Breeding Stock 2022 Racing Post

Get set for the action

WITH the yearling sales circuit wound

up, it’s time to move on to the foals and mares who will be selling across Ireland, Britain, France and elsewhere over the next few weeks.

We have the sales at Goffs, Tattersalls and Arqana comprehensively covered, and there should be strong headlines to emerge from all of them.

The Sceptre session at Tattersalls a fortnight on Tuesday may well take some beating in that regard, however, with Alcohol Free, Saffron Beach and La Petite Coco just the first three Group 1-winning fillies to be unveiled as selling at Park Paddocks.

Indeed, our final supplement of 2022 begins with a handful of fillies and mares who will definitely be among those fuelling our sale reports.

We then focus our attention on the racehorsesturned-sires who started their second careers in 2021 and whose first foals are going through the ring over the next few weeks.

Our third feature is on the mares in foal to the exciting 2022 intake of sires and who are being offered at the breeding stock sales

The digests that then follow pick out some of the anticipated highlights from the catalogues, while we also present the vital statistics from the 2021 editions of the relevant sales, still of course suffering some impact from Covid-19.

Brand new in 2022 is the Sapphire Sale at Tattersalls Ireland this Saturday, featuring yearlings as well as foals and mares; best of luck to organisers in getting it successfully off the ground.

Those with stock to sell over the next few weeks will be hoping for more of the same strong trade that has been such a theme of this year, and we will be striving to bring you the best coverage of all the action online and in print.

ANDREW SCUTTS BLOODSTOCK MANAGING EDITOR

4-7 Sires with their first foals up for auction

8-11 Mares in foal by the 2022 intake of stallions 12-15 Goffs news digest and tables 16-21 Tattersalls news digest and tables 22-23 Arqana news digest and tables

Presenting the potential stars

Alcohol Free

4 b f No Nay Never-Plying (Hard Spun)

Tattersalls, lot 1904 Like mother, like daughter? On these pages last year Plying, carrying to Lope De Vega, was one of our six to watch, and the daughter of Hard Spun duly made €825,000 at Goffs to BBA Ireland and Yulong Investments.

Since then, her son by Camelot, Alexander James –who was already Listed-placed – has won a couple more, and daughter Hooked On You, by Starspangledbanner, shed her maiden tag.

Continuing to fly Plying’s flag highest, however, has been Alcohol Free, whose turn it is to come under the hammer, in her case at Park Paddocks.

The daughter of No Nay Never, who has had such a good year himself, and particularly with his two-yearolds, has been a star for the Jeff Smith-Andrew Balding axis for three seasons.

She won two of her three starts as a juvenile, most notably the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes. Alcohol Free took the Fred Darling over seven furlongs on her reappearance at three, following which she started joint-favourite for the 1,000 Guineas, but had to settle for fifth on what was her first try at a mile.

Connections were to stick to that trip, or even further, for quite some time and more spellbinding performances followed. At Royal Ascot in the Coronation Stakes, she took revenge on Guineas winner Mother Earth, before arguably her day of days in the Sussex at Glorious Goodwood. Up against colts and geldings for the first time, she beat the 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes hero Poetic Flare by a length and three-quarters.

She subsequently came up against Baaeed three times in her next seven runs, finishing third in this year’s Sussex Stakes behind him, when denied a clear run. That was to prove her final start but, crucially, in the race before, she had shown real dash to spring something of a surprise in a deep edition of the July Cup.

This four-time Group 1 winner is absolutely certain to be among the highlights at Tattersalls.

Desert Berry

13 b m Green Desert-Foreign Language (Distant View) Tattersalls, 1891

Desert Berry has been through the Park Paddocks ring twice before, but it has been a long time between drinks before this treble-up appearance, for it was as a foal and yearling, in 2009 and 2010, that she took her previous turns.

Much water has passed under the bridge since, but not much of it came on the racecourse for the mare herself, for after not getting to the races aged two, she had just a trio of runs at three for the Chris Wall yard, and that was that. She did, however,

ALCOHOL FREE

DESERT BERRY

LADIES CHURCH

SAFFRON BEACH

sign off with a win at Lingfield.

She is, of course, appearing here on the strength of what she has done at paddocks –namely, and it doesn’t really get any better, producing this year’s Derby hero Desert Crown.

Gary Robinson, who bred the unbeaten Classic-winning son of Nathaniel, who should be back in 2023 to hopefully carry on from where he left off at Epsom, offers the 13-yearold daughter of Green Desert carrying a full-sibling to Desert Crown on a May 4 covering.

As well as the Dante and Derby winner, Desert Berry is the dam of four further winners, all by Archipenko and led by the Sha Tin Group 3 winner Flying Thunder.

Desert Crown was sold for 280,000gns to Blandford Bloodstock at Book 2 in 2020, while the mare produced a full-brother this year, and Robinson has retained two of her daughters, namely Rose Berry, a winning daughter of Archipenko, who is likewise in foal to Nathaniel, and her two-year-old Al Kazeem half-sister.

Desert Berry is out of Foreign Language, one of the four original mares with whom Robinson began his breeding venture with Basil White.

Foreign Language is a product of Juddmonte; a winning daughter of Distant View, she is a half-sister to Binche, the dam of four-time Grade 1 winner Proviso, Byword, who landed the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Finche, and Baratti, the Listed winner who was second to Alpinista in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and might have given her most to think about in the Arc but for injury forcing an early retirement.

Grand Glory

6 b m Olympic Glory-Madonna Lily (Daylami)

Arqana, lot 209

There is one significant

chapter yet to be written in the racecourse story of Grand Glory, as she is due to contest the Japan Cup a fortnight on Sunday, in which she was an honourable fifth 12 months ago.

Win, lose or draw in Tokyo, however, one thing that does look certain is that, less than a year since bringing the hammer down at €2.5 million at Arqana’s Breeding Stock Sale, she is set to be offered again as a broodmare prospect.

A winner at two for trainer Gianluca Bietolini, Grand Glory was Listed-placed on her first start at three before supplementing a win next time out with a close-up third to Channel in the Prix de Diane. She also struck in the Listed Prix Zarkava and was a neck second in the Group 2 Prix Corrida.

The popular mare won her first Group race at four in the Group 3 Prix de Flore and then last year struck in the Group 3 Grand Prix de Vichy and Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet. Grand Glory was then beaten a nose by Rougir – who topped last year’s Arqana sale at €3m –in the Prix de l’Opéra, before running well behind Contrail at Tokyo.

Offered at the breeding stock sale by Haras de Castillon last December, she was bought by agent Anne-Sophie Yoh for Xavier Marie. Sporting the colours of Haras de Hus, she won the Prix Allez in May this year before a fine third in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and then a gallant fifth in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe behind Alpinista.

Bred by Haras de Bourgeauville and an €18,000 private buy from the Arqana October Yearling Sale, Grand Glory is the fifth foal out of Daylami mare Madonna Lily, a half-sister to Canadian Grade 2 winner Minakshi. Grand Glory is a half-sister to a handful of winners, including Listed scorer Bois D’Argent.

Ladies Church 3 ch f Churchill-Rioticism (Rio De La Plata)

Goffs, lot 1222

Headlining the press release for next week’s Goffs November Breeding Stock catalogue was three-year-old Ladies Church, who led in the final strides of the Group 2 Sapphire Stakes at the Curragh in July to beat Mooneista.

The filly has been one of the leading lights at the Johnny Murtagh yard, having won twice at two and finished placed in a Group 3 and a couple of Listed races in the colours of Mark Dobbin.

The daughter of Churchill was bred by Dukes Stud & Overbury Stallions out of Rio De La Plata mare Rioticism, and went through the ring as a foal (bought for 62,000gns) and then a yearling (€160,000) before not reaching her reserve at the Goffs London Sale in June, even though the bidding made it to £700,000.

As it happens, she cut no ice a few days later at Royal Ascot despite, typically, starting favourite for the only time in her career.

This will be her fourth sales date and, being a Group 2 winner by a dual Guineas hero, and out of a Listed-winning mare descending from Oh So Sharp, it could be a successful one.

