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Featuring the foal and mare sales at Go s, Tattersalls and Arqana
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WHILE no doubt a strong signpost for sales day-trippers and tourists, as well as a marketing element, there’s definitely a pros and cons feel about the Sceptre Sessions amid the Tattersalls December Mare Sale.
The company would obviously have given it plenty of thought, but for vendors of a mare with plenty going for her but who does not earn a coveted position in the gold-coloured shaded section of the online catalogue for days one and two, you could be forgiven for feeling rather miffed.
Being designated part of the Sceptre Sessions pretty much guarantees an extra bid or two, whether warranted or not.
Of course, on the other side of the coin, for buyers who like the look of a mare outside of this gold standard, it’s undoubtedly an advantage.
The concept will probably remain, but whoever replaces Jimmy George as director of marketing probably won’t be short of advice or opinions on the matter.
The foal and mare sales are an exciting time of year, and Arqana, Goffs and Tattersalls have all come up with a great selection for buyers in France, Ireland and Britain.
Of the auctions covered in this supplement, Goffs will set the tone from Monday, and it is to be hoped that the ultimately general buoyancy of the yearling and horses in training sales continues into these two vital areas of the business.
As ever, picking out highlights is subjective, but from the ranks of fillies and mares who have been gracing the racecourse this year, A Lilac Rolla, who sells at Tattersalls as lot 1735 feels like she has much to recommend her.
Only three and lightly raced, the daughter of Harry Angel is one of six winners from seven runners out of Mejala. She completed a hat-trick in a Group 3 in the spring and was subsequently second and third in Group 1s.
Andrew Scutts, bloodstock managing editor
16-21 Tattersalls
Potential stars in the spotlight
Believing 4 b Mehmas - Misfortunate (Kodiac)
Tattersalls, 1740
Believing has steadily improved through three seasons of racing for George Boughey and Highclere, and while she may not have a Group/Grade 1 success to her name, she is every inch that level of competitor.
The daughter of Mehmas came into the Highclere fold when purchased for 115,000gns at the Craven Breeze-Up Sale, it being her second spin round the Park Paddocks ring after her yearling sale to JC Bloodstock for 70,000gns at Book 2.
The consistency which has defined her career was there from the get-go as the filly got off the mark on just her second start and proceeded to finish runner-up a couple of times in Group 3s.
She was on the mark second time out as a three-year-old as well, in Listed class, and then landed her first Group contest in the Prix Texanita, before winning again at Listed level.
Her first stab at a Group 1 was a sign of things to come as she finished a close third to
Regional in the Sprint Cup at Haydock.
This year, once again Believing struck on her second start of the campaign, in Listed company, and she has gone on to win at Group 2 level in the Sapphire Stakes. Arguably, however, it is her efforts at the top level which really set her apart among sprint fillies in training, with Believing having finished second, third or fourth in no fewer than five such contests.
Her highest Racing Post Rating of 118 came when runner-up to Bradsell in the Nunthorpe Stakes, and she unfortunately never had the chance to better it in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar this month after an episode in the stalls led to her withdrawal.
The daughter of Mehmas is the standout performer from three runners out of Kodiac mare Misfortunate, who has a yearling by Inns Of Court.
Deadly Nightshade
4 b Justify Fabulous (Galileo) Tattersalls, 1737
Only a few lots before Believing comes another four-year-old filly whose broodmare chapter
is already under way, as she sells via Norelands in foal to Wootton Bassett.
By Justify, sire of seven Group/Grade 1 winners already, Deadly Nightshade is out of Galileo’s unraced daughter Fabulous, dam of winning American Pharoah full-siblings and Joseph O’Brien stablemates Above The Curve and Thinking Of You.
Above The Curve leads the way as winner of the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary, while she also has victories in the Prix Corrida and Blandford Stakes, both Group 2, on the CV. Her yearyounger sister was a maiden winner who later placed twice in Group 3s.
More to the point, Fabulous, who has a 2024 colt by No Nay Never, is out of Mariah’s Storm, meaning she is a full- or halfsister to eight winners led by Storm Cat brother and sister Giant’s Causeway and You’resothrilling.
The latter is a bona fide blue hen, being dam of Gleneagles, Marvellous, Happily and Joan Of Arc, among other top-notch performers on the track, while another daughter, Pearling, is dam of Decorated Knight.
Gouache
12 b m Shamardal Guantana (Dynaformer) Goffs, 1184
Goliath put up one of the performances of 2024 when running away with the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in July, and his dam is being sold on the first day of the Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale. Gouache, who is being consigned by Millennium Stud, was a Listed winner on the track but will now be better known as the dam of the stunning Group 1 winner Goliath, a son of Adlerflug. The Francis Graffard-trained four-year-old gelding was a Listed winner at Clairefontaine last summer but has taken a huge step forward this year, winning a Longchamp Group 3 in the spring and then shocking his opponents at Ascot, which included Bluestocking, Rebel’s Romance and Auguste Rodin. He wasn’t fully wound up for his return to action last month in the Group 2 Prix du Conseil de Paris at Longchamp, but was still good enough to win in preparation for an ambitious tilt at the Japan Cup a week on
Sunday. Connections seems confident, but it will take the best performance yet of Goliath’s career to pull it off. Gouache has also produced Goliath’s year-older full-sister Gamine, a five-time winner in Germany, and has delivered four fillies on the spin subsequent to foaling Goliath. Her 2024 foal is a daughter of Blackbeard, and she will be offered next week at Goffs carrying to Baaeed. She went through the ring only last December at Arqana, carrying the Blackbeard foal of course, where she was purchased for €200,000 by Agrolexica International. At the time, Goliath was a mere Listed winner.
Mabs Cross
10 b m Dutch Art - Miss Maggy (Pivotal)
Tattersalls, 1724
The name of Mabs Cross continues to ring out even five years after the last start of her hugely successful career. By way of a quick recap, her seven career victories were topped by the 2018 Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye, while she also landed back-to-back editions of the Group 3 Palace House Stakes.
Mabs Cross was also beaten a nose by Alpha Delphini in one of the most memorable Nunthorpes, with Blue Point, Baattash, Havana Grey and Sioux Nation among those in behind.
The Armstrong family homebred, who was trained by Michael Dods, was famously sold for just £3,000 as a yearling. She was a vendor buyback at 1,100,000gns when offered at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale six and a half weeks after finishing her career on the track and it will
be intriguing to see how it pans out at Park Paddocks this time.
The daughter of Dutch Art has had three foals but no runners yet. Intriguingly, her daughter by Zoustar, Star Crossed, also sells here, the day before her mum, as lot 1287
Mabs Cross also has a twoyear-old colt by Wootton Bassett, named Montpellier, and a yearling filly by Mehmas. Sadly, her 2024 foal did not survive. She is sold carrying to the aforementioned Havana Grey, as part of the Tweenhills Farm & Stud consignment.
Tres Magnifique
11 ch m Zoffany Ticana
(Sholokhov)
Arqana, 188
The dam of David Menuisier’s latest Group 1 winner, Tamfana, is one of the standouts of the Vente d’Elevage catalogue. She will go under the hammer on the first evening of the sale, Saturday, December 7. Tamfana, her daughter by Soldier Hollow, won two of her three contests as a juvenile, including the Group 3 Prix Miesque at Chantilly, and was beaten just a length in fourth in the 1,000 Guineas in May, arriving fast but too late to reel in Elmalka and co.
Three further decent efforts in Group 1 company followed, before another Group 3 strike in the Atalanta Stakes at Sandown. Then came Tamfana’s day in the sun in the Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket last month.
