off the challenge of the big and promisingAidan O’Brien-trained Danehill colt Duke of Marmalade. The winner is one more smart-looking colt by Dansili and the way he accelerated at Newmarket to grab the July Stakes has already hinted that he could be something special.d James Underwood’s EUROPEAN RACING & BREEDING DIGEST, Aug 8, 2006 Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-31298. Fax: 353-52-31382. Maurice Moloney or Mathieu Alex. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, or Joe Hernon STALLIONS• AD VALOREM • ANTONIUS PIUS • E-mail:AUSSIE [email protected] RULES • CATCHER IN THE RYE • CHOISIR • DANEHILL: 353-25-31966/31689. DANCER • ENCOSTA DE LAGO • FASLIYEV• • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • GALILEO • HAWK WING • HIGH CHAPARRAL • HOLYWeb ROMANsite: www.coolmore.com EMPEROR • HURRICANE RUN • IVAN DENISOVICH • MONTJEU • • NIGHT SHIFT • ONE COOL CAT • ORATORIO • PEINTRE CELEBRE • SADLER’S WELLS • SPARTACUS • STATUE OF LIBERTY • STRATEGIC PRINCE • All Coolmore Stallions nominated to the European Breeder’s Fund. EBN Thursday, 30th August 2007 – T: +44 (0)1638 666512; F:+44 (0)1638Tatts.IRE.sept.yearlings.2007 666516; E: [email protected];W:www.bloodstock-news.com 29/8/07 10:43 Page 1 process of clearing 60 yearlings this season. Reflecting on this week’s sale, Holland said: “Trade has changed. This sale was unique because it always had great depth – the top end has got even better, but it’s not so strong at the bottom. There doesn’t seem to be the Europeans buying bottom-end horses, perhaps because of the strength of sterling. Tattersalls Ireland “But it’s still one of the most consistent sales and its two-year-old track record is the best.” It also achieves a very good clearance rate – 164 horses went through the ring yesterday, and only ten SEPTEMBER were friendless, meaning 94% found new homes for an aggregate of 5,842,100gns. The average of 36,930gns and median of 30,000gns were also healthy, and YEARLING despite slight changes to the format it seems likely the overall sale will show a slight improvement on last year. The sale ends today, when the first lot goes through the SALE ring at 11am. & NEW SIRES SHOWCASE FAYRUZ FIRES FOR PINHOOKERS 4 – 6 September 2007 A pinhooking punt to be proud of saw the team of Peter Molony and David Redvers turn a profit on a son of Fayruz (Lot 192). They had been attracted to the youngster last year Proven because he was a half-brother to another of their past purchases, multiple winner Tax Free, successful in the Gr.3 Palace House Stakes and recently third in the Gr.3 King Sires inc: George Stakes at Goodwood for trainer Dandy Nicholls. Having paid E78,000 for the Fayruz they consigned PIVOTAL, INVINCIBLE SPIRIT, him yesterday through Molony’s Rathmore Stud and GALILEO, ACCLAMATION, saw him make 120,000gns to a bid from John Gosden, who headed Nicholls on the line. BARATHEA, DANSILI, Fayruz, a 24-year-old who stood for E3,500 this year at the McEnery family’s Rossenarra Stud in County MONSUN, MONTJEU etc Kilkenny, sired the youngster after a mating with Grandel (Owington), who was unraced. Gosden’s fellow Newmarket trainer, Peter Chapple- New Hyam, was another investor at the higher end, paying 100,000gns for a Johannesburg colt (Lot 184) consigned by Dermot O’Rourke’s Plantation Stud. This Sires inc: one was foaled by the unraced mare Golden Flyer REFUSE TO BEND, (Machiavellian), whose dam Shir Dar was a Stakes winner in Europe and America. ONE COOL CAT, KHELEYF, CAN DO FOR IKAN AND IKTIDAR HAAFHD, INDIAN HAVEN, Alphabetical listing of horses under their dam’s names FALBRAV, ELUSIVE CITY etc tends to give vendors gaps between their journeys to the ring, but not when a breeder offers foals from a mare and her similarly-named daughter. Hence Martin Francis of Ballydrehid House in Tipperary 12 stakes winners endured “the most nerve-wracking five minutes of my life” when selling yearlings out of Ikan (Lot 209) and her in 2007 inc: dam Iktidar (Lot 210). Stressful it may have been, but lucrative too, as Ikan’s filly by Exceed And Excel CREACHADOIR, DIMENTICATA, realised 110,000gns to a bid from Dick O’Gorman, and VALBENNY etc., Iktidar’s daughter of Refuse To Bend achieved 95,000gns when bought by trainer Bryan Smart. All yearlings eligible for the Iktidar has been a wonderfully profitable mare, responsible for Qadar (Xaar), who topped this sale at 300,000 Tattersalls Ireland 250,000gns in 2003, but also Hazelhurst (110,000gns Sales Stakes 2008 in 2004), Follow The Flag (75,000gns in 2005) and Sir Ike (95,000gns last year). Ratoath, Co. Meath Tel: +353 1 8864300 Francis, who keeps just four mares, said: “Iktidar was [email protected] www.tattersalls.ie bred by Sheikh Hamdan, who sold her to me for not a 2 EBN Thursday, 30th August 2007 – T: +44 (0)1638 666512; F:+44 (0)1638 666516; E: [email protected];W:www.bloodstock-news.com Blaskey’s first attempt at pinhooking saw her and a friend buy and sell Goggles (Eagle Eyed), who was trained by Henry Candy to win the valuable St Leger Yearling Stakes in 2000 when the runner-up was no less a horse than Reel Buddy. Subsequently Blaskey realised that one way of getting her feed into the racing industry was to get involved with a corner of it, so opted for pinhooking. She added: “We use a horse walker and walk them in hand, but prefer to leave the yearlings out as long as possible. These two were still in a field together on Friday. They are happy that way and exercise themselves, and they eat a natural diet that includes Blue Chip feed, so they get a steady growth rate and no problem with bones.