Lot 14A:
the only wildcard entry at the sale, this filly by first-crop sire Zoustar, makes £42,000. She was sold by Manister House Stud, and Luke Barry explained the circumstances behind her late addition to the September Sale.
"I know it is unusual to have a yearling entry as a wildcard – she was due to sell earlier this summer, but got a spot of ringworm and could not go," reported Barry. "Tattersalls Ireland has been really helpful to accommodate her and three weeks ago we made the decision to come – the ringworm by then had completely cleared up.
"She has shown well all week, the mare is good and this filly had plenty of fans. Zoustar's stock are really looking to be good sorts."
Dam Evil Spell (Dutch Art) was a Listed winner and Group 3 third. She has had one winner from one runner – the 2019-born Harmony Rose, who has finished third and fourth in Listed races in Ireland.
Successful purchaser was the Newmarket-based trainer Hugo Palmer.
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Lot 21:
this colt by Kodi Bear was bought for just €3,500 last autumn, and he sold for just under ten times that today when fetching £30,000 in the Newmarket sales ring.
He was pinhooked by Jonathan and Mary Hillman, who said: "Kodi Bear has a good end to last year and he looked like a stallion who was going to improve, and looks like he was going to make it. He has had a good year. This is just a lovely good-walking colt."
He was bred by O’Connor International Limited from the family of Shy Lady and Zafeen, and bought today by Aidan O'Ryan and Richard Fahey.
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Lot 27, Lot 31 and Lot 34:
three quick purchases by Ross Doyle of Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock on behalf of trainer Richard Hannon: Lot
27 a colt by the established sire Footstepsinthesand, who cost the new connections £62,000, bought from WH Bloodstock and Lot
31 and 34, a colt and filly by the young Darley stallion Profitable, who has had his first crop of runners this year. The pair by the young son of Invincible Spirit cost £50,000 and £48,000.
"Lot 27 is by Footstepsinthesand, a stallion with whom we have had a lot of luck with, particularly at this sale," said Doyle, adding: "We bought Larchmont Lad at the sale a bit ago. This colt comes from a very good home. He just a nice horse and he has been bought for Richard Hannon on spec."
Larchmont Lad was a Group 2 winner of the Minstrel Stakes and cost €110,000 at this sale in 2015. This colt was bred by Hunting Hill Stud, bought last year as a foal at the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale for 44,000gns by Grove Stud.
Lot
31 was sold by Church View Stables, and Lot
34 by Kellsgrange Stud. She is from a family known very well to Hannon – under the second dam is the four-time Group 1 winner Barney Roy, trained by Hannon to win the St James's Palace Stakes.
Profitable has had 21 winners so far, including Quick Suzy, winner of the Queen Mary Stakes (G2).
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Lot 43:
"He has been bought for an Irish-based client and will go back to Ireland,"reported Federico Barderini after going to £68,000 for this bay colt by the record-breaking two-year-old Kodiac and sold by Tally-Ho Stud.
"He is obviously by a very good sire and from a nice sharp two-year-old family," added Barberini. "He looks like one to get on with."
The dam Get Up And Dance (Makfi) won at three year, and is a half-sister to Pearl Secret, winner of the Temple Stakes (G2). It is the further family of Palacegate Episode and Dutch Art.
Get Up And Dance has had one runner so far – Boogie Time, a full-brother to this yearling and the winner of two races at two and three. He is currently on a career high mark of 87 and is trained by Karl Burke.
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Lot 70:
Tom and Davy Brickley, brothers from Ard Erin Stud in County Laois, get a result with their very first pinhook offering. Bought last autumn as a foal for €8,000, the colt was sold today to trainer Richard Hughes for £85,000.
"He was our very first pinhook," smiled the 29-year-old Tom Brickley of the February-born colt by Make Believe. "We've loved him the whole way through, he has been a champion. We are delighted to get so well paid, we were dreaming about it but never thought it would happen!"
Explaining what caught their eye when the brothers purchased the colt as a foal, Tom said: "He came from Brendan Hayes of Knocktoran Stud, who is great breeder. And we loved his action from the start, for a big horse he moved so well."
The colt has continued to develop and grow well, but sire Make Believe has done his bit, too, to help the brothers' resale plans. Make Believe is, of course, the sire of Mishriff, winner of this year's Saudi Cup, Sheema Classic (G1) and International Stakes (G1). He has also been twice Group 1 placed.
