Visit the TDN Website: GI Lady’s Secret S. renamed for Zenyatta See p4 www.thoroughbreddailynews.com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL BEGINS MUNNINGS UNLIKELY FOR CIGAR MILE Tattersalls= December Foal Sale kicks off in Munnings (Speightstown) will likely miss the GI Hill Newmarket this morning with 950 lots catalogued, the >n= Dale Cigar Mile H. with an undisclosed foot problem, smallest number at the auction since 2001. This year=s Daily Racing Form reports. Foal Sale--running through Saturday--is 311 lots lighter Winner of the GII Woody than last year=s, and is also a day shorter. The sale, Stephens S. and GII Tom which begins at 10 a.m. each morning, is graded, with Fool H. at Belmont this today=s session expected to be the quietest day. The spring, the sophomore has standard of foal steps up a level tomorrow, and the not been able to work out in best lots are set to appear on the final two days, partic- preparation for Saturday=s ularly Friday. For the complete catalog visit race at Aqueduct. Trainer www.tattersalls.com. Todd Pletcher said that if Potential standouts include Lot 751, an Oasis Dream Munnings was not able to (GB) colt who is the first foal of 2006 G1 1000 Guineas breeze yesterday, he was not heroine Speciosa (Ire) (Danehill optimistic the chestnut Dancer {Ire}). Offered from would be ready for the Cigar Munnings Horsephotos Trickledown Stud, the colt is Mile. If he misses Saturday=s bred by Speciosa=s ownership race, the J “TDN Rising Star” J will be pointed partnership, headed by her toward sprint races at Gulfstream Park. Munnings was trainer Pam Sly. Lot 867 is a third in the GI Vosburgh S. Oct. 3 in his most recent Hurricane Run (Ire) half-sister to effort. Pletcher=s other top three-year-old, GI Florida Newmarketracecourses.co.uk G2 Debutante S. and Tattersalls Derby winner Quality Road (Elusive Quality), remains on sales race winner Lillie Langtry course for the Cigar Mile following another gate school- (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) offered from Ballinahown ing session at Belmont yesterday. Stud. Lot 802 has already appeared at Tattersalls once this year. A Bahamian Bounty (GB) filly, she was sold with her dam Ripples Maid (GB) (Dansili {GB}) for TDN TODAY 132,000gns to agent David Redvers at Tattersalls in Headline News..................... 6 pages July in the late Rex Mead=s dispersal. Lot 840, bred by John and Bernadette Hayden and consigned from Rosetown House Stud, is a full-sister to G1 Darley July Cup heroine Fleeting Spirit (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), winner of the Cartier Sprinter Award last week. Montjeu (Ire) has only two lots catalogued, including Lot 1019, a three-parts brother to G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud runner-up Mikhail Glinka (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), and Monday=s 275,000gns December Yearling Sale top lot. Among the higher-priced first-crop sires with foals on offer are multiple Group 1 winners Dylan Thomas (Ire) (Danehill) (who stood for i50,000 in 2008), Manduro (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) (i40,000) and Teofilo (Ire) (Gali- leo {Ire}) (i40,000). The latter=s offerings include lot 1171, a sibling to GI E.P. Taylor S. winner Folk Opera (Ire) (Singspiel {Ire}), offered from Moorpark Stud. AIt may be a smaller catalogue than in recent years, but it=s a quality one,@ commented Tattersalls Marketing Direc- tor Jimmy George. AAll the current active top 20 sires in Britain and Ireland are represented, and the strength of our October Yearling Sales has engendered a feeling of cautious optimism.@ Tattersalls cont. p2 www.taylormadestallions.com P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 11/25/09 • PAGE 2 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Tattersalls December Sale Foal Sale Beginner=s Luck... It is only six years since Seamus Kennedy became involved in the bloodstock business but now--with business partner Michael Woodlock--he owns one of those mares every breeder dreams about having. Diary (Ire) (Green Desert) was sold for 7,000gns as a two-year-old by Darley and went on to win three races in Greece. Returning to the 2005 Tattersalls February Sale, she was picked up by Kennedy for just 11,000gns. AIt was both the pedigree and the individual that appealed to me and I just got that crazy feeling when I saw her,@ recalled Kennedy. Now 10, the mare was sent to Namid (GB) by her new owners and the resultant colt--Total Gallery (Ire)--has proved a great flagbearer for her breeders, who race as Coleman Bloodstock. The three-year-old was