Saffron Beach

4 ch f New Bay-Falling Petals (Raven’s Pass) Tattersalls, lot 1878 Saffron Beach, trained by Jane Chapple-Hyam and who consigns the filly to Park Paddocks, started her journey to stardom by winning both her starts at two, including the Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes.

After finishing second on her reappearance in the Nell Gwyn, she offered the first true indication of her talent when runner-up to Mother Earth in the 1,000 Guineas – the same race of course in which fellow

sale entry Alcohol Free was behind her in fifth.

Fair play to connections for then having a pop at a mile and a half in the Oaks – let’s face it, those behind the highest-rated British-trained horses of the past dozen years, Frankel and Baaeed, both ducked such a challenge – in which Saffron Beach was eighth behind Snowfall.

After a confidence-boosting win in the Group 3 Atalanta Stakes, she then made the Group 1 breakthrough in the Sun Chariot, turning the tables on Guineas heroine Mother Earth in the process.

The daughter of New Bay –one of the sires of this year of course, having also had toplevel winners Bayside Boy and New Bay – returned in 2022 as good as ever. After a good fourth in the Dubai Turf, she registered an easy success in the Group 2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes at Royal Ascot and followed up in the Prix Rothschild for a second Group 1 score.

Bred by China Horse Club, the four-year-old is from the first crop of New Bay and out

of the winning Raven’s Pass mare Falling Petals.

Saffron Beach’s half-sister by Australia, Providenciales, sold from Ballylinch Stud to Blandford Bloodstock for 450,000gns at Book 1 last year. She is in training with John and Thady Gosden.

Falling Petals is a half-sister to Middle Park Stakes third Huntdown and to Continua, the dam of Group 3 winner and King’s Stand Stakes second Cotai Glory, a leading secondseason sire for Tally-Ho Stud.

Simple Verse

10 b m Duke Of MarmaladeGuantanamera (Sadler’s Wells) Tattersalls, lot 1886 It’s been well over five years since Simple Verse made a public appearance, but when you have been a Champions Day winner and, far more significantly, the winner of a Classic predominantly the domain of colts, you are not easily forgotten.

The circumstances of her ultimate victory in the 2015 St Leger also, of course, fuel the legend as connections were forced to appeal against the

decision of raceday stewards to demote her for causing interference to second home Bondi Beach.

Simple Verse also won the Park Hill and Lillie Langtry in the silks of Qatar Racing, and it is through Tweenhills Farm and Stud that the opportunity to acquire her comes about.

She has not yet had a runner, with her 2019 colt by Frankel, Royal Verse, and 2020 filly by Roaring Lion, Queen Of The Pride, unraced to date. She has no progeny from 2021 but this year gave birth to a colt by Kitten’s Joy. She is offered in foal to Too Darn Hot.

One of 44 mares and fillies catalogued by Tweenhills, Simple Verse, by the fIve-time Group 1 winner and leading South Africa sire Duke Of Marmalade until his sad death at the age of 17 last November, was bred by Barronstown Stud out of a Sadler’s Wells mare.

She was a €240,000 yearling herself, picked up by David Redvers at the Goffs Orby Sale, and it will be fascinating to see how much she commands at Tattersalls, and who steps up to the plate for her.

Desert Berry with her Nathaniel foal, a full-brother to Desert Crown

‘When you have been a Champions Day winner and, far more significantly, the winner of a Classic predominantly the domain of colts, you are not easily forgotten’

Superpowers to the fore

DARLEY’S world champion Ghaiyyath, the winner of four Group 1s including the Eclipse, Juddmonte International and Coronation Cup, has unsurprisingly proved a popular proposition at stud, and it will be fascinating to see how his first foals sell, not least because he made €1,100,000 himself from Goffs as a foal to John Ferguson when offered by The Castlebridge Consignment in 2015.

Among his 14 catalogued at Tattersalls are The Castlebridge Consignment’s half-brother to multiple stakes winner Global Giant (lot 1036) and Gestut Etzean’s half-sister to two German black-type winners (892), while in the 15 from his first crop listed at Goffs are Ballybin Stud’s halfsister to King George Stakes winner Suesa (626), Roundhill Stud’s filly from the family of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Line Of Duty (716) and Oghill House Stud’s colt out of a Dansili half-sister to Dante Stakes winner Thunderous (731).

Pinatubo, another exciting young stallion from Darley, this time based at Dalham Hall Stud, was rated the best juvenile in 25 years after his unbeaten debut campaign saw him land the National Stakes at the Curragh by a jawdropping nine lengths, as well as the Dewhurst, Vintage and Chesham Stakes.

The son of the much-missed and influential Shamardal, also the winner of the Prix Jean Prat and Classic-placed at three, has strong representation at Park Paddocks. Among his eight foals entered are Barton Stud’s colt from the family of champion filly Stacelita (964), Knocktoran Stud’s half-sibling to Tattersalls Stakes winner La Barrosa (1039) and Plantation Stud’s half-brother to Pavilion Stakes winner Dubai Station (1069).

At Arqana, Pinatubo has foals out of Kasayid (267) and the dam of dual Listed winner Ottoman Fleet, Innervera (221).

Another Darley-based son of Shamardal in Prix Morny and Middle Park winner Earthlight faces his first test in the limelight, too. Also a dual black-type scorer and a close second in the Prix de la Foret at three, the Kildangan Stud resident is well represented at both the Tattersalls and Goffs foal sales.

Some highlights include Voute Sales’ Newmarketbound filly out of a winning Oasis Dream half-sister to dual Group 1 winner Kinross (538), Norelands’ colt out of Prix Eclipse winner Split Trois

Kitty Trice on the stallions with first foals up for auction

The first foals of Pinatubo (main), Ghaiyyath (top) and Earthlight will be watched with great anticipation

(385), who will head to Goffs, and Oak Lodge & Springfield House Stud’s half-brother to another Kildangan Stud resident and champion sprinter, Blue Point. He will be sold as lot 629 at Goffs.

There is just one foal by former French-trained Earthlight in the Arqana catalogue, a colt out of the Tsui family’s daughter of Sea The Stars, Eau Sea Bleue (517).

Sottsass, as a son of French champion sire Siyouni and Monceaux’s brilliant producer Starlet’s Sister, is undoubtedly an exciting recruit to Coolmore.

Befitting his status, the chestnut was strongly supported by Peter Brant and Coolmore. A selection of his first crop at the sales includes Deer Forest Stud’s filly out of Premio Lydia Tesio winner Aoife Alainn (Goffs, 686), the Rochestown Lodge Studconsigned half-sister to dual Hong Kong Group 1 winner High Zaff (Goffs, 765), Newsells Park Stud’s filly out of a Le Havre half-sister to Irish St Leger hero Duncan and Doncaster Cup winner Samuel (Tattersalls, 775), and Knockainey Stud’s half-brother to Prix du Calvados winner Great Page (Tattersalls, 871).

There are three Sottsass foals catalogued at Arqana, including a half-brother to this year’s Lingfield winner, the consistent Francesi (372).

Marvellous milers

The Niarchos-bred Circus Maximus, a multiple Group 1-winning miler by Galileo and out of Danehill Dancer’s Duke of Cambridge Stakes winner Duntle, holds plenty of appeal in his second career.

The six-year-old Coolmore sire, who won the St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix du Moulin at three and the Queen Anne at four, is strongly represented at the foal sales this term. Among the offering is Norman Court Stud’s halfsister to Group winner Epsom Icon (Tattersalls, 1114), Ballintry Stud’s filly out of a half-sister to Irish 1,000 Guineas and Irish Oaks heroine Blue Bunting (Goffs, 169) and Arraghslea Stud’s half-brother to Coventry Stakes winner and first-season sire Rajasinghe (Goffs, 702).

Qatar Racing has enjoyed plenty of success with sons of the late Kitten’s Joy, and their 2,000 Guineas and Vertem Futurity hero Kameko bids to make his mark with his first crop due under the hammer. The bay proved popular with breeders in his first season, covering a book long on quality, with plenty of mares sent by Tweenhills.