Her dam, by Zoffany, will be offered in Deauville through Etzean carrying a full-sibling.
She is out of Ticana, a Listedwinning sister to Group-placed Timos – sire of Galopin Des Champs – and half-sister to Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes winner Sea Calisi and the dual Group 3 winner Tareno.
You Got To Me 3 b Nathaniel Brushing (Medicean) Tattersalls, 1753
This year’s Irish Oaks heroine You Got To Me will be the first winner of the Curragh Classic to be sold at Tattersalls in the year of her victory in more than 40 years.
She will be consigned by part-owner Newsells Park Stud, who stand her sire Nathaniel.
You Got To Me, who sold as a foal and yearling in the Park Paddocks ring, where she will be one of the star turns in this year’s Sceptre Sessions, scored on her debut as a twoyear-old last September.
She won the Listed Oaks
Trial at Lingfield in the spring, and then finished fourth in both the Oaks and Ribblesdale Stakes.
The Ralph Beckett-trained filly then beat 13 opponents in the Irish Oaks under Hector Crouch, her rivals led home by Content. The runner-up subsequently turned the tables on You Got To Me in the Yorkshire Oaks. Bred by Dullingham Park Stud and Sarabex, her dam Brushing, by Medicean, was a Listed winner, and she has also produced four-time scorer Ziggy. This is the Moyglare Stud family of Grade 1 Canadian International winner Relaxed Gesture. Beckett said: “As my first Irish Oaks winner You Got To Me will always be special. She’s a gorgeous filly who has always been a pleasure to train and without doubt she has a huge future ahead of her both as a race filly and ultimately as a prized broodmare.
“She has already given her owners Valmont and Newsells Park Stud Bloodstock 24 enormous pleasure and, whatever happens at the Tattersalls December Sale, it would be wonderful if she were to return to Kimpton Down to race on.” Andrew Scutts
BELIEVING DEADLY NIGHTSHADE
FOR SALE First foals
Kitty Trice on the stallions with first foals up for auction
BAAEED the world champion turf horse of 2022 – and second overall to the brilliant American champion Flightline in the global rankings – is certainly one of the headline acts with his first foals heading to market.
A sensational winner of six Group 1s and rated the best horse in Europe since a certain Frankel, Shadwell’s Beech House Stud resident has received some stellar mares in his two years at the farm, befitting his status. His ten catalogued representatives at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale are well bred and include West Blagdon Stud’s filly out of Group-winning Kodiac mare Cloudy Dawn (lot 902) and Norelands’ colt out of threetime Group winner Realtra, by Dark Angel (913). There is also Barton Stud’s colt from the family of European champion threeyear-old Vadeni 954), and the same team’s filly from the topclass family of Kingman, Oasis Dream and Zenda (1112). Baaeed’s sole lot at Goffs is Kilcarn Park’s colt out of a three-parts sister to Group 2 Rockfel Stakes winner Hello You (672), while the solitary foal on offer at Arqana is Haras de Colleville’s filly out of Galiway’s Listed-winning and Group 2-placed daughter Galova (154). Fellow Shadwell sire and Derrinstown Stud resident
Minzaal had 20 lots catalogued at Park Paddocks, with a further 34 at Kildare Paddocks. Highlights of the Sprint Cup and Gimcrack Stakes winner’s first crop at Tattersalls include Jamie Railton’s colt out of Italian Listed winner Purciaretta and from the family of Poet’s Word (537), and Kilmore Stud’s filly from the family of Group 1 winner and sire Zoffany (659). Also catching the eye are Starfield Stud’s filly out of Group 3 winner Sparkling Beam (697) and Castlefarm Stud’s half-brother to the Listed-placed Artos out of a Listed-winning half-sister to dual Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Stormy Liberal (881). Minzaal’s Goffs contingent includes Tara Stud’s filly out of a Galileo half-sister to Golden Jubilee and Sprint Cup winner Society Rock 449), and Tinnakill House’s half-sister to Prix de l’Abbaye runner-up Gold Vibe (547). Greenville House Stud offers a half-sister to Prix Jean Romanet winner Aristia (564), Knocklong Cottage Stud consigns a half-brother to Prix Robert Papin victor Atomic Force (572), while Moyglare Stud presents a colt out of a Continues page 6
The most Stakes winners of any first-season sire in 2024 - already the sire of the track-record breaking Big Mojo, winner of the Gr.3 Molecomb Stakes, Yah Mo Be There, winner of the L. Rose Bowl Stakes and Merveilleux Lapin, victorious in the L. Alson-Trophy. Serving With Style was also second in the Gr.2 Rockfel Stakes.
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Galileo sister to Cheshire Oaks winner Thoughts Of June (626). Coolmore’s Blackbeard landed the Middle Park Stakes, Prix Morny – both Group 1s –and Group 2 Prix Robert Papin during his sole season on the track and he is another well represented at the foal sales.
The son of No Nay Never had 14 lots listed for sale in Newmarket, including Fittocks Stud’s half-brother to this year’s Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes winner and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint runner-up Arizona Blaze (784), and Brook Stud’s halfbrother to the Group 2 Railway Stakes winner and National Stakes runner-up Beckford (793). Also set for Park Paddocks are Norelands’ close relation to Listed winner and Lowther Stakes second Cherry Blossom (910), and Plantation Stud’s colt out of Aqueduct Listed winner Bubbles On Ice from the family of Group 1 Cheveley Park, Moyglare Stud Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Lake Victoria (1040). At Goffs there is also plenty of representation for Blackbeard. For starters, Stanley Lodge’s colt out of Group 2 winner Pollyana (471) and Baroda Stud’s half-brother to Aqueduct Grade 2 winner Eternal Hope (545), The Castlebridge Consignment offers a halfsister to Group 3 Prix Sigy winner Marshman (548), while Mullinam House Stud consigns a half-sister to this year’s Group 2 Lillie Langtry Stakes winner Term Of Endearment (690). There were three Blackbeard foals catalogued for Arqana, including Haras de la Cour Blanche’s filly out of Haafithah, whose own dam is a sister to the dual Group 1 winner turned sire Tamayuz (59). Darley’s dual Group 1-winning juvenile and Commonwealth Cup winner Perfect Power (below) has 26 lots from his first crop catalogued at Tattersalls, and another four at Goffs. Among the Dalham Hall Stud sire’s number in Newmarket is Cobhall Court Stud’s halfsister to Oh So Sharp Stakes third Small Oasis (737) and the same team’s halfsister to Listed winner and Mill Reef Stakes third Global Applause (795). Whatcote Farm Stud offers a filly from the family of 1,000 Guineas heroine Virginia Waters (990), while Jamie Railton’s colt out of a daughter of Irish 1,000 Guineas runnerup Amethyst, a sister to 2,000 Guineas hero King Of Kings (1079), also looks appealing.
So too does Salcey Forest Stud’s filly out of a half-sister to top-class sprinters The Tin Man and Deacon Blues, as well as to the dam of this year’s British Champions Sprint Stakes winner Kind Of Blue (1167). The son of Ardad’s Kildare Paddocks tally includes Acorn Stud’s half-sister to Listed winner Second Generation (85) and Plantation Stud’s filly out of a Pivotal sister to Summer Fete, the Groupwinning dam of Queen Mary Stakes winner and Cheveley Park Stakes runner-up Raffle Prize (319). Perfect Power’s Darley colleague Naval Crown had six listed at Tattersalls, 24 at Goffs and one at Arqana.
