‘He was a superstar, up there with the best sires in the world’

Lot 38 ch c Adlerflug - Anna Magnolia (Makfi)

Consigned by Gestüt Brümmerhof

The second foal out of a Listed-winning and Group 3-placed Makfi half-sister to Prix de Lutece winner Jackfinbar and Criterium de Saint-Cloud runner-up Willie The Whipper, from the family of recent Group 2 winners and champions Ardakan and Assistent.

Lot 52 ch f Adlerflug - Kizingo (Oasis Dream)

Gestüt Röttgen

A v aluable filly out of a winning daughter of ace broodmare sire Oasis Dream, who in turn is a half-sister to German champion two-year-old Erasmus out of Preis der Diana heroine Enora.

Lot 107 b f Adlerflug - Honey Honey (Kallisto) Gestüt Görlsdorf

This fil ly is out of a winning Kallisto half-sister to three-time winner Home

Please, who in turn is out of Honeygorl, a winning Medician half-sister to champion German stayer Hey Little Gorl. Further back it is the family of Gunboat Diplomacy, Lilac Road and Sumbal.

Lot 178 ch f Adlerflug - Palace Girl (Areion)

Stauffenberg Bloodstock

She is the first foal out of a placed Areion full-sister to prolific Group winner Palace Prince and half-sister to Prix du Cadran heroine and Gold Cup runner-up Princess Zoe, and is related to high-class siblings Peppercorn, Peppershot and Pepperstorm.

Lot 181 b c Adlerflug - River On The Hills (Sinndar) Haras d’Ombreville

The second foal out of a three-time winner and Listed fourth, who in turn is a Sinndar half-sister to US Grade 3 scorer Istan. The granddam Ronda took the scalps of Balisada and Cape Verdi when she won the Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket.

Lot 191 b f Adlerflug - Vintage Rum (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Gestüt Auenquelle behind Adlerflug wouldn’t have been needed, considering he’d got major talents like Iquitos, Ito, Savoir Vivre, Swacadelic and Wunder by that point but, alas, breeding in Germany isn’t quite so straightforward.

A half-sister to two winners, including this season’s Baden-Baden Derby Trial runner-up Vintage Moon, out of an unraced half-sister to multiple Group 1 winner and champion sire Soldier Hollow.

“It’s tough to convince German breeders,” says Baumgarten. “They’re so conservative, they wait years before deciding to get behind a stallion. Gestüt Karlshof, who have bred so many good horses like Samum and Kamsin, never booked a mare into him, and Gestüt Fahrhof, another leading breeder in Germany, did so only twice.

“Even as recently as 2018 I found it tough to sell nominations to him for as little as €8,000. I worked night and day to find breeders who’d use him. It was after he’d had a quiet season, with only one Group winner, but it’s not as if he didn’t have Listed performers and lots of promising younger horses. The same happened with Monsun in his day. It’s a shame the German industry has to be like that.”

ADLERFLUG’S breakthrough came in 2020, when In Swoop and Torquator

Tasso dominated the Deutsches Derby, In Swoop ran second in the Arc and Alenquer emerged as a useful two-year-old in Britain. Noone was in any doubt whether he was worth using now. Around 100 mares were booked into the sire for the

2021 breeding season at his revised €16,000 fee, including visitors from Britain, Ireland and France, but he got to cover around only a fifth of the entire book before his untimely death at the age of 17.

“It was the craziest day of my life,” recalls Baumgarten of events that April. “It was very emotional for me, and still is now. Breeders finally realised he was a champion, but he decided it was his time to go. We found out in the postmortem that he’d had a small gap in one of the ventricles of his heart since birth, and noone had ever known.

“He was a superstar, up there with the best sires in the world, but he was never allowed to show it fully; he gave only a glimpse of what he could do. He had a similar percentage of Group 1 winners to runners as Galileo or Sea The Stars, so imagine if he had covered the sorts of numbers of mares they did.