Among his debut crop bound for Park Paddocks are the Tweenhills-consigned colt out of Invincible Spirit’s Listed winner Beach Belle who is a half-brother to Australian Group 2 scorer Surf Dancer (749), Hazelwood Bloodstock’s filly out of a half-sister to Hong Kong Group 1 winner Pakistan

Star (821) and Tweenhills’ half-brother to Sweet Solera Stakes winner Majestic Glory and the promising Running Lion (1079), while at Goffs there is Hart Livery Farm & Stud’s filly out of a New Approach half-sister to Summer Mile winner Aljamaaheer (44).

Frankel fever has been in full swing on the track and in the sales ring this year, and, with Cracksman’s first two-yearolds impressing, plenty of eyes will be on Without Parole’s first foals. Newsells Park Stud’s charge not only has a Group 1 win and placings to his name, he is also well bred as a halfbrother to Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner and promising sire Tamarkuz and from the family of Travers Stakes winner Stay Thirsty.

His first foals going under the hammer include, at Tattersalls, Newsells’ halfbrother to American Graded winner Love And Thunder out of a daughter of Graded winner and Grade 1-placed Take The Ribbon (774), and Keith Harte’s filly out of a stakes-placed Kyllachy halfsister to Fred Darling scorer Dandhu (450).

At Goffs they feature Albany Stud’s colt out of Group winner and Phoenix Stakes third Walk On Bye (412), and Baroda Stud’s filly out of a winning Sea The Stars half-sister to American Oaks heroine Competitionofideas (452).

Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner and 2,000 Guineas second King Of Change is another talented miler with his first foals due to sell. Formerly standing at Derrinstown Stud but now a new recruit to Starfield Stud, the son of Farhh and half-brother to the durable Group 2 winner Century Dream is one of two top-flight winners for his sire.

A notable offering is Glebe Farm Stables’ Tattersallsbound half-brother to smart Listed winner Mums Tipple (957), while at Goffs the sixyear-old is represented by the likes of Ballintry Stud’s colt out of a Monsun daughter of stakes winner and Sun Chariot third Musicanna (884) and Rochestown Lodge Stud’s filly from the family of the great Salsabil (906).

While many eyes will be on the mighty Baaeed’s first season at Nunnery Stud in 2023, Shadwell’s fellow Sussex Stakes winner Mohaather has an important chapter in his own burgeoning stud career. His breathtaking score on the Sussex Downs with a potent turn of foot allowed him to cover a stellar first book of mares and the results of those unions are now ready to head to the sales.

Those at Park Paddocks include Jamie Railton’s colt out of a half-sister to dual Group 1-winning sprinter and Cheveley Park Stud sire Twilight Son (609), Newsells’ filly out of a winning half-sister to another top-class sprinter in The Tin Man (733) and West

Moor Stud’s colt out of Australian Group 2 winner Brom Felinity who is a halfbrother to Canadian International winner Walton Street (1160).

At Goffs, Mohaather’s foals include the Irish National Stud’s brother to two blacktype winners from the family of Taghrooda (755), while there is just the sole chance to buy one at Arqana, namely a filly out of Quintessenz (648).

River Boyne, an American Grade 1 winner who started his career with Gordon Elliott before heading stateside, stands at Tara Stud as the winner of five Group races from seven black-type successes overall.

A tough and talented racehorse, it is now over to his progeny to do the talking for him in the ring. Among those on offer at Goffs are Ballintry Stud’s half-sister to Italian Group 2 winner Chestnut Honey (931), Abbeville Stud’s half-sister to the Group 3-placed Virtual Rock (239) and Tara Stud’s half-brother to five-time winner and Listedplaced Live On Stage (608).

Yeomanstown Stud knows all about launching the career of a young sire and the operation’s Group 2 winner and French 2,000 Guineas second Shaman is in the right hands to succeed. A Wertheimer et Frere-bred son of proven sire of sires Shamardal, he also has an excellent female family being out of a Listed-winning Green Desert half-sister to Occupandiste, the dam of Mondialiste and Impressionnante.

The six-year-old has plenty from his first crop to represent him, notably at Goffs including Baroda Stud’s half-sister to Belmont Gold Cup winner Amade and Atalanta Stakes winner Nakuti (364), Ballintry Stud’s filly out of a full-sister to champion sprinter Sole Power (489) and Albany Stud’s colt out of a half-sister to Prix de l’Opera winner Speedy Boarding (506).

Shaman’s offerings at Tattersalls include Church View Stables’ colt out of a Lawman daughter of stakes winner and Moyglare Stud Stakes second Luminata (247), while at Arqana there is a colt out of Sisila (71).

Speedsters set to shine

As a Coventry Stakes-winning and Group 1-placed son of the red-hot No Nay Never, it will be no surprise to see Arizona’s first foals shine as they take to the sales stage. The five-yearold was placed behind Pinatubo in both the Dewhurst and National Stakes, and hails from a good American family that includes Grade 2 scorer Nay Lady Nay – the legacy of Scat Daddy continues to deepen.

A selection of his grandson’s first foals at Goffs include Ballybin Stud’s half-brother to Coventry Stakes second Continues page 6

Santa Anita, Gr.1, Orchid Stakes, Gulfstream Park, Gr.3, Violet Stakes, Monmouth, Gr.3 and placed 7 times including second in Beaugay Stakes, Belmont, Gr.3, Robert G Dick Memorial Stakes, Delaware Park, Gr.3, third in La Prevoyante Handicap, Gulfstream Park, Gr.3, Perfect Sting Stakes, Belmont, fourth in Glens Falls Stakes, Saratoga, Gr.3 Endeavour Stakes, Tampa Bay Downs, Gr.3 LAND FORCE (IRE) (2016 c. by No Nay Never (USA)), see above. 2nd Dam CASSANDRA GO (IRE), won 6 races at 3 to 5 years including King’s Stand Stakes, Royal Ascot, Gr.2, Temple Stakes, Sandown, Gr.2 King George Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.3, Lansdown Fillies’ Stakes, Bath, L and placed 7 times including second in July Cup, Newmarket, Gr.1, Ballyogan Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.3 Palace House Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.3, Summer Stakes, York, L, third in Swinley Stakes, Ascot, L; Own sister to Grey Eminence (FR); dam of eight winners from 11 runners and 13 foals of racing age includingHALFWAY TO HEAVEN (IRE) (f. by Pivotal (GB)), won 4 races at 2 and 3 years and £475,211 including Irish One Thousand Guineas, Curragh, Gr.1, Nassau Stakes, Goodwood, Gr.1, Sun Chariot Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.1 and placed 4 times including second in One Thousand Guineas Trial, Leopardstown, Gr.3 third in Matron Stakes, Leopardstown, Gr.1, Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Longchamp, Gr.1, from only 9 starts; Broodmare of the Year in Ireland in 2018; dam of winners.

MAGICAL (IRE), Jt Champion 3yr old in Europe in 2018 (11-13f), 12 races at 2 to 5 years, 2020 and £4,681,782 including British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Champion Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Pretty Polly Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1, Tattersalls Gold Cup, Curragh, Gr.1 (twice) and placed 10 times including second in Coral Eclipse, Sandown Park, Gr.1, Moyglare Stud Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1, Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Ascot, Gr.1, Darley Yorkshire Oaks, York, Gr.1 and Breeders’ Cup Turf, Churchill Downs, Gr.1

RHODODENDRON (IRE), Champion

Eldrickjones (201), Gortmore Stables’ colt out of a half-sister to dual French Classic hero Brametot (296) and Castletown Stud’s filly from the family of Cabaret, St Mark’s Basilica and Magna Grecia (508).

Another from the Scat Daddy line, the Scat Daddysired Legends Of War offers breeders a more affordable route into the blossoming sire line and this American Grade 3 winner can be found at March Hare Stud under the LM Stallions banner.

The six-year-old has three foals heading to Tattersalls, all consigned by GG Bloodstock and Racing, including a halfsister to two Italian stakes performers (1161).

Another rapid Group winner from that line is Whitsbury Manor Stud’s Cornwallis Stakes victor Sergei Prokofiev, an imposing individual who has been stamping his stock to rave reviews.

