Deep Impact Colt Tops Chiba Thoroughbred Sale

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For the third time in the last five renewals, a colt by Deep Impact (Jpn) proved the top seller at the annual Chiba Thoroughbred Sale held Friday, May 17, at Funabashi Racecourse outside of Tokyo.

A total of 60 horses were sent through the ring during the single-session auction, and the Shadai-bred lot 41 led the proceedings, attracting a final bid of ¥74,520,000 (£523,434/€606,740/US$677,608). The Feb. 15 foal is a son of Mrs. Lindsay (Theatrical {Ire}), who carried the silks of Bettina Jenney to an upset victory in the G1 Prix Vermeille and to a defeat of Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill (Point Given) as the favourite in course-record time in the GI E. P. Taylor S. in 2007. Trained by Francois Rohaut, the chestnut was victorious in that year’s G3 Prix Penelope and finished runner-up in the G1 Prix de Diane.

Mrs. Lindsay, a half-sister to US Grade I winner Dame Dorothy (Bernardini), has proved equally proficient in her second career, having produced MSW and G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains third-placegetter Mr. Owen (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) prior to being acquired privately by Shadai ahead of the 2013 breeding season. Mrs. Lindsay did not produce a foal in 2018 and was most recently covered by two-time G1 Tenno Sho (Spring) winner and 2012 G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) second Fenomeno (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}).

The session’s top-selling filly was lot 25, a daughter of boom sire Lord Kanaloa (Jpn)–Artemis Heart (Jpn), by Heart’s Cry (Jpn), whose second dam Moonlady (Ger) (Platini {Ger}) was a multiple group winner in Germany and also annexed the GII Long Island H. in the US before producing 2010 Tokyo Yushun hero Eishin Flash (Jpn) (King’s Best). A Feb. 7 foal, the bay was hammered down for ¥52,920,000 (£523,434/€430,707/US$480,953).

 

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