The Kildangan Stud-based son of Dubawi won the Group 1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes at four and was also a high-class performer at two, placing in two French Group 3s and the Listed Pat Eddery Stakes at Ascot.
Among his number at Tattersalls are Acorn Stud’s half-brother to Listed winner Cosmic Vega and from the family of 2023 champion sprinter Shaquille (770), Castletown Stud’s three-parts brother to Italian Listed victor Calmly and from the fabled Aga Khan family of Shergar (781), and Ringfort Stud’s halfbrother to this season’s Listed Chesham Stakes runner-up Pentle Bay (889).
His Goffs line-up includes Baroda Stud’s filly out of a Raven’s Pass half-sister to Superlative Stakes winner and French 2,000 Guineas second Isaac Shelby (237), Milltown House Stud’s half-brother to this year’s Aqueduct Grade 3 winner Pipsy (618), and Tara Stud’s half-brother to dual Group 1 winner A Case Of You (654), who landed the Prix de l’Abbaye and Al Quoz Sprint.
Tomiko (263) and Greenville House Stud’s filly out of a Sea The Stars half-sister to the dam of Oaks runner-up Dance Sequence (469). There is also Summerhill Stables’ half-brother to Groupwinning and Group 1-placed sprinter Extortionist (606), and Kilcarn Park’s filly from the family of Group 1 winner and sire Equiano 855). Another rapid and precocious sort with his first foals selling is Overbury Stud’s Caturra winner of the Group 2 Flying Childers and Listed Rose Bowl Stakes at two, and third in the Group 2 King George Stakes at three. The son of Mehmas had 31 entries at Tattersalls, including Whatton Manor Stud’s halfbrother to Santa Anita Grade 2-placed Patentar (278) and Baroda Stud’s grandson of Group 2 Cherry Hinton Stakes winner and Phoenix Stakes runner-up Asfurah (338). Also by Caturra are Consign Ltd’s colt out of a New Approach half-sister to Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville winner and Group 1-placed Botanik (1001), Stringston Farm’s half-sister to Italian champion two-year-old filly New Collection (1044), and Byerley Stud’s filly out of a half-sister to the dam of top sprinter Marsha (1067). His Goffs batch numbers just two, in the shape of Lotus Bloodstock’s filly out of Listed Marygate Stakes winner Beldale Memory (321) and Greenville House Stud’s halfbrother to the Listed-placed Sesame Birah (428). Ballylinch Stud’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Bayside Boy has his strongest numerical representation at Kildare Paddocks, with 17 lots listed, while at Tattersalls he has six and at Arqana just the one.
In Deauville, Prime Progeny consigns a colt out of Shamardal’s daughter Glamour Queen 356). Tally-Ho Stud’s Group 2 July Stakes winner and Group 1-placed juvenile performer Persian Force is understandably better represented at Goffs than at Tattersalls, but his four lots at Park Paddocks do include Norris Bloodstock’s half-brother to the dam of 2023 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Unquestionable (253). Those at Goffs include Awbeg Stud’s half-brother to this year’s Italian Oaks winner
Moon’s winning daughter Aspen Gorl, from the formidable Fall Aspen clan 286).
Rathbarry Stud’s Prince of Wales’s Stakes and Cox Plate hero State Of Rest (left) had just the three foals at Park Paddocks listed, but they all have a pedigree to make buyers sit up and take note. First up is Tinnakill House’s filly out of Sandsnow, the dam of two black-type winners or performers and second dam of this year’s Group 2 Prix de Malleret winner Survie, who before that was second, beaten just a head, in the Prix de Diane (858).
Second into the ring will be AK Thoroughbreds’ halfbrother to Japanese Group 1 winner Deep Brillante (863), while Carrington Bloodstock later sells a colt out of a Shamardal half-sister to dual Group 1 winner Emily Upjohn 987).
State Of Rest had a further 14 lots catalogued for Goffs, including Kellsgrange Stud’s colt out of a Camelot sister to Group 2 winner Fighting Irish 280), Boherguy Stud’s filly out of a Lope De Vega half-sister to German 1,000 Guineas winner Nyaleti (359), and Knockainey Stud’s filly from the family of Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Pass The Peace (432). At Arqana, the sire has a colt
THE BRILLIANT STAYER AND EUROPEAN GROUP RACE RECORDHOLDER HAS PROVED A HIT AT THE NATIONAL STUD AND DEFIED THE BIAS TOWARDS SPEED, COVERING SIX-FIGURE BOOKS IN HIS FIRST TWO SEASONS
consigned by Haras de la Louviere out of Golden Horn’s daughter Topkapi (242). Space Traveller is another Irish-based stallion with his first crop selling as foals this year. Ballyhane’s son of Bated Breath had 35 lots listed at Goffs, while at Tattersalls his youngsters number six.
Those at Goffs include Collegelands’ colt from the fabled Moyglare family of Polished Gem, Kyprios, Search For A Song and Free Eagle (147), Mareshah Stud’s halfbrother to Italian Oaks second Must Be Late (357), and Olive O’Connor’s colt from the family of 2,000 Guineas hero Refuse To Bend, who also won three other Group 1s (792).
His six at Tattersalls include Barton Stud’s half-brother to this year’s Listed Windsor Castle Stakes winner Ain’t Nobody 385), Hawes Stud’s
half-sister to 2024 Groupplaced juvenile Midnight Strike (541), and Nuthurst Farm Stud’s colt out of Listedplaced Camelot mare Dance Legend (298).
If Stradivarius’s foals at Tattersalls prove as popular as their sire then vendors will be in for a treat at the sales.
The brilliant stayer and European Group race recordholder has proved a hit at the National Stud and defied the bias towards speed, covering six-figure books in his first two seasons.
His youngsters up for grabs at Park Paddocks include Spencer Sales’ colt out of a sister to the multiple Group 1 winner turned influential sire Manduro (1152), and Jamie Railton’s colt from the family of Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes winner and Group 1-placed Telescope (1179).
Those at Goffs include Castlefarm Stud’s filly out of a High Chaparral half-sister to champion two-year-old Shalaa (417), Olive O’Connor’s colt from the immediate family of Group 3 Summer Stakes winner and Cheveley Park Stakes second Flotus (507), and Ballintry Stud’s halfbrother to Dundalk Listed winner and Group-placed Zaffy’s Pride (550).
At Tattersalls, standouts on paper include Salcey Forest Stud’s half-sister to dual Listed winner and Group-placed Dear My Friend from the family of Zoffany, Rostropovich and Berkshire Rocco (575), and Ballylinch Stud’s half-brother to the Group-placed Jubilation and out of a Fastnet Rock halfsister to Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Red Rocks (822).
Stradivarius: the superstar stayer’s foals look sure to be popular at Tattersalls
Mares in foal to new sires
stud career was cut cruelly short.
COOLMORE’S Irish 2,000 Guineas, St James’s Palace Stakes, Eclipse Stakes and Sussex Stakes winner Paddington received a deservedly strong debut book this year and is well represented with his first mares in foal at the upcoming breeding stock sales.
Those at Tattersalls include Barton Sales’ High Hopes (1272), a Listed-placed Zamindar mare from the family of Middle Park Stakes winner Balla Cove, and Fittocks Stud’s Floria Tosca (1565), a Shamardal daughter of champion Islington. His Goffs cohort features Baroda Stud’s Silent Prayer (1190), a winning Muhaarar half-sister to dual Group 3 winner Nayef Road, also second in the Gold Cup at Ascot and Goodwood Cup.
