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https://www.tattersalls.com/sales/octob ... n/Overview

pdf: https://www.tattersalls.com/cat/october ... 1%2024.pdf

Truly spectacular line up.
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... ale-online

The full sister to Alpinista will certainly pay a few bills for Lanwades Stud, although I imagine the reserve will be very high.

Definitely a high reserve, but Kirsten Rausing sounded pretty pragmatic about the whole thing when she was interview by Nick Luck last week. She has a daughter out of Alpinista, along with sisters, aunts, nieces, cousins, step-grandmothers - every possible relation from that family. Guess that's a big bonus of nursing a bloodline for 5 generations.

I'm predicting we have one month until John Stewart starts tweeting about her.

Seth Klarman will be active but he buys at the moderate level only 200-450 as a value investor

The sale begins tomorrow. It will be interesting to see which horses Sheika Hissa purchases.

Stars aligning as Sheikh Mohammed and co arrive at Tattersalls ahead of potentially momentous Book 1

https://www.racingpost.com/bloodstock/n ... uL6I6GptN/

Top sellers thus far:
68 - Frankel x Aljazzi - 4.4M guineas to Amo Racing
72 - Frankel x Alwilda (full to Alpinista) - 2.5M gns to Amo Racing (seems low?)

Others of note:
9 - Too Darn Hot x The Fugue - 200k gns to Rabbah Bloodstock
25 - Dubawi x Unaided (1/2 to Uni) - no sale at 485k gns
49 - Frankel x Wonderful Tonight - 750k gns to Yulong
64 - St Marks Basilica x Al Andalya (1/2 to Best Solution, El Bodegon) - 250k gns to Team Valor
67 - Kingman x Alina (1/2 to Barney Roy) - 475k gns to PWR Racing

85 - Frankel x Atone (dam is full to Midday) - 1.1M gns to Amo Racing

92 - No Nay Never x Bella Estrella - 2.2M to Godolphin (not sure why this guy went so high)

107 - Siyouni x Cabaret (full to St Marks Basilica) - 675k gns to Amo Racing

The amount of money Amo Racing is spending today is insane.

I’m also surprised that the full sister to Alpinista didn’t go for higher.

I know he is a hot shot football/soccer agent, but I don’t know how Kia Joorabchian has this much money. He pulled King of Steel and his other horses from Roger Varian because he said it was too expensive, but then spends god knows how much at the yearling sales.

I know this sport needs as many rich and passionate owners as possible, but the speed and scale of Amo is kind of wild. If this ended up as a Phoenix Thoroughbred kind of racket, I don’t know if I would be surprised

139 - Ulysses x Diagnostic (full to White Birch) - 170k gns to Godolphin

He has an interesting marking, kind of a reverse bloody-shoulder mark where his right hip down to his leg is a lighter shade of gray than the rest of him. And he was registered as a chestnut lol

You can see some of it in this photo

He was registered as CHESTNUT!?
Yeah, that doesn't seem right.
Wonder if his registration gets changed to the Grey he actually is.

BaroqueAgain1 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 7:03 pm He was registered as CHESTNUT!?
Yeah, that doesn't seem right.
Wonder if his registration gets changed to the Grey he actually is.

Chestnut foals grey out all the time. I never thought about it before, but how does the Jockey Club deal with this?

Missbeholder wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 7:23 pm

BaroqueAgain1 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 7:03 pm He was registered as CHESTNUT!?
Yeah, that doesn't seem right.
Wonder if his registration gets changed to the Grey he actually is.

Chestnut foals grey out all the time. I never thought about it before, but how does the Jockey Club deal with this?

They should be registered the correct color to begin with but if they aren't, the owner just submits a correction. If they do it within 6 months of foal registration its free. After that it costs $80 every time a correction needs made. But that is the thing, they submit a live foal, they can wait to do the foal registration, sure they want it done before the foal turns one but by then they should know what color the horse is.

Weatherbys... I don't know about them. They let Bedtime Story race as a bay or grey and that is still her listed color.