"We were hoping when we bought this colt, Mishriff would kick on and do something this year, and look what happened!" laughed the younger 22-year-old Davy, adding: "This lad has been a gentleman, he has never put a foot wrong. We were always confident coming here that he'd go well, but just didn't think he'd go that well!
"Everyone at home is part of the team, Mum and Dad and our sisters. Dad always had a mare at home, but we are the first to do horses in a bigger way. We kinda caught the bug and decided that we wanted to do this game, and we both learnt from the top farms."
Davy spent time with the Kavanaghs at Kidaragh Stud, and Tom was with Paddy Burns at Loughtown Stud.
"They were both great to us and we learned a lot from them. They gave us confidence to do this ourselves," said Tom, the pair clearly putting their equine on-the-job education to good use.
With the year we have had all endure, you might think that it might not have been a great time to set up a new pinhooking and equine venture, but for the Brinkleys the timing was just right.
"It was nice actually to move home and be at home, everyone is there together and helping us out,"said Tom.
Davy added: "We are upgrading the facilities at home and we have a few horse to break and pre-train and board mares, and we will be going back and investing again now!"
Richard Hughes was bought the colt on spec.
"I loved him from the minute I set eyes on him. He's not a two-year-old type, he'll probably be more of a three-year-old. His brother is rated 100, that helps when you're giving that sort of money, and he's a beautiful, loose-walking horse. I haven't had any by Make Believe before but I've been following his stallion career. Tony McCoy does our breaking so he'll start off there and we'll try and sell him between now and Christmas.
"I thought I'd get him for £60,000, but a nice horse like him is quite obvious so you have to stick your neck on the line as they're not cheap. I own him at the moment but I had to have him."
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Lot 81:
consigned by Knockainey Stud, this filly by Farhh is bought by Peter and Ross Doyle for £90,000. The filly is going to Richard Hannon and her sire was once again an added attraction for the buyers: Hannon trained the Group 1 winner King Of Change, the best so far by the son of Pivotal.
"She is by Farhh and Richard obviously had a very good horse by him in King Of Change," said Ross Doyle. "We have been very lucky buying off Nelius Hayes of Knockainey Stud over the years. She is a nicest filly Nelius has brought to the sales for a few years. She is medium-sized, she is nicely sized, and she has a bit of class to her."
Hayes was understandably delighted with the result, having bought the mare Imasumaq (Teofilo) here in 2019 for 16,000gns and carrying this filly.
"A friend of mine and neighbour Michael O'Dwyer bought her here at the December Sale," recalled Hayes. "This has been a fantastic result. Everybody just seemed to like this filly. We had no expectations of anything like that coming, but as the days go one you get hopeful!
"I am delighted Richard and Ross got her, I have had horses in training with Richard. Ross's dad Peter bought my first mare a long time ago, she was called Rain Dancing. They are fantastic judges, if she has any luck at all she will win where she is going," said Hayes.
Of the sale moving from its usual Fairyhouse base to Newmarket for the second year in succession, Hayes was pleased that the decision had been made by Tattersalls Ireland well in advance of this week.
"It was a difficult decision for Tattersalls to make, but I think they did the right thing making a call that they were going to stick to this date and sell here. In hindsight perhaps they could have been time to go back to Fairyhouse, but it gave us all some certainty by making a decision back in the summer," said Hayes, who will be back in Newmarket at the beginning of October with yearlings for Book 1, 2 and 3.
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Lot 111:
becomes the day's first lot to fetch a six-figure sum, the colt by Churchill making £110,000 bought by Adam Driver signing as Global Equine Group.
The colt was bred by Mark Hanly with his mum Stephanie having bought the mare Komedy (Kodiac) here at the 2015 Autumn Horses In Training Sale for 9,000gns.
"He is a very taking individual and I thought to myself that he'd be stand out at this sale. He is a magnificent looking animal and, it is early days, but the sire is ticking all the boxes," said Hanly of Grange Hill Stud.
"It is a very nice fast family, and he is out of a Kodiac mare and they are working very very well at the moment on the track. He is just a magnificent colt and a very good sale to have him in.
"Komedy has already bred Internationaldream, who has black-type, and Jessica Harrington has the full-sister and from what I hear she is promising. The mare is a typical Kodiac and when I first saw Churchill at stud, I absolutely loved him. He has a big physique and would suit a Kodiac mare, and the cross suited, too – Danehill and Galileo. The mare is barren this year, but had an early covering to Saxon Warrior."