“Germany has had only two sires who had the potential to get international Group 1 winners in the last 50 years, and that’s him and Monsun.”

Asked what he thinks was the key to Adlerflug’s outstanding success, Baumgarten says simply: “Pedigree.

“That old Schlenderhan blood is very special, it has produced so many brilliant horses down the years, and it can upgrade ordinary mares. It also allows the potential for inbreeding, as we saw with Torquator Tasso.

“And it isn’t all stamina, either. The big thing with

Adlerflug was that he got stayers with speed, and serious acceleration, which I think helped him be so successful in other countries too.”

Baumgarten is immensely proud of his association with the sire, and is philosophical about his early passing and his frustrating lack of interest from German breeders, but there is another bittersweet edge to this story, as he doesn’t have a mare by him to breed from.

“It’s such a shame,” he says.

“I had a half-sister to Muskoka called Morning Eagle who was going to be my Adlerflug broodmare, and I was very excited by her, but she broke a leg in a training accident last year and couldn’t be saved.

“I don’t own any of the yearlings in his final crop, either, although I have the twoyear-old half-brother to Muskoka who I have named Master Of Light, as he really is a Master Of Light!

“He’s a typical Adlerflug, with white legs and lots of energy, although he maybe has a little more substance than some. He’s in training with Henk Grewe. I don’t know how fast he is, but hopefully we can have some fun with him.

“Perhaps I’ll buy an Adlerflug filly this year, for the future. I’m not sure, we will see.”

Fortunately, four of the halfdozen lots who make up Adlerflug’s last draft at the BBAG Yearling Sale are female, so Baumgarten and other buyers keen to acquire a filly by the best German sire since Monsun have a little choice at least.

Summer Yearlings Tattersalls

Somerville Sale

vvWhen Tuesday, September 5 vvWhere Park Paddocks, Tattersalls, Newmarket vv2022 results From 290 offered, 255 sold (88%) for turnover of 7,746,200gns (+36% on 2021), an average of 30,377gns (+30%) and median of 26,000gns (+37%) vvRecord price 160,000gns, paid by Richard Hughes Racing for Star Music, a Zoustar filly out of Fast Lily, from Plantation Stud in 2022

Bradsell

3yo b c Tasleet - Russian Punch (Archipenko)

Last year’s Coventry Stakes winner returned with a bang to Royal Ascot in June to win the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes, defeating a high-class field that included wondermare Highfield Princess, Australian ace Coolangatta and 2022 Queen Mary winner Dramatised.

A first top-level winner for his sire, Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud resident Tasleet, the Archie Watsontrained colt, who runs for Victorious Racing, had sold for just 12,000gns at the 2021 Somerville Sale, with Harry Dunlop and Highflyer the shrewd buyers.

With entries in the Nunthorpe and Flying Five on the horizon, this likeable colt will be given more opportunities to add to his haul before long.

Anisette

3yo bb f Awtaad - Tutti Frutti (Teofilo)

Derrinstown Stud resident

Awtaad is enjoying a fine season courtesy of a first Group 1 winner in Anmaat, and the Irish 2,000 Guineas hero could well have another this year in the form of easy Grade 2 San Clemente Stakes winner Anisette.

The three-year-old was bred by the Morera Partnership out of the wellrelated, if non-winning, Teofilo mare Tutti Frutti.

Tutti Frutti was a homebred

FORM of Philippa Cooper’s Normandie Stud, being out of Listed-winning Zafonic mare Soft Centre, a halfsister to Grade 3 winner and Ribblesdale third Dalvina, Listed winner French Dressing – dam of Hampton Court Stakes winner Mohaafeth –and stakes-placed Pretzel.

That makes Tutti Frutti a half-sister to Nassau Stakes winner Sultanina and to the Listed-placed Coconut Creme.

Tutti Frutti’s daughter was a 26,000gns purchase by Mark McStay’s Avenue Bloodstock in 2021, a couple of hours after Bradsell had gone through the Somerville Sale ring.