There is also DB Consignment’s Dubawi mare Dufay (1063), dam of stakes performer Last Sunset and out of the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile winner White Moonstone, and The Castlebridge Consignment’s Naaluna 1310), a Soldier Hollow granddaughter of champion German juvenile filly Narooma.
At Tattersalls, the dual Group 3 winner’s sole mare carrying to him is Aston Mullins Stud’s Welsh Angel 2136), a Kingmambo mare from the family of Irish Oaks winner Moonstone, Derby runner-up US Army Ranger and Prix Saint-Alary victress Cerulean Sky.
Fittocks Stud’s Via Lazio (1564), a Lawman half-sister to Japanese champion colt Admire Mars, and Newsells Park Stud’s Atarama (1616), a Sea The Stars mare from the family of Hurricane Lane, Emily Upjohn and Harzand.
At Kildare Paddocks, Chaldean’s three mares are the Aga Khan Studs’ Massinga (1120), a Listed-winning daughter of Selkirk and dam of the Group-placed Mashia, The Castlebridge Consignment’s Operatic Artist (1132), a winning Zoffany half-sister to Listed winner No Needs Never, and Norelands’ Marie Antoinette 1179), a Kingman daughter of Italian Oaks heroine Contredanse from the family of Grade 1 Belmont Derby winner Deauville. Chaldean’s three at Arqana include Haras de l’Hotellerie’s Zarak mare Wild Lily (257), a half-sister to Group 1 winner Alenquer, and Haras d’Ombreville’s Patna 455), a daughter of Adlerflug from the family of Group 1 winners Paita and Potemkin.
a Group-placed daughter of Street Cry from the family of 2024 Dewhurst and Middle Park Stakes winner Shadow Of Light and fellow dual Group 1-winning juvenile Earthlight. Hillwood Stud offers Surfseeker (1361), a Golden Horn half-sister to Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Kitesurf, while Hascombe and Valiant consigns Amphitrite (1568), a Sea The Stars daughter of Listed winner Belle D’Or from the family of 2,000 Guineas hero and Group 1 sire Footstepsinthesand and Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Power.
His one remaining mare at Goffs following a withdrawal is Baroda Stud’s Stimulate 1038), a daughter of Motivator from the family of Shamdala and Shamadara.
Hall in 2024 was Triple Time, the Queen Anne winner by Frankel and out of the brilliant Reem Three, which makes him a close relation to fellow Group 1 winner Ajman Princess – the dam of 2024 Commonwealth Cup scorer Inisherin – and to the dam of Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Rosallion.
Kitty Trice with the lowdown on mares in foal to the likes of Paddington and co another exciting newcomer to the British and Irish stallion ranks for 2024. His Tattersalls team includes Avenue Sales’ Magic Blur (1366), a No Nay Never halfsister to Listed winner Look Around and fellow Group 3-placed Sara Lucille. The Castlebridge Consignment sends Morgan Fairy (1372), a classy Lope De Vega mare from the family of My Titania, My Oberon and My Prospero, while Barton Sales’ Queen’s Charter (1903), an Oasis Dream half-sister to Breeders’ Cup winner Queen’s Trust, also catches the eye. The only mare in foal to Mostahdaf at Goffs is Derrinstown Stud’s Alghabrah (1112), a Group-placed Tamayuz half-sister to Irish 2,000 Guineas hero Awtaad and the Listed-winning and Group-placed Mehnah. He also has one mare in foal at Arqana, Ombreville’s Joyous Spirit (646), by Siyouni and a granddaughter of multiple topflight winner Elle Danzig. Shaquille the champion sprinter of 2023, is set to be well represented with his first mares at Tattersalls. They include Jamie Railton’s Group 3 Dick Poole Stakes winner Romantic Time (1222) and Barton Sales’ Rapture (1269), a Pivotal half-sister to
At Arqana, Paddington’s trio include Haras des Capucines’ Good Hearted (181), a halfsister to Irish and Yorkshire Oaks heroine Peeping Fawn, and Fairway Consignment’s Smart Cookie (168), a Dubawi half-sister to black-type winners Joie De Soir and Chemistry.
Fellow Coolmore newcomers, brilliant champion two-year-old Little Big Bear and Battaash’s Groupwinning and top level-placed brother The Antarctic, are also well represented with their first mares.
Little Big Bear, a widemargin winner of the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes at two, has a handful of mares in foal catalogued at Goffs, including The Castlebridge Consignment’s Spinto Soprano (1162), a winning Invincible Spirit mare from the outstanding family of Nathaniel.
Castlehyde Stud, meanwhile, consigns At Dawn 1233), a Galileo daughter of Group 3 winner Coral Beach.
At Tattersalls, his entourage features Jamie Railton’s New Beginnings (1362), a Wootton Bassett half-sister to black-type winners Penja and Taos. There is also Cheveley Park Stud’s Frankel mare Love Story (1579), a half-sister to Saratoga Grade 1 winner Max Player and Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner Seahenge, and Orchardstown Stud’s Leoube (1600), the dam of recent Group 3 runner-up Diego Ventura.
Little Big Bear’s duo at Arqana includes Haras de Bouquetot’s Gherdaiya (348), a Shamardal sister to multiple Group winner French Navy. The Antarctic’s five catalogued lots at Goffs include Mzyoon (1047), Tara Stud’s Galileo half-sister to the dual Group 1-winning sprinter Society Rock, whose promising
Juddmonte’s Dewhurst Stakes and 2,000 Guineas hero Chaldean was hugely popular in his first season and his representation at Tattersalls includes The Castlebridge Consignment’s Relative 1340), a Sea The Stars halfsister to dual Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Jadoomi. Also in foal to Chaldean at Park Paddocks is AK Thoroughbreds’ Pretty In Plum 1456), a Justify daughter of Group 1 Phoenix Stakes winner Damson and half-sister to Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes winner Requinto,
Darley’s trio of newcomers for 2024 included the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and dual Breeders’ Cup hero Modern Games a Group 1 winner at two, three and four.
Among mares in foal to him catalogued at Tattersalls is Godolphin’s Switching (1330),
His Deauville duo are Ecurie des Monceaux’s Crowning 77), an Oasis Dream halfsister to Group 2 winner Inns Of Court, and Hotellerie’s Private Success (460), a close relation to Group 1 Prix de l’Opera winner Lily Of The Valley and a half-sister to Santa Anita top-level winner Mubtaahij.
As a prolific son of Dubawi from an exciting and immensely talented family, he’s another who has been well supported in his first season. Likewise new to Dalham
His Park Paddocks picks include Houghton Bloodstock’s Lope De Vega mare La Foglietta (1218), a half-sister to three black-type winners including 2024 Prix Robert Papin victor Arabie, and Mickley Stud’s Grateful (1868), a Zoffany half-sister to Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye winner Gilt Edge Girl. Appletree Stud offers Fearn’s Pippin 1878), a Dubawi halfsister to Group 3 winner and Prix du Jockey Club runner-up Best Name, while Baroda Stud consigns Miss Marjurie (1910), a Group 3 winner from the family of Marlinka, Marsha and Tiffany, the last-named a Group 2 winner this year and beaten just a neck in second in last Sunday’s Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern at Munich. Kildangan’s unbeaten champion two-year-old and Irish Classic hero Native Trail has multiple representatives at Tattersalls and Goffs, plus a trio slated for Arqana. Those at Tattersalls include
the Royal Studs’ Make Fast (1276), the dam of Group 2 July Stakes winner Tactical, who also scored at Listed level in the Windsor Castle Stakes and Free Handicap. There is also Church View Stables’ Marindja 1517), a half-sister to Listed winner and Group 1-placed Mandour and a daughter of Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Mandesha, and Meon Valley Stud’s Free Lovin’ (1633), a Roaring Lion daughter of Listed winner Hippy Hippy Shake and halfsister to another Listed winner in Twist ‘N’ Shake. Those at Goffs include Godolphin’s Shoolaa 1153), a Shamardal half-sister to Listed-placed Makinmedoit, and Ballintry Stud’s Light After Dark (1248), a New Approach mare from the family of King George and Prince of Wales’s Stakes hero Poet’s Word, and Group 2 Railway Stakes winner Beckford. Native Trail’s Arqana mares include Baroda Stud’s winning Gold As Glass (29), a halfsister to the Group 3-placed Son Of Man, and Elevage de Tourgeville’s Bourbonesque (302), a Kingman close relation to Group 1 Prix du Moulin winner Aqlaam. Shadwell newcomer Mostahdaf the Juddmonte International and Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner, was
Last to first winner of four stallionmaking speed tests and the Champion sprinter of his generation. The natural heir to the number one sire line for Royal Ascot two-year-olds.
