2006 BREEZE UP SALE DAY 1 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 1: STAGGERING START TO TATTERSALLS BREEZE UP SALE
The Tattersalls Breeze Up Sale opened in sensational fashion with records across the board on the first day of the two day sale. Turnover for the 75 lots sold was 5,656,000 guineas, up 65% on the opening session last year, with the average and median both rising 45% to 75,413 guineas and 55,000 guineas respectively. A total of 18 lots sold for 100,000 guineas or more, up from 10 last year, whilst the clearance rate was a very impressive 84%.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
102 |
89 |
75 |
5,656,000 |
75,413 |
55,000 |
2005 |
99 |
92 |
66 |
3,428,000 |
51,939 |
38,000 |
The top price for the day and the second highest ever price at a European breeze up was the 400,000 guineas paid for the ROCK OF GIBRALTAR colt out of the CAERLEON mare SABREON, the half-sister to Group 1 and Grade 1 winner LANDSEER. The battle to secure the regally bred colt consigned from Willie Browne's Mocklershill Stables soon settled down to a head-to-head duel between Northern Farm's Shunsuke Yoshida and Irish bloodstock agent Peter Doyle, who was standing alongside Plantation Stud's Dermot O'Rourke. Doyle and O'Rourke finally secured the athletic colt who will join Henry Cecil at his Warren Place Stables in Newmarket. The sale represented a great pinhooking result for Browne who had purchased the colt for 165,000 guineas at Part 1 of the 2005 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. The result represented the high point of an incredible day for Mocklershill Stables, whose eleven lots realised a total of 1,324,000 guineas.
Lot 58: ROCK OF GIBRALTAR - SABREON
Purchased by Peter Doyle/Plantation Stud for 400,000 gns
Another consignor to enjoy a spectacular day was Bansha House Stables' Con Marnane whose ten sold lots realised a total of 1,079,000 guineas and included three of the five highest priced lots for the day. The highest of these was the MONTJEU colt out of the DASHING BLADE mare NOBLE PEARL who was purchased by London based bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon-Watson for 230,000 guineas after he saw off the efforts of fellow agents Antony Stroud, Peter Doyle and Gordion Troeller. The colt represented a massive pinhooking success, having been purchased as a yearling for €90,000.
Lot 98: MONTJEU - NOBLE PEARL
Purchased by Charlie Gordon-Watson for 230,000 gns
The two other Bansha House Stables consigned lots to make more than 200,000 guineas also represented great pinhooking results. The MONTJEU half-sister to Group 1 Racing Post Trophy third SEPTIMUS, out of the DARSHAAN mare CALADIRA, realised 200,000 guineas to the bid of locally based bloodstock agent Stephen Hillen, having been purchased as a yearling for €43,000 whilst the JOHANNESBURG colt out of GULCH mare NORTHERN GULCH, who was purchased by agent Tony Nerses for 210,000 guineas, was purchased as a yearling for $75,000.
Lot 44: MONTJEU - CALADIRA
Purchased by Stephen Hillen for 200,000 gns
Lot 77: JOHANNESBURG - NORTHERN GULCH
Purchased by Tony Nerses for 210,000 gns
On a night of unprecedented results, the fifth lot to breach the 200,000 guineas mark was the DANEHILL DANCER colt out of the MR PROSPECTOR mare STATISTIC. Consigned from Mark Dwyer's Oaks Farm Stables, the colt was purchased by London based agent Jamie McCalmont for 200,000 guineas after he saw of the efforts of Co Meath based trainer Ger Lyons and represented another stunning pinhook success, having been purchased as a yearling for €40,000.
