2007 AUTUMN HORSES IN TRAINING SALE
DAY 2 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 2: YELLOWSTONE HEADS BUMPER DAY AT TATTERSALLS AUTUMN HORSES IN TRAINING SALE
The Group 3 winner YELLOWSTONE came within a whisker of setting a new record at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale when selling for 520,000 guineas on a day when 258 lots sold for 9,249,300 guineas, a rise of 49% on the comparative day in 2006. The average rose 30% to 35,850 guineas whilst the median rose 20% to 18,000 guineas.
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Year |
Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
2007 |
393 |
300 |
258 |
9,249,300 |
35,850 |
18,000 |
2006 |
364 |
249 |
225 |
6,199,300 |
27,552 |
15,000 |
YELLOWSTONE was a late addition to the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training catalogue, and with a ‘Timeform’ rating of 119, had the highest rating of any three-year-old in the catalogue. Consigned from Ballydoyle Stables, the Aidan O’Brien trained colt by ROCK OF GIBRALTAR out of the Grade 1 placed EXCLUSIVE ERA mare LOVE AND AFFECTION, won the Group 3 Gordon Stakes at Goodwood this year beating Derby third AQALEEM as well as finishing second to St Leger winner LUCARNO in the Group 2 Great Voltigeur and a close-up fourth to NOTNOWCATO in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes. Bidding for YELLOWSTONE rose quickly and settled down to a head-to-head duel between Lambourn based trainer Stan Moore and Berkshire based agent Gordion Troeller, who was stood with California based trainer Bob Hess. As the price reached 520,000 guineas, Troeller waved the white flag allowing Moore to secure the colt on behalf of Jim and Fitri Hay, owners of his Uplands Stables. Moore, who was the leading UK trainer at this year’s Dubai Carnival indicated that YELLOWSTONE would headline his team to that event early next year. The price of 520,000 guineas fell narrowly short of the European record for a colt in training, held jointly by FIREBREAK and KEHAAR who realised 525,000 guineas at this sale in 2001 and 2004 respectively.
LOT 634: YELLOWSTONE
Purchased by Stanley Moore for 520,000 gns
Moments before YELLOWSTONE lit up the ring, the Roger Charlton trained COEUR DE LIONNE was knocked down to agent David Metcalfe for 350,000 guineas. By INVINCIBLE SPIRIT out of the DARSHAAN mare LIONNE, the half brother to the Listed winning, Group placed JADALEE was coming off consecutive wins on the Kempton Polytrack which earned him a ‘Timeform’ rating of 110. Consigned from Charlton’s Beckhampton House Stables, the sale represented another excellent result for owner Martin Myers’ Mountgrange Stud, having sold MR KEPPEL yesterday for 155,000 guineas. Metcalfe had to see off the efforts of Kern/Lillingston’s Alistair Donald and locally based agent Anthony Stroud to secure COEUR DE LIONNE on behalf of the Dubai based Stephen Lamprell, who looks set to hit the headlines at the forthcoming Tattersalls December Sale where his Group 1 winning filly SATWA QUEEN goes under the hammer.
LOT 613: COEUR DE LIONNE
Purchased by David Metcalfe Bloodstock for 350,000 gns
The consignment from Sir Mark Prescott’s Heath House Stables are always an eagerly awaited feature of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale with graduates in recent years including the Cheltenham Festival Grade 1 winners INGLIS DREVER and NO REFUGE. Topping proceeding’s at this year’s renewal was the three-year-old DIESIS gelding SAGREDO who was knocked to Timmy Hyde for 310,000 guineas. The Listed placed colt, who raced for his breeder Dr Catherine Wills, carried a ‘Timeform’ rating of 106 and caused a stir in the ring when Highflyer Bloodstock’s Anthony Bromley opened bidding at 100,000 guineas. Howard Johnson, stood alongside Graham Wylie who raced the aforementioned INGLIS DREVER and NO REFUGE, soon entered the fray, along with Hyde, but it was the latter who prevailed when Johnson refused to improve on the 310,000 guineas bid. Hyde indicated that SAGREDO was purchased on behalf of JP McManus and would go into training with Jonjo O’Neill at Jackdaws Castle.