PADDY Twomey bid online for a daughter of Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy) and Spin Doctor (Mayson) at this year’s Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up Sale, paying €200,000 for the two-year-old consigned by Roderic Kavanagh’s Glending Stables. This is what Twomey said after making the purchase.
“The breeze-ups have been very lucky for us and the Tattersalls Ireland breeze-up sale has been particularly lucky. We have managed to buy a nice horse out of this sale for the past number of years. City Of Memphis, Letsbefrankaboutit and Yellowstone Lake came from this sale and they were all by Sioux Nation, so it’s great to get another one by him.
“She’s a nice filly and it’s great to get her on behalf of Bond Thoroughbreds. They have invested a lot of money into the industry in recent times, and have a stallion in Maranoa Charlie to try and support. They want speedy fillies, and hopefully this filly can develop into a nice prospect for them.”
Well, the filly was fast enough to be named Concorde Landed, and she made her debut on Saturday at Naas, running out a five-length winner in spite of dwelling at the start. She clearly impressed her trainer at home, and holds entries for the Lowther Stakes at York and the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes. She is one for the future, and was bred by a partnership at Kavanagh’s parent’s great nursery, Kildaragh Stud, by Cormac O’Flynn, Roalso and Forever Endeavour.
More remarkable
Concorde Landed’s price at the sale was all the more remarkable as her dam had yet to breed a winner from five previous foals. Now she has her first winner, three others having placed. Kavanagh said at the sale: “She always looked a quick filly, and we think we have been proved right. [Spin Doctor] has been a bit unlucky. I thought Paddy really liked her when he viewed her, and came and looked at her twice.
“We are the business of selling, and you are always looking to change stock. She has always been the best out of the mare, and hopefully she can go on and be a good representative for the farm.”
Spin Doctor was a Cheveley Park Stud homebred who won three times at two, once over five and twice over six furlongs. She didn’t train on. Five of her 10 winning siblings won blacktype contests. They were the Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes winner Cupid’s Glory (Pursuit Of Love), Group 3 Princess Elizabeth Stakes winner Clinical (Motivator), dual stakes winner Courting (Pursuit Of Love), listed winner Prescription (Pivotal) who is a dual stakes producer in India, and Norwegian listed winner Magnificence (Sadler’s Wells). An unraced half-sister to Spin Doctor is Holistic (Pivotal), and she is grandam of Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup winner White Birch (Ulysses).
Career high
Sioux Nation stood for a career high of €37,500 at Castlehyde Stud this year. He commanded €10,000 in his third and fourth seasons before he had a dream start with his first runners four years ago. He is having a fine season, with 13 juvenile winners, two of them stakes winners, and the best of these is Group 2 scorer Sun Goddess.
Stock by Sioux Nation are high on most buyer’s shortlists, and his five Irish-conceived crops of racing age contain 22 blacktype winners, though he has a further two in Australia from a single season spent there at Swettenham Stud. Intriguingly, that crop contains his sole Group 1 winner to date, Socks Nation, and she won the Queensland Oaks. He came close in Europe when another daughter, Shes Perfect, was second in the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches-French 1000 Guineas.
TWO stallions recently mentioned in this column have been in the news.
Mickley Stud’s Ubettabelieveit (Kodiac) notched up his second two-year-old stakes winner this year, and third from his first two crops, when the Kildaragh Stud-bred Bint Archange won her second race in four starts, capturing the Listed Dragon Stakes at Sandown. She is trained by Richard Hughes for Jaber Abdullah, and cost €45,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale last year. The race was won nine years ago by Havana Grey.
Peter and Antoinette Kavanagh bought the dam of Bint Archange after she won three times at two in France. Named Archange (Arcano), she has gone on to breed five winners, all of them successful at least twice. Bint Archange is the best of the five. Archange shares something in common with her winning half-sister Lady Fashion (Oasis Dream). That is the fact that they are dams of stakes-winning juveniles, Lady Fashion getting the Listed Chesham Stakes winner Suits You (Youmzain).
Minzaal’s Crownbreaker
Closer to home, Derrinstown Stud’s Minzaal (Mehmas) is represented by his first runners, and among his seven winners and counting is the Listed Prix Yacowlef winner Crownbreaker. This 550,000gns buy as a yearling by Amo Racing was placed on her first pair of starts, finished fifth to Victorious in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes, and on her first run since broke her maiden at Deauville. The next three home were all previous winners.
Apart from the fact that the first crop of yearlings by Group 1-winning sprinter Minzaal were popular, Crownbreaker’s position as his most expensive yearling was also down to the fact that two of her half-brothers had Group 1 form.
Yeomanstown Stud’s Mill Stream (Gleneagles) won the July Cup at Newmarket and was hugely popular last year, his first at stud, with a book of some 170 mares covered. He is a year younger than Asymmetric (Showcasing), the Group 2 Richmond Stakes winner who placed in the Group 1 Prix Morny. He stood a single season at Ballyhane Stud.
The pair are the first two foals out of Swirral Edge (Hellvelyn), and both made a mark at the sales.
Asymmetric sold for 150,000gns as a breezer, and Mill Stream was purchased by Stroud Coleman for 350,000gns in Book 2 of the October Yearling Sale. Their twice-raced half-brother Tasalla (Mehmas) did better, selling in Book 1 for 390,000gns but he died at three, before Crownbreaker outdid them all. What price would you place on their yearling half-sister by Frankel (Galileo), all bred by Jimmy Murphy at Redpender Stud.
A winner at two and three, Swirral Edge is one of six winners from six runners, among seven foals, for Pizzarra (Shamardal). The best of that quintet is the listed winner and group-placed Fashion Queen (Aqlaam), now the dam herself of the multiple Italian stakes winner Noble Title (Siyouni).
Strengthened
Murphy’s belief in this family has been strengthened, as he owns a daughter of Pizzarra, Zarra Ellis (Eqtidaar), and she won a maiden at three in Cork. Murphy bought her as a foal for 55,000gns. She was covered last year for the first time by Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy). Pizzarra was placed and is the only one of nine runners out of Pizzicato (Statoblest) not to win. The eight winning progeny included a pair of blacktype winners, both fillies, and each has gone on to breed a stakes winners.
Wunders Dream (Averti) won the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and Group 3 Molecomb Stakes as a juvenile. She bred the Newmarket listed winner Inyordreams (Teofilo). Wunders Dream’s half-sister Grecian Dancer (Dansili) won the Group 3 Ridgewood Pearl Stakes. Her best winner is Muffri’ha (Iffraaj), a Group 3 winner in England and in the frame in the Group 1 Jebel Hatta at Meydan.