Relief Rally

2yo b f Kodiac - Kathoe (Fayruz)

A 58,000gns graduate from last year’s sale, when purchased by Highflyer from Knockatrina House Stud, this filly has already earnt back that sum and plenty more, a large chunk of that thanks to her flying victory in the Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury.

The Kodiac sister to Chipchase Stakes winner Koropick had been unlucky not to win the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot the time before, losing out in a head-bob with American raider Crimson Advocate. The pair pulled two lengths clear of the highly regarded Beautiful Diamond.

Relief Rally would be well fancied to win the Lowther Stakes at York next week.

KITTY TRICE

STAKES NEWMARKET

LOTS’

6 1 b f Mohaather-Tanouma From Hegarty Bloodstock

Savaanah Olden Times Lp 98 half-sister

11 1 b c Sands Of Mali-Three Decades From Tally-Ho Stud, Ireland (Agent)

Melbourne Memories Sleeping Indian Lw 99 half-sister

12 1 b c Saxon Warrior-Tilthe End Of Time From Ballyhimikin Stud, Ireland

Snazzy Kodiac Lp 83 half-sister

13 1 b c Aclaim-Today’s The Day From Bearstone Stud

Favourite Child Mattmu Lp 97 half-sister

18 1 b f Kodiac-Vandergirl A Partnership From Tally-Ho Stud, Ireland (Agent)

Caballero Chopper Mukhadram Lp 93 half-brother

33 1 b c Mehmas-Addictedtoprogress From Tally-Ho Stud, Ireland

Goodthingstaketime Canford Cliffs G2p 98 half-sister

35 1 b f Inns Of Court-Ajla From Tally-Ho Stud, Ireland

Mojomaker Mehmas Lp 92 half-brother

37 1 b f Acclamation-Alltherightmoves From Herbertstown House Stud (Co. Kildare), Ireland

Killybegs Warrior Saxon Warrior Lp 108 half-brother

49 1 b c Eqtidaar-Avon Breeze From Hegarty Bloodstock

Purosangue Aclaim G3p 106 half-brother

50 1 b f Ardad-Badweia From Whatton Manor Stud

Nisreen Raven’s Pass Lw 106 half-sister

51 1 b f Prince Of Lir-Barqeyya From Monksland Stables, Ireland

Royal Address Dandy Man Lw 98 half-sister

Yahsat Dandy Man Lp 90 half-sister

53 1 b f Ardad-Belle Dormant From Jamie Railton (Agent)

Ardad’s Great Ardad Lp 89 full sister 63 1 b f Due Diligence-Blue Lyric From Whitsbury Manor Stud

Deia Glory Kyllachy Lp 93 half-sister

Lot 111

Bay filly Blue Point - Dubai Fashion (Dubawi) Consigned by Barton Stud

A very well-bred daughter of Blue Point from Shadwell’s sensational family of Nashwan, Unfuwain, Lahudood and Aghareed – the dam of Baaeed as well as last month’s epic King George hero Hukum – Barton Stud’s filly seems to tick all the boxes for prospective buyers.

She is out of the Listedplaced Dubawi mare Dubai Fashion, a dual winner for Saeed bin Suroor and Godolphin and a daughter of Premio Ribot winner Oriental Fashion, by Marju.

Dubai Fashion is a halfsister to four black-type winners or performers, including City of Auckland Cup winner St Jean and Athasi Stakes second Bulbul.

Under the third dam, the Listed-placed Wijdan – a sister to Oh So Sharp Stakes winner Sarayir – is American Graded winner and Diana Stakes second Makderah, while Hamdan Al Maktoum greats Nayef, Nashwan, Ghanaati and Lahudood all feature in the family history too.

Lot 116

B c Too Darn Hot - Eastern Belle (Champs Elysees) Hascombe and Valiant Stud Anthony Oppenheimer’s world renowned Hascombe and Valiant Stud had catalogued 18 yearling colts at the sales this year, including this Too Darn Hot half-brother to the classy Megallan.

