In the latest edition of our Value Sires Series, we arrive with stallions with their first brood due in 2022. Darley’s duo Too Darn Hot (GB) and Blue point (Ire) retired as the two breakout horses of this group in terms of fees, and that’s how they ended their first season of sales. Too Darn Hot, Dubawi’s handsome hybrid son who was a two- and three-year-old champion, retired for £50,000 at Dalham Hall Stud and his 11 ponies sold last year for an average of 131,148 euros / £111,964 – the best foal sales average achieved by a first-season Male since 2017. Meanwhile, Blue Point – 3-time Royal Ascot Group champion sprinter – went to Kildangan Stud for €45,000 and his 18 ponies sold for an average of €98,366 / £83,980.
Both of these males are extremely deserving of the top of the list. Thanks to the Dubawi stallion and in addition to the three first-prize winning mares of Group 1 Dar Re Mi (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) from the incredibly profound family of the influential prince Darshaan (GB), Too Darn Hot is always had high hopes on his shoulders and he delivered from the start. ONE ‘Rising star TDN’ having won in seven lengths at launch, Too Darn Hot went on to beat G3 Solario S., G2 Champagne S. and G1 Dewhurst S. on its way to the 2-year-old championship. Too Darn Hot has endured a rough start to its 3-year campaign; after a defeat caused him to miss the G1 2000 Guineas, he was briefly booked on the Derby trail, but was then re-routed again after he was overshadowed in the G2 Dante S.
G1 Irish 2000 Guineas and G1 St James’s Palace S., Too Darn Hot put it all together to win the G1 Prix Jean Prat and G1 Sussex S. Too Darn Hot’s first crop featured 124 ponies and 163 mares returned last year when his fee was reduced to £45,000. That’s where it stayed this year.
Blue Point carries with it Team Kildangan’s hope that he will be his son, Shamardal, the heir apparent at the horse yard that Shamardal called home for 14 years. Shamardal’s fastest son, Blue Point is a good 2-year-old, winning G2 Gimcrack S. and earning places in G1 Middle Park S. and Dewhurst. He is also very good, at the age of three, winning a doubles of Group 3 and finishing third in the G1 Commonwealth Cup. He scored pretty well with 4 points, winning the G1 King’s Stand S. championship against Battaash. But at the age of five, he was excellent, winning all five starts including the G1 Al Quoz Sprint and the G1 Tower King—again beating Battaash—and the G1 Diamond Jubilee S. four apart. day. The first season of Blue Point collected 154 ponies, and 183 mares returned last year, giving him the biggest book of the season two stallions. Blue Point holds at €40,000 for the second year in a row.
Blue Point is not alone as the top-class sprinter in this crossbreed: Ads (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) won the G2 July S. and G1 Phoenix S. in second place before adding the G1 Commonwealth Cup and G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest in third, and he kept his £25,000 fee England for the first three seasons at National Rivets. Coolmore’s Ten Sovereigns (Ire) (No, never) won the G1 Middle Park S. in second and fourth place behind Ads in the Commonwealth Cup before making a career-best run to beat that opponent at the G1 in July. Ten Sovereigns started at €25,000 but this year has dropped to €17,500. He is third in first-season stallion average in terms of pony sales, his 30 ponies sold for an average of €59,137 / £50,422.
Coolmore also has Bell (GB), first son of King (GB) to retire in the team, in this group. The Juddmonte half-blood won the debut for the money ‘Rising star TDN’ status 10 days before beating Ads in G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot. After missing the rest of the season, Bell returned with a four-time win in G3 Pavilion S. in third place but withdrew after being disappointed by future Group 1 double winners Hello Youmzain (Fr) (Kodiac {GB}) at G2 Sandy Lane S. Bell starts at €22,500 and drops to €12,500 this year.
Also available are quality, four-figure price ranges in this seedling, like Yeomanstown Stud’s six-time Group 3 winner and Group 1 placed Invincible Army (Ire) (God of Invincibility {Ire}) (7,500 €); Tally-Ho Stud’s Inns Of Court (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) (€5,000), also a four-time group winner and 1st in the Pool; Highclere Stud . G2 Winner Richmond S Land Forces (Ire) (No, never) (£5,000); Shadwell’s G1 Commonwealth Cup Winner Eqtidaar (Ire) (God of Invincibility {Ire}) (£5,000); and Haras d’Etreham’s Group won 3rd place, ranked G1 Diamond Jubilee City Lights (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) (7,000 €).