Purchaser Driver said: "I loved this horse. We have two Churchills in training with Tom Clover, both of which are really nice. We like what we have got so far."
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Lot 129:
Lambourn-based trainer Tom Ward, on behalf of a buying group signed as Ward / Steve Bradley, went to €80,000 to buy the Dark Angel filly sold by Grangemore Stud, a pinhook purchased for 20,000gns at last year's Tattersalls December Sale.
She is out of Light My Fire (Dragon Pulse), who won twice at two and was placed twice including in the Firth of Clyde Stakes (G3).
"Her dam proved herself at stakes class, and this filly is for a new client. I am hoping she should be running fairly early and we can have a lot of fun with her," said Ward. "It is exciting to have a filly like her in the yard, fingers crossed we can have a bit of fun with her. We will make a plan for hr over the next few days.
Of the sale so far, he said: "Trade seems to be strong, some nice horses around – whenever there is a sale at Tattersalls it makes a big difference, its gets all the right clients here. It makes our lives harder to buy, but we try!"
Dark Angel's leading filly is Mecca's Angel, a ten-time winner with back-to-back successes in the 2015 and 2016 Nunthorpe Stakes (G1).
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With 107 lots
listed as sold, the in-running stats for Day 1 of the September Sale is as follows:
Average: £26,140
Median: £20,000
Aggregate: £2,797,000
Top price: £110,000
Sold for £50,000+: 14
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Lot 154:
the first time in the history of sales day live someone has admitted to having pinhooked a foal while in bed!
Irishman Leon Carrick, who works as a guard in his "spare" time, had come in off a night shift and was keeping an eye on the progress of last year's Tattersalls December Foal Sale from his bedroom. He takes up the story....
"We actually bought this horse lying in bed!" laughed 27-year-old Carrick. "It was online shopping! I came in after work, loved him when I saw him on the video, how he walked, how he showed himself. So I got a friend of mine who was over here to check him out, lucky enough he got him for 7,500gns, never in our wildest dreams did we expect to get £105,000 for him today!
"A special thanks goes to my uncle Johnny Collins, he owns him jointly with myself and my girlfriend Michelle Gibbons, and thanks also to trainer Richard Brabazon, he allowed me to use his facilities to prep the horse. I worked for Richard when I was younger – from college I'd go down to Dick at the weekends. Thankfully we struck up a nice little relationship whereby he trains me and lets me have use of his facilities, it is definitely special thanks to him."
Of plans for incoming cash, some will be spent on reinvestment into foals, but some of the cash has been earmarked for a rather different plan.
"Michelle wants to go to college to study midwifery, and so we can pay for it now," smiled Carrick. "We buy a few cheap foals every year, hoping that something like this will happen – this will give us a great boost now. Hopefully, we can go forward now and buy a few more better quality foals. I am delighted, over the moon!
"I've worked on stud farms such as Coolmore, the Aga Khan, and went to New Zealand, and said I'd better go and do it myself! Maybe if we get a few more results like this, we can do this full-time. That might be the plan."
Carrick posted photos last on social media of the colt asleep in his stable in the Solario yard at Tattersalls, quite obviously with a very laid-back attitude to life.
"He is an absolute gent to do anything, he never put a foot wrong all winter. He has his little quirks, and you need to get used to them, but he has a great temperament. I sat besides him last night in the straw box and he put his head across me and fell asleep. The hardest part at the sales has been to get him up after he has been lying down!
"I think Ardad breeds a nice temperament into the horse and he definitely upgrades his mares."
The colt was bought by Robson Aguiar as a racing prospect for Amo Racing.
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Lot 175 and Lot 176:
two consecutively-offered yearlings, by two new sires and consigned by the two different stallion farms, strike it hot.
Lot
175, consigned by Mickley Stud and by the farm's Teofilo sire Massaat, is bought by Ed Dunlop / JD Moore for £43,000 , while Lot
176, a bay colt from Tally-Ho Stud and by the Kodiac sire Kessaar, makes £50,000. He was bought by Peter and Ross Doyle.
The Massaat is out of Miss Lesley (Needwood Blade), a two-time two-year-old winner, and dam of three winners, two of whom won at two.
The Kessaar colt is out of Miss Purity Pinker (One Cool Cat), who was placed four times at two and three and is dam of one winner from one runner. A son of Vadamos, he has won five races.
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Lot 166:
a colt by Tamayuz from Kilmore Stud makes 70,000, bought by Dermot Farrington.
