2004 BREEZE UP SALE DAY 2 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 2: RECORDS ACROSS THE BOARD AT TATTERSALLS BREEZE UP SALE
A new record for a filly at a European Breeze Up Sale was set on the second and final night of the Tattersalls Breeze Up Sale as new records for aggregate, average and median were posted. Trade over the two days saw 130 lots sold for 6,071,500 guineas, a rise of 48% on last year's record turnover, whilst the average rose 46% to 46,704 guineas and the median rose 22% to 30,500 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2004 |
188 |
167 |
130 |
6,071,500 |
46,704 |
30,500 |
2003 |
187 |
162 |
129 |
4,115,700 |
31,904 |
25,000 |
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2004 |
93 |
81 |
66 |
2,829,500 |
42,871 |
30,000 |
2003 |
91 |
75 |
58 |
1,753,200 |
30,277 |
25,000 |
Progeny of the ill fated DANEHILL are always in high demand and it proved no different as the filly out of the SEATTLE SLEW mare SUPAMOVA entered the ring. Consigned from Con Marnane's Bansha House Stables, vendor of last night's record breaking FUSAICHI PEGASUS colt, the filly created a new European record for a filly at a Breeze Up when Japanese agent Yoshiomi Onizuka held off the efforts of English bloodstock agent Luke Lillingston to secure the filly for 240,000 guineas. The grand-daughter of Group 1 winner MAXIMOVA, from the family of Group 1 winners SEPTIEME CIEL and MACOUMBA is set to join Japan's leading trainer Kazuo Fujisawa for owner Keishiro Kanamori.
LOT 156: DANEHILL - SUPAMOVA
Purchased by Keishiro Kanamori for 240,000 gns
The second highest price for the night was the 190,000 guineas for a son of multiple Group 1 winner SWAIN out of the Listed placed CAERLEON mare SUBLIME BEAUTY. Consigned from Kip Elser's Kirkwood Stables, the colt who is bred on the same cross as Group 1 winning filly DIMITROVA, represented a monster pinhooking triumph having been purchased for $43,000 last year. The colt was purchased by Japanese agent Noriyuki Arakawa, one of the underbidders on yesterday's top lot, on behalf of Toshikatsu Fujita's Toyo Racing Club after a prolonged battle with Anthony Stroud who was seated with Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum. Stroud was to prove more successful shortly after when he secured the GIANT'S CAUSEWAY colt out of the Listed placed DISTANT RELATIVE mare WILDWOOD FLOWER consigned from Jamie Railton for 140,000 guineas.
LOT 169: SWAIN - SUBLIME BEAUTY
Purchased by Toshikatsu Fujita for 190,000 gns
Earlier in the evening Taki Murayama, of Murayama Bloodstock purchased the GIANT'S CAUSEWAY out of the HIGH ESTATE mare URGENT LIAISON for 140,000 guineas. URGENT LIAISON is a half sister to the Group 2 winning young sire GREAT DANE and the filly offered by Malcolm Bastard is from the family of multiple Group 1 winner CROCO ROUGE and 1000 Guineas winner SLEEPYTIME. The filly, who had been purchased at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last year for 100,000 guineas was set to join trainer Kenji Yamauchi for owner Tomio Fukami who purchased her as a racing and breeding prospect.
LOT 104: GIANT'S CAUSEWAY - URGENT LIAISON
Purchased by Murayama Bloodstock for 140,000 gns
At the conclusion of the 2004 Tattersalls Breeze Up Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;
“This sale keeps setting new standards. Only three years ago the Breeze Up was averaging a little over 23,000 guineas, with a top price of 82,000 guineas and turnover of around 2,500,000 guineas. Over the last two days turnover has broken six million guineas, the average was in excess of 40,000 guineas, and the top price was a massive 500,000 guineas.
“The vendors must take enormous credit for the transformation of the Sale. Each successive year the standard of the catalogue improves, as do the racecourse achievements of past sale graduates, and the combination is the key to the sustained domestic and international demand we have seen throughout the sale. In particular the strong Japanese contingent has had an enormous impact on proceedings, with regular buyers returning on the back of previous successes, and new faces also making a major contribution.
“A special mention should also go to Con Marnane, who has sold the sale topper at the Tattersalls Breeze Up Sale from his Bansha House Stables in four of the last five years. The achievement typifies the standards of presentation being consistently achieved by the consignors, and Bansha House managed a notable double this week not only shattering the European Breeze Up record with his 500,000 guineas FUSAICHI PEGASUS colt out of LYRIC FANTASY, but also setting a European record at a Breeze Up for a filly with the DANEHILL out of SUPAMOVA who realised 240,000 guineas.”