Oasis Dream Filly Leads Foals
Oasis Dream Filly Leads Foals…
The progeny of Oasis Dream (GB) have been highly sought after at this year’s yearling and foal sales, and that trend continued yesterday when Philipp Stauffenberg parted with €290,000 for lot 65, a filly by the Banstead Manor resident out of the dual French group winner and Group 1-placed Ana Marie (Fr) (Anabaa), a half-sister to the GII San Francisco Breeders’ Cup Mile winner and GI Shoemaker Mile-placed Charmo (Fr) (Charnwood Forest {Ire}). The March foal is a half to the stakes-winning Ana Americana (Fr) (American Post {GB}).
Stauffenberg, who outbid Tom Ryan on the March-foaled filly, noted she would head to his farm in Germany and be re-offered next year.
“She was a lovely filly–I thought she was the nicest foal in the sale, but she got very pricey,” he said.
Descendants of Gestut Wittekindshof’s champion racemare Elle Danzig (Ger) (Roi Danzig) are regular headline makers at Arqana–her black-type daughter Elle Same (GB) (Samum {Ger}) made €300,000 at this sale a year ago; Asyad (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}), another daughter, was bought for €230,000 at the 2012 August Yearling Sale while a Shamardal filly out of her stakes-winning daughter Elle Gala (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) commanded €240,000 at the latest August Yearling sale. Lot 118, a filly foal by Henrythenavigator (Ire) out of Elle Danzig’s triple Group winning daughter Elle Shadow (Ire) (Shamardal) made no exception and attracted a final bid of €155,000 from Bertrand Le Metayer, acting on behalf of Jurgen Winter’s Haras de la Perelle.
“Mr. Winter had tried to step into this family on numerous occasions so we are pleased to get lucky this time,” Le Metayer offered. “We saw all the foals, and this one was our pick of the sale. She is particularly well-developed for a first foal, and obviously the dam was a top-class racemare who won from two to four.”
The filly was one of three foals consigned by Solenn and Mathieu Gouesnard’s Haras d’Ombreville on behalf of Gestut Wittekindshof, and two commanded six-figure prices. The young couple commentated with a broad smile, “Gestut Wittekindshof was our first client when we set up the farm two years ago, so we are delighted to have had such a good sale for them.”
A German-bred filly foal by Invincible Spirit (Ire) set the early tempo of the sale yesterday when fetching €150,000 from agent Mick Flanagan as lot 9. The late March foal, who was consigned by Haras d’Ombreville, is out of the multiple stakes-winning Salonblue (Ire) (Bluebird), and is a half to the Italian stakes winner Monblue (GB) (Monsun {Ger})–who sold for €400,000 as a broodmare in this ring last year–and the Australian stakes winner Salon Soldier (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}). Flanagan noted the bay had been secured for “a syndicate of lads.”
“She’s a lovely horse with a good pedigree,” he said. “For now we think it’s been bought to race, but we’ll see–if it does really well between now and next year we might decide to re-offer it. It’s a horse with options, and I think at the price we got it for, it definitely has options.”
Salonblue’s Manduro (Ger) yearling commanded €100,000 as a foal at this sale last year, and she is currently carrying to Shamardal.
A filly by Lope de Vega (Ire) (lot 39)–the horse who would definitely take “sire revelation of the year” award should there be one–attracted a final bid of €100,000 from Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock. Tom Ryan of S.F. Bloodstock, one of Lope de Vega’s major shareholders, was the underbidder. Offered by Ian Hanamy’s Haras des Loges, the February-born is the second foal out of Truth Beauty (Ire) (Dubai Destination), a half- or full-sister to three stakes winners, headed by the G3 Prix de Barbeville scorer Magna Graecia (Ire) (Warning {GB}). The third dam is the Classic victrix Helen Street (GB), ancestor of the Group 1 winners and leading sires Street Cry (Ire) and Shamardal.
“I have bought her on behalf of [James Egan’s] Corduff Stud and she will be back in a sales ring as a yearling,” Brown said. “I am a huge fan of Lope de Vega–I already bought a very nice colt by him at Goffs. It is hard to imagine a stallion making a better start at stud.”