WEDNESDAY, 16TH DECEMBER 2020 NEW YEAR NEW OPPORTUNITY JANUARY EBN MON. 11 - THURS. 14 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS IRELAND EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com CHOICE LOTS ON OFFER AT TATTERSALLS IRELAND There are 189 catalogued horses, plus eight wildcard entries, for Champers Elysees (Elzaam), seen winning the Gr.1 Matron today’s Tattersalls Ireland November Flat Foal and Breeding Stock Stakes, is a graduate of the Tattersalls Ireland Flat Foal and Sale, with Lots 900 to 1009 a new yearling section, which Breeding Stock Sale. © Caroline Norris includes 66 lots that are eligible for the €300,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Stakes next year. The foals comprise Lots 1010 to 1056 and the broodmares 1057 to 1080. The session gets underway at 11.00am. IN TODAY’S ISSUE... Past graduates of the sale include the Gr.1 Matron Stakes winner Champers Elysees, who was bought by Aughamore Stud Gr.1 sire Shantou retired p3 for €12,500 in 2017 before being resold at the September Yearling Brtish EBF Stallion Focus p15 Sale for €28,000, along with this season’s Group-winning juveniles The Lir Jet, purchased for €9,500 by Joe Foley, and Steel Bull, Stateside p16 snapped up for €5,000 by Madeline Burns. Tattersalls Ireland pinhooking table p19 Among today’s yearlings are: a Divine Prophet half-brother to CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 StAllIONS 2021 INviNCiblE SpiRit Fee: €80,000 (1st Oct terms) PhOeniX OF SpaiN Fee: €12,500 (1st Oct terms) FRee eAgle Fee: €8,000 (1st Oct terms) decorated knight Fee: €7,500 (1st Oct terms) FIRST 2YOs 2021 NatiOnaL DefeNse Fee: €5,000 (1st Oct terms) FIRST 2YOs 2021 EQuiaNO NEW FOR 2021 Fee: €3,000 (In advance of covering) ELusiVE PiMperNel Fee: €2,500 (In advance of covering) DragON pulse Fee: €2,000 (In advance of covering) Contact: Cathal Beale, Gary Swift +353 (0)86 6031979 or Patrick Diamond +353 (0)85 1299236 Tel: +353 (0)45 521251 www.irishnationalstud.ie SALES TALK ~ STALLION NEWS EBN: WEDNESDAY, 16TH DECEMBER 2020 the dual Listed winner and Gr.3 Superior Mile-placed Ocean Tempest (Lot 900); a Gutaifan half-brother to the Gr.3 Sovereign Stakes-placed Flash Card (Lot 936); a The Gurkha half-brother to Listed winner and Gr.1 Critérium de Saint-Cloud-placed Miss You Too (Lot 937); a Dawn Approach half-brother to the Listed winner Cacciante and the Listed-placed juvenile Giselles Thunder (Lot 960); a No Nay Never half-brother to the Gr.2 Kilboy Estate Stakes-placed Annie Fior (Lot 975); a Mastercraftsman half-brother to the dual Listed-placed Replenish, from the family of Palace Pier and Blue Bunting (Lot 981); and a Kodiac half-brother to the triple Listed winner and Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest third Tupi. Other yearling entries include close relatives to this season’s Gr.2 Lowther Stakes winner Miss Amulet (Lot 901; Estidhkaar colt); the multiple Gr.3 winner Lucky Strike (Lot 935; Coulsty filly); the Gr.3 Abu Dhabi Championship winner Zamaam (Lot 944; Mehmas filly); this season’s Gr.2-winning two-year-old Chindit (Lot 965; Requinto filly); the four-time US Gr.2 winner Beau Recall (Lot 980; Mehmas colt) and the Gr.1-winning miler Miss Satamixa (Lot 981; U S NAVY FLAG - European Champion at 2 and Mastercraftsman colt). July Cup winner at 3 by Amongst the foals are a James Garfield filly (Lot 1032) from WAR FRONT the immediate family of Chindit and Motivator and a National Defense filly (Lot 1033) out of a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Ultra. The fillies and mares who close the day’s trading include a two- year-old Golden Horn granddaughter of Gr.1 winner Lear’s Princess (Lot 1062). BBA Ireland went to €50,000 for last year’s top-priced horse, the Listed-placed Wahgah, in foal to Mukhadram, who was consigned by Derrinstown Stud. EBF STATUS All foals and yearlings entered in the above sale are EBF eligible and have been correctly identified as to their EBF status. For further information please contact the EBF office on +44(0)1638 667960 or email [email protected]. SIOUX NATION - Royal Ascot and Gr.1 winner at 2 by WITHDRAWALS SCAT DADDY Lot: 905, 906, 909, 913, 916, 918, 921, 924, 927, 929, 930, 933, 941, 942, 943, 947, 950, 955, 961, 964, 970, 971, 971A, 972, 974, 977, 978, 982, 985, 994, 1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1008, 1011, 1015, 1017, 1018, 1021, 1031, 1036, 1056, 1057, 1058, 1065, 1072, 1076 STALLION NEWS IRELAND GR.1 SIRE SHANTOU RETIRED The top National Hunt sire and Burgage Stud