Those American prospectors sufficiently resourceful–in every sense of that word–to mine some genetic gold at the European breeding stock sales generally fall into two camps.For some, an expanding and ever more lucrative grass (and synthetic) schedule in North America will offset the commercial distrust of turf bloodlines in their homeland. But others may also recognise that Thoroughbreds are more versatile than we typically allow them to be, hoping to emulate the impact on dirt of bloodlines imported from Europe by outstanding breeders of the last century.Both agendas have been repeatedly satisfied in the forthcoming auctions at Goffs, Tattersalls and Arqana.“The Tattersalls December Mares Sale has for decades been a focal point for North American buyers looking to source the very best of European bloodlines and find their foundation mares for generations to come,” says Jason Singh, head of marketing at Tattersalls. “Many transatlantic buyers are also looking to buy top-class race fillies, something that has become more prevalent in the last few years: recent Stateside successes include the GI Beverly D. winner Fev Rover (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}), the multiple graded stakes winner Pipsy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) and the exciting Village Voice (GB) (Zarak {Fr}), winner of the GIII Waya Stakes on her U.S. debut for Chad Brown and Resolute Racing.“This year's catalogue for Europe's premier breeding stock sale looks an outstanding collection of top-class race fillies and broodmares and it's a great privilege to be asked to offer four fillies of the calibre of Porta Fortuna (Ire) (Caravaggio), Barnavara (Ire) (Calyx {GB}), Tamfana (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) and Choisya (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) in the Sceptre Sessions-four fillies that any stable or stud farm would love to have. They are among 82 lots offered in the fourth year of the Sceptre Sessions, and are sure to be in great demand; as are the drafts from ever popular owner-breeders such as Juddmonte Farms and Godolphin.”But Singh stresses that vale can be found at all levels of the market.“This sale offers something for everyone,” he says. “This is illustrated perfectly by the Group 1 winners Ombudsman (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), Via Sistina (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and Wise Approach (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}), whose dams were purchased for 25,000gns, 36,000gns and 42,000gns respectively. Those are just three of the 25 individual Group 1 winners worldwide this year out of fillies and mares purchased at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.”Typically, then, an American shortlist of mares with “paper” potential might be little different from that compiled by a domestic shopper. But there does remain one further opportunity, marginal but potentially rewarding: the American pedigree that slips through the cracks.Via Sistina (pictured) winning the G1 Champions Stakes. Her dam sold for 36,000 gns at Tattersalls December Sale | Bronwen Healy PhotographyOn the one hand, for most Americans it would defeat the object of the exercise to import blood already widely available on their home market. They are instead devoting a lot of time and expense to the hope of introducing something different to their programs. European shoppers, equally, tend only to risk American pedigrees at the 2-year-old sales, where nerveless pinhookers have demonstrated a horse's functionality before their very eyes. Both sides, then, may overlook some mares of blatant American potential catalogued in Europe over the coming weeks.Those at Tattersalls (December 1-3) tend unsurprisingly to reflect the work of one European program, in particular. Because when their own broodmare band became saturated with the blood of Galileo (Ire), John Magnier and his partners at Coolmore taught a culpably parochial generation of Europeans to respect such names as War Front, Scat Daddy and now Justify.If anything, the latter has been too sensationally successful in Europe for his own good, when it comes to the American yearling market. It's a paradoxical state of affairs, when Justify appears a dirt paragon in physique. But the Triple Crown winner's six daughters in this catalogue could not offer a more cosmopolitan blend, divided as they are between American, Irish, British and even Australian backgrounds.You could hardly seek a better example of the kind of outcross just discussed than Mayfair (Ire) [1732], a 4-year-old by Justify out of Clemmie (Ire)–especially because the latter herself represents another trademark Coolmore strategy. For as it became clear that Galileo was putting a ton of staying power into his stock, he was increasingly paired with mares that had exhibited exceptional speed on the racetrack. Clemmie proved the ultimate vindication, as the first among Galileo's countless Group 1 scorers over just six furlongs, in the G1 Cheveley Park Stakes.That was consistent with her own breeding: her dam Meow (Storm Cat) just missed in the G2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot, while granddam Airwave (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) was herself an earlier winner of the Cheveley Park.Clemmie is sibling to serial group performers and/or producers, notably champion juvenile and Classic winner Churchill (Ire) (Galileo). One of three starters to date for Clemmie, and full-sister to listed winner Unless, Mayfair showed enough when second in maidens this spring to start just 4-1 for the G3 Musidora Stakes. Whatever her problem was that day, it saw her promptly dispatched for a cover that now serves as icing on the cake, by none other than Wootton Bassett (GB)–whose tragic loss has made collectors' items of all his remaining stock. One way or another, this Coolmore cull looks like a precious opportunity to tap into that operation's very best work.A second Justify whose page makes you drool is the stakes-winning 4-year-old Miss Justice (GB) [1450], who failed by just a neck to add a group prize at Newmarket last month and is duly offered as a horse-in-training. She's out of an unraced sister to G1 Falmouth winner Timepiece (GB) (Zamindar), whose Group 1-winning half-sister Passage Of Time (GB) (Dansili {GB}) takes us into Juddmonte gold, with many elite performers clustering around and below her.Another 4-year-old, Foolish Love (Ire) [1290], managed only a single start but she's out of a sister to Classic-placed So Wonderful (War Front) out of Classic-placed Wonder Of Wonders (Kingmambo). The next dam All Too Beautiful (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), also Classic-placed, was sibling to a horse called Galileo-and his half-brother Sea The Stars (Ire)! Foolish Love arrives with a cover by rookie Auguste Rodin (Ire).Justify's sire Scat Daddy has three daughters in the catalogue, notably the Classic-placed Group winner Qabala [1730]. Her first two starters both won at a decent level, stimulating demand for her Wootton Bassett yearling, who made 2.2 million guineas in this ring last month. Qabala, out of a daughter of Empire Maker and GI Kentucky Oaks winner Flute (Seattle Slew), arrives with another prestigious cover in Too Darn Hot (GB).Another outcross given a good name in Europe through the enterprise of Coolmore, War Front, has half a dozen daughters going under the hammer here. Along The Beach [1289] is an 11-year-old with a patchy production record, but arrives in foal to Paddington (GB) and her third dam is Urban Sea herself.Surely somebody will roll the dice: she's a half-sister to G1 Criterium International winner Twain (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) and G2 Rockfel winner Just Wonderful (Dansili {Ire}), so this is a flourishing corner of one of the great families.Seven-year-old Elizabethan is sister to two of War Front's top performers in Europe, triple Group 1 winner Roly Poly and champion juvenile U S Navy Flag, their dam being Classic winner Misty For Me (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). She comes with the bonus of a cover by Camelot (GB) and, while she did not herself build on a maiden success, the page has been newly decorated this fall by two Group 1 juvenile scores for Puerto Rico (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who is out of a sister to Misty For Me.Solo Solitaire (Ire) was an undistinguished performer but surfaces in the Sceptre Sessions [1757] as a Violence half-sister to Brooch (Empire Maker), the dual Group winner in Europe best known in the U.S. as dam of GI Kentucky Derby winner Mandaloun (Into Mischief). Brooch, remember, is out of a stakes-winning sister to Emulous (GB) (Dansili {GB}), a Group 1 winner herself and meanwhile the dam of G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}) and shock G1 Sussex Stakes winner Qirat (GB) (Showcasing {GB}).Other familiar broodmare sires represented in the catalogue include Bernardini, Blame, Giant's Causeway, Medaglia d'Oro, More Than Ready and Street Cry (Ire); while many families are also represented that could be profitably restored to Kentucky. The Listed-placed 4-year-old Where I Wanna Be (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), for instance, arrives as Hip 1736 with a maiden cover by Night Of Thunder (Ire): her dam is a Street Cry (Ire) half-sister to Eight Belles (Unbridled's Song). …And Goffs Also Worth a BrowseEn route to Tattersalls, American prospectors can take in the November Breeding Stock Sale at Goffs (November 21-22). But they should get there promptly, with the opening session featuring the 7-year-old Cleopatra's Gift (American Pharoah) [1030]. Herself unraced, she's out of an unraced half-sister to none other than Uncle Mo, and had a timely update the other day when her first foal Needle Match (GB) (Night Of Thunder {GB}) won on debut at Newbury. Unfortunately, she missed to his sire this time round, but had meanwhile delivered colts by Palace Pier (GB) and Cracksman (GB), so is just getting started.Several mares in this catalogue are by American sires who tapped into seriously classy families, albeit some may require a degree of courage in terms of age and/or production records. But there are also several younger mares that would offer plenty of domestic traction on “repatriation.”The 4-year-old Melodiam (Ire) (No Nay Never) [1078], for instance, showed nothing in a light track career but represents Juddmonte royalty: her dam is sister to Filimbi (Mizzen Mast), the Grade II winner who ran Tepin (Bernstein) to half-a-length in the GI Just A Game Stakes. Filimbi's son Dragoon Guard (Arrogate) emerged as a leading sophomore last year, suggesting that next dam Flute (Seattle Slew) is successfully recycling the genes that won the GI Kentucky Oaks. (This is duly the same family as Qabala, noted above at Tattersalls.)Similarly the limited racetrack profile of the 7-year-old Mystical Beauty (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) [1097] does not alter the fact that she is a half-sister to Rising Tornado (Storm Cat), dam of one of the most important females in Juddmonte's American division in Close Hatches (First Defence): a champion herself and meanwhile responsible for the Tapit trio Tacitus, Batten Down and now Scylla. This young mare's first starter Turty Tree (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) shaped extremely well on debut at Newmarket last month.First and foremost, however, both these sales are a goldmine of European bloodlines. The same will apply at Arqana next month, of course-and we'll be examining that catalogue in due course, too. For anyone whose Turf education was in the Old World, browsing these sales is tremendously evocative: page after page renews the memory of great racehorses, great families; and, for any overseas investor of due enterprise, great opportunities to change things up.“The Goffs November Sale is unmissable for quality and value,” argues Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby. “It is the source of many of the best and deepest Irish bloodlines each year, all conducted from the most user-friendly sales complex in the world.“The Breeding Stock Sale features stunning drafts from some of the world's leading breeders. It has proved the starting point for many major performers with the dams of Group 1 winners Precise (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), Romantic Warrior (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), Excellent Truth (Ire) (Cotai Glory {GB}), Lush Lips (GB) (Ten Sovereigns {GB}) and so many more all bought at the sale for less than €100,000. Goffs November is truly unmissable, and U.S. visitors will experience a welcome that only be found in Ireland-mighty craic-and a sale that delivers.”The post European Mares Tempt Various American Agendas appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.