Sanctuaire sold

Surely Ruby had major input in this deal. The previous owners supposedly had a falling out so many of their horses are to be dispersed.

Another one to mop up Grade 2's and 3's around Ireland!
 
Celebration Chase winner Sanctuaire will join Willie Mullins' team after being bought for £170,000 by Harold Kirk at the Goffs sales. Ryanair third For Non Stop has also been sold by owner Chris Giles, for £175,000 to Matt Coleman. (48 mins ago)
 
I see they've sold all their horses from the Nick Williams yard, plus Sanctuaire and Sky Watch from Nicholls', but what about Zarkandar, Silviniaco Conti etc?

Yet another big blow to Nicholls if he loses these two owners from his yard.
 
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don't think either of them have gone. saw a picture nicholls tweeted out the other day where clifford baker is now zarkandar's rider at home.
 
trefflich said:
Surely Ruby had major input in this deal. The previous owners supposedly had a falling out so many of their horses are to be dispersed.

Another one to mop up Grade 2's and 3's around Ireland!
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He might win first time out but he certainly won't be running up a sequence.Leopards and spots.
 
Irish Stamp said:
For Non Stop is going to the US to be aimed at their National I'm reliably informed.
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You'd have to hope their National is less than 3m, then.:)
Sanctuaire's decent, imo, but essentially a good ground horse, so can't see where he'll benefit from a move to Ireland?
 
That's a real shame about For Non Stop. I know he's not a world beater but he's a fav of mine. Lets hope he does better than Hunt Ball.

Nx
 
Diamond Geezer said:
Urban De Sivola moving from Nick Williams to Paul Nicholls
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One of the owners has bought him out then? I wonder if the problem was with Nick Williams then, seeing as all his horses with the pair have gone but only a couple of the Nicholls ones? They sold a couple of French youngsters for fairly big money too.
 
From RP

THE second and final session of the DBS August Sale brought with it the dispersal of the successful owner partnership of Jared Sullivan and Chris Giles. Eight of the pair's horses entered the ring, including Grade 1-winning chaser For Non Stop, who topped proceedings when knocked down to Matt Coleman of Anthony Stroud Bloodstock for £175,000.

The eight-year-old has been a consistent performer for Nick Williams and is now set for a career in the US.

"He has been brought for Sean Clancy, who is a friend and bloodstock agent in America," said Coleman. "He's going straight for the American National at Far Hills in October.

"He has a good record fresh and was impressive when winning the Old Roan Chase first time out last season."

The Alderbrook gelding finished third to Cue Card in the Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival this year. For Non Stop will be following a similar path to that of high-class chaser Hunt Ball, who was also recently sold to the US.

Giles and Sullivan are to go their separate way as owners, with the exception of Grade 1-winning pair Silviniaco Conti and Zarkandar, who are both trained by Paul Nicholls.

Sanctuaire, a dual Grade 2-winning chaser for Giles and Sullivan, is destined for Ireland after selling to Harold Kirk for £170,000.

"He will be going to Willie Mullins for an existing owner," said Kirk.

"He'll fit into the two-mile programme over there as we're a bit short in that division. Ruby [Walsh] obviously knows him well."

The seven-year-old son of Kendor, who was bought for €80,000 by Highflyer Bloodstock as a three-year-old at Arqana, has won seven times for Nicholls, including the Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' Handicap Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival.

Tom Malone, who narrowly missed out on For Non Stop, successfully raided the draft when buying the half-brothers Alibi De Sivola and Urbain De Sivola for £75,000 and £60,000.

From the family of triple Grade 1 winner Reve De Sivola, they will be going into training with Nicholls for an existing owner.

The priciest of the pair, a three-year-old son of Shaanmer, impressed Malone, who said: "He's a gorgeous horse with the size and scope to be absolutely anything. He's lovely and I was delighted to get him."

Malone was equally impressed with the Le Fou gelding Urbain De Sivola. "He's shown some lovely form and should make into a nice chaser," he added.

The five-year-old has already contested a number of high-class hurdle races and won the Listed Prix Miror at Auteuil last year.
Middleham-based trainer Philip Kirby parted with £75,000 for Kiwayu, a four-year-old son of Medicean.

Kiwayu has been in good form this summer for Ian Williams, winning two races on the Flat.

"He's been bought for an existing owner and we might go hurdling," said Kirby. "We will keep him on the Flat for the time being and see what he's like when we get him home. He's an easy mover and is bred to stay a trip."

In yesterday's session 141 lots sold for a turnover of £1,732,600, an average of £12,288 and median of £6,500. The clearance rate was 77 per cent.

The combined turnover for both days' trading was £2,685,875, a rise of 49 per cent from last year's total. The average was up 23 per cent on 2012 at £10,097, and the median jumped from £4,500 in 2012 to £6,000, up 33 per cent.
 
170k for Sanctuaire combined with a move to Willie Mullins may not be as mad as some might think.

As we've seen with many many good Irish horses they can very quickly run up a sequence of wins in somewhat non competitive races.

Sanctuare has absolutely no problems with very soft ground. he's a bit quirky but his talent is obvious.

He's not my favourite horse but better spending 170k on him than some Bumper winner with a shiny coat.
 
So in other words Nicholls has done pretty well out of the whole fall out? Nick Williams seems to be the only one who's lost out. I imagine the 'existing owner' at Ditcheat will be either Giles or Sullivan anyway.
 
Tanlic said:
Sanctuare has absolutely no problems with very soft ground. .
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That's not Paul Nicholls thinks, Fist, or what his record shows.
Basically, he's a horse that won't settle, and wins the majority of his races by virtue of his slick jumping taking him clear of the field, so stamina rarely becomes an issue. The one time he didn't was on heavy ground around a sharp Kempton, of which his trainer said afterwards:

He completely switched off after jumping the last down the back and Ruby dropped his stick and we both thought he was beaten around the last bend. Then when the other one passed him, he picked up again and if he would switch off like that it would make things a lot easier. We will have to face Sprinter Sacre but probably not at Ascot (Victor Chandler) on bad ground but there is the Game Spirit and we will take him on in the Champion Chase and Sandown at the end of the season will suit him as he wants good ground - he didn´t like that ground today. -

Ruby clearly thinks a lot of the horse ( lack of his incisive summaries will probably cost Ditcheat as many winners as not riding for them, imo), but the softer ground in Ireland wouldn't generally be in Sanctuaire's favour.
 
Indeed he did, UG, and had the race won by halfway, before stamina became an issue. PN remarked afterwards:
" I was worried about the ground because you can see he is a speed horse".
 
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