The most prized member of this herd is Ballylinch Stud with €15,000 (down from the original €17,500), and it’s a four-time Group 1 winner and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Top Scorer Waldgeist (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Second place Group 1 winner, who had the best finish at the age of five, Waldgeist is the son of the male Galileo and comes from an extremely stout German family. He started his last campaign in 2019 with a previous defeat Study Of Man (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) in G1 Prix Ganay, and that competitor also participates with a great chance to win. Study Of Man won the G1 Prix du Jockey Club in 2018 and is the grandson of Miesque, thus of the direct lineage of the Kingmambo and Karakontie (Jpn) as well as many other Group 1 winners. Due to the great Deep Impact coming from a Storm Cat mare, the Study Of Man will easily mate with the majority of European rabbit brood populations. He drops to €12,500 from €15,000.
The Irish National Championship is the winner of the 3rd team 2 years old and the 1st team Ireland 2000 Guineas Phoenix of Spain (Ire) for €12,000, down from the original €15,000. Phoenix of Spain is the most representative of this group in the sale of ponies, with 45 passing the round. Thirty-six sold for an average of €30,713/£26,177.
PODIUM VALUE
Copper: Soldier’s Call (Ire) (On display {GB}) (Ballyhane Stud, €7,500) – Soldier’s Call is the ultimate Royal Ascot award
The 2-year-old was trained at the age of three to mix him up with the best older sprinters. He ran eight times with two, with wins in Listed Windsor Castle S., G3 Prix d’Arenberg and G2 Flying Childers S. Highlights before he ran for a third, hitting a neck, in G1. Prix de l’Abbaye against older horses. In his second start at age three, Soldier’s Call found only excellent former sprinters Blue Point and Battaash too hard at G1 King’s Stand S.
Though Soldier’s Call didn’t win in third place, he put on another stellar performance against the elders coming in second behind Battaash in G1 Nunthorpe S. Soldier’s Call was popular. turn at Ballyhane Stud; he covered 159 mares in his first season and one more than last season. He debuted for 10,000 euros and, after earning 7,500 euros last year, remains at that fee in 2022.
Silver: Masar (GB) (New Approach {Ire}) (Darley Dalham Hall, £14,000) – Group 3 winner in two who trained to win the Derby and from the family of Galileo (Ire) and Sea The Stars (Ire), Masar has a lot of value into a package of € 14,000. Precious enough to beat the Invincible Army to win his 2-year-old debut in May, Masar placed third on the Chesham S. Jean-Luc Lagardere roster. The nine-stage G3 Craven S. winner came in third, Masar finished third at the G1 2000 Guineas before stepping up to victory in the Derby. Masar, by Galileo’s senior son New Approach, is a 3×4 cross with Galileo’s Urban Sea blue hen, and thus belongs to Galileo’s own female family as well as Sea The Stars and many Group winners. 1 other. Masar is the second pony of Godolphin’s UAE Classic double winner, Khawlah (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}), who also finished third in G3 Oh So Sharp S. with a score of two. Khawlah has since produced Sayyida (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) ranked 3rd in the Group, and herself is the granddaughter of Galileo and Sea The Stars, Oaks’ half-sister, Melikah ( Ire) (Lammtarra). . Masar covered 138 mares in his debut book for £15,000 and £98 last year for £14,000, a fee he has kept this year.
Yellow: Magna Grecia (Ire) (God of Invincibility {Ire}) (Coolmore Stud, €17,500) – Down to €17,500, St Mark’s BasilicaClassic’s winning brother, Magna Grecia– Everyone is a 2-year-old student who won the Group 1 prize – excellent looks. While St Mark’s Basilica fills the eye with a €65,000 launch fee, which is worth remembering not only Magna Grecia yielded proof of the glittering racecourse, but proven by the sire of the Invincible God. Raced by Coolmore partners in partnership with the Niarchos Family’s Flaxman Holdings, Magna Grecia won the first question in second place and came in second behind Persian King (Ire) (King {GB}) – beat his stable friend and colleague Value Sire Circus Maximus-in G3 Autumn S. before defeating Phoenix Of Spain in G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy. Magna Grecia was the decisive first winner of the 2000 Guineas at the age of three, and retired after running two more times with a 120th rating. Magna Grecia and St Mark’s Basilica outside of G3 Silver Flash winner S. Ire) (Danehill {Ire}). After insuring 159 mares the first year for a fee of €22,500, Magna Grecia insured 127 last year for €18,000 and is now available for €17,500 this year.
