SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 2019 ALL SET FOR ARC WEEKEND BOUNTIFUL DELIGHTS IN As Khalid Abdullah=s Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) starts out TATTERSALLS OCTOBER SALE from Clarehaven Stables on Saturday morning on her journey to Chantilly for her overnight stay prior to her day of days, ParisLongchamp=s two-day meeting gets underway with her stable simply dominating the feature G1 Qatar Prix de Royallieu. John Gosden=s season has been dramatically successful on just about every level, but it with his middle-distance fillies and mares that he has particularly excelled and the evidence of that comes in the line-up for the newly-promoted 14-furlong test. With the G1 Epsom Oaks heroine Anapurna (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in action against >TDN Rising Star= Lah Ti Dar (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Enbihaar (Ire) (Redoute=s Choice {Aus}), a thriller is guaranteed before any of the outside stables are even considered. Enbihaar has proven a revelation in 2019, winning the July 6 G2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock, Aug. 3 G2 Lillie Langtry S. at Goodwood and G2 Park Hill S. at Doncaster Sept. 12 and Yearlings on display | Tattersalls carrying a penalty in the latter two events. Cont. p6 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Emma Berry TAKING STOCK: WEST OFFERS $500,000 FOR DERBY STUDY With healthy returns at the major yearling sales around the In Sid Fernando’s new Taking Stock, owner Gary West will offer world so far this season, it doesn't require too much imagination $500,000 for GI Kentucky Derby study. Click or tap here to go to believe that the extraordinary growth seen at the Tattersalls straight to TDN America. October Yearling Sale over the last seven years will continue unabated this autumn. From a slight dip in trade as the market readjusted after a global recession and breeders responded to overproduction, since 2010 the aggregate for all sections of the October Sale has more than doubled, from just over 72 million gns that year to last year's record-breaking tally of more than 162 million gns from the sale of 1,552 yearlings. Many of the headlines focus on Book 1 (Oct. 8 to 10) and that is hardly surprising, for these are the three days which draw potential buyers from all parts of the world, where pedigrees which would look the part in the stud book of any elite operation are to be found. This year, the number catalogued for Book 1 is up a little on the past two seasons, with 552 slated to sell across the three sessions. Among them are the siblings or half-siblings of 59 Classic or Group 1 winners. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 5 OCTOBER 2019 Tattersalls October Preview Cont. from p1 "It has been Europe's number one yearling sale for a very long time and the catalogue seems to get stronger and stronger. This year again, from the moment people saw the catalogue they were saying that they felt this could be the strongest ever, and there have been some very strong Book 1 catalogues in the last four or five years," says Jimmy George, Tattersalls' Marketing Director. George also points to the draw of Europe's 'super sires'-- Galileo (Ire), Dubawi (Ire), Sea The Stars (Ire), Frankel (GB) and the youngster whose stock are already scorching hot property, Kingman (GB). Tellingly, this quintet accounts for 164 of the yearlings, or almost 30%, of Book 1. He says, "There is extraordinary depth to the quality of sires that we have at the moment in Britain and Ireland with probably four or five that would have been the top dog in any other era. For all of the top buyers, it would be very hard to ignore this sale. It's a key event for anyone interested in owning an elite Thoroughbred." Beyond the famous five there is a raft of excellent names on the list of stallions with sizeable drafts during the opening week, including eight members of the penultimate crop of Juddmonte pensioner Dansili (GB), another eight by Shamardal, 30 by Dark Angel (Ire), 25 Lope De Vega (Ire) yearlings and another 23 by Kodiac (GB). And among those sires whose stock are seen less frequently in Britain are the Kentucky-based Flintshire (GB) (three), American Pharoah (two), War Front (two), Air Force Blue (two) and one by freshman Tamarkuz, as well as a sole yearling by German-based Adlerflug (Ger). Of course, the stallions tell only half the story, often less. The bottom line is that there are also some pretty serious bottom lines. Cont. p3 Wall of Sound=s 2018 colt by Sea The Stars | Chasemore Farm TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 5 OCTOBER 2019 Tattersalls October Preview Cont. winner Legatissimo (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), 350,000gns. Watership Down Stud topped last year's sale with a 3.5 Of course it's all very well assembling a cast of equine stars, million-guinea full-brother to Too Darn Hot (GB), and they bring but they need an audience, and enticing buyers is a job which another Dubawi colt from one of their top-class racemares in lot Tattersalls takes every bit as seriously as inspecting yearlings. 