Analytical (2088), a half-sister to Group 2 Prix Robert Papin winner Tis Marvellous, and Jamie Railton’s Lady Poppy (2108), a Kyllachy mare from the family of champion sprinter Overdose.
Multiple Group-winning miler Mutasaabeq stood his first season at the National Stud this year, but has since moved to India.
Mares in foal to him at Newmarket include Lanwades Stud’s Krona (1540), a winning Sea The Moon mare from the excellent family of Group 1 winner Madame Chiang.
Good Guess, the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner turned Tally-Ho Stud resident, was a notably busy newcomer to the stallion ranks this year and is duly well represented at the breeding stock sales.
His mares at Goffs include Ringfort Stud’s Uwontbelieveit (1080), a Galileo Gold halfsister to Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes winner turned Mickley Stud sire
Ubettabelieveit, and Annaca
foal to him due to sell at Tattersalls, namely Barton Sales’ Masquerading (2036), a winning Charming Thought mare from the family of Group 3-winning sprinter Kachy, and the same team’s Listed-placed Corazon Canarias (2164), a winning sister to Listed winner and Group 1-placed Noozhoh Canarias.
Capital Stud’s Castle Star, winner of the Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes and from the family of Chaldean, has three mares entered at Goffs.
Breeze and dual Group 2 winner Snow Sky.
His two mares at Goffs are both consigned by the Aga Khan Studs and include the Group 3-winning Azamour mare Zannda 1124). Fellow Haras de Bonneval resident Erevann is not short of mares in foal at Arqana.
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multiple US Grade 1 winner Raging Bull and French Group 3 winner Kubrick. Imperium Sales consigns black type-winning Lope De Vega mare Rubira (1396), dam of 2024 Listed winner Persica, while Barton Sales offers Queen Jo Jo (1481), a Group 3 winner by Gregorian and from the family of Queen Anne winner Allied Forces. Whitsbury Manor Stud’s multiple Group 1-placed performer Dragon Symbol has three mares in foal at Tattersalls, the first of them being Meon Valley Stud’s winning Lightning Spear mare Avon Light (1535), from the family of Group 3 winner Excellent Truth, also runnerup in the Group 1 Prix Rothschild in July. Next comes Greyridge Bloodstock’s Tartan Skirt (1873), a winning Mehmas half-sister to Molecomb Stakes second Bonnie Charlie, followed by The Elms Stud’s Victoria’s Angel (2154), a Dark Angel mare whose family features last month’s Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Vertical Blue. Group 2 winner El Caballo completed his first season at Culworth Grounds this year and mares in foal to him at Newmarket include Salcey Forest Stud’s Breda Castle (1809), a Dutch Art daughter of Listed winner Ice Palace from the family of Group 2 Lillie Langtry Stakes winner Pilaster.
Also at Park Paddocks carrying to El Caballo are Houghton Bloodstock’s
Bloodstock’s Carrier Wave (1083), a Nathaniel half-sister to last year’s Grade 1 Arlington Million winner Set Piece and dual Listed winner Alocasia. Also in foal to Good Guess are The Castlebridge Consignment’s Romagna Beach (1092), a half-sister to German 2,000 Guineas winner and Sussex Stakes runner-up Maljoom, and Chinook Stables’ Listed winner Moracana (1160). Those at Tattersalls include Consign’s Miss Gallagher (1214), a Dark Angel daughter of dual Listed winner Mrs Gallagher from the family of Group 1 winners Harry Angel, Xtension and Supremacy.
There is also Aylesbury House Stud’s Summer Flower (1220), dam of the Listedplaced Jakajaro and a close relation to the dam of Derby hero Masar, and Clara Stud’s Athbah (1289), a Shamardal relation of Grade 1 winners Wigmore Hall and Ocean Road. The son of Kodiac has one representative at Arqana in Normandie Breeding’s Ever Sun Shine (474), a Le Havre half-sister to German 1,000 Guineas heroine Txope. Rathbarry Stud’s high-class sprinter Bouttemont has a number of mares in foal to him catalogued at Goffs, including the stud’s own Villa Maria (1223), a winning Makfi sister to the Grade 2-placed Bletchley and half-sister to Listed winners Miaharris and Time Scale. Tinnakill House is due to sell five mares in foal to Bouttemont, including Listedwinning Showcasing mare Accipiter (1246), Feelinlikeasomeone (1351), a Requinto half-sister to dual Group 3 winner Kiyoshi, and Be My Lady (1371), a Duke Of Marmalade half-sister to Listed winner Eirene and Listedplaced Tyson Fury. The now India-based Asymmetric has two mares in
First to walk the ring of those in foal to the Middle Park Stakes runner-up is The Castlebridge Consignment’s Linda Barrett (1090), a winning Dark Angel mare from the family of Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes winner and Prix Morny second Signora Cabello. Then comes Sean Allen’s Thimbleweed (1279), a winning Teofilo sister to the Listed-placed Trefoil, and The Castlebridge Consignment’s Ally Pally 1359), a National Defense mare whose relatives include the unbeaten champion Ace Impact. As for that Arc and Prix du Jockey Club hero, Ace Impact duly received a quality debut book at Haras de Beaumont this year. Among his in-foal mares at Arqana are La Motteraye Consignment’s Poliana (16), a winning Kingman mare out of a Frankel half-sister to champion Midday.
The Castlebridge Consignment’s draft includes Cloudy (105), a daughter of Dubawi and outstanding racemare Moonlight Cloud, Beaumont themselves offer Near Amore (107), a winning and Listed-placed daughter of Amaron, while Jamie Railton presents Maldiva 434), a winning New Approach halfsister to two Group winners. Mares in foal to Ace Impact in the Tattersalls catalogue include Voute Sales’ Ray Of Sunshine (1275), a Dawn Approach half-sister to Gold Cup hero Courage Mon Ami. Newsells Park Stud sends Amber Silk (1673), a Lawman sister to Classic queen Just The Judge and dam of Cracksman’s Italian Group 2 winner Aloa, and Watership Down Stud offers Touring Production (1709), an Australia mare from the phenomenal family of Darara, Dar Re Mi and Too Darn Hot.
