WORLD RECORD AT TATTERSALLS OCTOBER 1
The world record price for a yearling filly was shattered at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when the SADLER’S WELLS filly out of the IRISH RIVER mare BRIGID sold for 2,500,000 guineas (£2,625,000 or $5,330,000). The previous record for a yearling filly was the $4,400,000 paid for the STORM CAT filly out of EAST OF THE MOON in Kentucky in 2000.
The own sister to recent Group 1 Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile winner LISTEN was knocked down to London based bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon–Watson who was acting on behalf of Cheshire based owner Craig Bennett. Bennett, the former Finance Director of mobile phone business ‘Phones4u’, indicated that the world record breaking filly would join Newmarket trainer Luca Cumani who also trains Bennett’s current Melbourne Cup favourite PURPLE MOON.
Lot 612: SADLER'S WELLS - BRIGID
Purchased by Charles Gordon-Watson for 2,500,000 gns
The filly was sold on behalf of Brittas House Stud from former Cheltenham Gold Cup winning jockey Mark Dwyer’s Oaks Farm Stables and as well as being a new world record price for a yearling filly, the daughter of SADLER’S WELLS is also the highest priced yearling to be sold in the world in 2007