stalwart Shantou GUSTAV KLIMT - Speed son of GALILEO from has been retired from covering duties, it was announced the family of & yesterday. INVINCIBLE SPIRIT KODIAC The son of Alleged, who is rising 28, established himself as a top-class sire of National Hunt performers during a lengthy career, which saw him command a top fee of €10,000 for the last three covering seasons. Having begun his stud career in Italy, he was responsible for the 2004 Gr.1 Prix Vermeille heroine Sweet Stream, having commenced covering at Burgage Stud in Co. Carlow the previous year. His tally of top-class National Hunt performers include such Coolmore Stud Tel: 052-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: 025-31966. www.coolmore.com luminaries as this season’s Gr.1 Champion Chase victor The CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY Aushorse.com.au STALLION NEWS ~ INDUSTRY NEWS EBN: WEDNESDAY, 16TH DECEMBER 2020 Storyteller, dual Gr.1 winner Death Duty and the Gr.1-winning novice hurdlers Briar Hill and Morning Assembly, among a host of other talented performers, 20 of them at Gr.1 level. Not only did he have a very high lifetime winner-to-runner ratio overall, he was also a noted sire of good racemares. He has been consistently in demand at the sales, as evidenced most recently by him having the second top lot at last month’s Goffs UK November P2P Sale, when his son Jim Key was purchased for £215,000. Not overly big and quite a character, he achieved these results without covering the very large books of a number of his contemporaries. Bred by Darley, he is out of the US Gr.2 winner Shaima (Shareef Dancer) and his grandam was none other than Oh So Sharp (Kris). He was himself a top-class middle-distance performer for Sheikh Mohammed and John Gosden. Unraced at two, he finished third in the Gr.1 Derby on just his fourth start, having only broken his maiden 12 days earlier. He went on to land the Gr.1 St Leger, giving his trainer his first domestic Classic success, and the Gr.1 (then) Gran Premio del Jockey-Club and returned at four register The Storyteller, the most recent Gr.1 winner by Shantou, his third top-level victory when winning the Gr.1 (then) Gran returns to the winner’s enclosure at Down Royal at the end of October. © Caroline Norris Premio di Milano. on his 23-year riding career during which few big prizes eluded INDUSTRY NEWS him. Champion jockey on two occasions, Geraghty won both the Gr.3 Aintree Grand National and the Irish Grand National. Two IRELAND wins in the Gr.1 Gold Cup, four Gr.1 Champion Hurdle wins and a remarkable five victories in the Gr.1 Champion Chase featured HORSE RACING IRELAND AWARDS 2020 among a Cheltenham Festival haul of 43 winners, with five of Legendary trainer John Oxx was among the winners at the annual those coming in March. Horse Racing Ireland Awards, which were announced yesterday. The Horse of the Year Award went to the Marie and Joe Honoured with the Contribution to the Industry Award, Oxx Donnelly-owned Al Boum Photo (Buck’s Boum), who this year has recently retired, bringing to an end a 41-year training career became the seventh horse to win a second consecutive Gr.1 Gold that few could hope to match. He was champion trainer in 1995, Cup at Cheltenham for trainer Willie Mullins and jockey Paul the year that his European Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Townend. Ridgewood Pearl (Indian Ridge) reigned supreme, winning the Co. Tipperary native Gavin Ryan bagged two awards for a Gr.1 Irish 1,000 Guineas, Gr.1 Coronation Stakes, Gr.1 Prix du season that saw him crowned champion apprentice, ride his first Moulin and Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Mile. Oxx will long be remembered Group winner and become the leading Flat jockey at the Galway for his handling of Sinndar, who won the Gr.1 National Stakes as Festival. He was named winner of the Emerging Talent Award, and a two-year-old and topped Gr.1 Derby glory at Epsom and the for his winning effort on the Ado McGuinness-trained Saltonstall Curragh with victory in the Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and (Pivotal) in the Colm Quinn BMW Mile Handicap at Galway, he more recently Sea The Stars, feted as one of the all-time great topped a public poll to claim the Ride of the Year Award racehorses, who won six Gr.1s in six months during his three-year- Rachael Blackmore scooped the National Hunt Award, her third old campaign, taking in the 2,000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse Stakes, HRI Award accolade.