2003 BREEZE UP SALE DAY 1 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 1: EUROPEAN RECORD SHATTERED ON OPENING DAY OF TATTERSALLS BREEZE UP
A new European record for a Breeze Up was set at the opening session of the Tattersalls Breeze Up sale when a DANEHILL colt was purchased for 260,000 guineas on a day when 71 lots were sold for 2,362,500 guineas, at an average of 33,274 and a median of 24,000 guineas. The purchase shattered the previous record of 180,000 guineas set at this sale last year.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2003 |
96 |
87 |
71 |
2,362,500 |
33,274 |
24,000 |
2002 |
91 |
72 |
63 |
2,322,200 |
37,019 |
22,000 |
The DANEHILL half-brother to two winners out of SILVER BUBBLE, an own-sister to Group 1 Irish Oaks third SILVER LANE, multiple Grade 1 winner HAWKSTER and Group 1 third SILVER KITE was purchased by John Hassett Jnr for 260,000 guineas for New York based owners Anstu Stables for whom the DANEHILL colt was a first ever venture into the European market. Consigned from Con Marnane's Bansha House Stables, who offered Group 2 winner TAGSHIRA at this sale in 2000, the sale represented a massive pinhooking coup after being purchased for 50,000 euros as a yearling. Hassett Jnr saw off the effort of Japanese bloodstock agent Taki Murayama who was seated with trainer Kenji Yamauchi, last year's leading trainer at the Ritto training centre in Japan and a regular purchaser at the Tattersalls Breeze Up.
Lot 72: DANEHILL - SILVER BUBBLE
Purchased by John Hassett Jnr for 260,000 gns
Earlier in the evening, the SINGSPIEL half-brother to three winners out of the Group 3 placed FARIBOLE, became the first lot to break the six figure barrier when Dublin based bloodstock agent John McCormack went to 115,000 guineas to outlast Newmarket trainer John Gosden. The son of Singspiel, the multiple Group 1 winner who has already been represented by five Stakes winners including the Group 1 Dubai World Cup winner MOON BALLAD and leading 3YO's SONGLARK and BOURBONNAIS, was consigned by Malcolm Bastard, last years sale topping vendor. The colt is set to join Newmarket trainer Luca Cumani.
Lot 48: SINGSPIEL - FARIBOLE
Purchased by John McCormack Bloodstock for 115,000 gns
Third and fourth highest price for the evening were both knocked down
to bloodstock agent Borje Olsson on behalf of Lambourn based Swedish
owner/trainer Mikael Magnusson. Magnusson's first strike was for
Kilminfoyle House Stud's BOUNDARY colt out of the SLEW O'GOLD mare
MANICHES SLEW. The colt was purchased for $12,000 as a yearling and
Magnusson saw off session topping purchaser John Hassett Jnr to land
the American bred colt for 84,000 guineas. Magnusson later went to
80,000 guineas for the highest priced filly of the evening when purchasing
the FASLIYEV filly out of ATLANTIC DESIRE from Willie Browne's Tipperary
based Mocklershill Stables.