Whitsbury Manor has naturally got behind their exciting young sire and will offer, among a large number by the sire at Tattersalls, a halfbrother to Dick Poole Stakes third Tagline (566), a colt out of a stakes-winning half-sister to this season’s Sandy Lane Stakes winner El Caballo (607) and a half-brother to Listed winner and Group-placed Sam Maximus (690).

Goffs-bound lots include Awbeg Stud’s colt out of a winning half-sister to Prix de Fontainebleau winner and dual French Classic-placed The Summit (421), and Tullogher House Stud’s filly from the high-class family of Anthem Alexander and Dandy Man (24).

Starfield Stud has a brace of Farhh sons among their stallions and their rapid Palace House Stakes winner Far Above appeals as a fast and precocious sort to attract the attention of breeders.

Far Above is represented by his first crop of foals at Goffs, Tattersalls and Arqana, with Esker Lodge Stud’s filly out of Cherry Hinton Stakes winner Spinola (645), Tinnakill House’s colt out of a full-sister to American Oaks winner Ticker Tape and half-sister to the top-class sprinter Brando (706), and Russellstown Stud’s colt out of a half-sister to the dam of three-time Group 1 winner and new Darley sire Perfect Power (853) among the choice offerings at Goffs.

Those at Tattersalls include Houghton Bloodstock’s colt out of a Bertolini half-sister to Woodbine Mile winner Trade Storm (237), while at Arqana there is a colt out of Italian Listed winner Sopran Verne (686).

July Stakes winner Royal Lytham was one of the first sons of Gleneagles to retire to stud and his sole offering at Goffs comes in the form of a colt out of Althania (926), a Street Cry half-sister to Grade 1 winner Gabby’s Golden Gal

individual who has been stamping his stock to rave reviews’

and Grade 2 scorer Always A Princess who made 80,000gns to Kevin Blake online at Tattersalls. That, therefore, makes her son a half-brother to the progressive stakesplaced Maksud, a son of Golden Horn who has shown plenty of potential for Hughie Morrison and Thurloe Thoroughbreds.

A young buck to stand alongside the stalwart old hand Sixties Icon at Norman Court Stud, Molecomb Stakes winner and Middle Park Stakes third Rumble Inthejungle (right) is represented by two lots at Park Paddocks.

Both are offered by Mickley Stud, with one being a filly out of an Excellent Art half-sister to Italian stakes winner Six Hitter (203), while the other is out of a Captain Gerrard halfsister to two stakes performers including July Stakes second Lewisham (509).

Sands Of Mali, a son of the lesser known but very capable

Panis, was warmly received in his first season at stud having recorded wins in the British Champions Sprint, Gimcrack and Sandy Lane Stakes, as well as finishing a close second in the Commonwealth Cup.

Now ensconced at Ballyhane Stud, where he stood his second season for €5,000, he is represented at Goffs by Esker Lodge Stud’s filly out of an Australian Group 2 winner and a half-sister to two black type-placed runners (221), Church View Stables’ halfbrother to Boomerang Mile winner Real Appeal (340) and Summerhill Stables’ halfbrother to Coral Charge winner and Nunthorpe third Extortionist (485).

His four at Tattersalls include Prospect Stables’ granddaughter of EP Taylor Stakes winner Insight (246) –herself a full-sister to Irish 2,000 Guineas hero Saffron Walden – and Amy Marnane’s colt out of American Graded

winner Kya One (358).

LM Stallions’ Southern Hills is a precocious son of Gleneagles whose first foals are ready to sell and he will have two to go through the ring at Tattersalls – both consigned by GG Bloodstock and Racing – including a filly out of a winning Equiano half-sister to Listed winner Red Gulch (1363).

One shot at Classic winner’s progeny

Galileo Chrome became the first son of Australia to take up stallion duties, and the St Leger winner rates an interesting dual-purpose recruit to Starfield Stud.

His sole representative at Goffs is Ballykilroe Farm’s colt out of a Hernando full-sister to two black-type winners, including the dam of this year’s Prix de Royallieu heroine Sea La Rosa and Great Voltigeur scorer Deauville Legend (781).

‘Imposing

‘Starfield Stud has a brace of Farhh sons among their stallions and their rapid Palace House Stakes winner Far Above (below) appeals as a fast and precocious sort to attract the attention of breeders’

‘Where better to start than with St Mark’s Basilica (right). The son of Siyouni and Robert Scarborough’s excellent producer Cabaret won the Dewhurst at two before an explosive three-year-old campaign that saw him go unbeaten in the French 2,000 Guineas and Derby, Eclipse and Irish Champion Stakes’

Galacticos of miling world sure to be of great interest

There was definite star quality about the 2022 class of new sires in Britain and Ireland, with breeders spoilt for choice from the likes of European champion and dual Classic winner St Mark’s Basilica to world champion miler Palace Pier, and star sprinters Starman, Supremacy and A’Ali. Where better to start than

with St Mark’s Basilica. The son of Siyouni and Robert Scarborough’s excellent producer Cabaret won the Dewhurst at two before an explosive three-year-old campaign that saw him go unbeaten in the French 2,000 Guineas and Derby, Eclipse and Irish Champion Stakes.

An evidently impressive specimen, given he sold to MV Magnier for 1,300,000gns from Book 1, he retired to stud as the most expensive new sire, his opening fee being €65,000.

He is well represented with his first mares in foal at Tattersalls, including Norris Bloodstock’s Archangel

Gabriel, the dam of Pride Stakes winner Ville De Grace (1622), and Newsells Park Stud’s (on behalf of Normandie Stud) Radley Stakes winner Love Is You, a Kingman daughter of Coronation Stakes winner Fallen For You and a half-sister to multiple Group victor Glorious Journey (1900). Mares in foal to the champion three-year-old at Goffs include Baroda Stud’s American Grade 1 winner Home Sweet Aspen (1211), Churchland Stud’s Dazzling Beauty, by Dubawi and out of Prix Royal-Oak heroine Be Fabulous (1216), and The

Kitty Trice with the lowdown on mares in foal to new sires

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CHAMPION SIRE

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Castlebridge Consignment’s Oh So True, a winning American Pharoah half-sister to Yorkshire Oaks and Prix Vermeille winner Shareta and from the family of Shawanda and Encke (1274).

At Arqana, there are four mares listed in foal to St Mark’s Basilica, including Frankel’s daughter Frisella, who hails from a typically classy Juddmonte family (175). Another exceptional prospect is Palace Pier, the highest-rated son of Kingman and world champion miler. Sold to John Gosden for 600,000gns from Highclere at Book 1, he won twice as a juvenile and took the St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois at three. He carried on in that vein at four, winning the Lockinge, Queen Anne and Marois again, before finishing a neck second to Baaeed in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, on his last run, at four.

There is much to look forward to with Darley’s fiveyear-old in his second career, which started with a high-class book of mares. Among those offered carrying to him at Tattersalls are Genesis Green Stud’s Lights On Me, the dam of Horris Hill Stakes winner and close Prix Jacques le Marois second Light Infantry (1623); New England Stud’s Crystal Starlet, a winning daughter of Frankel out of Crystal Zvezda, a stakeswinning Dubawi half-sister to Crystal Ocean (1634); Newsells’ Waldfabel, a winning Frankel half-sister to St Leger winner Masked Marvel and Waldlerche, the dam of Arc hero Walgeist (1864); and Voute Sales’ Chartwell Fillies’ Stakes winner Axana (1888).

Buyers at Arqana have just one chance to snap up a mare in foal to Palace Pier, but she’s a good one, being Miss Saigon, a daughter of Galileo and 1,000 Guineas heroine Miss France (154).

Blue is the colour with another well-credentialled young sire in Space Blues set for his first test. The son of Dubawi was a top-class performer from three to five, with that all-important twoyear-old score on his CV too.

Among his triumphs were victories in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, Prix de la Foret and Prix Maurice de Gheest, while he has a sparkling pedigree as a son of a Challenge Stakes winner and from the family of Dubawi and Virginia Waters.

The Kildangan Stud-based sire has mares in foals being offered at Goffs, Tattersalls and Arqana, including Godolphin’s Goffs-bound World’s Fair, a Showcasing half-sister to 1,000 Guineas and Sun Chariot heroine Billesdon Brook (1237), and Valtina, Olive O’Connor’s Teofilo half-sister to Phoenix Sprint Stakes scorer Girouette, the granddam of this year’s Middle Park and Prix Morny winner Blackbeard (1307).