He is out of Mikandy (Arcano), a half-sister to the dam of the Group 1 winner Eqtidaat and the Group 1-placed Massaat, to the Group 3 winner Dolled Up, to Zieting, the dam of the black-type winners Combat Zone, Scottish, Royal Empire and the Group-placed Bikini Babe. It is the further family of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (G1) winner Precieuse.
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Lot 168:
becomes Fascinating Rock's fifth-best priced auction ring yearling when fetching £75,000 bought by Kilbride Equine. He is a half-brother to Nahoodh (Clodovil), winner of the Falmouth Stakes (G1), and the dam of the Listed winner Hawkesbury.
His dam Mise (Indian Ridge) is the dam of five winners from eight runners and 11 foals of racing age.
He was sold by Ballylinch Stud.
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Lot 217:
becomes the session's new top price, the chesnut colt by No Nay Never fetching 130,000 bought online by the Global Equine Group from Castlehyde Stud.
"We brought him here to stand out," said Paddy Fleming, manager at Coolmore's Castlehyde Stud. "The mare has been good to us – Sarsons Risk [2019, Caravaggio] looks quite promising and was third first time out at Newbury since the catalogue was published. He is due to run at Newmarket on Thursday.
"He is a very straightforward horse, he vetted well. He was born and raised at Castlehyde, born and raised on limestone land, and he has grown into a grand yearling. Numerous people viewed him, and he was an easy sell really.
"The mare has a lovely Ten Sovereigns colt foal, and is in-foal to Wootton Bassett."
Pink Damsel is out of Riskaverse (Dynaformer), a three-time Grade 1 winner, and by Galileo. She is a full-sister to Say, who finished third in the Matron Stakes (G1) and is dam of Fog Of War, winner of the Manila Stakes (G1).
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Lot 224:
the Fast Company homebred colt from Coole House Stud makes £90,000, bought by Ed Dunlop and JD Moore.
The farm is owned and managed by Mark Dreeling, alongside his wife Barbara, who is also a vet, and daughter Megan, who came back home this spring.
The Fast Company colt is a full-brother to the the Sovereign Stakes (G3) third Flashcard, who was in utero when dam Portico was purchased by the farm for €25,000 in 2015.
"He has been a gentleman since the day he was born," said Megan. "Hopefully, he will be as lucky as the full-brother."
"He has been very busy today, extremely pleased, he can really move," added Barbara. "The mare doesn't have a foal, she is not an easy mare to get in foal, but she is in-foal to Gleneagles. We are very pleased where he is going."
There are five mares on the farm, four thoroughbreds and one "hobby" mare.
Mark was wind testing the colt when we chatted, and Megan said: "This is a family business and I have come home to learn from my father, who is so good with the horses."
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After such a strong day's
trade for Day 1 of the September Yearling Sale, we are looking forward to more of the same today for the second session.
Omens look good – the weather looks set fair for another lovely day again
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Today's withdrawals are (at 8.20am):
287, 318, 324, 332, 344, 357, 403, 413, 425, 426, 430, 432, 442, 450, 460, 465, 481
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Lot 276, Lot 277 and Lot 278:
we get off to a flyer – the very first lot into the ring for the Day 2 session sells for £70,000 to Kevin Ross Bloodstock.
The daughter of Zoustar, whose first northern hemisphere-born crop are yearlings of this year, was bred by Camogue Stud Ltd and sold by Balintry Stud. A chesnut filly, she is a grand-daughter of the Queen Mary Stakes (G3) winner Shining Hour, the dam of two Listed performers. It is the further family of the Group 1 winner Le Vie Dei Colori and the Group 1 performer Declaration Of War.
Lot
277, a Starspangledbanner filly and a half-sister to the Listed placed Saryshagann, makes £58,000 to De Burgh Equine / Fozzie Stack, and today's third lot in the ring sells for £50,000. The Decorated Knight colt (Lot
278), also a half-brother to a Listed performer, was offered by Castletown Quarry Stud and bought by Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock.
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Lot 293:
just the third yearling colt by first-crop sire Smooth Daddy, a son of the late Scat Daddy, to sell in the Tattersalls sale ring makes £120,000.
"He belongs to a local Mullingar man Christopher Johnston," reported consignor Dermot Kilmartin of Kildallan Farm. "The colt has been very straightforward since the day he came in for prep and this is an absolutely super result, I can't believe it to be honest.
"Christopher was watching online and is over the moon – I am a man of few words at the moment!