Fellow Jockey Club hero and champion three-year-old Vadeni has four mares in foal to him due to sell at Arqana, including the Aga Khan’s Behnasa (41), a Dansili halfsister to Group 1 winner Behkabad and the dam of Listed-placed Behtar. Also carrying to the Haras de Bonneval sire are Ombreville’s Sansibara (71), a Wootton Bassett mare out of a Galileo half-sister to Group 1 winner Plumania and Group 2 winner Balladeuse, both of whom have also proved quality producers, and Capucines’ Silent Seeker (132), a Nayef sister to Group 1 winner Ice
The beautifully bred Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed miler can count on Haras de Clairefontaine’s Alianza (179), dam of this year’s Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Metropolitan, and Gestut Rottgen’s Praise (342), a Galileo half-sister to the dam of 2024 German Oaks heroine Erle.
Also carrying to Erevann and selling in Deauville are The Castlebridge Consignment’s Pearl Of The Night (497), a Sea The Stars close relation to Group winner and producer My Titania, and the Aga Khan Studs’ Garaliya (672), a winning New Approach daughter of dual Listed winner Grand Vadla from the family of Vadeni.
His two at Goffs are also consigned by the Aga Khan Studs and include Arch mare Darkazinia (1118), dam of Listed winner Darzan and the Group 3-placed Dabawa. She hails from a typically excellent family, that of European champion Almanzor.
Another exciting recruit to
the French stallion ranks in 2024 was Onesto winner of the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris and placed in the Arc and Irish Champion Stakes. A descendant of blue hen Hasili and from that formidable Juddmonte family, Onesto’s Arqana team includes Capucines’ Group 2-placed Matorio (135), a half-sister to two black-type winners and from the family of Speak Of The Devil, the Group 2 winner who was desperately unlucky to be beaten a nose in the 2020 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches after not getting a clear run. Capucines also consigns Mintaka (427), a winning Zamindar mare out of Group 3 winner Minatlya and in turn dam of a Group 3 winner in Cartiem, while Haras du Long Champ offers the Zoffany mare Mona Vale (415), from the family of Group 2 winner and dual Group 1 runner-up Ana Marie.
Haras de Bouquetot’s Lusail winner of the Group 2 Gimcrack and July Stakes, and beaten just a head when runner-up in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes, had six mares in foal to him originally entered at Arqana.
Among them is Coulonces’ Pretty Darling (678), a winning Le Havre half-sister to Group 3 winners Our Last Summer and Peace Envoy.
Mutasaabeq: stood at the National Stud last year and is represented by Lanwades Stud’s Krona
Erevann: the twotime Group winner is represented by several in-foal mares at Arqana
Emily Upjohn and Teona brothers to prove popular
GOFFS
Goffs November Foals
When November 18-21
Where Kildare Paddocks, Kill, County Kildare
2023 results From 902 offered, 709 sold (79%) for turnover of €25,821,500 (-13%), an average of €36,420 (-9%) and median of €24,000 (no change)
Goffs November Breeding Stock
When November 22-23
Where Kildare Paddocks, Kill, County Kildare
2023 results From 444 offered, 327 sold (74%) for turnover of €40,751,500 (+59%), an average of €124,623 (+56%) and median of €18,000 (-25%)
Andrew Scutts assesses the lots available at Goffs
placed daughter of Barathea, has two other winners on her CV and is from the family of Harzand et al.
Emily Upjohn was third in the Prix Vermeille in September on her penultimate start, a contest won by Teona three years previously.
Her brother is part of the Baroda Stud draft (566), the pair being out of the Authorized mare Ambivalent, a Group 1 winner herself in the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh. She hasn’t missed yet from her three runners, with the trio all winners of black type.
Teona leads the way, with her career-defining Longchamp success being preceded by victory in a Listed event at Windsor. She ran really well on her swansong too, finishing third behind Yibir in the Breeders’ Cup Turf of 2021. Teona subsequently entered the Juddmonte fold when acquired for 4,500,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale.
Ambivalent also has the Dubawi full-siblings Al Hilalee and Imperial Quarter on her CV, the former winner of the Group 2 Prix Hocquart and the latter Group 3-placed.
The dam was picked up for €925,000 by Avondale Bloodstock in the mares’
section of this sale last autumn.
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Colour on show
Jackson’s thriller Ringfort Stud’s consignment at the Breeding Stock Sale includes the dam of one of this season’s leading two-year-olds, Big Mojo.
Jm Jackson’s (1199) first foal, by Mohaather, was the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes winner who fared well on all five starts for Mick Appleby and RP Racing, who also campaigned Big Evs.
Big Mojo, who cost 175,000gns as a yearling, was beaten just a neck by Aesterius when second in the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster, and arguably ran better again to be a close fourth in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Del Mar this month, keeping on well behind Magnum Force.
Jm Jackson, by No Nay Never, is sold carrying a close relation to Big Mojo as she was covered by Mohaather’s sire Showcasing this year.
Mother sibling has merit
Grenane House Stud offers a half-brother to Classic heroine
Mother Earth (677), who sells on day three of the foal auction.
While Mother Earth was by Zoffany, this colt is by Camelot, who is having another good year thanks to the likes of Bluestocking, Los Angeles and Luxembourg.
His dam, the Green Desert mare Many Colours, has produced five winners headed by the 1,000 Guineas winner of 2021, Mother Earth, who also struck at Group 1 level in the Prix Rothschild the same year. The extremely consistent sort was also placed seven more times in Group 1s, and won a couple of Group 3s.
This year’s Group 2 Lanwades Stud Stakes winner Ocean Jewel, a daughter of Sioux Nation, is also among Many Colours’ tribe, as is a fellow Group 2 winner in Night Of Thunder’s daughter Night Colours.
Dreams for sale
Two-year-old Flight Of Dreams 1192), who has not made the racecourse, is part of the powerful Baroda Stud draft at the breeding stock sale and has plenty going for her on pedigree.
A daughter of Sea The Stars, she is out of the Kingmambo mare Strawberry Fledge and is therefore a full-sister to Cloth Of Stars. The Darley sire was a quality operator on the track for Godolphin, winning half a dozen Group races, the highlight coming with a deserved success at the top level in the Prix Ganay.
Cloth Of Stars finished placed in no fewer than six other Group 1s, including on his swansong in the 2018 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, when a close third behind Enable.
Strawberry Fledge is the dam of two other winners and has a yearling colt by Wootton Bassett. This is the family of Light Shift and Ulysses.
Talking of Wootton Bassett, Ribchester’s half-sister Rainfall Of Colour (1158) – surely a candidate for the nicestnamed lot on offer – forms part of the Godolphin draft and is offered in foal to the emerging Coolmore sire.
Rainfall Of Colour is by Frankel and out of Mujarah, who didn’t manage a victory on the track for Shadwell and John Dunlop but has done much better as a broodmare, having been moved on for 18,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale of 2011.
The daughter of Marju produced four-time Group 1 Ribchester, now doing stud duty in New Zealand, to Iffraaj, and has five other winners to boot.
There is stacks of black type under Rainfall Of Colour’s second dam Tanaghum, whose 11 winners include Group 1 scorer Matterhorn, Bangkok and The Foxes.
Kingman trio
Fans of Kingman have a slightly less well-stocked selection of his foals to choose from than originally planned, with the half-brother to Jannah Rose and the half-sister to the highclass Arrest both withdrawn.
That leaves three representatives for the Juddmonte sire, the first through the ring being a filly offered by Alice Fitgerald out of the Bated Breath mare Under Offer (540), which makes her a half-sister to Group 3 winner Basil Martini. The dam has a yearling filly by Starman.
Another by Kingman is the colt out of the Group 3-placed Galileo mare Federica Sophia (624).