trained by Stan Moore to win the G1 Prix de l=Abbaye at Longchamp on Arc day, and is set to run in Hong Kong next month. AHe=s going really well at the moment, and he=ll hope- fully win out there," added Kennedy. But Diary (Ire) has been no one-hit wonder. Her next foal is two-year-old Lady Darshaan (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}), who finished third in the G2 Cherry Hinton S. at Newmarket in July, and looks a leading Classic contender for next year after coming second in the G1 Meon Valley Stud Fillies= AThe Teofilo (Ire) (Galileo) colt and the Authorized (Ire) Mile at Ascot in September. AWe=ve had a phenomenal (Montjeu {Ire}) filly are our trump cards," commented year, and Diary has a High Chaparral (Ire) yearling colt, Naughton. AWe have a total of three foals by first sea- who is with Stan and giving all the signs of being spe- son sires in Authorized, Teofilo and Rail Link (GB) cial,@ Kennedy said. Kennedy=s immediate concerns (Dansili), and I am sure, the way these things go, that surround events at Park Paddocks this week, with six not all of them will prove to be fashionable. It can be foals set to be offered from Shanaville Stables Friday very hard for the first-season sires to get the thumbs-up and Saturday. They are headed by lot 882, the latest from pinhookers. The bloodstock market can often take foal from Diary (Ire), an own-sister to Lady Darshaan against a stallion quite easily.@ Cont. p3 (Ire). AShe=s a really lovely looking filly and it=s just worked out that we have our best bunch of foals this year,@ Kennedy continued. Diary (Ire) is in foal to Tamayuz (GB) this year. AIt=s great to have worked my way up since starting out at the bottom,@ he added. AThe focus is now very much on quality rather than numbers with the mares.@ Ring in the New... Aqueduct Racetrack Still Awaits a Decision Former Trafalgar House chief executive Sir Eric Parker New York=s racino project still going nowhere purchased Crimbourne Stud in 1991, the year that Charles V. Bagli and Danny Hakim, New York Times Seagram (NZ) carried his colours to victory in the Grand National chase, and set about assembling a quality We Owe It to Them broodmare band on the 130-acre estate. The West ...the horses, the most vulnerable assets of our Sussex stud is sending six foals to Park Paddocks this A week, and stud manager Peter Naughton believes that industry, deserve respect and attention far beyond the pick of the draft is a pair of youngsters by promi- their racing careers.@ nent first-season Darley stallions. Claire Novak, ESPN.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 11/25/09 • PAGE 3 of 6 • thoroughbreddailynews.com >Ring in the New= cont... Naughton is optimistic about Tattersalls, although he Of particular interest is lot 1185, the filly by 2007 knows as well as any horseman that nothing can be Derby winner Authorized, who is out of the successful taken for granted. AI think the sale should be fine this Crimbourne Stud mare Coyote (GB) (Indian Ridge). The week,@ he explained. AIt is like anywhere at the mo- well-bred mare was acquired for 150,000gns at the ment, the good-looking individual by a fashionable sire 2003 Tattersalls December Sale. The filly is a half-sister will make really good money. Anything that is not cor- to a pair of stakes winners, notably this season=s rect, out of a stallion that is slightly out of favour, will G3 Park Express S. heroine Oh Goodness Me (GB) not. That is the way the sales have been going for (Galileo), catalogued as lot 1390 in the Tattersalls De- years. I think a few years ago, the middle market was cember Sale. Remarked Naughton, AWe have just been being held up by the fellow willing to take a chance on a bit unfortunate with Coyote=s foals in the past two a stallion that was out of fashion that year, but might years. The year before last she had a really nice be back in vogue by the time he comes to sell it as a Azamour (Ire) (Night Shift) colt, Huff And Puff (GB). yearling. But it looks like there are not many people to The fashion wasn=t that keen on that sire by the time take any chances. You are wasting your time taking a Newmarket came, but he looks like he could be up to horse to the sales nowadays if it isn=t A1, because it is listed or group class next season. This year she had a not a day at the races, you are not going for a jolly day Medicean (GB) (Machiavellian) yearling filly, and that out. You have to go there with something you believe stallion had a poor year, too, so she sold for will actually sell for you.@ 105,000gns at Tattersalls in October, which was less than we had hoped.