"Listen, I have to pinch myself, it is great for Christopher and great for the sire too, it is a great advertisement for Micheál Orlandi [Starfield Stud, where Smooth Daddy stands], he is at every sale driving on.
"Being honest with you, the last couple of days he has been very busy, fair play to Mr Johnston and Mr Woods, they loved him from the time they saw him. I knew there were people on him, but I didn't think he 'd make that kind of money. Fingers crossed he goes on well on the track."
The colt's dam Silesie (Magician) is a half-sister to Surfside Tiara (Scat Daddy), a two-time winner in the US and a Grade 1 runner.
Smooth Daddy, a US Grade 3 winner of the 1m1f Fort Macy Stakes, a race in which he beat the National Stud stallion Time Test, stood at a fee of €5,000 in 2019 when this colt was conceived.
Successful purchaser Charlie Johnston, who outbid the Woods family, said: "He’s a cracking individual. Obviously that was a lot more than I thought he would make, but he was a real stand-out.
"This is the first one I’ve seen by the sire, but Micheal used to work for us, many moons ago, so we know him well and it is a great start for his stallion. This is a sale that is quite close to my heart through Rose Of Kildare and this has cost a hell of a lot more than she did, but let’s hope he is as successful!
"He was just a really lovely model, with a great walk on him. Not over-big, but a real active, strong type and he looks a runner.
"We’re certainly always looking to increase the quality, but we’ll still be looking at the lower end for our syndicates as well. This is just the start of a big three or four weeks ahead so hopefully we’ll get plenty.”
Michael Orlandi of Starfield Stud said: "Over the moon, huge result it is great for the stallion, and for the people who have used the stallion. It is a great advertisement for him. Con Marnane bought a lovely colt yesterday, the Johnstons bought the colt today. They are great physicals, great movers, both are very strong."
Of this first crop, Orlandi outlined: "There is not a huge amount of them around, not a huge amount in the sales, but what there is is a good representation of the stallion. I think they will help the stallion - so if people see one by him they like them, rather than see a lot of them and a mixed bag. Hopefully, they are all winners next year – they have all been bought by good judges.
"I thought the colt would sell well and he would be popular, but that was it is huge throw for him. Noel Meade and Peter Nolan were on him, a couple of breeze-up guys, Dwayne Woods. Good judges, obviously looked at the individual and liked him, but liked the pedigree and the stallion, too.
"He covered 74 mares in his first season, hopefully there is enough of them to get him enough runners to do well, there is a few that will breeze now, too.
"But Smooth Daddy is a stand-out individual, a super individual, walks well. A lot of the breeders who used him in the first year they came back so what they have they like. Hopefully, he can build a bit of momentum now."
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Lot 329:
"He is a very straightforward, athletic Starspangledbanner colt from a good family and he will be staying in Newmarket," said bloodstock agent Tom Goff after going to £85,000 for the January-born bay colt consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment on behalf of breeder Gerrardstown House Stud.
Of the sale, Goff said: "As always trade is good for the stronger horses, but on the figures that Day 1 produced yesterday is seems a very solid sale and a good base for the sale ahead of it heading back to its home at Fairyhouse next year."
The colt is out of the winning Tamayuz mare Tammy Wynette, a half-sister to the Listed winner Orlaith (Fastnet Rock), from the family of Toormore, the European champion two-year-old colt of 2013.
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Lot 334:
Profitable has had 21 winners of 28 races so far, and Nick Bradley will be hoping that the winning run will continue into 2022 having bought this filly by the sire for £62,000. She was consigned by Ridge Manor Stud.
The filly's dam Teeline (Exceed And Excel) is a half-sister to Signora Cabello, winner of the Queen Mary Stakes (G2), the Prix Robert Papin (G2) and runner-up in the Prix Morny (G1).
It is a real "female" family – three of the four Listed performers under the second dam are all fillies, while further down the page is the 1,000 Guineas (G1) winner Las Meninas, who also finished second in the Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1) and in the Phoenix Stakes (G1).
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Lot 354:
Mark Grant buys a breeze-up prospect for 80,000 – a daughter of Acclamation and out of Up At Last (Cape Cross), a full-sister to the Group 1-placed Musicanna and a half-sister to the dam of the Group 1 winner and champion sprinter Overdose. She was sold by Rathbarry Stud, and bred by Paul McCarthy's Glencoole Stud.
"She will breeze, a great walking filly with a good page, Acclamation speaks for himself, she has got a great chance," said Grant, who plans to breeze eight to ten horses next spring. "We are trying to upgrade the breeze up string – if you don't spend it you can't get it!"