Darley’s champion juvenile and Sussex Stakes winner

Too Darn Hot hails from a formidable middle-distance family, and his first-crop juveniles were always likely to start flourishing from July onwards.

Chief among them is last weekend’s Group 3 Sweet Solera Stakes winner Fallen Angel, while Darnation was a ten-length winner of her second start at Thirsk for Karl Burke – they are just two of their sire’s promising progeny to have appeared, with many more set to grace the track over the coming months.

Megallan, this one’s halfbrother by Kingman, was an impressive winner on his debut at two at Newmarket and second to subsequent Breeders’ Cup scorer Yibir. This colt hails from a deep Oppenheimer family, as Eastern Belle is a Champs Elysees half-sister to Derby and Arc hero Golden Horn. Coronation Stakes winner Rebecca Sharp features under the third dam alongside Cheshire Oaks victress Hidden Hope, dam of Ribblesdale Stakes scorer Frankly Darling and Galtres Stakes winner Our Obsession.

Lot 207 B f Without Parole - Maid A Million (Kyllachy)

Boherguy Stud

Without Parole, the St James’s Palace Stakes winner and Frankel half-brother to Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tamarkuz, has his first yearling representatives in 2023, including four entered for this sale.

The first Group 1-winning miler by the dual world champion and sire

116 1 b c Too Darn Hot-Eastern Belle Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd. Megallan Kingman G3w 117 half-brother

128 1 b c Circus Maximus-Estonia From Jamie Railton (Agent) Kimngrace Profitable Lw 99 half-sister

133 1 b c Bated Breath-Fatal Attraction From Trickledown Stud

Take A Deep Breath Bated Breath G3p 102 full sister

134 1 ch c Bated Breath-Fauran Minster Enterprises Ltd. Urban Icon Cityscape Lw 115 three-quarter brother

148 1 b c Due Diligence-Gilt Linked From Whitsbury Manor Stud

Lincoln Clodovil G3p 109 half-brother

155 1 b f Kameko-Having A Blast From Trickledown Stud Le Tabou Charm Spirit Lp 101 half-brother

158 1 b f Sergei Prokofiev-Honky Tonk Sally From Jamie Railton (Agent)

Umneyati Iffraaj Lp 96 half-sister

163 1 b f Time Test-Ile Deserte A Partnership From Charlock Stud St Barths Cadeaux Genereux G2p 105 half-brother

189 1 ch c Cotai Glory-La Seine From Castledillon Stud, Ireland (Agent)

Laseen Dylan Thomas G3p 100 half-sister

199 1 b f Havana Grey-Last Echo From Culworth Grounds Farm

Oddyssey Ulysses G2p 95 half-brother

206 1 b f Due Diligence-Maggie Lou From Culworth Grounds Farm

Key Master Mastercraftsman Lw 96

209 1 b f Kitten’s Joy-Manasarova From Blue Diamond Stud Farm (Uk) Ltd.

Sicilian Defense Muhaarar Lw 108

210 1 b c Starspangledbanner-Margarita From Clonmult Farm, Ireland

Mixology Cape Cross Lw 94

225 1 ch c Tamayuz-Moghamarah From Tally-Ho Stud, Ireland phenomenal Frankel has been given plenty of support by Newsells, who stand him, his owner-breeders the Gunthers and from outside, and is one of the more fascinating firstcrop yearling sires.

Boherguy Stud’s filly is out of the dual winner and Listed-placed performer Maid A Million, a daughter of Kyllachy and the unraced Cape Cross mare Poldhu.

Maid A Million, the dam of two winners to date, is a halfsister to Fred Darling winner and Rockfel Stakes second Dandhu, while Poldhu is a half-sister to Falmouth Stakes winner Rajeem.

