Lot 853: son of Frankel heads proceedings on Day 2 of October Book 2
Tattersalls October Yearling Book 2, Day 2
Lot 930: regular Tattersalls leading consignor Ballyhimikin Stud hits the heights again, the farm selling this Night Of Thunder colt out of the Dansili mare Syndicate to Anthony Stroud for 340,000gns.
James Hanly said: “He is a beauty, the sire did not do any harm either – I should put up a statue of him!
“It is a lovely result and credit to the staff and the people on the farm. He goes to John Gosden, so we can hopefully look forward to him being a good racehorse. The mare is in-foal to Night Of Thunder. The pedigree has really come good since we bought her. My friend John Feane trained her and won with her in England, she showed a lot of ability. Johnis a greatman and a good trainer and there are a lot of very good smaller scale trainers in Ireland.”
At this autumn’s October Yearling Sale, Ballyhimikin has sold the following lots by the Darley sire:
Lot 327: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Alienate (GB) Ch.F. (IRE) >>Cheveley Park Stud >>425,000gns
Lot 463: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Elshaadin (GB) B.C. (GB)>>Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock>>475,000gns
Lot 781: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Purplest (GB) B.F. (IRE) >>Blandford Bloodstock>>270,000gns
Lot 930: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Syndicate (GB) B.C. (IRE) >>Stroud Coleman >>340,000gns
The farm has Lot 980 and Lot 1376 to sell also by Night Of Thunder, as well as another three lots – Lot 1027 (Blue Point), Lot 1094 (Dark Angel) and Lot 1354 (Blue Point).
Lot 900: another great result for a young team of foal pinhookers, this time the all-female group who called themselves The Gals Gals. The crew hit on this colt by this year’s leading first-season sire Havana Grey at last year’s December Foal Sale purchasing him for 21,000gns from Daymark Stud. Today the girl group, with Kildaragh Stud, sold the colt for 150,000gns to Oceanic Bloodstock for White Birch Farm SC.
The team – Alice Kavanagh of Kildaragh Stud, Florence Cain, who has worked at Kavanagh and works in bloodstock admin and bookkeeping, Nicola Short, who is at Kildaragh, and Fay Cort, who is the assistant manager at Carrisbrooke Stud and has also worked with Kavanagh – were all smiles after the sales chatting over the experience standing in the sun of the Lower Sale Paddock by the Kildaragh Stud draft.
“We are obviously absolutely delighted, the girls came together last year and we thought about buying a foal together,” said Kavanagh. “We were beaten on a couple, but were successful buying him towards the end of the sale. We are all heavily involved in the industry and wanted to pool our money together and have a go at pinhooking. We have been extremely lucky with how well Havana Grey has done, we couldn’t expected that and it was a pretty risky year to go with a first-season sire. We were incredibly lucky he has done so well and this colt was liked as soon as we got here.”
Of the decision to buy him last year, Nicola recalled: “I was consigning a foal for a friend, we were in the Solario barn and he was next to me. I had been watching him all week – he’d behaved really well all week and could really walk. Alice had been around looking at everything and she had him on her list, too. She came to us all and said ‘What about this one?’
“He was late in the day so we all had a look at him together, and we all just liked him.”
Since then, What’s App has kept the group updated with progress as Florence said: “We have had a group since we have bought him as some of us are in England and Alice is in Ireland. Alice has been great on updates. There was a point a couple of months ago when he’d had just a week or ten days of prep, he was filling out and really looked like an actual horse. That was when my tummy went, and I thought ‘Oh lord!’ We tried not to get too excited, you never know what is going to happen going up to the ring, so to get the result today is unreal.”
When asked how they are going to celebrate, Fay laughed: “I think it is going to be a big night! There will be some champagne drunk, but it is well earned!”
Alice adding: “We will have a really nice supper and then think about reinvesting.”
Bred by Josh Cameron of Daymark Stud, the colt is the first foal out of the mare Speculating (Xtension), a half-sister to Danehill Kodiac, winner of five races, including the Cumberland Lodge Stakes (G3). He has also been placed 14 times, on four occasions in stakes races.
Speculating had a a Showcasing colt this spring and was covered by Sergei Prokofiev.
Lot 873: the sale of the Exceed And Excel colt for 270,000gns gives the brothers Tom and David Brickley of Ard Erin Stud a top sale ring result – the pair had purchased the colt here as a foal for 50,000gns. It is the first six-figure result the duo has achieved at Tattersalls.