Offered by Moyglare Stud Farm, his third dam is the true blue hen Polished Gem, producer of Kyprios, Free Eagle, Search For A Song et al. Completing the Kingman trio, via The Castlebridge Consignment, is the first foal out of Bjorn Nielsen’s homebred Banshee (578). The winning daughter of Iffraaj’s third dam is Korveya, who bred the Woodman full-siblings Bosra Sham and Hector Protector.
One to behold Knight To Behold was campaigned typically shrewdly by Harry Dunlop to plunder a Group 2 at Deauville, along with the Listed Derby Trial at Lingfield – he went on to finish unplaced behind Masar at Epsom – and his Sea The Stars full-sister is among the highlights of the Breeding Stock Sale.
M’Lady Nicole (1187) is offered by Newtown Stud in foal to Night Of Thunder, having produced a colt to the Kildangan kingpin this year to go with her yearling colt by Lope De Vega. Her dam, the Sadler’s Wells mare Angel Of The Gwaun, also has the Group 3 winners Cosmo Meadow, by King’s Best, and Beauty O’ Gwaun
Classic hero Chaldean’s sister
sure to grab plenty of attention
Tat the foal sale. The April-foaled filly’s Classic-winning brother was himself purchased for 550,000gns at the same sale by Juddmonte.
Chaldean won the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes, Group 2 Champagne Stakes and Group 3 Acomb Stakes at two before his Classic heroics, and now stands at Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud. Whitsbury Manor Stud’s blue hen Suelita is already the dam of five black-type performers, including two sons at stud, with Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Alkumait preceding Chaldean in embarking on a second career. Suelita is also the dam of Listed winner and Group 1 runner-up Get Ahead, who sold to First Bloodstock for 2,500,000gns at last year’s
Tattersalls December Mare Sale. The previous filly foal out of Suelita offered at this sale realised 1,000,000gns to Juddmonte. Subsequently named Kassaya, the two-yearold daughter of KIingman shed her maiden tag at Nottingham in June. Suelita’s yearling colt by Showcasing went for 260,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last month. Whitsbury Manor Stud’s Ed Harper said: “The Frankel filly out of Suelita is very similar to her brother Chaldean in both shape and quality. She’s
Elizabethan era
This year’s Sceptre Sessions, on days one and two of the four-day Mare Sale, have so much strength in depth that picking out potential highlights is no easy task.
One who should definitely command a tidy sum, however, is Elizabethan (1731), part of The Castlebridge Consignment’s draft. By War Front, she was a
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THE FRANKEL FILLY OUT OF SUELITA IS VERY SIMILAR TO HER BROTHER CHALDEAN IN BOTH SHAPE AND QUALITY. SHE’S SLIGHTLY MORE FORWARD THAN HE WAS AT THE SAME TIME AS SHE WAS BORN A MONTH EARLIER. IT’S VERY EXCITING AS SHE’S PROBABLY THE NICEST FOAL WE’VE BRED
€9,000
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winner on the track, but to a degree whatever she did in that arena was a bonus given she is out of Galileo’s Classicwinning daughter Misty For Me, and therefore a full-sister to fellow Group 1 winners US Navy Flag and Roly Poly.
She is offered in foal to Wootton Bassett and has a yearling filly by American Pharoah and colt foal by Baaeed.
Out of the Blue
We’d already started putting this supplement together before this year’s Group 1 Prix
Marcel Boussac winner Vertical Blue (1770A) was trumpeted as a wildcard entry last Friday.
However, it would have been remiss not to include her in writing about the Mare Sale, given she is the only Group 1-winning two-year-old filly to be offered for sale anywhere in the world in 2024.
Trained by Francis Graffard for owners Gemini Stud and Argella Racing, the daughter of Mehmas was runner-up on her first two starts, before a gradual and successful step up as she got off the mark in a conditions race at Clairefontaine, won a Listed contest at Lyon Parilly and then nosed out Aga Khan hotpot Zarigana in a thrilling finish to the Boussac, France’s premier race for two-year-old fillies.
Vertical Blue is out of the winning Sea The Stars mare Krunch and hails from the exceptional Aga Khan family of Vadeni, Vahorimix, Val Royal, Vadamos and Valixir.
Graffard said: “I’ve loved Vertical Blue since she arrived. Physically, she has plenty of scope to improve, and her turn of foot and great attitude have us all excited about what she can achieve going forward.”
Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said: “To be offering the winner of this year’s Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac in the Sceptre Sessions of the Tattersalls
December Mare Sale is a genuinely exciting prospect.
“She comes to Tattersalls as a filly with real Classic aspirations for next year. Vertical Blue is a credit to her trainer and her owners, and promises to be one of the highlights of the Sceptre Sessions.”
Gravity’s pulling power
An even more recent addition was this week’s wildcard Zero Gravity (1485A), the dam of Kalpana.
Juddmonte’s three-year-old filly was arguably the biggest emerging star of the whole season, with progressive wins at Listed, Group 3 and Group 1 – last month’s British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes – level, and goes into the winter as the ante-post favourite for the 2025 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe with some bookmakers.
Her dam, by Dansili and from a typically classy Juddmonte family, was a
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Listed winner and has produced four other winners aside from Kalpana, though it is undoubtedly the Ralph Beckett-trained daughter of Study Of Man who has seen her stock rise.
There is an unraced, already gelded, full-brother to Kalpana registered in training with John Butler, named Net Zero, who was a vendor buyback at just 9,000gns at Book 3 of last year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.
The dam’s filly by Too Darn Hot realised a lumpier 425,000gns to Shadwell at Book 2 of the sale last month, while Zero Gravity herself sells at the Sceptre Sessions via Whatton Manor Stud in foal to 2,000 Guineas winner turned Juddmonte sire Chaldean.
Keeneland link for duo Frankel colts out of 2020 Breeders’ Cup-winning duo Glass Slippers and Audarya look bound to be among the highlights of the foal sale.
Bearstone Stud offers the youngster out of their homebred triple Group 1 winner Glass Slippers (927). The daughter of Dream Ahead was a belter on the track for her owner-breeders, winning the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland four years ago, while she also landed the Flying Five Stakes and Prix de l’Abbaye.
Not to mention winning four other races and finishing second and third in two other Abbayes.
Glass Slippers’ yearling colt by Dubawi reached 380,000gns in the Park Paddocks ring at Book 1 of last month’s October Yearling Sale, but returned to his vendor.
Audarya returned to the winner’s enclosure at Keeneland about an hour and a quarter after Glass Slippers, having won the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf.
That was not her only strike at the top level, for the daughter of Wootton Bassett also won the Prix Jean Romanet. She was placed in three Group 1s as well, including when beaten a short head in defence of her Romanet crown.
Genesis Green Stud offers her Frankel colt (936), whose page includes international stars Jim And Tonic and Mauralakana.
Rogue’s return
It will be interesting to see how Rogue Millennium 1752) goes, 12 months on from her fetching 1,650,000gns at the Mare Sale, when bought by the Heider family.
That was some upgrade on the 35,000gns she cost as an unraced two-year-old at the same sale two years earlier.
In between turns at Park Paddocks, the daughter of Dubawi won the Group 2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Listed Oaks Trial at Lingfield, and was also runner-up to Tahiyra in the
Group 1 Matron Stakes. Those performances came for the Tom Clover yard. Switched to Joseph O’Brien after selling here last year, Rogue Millennium has continued to run well, for example being placed in two further Group 1s.
She is a full-sister to seventime winner Khatm and a halfsister to Group-placed Naomi Lapaglia, a consistent performer this year for the Richard Spencer yard. Dam Hawaafez has an unraced three-year-old filly by Kingman and a two-year-old colt by Masar.
