Expectations were high for the four yearlings from the final crop of the legendry Deep Impact at the yearling session of the JRHA Select Sale conducted at Northern Horse Park on Monday, with the opening lot setting the tone.
If Deep Impact needed any further boost to his worldwide appeal, he received it recently when Snowfall put her opponents to the sword by upwards of 16-lengths in the Oaks at Epsom.
From the consignment of Northern Farm, lot 1, the Deep Impact colt out of Go Maggie Go (USA), was bought by Hasegawa Yuji for ¥300m ($3,647,000)
A daughter of Ghostzapper, Go Maggie Go won the Grade II Gulfstream Park Oaks and Grade II Black-Eyed Susan Stakes in the USA.
That mark stood until equalled by Lot 100, a son of Lord Kanaloa out of the crack racemare Finest City, which went the way of Fujita Susumu, a prominent player on day one.
A daughter of City Zip. Finest City numbered the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint amongst her five wins and was placed a further 4-times at the highest level.
The Deep Impact stallion Silver State has made an exciting start to his career with his first crop of two-year-olds. There was plenty of competition near the end of the day for lot 241.
Tetsuhide Kunimoto had the final say at ¥260m ($3,142,300) for Northern Farm’s Silver State colt out of the unraced Guillem (Medaglia d’Oro), a daughter of the champion 2-year-old filly in the USA, Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and Grade 1 Gazelle Stakes winner Awesome Feather.
Masahiro Noda's of Danox Co Ltd is a perennial major player at the sale. He took a liking to lot 38 a Lord Kanaloa half-brother to Group 1 Hopeful Stakes winner Danon The Kid (Just Away) and stakes-winner Mikki Brilliante (Deep Brilliante),taking him home for ¥240m ($2,916,000).
Consigned by Northern Farm, the colt's dam Epic Love (Dansili) won the Group III Prix Vanteaux and was runner-up in the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary.
Lord Kanaloa proved popular. His Shadai Farm consigned colt lot 96 was a ¥220m ($2,672,780) purchase by Kaneko Makoto Holdings.
The colt is the first foal of the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup winner queens Ring (Manhattan Café).
Lot 32 a colt by Japan Cup winner Epiphaneia out of Vintage Rose (Zenno Rob Roy) was a ¥200m ($2,429,800) purchase by Fujita Susumu.
Vintage Rose is a half-sister to the Group II winners Rosenkreuz (Sunday Silence) and Rosebud (Sunday Silence), the dam of champion 2yo Colt Rose Kingdom (King Kamehameha).
Lot 113 Kaneko Makoto Holdings went to ¥200m ($2,429,800) for a colt from the first crop of Coolmore Stud’s Triple Crown Champion Justify (USA).
Offered by Shadai Farm, the chestnut is the second foal of the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes winner Zipessa (City Zip).
The end of an era. Northern Farm consigns the final lot through the ring on Monday, the last of the Deep Impacts lot 248
A sibling to seven winners, the colt is out of the End Sweep mare Sweep Tosho, who won Group 1 Takarazuka Kinen and was honoured as Japanese Champion Older Mare in 2005.
Ikeda Toyoharu earned a piece of history when he had the final say at ¥200m ($2,429,800)
Lot 131 Further encouragement for Coolmore Stud here when a colt from the first crop of Saxon Warrior (JPN) was knocked down to Kondo Junko for ¥190m ($2,308,310).
Consigned by Northern Farm the colt is out of the stakes-winning Invincible Spirit mare I’m Yours a half-sister to Group III winner Recharge (Cape cross) out of the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Rebelline.
Lot 19. The first foal of the Group 1 ATC Golden Slipper Slipper and Group 1 MVRC A. J. Moir Stakes winner She Will Reign (Manhattan Rain) piqued Australian interest.
He was another to go the way of Masahiro Noda's Danox Co Ltd, who outlaid ¥165m ($2,046,000) for the son of Heart's Cry from the Northern Farm consignment.
Other lots of interest include lot 40, a yearling colt from the first crop of Deep Impacts dual Group 1 winning son Satono Diamond out of the VRC Oaks heroine Set Square (Reset), purchased by Danox for ¥22m ($267,278); lot 102 a Heart’s Cry colt out of Fastnet Rock’s Group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes and Magic Millions 2yo Classic winning daughter Driefontein was bought by Shinobu Nakanishi for ¥58m ($704,642); lot 193 a Just Away colt out of the Group 1 AJC Australian Oaks heroine Absolutely (Redoute’s Choice) purchased by for ¥33m ($400,917)and lot 238 a filly by Rulership out of Rouge Coeur (Redoute’s Choice), a sister to Edward Manifold stakes winner El Daana (the dam of Kewney Stakes winner Wawail) purchased by for ¥29m ($352,321).
The sale concludes with the foal sale on Tuesday.