Rajeem has been an equally high-class broodmare, producing multiple Groupwinning sprinter and Group 1-placed Invincible Army, now a first-season sire at Yeomanstown Stud, as well as his Invincible Spirit brother, the Listed winner and Groupplaced New York City.

Lot 276

B c Bated Breath - Ronaldsay (Kirkwall) Stowell Hill Stud Ronaldsay has proved as talented a broodmare as she was racehorse in her 24-start career – and her latest progeny to be offered for sale is Stowell Hill Stud’s colt by Bated Breath.

The Kirkwall mare is now 19 and has produced six winners from seven runners, most notably Jersey Stakes winner Gale Force Ten, a tough campaigner for Aidan O’Brien and Coolmore who was also second to stablemate Magician in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and a half-length third in the Middle Park the season before.

The page goes back to Moyglare Stud Stakes winner and European champion juvenile filly Bianca Nera, the granddam of European champion older horse Postponed and Premio Lydia Tesio winner God Given.

Lot 287

B c Tasleet - Serene Spirit (Dark Angel) Barton Stud High-class sprinter turned Nunnery Stud resident Tasleet has managed to come up trumps with King’s Stand and Coventry Stakes winner Bradsell, from relatively small books so far.

With that in mind, it is to be hoped further support is on its way, and his third crop of yearlings could prove popular.

Barton Stud’s colt is well related as his dam is a twiceraced Dark Angel half-sister to One For Bobby, who provided a useful Group-race update when landing the Grand Prix de Vichy in July. With trainer Hughie Morrison eyeing a potential trip to the EP Taylor Stakes at Woodbine later this year, who knows, maybe a Grade 1 update could be on the page.

Serene Spirit and One For Bobby are out of the Listedwinning Invincible Spirit mare One Spirit, herself a daughter of Recite, a halfsister to the Sprint Cup and Prix Maurice de Gheest winner Diktat, sire of the topclass sprinter and stallion Dream Ahead.

Champion juvenile filly Park Appeal, the dam of Group 1 winner and champion sire Cape Cross, also appears on the page alongside leading stallion Iffraaj.

Al Karrar Dark Angel G2p 103 half-brother

233 1 b c Rajasinghe-Natty Bumppo From The National Stud Ltd.

The King’s Horses Time Test Lw 39 half-brother

242 1 b f Kodi Bear-Nuala Tagula From Gourneen Stables, Ireland

Lady Onyx Kodi Bear Lp 97 full sister

251 1 b f Starspangledbanner-Parakopi From Ballyhimikin Stud, Ireland

Grammata Twilight Son Lp 89 half-sister

258 1 b c Land Force-Phantom Spirit From Bearstone Stud

Daphinia Kuroshio Lp 84 half-sister

276 1 ch c Bated Breath-Ronaldsay Stowell Hill Partners From Stowell Hill Stud

Gale Force Ten Oasis Dream G3w 115 half-brother

Rousay Muhaarar Lw 106 half-sister

277 1 b c Tasleet-Royal Blush From Trickledown Stud

A Momentofmadness Elnadim G2p 109 half-brother

291 1 gr c Dark Angel-She’s A Worldie A Gentleman From Kirtlington Park Stud

Decrypt Dark Angel G1p 112 full brother

294 1 b f Starspangledbanner-Show Me Off From Castledillon Stud, Ireland (Agent)

American Lady Starspangledbanner Lp 93 full sister

295 1 b f Kessaar-Silque From Tally-Ho Stud, Ireland

Gaiden Mehmas Lp 84 half-sister

299 1 b c Profitable-Snooze From Oghill House Stud, Ireland

Quick Suzy Profitable G2w 106 full sister

301 1 b c Dandy Man-Society Gal From Plantation Stud

Galeron Camacho Lp 111 half-brother

Red Icon Acclamation Lp 87 half-brother

303 1 b f Arizona-Specific From Rockview Stables, Ireland

TATTERSALLS SOMERVILLE YEARLING SALE: previous appearance in sales ring