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Lot 374:
a neat colt by new sire Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy) makes £58,000. Sold by Oaks Farm Stables he had been pinhooked by the consignor for 20,000gns at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale. Today's buyer was trainer Richard Hannon, standing in the gangway with Ross Doyle.
The colt is a half-brother to six winners from eight runners from the dam Xema (Danehill), one of which is the Dark Angel gelding Dark Emerald, a Group 2 winner in Dubai and successful in the Sovereign Stakes (G3) at Salisbury.
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Lot 406:
the Dandy Man colt from Ballylinch Stud, out of Baileys Pursuit (Pastoral Pursuits) sells for £58,000.
He is a half-brother to one winner, Guida's Force, while his 2019 half-brother Baileysgutfeeling (Guitafan) has been placed twice since the catalogue was published. He is now rated 76 and is entered in a 7f Ffos Las maiden this weekend.
It is the fast family of the Molecomb Stakes (G3) and Commonwealth Cup runner-up Kachy, Group 2 winner Beat The Bank and Chil Chil, third in the Sprint Cup (G1) earlier this month.
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Lot 415:
the Ringfort Stud-consigned son of Noble Mission, a €28,00 pinhook purchase from breeder Tinnakill Bloodstock, is bought by agent Paul Harley for £55,000.
The colt is the firs foal out of Beckoning, a two-year-old winner by Kodiac and a half-sister to the juvenile Listed placed Sacred Rhyme.
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Lot 435:
"The last 24 hours have been phenomenal for us, the best two days of my life in this industry!" exclaimed Mark Dreeling of Coole House Stud after selling this son of Footstepsinthesand for £95,000, backing up the farm's sale yesterday of Lot
224, a colt by Fast Company, who made £90,000.
He explained the long-term planning behind today's sale.
"My wife Barbara and I set a plan about five years ago to get a Cape Cross mare," he said. "We personally don't like very big mares and the sire has a tendency to throw a big mare. It took us that time to find one and we found her by chance from John Murphy. We went to the sales to see her specifically, spent ten seconds looking at her. I was busy with breakers at home, and could not go back to the sale when the mare sold on Monday so I said to Barbara, 'You have one job to do, don't go near that stable door, don't do anything, just arrive in the morning, go to the ring and don't come home without her!' So it is all down to Barbara."
Caped Lady was bought for €20,000 and covered by Footstepsinthesand.
Dreeling added: "We are huge fans of Footstepsinthesand – we bred the September Sale graduates Larchmont Lad and Lexington Fury, he has been so good to us. We have supported him since his first year.
"This is a fabulous first foal out of the mare. She has an incredible Bated Breath foal, who is ten times better and will come here next year, and she is in-foal to Ten Sovereigns.
"We could not be happier when do you get a day like this! Two wonderful foals, two beautiful mares. It has been a hard year for Barbara and myself, we have both had health issues. It has been rough, but we are here and the focus was to get these two here to the sales and for me to be better to be with them.
"My daughter Megan is here with the horses, but my other daughter Julia is home and she is the one who runs the office, takes care of all the administration. Julia and I go through the stallions and she sorts the mating plans with me, she is fundamental to what we do. I live in a house with three women – I am luckiest man in the world!"
Of the September Sale, Dreeling said: "Tattersalls has been unbelievable to us. We are only small breeders, but down through the years Simon Kerins in particular has gone above and beyond to try and help us and encourage to keep supporting this sale. When we started it was a one-day sale, but Simon has built it up to what it is. A lot of seriously good horses come out of this sale, it is a trainers' sale – they get the results from it, and we as breeders get the results from it, too."
Successful purchaser Ed Sackville said: "He has been bought for MV Magnier. He is a lovely horse, by one of Coolmore's own stallions who consistently produces a good horse. No trainer has been decided as yet."
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Lot 451:
the Exceed And Excel half-sister to the Lowther Stakes (G2) and Princess Margaret Stakes (G3) winner Zain Claudette (No Nay Never), who is due to run in this weekend's Cheveley Park Stakes (G1), makes £200,000. The filly was bought by trainer Ismali Mohammed, signing as Rabbah Bloodstock, who also trains the older sibling.
She is the most expensive filly ever sold at the September Sale.
"She is for Zain Claudette's owner Saeed H Al Tayer," reported Mohammed, who was sat at the top of the bidders. "I was on the phone to the owner, he was keen to buy her, I hope she will be as good. There are some similarities between the two horses. We thought we might but her for £100,000, but we were keen to get her – because we have the Zain Claudette, who is already a Group race winner and if she wins a Group 1, then we have the sister, too."