At Tattersalls, Jamie Railton offers Deep Dream, a Dream Ahead half-sister to Prix Jean Prat winner and proven Group 1 sire Havana Gold (1738), while among a trio at Arqana is Waldgorl, out of a half-sister to German Derby winner Waldpark and to the useful dam of St Leger winner Masked Marvel (427).

Just to add to the embarrassment of riches for Darley, Shamardal’s exciting Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Victor Ludorum has one mare in foal apiece at Tattersalls and Goffs.

At Tattersalls there is the Royal Studs’ Dusty Dream, a Dubawi half-sister to Group winners Call To Mind, Learn By Heart and Recorder (1515), while at Goffs Churchland Stud consigns Frame Of Mind, a daughter of Invincible Spirit and Argentinian Group 1 winner Safari Queen, which makes her a half-sister to Prix Saint-Alary winner Queen’s Jewel and stakes scorer Royalmania (1215).

There is, unsurprisingly, more choice at Arqana, where mares in foal to Victor Ludorum include the Aga Khan’s Daradiyna (505).

Sprinters on the scene

A’Ali is one of the speedsters who covered his first book of mares, this time at Newsells Park Stud, and being at such a renowned commercial operation can only be a plus

for Society Rock’s thoroughly likeable Norfolk Stakes and Flying Childers Stakes winner.

The five-year-old, who also won the Prix Robert Papin at two and a brace of Group races at three, has a number of lots in foal to him at Tattersalls, including Baroda Stud’s Always Dreaming, an Oasis Dream half-sister to Group 3 winner Feliciana De Vega (2095), Newsells’ Skrei, a stakes-winning daughter of Approve from the family of EP Taylor Stakes winner Sheikha Reika and Cheveley Park Stakes winner Lumiere (2188), and Baroda Stud’s Mystify Me, a Muhaarar half-sister to Prix d’Arenberg winner Al Raya and a daughter of Listed winner Fig Roll (2199).

July Cup winner and TallyHo sire Starman was the busiest new stallion in Britain and Ireland, covering 254 mares according to the Weatherbys Return of Mares, and he is well on track to keep the fire lit at the upcoming breeding stock sales.

Among the son of Dutch Art’s first mares in foal at Goffs are The Castlebridge Consignment’s Universal mare Universal Beauty, from the family of Del Mar Oaks winner Going Global (1207), while at Tattersalls the same consignor offers Berta, a winning fullsister to Flying Childers Stakes winner Caturra (1524), and Whatton Manor Stud presents Beloved, a Frankel daughter of Prix Chloe winner Love And

Bubbles and a half-sister to Japanese Derby hero Deep Brillante (1762).

At Arqana, there is Fontainebleau maiden winner Cool Esprit, a daughter of Invincible Spirit (495).

Yeomanstown Stud’s Supremacy was another blistering performer on the track and has the added bonus of being a son of in-demand sire Mehmas. The four-yearold looks well placed to get his second career off to an equally brisk start, with mares in foal to him selling on either side of the Irish Sea.

They include the Goffsbound Split Trois, a Groupwinning daughter of Dubawi consigned by Norelands (1063), and Orchardstown Stud’s High Gloss, an Invincible Spirit half-sister to Park Hill Stakes winner Silk Sari from the family of champion three-year-old filly Gossamer (1380), and at Tattersalls there is Kellsgrange Stud’s Olivia Valere, a winning half-sister to Listed scorer Valbchek and a relation to Prix de Diane heroine Star Of Seville (1445).

Sons of Kodiac have taken flight and the Irish National Stud’s Nando Parrado is one of the new recruits attempting to follow in his great sire’s footsteps.

A 150-1 winner of the Coventry, he showed that to be no fluke when second in both the Prix Morny and Prix JeanLuc Lagardere, while he was

also not disgraced when fourth in the Greenham the following season.

The four-year-old, out of a full-sister to an Argentinian juvenile Group 1 scorer, has four mares in foal at Goffs, including the Olive O’Connorconsigned Ownwan, a Kingmambo mare out of a stakes-placed full-sister to High Chaparral and the dam of three winners (1308), and the Irish National Stud’s Runway Giant, an American stakesplaced daughter of Giant’s Causeway out of the Gradedwinning Costume Designer (1498).

Tough and classy

At the other end of the distance spectrum, but an equally appealing prospect, is Chapel Stud’s York Stakes winner Bangkok, a son of Australia out of the prolific producer Tanaghum. He is a half-sibling to this year’s Royal Lodge winner The Foxes, as well as to Meydan Group 1 winner Matterhorn and the dam of European champion miler Ribchester. It is not hard to see why he is such an attractive dual-purpose recruit.

He has mares in foal to him at Tattersalls, including Chapel Stud’s Wild Flower, a multiplewinning daughter of Approve from the family of Sandown Mile scorer and Lockinge third Swallow Flight (2344).

Lope Y Fernandez, a Groupwinning and multiple Group 1-placed son of Lope De Vega

out of the late Dansil mare Black Dahlia, was another well-credentialled new recruit, in his case to the National Stud.

Among the mares carrying to the five-year-old at Tattersalls are Brook Stud’s Matron Of Honour, a Teofilo half-sister to Casamento (1422), Cheveley Park Stud’s Butterfly Kiss, by Medaglia D’Oro and out of Debutante Stakes winner and Moyglare second Laughing Lashes (1461), and Mickley Stud’s Kodiqueen, a winning Kodiac half-sister to Rockfel Stakes winner Isabella Giles (1994).

His sole offering at Goffs is Kellsgrange Stud’s winning Frankel mare Ghaaliya, a daughter of Sirenia Stakes winner and Queen Mary second Shumoos (1322).

Century Dream, an admirably tough and enduring miler, as well as being very well related as a Cape Cross half-brother to King Of Change, was a multiple Group winner during his 35-race career, with his highlight coming in the Group 2 Celebration Mile at Goodwood, which he won by four and a half lengths from Sir Busker, Regal Reality and Duke Of Hazzard.

The only mare in foal to him at Tattersalls is Norton Grove Stud’s Poppy Bond, a multiple winner from the family of Swiss Lake and Swiss Spirit (2267).

Smart performers on the track: Lope Y Fernandez (main), Bangkok (above) and Century Dream

Expect Sea The Stars offspring to make a big splash

LAST year’s foal sale was topped by a half-sister to German Derby hero turned Lanwades Stud sire Sea The Moon, by Frankel, at 550,000gns, and this year’s bunch contains a full-brother to him (628).

with this colt leading the line.

Another full-sibling, the three-year-old filly Sea The Sky, added the Listed Prix Joubert to the family’s roll of honour in September and was beaten only a length and three-quarters in fifth when upped to Group 1 level in the Prix de Royallieu last month.

The son of Sea The Stars out of Sanwa is consigned by Newtown Stud, who sold eight foals here in 2021 at a grand total of €706,500. They had 11 catalogued this time around, Continues page 14

The winner of that Longchamp contest, Sea La Rosa, is, as her name suggests,

GOFFS NOVEMBER MARES SALE

Five-year history

Year Offered Sold Aggregate (€) Average (€) Median (€)

2021 459 370 16,209,300 43,809 17,000

2020 199 173 5,479,600 31,674 14,000

2019 295 242 8,022,900 33,152 14,000

2018 363 235 6,289,000 26,762 10,000

2017 445 345 14,924,450 43,259 15,000

TOP TEN MARE VENDORS 2021 By aggregate

Consignor No sold Average (€) Total (€)

Derrinstown Stud 40 112,700 4,508,000

Godolphin 58 40,319 2,338,500

Aga Khan Studs 23 82,913 1,907,000

Baroda Stud 32 55,944 1,790200

The Castlebridge Consignment 31 37,110 1,150,400

Jossestown Farm 1 825,000 825,000

Ballylinch Stud 13 36,038 468,500

AK Thoroughbreds 5 63,800 319,000 Norelands 10 29,250 292,500 Kiltinan Castle Stud 5 35,900 179,500

