Where Did They Come From?

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While this year’s G1 Investec Derby lineup is largely comprised of homebreds or private acquisitions, there are also some auction buys in here on both ends of the scale: the least expensive was 28,000gns, and the most expensive 1.3-million gns.

ANTHONY VAN DYCK (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}-Believe’N’Succeed {Aus}, by Exceed and Excel {Aus})
The last-out Listed Lingfield Derby Trial S. winner Anthony Van Dyck is the first Northern Hemisphere foal out of the G3 Blue Diamond Prelude winner Believe’n’Succeed, who was bought by Coolmore at the 2014 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale for A$1.1-million after producing the New Zealand champion sprinter and Group 1 winner Bounding (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}), who was bought by Stonestreet at that same sale two years later for A$1.6-million and exported to America. Believe’n’Succeed is a full-sister to Kuroshio (Aus), who has done well as a young sire with limited opportunities from shuttling to Britain. B-Orpendale, Chelston & Wynatt.

BANGKOK (IRE) (Australia {GB}-Tanaghum {GB}, by Darshaan {GB})
A 500,000gns Book 1 yearling, Bangkok is from the first yearling sales intake of King Power Racing. He is out of the listed-placed Tanaghum and a 3/4-brother to two other stakes winners as well as a half-brother to the dam of four-time Group 1-winning miler Ribchester (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}). His second dam is the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf (Nureyev), while he traces back to the excellent producer Fall Aspen. B-Barronstown Stud.

BROOME (IRE) (Australia-Sweepstakes {Ire}, by Acclamation {GB})
A €120,000 vendor buyback by Croome House Stud at Goffs Orby in 2017, Broome was bought by MV Magnier for 150,000gns two months later at the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale. His dam was a listed winner over five furlongs at Sandown and Grade III-placed going a mile in the U.S., and he is from the family of Zoffany (Ire). B-Epona Bloodstock Ltd.

CIRCUS MAXIMUS (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}-Duntle {Ire}, by Danehill Dancer {Ire})
Bred by co-owner Flaxman Stables, Circus Maximus is the first and only reported foal to date out of the Niarchos Family’s G2 Duke of Cambridge S. winner and multiple Group 1-placed Duntle. Duntle was bred by Sonia Rogers and raced by her until breaking her maiden by 18 lengths at second asking, after which she was bought privately by the Niarchos Family. B-Flaxman Stables Ireland Ltd.

HIROSHIMA (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}-Lisiere {Ire}, by Excellent Art {GB})
Hiroshima, a 250-1 shot for the blue riband after beating just two home in Anthony Van Dyck’s Lingfield Derby Trial, was a 28,000gns purchase by trainer John Ryan at Book 2 for koi carp trader Graham Smith-Bernal. His dam is a half-sister to the G1 Keeneland Phoenix S. winner Dick Whittington (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}). B-Mrs P A Cave.

HUMANITARIAN (Noble Mission {GB}-Sharbat, by Dynaformer)
A $200,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Godolphin from breeder Will Farish’s Lane’s End Farm, Humanitarian races in the colours of Sheikh Mohammed’s young son Sheikh Zayed. He is out of the U.S. listed-placed Sharbat, a half-sister to the G2 Lancashire Oaks and G3 Prix Minerve winner Pomology (Arch). B-W S Farish.

JAPAN (GB) (Galileo {Ire}-Shastye {Ire}, by Danehill)
A 1.3-million gns Book 1 purchase by the Coolmore partners, Japan was the latest in the procession of millionaires out of his dam to pass through the Tattersalls October ring. Shastye, the dam of G2 Middleton S. winner and G1 Oaks second Secret Gesture (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and two other stakes winners in addition to the G2 Beresford S. winner Japan, has had her sales yearlings gross an incredible $16.6-million. Those have also included the 3.6-million gns Sir Isaac Newton (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and last year’s 3.4-million gns Galileo colt, both also bought by MV Magnier. Secret Gesture was bought by Godolphin in foal to War Front for $3.5-million at Keeneland November in 2016 and that resultant foal, Silent Wave (GB), won her first start at Goodwood on May 25. B-Newsells Park Stud.

LINE OF DUTY (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}-Jacqueline Quest {Ire}, by Rock of Gibraltar {Ire})
The GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Line of Duty was bought by Godolphin from the New England Stud consignment for 400,000gns at Book 1. He is out Jacqueline Quest, who crossed the line first in the 2010 G1 1000 Guineas but was demoted to second for interference. Jacqueline Quest visited Galileo for her first four seasons and now has a 2-year-old Dubawi (Ire) filly named Onassis (Ire), a yearling colt by Galileo and a colt foal by Dubawi. B-Triermore Stud.

MADHMOON (IRE) (Dawn Approach {Ire}-Aaraas {GB}, by Haafhd {GB})
The G2 KPMG Champions Juvenile S. winner Madhmoon is a homebred for Sheikh Hamdan. He is out of the G3 Blue Wind S. second Aaraas, who is a half-sister to the dam of another recent Shadwell luminary, the G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Awtaad (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}). B-Shadwell Estate Company Limited.

NORWAY (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}-Love Me True, by Kingmambo)
Last year’s Listed Zetland S. winner Norway is a full-brother to his owners’ 2013 Derby winner Ruler of the World. Remarkably, that young sire wouldn’t qualify as the most accomplished produce of Love Me True: that honour falls to Duke of Marmalade (Ire), the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S., G1 Prince of Wales’s S. and total five-time Group 1 winner. Norway is a great grandson of the legendary American producer Lassie Dear, whose legacy includes Weekend Surprise, the dam of A.P. Indy and Summer Squall as well as the champion, Classic winner, five-time Grade I winner and excellent sire Lemon Drop Kid. B-Southern Bloodstock.

SIR DRAGONET (IRE) (Camelot {GB}-Sparrow {Ire}, by Oasis Dream {GB})
Derby favourite Sir Dragonet was bred by the Coolmore partners and is out of a Group 3-placed daughter of All Too Beautiful (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells), the G3 Middleton S. winner and a full-sister to Galileo (Ire) and a half to Sea The Stars (Ire). This is also the family of last year’s Derby winner Masar (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) as well as the 2018 G2 Rockfel S. winner Just Wonderful (Dansili {GB}) and many, many other standouts. B-Orpendale, Wynatt & Chelston.

SOVEREIGN (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}-Devoted To You {Ire}, by Danehill Dancer {Ire})
The maiden winner Sovereign, placed behind Broome in both of that one’s Group 3 wins this year, is out of the dual group-placed Devoted To You, whose dam Alleged Devotion (Alleged) is a half-sister to the G1 Irish Derby and Irish Oaks winner Balanchine (Storm Bird). Balanchine’s high-class dam Morning Devotion also features in the pedigrees of the G1 Prix de Diane winner West Wind (GB) (Machiavellian) and the dual G1 Dubai World Cup winner Thunder Snow (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}). B-Barronstown Stud.

TELECASTER (GB) (New Approach {Ire}-Shirocco Star {GB}, by Shirocco {Ger})
The supplemented G2 Dante S. winner Telecaster was offered by breeder Meon Valley Stud at Book 1 in 2017, and it is now looking like a very wise decision that they bought him back for 180,000gns. Telecaster certainly has it in his genes to excel over this course and distance; his sire won the 2008 blue riband while his dam was second in both the Investec Oaks and the Irish Oaks, as well as the G2 British Champions Fillies and Mares S. and the G2 Prix Royallieu. B-Meon Valley Stud.

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