Of Zain Claudette, Mohammed uodated: "She is in good form and with every race she is improving. She worked last Monday and worked really well."
Zain Claudette was bred by the Andriy Milovanov, and this filly was bred by him alongside his son Andrew and a business partner.
Milovanov snr is president of the Ukraine Equestrian Federation and was at Tattersalls to see the filly sold. He heads to Belgium this weekend to see the Ukrainian showjumping team in action.
"I am very happy with the sale," said Milovanov through an interpreter. "Her dam was covered by Ten Sovereigns and maybe next year we go back to No Nay Never. I have about 16 mares and they are at Coolmore and Irish National Stud."
He added: "There was a temptation to keep this filly to race, but she has gone to good hands."
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Lot 482:
JS Bloodstock and George Scott Racing went to £105,000 for the Mehmas colt out of the three-time two-year-old winner Drifting Spirit (Clodovil), bred and sold by Tally-Ho Stud.
She is closely related to the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes and Lowther Stakes (G2) winner Nahoodh, also by Clodovil.
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Lot 521:
is bought by Demi O'Byrne and Sean Grassick for £36,000. Grassick had been on the sales ground today, but had left to catch a flight back to Ireland - bidding was left in the capable hands of Jason Singh.
Via the telephone, Grassick said: "He is lovely colt, from a good farm and will be trained in Ireland."
From Croom House Stud, bred by Epona Bloodstock, the bay colt is by War Command and out of Peig (Refuse To Bend), She is dam of two winners from four runners and is a three-quarters sister to Subtle Power, a Grade 1 winner in the US and a Group 2 winner of the King Edward VII Stakes (G2).
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Lot 496:
by Adaay and out of Hennalaine (Lujain), sold by Byerley Stud, goes to Con Marnane for £25,000.
Hennalaine is a half-sister to Darghar / Beyond Expectations, winner of theListed Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Kranji.
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Lot 519:
the Galileo Gold filly out of Northeast Moon, sold by McCracken Farms, is bought by Katie McGivern for £17,000.
Northeast Moon is a half-sister to Prince Bishop, winner of the Dubai Word Cup (G1) and the Maktoum Challenge (G1). He also won and was placed in numerous European Group 2 and Group 3 races.
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Lot 509:
the bay filly by Gustav Klimt and out of Low Cunning from Nanallac Stud goes to Blandford Bloodstock for £25,000.
Low Cunning ins the dam of one winner from one runner – Miss Cunning the winner of three races at two and three.
It is the extended family of the US Grade 1 winner Prince Arch and the National Stakes (G1) winner, Kingsfort.
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Lot 559:
the bay filly by leading first-season sire Ardad and out of the winning Dutch Art mare Al Gharrafa, a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Miracle Of Medinah (Milk It Mick), makes £30,000.
She is sold by Kellsgrange Stud to F C Bloodstock.
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Welcome
to Day 1 of the November NH Sale.
Updates, withdrawals, reports and sales day stories will be available on sale day live throughout the five-day sale.
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The Day 1
session consists of a catalogue of 202 NH-bred yearlings. Selling starts at 10.30am.
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Lot 44:
this gelding by Harzand is bought by Kevin Ross Bloodstock for €22,000 from Stanley Lodge.
The son of Sea The Stars, who stands at Gilltown Stud, has another yearling due through the ring later today (Lot
149), and 17 foals catalogued through the week.
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Today's withdrawals (12.30pm):
1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 14, 28, 38, 46, 83, 87, 92, 117, 122, 135, 151, 169, 185, 186, 188
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Lot 39:
buyer Richard Frisby, always one of the busiest purchasers at this sale, goes to €34,000 for the Walk In The Park gelding out of the placed mare Maifitz's Madonna (Milan), sold by Mr. Larry Buckley & Ms. Jackie Beirne.
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Lot 88:
Henrietta Knight might be in trouble with her nephews when they see the text messages the former trainer has sent them when buying this gelding by Order Of St George, however as they know only too well what a brilliant eye Knight has for a horse, all will be fine once they get to chat. Knight explained.
"I have not heard back yet from my nephews, whom I have bought this horse for, " she said, admitting: "I am not too sure they know how much I have paid, I went a bit over what I was told to spend. I have sent some texts but I have not heard back, Aunt Hen might not be very popular!"
