THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 2019 FRANKEL COLT TURNS TO TONY WILLIAMS APPOINTED AQUIS STUD FARM CEO GOLD AT TATTERSALLS Tony Williams has been appointed as the CEO of Aquis Stud Farm as of Jan. 1, 2020, after Aquis=s Board of Directors decided to separate the stud farm operations across three Australian states from Aquis=s Australian and international racing businesses. Previously the Managing Director of Goffs UK since late in 2016, Williams brings over 40 years of experience to the role. He also spent time working with Magic Millions and Newgate Farm, as well as an agent for the Hong Kong Jockey Club. AI=m extremely honoured to be joining the Aquis Farm team,@ said Williams. ATheir foresight and ingenuity at becoming a market leader is second to none, and I can=t wait to ensure the vision of the Fung family comes to fruition. Having been in the UK for the past few years, I=d like to thank Goffs for the opportunities presented to me, while I am looking forward to heading back to Australia and being located in Queensland.@ Cont. p14 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Lot 288, Wednesday=s session-topping Frankel colt | Tattersalls LAFFINA THE LATEST SUCCESS FOR BLACKRIDGE Bill Finley speaks with Bill Daugherty of BlackRidge Partners By Emma Berry and Kelsey Riley regarding Grade I producer Laffina (Arch), who will sell at the Fasig- NEWMARKET, UKCA Frankel (GB) half-brother to Derby and Tipton November Sale. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Arc hero Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) provided the star America. turn during the second session of Tattersalls October Book 1 when selling for 3.1 million gns. The colt (lot 288) will race for the man who now stands his illustrious sibling at Dalham Hall Stud, with Sheikh Mohammed once again coming out on top after a ringside tussle with MV Magnier. The colt becomes the second-highest priced yearling colt in the world thus far in 2019, bettered only by Tuesday=s session-topping 3.6-million gns Dubawi (Ire) colt. While day one was all about Dubawi on the sire front, the spoils were better spread around during the second session, with Frankel, Kingman (GB), Siyouni (Fr) and Galileo (Ire) each responsible for a millionaire. Set against an exceptionally strong second session at Book 1 last year, Wednesday=s trade could not reach that previous high bar. But the average was still 242,106gns (-23%) and the median 150,000gns (-21%), figures which would be the envy of most other sales companies. The most significant adjustment came in the clearance rate, which in 2018 reached 91% but this time dropped to 84% following the sale of 132 yearlings for a total of 31,958,000gns (-22%). Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 14 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 10 OCTOBER 2019 TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE BOOK 1 DAY 2 SESSION TOTALS 2019 2018 $ Catalogued 184 173 $ Number Offered 157 142 $ Number Sold 132 129 $ Not Sold 25 13 $ Clearance Rate 84% 91% $ No. 500Kgns+ 12 27 $ High Price 3,100,000gns 3,500,000gns $ Gross 31,958,000gns 40,944,000gns $ Average (% change) 242,106gns (-23%) 317,395gns $ Median (% change) 150,000gns (-21%) 190,000gns CUMULATIVE 2019 2018 $ Catalogued 368 346 $ Number Offered 321 299 $ Number Sold 268 262 $ Not Sold 53 37 $ Clearance Rate 83% 88% $ No. 500Kgns+ 29 47 $ High Price 3,600,000gns 3,500,000gns $ Gross 67,366,000gns 76,449,000gns $ Average (% change) 251,366 (-14%) 291,790gns $ Median (% change) 160,000gns (-11%) 180,000gns Tattersalls October Book 1 Cont. from p1 Lot 288's dam Fleche d=Or (GB) (Dubai Destination) has provided many high days for her breeder Anthony Oppenheimer, especially through Golden Horn, who also won the G1 Eclipse S. and G1 Irish Champion S. in a brilliant 3-year-old season before being sold to Darley. But the mare herself had been considered surplus to requirements at Hascombe & Valiant Studs when her future star was just a foal and she was sold at the December Sale for 62,000gns to a three-strong partnership which includes Harry McCalmont whose Norelands Stud consigned the colt. While Oppenheimer looked on from the stairs, it proved to be a red-letter day for McCalmont and Norelands, who had already breached the seven-figure barrier when selling a Siyouni colt during the morning for 1.3 million gns to Coolmore on behalf of his longstanding client Bob Scarborough. He said, AI normally don=t have a problem talking but we=ve never sold anything quite like this before. The previous highest price for us came only a few hours ago. We knew they were a couple of lovely colts coming here but you put them into the ring and ask people to value them.@ Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 10 OCTOBER 2019 Tattersalls October Book 1 Cont. ring to be congratulated by a huddle of well-wishers. He added, AWe knew some serious people were interested in AThis was the only colt we had to sell this year,@ said Nicholas him but in the cold light of day it can be a lonely place. Jones, who enjoyed success in his own colours last season with a Thankfully today we weren=t lonely.@ member of this family when Give And Take (GB) (Cityscape McCalmont added that Fleche d=Or has a weanling full-sister to {GB}), out of another sister to Fame And Glory, won the G3 the colt back at Norelands, who will be retained by the Tattersalls Musidora S. partnership, and she is now in foal to Sea The Stars (Ire). He continued, AWe had a fantastic result last year when we sold Anthony Stroud, who has signed for 14 yearlings on a Showcasing (GB) colt for 600,000gns but this is another level Godolphin=s behalf in the last two days, including Tuesday=s and you can never imagine a horse is going to make this much. session-topping 3.6-million gns Dubawi (Ire) colt, said of the colt, AMy stud groom of 16 years, Ian Emes, foaled him and has AHe has an outstanding pedigree and what can you say? He=s a done everything with him. I really am very lucky to have Ian.@ very good individual. We stand Golden Horn and he=s looking a Jones revealed that Give And Take is now in foal for the first promising stallion. This one is by a wonderful horse in Frankel. time to Kingman while Grace And Favour has a Pivotal (GB) filly He seemed to meet the right credentials, so we=re very happy.@ foal and is in foal to Sea The Moon (Ger). AThis is a Lord Howard de Walden family,@ he added. AAnd Favour Fortunes Gillian Howard de Walden told me when I bought the grandam Nicholas and Cherry Jones keep seven mares at their 60-acre Gryada (GB) that I had to name them all starting with G. We Coln Valley Stud which enjoyed its biggest sale result by a wide keep the fillies and we have Good And Proper (GB), a Dansili margin with the sale of lot 326, a Kingman (GB) colt from a (GB) filly, to go into training.@ family which includes a decent selection of recent top-flight Anthony Stroud ensured that the day=s top three lots would winners, including Legatissimo (Ire) and Farhh (GB). wear the Godolphin blue when outlasting MV Magnier and later At 2.3-million gns, the son of Grace And Favour (GB) (Montjeu Phoenix Thoroughbreds to secure Christopher Hanbury=s Galileo {Ire}), herself a sister to five-time Group 1 winner Fame And (Ire) colt out of Jacqueline Quest (Ire) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) Glory (GB), joined the Godolphin fray as his breeders left the (lot 357) for 1.1-million gns late in the session. Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 10 OCTOBER 2019 Tattersalls October Book 1 Cont. two days, is leading buyer thus far with a total spend of 14.58- It is a family Sheikh Mohammed is very familiar with, as he million gnsBmore than double the 6.065-million gns thus far laid campaigns Jacqueline Quest=s 3-year-old Line of Duty (Ire), a full- out by the second-top purchaser, Sheikh Mohammed=s brother brother to this colt and the winner of last year=s GI Breeders= Sheikh Hamdan. Godolphin=s day two purchases also included Cup Juvenile Turf. Jacqueline Quest, who was herself a i60,000 lot 315, breeder Castlefarm Stud=s Dubawi (Ire) half-brother to yearling and crossed the line first in the G1 1000 Guineas but exciting first-season sire Shalaa (Ire) who cost 700,000gns, as was placed second for interference, has also produced the well as lot 268, Oneliner Stables=s Sea The Stars (Ire) half- listed-placed Hibiscus (Ire) to Galileo. brother to two stakes performers from a good Aga Khan family. The Galileo colt was born and raised at Trillium Hall Stud in That colt represented an excellent pinhook, having been bought Ireland and entrusted to New England Stud to sell. That farm=s for 330,000gns in this ring last December. principal Peter Stanley commented, AWe=re very happy, and naturally the mare has been great for Trillium Hall Stud. They=ve Siyouni Reaches New Heights grown some very good horses on the farm and this is yet A half-brother to the QIPCO 2000 Guineas winner Magna another great one out of Jacqueline Quest, and we=re very Grecia (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and bred on the same cross as happyBwhenever you make over 1-million, you=re absolutely another of this season=s European Classic winners, Sottsass (Fr) delighted.