2003 BREEZE UP SALE DAY 2 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 2: RECORDS TUMBLE AT TATTERSALLS BREEZE UP SALE
A new European record for a filly was set on the second and final session of the Tattersalls Breeze Up Sale as a further 58 lots were sold for 1,753,200 guineas at an average of 30,277 guineas and a median of 25,000 guineas. The overall figures for the two days saw 129 lots sold for a record 4,115,700 guineas at an average of 31,905 guineas and a record median of 25,000 guineas. The aggregate represented a rise of 5% on last year's figures whilst the record median was 25% higher than last year.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2003 |
187 |
162 |
129 |
4,115,700 |
31,904 |
25,000 |
2002 |
178 |
137 |
116 |
3,925,700 |
33,842 |
20,000 |
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2003 |
91 |
75 |
58 |
1,753,200 |
30,277 |
25,000 |
2002 |
87 |
65 |
53 |
1,593,500 |
30,066 |
20,000 |
The record breaking filly was sold to Mikki Tsuge, acting on behalf of Japanese owner Fusao Sekiguchi who owned Kentucky Derby winner FUSAICHI PEGASUS and Japanese Derby winner FUSAICHI CONCORDE. The SADLER'S WELLS daughter of MOUNTAIN HOLLY, a SHIRLEY HEIGHTS half-sister to Group 2 winners FOYER and EARLENE was purchased for 150,000 guineas and provided another pinhooking success for sale topping consignor Con Marnane who had purchased the filly for only 45,000 euros as a yearling.
Lot 178: SADLER'S WELLS - MOUNTAIN HOLLY
Purchased by Fusao Sekiguchi for 150,000 guineas
Earlier in the day, an INTIKHAB half-brother to Grade 2 winner UNCHARTED HAVEN out of TOCHAR BAN, a winning half-sister to the dam of Group 2 winner CHANCELLOR was purchased by James Delahooke for 70,000 guineas. Consigned from Kip Elser's Kirkwood Stables, the colt is from the first crop of INTIKHAB, the Champion European Miler in 1998 whose first runners have made an immediate impact in Europe.
Lot 131: INTIKHAB - TOCHAR BAN
Purchased by James Delahooke for 70,000 guineas
The third highest price for the day was the 65,000 guineas paid for the KING OF KINGS half-brother to Listed winner RED MASQUE. The colt was purchased by Blandford Bloodstock's Tom Goff on behalf of Newmarket trainer William Jarvis. The colt from the second crop of 2000 Guineas winner KING OF KINGS, whose first crop includes 1000 Guineas prospect GEMINIANI, proved another notable pinhooking triumph for Lynn Lodge Stud's Eddie O'Leary who purchased for colt for $35,000 as a yearling.
Lot 123: KING OF KINGS - SILK MASQUE
Purchased by Blandford Bloodstock for 65,000 guineas
Leading Vendor at the sale was Con Marnane who sold 16 lots from his Tipperary based Bansha House Stables for 820,500 whilst John Hassett Jnr shared top billing with Fusao Sekiguchi as leading purchasers. Hassett Jrn purchased the sale topping DANEHILL colt for 260,000 guineas, whilst Sekiguchi's three purchasers totalled 260,000 guineas.
At the conclusion of the fifteenth Tattersalls Breeze Up Sale Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented:
“In 2002 our Breeze Up produced truly extraordinary figures with an average up 44% and turnover up an even more remarkable 52%. We suspected that such a spectacular Sale would be a hard act to follow, especially bearing in mind the global uncertainties caused not only by the conflict in the Gulf, but also the virus outbreak in South East Asia, but trade over the past two days has yet again produced record breaking figures.
“The obvious highlight was Bansha House Stables' DANEHILL colt out of SILVER BUBBLE whose 260,000 guineas comfortably broke last year's European Breeze Up record of 180,000 guineas, but in addition we have also seen records for median and turnover and more lots breaking the 50,000 guineas mark than ever before.
“The sale topping colt emphasised how the Tattersalls Breeze Up has transformed the European Breeze Up market in recent times with new buyers from the USA fighting off strong opposition from Japanese competition for a colt by one of the world's best sires. We have seen the average at this Sale more than double in the last five years and this has encouraged the vendors to send us some serious two year olds with pedigrees to match. The catalogue was well received from the word go and has attracted new faces from throughout the world including Japan, North America, Dubai, and Hong Kong as well as a strong Greek contingent accompanying our newly appointed Greek representative Chris Imirziadis and a party from Kazakhstan, and strong support from the traditional European markets"