She explained what she liked particularly about this horse to cause her to put in a couple of extra bids.
"I have seen quite a number of offspring by the stallion and I like what I have seen, they look athletic and they look the part. This lad comes from a good jumping family so all is positive, in my eyes anyway!
"My nephews William and Arthur Vestey are in England; my sister died last year and they are her children – it is quite moving that this horse, and the gelding I bought earlier by Mount Nelson [Lot 58], have been bought for them, I think both are lovely horses."
Of her nephews' racing interests, Knight explained: "They have a couple of horses, William has some Flat horses as he is very keen on his Flat racing but they are big supporters of NH racing – their late father Sam was chairman of Cheltenham for so many years.
"I think it is always important to have something in the pipeline to look forward to, " she added having spent €52,000 on the Limekiln Stud-offered yearling, leaving Aiden Murphy as underbidder.
The two horses will stay in Ireland for the next couple of years and will be boarding with Michael Moore at Ballincurrig House Stud.
"They do them so well there and Michael is a great friend, and he bought Best Mate with Terry and I," recalled Knight. "We have always supported him, and he has always supported me. I think the Irish grass and the Irish climate is so good for young horses. William and Arthur have a nice two-year-old filly at Ballincurrig already, they will have two more there now!"
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Lot 118 and Lot 119:
both sold by Ballincurrig House Stud and both are bought by agent Joey Logan, who was in the sale ring with Alan Harte. They cost €60,000 and €65,000.
"They will come back to the Derby Sale," said Harte. "They are both beautiful horses and I loved them. I am delighted to get them. They will come back to the farm at Kildare."
When explaining his decision to buy a couple of yearlings rather than foals, Harte added: "I came up this year and just liked these two horses. Both are well bred and from Ballincurrig, such a good consignor. I might buy a few foals now through the rest of the week."
Lot
118 named Krockodile Rock is by French stallion Jeu St Eloi, a son of Saint Des Saints, and out of the nine-time winning mare Joly Belsa (Briar Creek), the dam of a three-time winner as well as a new winner over jumps in France since the catalogue was published, while Lot
119 is by leading stallion No Risk At All and a first foal out of the five-time winning mare Lunaya (Voix Du Nord). The January-born gelding is called Cinammon Roll.
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Lot 124:
Tally-Ho Stud has had a superb season the Flat this year and the roll of fortune continued over the weekend in the US at the Breeders' Cup meeting – Malavath, bred by the farm and by farm's young sire Mehmas, finished second in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), while Going Global, also by Mehmas, won the Goldikova Stakes (G2).
The farm is turning its attentions to the NH game and Tony O'Callaghan was in the ring with son Henry to buy this gelding by Soldier Of Fortune for €68,000.
"He is for resale and will come back for the Derby Sale," said O'Callaghan Snr. "He is a lovely sort, by a good sire and out of a well-bred mare."
A May-born foal, the gelding, offered by Railstown Stud, the property of Martin O'Reilly, is out of Mo Bury (Overbury), a half-sister to the 14-time winner Native River, victories that included the Gold Cup (G1).
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Lot 166:
Tally-Ho Stud, Tony O'Callaghan standing with Hamish Macauley, had a good go on this Walk In The Park gelding from Walshtown Stables, but the combination shook heads when asked to better a bid from Adrian Costello, standing under the bidders, at €85,000.
"It is all about Walk In The Park, he is the top one around at the moment, and this horse has a top pedigree, and he is definitely the finest yearling here today," said Costello. "He is fit to go to any sale, and anyone wold be glad to own him, he is definitely a bit special. He will come back to a store sale, with luck the Derby Sale. He is a lovely big horse, an athlete all day long."
"We will be looking at foals this week, looking forward to it," added Costello, who signed under Park Farm.
The gelding is out of Windermere Sky, an Oscar full-sister to Lord Windermere, the dual Grade 1 Cheltenham Festival winner of the Gold Cup and the RSA Chase, and Sub Lieutentant, a Grade 2 winner over fences and hurdles.
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Day 1 statistics:
(+/- compared with 2020)
Catalogued: 202
Offered: 174
Sold: 119
Aggregate: €1,543,850 (+1,101%)
Median: €8,500 (+136%)
Average: €12,974 9,186 (+41%)
% sold: 68%
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Welcome
to Day 2 of the November NH Sale, the first session of the foal catalogue. All the details you need are here on sales day live
Just one thing ... if you are coming to the sale today, you will need a coat!
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