TOP TEN MARE PURCHASERS 2021 By aggregate

Buyer(s) No bought Average (€) Total (€)

BBA Ireland/Yulong Investments 5 374,000 1,870,000

BBA Ireland 17 67,706 1,151,000

Barronstown Stud 3 326,667 980,000

John McCormack 2 365,000 730,000

Tally-Ho Stud 7 103,286 723,000

Northern Star Bloodstock 2 230,000 460,000

Jill L amb Bloodstock 2 217,500 435,000

MV Magnier 1 430,000 430,000

Mags O’Toole 2 179,500 359,000 StroudColeman/Mountarmstrong 1 350,000 350,000

GOFFS NOVEMBER FOAL SALE

Five-year history

Year Offered Sold Aggregate (€) Average (€) Median (€)

2021 893 732 25,581,300 34,947 22,000

2020 637 482 17,578,600 36,470 20,000

2019 (pt1) 645 524 25,721,800 49,087 30,000

2018 (pt1) 665 480 20,311,000 42,315 28,000

2017 (pt1) 660 536 25,540,750 47,651 27,000

TOP TEN FOAL VENDORS 2021 By aggregate

Consignor No sold Average (€) Total (€)

The Castlebridge Consignment 45 48,167 2,167,500

Baroda Stud 30 35,017 1,050,000

Rathasker Stud 27 28,944 781,500

Irish National Stud 21 36,119 758,500

Newtown Stud 8 88,313 706,500

Ringfort Stud 27 23,900 645,300

Ballybin Stud 18 26,417 475,500

Ballintr y Stud 14 32,179 450,500

Stanley Lodge 5 88,600 443,000

Oghill House Stud 11 39,409 433,500

TOP TEN FOAL PURCHASERS 2021 By aggregate

Buyer(s) No bought Average (€) Total (€)

Tally-Ho Stud 21 63,738 1,338,500

Yeomanstown Stud 13 62,692 815,000

Lynn Lodge Stud 14 53,786 753,000

Camas Park Stud 4 153,750 615,000

Pier House Stud 7 80,571 564,000

Juddmonte Farms 1 550,000 550,000

JC Bloodstock 8 68,125 545,000

BBA Ireland 18 27,889 502,000

WH Bloodstock 4 101,000 404,000

Ballyhane 6 65,000 390,000

The biggest names in the business

Earthlight GHAIYYATH

Shamardal’s record-breaking French Champion two-year-old. Kildangan Stud, Ireland

Dubawi’s best: World Champion and Horse of the Year. Kildangan Stud, Ireland

Pinatubo

Shamardal’s Horse of the Year. The best in a family of leading sires. Dalham Hall Stud, UK

‘Felix Natalis proved a bit of a slow burner but worth waiting for, as he has won half of his last six starts, namely a Newbury nursery, Ffos Las nursery and, most notably, the Goffs Sportsman’s Challenge at Naas’

From page 12

another by Sea The Stars, while also among the sire’s foals for sale here is the fullbrother to the ill-fated Sea Of Class, who landed the Irish and Yorkshire Oaks – and surely would have won at Epsom too

‘Danedream (below), who won eight of her 17 races in all in a stellar career, will continue to not want for opportunities in Japan’

had her connections gone that way, and beaten Enable in the 2018 Arc granted a better draw.

Her little brother out of Holy Moon (766) is consigned by Oak

Lodge & Springfield House Stud, and looks one of the highlights of the sale. Half-brother Waterville, by Camelot, might not have added further black type to

Curragh,

Pippin a choice pick Harry Angel is making a good fist of it as a first-season sire, with a stakes winner and

four black-type performers in Europe, one of which is Felix Natalis, whose dam Newtown Pippin (1268) looks one of the standout lots in the breeding stock sale.

Newtown Pippin, by Dubawi out of the Diktat mare Vista

Bella, was unraced herself but is related to a few winners around Europe, and has blatantly made a promising start in the paddocks.

That’s thanks to Felix Natalis, who proved a bit of a slow burner but worth waiting for, as he has won half of his last six starts, namely a Newbury nursery, Ffos Las nursery and, most notably, the Goffs Sportsman’s Challenge at Naas, by a comfortable two lengths and for which the first prize was knocking on for €50,000.

He then made a pretty good fist of his first run at stakes level when third behind Alpha Capture in the Listed Rockingham Stakes at York.

Bred by Ennistown Stud, the colt was a really cheap foal –just €3,500 at Goffs November – but cost a little more, €20,000, when he went through the ring again at the Sportsman’s last year.

He has done well for the Tom Dascombe yard, not to mention his dam, who is offered here via The Castlebridge Consignment in foal to Cotai Glory.

Aspiring buyers set One mare who definitely catches the eye is Danedream’s half-sister Aspiring (1188), offered in foal to Wootton Bassett.

Aspiring was unraced but is certainly well bred, being by the late great Galileo and a full-sister to Chester Vase winner Venice Beach and fellow Group 3 winner Broadway, as well as a halfsister to European champion filly Danedream and the Listed-placed Debutante.

the most valuable Flat handicap in Europe.

Dandream, by Lomitas, had a Group 1 haul which most famously featured the Arc and King George, though she was also devastatingly effective on home soil, winning the Grosser Preis von Baden twice and the Grosser Preis von Berlin.

Danedream, who won eight of her 17 races in all and amassed more than £3 million in a stellar career, has not got off to the most startling start in the paddocks but has bred the Listed-placed Faylaq – a 1,5000,000gns Book 1 yearling in 2017 – and will continue to not want for opportunities in Japan.

Her four-year-old half-sister, with the blue-chip covering, looks sure to be among the highlights here.

Ghaiyyath’s first go Ghaiyyath, bought for a cool €1,100,000 by John Ferguson as a foal at Goffs in 2015 and who went on to become the world’s highest-rated horse of

2020, has his first crop of foals selling this year.

Fifteen by the Kildangan Stud stallion, who started out at €30,000, were catalogued for this sale, and they include half-sisters to the dam of Group 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Line Of Duty (716) and to the champion sprinter Suesa (626).

The former is consigned by Roundhill Stud, while the sibling to Suesa hails from Ballybin Stud.

Line Of Duty was not far away from winning a Group 1 as a three-year-old, which would have added to his score at two at Churchill Downs, but sadly suffered a fatal i njury in training, while Suesa won the Group 2 King George Stakes at Goodwood last year, plus a couple of Group 3s at Chantilly.

Fad should appeal

Fadhaayil (1148) was a high-class performer herself

for Barry Hills and the late Hamdan Al Maktoum, whose Shadwell operation bought her for 220,000gns from the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 in 2013.

By the Prix Jean Prat and Jacques le Marois winner Tamayuz, nowadays doing service at Derrinstown Stud, and out of fine producer Ziria, a daughter of Danehill Dancer, Fadhaayil finished fifth in the 1,000 Guineas to Legatissimo and later chalked up an important stakes success in the Listed City of York Stakes. She ended her career with a fourth in the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes.

She is offered here carrying a full-sibling to her first foal Turaath, by Oasis Dream, who after the catalogue was released did consignor Derrinstown another decent turn by winning a Listed race at Geelong.

Turaath, who is trained by Maddie Raymond, was already a Group 2 winner, while she was not beaten far in fourth on her only crack at Group 1 level to date.

Year-younger half-brother Mobarhin, by Muhaarar, is also a winner, and the dam ought to attract plenty of interest.

Collector’s item

We led this section of the supplement last year on the wave of Galileo foals seeing they could have been the last available at public auction. His final crop is tiny but as it happens there is one by the late great sire available here.

The filly in question (758) is out of Gold Lace and offered by The Castlebridge Consignment. The dam’s best runner to date has been Gold Filigree, by Dark Angel, who won six times and came within half a length of earning Listed brackets when runner-up in the Lansdown Stakes at Bath.

Group 2 winner Emerald Commander, by Pivotal, appears under the second dam Brigitta, a Sadler’s Wells full-sister to Group 1 winner Commander Collins, who of course features under third dam Kanmary, along with 1996 US champion sprinter Lit De Justice, by El Gran Senor.

