SINCE the catalogue for the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale went to bed, as usually happens with all sales of quality stock, there are updates that can heavily influence the value of the lots due to come under the hammer. These updates can also change the look of the catalogue page to a significant degree.

Take the case of Lot 213 in Book 1 at Newmarket, a Ballylinch Stud-consigned yearling filly by Lope De Vega (Shamardal) out of the Grade 2 Santa Anita winner Zindaya (More Than Ready). This is already a highly-attractive pedigree, the dam being a half-sister to the Grade 1 winner Western Aristocrat (Mr Greeley).

As strong as this family is, it is a huge boost that the three-year-old full-brother to the filly for sale, Carl Spackler (Lope De Vega), has gone from being a maiden special winner and placed from three starts, as listed in the catalogue, to adding two wins at Saratoga to that tally, the Grade 3 Saranac Stakes and the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes. This is all happening for an improving colt who could not sell as a yearling at 350,000gns.

Carl Spackler is the second foal out of his dam, the first being the 280,000gns yearling Tribal Wisdom (Frankel), who managed to place on three occasions. He sold afterwards for £35,000, but his lack of success did not deter Godolphin who raced him, and last year they spent 450,000gns to acquire his full-sister.

Good weekend

It was a good weekend for Ballylinch’s Lope De Vega, and his two-year-old son Beauvatier won for the fourth time this year, adding the Group 3 Prix La Rochette at ParisLongchamp to an earlier victory in a listed race at Deauville. He remains unbeaten and is expected to return in three weeks’ time for the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère.

Representing trotting trainer Philippe Allaire, Beauvatier was purchased as a yearling in Deauville by Yann Barberot for €160,000, where he was consigned by his co-breeder, Écurie des Monceaux. He is the first foal out of Enchanting Skies (Sea The Stars), a €500,000 yearling at Baden-Baden who won twice and was listed-placed.

Beauvatier is followed by a Siyouni (Pivotal) yearling filly who sold privately for €600,000 at the recent Arqana yearling sales, and a colt foal by Night of Thunder (Dubawi). Their dam Enchanting Skies’ yearling value was certainly enhanced by the fact that a few years earlier her half-brother Empoli (Halling) gained his biggest success in the Group 1 Preis von Europa.

The growing influence of German families on European breeding comes as no surprise to readers of this column, as they regularly feature in the pedigrees of the best runners. Nonetheless, few German-based stallions are able to attract breeders from outside that country to travel their mares, and this has to be regretted.

Waldgeist winner

While we are on the subject of Ballylinch Stud, it was great to see the 2019 Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Waldgeist (Galileo) get off the mark, his two-year-old daughter Billiegee being successful second time up over nine furlongs at Wolverhampton, having been placed on her debut. A half-sister to a winner by Sea The Stars (Cape Cross), Billiegee has a yearling half-brother by Make Believe (Makfi), and their dam, Donau (High Chaparral) delivered a colt this year by Fascinating Rock (Fastnet Rock).

With two winners in her first three foals, Donau has a long way to go to even threaten the record of her own dam, the listed winner and Group 2 Arag Preis-German 1000 Guineas runner-up Dapprima (Shareef Dancer).

All of her 13 foals raced, and 11 of them won. The full-brothers Denaro (Dashing Blade) and Duellant won at Group 2 and listed level respectively, while Davidoff (Montjeu) was successful in a Group 3 in Germany.

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BARGAIN OF THE WEEK

Tasty victory for this Fella

NUTELLA Fella was something of a shock winner of the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga, but he remains unbeaten in two starts, and has already won more than 15 times his yearling purchase price of $12,000.

Yes, that was all that Anthony Farrior paid for the son of champion sprinter Runhappy (Super Saver) at last year’s Keeneland September Sale, and the price was surely a huge disappointment, given that the colt’s winning half-brother, We All See It (Street Sense), sold at the same venue as a foal for $170,000, and resold as a yearling at Fasig-Tipton for a profitable $250,000. We All See It has earned almost $150,000 with four victories to date.

Both colts are the first two foals for their dam Krissy’s Candy. That daughter of Candy Ride (Ride The Rails) failed to live up to expectations, being placed once after she cost $210,000 as a yearling, and later being claimed for $50,000. Her value as a yearling was influenced by the fact that her half-brother Meal Penalty (Tale Of The Cat), now a leading sire in Peru, was a dual stakes winner, and another sibling, Danny Boy (Harlan’s Holiday), was runner-up in a Grade 3 at Keeneland.

Krissy’s Candy has a yearling colt from the first crop of the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes winner War Of Will (War Front), but he might take some looking for, given that he is catalogued at the upcoming Keeneland September Sale, but as Lot 2588. This year Krissy’s Candy foaled a colt by Yaupon (Uncle Mo), and was covered by Uncle Mo (Indian Charlie).

48 hours

Krissy’s Candy is out of the Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes second Unbridled Beauty (Unbridled’s Song), and that mare sold for $1.4 million as a three-year-old, without winning at stakes level. One of nine winners from an unraced full-sister to champion sprinter Housebuster (Mt Livermore), Unbridled Beauty’s siblings include the stakes winner and graded-placed Sophia’s Song (Bellamy Road), and she provided the family with a second Grade 1 winner within 48 hours this week, as her son Bright Future (Curlin) won the Jockey Club Gold Cup two days before Nutella Fella was successful, again at Saratoga.

Runhappy stands at Claiborne Farm and his fee is just $15,000. It has risen over the last two years, though it is down from a high of $25,000, and his record to date at stud has been steady rather than spectacular. Nutella Fella is his first Grade 1 winner in his fourth crop, he has only sired four graded stakes winners among 12 who have won blacktype races, while he has a 61% strike rate with his winners to runners.

Five of a kind for Daryakana

IF there was an award going for broodmare of the past decade, Daryakana (Selkirk) would at least be worthy of being shortlisted.

Last weekend, her four-year-old daughter Darkaniya (Frankel) rewarded connections for the decision to keep her in training, though they would have been fully justified had they sent her to the covering shed this spring. After all, she was a winner last year and had four stakes-winning siblings to make her pedigree a standout. Well, the managers of the Aga Khan’s racing and breeding divisions have been justified as Darkaniya added a Group 2 success at Baden-Baden to a listed win in France, and given the accelerated progress she is showing, who is to say she cannot go further. She has beaten the Group 1 winner Msqe De Sevigne along the way.

Her stakes wins this year mean that Darkaniya is the fifth runner and fifth stakes winner for Daryakana.

That mare won five races as a three-year-old, including the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase and the Group 2 Prix de Royallieu, and while she did not add to that tally at four, she was third in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, beaten a nose and a short neck by Plumania and Youmzain.

Perfect start

Daryakana made the perfect start at stud and her first foal was Dariyan (Shamardal). He was the champion older horse in France over 10 furlongs at four, after beating Silverwave in the Group 1 Prix Ganay. Unraced at two, Dariyan won the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam at three and he was placed in Group 1 events in both his seasons in training with Alain de Royer-Dupre. He stands at Haras de Bonneval.

Since then Dariyan has also been joined on the roster of blacktype winners by the US Grade 2 winner Devamani (Dubawi), and listed winners Darabad (Dansili) and Dariyza (Dawn Approach). Daryakana’s family to date is completed by two unraced daughters at stud, the three-year-old colt Daraydann (Siyouni), two-year-old filly Darylakha (Lope De Vega), a yearling colt by Sea The Stars (Cape Cross).

Daryakana is out of the champion three-year-old filly Daryaba (Night Shift), successful in the Group 1 Prix de Diane-French Oaks and Prix Vermeille.