Rogue Millennium forms part of the Norelands consignment.
Cracking duo McCracken Farms is set to present just a couple of foals, but one is a Wootton Bassett half-sister to this year’s Dubai Turf winner Facteur Cheval (908).
Dam Jawlaat, an unraced daughter of Shamardal whom McCracken Farms picked up for 18,000gns at Tattersalls in 2016, has two winners from three runners, headed by her Meydan maestro, who is by Ribchester and earner of nearly £3.4 million in prizemoney. He was last seen finishing a good second to Charyn in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot. Jawlaat’s year-younger filly by Kodiac, Queen Of The Mud, will be more under the radar in these parts but won at Aqueduct and Keeneland last year and was a winner in black-type company last month at Santa Anita for the Graham Motion barn.
The dam has a yearling colt by Sottsass.
Buyers on red alert
Stay Alert (1734) has been one of Hughie Morrison’s star performers over the past couple of seasons and is offered by Kirtlington Stud on day two of the Mare Sale.
The five-year-old is by Fastnet Rock and out of the Galileo mare Starfala, who was no mean performer herself on the track, being beaten a short head in the Group 2 Park Hill Stakes.
She is the dam of five winners from five runners, with Stay Alert certainly doing her bit for the family fortunes in winning this year’s Group 2 Dahlia Stakes – by no fewer than three and a half lengths – as well as Group 3 and Listed contests at Newbury in 2022. What’s more, she ran second to recent Cox Plate winner Via Sistina in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes last summer and was most recently fourth behind subsequent Arc onetwo Bluestocking and Aventure in a really strong renewal of the Prix Vermeille.
Regional relation
Old Buckenham Stud’s quartet of foals go in two by two, as lots 742 and 743, and 923 and
924, the last of whom is an Oasis Dream half-sister to last year’s Sprint Cup winner Regional. The dam Favulusa was a Listed winner herself on the track and has produced three winners from five runners. The best of them is Territories’ son Regional, also a Listed winner at Haydock, but her brood also includes this year’s Group 1 runner-up Franz
(left) was the leading mare last year at Tattersalls
Andrew Scutts finds the lots likely to attract attention in Deauville
ONE of the younger but still leading lights of the Vente d’Elevage will be Daylight (178), who sells from Haras de Beaumont on the first evening of the auction. The two-year-old was a winner on her debut in the spring and third in the Group 3 Prix du Bois on her second outing, Daylight then struck at the same level when winning the Prix de Cabourg at Deauville by two and a half lengths. A crack at the Group 1 Prix Morny back at Deauville was next for the Patrice Cottiertrained youngster and she acquitted herself well to finish third behind Whistlejacket.
Sent to Newmarket for the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes, she again ran commendably to be runner-up to Lake Victoria. She was second again on her most recent start behind Sky Majesty in the Group 2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte at Chantilly.
Daylight is by Earthlight and out of the Listed-winning and Group-placed Latita, a daughter of Silver Frost. Daylight’s half-brother Upside Down, by Churchill, was a winner at Tarbes in May.
Pauline Chehboub of Haras de Beaumont said: “She’s a filly that has stood out for her consistency and talent since we acquired her at the yearling sales. She’s exceptional, with a high cruising speed and superb acceleration.
“We have no doubt of her potential over a longer distance in the future, and with our partners, after her Cheveley Park run we definitely wanted to enter her in the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket. She has a great future.”
Poulains pulling power Alianza (179) was unraced herself but is sure to be in demand as the dam of this year’s Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Metropoltan, by Zarak.
Consigned by Haras de Clairefontaine, the 12-year-old daughter of five-time Group 1 winner Halling is offered in foal to Zarak’s Haras de Booneval studmate and fellow son of Dubawi, Erevann.
Metropolitan, who begins a stud career at Haras d’Etreham next year, won three of his seven races for the Mario Baratti yard, headed by his Classic triumph at Longhamp in May.
The Stuart McPhee-bred colt went unbeaten in a couple of starts as a two-year-old, and also ran well this year to be placed in the St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix Jacques le Marois. One of Metropolitan’s half-
Daylight a leading light
siblings is Mister Charlie, a four-time winner by Myboycharlie.
Lace looks an ace The dam of top-level winner
Unquestionable will be offered by Normandie Breeding at the Vente d’Elevage as lot 144 Strawberry Lace is sold in foal to Wootton Bassett and is already the proud producer of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner
Unquestionable to the Coolmore sire.
Unquestionable had been a close second to Rosallion in the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere before his Grade 1 strike in California, and had come even closer to winning the Group 2 Railway Stakes in the summer, going down by a short head to Bucanero Fuerte.
He has not yet run for Richard Hannon, having switched from the Aidan O’Brien yard, but is due to stay in training as a four-year-old in 2025.
Strawberry Lace is a daughter of Sea The Stars and out of the Listed winner Crying Lightening. She hails from the family of top-level winners
Cityscape, Logician and Whitebeam, as well as Group winners Bated Breath, Didina and Suffused, among others.
Strawberry Lace’s four-yearold daughter by Night Of Thunder, Enjoy The Show, who has been placed a couple of times in a light career, also sells in Deauville as lot 185 She is likewise consigned by Normandie Breeding and is in foal to Mehmas.
Pastel looks fruitful
Look De Vega appeared to have the world at his feet when storming to a two-length victory in the Prix du Jockey Club in June, but it didn’t go so well in the autumn as he lost his unbeaten record in the Prix Niel and was then 13th behind Bluestocking in the Arc. With no sign of the son of Lope De Vega among the Al Shaqab or Ballylinch Stud rosters for 2025, presumably he will be back as a four-yearold, with connections no doubt still hoping he can become the superstar he threatened to be.
In the meantime, his winning five-year-old
Ribchester half-sister Graine De Pastel (80) sells via Haras de l’Hotellerie, carrying her first foal to promising young sire Lucky Vega.
Dam Lucelle, whose own dam was closely related to Lawman and a half-sister to Latice, has produced two other winners.
Psyche winners on show Almara (166) brings 2024 Group 3-winning form to the ring having kept on well to land the Prix de Psyche at Deauville in the summer.
The Carlos and Yann Lernertrained three-year-old has been admirably consistent, for while she may have only two wins from ten runs to her name, she has placed a further five times, including at Group 2 level, and last month only just missed a podium place in the Group 3 Prix de Flore. By Almanzor, she is a Zied Ben M’Rad homebred out of the Listed-placed Big Shuffle mare Molly Mara, also dam of the Group 3 winner Ilanga, by Penny’s Picnic. Alamara is offered through Aumonerie. Just five lots later, the filly who preceded Almara on the
Prix de Psyche roll of honour, Excellent Truth (171), also has a spin round the ring.
The four-year-old, consigned by trainer Mauricio Delcher Sanchez, likewise brings good, current form to the table.
The daughter of Cotai Glory, a Goffs Orby graduate, was bred by Sandra Russell out of the Teofilo mare Moment Of Truth, also dam of the Group
3-placed Memo De L’Alguer, by Cotai Glory’s Tally-Ho studmate Mehmas, and a halfsister to Group 1 winner Zafisio.
Excellent Truth has won four of her 11 starts, also scoring at Listed level at Deauville in July, and placed on a further four occasions, most recently when a fine second, beaten just a length by Mqse De Sevigne, in the Group 1 Prix Rothschild.
When December 7-10 Where Arqana sales complex, Deauville 2023 results From 866 offered, 668 sold (77%) for turnover of €47,137,000 (-17%), an average of €70,564 (-8%) and median of €20,000 (+14%)
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