Success at the sales for Slade Power
The first yearlings by Slade Power continued to be well received by buyers, with the Champion sprinter posting a very healthy average of €93,000 for Europe’s select sales.
During Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, he recorded a top price of 260,000gns (€310,000) on two occasions when his colt out of Silk Trail was snapped up by Charlie Gordon-Watson and a few lots later, a filly out of Sleeping Beauty (a daughter of Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Nightime) was bought by Godolphin.
His success continued into last week’s Book 2, when MV Magnier and Peter & Ross Doyle went to 200,000gns for a lovely colt out of Summer In February (pictured), a half-sister to Dutch Connection.
Vendors and purchasers alike declared after the sale that Slade Power’s offspring possess all the necessary qualities to make two-year-olds so there should be plenty to look forward to next spring when his first runners hit the racecourse.
Farhh-reaching appeal
Another stallion who has performed well at the sales is Farhh, whose select group of yearlings offered have averaged £75,000 – over six times the fee they were conceived at.
His highest price this year is an impressive 325,000 gns, given during Book 1 by Godolphin for Meon Valley Stud’s daughter of Zee Zee Gee (pictured), herself a daughter of G1 winner and producer Zee Zee Top.
Farhh was second in the leading sires' table during Book 3, with his filly out of Purple Tiger going to Joe Foley for 110,000 gns. The mare has already produced a Black Type performer in Taajub (Exceed And Excel) and is a half-sister to two Stakes winners by King’s Best in Notability and Simon de Montfort.
Like father, like son
The stallion ranks at Haras du Logis in Normandy have been bolstered this week with the announcement that French Champion juvenile Ultra will stand alongside his sire Manduro in 2018.
Ultra rounded off an unbeaten campaign at two with victory in the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere on Arc day. He took the one-mile contest in record time and in the process saw off future 2,000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold, plus a further six Group or Stakes winners.
Ultra will stand at a fee of €7,000 October 1st Special Live Foal and a limited number of breeding rights are also available.
Star sprinter Profitable to stand at Kildangan
Not one, but two new stallions have been added to Darley’s European roster in the past seven days as last week it was announced that 2016 G1 King’s Stand Stakes winner will stand at Kildangan Stud next year.
His victory at Royal Ascot, where he beat a high-class international field, was his third straight Group win, having landed the Palace House and Temple Stakes earlier in the season.
This year, he found only sprint superstar Lady Aurelia too good, before chasing home Battaash at Goodwood. He signed off his racing career with a very creditable third in the G1 Prix de l’Abbaye earlier this month.
Dream year continues for Dubawi
Having recorded a G1 double at the start of October, it was little surprise that yearlings by Dubawi were in demand at Tattersalls, however few would have predicted quite how successfully they would sell.
Dubawi was responsible for no fewer than eight millionaires, headed by Meon Valley Stud’s striking colt out of Izzi Top, who was bought by Roger Varian for 2.6 million gns during Book 1.
Later in the same sale, MV Magnier (teaming up with Mayfair and Peter & Ross Doyle) went to an even two million gns to secure the first foal out of the superb four-time G1 winner Sky Lantern.
Dubawi’s success on the racecourse continued during the Future Champions Festival at Newmarket at the weekend when his son Ghaiyyath became the fourth Group winner from his current crop of two-year-olds, landing the G3 Masar Godolphin Stakes for Charlie Appleby.
