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60.
Breeding Briefs
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20/08/2002 |
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Zafonic;
Singspiel; Yarradale Stud; Centaine; Eight Carat; Deauville Sales; Sadler's
Wells; Karaka Bloodstock Sale; Danehill; Tattersalls Sales.
* ZAFONIC, the late Australian replacement for the deceased End Sweep, sired his
25th stakeswinner when his three-year-old filly Mooring won Prix de Lieurey (LR)
at Deauville on August 21.
Mooring is bred and raced by Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms and trained by
Pascal Bary.
Zafonic, a European Champion at two and three, has sired a European Champion in
shuttle sire Xaar and three classic winners from just six crops of racing age.
In the current northern hemisphere racing season, he has sired 38 winners, of
which 13 have earned black type, and include the Dupont (German Guineas), the
crack French sprinter Zipping and the Dubai Mile winner Pacino.
The son of Gone West will serve his debut season in Australia at Arrowfield Stud
at a fee of 38,500.
* EXCITING shuttle sire Singspiel has another budding star on the UK scene
following the win by his two-year-old colt Bourbonnais in the Acomb Stakes (LR)
at York on August 21.
Trainer Mark Johnston described the Sheikh Mohammed-owned juvenile as his ‘
best two-year-old at the moment’ after the colt’s tenacious win in the
seven-furlong event that is always regarded as an early pointer to next
season’s classics. He is quoted at 331/ for next year’s English Derby.
Bourbonnais is from Singspiel’s second crop and follows on from his noted
first crop performer Moon Ballad, a G2 winner and placed in this year’s
English Derby.
Singspiel stood his first season in Australia under the Darley Stud banner last
year with his first southern hemisphere foals now hitting the ground.
* THE unreserved dispersal of Yarradale Stud in Western Australia on August 18
saw 38 lots sold for a total of $217,300.
The sale began with 15 nominations to the Yarradale based sires Citidancer,
Euclase, Medal Of Honor, Pricelessly and Seignorial.
John Chlamers Bloodstock paid top price of $7,000 three times for three
nominations to Affirmed’s promising son Pricelessly, sire of WA stakeswinners
Born Priceless and Fortune Streak.
Charles Burton paid the yearling top price of $15,000 for a colt by Euclase out
of Vainremer, a half-brother to the stakes-placed Cation.
Commercial Bloodstock paid $13,000 for the Pricelessly colt out of Regolith,
from the family of Oakleigh Plate winner Coal Pak while Mark Pilkington
Bloodstock secured the colt by Euclase out of Often for $12,000.
In the broodmare section Western Symphony mare Convenient Woman, with a positive
test to Citidancer, sold to Roburke Pty Limited for $31,000.
Convenient Woman, a winner of five city races, is from the WA stakeswinner
Sinfully Wild.
Computer Source Australia paid $29,000 for Rapid Angel with a positive test to
popular stallion Citidancer.
? ACCOMPLISHED sire Centaine enjoyed notable success on both sides of the Tasman
on August 17.
The highlight was the brilliant return of his classy sprinter Century Kid in the
G2 Premiere Stakes at Rosehill.
At Moonee Valley Centaine’s versatility as a sire was evident when his
seven-year-old son Jon Ledecky won the Waterford Crystal Hurdle.
In New Zealand Centaine also had a double at the Pukekohe meeting with
impressive Royal Mint and Caballos.
Centaine, now 22, will serve a reduced book of mares at Waikato Stud this
spring.
* ONE of New Zealand’s most valuable new season foals has been born at
Cambridge Stud.
Octagonal’s half sister (Our) Marquise, one of five G1 winners out of the
great broodmare Eight Carat, has produced a bay filly by Danehill.
This is the first time Marquise has produced a foal to a stallion other than
Zabeel. She has two fillies and a colt by Zabeel that made $NZ1,050,000 yearling
at the Karaka sale this year.
* THE Deauville sales continue to reflect the belief that a general malaise has
taken hold of the international bloodstock market.