77, a son of the four-time Group 1 winner The Fugue (GB) "We focus very closely on trying to attract top-end buyers (Dansili {GB}), who is bred on the same cross as the Book 1 from as many countries as we possibly can," says George. topper of 2016, now known as Glorious Journey (GB) and a "America and Australia are two particularly important markets multiple group winner for at the moment. The expansion of Godolphin. the American turf programme is in During the same opening session itself very significant. I think that is lot 109, Chasemore Farm's Sea has been something that we have The Stars half-brother to this been able to build on and to use season's G3 Prestige S. winner and as a strategy when we go to G2 May Hill S. runner-up Boomer America, in terms of targeting (GB) (Kingman {GB}), while trainers and owners." Woodcote Stud will offer lot 118, That country's dominant trainer a Kingman half-brother to the dual of the turf, Chad Brown, has been Group 1 winner Poet's Word (GB) a visitor to Newmarket for this (Poet's Voice {GB}). sale over the last few seasons, With a name like Yummy with his purchases having Mummy (GB) one would hope for included GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile a mare to be producing Fillies Turf winner good-looking foals and Newsells Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope De Park Stud's daughter of Montjeu A colt by Dubawi out of Yummy Mummy is lot 128 Vega {Ire}). (Ire) has had her fair share of Book Newsells Park Stud George continues, "Chad Brown 1 limelight via her offspring over the years. This time around her doesn't need us to point to the expansion of the turf programme Dubawi colt will be sold as lot 128, and he has plenty to live up but what is wonderful is that he has identified Book 1 of the to with his brother having made 1.2 million gns last year, while October Yearling Sale as the premier sale to source those sorts half-siblings have been sold for 870,000gns, 725,000gns, of turf horses at that level.@ 575,000gns and, for the subsequent Guineas and treble Group 1 Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 19 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 5 OCTOBER 2019 Tattersalls October Preview Cont. the i180,000 foal purchase is a Siyouni (Fr) half-brother to He adds, AHe's been staggeringly successful at doing that and recent German Group 1 winner Danceteria (Fr) (Redoute's hugely enthusiastic about it. He loves coming to the sale and he, Choice), owned by Australian Bloodstock and currently in Mike Ryan, Peter Brant and Bob Edwards work the sale very quarantine ahead of a trip to Melbourne for the G1 Cox Plate. hard and they have been hugely rewarded for doing so. It The colt's dam, Bal De La Rose (Ire), is a Cadeaux Genereux (GB) hopefully makes other buyers enthused by that success." half-sister to Lope De Vega (Ire), a stallion with a lofty profile in At a time when the spring racing is hitting top gear in Australia, both hemispheres. it is not uncommon now to find buyers from the Southern Two young stallions with first-crop yearlings in the sale are Hemisphere making a trip to Tattersalls. To a degree, the rising Vadamos (Fr) with four and Shalaa (Ire) with six, but prices for horses with staying form has seen a shift in focus from interestingly their respective breeders will each offer Dubawi the Horses-in-Training Sale to the yearling market, and half-sisters to these two Group 1 winners. sometimes to foals. Lot 216 is the half-sister to Vadamos from a select draft of five "We have something that the Australians don't have," George yearlings from Andreas Putsch's Haras de Saint Pair, three of says. "Of course their industry is totally turf-orientated but we which are by Dubawi. Meanwhile Aisling and Mark Gittins of have horses that can stay beyond a mile and they are painfully Castlefarm Stud will bring lot 315, the half-sister to Haras de short of that. As we know, the top-end horses-in-training market Bouquetot's Shalaa, who was the leading first-season sire at is very expensive so we have been working hard to try to say to Arqana's August Sale.