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Equinties - Dunne is BACK
Gm Equinauts
Intern again, soz.
Mixed luck yesterday. The boys stood next to Teal watching his horse they tipped lto, now win and beat the Godolphin horse they were on yesterday. What a game.
Now, let’s dive in.
Headline Roundup
Varian tops day two of the sales
In a similar story to Monday’s opening day, a SEA THE STARS colt topped day two of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, though this time it was Roger Varian who splashed the cash.
🤩 700,00gns Sea The Stars colt.
@varianstable outpoints Michael Donohoe for the ½-brother to Gr.3 winner Feliciana De Vega out of the Listed winner Along Came Casey, consigned by @longviewstud at #TattsOctober Book 2.
— Tattersalls (@Tattersalls1766)
6:49 PM • Oct 11, 2022
Out of the two-time Stakes winner ALONG CAME CASEY, this 700,000gns colt is a half-brother to the Gr3 winning mare FELICIANA DE VEGA, who also finished a fair seventh in the 2020 Gr1 Sun Chariot Stakes behind the likes of NAZEEF and CHAMPERS ELYSEES.
Four-timer complete @NewmarketRace for @HarryBentley_ & @RalphBeckett!
Feliciana De Vega relishes conditions & records a cosy success in the G3 Darley Stakes
— Racing TV (@RacingTV)
4:31 PM • Oct 12, 2019
The next most expensive sale of the day was a NIGHT OF THUNDER colt that went the way of Jamie McCalmont, agent to MV Magnier, for 575,000gns.
😮 Another yearling to break the half a million barrier.
Mountarmstrong Stud's Night Of Thunder colt out of the Prix Six Perfections winner Asidious Alexander sells to @MccalmontJamie on behalf of MV Magnier & @WhiteBirchFarm_ for 575,000gns. #TattsOctober
— Tattersalls (@Tattersalls1766)
7:34 PM • Oct 11, 2022
This beautiful yearling out of ASIDIOUS ALEXANDER, a Gr3 placed mare, is the dam’s first progeny - this horse has been bought in a year that has seen NIGHT OF THUNDER offspring shoot up in price at the sales.
His progeny have sold for an average of £208,862 in 2022, a full £115,000 more than the average sales price per horse from the previous year.
Looking back to today’s sold yearling, the dam wouldn’t be the most promising in the pedigree book but hopefully Magnier has picked out a good one in a good time for NIGHT OF THUNDER colts - for example, the ex-Godolphin-owned 11-year-old has seen the likes of ISAAC SHELBY pick up Gr2 success in the two-year-old division this year.
Great battle this! 💥
Isaac Shelby stands up to beat Victory Dance to the bet365 Superlative Stakes 🥇
#ITVRacing | @LeveySean | @brianmeehanltd
— ITV Racing (@itvracing)
2:19 PM • Jul 9, 2022
He’s only gone and Dunne it!
Robbie Dunne returned to the saddle with a victory yesterday at Hereford following his 10-month suspension from race riding.
First ride back a winning one for Robbie Dunne - Ernesto stays on well to win at @HerefordRaces for @ianwilliamsraci...
— At The Races (@AtTheRaces)
1:55 PM • Oct 11, 2022
He rode ERNESTO to victory for Ian Williams, a trainer he has a 12% SR for from 132 rides, in a three-mile handicap hurdle, the horse’s first victory in 13 runs.
Robbie Dunne was back in the winner's enclosure with is FIRST ride following a 10-month suspension, as Ernesto took the Black Mountain Botanicals Handicap Hurdle at Hereford for the @ianwilliamsraci yard.
— Simon Milham (@simonmilham)
3:26 PM • Oct 11, 2022
After the race, Dunne released a statement to the world, with the 36-year-old saying he just wants to “get on with [his] riding career”.
🚨 Breaking: Robbie Dunne has released the following statement after making a winning return from his ten-month suspension at @HerefordRaces this afternoon... [1/2]
— Sky Sports Racing (@SkySportsRacing)
5:28 PM • Oct 11, 2022
🚨 Dunne has thanked 'a vast number of owners and trainers' for standing by him in 'obviously very difficult circumstances' and says 'my riding is going to do all the talking from now on.' [2/2]
— Sky Sports Racing (@SkySportsRacing)
5:30 PM • Oct 11, 2022
Thank you, Aba.
And finally, the three-time Grade 1 successor ABACADABRAS was retired by Gordon Elliott yesterday after he pulled up at Punchestown as the 4/6 favourite.
In a race eventually won by DARVER STAR, the Gigginstown-owned legend was unhappy throughout before being pulled up after the third last - he returned back lame and was put into retirement on the spot.
Easy pickings for Darver Star in the @paddypower Feel Like A Favourite Hurdle at @punchestownrace. Fingers crossed for Abacadabras, last year's Aintree Hurdle winner, who was pulled up.
— Racing TV (@RacingTV)
2:14 PM • Oct 11, 2022
Aba was a much-loved horse who achieved many great triumphs - success in the Gr1 Future Champions Novice Hurdle, victory in the Gr1 Morgiana, his most recent Gr1 win in the Aintree Hurdle last year, and his famous ding-dong battle with SHISHKIN in the 2020 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.
And who can forget this?
Abacadabras and Shishkin serve up a thriller at @CheltenhamRaces in 2020.
— Racing TV (@RacingTV)
3:12 PM • Oct 11, 2022
A potentially underrated legend of the game who will be missed - enjoy retirement, big man x
Risk On
15.15 AL DASIM
Everyone in the sales bar says it wins.