The market continued to slow on the fourth day of France’s major yearling sale
with the overall aggregate and average down by 30 percent after the offering of
more than 80 percent of the catalogue.
Top price on the fourth day of the five-day sale was 80,000 euros for a filly by
Highest Honor out of the winning Lyphard mare Lyphard's Dream.
International buyers are making little contribution as only eight of the 52
horses offered on the fourth day were sold to foreign interests.
The top price on the third day was 220,000 euros for a Machiavellian colt.
* A FILLY by Indian Ridge set a French yearling record when she sold for 2
million Euros ($US $1,967,206) at5 the opening session of the annual Deauville
sales on August 17.
The filly is from the G1 winning Seattle Slew mare Maximova and is a half sister
to G1 winners Septieme Ciel and Macoumba and three others stakes winners.
She was puchased by Sheikh Maktoum al Maktoum’s Gainsborough Stud. Sheikh
Maktoum had also paid the previous French record of 10 million francs for
Melikah in 1998.
Despite the record, the opening session was down 17.6 percent in aggregate to
continue the downturn in northern hemipshere market that began at the major US
sales.
The first session saw 43 yearlings sell for $US8,628,168, an average of
$US200,655.
? THE average fell further at the second session on August 18, dropping 37
percent on last year’s figures to less than $US148,000 while total aggregate
for the first two days was down by 27 per cent.
Sadler’s Wells provided the high points at the second session, being
responsible for the joint top-priced yearlings at 600,000 euros (approx.
$US590,000).
? Cambride Stud’s Sir Patrick Hogan added to his broodmare band when he bought
the top priced lot at the NZ Spring Bloodstock Sale at Karaka on August 18.
Hogan paid $NZ115,000 for Rebecca Sharp, a half sister by Straight Strike to the
former top class fillies Phillipa Rush and Jennifer Rush.
The 12-year-old Rebecca Sharp was carrying a foal by Danehill’s first-season
sire Danske.
Second highest price came from the racehorse section where four-year-old Oregon
mare Many Splendoured was purchased by Victoria’s Bellwood Bloodstock for
$NZ107,000
Many Splendoured has an impressive record of seven starts for three wins, two
seconds and one third including a Listed stakes victory.
? CHAMPION French mare Banks Hill gave Danehill and owner Khalid Abdullah a
notable weekend when she won the G1 Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville on
August 18.
Khalid Abdullah also celebrated a G1 double in Chicago on
August 17 when his champion turf horse Beat Hollow won the Arlington Million and
Chiselling took the Secretariat Stakes on the same program.
For Danehill, his full sister to Banks Hill, named Intercontinental, debuted on
the same Deauville program with an impressive win in the Prix de la Pontiniere
while his three-year-old filly Dress To Kill took out the G3 Desmond Stakes at
Leopardstown.
Banks Hill has now won three G1 races and will now attempt to be set for repeat
win in the Breeders' Cup Filly And Mare Turf at Arlington in October.
She may contest the G1 Prix du Moulin at Longchamp on September 8 before
returning to America.
Banks Hill, is out of the Kahyasi mare Hasili and is a f8ull sister to former G1
star Dansili.
She was homebred by Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms and has a record of five
wins, three seconds and two thirds from 11 career starts.
? Leading UK auction hous eTattersalls is to make major changes to its Sales
dates in 2003.
The flagship Tattersalls Houghton Yearling Sale will be held one week earlier
than at present on September 24 and 25 with the Tattersalls October Yearling
Sale moving to the week currently occupied by the Houghton and beginning on
September 30.
The Tattersalls Autumn Yearling Sale will move to the week vacated by the
October Yearling Sale, and be renamed the ‘Tattersalls October Yearling Sale
Part 2’, while the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale will stay in the
last week of October.
The Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale will also be held a week from
September 16.
The changes have been facilitated by the decision of Newmarket Racecourse to
reduce the Cambridgeshire meeting from four days to three days, beginning on
October 2 after the first two days of the October Yearling Sale.
The revised schedule will see the new ‘Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Part
2’ begin on October 15 and the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale run
from October 27 to October 30.
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