TUESDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2020 GHAIYYATH RETIRED TO KILDANGAN RECORD-BREAKING SIYOUNI Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}BNightime {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) COLT HEADS ARQANA has been retired from racing after exhibiting muscle soreness. He will stand at Darley=s Kildangan Stud next year. Bred by the Weld family=s Springbank Way Stud, Ghaiyyath was a standout from the start being out of the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner Nightime. He cost Godolphin i1.1-million at the 2015 Goffs November Foal Sale and showed promise soon after joining trainer Charlie Appleby, breaking his maiden at second asking at two before taking the G3 Autumn S. Ghaiyyath ran just once at three, winning the G3 Prix du Prince d=Orange, and after taking the G2 Prix d=Harcourt to kick off his 4-year-old campaign he made waves when winning the G1 Grosser Preis von Baden by 14 lengths. That performance prompted a 2019 G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe bid, but after making the running over the very soft going Ghaiyyath faded to tenth. Cont. p7 The i525,000 Siyouni colt out of Prudente | Zuzanna Lupa IN TDN AMERICA TODAY RACING VERSUS SPORTS BETTING By Emma Berry In the latest The Week in Review, Bill Finley takes a look at how DEAUVILLE, FranceCWith a pedigree that certainly would not sports betting is fairing versus horse racing. Click or tap here to look out of place at Arqana=s August Sale, Ecurie des Monceaux=s go straight to TDN America. Siyouni (Fr) colt out of Prudente (Fr) (Dansili {GB}) set a new October Sale record in Deauville when selling to Al Shaqab for i525,000. Hailing from the farm which supplied this year=s Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe winner Sottsass (Fr) by the same stallion, the April-foaled sale-topper (lot 157) became the subject of a bidding duel between Al Shaqab and Godolphin, with the Qatari operation placing a late final offer of i525,000 as the hammer was about to be brought down in Anthony Stroud=s favour. A member of Ecurie des Monceaux=s signature family, he is the second foal of his dam, who is a full-sister to Prudenzia (Ire), the dam of Group 1 winners Magic Wand (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}). One of their half-sisters, the G3 Prix du Lutece winner Pacifique (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), produced the winner of that same race this year in Paix (Fr) (Muhaarar {GB}), while half-brother English King (Fr) (Camelot {GB}) won the Listed Lingfield Derby Trial. Prudente=s first foal, Hinoshita Kaizan (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), is now in training in Japan having been sold for i1.5-million at the August Sale two years ago. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 16 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 20 OCTOBER 2020 Record-Breaking Siyouni Colt Heads Arqana Cont. from p1 i58,270 and the median i43,000, while turnover for the day AHe=s a gorgeous horse and everybody on the team fell in love was i9.5-million. with him as soon as we saw him,@ said Al Shaqab=s Chief With the sale=s format having changed this year and extended Operating Officer Paul Hensey, who accompanied agent Nicolas to five days, no direct comparisons are being made with last de Watrigant in signing for the year, when the shorter opening colt. AHe=s got one of the best day=s average was i81,362 and pedigrees in the book and is the aggregate i8,788,000 from from one of the best farms you 105 horses sold. can buy from, so there was an awful lot to like about him.@ The Siyouni and In common with plenty of Monceaux Show sales, the day=s trade started a Sottsass has not been the only little hesitantly at Arqana, but it Group 1-winning colt for Siyouni warmed up significantly in the in the last month as the Aga late afternoon with a rash of Khan Studs stallion was also six-figure lots. represented by St Mark=s Hensey added, AWe=ve bought Basilica (Ire) in the Darley a few today but we=ve had Dewhurst S. Vendors with a plenty of competition for those Siyouni yearling in their draft that we were on. I think there=s were generally guaranteed good solid trade for the horses David Menuisier | racingfotos.com plenty of visitors. Three of his that are here.@ colts filled the list of the sale=s top six lots, and all three were By the session=s end, 163 of the 205 yearlings offered had brought to Deauville by Arqana=s perennial leading consignor, been sold at a clearance rate just shy of 80%. The average was Monceaux. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 16 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 20 OCTOBER 2020 Record-Breaking Siyouni Colt Heads Arqana Cont. From the same family as the top lot was lot 137, the half-brother to the aforementioned Group 3 winner Paix, who was bought for i210,000 and will join the stable of David Menuisier in Sussex, the trainer confirmed by phone. He said, AI=ve bought him for a client based in the Southern Hemisphere. Senior Vice President Gary King He=s a lovely horse from a very good family and I love Twitter: @garykingTDN middle-distance horses. With a bit of luck, he could be a colt for [email protected] the Melbourne Cup in a few years. This is what my Australian + 1.732.320.0975 and New Zealand clients are interested in.@ Eight lots earlier (lot 129), another son of Siyouni had been International Editor knocked down in the name of Federico Barberini for i200,000. Kelsey Riley The son of 3-year-old winner Newton=s Night (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN is bred on the same cross as both Sottsass and St Mark=s Basilica [email protected] and is from the family of dual Group 2-winning sprinter Muthmir European Editor (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), whose dam Fairy Of The Night (Ire) is Emma Berry a Danehill half-sister to his dam. Twitter: @collingsberry Siyouni=s 11 yearlings sold through the first session of the [email protected] October Sale returned an average of i146,545. Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] ARQANA OCTOBER YEARLING SALE DAY 1 SESSION TOTALS 2020 Contributing Editors $ Catalogued 235 Alan Carasso $ Number Offered 205 Christina Bossinakis $ Number Sold 163 $ Not Sold 42 Cafe Racing $ Clearance Rate 79.5% Sean Cronin $ No. €500K+ 1 Tom Frary $ High Price €525,000 [email protected] $ Gross €9,500,000 $ Average (% change) €58,270 $ Median (% change) €43,000 Irish Correspondent *Please note due to changes in sale format, there are no Daithi Harvey comparative stats. Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele Seeking Another Pearl A late addition to the Arqana October catalogue transpired to be a very welcome one. The Sea The Stars (Ire) filly out of Matauri Pearl (Ire) (Hurricane Run {Ire}) had been withdrawn IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY from the Select Sale last month and in the interim her 2-year-old half-sister Aunt Pearl (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) posted a VERRY ELLEEGANT TO CARRY 55.5KG IN CUP record-breaking performance when winning the GII Jessamine S. G1 Melbourne Cup weight set for MG1SW Verry Elleegant (NZ) at Keeneland. Cont. p4 (Zed {NZ}). Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 16 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 20 OCTOBER 2020 Record-Breaking Siyouni Colt Heads Arqana Cont. picked up all her black-type in Scandinavia, but her family The latter is now en route to the Breeders= Cup, while the background had plenty to recommend her when she went youngster will join the Chantilly stable of Hiroo Shimizu. The through the ring at the Arqana December Sale in 2015, where second-season Japanese trainer signed for lot 110b in she was bought for the partners by Ghislain Bozo=s Meridian association with Daniel Cole at International for i400,000. The i450,000 and she will race in the Cape Cross (Ire) foal she was colours of Shigeo Nimura, the carrying at the time of her owner of this season=s winning purchase became Cape Cavalli juvenile Midlife Crisis (Fr) (Ire), a dual winner for Simon (Wootton Bassett {GB}). Crisford. Rated 91, he is entered AShe looks like she will make a in next week=s Horses-in-Training lovely 3-year-old,@ Shimizu said. Sale at Tattersalls. His younger AShe is not very big but her way half-sister Aunt Pearl is now of moving puts me in mind of unbeaten in two starts for Brad Deep Impact. She is light on her Cox and is a >TDN Rising Star=. feet in the same way. I was AAunt Pearl broke the track instructed by the owner to buy record at Keeneland on her an exceptional filly and, while she second start and that obviously was not cheap, everyone was in Hiroo Shimizu | Scoop Dyga took place in the intervening time for the same horse.@ between the sale here in September. It didn=t do this sale any The filly was bred in partnership by Ecurie des Charmes and harm and it didn=t do us any harm, it was mutually beneficial,@ Ballylinch Stud, the latter being home to Matauri Pearl, who is said Ballylinch Stud=s managing director John O=Connor. AThe from a family which includes the late Monsun (Ger) and recent mare has a foal who is a full-brother to Aunt Pearl and she is dual French Classic winner Brametot (Ire).