Godolphin and Stroud hit the mark with €350,000 sale-topping Frankel colt

Given the exploits of Godolphin’s three-year-old middle-distance colts Adayar and Hurricane Lane this season, few will have been surprised to see Anthony Stroud go to €350,000 for a son of Frankel on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed’s operation at the BBAG Yearling Sale on Friday.

Oozing presence as he strode into the ring, the bay colt was immediately the object of sustained and persistent bidding from across the floor, a competition that was ultimately won by Stroud, whose business partner Matt Coleman had signed on behalf of Godolphin for the €820,000 record-breaking top lot at this sale in 2019.

Stroud said: “Frankel needs no introduction and this colt was an athletic walker. He’ll go back to England and they’ll decide who trains him.”

Consigned by Gestut Haus Ittlingen, the April-born colt named Carlton is out of the Listed-winning Lando mare Chantra and is a half-brother to the multiple Group and Listed-class Pivotal filly Calyxa. Further down the page is champion German juvenile Cheirokratie, the stakes-winning Charismatique and the multi-talented Flat and hurdles performer Cherub.

Anthony Stroud: signed for Gestut Haus Ittlingen's Frankel coltCredit: Laura Green

Frankel has been represented by few runners in Germany, although his progeny’s exploits around the world this season need little retelling with six new individual top-flight winners to add to his CV, including Derby hero Adayar, Irish Derby scorer Hurricane Lane, Australian Oaks heroine Hungry Heart and Falmouth Stakes winner Snow Lantern.

Kredel strikes back for Miss Yoda’s sister

Gestut Etzean’s Ralf Kredel expressed delight in buying out the Sea The Stars full-sister to last year’s German Oaks winner Miss Yoda, a filly bred in a foal share with Sea The Stars’ owners the Tsui family, for €280,000.

A mid-May foal, an athletic chestnut filly out of the champion German two-year-old Monami, she took in the hectic surroundings with aplomb and will now return to Etzean’s farm before being broken in and sent into training early next year.

Kredel said: “She’ll come back to the farm as she was a late foal and we’ll give her a bit of time. She’ll be broken at home and will go into training in February.”

Monami is out of the Listed-placed Dashing Blade mare Monbijou and is a half-sister to Italian Oaks heroine Meridiana. She has a two-year-old colt by Kingman in training.

Frank Dorff’s renowned nursery Gestut Rottgen was once again to the fore when the Reliable Man half-sister to this season’s Blue Riband Trial winner Wirko was hammered down to Jurgen Sartori for €220,000.

Out of the Listed-winning Mount Nelson mare Weltmacht, herself a daughter of Group 2 Europachampionat winner Wild Side and a half-sister to Park Hill Stakes heroine Wild Coco, the February-born filly hails from a typically strong German family, with domestic champions Win For Us and White Rose both under the third dam.

Wirko, a son of Kingman and a graduate of this sale when selling to Godolphin for €700,000 in 2019, has played his part in adding valuable black type to his sibling’s page, winning the Epsom Listed event, while the pair’s half-sister by the much-missed Adlerflug has gone into training.

Rottgen’s Sea The Stars half-sister to German Derby winners Windstoss and Weltstar had looked to be one of the standout lots of the sale but ultimately was led out of the ring unsold at €680,000.

Gestut Fahrhof’s Lope De Vega filly out of the Group 3-winning Duke Of Marmalade mare Quaduna, in turn a daughter of Group 2 Schwarzgold-Rennen scorer Quelle Amore, sold to Andreas Suborics for €200,000 in a private deal after her spin in the ring.

Archie proves Lord of all

Gestut Brummerhof’s colt by the in-form Lord Of England, the sire of this year’s runaway German Oaks heroine Palmas, went the way of Stall Hanse and Moritz Becher after a protracted bidding duel that ended with the yearling knocked down for €120,000.

Named Archie and out of the Listed-placed Monsun mare Anna Mia, the colt hails from a family that includes Prix du Conseil de Paris winner Annaba, Park Hill Stakes winner Anna Of Saxony and the Group 3-winning Anna Palariva, the dam of Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner National Defense and the granddam of Derby hero Adayar.

Becher revealed that the colt will go into training with German champion trainer Peter Schiergen, who is famed for his handling of Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes heroine Danedream.

Tom Goff: 'She’s a lovely filly and I’m a big fan of the sire too'Credit: Mark Cranham (racingpost.com/photos)

There were plenty of British and Irish representatives at the sale and the €115,000 Sea The Moon filly out of the Listed-placed Iffraaj mare Gulden Gorl proved one of the highlights for Blandford Bloodstock’s Tom Goff, who revealed that the daughter of Lanwades Stud’s burgeoning sire would be heading west for her racing career.

He said: “She’s a lovely filly and I’m a big fan of the sire too. She’ll go into training in Newmarket.”

The first foal out of the winning Gulden Gorl, the Gestut Gorlsdorf-consigned filly has the Listed-winning Gold Charm as her second dam, as well as Group 3 Prix Chloe third Princess Charm and four further winners, including the four-time winning Band Of Gold and Gibbs Hill, on her page.

Holland taken with Protectionist colt

There is room in the German stallion market for an up-and-coming young sire and Brendan Holland of Grove Stud was keen on the prospects of Gestut Rottgen’s Protectionist after spending €100,000 on a February-born colt.

From the third crop of the Melbourne Cup winner, the Ronald Rauscher-consigned colt is out of a Soldier Hollow half-sister to champion German performer Isfahan and the German Group 3-winning Incantator.

Already named Ilmari, he is likely to be reoffered at the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale in the spring.

Holland said: “I’ll almost certainly resell him at Arqana next year as a two-year-old. I know he’s quite stoutly bred but he looks a big, fine solid horse with good limbs. If he can run he’ll be able to run next April. He’s just a quality horse.”

He added: “He’s not an obvious breeze-up but if he can run he can run, and he looks sound. I like him a lot.”

Good results for first-crop sires

Saxon Warrior continued his excellent sales results with his first crop of yearlings when Gestut Park Wiedingen’s filly out of a daughter of Preis der Diana winner Flamingo Road sold to Panorama Bloodstock for €160,000.

The March-born filly is out of the winning Faizeh, a Soldier Hollow half-sister to the dual Group-winning Flamingo Fantasy, who was also second to Getaway in the Deutschland-Preis, and the stakes-placed Nayef colt Frantic Storm. She will race in the colours of Stall Mandarin for trainer Hans Bierkamper.

A colt from another first-crop sire in Dalham Hall Stud resident and dual Champion Stakes winner Cracksman sold to IVA-Alles earlier in the day for €75,000.

The Rauscher-consigned chestnut is the first foal out of Group 3 Preis der Winterkonig second Pemina, a Soldier Hollow half-sister to Group 2 Diana Trial runner-up Pagella and out of a winning half-sister to German Derby and Prix Ganay winner Pastorius and champion German two-year-old Parthenius.

Statistics

The sale ended on an upbeat note with 155 lots selling from 195 offered for a 79 per cent clearance rate, up 13 per cent from last year and turnover of €6,734,500 (up four per cent on 2020). The average price rose five per cent to €43,448, while the median was up a healthy ten per cent to €43,193.

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