“It is a super result, he is an absolute dude of a horse, an absolute dude – Sakheer came up, too, and the stars aligned, it is exciting stuff,” they said in unison.
Explaining why they picked the colt out as a foal last year, they said: “We thought he had a lot of quality, he was very attractive as a foal and he was by a proven sire. The mare is a tried and tested and he was from a proven farm – we think it is important to buy from a good, proven farm.
“He has been straightforward all the way through, he think he is a champion. Let’s hope he is an Ascot two-year-old for next year – we have never been to Royal Ascot!”
The boys bought seven foals last year upping the number from the three bought in year one, and they reported that they will be back here on a buying mission next month saying, “We will try and do it all over again!”
Before Sakheer’s appearance this year, the colt’s mare Shortmile Lady (Arcano) had already produced Lemista (Raven’s Pass), winner of the Kilboy Estate Stakes (G3) and placed third in the Grade 1 Beverly D. Stakes. All her offspring have been bred by the Conor and Deirdre Cashman’s Drumlin Bloodstock and Yellowford Farm has consigned her foals.
They have one yearling left to sell in Book 3 – Lot 1542, a Zoffany filly out of the Oasis Dream mare Unified. She was bought by Highpoint Bloodstock for €10,000.
Lot 862: Chris Richardson of Cheveley Park Stud spends 320,000gns on this Kodiac filly from Tally-Ho Stud. She is an own-sister to Indestructible, recently second in the Champagne Stakes (G2) to the subsequent Dewhurst Stakes (G1) winner Chaldean. The 107-rated colt was also previously second to the son of Frankel in the Tattersalls Acomb Stakes (G3).
This year the family has also produced Shartash (Invincible Spirit), who finished third in the Phoenix Stakes (G1) and the National Stakes, and fourth in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (G1).
“It is a very happening family, we are looking for a couple of sharper types this week, so we are delighted to have got her,” said Richardson. “She is a very nice athletic filly. It is a line that is a good outcross for the stallions. Mrs Thompson will make a decision on trainers and will assess everything after the next couple of days and decide what to do with two fillies bought last week and what we buy this week. ”
Of the market, Richardson commented: “I think it has been remarkably strong, there are some certain areas where you get a bit of feast or famine, but if the individuals are there the buyers are tempted and if the pedigrees and physicals match up then you can get a good sale.”
Lot 853: the Andrew Rosen and Edward Easton-bred son of Frankel, the 450,000gns colt out of the mare September Stars (Sea The Stars), is bought by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock for Saeed Suhail.
“He is a smashing colt, we tried on a load of Frankels last week and did not get close. He is an immature horse, he needs a little bit of imagination, but there is a lot of improvement to come, he is a big frame. He will be given plenty of time and hopefully will reward us as a three-year-old,” said Brown.
September Stars was bought for the breeders by Hugo Merry at the 2014 October Book 1 Sale for 260,000gns. She went on to win five times and collect a Listed placed result in the Possibly Perfect Stakes. She is a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Teodoro and from the family of the two-time Grade 1 winner Angara and the 1993 European champion Arcangues, Artiste Royal and Aquarelliste.
The cross of Frankel over mares by Sea The Stars has produced the Group 1 winner Onesto, winner of this year’s Grand Prix de Paris, the Group 3 winner Mohaafeth and the Group 3 placed Dubious Affair.
Lot 847: the Too Darn Hot filly out of Secret Sense (Shamardal) is bought by Shadwell Estate for 320,000gns. She was sold by Newsells Park Stud and is the third yearling sold out of the mare to fetch over 300,000gns.
“She looks a very tough filly, there is a masculine look about her and plenty of Shamardal, she is a good mover,” said Shadwell’s Angus Gold. “For us that is quite appealing and aremit of what we are trying to do – find fillies with pedigrees, she has one of the best pages in the book.
“I saw her at the farm last week, and liked her and Sheikha Hissa liked her and was very keen to get her. She is first from the family that we have got so it is very nice to get something,” he added.
Dam Secret Sense is a half-sister to the Group 1-winning Galileo brothers Japan and Mogul, the Group 2 winner Secret Gesture (Galileo), the Group 3 winner Sir Isaac Newton (Galileo) and Maurus (Medicean), a Listed winner in Australia. They are, of course, all out of the former top Newsells broodmare Shastye, who died in May.