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Felix Natalis (blue colours, third from right): has been in fine form this season

LA PETITE COCO (1887) and Pearls Galore (1920) have helped put Paddy Twomey’s name in lights over the past couple of seasons, but the trainer consigns them both to Park Paddocks through his Athassel House Stud.

The former, by Derby hero Ruler Of The World, became Twomey’s first Group 1 winner when landing the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh in June.

The four-year-old, who sported the international silks of Team Valor, also won the Group 3 Give Thanks Stakes and Group 2 Blandford Stakes as a three-year-old.

Bred in Ireland by Bernd and Ute Schone, the filly is out of a half-sister to German Derby winner Laveron, and hers is the extended family of Group 1-winning sire Lomitas.

La Petite Coco won half of her ten races, while year-older stablemate Pearls Galore, a Haras de Saint Pair homebred, landed seven of her 17, topped by the Group 1 Matron Stakes a couple of months ago.

That built on previous victories in the Brownstown and Fairy Bridge Stakes – both Group 3 – and the Group 2 Lanwades Stud Stakes, while she also took the Listed Heritage Stakes.

By Invincible Spirit, Pearls Galore hails from the family of Haras de Saint Pair’s foundation mare and Prix Vermeille heroine Pearly Shells.

She is out of the Group 3-winning Pivotal mare Pearl Banks and is a half-sister to two black-type winners in Hanover Group 3 scorer Lucky Lycra and Longchamp Listed winner Pearly Steph, the dam of this year’s dual Group 3 winner Eternal Pearl.

Pearl Banks, a daughter of Pearly Shells, is a half-sister to three black-type horses.

Twomey’s Athassel House Stud also consigns another of the yard’s better performers over the past couple of campaigns in Rosscarbery (1906).

A Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 graduate, the four-year-old Continues page 18

LA PETITE COCO PEARLS GALORE ROSSCARBERY

All eyes on Twomey trio as action turns to Park Paddocks

TATTERSALLS

Tattersalls December Foals

vvWhere and when Park Paddocks, Newmarket; November 23-26

vv2021 results 734 sold from 906 offered (81 per cent) for turnover of 31,301,500gns, an average of 42,645gns and median of 25,000gns

Tattersalls December Mares

vvWhere and when Park Paddocks, Newmarket; November 28-December 1 vv2021 results 788 sold from 964 offered (82 per cent) for turnover of 62,412,700gns, an average of 79,204gns and median of 26,000gns

by Sea The Stars was bred by Gestut Wittekindshof out of Authorized’s daughter Rose Rized, a Listed winner, and is her first foal.

Rosscarbery has gone a step further, and had a particularly productive summer, winning twice at Group 3 level at Cork and Leopardstown, among five wins in all this year. She was beaten just a neck in the Prix Jean Romanet in August and subsequently remained at Group 1 level, earning prizemoney in both the Irish St Leger and British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes.

Classic siblings

Plenty stands out in the foal sessions of the December Sale, though it’s certainly impossible not to notice there are halfbrothers to not one but two of this year’s five British Classic winners.

Cachet and Eldar Eldarov, the 1,000 Guineas and St Leger winners, are the duo in the spotlight, their half-siblings being by Mehmas and Lope De Vega respectively.

Hyde Park Stud in County Westmeath consigns the halfbrother to Newmarket heroine Cachet (1033), as they did the yearling half-sister by Cotai Glory, who at Park Paddocks last month took the eye of Blandford Bloodstock to the tune of 350,000gns at Book 1.

Poyle Sophie’s filly foal by Coach House failed to sell at this auction five years ago, but Cachet’s exploits - she also won the Group 3 Nell Gwyn Stakes and was beaten a head in second in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, in addition to her Guineas glory – mean the Mehmas half-brother is surely destined for much better.

The colt by Eldar Eldarov’s dam All At Sea (1027 ), consigned by St Simon Stud, goes through the ring shortly before and will likely take similar high rank.

The lightly raced Eldar Eldarov, by Dubawi, has been a relentless improver and has justified the £480,000 spent at the breeze-ups last year, his campaign highlighted by his Classic success at Doncaster in September.

The following month at Longchamp it was the turn of Alpinista – who appears under this colt’s second dam Albanova – to extend family honour by winning her sixth Group 1 in the Arc. Her young relative should command plenty of attention.

Action in the ring at Park Paddocks during Book 1 of last month’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale

TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE

Five-year history

Year Offered Sold Aggregate (gns) Average (gns) Median (gns)

2021 906 734 31,301,500 42,645 25,000

2020 791 628 26,255,100 41,807 20,000

2019 921 663 29,338,300 44,251 22,000

2018 969 681 34,924,757 51,285 25,000

2017 957 742 32,668,200 44,027 25,000

TOP TEN FOAL VENDORS 2021

By aggregate

Consignor No sold Average (gns) Total (gns)

Genesis Green Stud 8 246,063 1,968,500

Barton Stud 30 51,783 1,553,500

Norelands Stud 18 83,056 1,495,000

The Castlebridge Consignment 20 51,500 1,030,000

Hascombe & Valiant Studs 2 472,500 945,000

Furnace Mill Stud 9 94,944 854,500

Tweenhills Farm & Stud 15 54,000 810,000

Mar well Park 8 93,500 748,000

Whitsbur y Manor Stud 20 36,925 738,500

Mickley Stud 32 23,063 738,000

TOP TEN FOAL PURCHASERS 2021

By aggregate

Buyer(s)

No bought Average (gns) Total (gns)

Godolphin 2 1,025,000 2,050,000

Blandford Bloodstock 7 254,143 1,779,000

BBA Ireland 25 60,04 1,501,000

Tally-Ho Stud 16 59,438 951,000

Yeomanstown Stud 9 81,222 731,000

JC Bloodstock 10 69,900 699,000

MV Magnier 1 675,000 675,000

Jamie Railton Sales Agency 9 72,778 655,000

Camas Park Stud 8 78,750 630,000

Stauffenberg Bloodstock 4 145,000 580,000

TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARES SALE

Five-year history

Year Offered Sold Aggregate (gns) Average (gns) Median (gns)

2021 964 788 62,412,700 79,204 26,000

2020 886 735 43,111,900 58,656 20,000

2019 812 668 57,790,900 86,513 27,000

2018 878 728 6 0,712,100 83,396 20,500

2017 857 675 68,315,300 101,208 25,000

TOP TEN MARE VENDORS 2021

By aggregate

Consignor

No sold Average (gns) Total (gns)

The Castlebridge Consignment 49 143,949 7,053,500

Newsells Park Stud 15 390,800 5,862,000

Shadwell 77 75,065 5,780,000

Godolphin 84 55,113 4,629,500

European Sales Management 8 326,0875 2,615,000

Goldford Stud 2 1,300,000 2,600,000

Juddmonte Farms 2 111,000 2,553,000

Baroda Stud 24 100,667 2,416,000

Barton Sales 45 50,767 2,284,500

Norelands Stud 8 277,500 2,220,000

TOP TEN MARE PURCHASERS 2021

By aggregate

Buyer(s)

No bought Average (gns) Total (gns)

BBA Ireland 42 134,321 5,641,500

Jill L amb Bloodstock 6 660,833 3,965,000

Blandford Bloodstock 27 115,981 3,131,500

K atsumi Yoshida 5 574,000 2,870,000

Tom Magnier 1 2,000,000 2,000,000

MV Magnier 1 1,800,000 1,800,000

Oceanic Bloodstock for White Birch Farm 3 546,667 1,640,000

Tally-Ho Stud 16 70,688 1,131,000

Amanda Skiffington 5 214,000 1,070,000

Mags O’Toole 4 252,500 1,010,000

Mare stands out

Insinuendo (1922) may not have scored since July 2021, when she took the Group 2 Kilboy Estates Stakes at the Curragh, but she has certainly had a fine 2022 nonetheless, posting the best Racing Post Rating of her career when defying insulting odds of 80-1 to be third to Emily Upjohn in the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot last month, for which she was rated 112.

She had not been beaten all that far previously when middivision in the Prix de l’Opera behind Place Du Carrousel on testing ground that would not have suited, and before that had enjoyed no luck at all in finishing runner-up three times on the bounce.

She was beaten threequarters of a length by Mother Earth in the Park Express Stakes, and then just a neck by Luxembourg in the Royal Whip and the same distance by Above The Curve in the Blandford Stakes.

The five-year-old daughter of Gleneagles was bred by Mountarmstrong Stud out of the Danehill Dancer mare Obama Rule, a granddaughter of Arc winner Detroit, herself the dam of Arc winner Carnegie.

Trainer Willie McCreery has had absolutely no reason to regret paying €110,000 for her at the Goffs Orby Sale of 2018.

Kingman highlight

Chaldean, by Frankel, is certainly in the mix for champion two-year-old honours, having taken his record to four victories from five outings in the Dewhurst at Newmarket last month, and his half-sister by Kingman (1025) should be another of the foal sale’s highlights.

Out of prolific and successful producer Suelita, the filly is consigned by her breeder Whitsbury Manor Stud, who for one reason after another are having a smashing 2022.

Suelita has also thrown Group 2 Mill Reef winner Alkumait and Listed winner The Broghie Man, along with Listed-placed duo Get Ahead and Gloves Lynch.

Chaldean has also won the Group 3 Acomb and Group 2 Champagne Stakes, and only Little Big Bear is in front of him in the 2,000 Guineas antepost market.

Costing Juddmonte 550,000gns at this sale two years ago, Chaldean is the dam’s priciest progeny to date, but his little half-sister could well claim that particular bragging right here.

Sultanina tasty

Philippa Cooper’s Normandie Stud has been more recently conducted as a virtual enterprise, having been a physical entity in West Sussex previously, but its dispersal

through Newsells Park’s consignment is certainly one of the features of the December Mare Sale.

Five Group and Listed winners raced by Cooper from her excellent families of Fallen Star, Foodbroker Fancy and Dolores, and in foal to elite sires like Frankel and Sea The Stars, will form part of the Sceptre sessions.

One who stands out perhaps a little more than most, by dint of her triumph in the Nassau Stakes, is Sultanina (1811), who is offered in foal to 2,000 Guineas and dual Derby winner Camelot.

Sultanina, by European champion two-year-old and Derby hero New Approach,

and out of a well-related Listed winner in Soft Centre, did not make the racecourse until a four-year-old but made up for lost time by winning three of her first four starts, most notably the Goodwood Group 1.

The 12-year-old has not been a prolific producer of runners, to put it mildly, but her only representative so far, Diavolo, is a winner, and there are others waiting in the wings. Better days, therefore, may well be ahead.

Moon should shine

It will surely be something of a wrench for the Davison family of Killarkin Stud in

County Meath to part with their homebred Mooneista (1910), though the same could probably be said for the vast majority of those consigning mares and foals at Tattersalls and elsewhere, and such sales are vital in helping to keep an operation’s wheels turning.

The four-year-old filly has been a flagbearer for the Jack Davison yard, running in mum Paula’s silks, and while rather like the aforementioned Insinuendo this year has been a frustrating one for hitting the woodwork rather than the back of the net, she has performed consistently well in defeat and registered a best RPR of 115 when second by half a length to Brad The Brief

in the Group 2 Greenlands Stakes.

Mooneista was beaten by an even smaller margin, a short head, by Ladies Church in the Group 2 Sapphire Stakes, while she went down by a neck to Power Under Me on her reappearance in the Listed Cork Stakes.

Her career highlight came last summer when winning the Sapphire, while her best effort at the top level came back in June when a fine fourth behind Nature Strip in the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.

By Dandy Man, she is out of the Group 3 and four-time Listed winner Moon Unit, by Intikhab.

‘It will surely be something of a wrench for the Davison family of Killarkin Stud in County Meath to part with their homebred Mooneista (left)’

Quesnay disperal will prove major talking point

ONE of the biggest, though also wistful, features of Arqana’s breeding stock sale will be the dispersal of mares and youngstock from the Head family’s Haras de Quesnay, which has been sold in its entirety and its stallions relocated elsewhere.

The famous Normandy establishment has been in the hands of the Heads since its purchase by William Head in 1958, but, following the death of Alec at 97 last year, the decision was taken to sell up lock, stock and barrel.

The most famous recent product of Quesnay is dual Arc heroine Treve, who was sired by Derby winner Motivator, one of the four recent resident stallions relocated.

A draft of around 40 broodmares, fillies and foals are to be offered for sale, including the last foal out of Trevise (166), Treve’s dam who has also produced blacktype horses Trophee and Trois Rois. She is a filly from the last crop of the late Le Havre.

Treve’s half-sister Toride (197 ), who has already produced Listed winner Lady Day and Group 3 runnerup Maximus, as well as a €260,000 Nathaniel colt sold to Stroud Coleman at the recent yearling sale at Arqana, is also to be offered.

They are to be joined by Perle D’Auge (31), from the top Saint Pair family of Pearls Galore and Pearly Shells, who is a half-sister by Le Havre to this year’s dual Group 3 winner Eternal Pearl.

Hello there You

Last year’s Rockfel Stakes winner Hello You (195) is set for a second spin in the Arqana sales ring, having been sold to Robson Aguiar for €350,000 from Mezeray at the Select Yearling Sale in 2020.

The daughter of Invincible Spirit was bred by Serge Boucheron out of Pivotal mare Lucrece, and was a six-anda-half-length winner on her debut for Ralph Beckett and Amo Racing.

The filly was then second to Sandrine in the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot and third behind the same rival in the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes, before a switch to Dave Loughnane.

On her third start for the Shropshire trainer she struck in the Rockfel, beating none

other than Cachet in the Newmarket Group 2 – she would return to the Rowley Mile the following year to plunder the 1,000 Guineas –with Oscula (who also sells here as it happens as lot 182), Jumbly and Majestic Glory among others in behind. She finished her season with a reasonable fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar.

Hello You has ultimately turned out to be a better twoyear-old than three-year-old, her best performance this year coming when third to Cachet in the Nell Gwynl.

She is the fourth foal out of the winning Lucrece, who has bred two other winners and is a half-sister to Prix Maurice de Gheest winner Signs Of Blessing.

Mala’ from heaven

This season’s Group 3 Prix Imprudence winner and Prix de la Foret runner-up Malavath (199) is another who catches the eye.

She was at least as impressive a two-year-old, winning twice including in the Group 2 Criterium de MaisonsLaffitte, and placed on her other three starts, notably when just half a length second in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar,

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where she was closing rapidly on Pizza Bianca crossing the line.

The three-year-old returned to the United States to have a crack at the Breeders’ Cup Mile last weekend, finishing fifth to Modern Games. The daughter of Mehmas is out of a sister to Ceisteach, a Group winner and the dam of Steip Amach, a dual Group winner and placed in the Prix Jean Romanet and Prix Rothschild. The blueblooded filly hails from the family of Group 1 winners Shergar and Shalanaya, while her juvenile full-brother Knight has won both his starts including the Horris Hill and is an exciting Classic prospect for KHK Racing.

Sweet proposition

This year’s Prix Vermeille winner Sweet Lady (188) looks set to prove one of the star turns of the sale, despite being unable to showcase her talents on British Champions Day on her one and only start outside France.

The daughter of Lope De

Vega was bred by Stratford Place Stud out of the Dansili mare High Heel Sneakers, and sold to Paul Nataf for €100,000 in this ring at the August Yearling Sale in 2019.

In the colours of Gemini Stud, the filly won twice at two for trainer Francis Graffard before a six-length victory over Prix Marcel Boussac winner Tiger Tanaka in the Listed Prix la Camargo on her first start at three.

Also the winner of the Group 3 Prix de Flore in October of that year, Sweet Lady struck in the Group 2 Prix Corrida in May this year, with her career highlight coming in the Group 1 Vermeille in September, when she stayed on gamely to repel Lilac Road by a head.

Sweet Lady is the seventh foal out of the Listed-winning High Heel Sneakers and a half-sister to two winners, including Lingfield Oaks Trial winner Toujours L’Amour.

The four-year-old is one of 17 top-level winners for Lope De Vega, the Ballylinch Stud stalwart who is making inroads as a broodmare sire.

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