2007 BREEZE UP SALE DAY 1 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 1: SOLID START TO TATTERSALLS CRAVEN BREEZE UP SALE
Following the massive rises at the 2006 Tattersalls Breeze Up Sale the 2007
renewal has a hard act to follow but day one of the Tattersalls Craven Breeze
Up saw a solid start with 16 six figure lots and a total of 69 two-year-olds
selling for 5,138,000 guineas at an average of 74,464 guineas and a median
of 52,000 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2007 |
108 |
99 |
69 |
5,138,000 |
74,464 |
52,000 |
2006 |
102 |
89 |
75 |
5,656,000 |
75,413 |
55,000 |
Top price of the day, and a new European breeze up record for a filly was the 370,000 guineas paid for lot 91, a gorgeous daughter of the outstanding broodmare sire QUIET AMERICAN out of the winning NUREYEV mare LAIYL whose first three foals are all winners including the dual Group 3 winner LAYMAN. The grey filly was presented by USA based consignor Kip Elser, a regular vendor at the Tattersalls Breeze Ups under his Kirkwood Stables banner, and her yearling price of $140,000 was quickly passed with the early exchanges involving trainer Paul Webber, and agents David Redvers, Richard Brown, and James Delahooke, but it was agent Gill Richardson and Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Racing Manager Angus Gold who took the filly into record breaking territory. Despite the filly being from the direct family of Sheikh Hamdan’s outstanding fillies DESIRABLE and SHADAYID it was Richardson who eventually triumphed.
Lot 91: QUIET AMERICAN - LAIYL
Purchased by Gill Richardson for 370,000 gns
Kirkwood Stables enjoyed a hugely successful evening with two more of their five first day lots breaking the six figure barrier including Lot 51, a handsome chesnut STREET CRY colt out of the ALLEGED mare QUIET RUMOUR who sold for 160,000 guineas. The American bred colt from the second crop of the Dubai World Cup winner who has made a spectacular start to his stud career, was knocked down to Angus Gold on behalf of Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Shadwell Estates. Gold outlasted Dubai based trainer Christian Wroe and ultimately locally based bloodstock agent Oliver St Lawrence to secure the colt who is a half-brother to three winners including the Stakes winning filly BEEBE LAKE. The third Kirkwood six figure sale was lot 17, the EMPIRE MAKER filly out of the Stakes winning mare SUNLIT SILENCE.
Lot 51: STREET CRY - QUIET RUMOUR
Purchased by Shadwell Estates for 160,000 gns
Top price colt of the day was lot 71, an outstanding colt from the second crop of JOHANNESBURG out of the winning THEATRICAL mare AWESOME STRIKE. The colt, who was purchased for €130,000 as a yearling, was consigned from Con Marnane’s Bansha House Stables and after a protracted bidding duel with four protagonists in beyond 200,000 guineas the colt was knocked down to London based bloodstock agent Jamie McCalmont for 310,000 guineas. McCalmont outlasted bloodstock agents Amanda Skiffington and Peter Doyle but it was Kuwaiti businessmen Saleh Al Homaizi, joint owner of last year’s Irish 2000 Guineas winner ARAAFA, accompanied by his bloodstock advisor Tony Nerses, who bid 300,000 guineas before finally accepting defeat. McCalmont indicated that the colt had been purchased on behalf of an American client and will join trainer Jeremy Noseda at his Shalfleet Stables in Newmarket. Marnane struck gold again later in the evening when his DYNAFORMER colt out of the Stakes placed mare GYPSY, lot 104, was knocked down to busy agent Amanda Skiffington for 230,000 guineas. Skiffington saw off agent Stephen Hillen, who was accompanied by Yorkshire based trainer Kevin Ryan.
Lot 71: JOHANNESBURG - AWESOME STRIKE
Purchased by Jamie McCalmont for 310,000 guineas
Lot 104: DYNAFORMER - GYPSY
Purchased by Amanda Skiffington for 230,000 guineas
McCalmont was another agent consistently active at the higher end of the market and he struck again when purchasing lot 79, a colt from the first crop of HAWK WING consigned by Seven Springs Stables, for 190,000 guineas. The colt represented a major pinhooking triumph for locally based consignor Emma O’Gorman who purchased the colt at Part 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale for 40,000 guineas. Out of the CAERLEON mare CHAMPAKA, the colt had also attracted interest from bloodstock agents Amanda Skiffington, Angie Sykes and Stephen Hillen, but again it was McCalmont who was not to be denied.
Lot 79: HAWK WING - CHAMPAKA
Purchased by Jamie McCalmont for 190,000 guineas
Another notable pinhooking success was lot 48, the OASIS DREAM colt out of
the MARK OF ESTEEM mare KITE MARK, consigned by previous sale-topping consignor
Malcolm Bastard. Purchased as a yearling for 40,000 guineas at Part 1 of
the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, the colt from the first crop of the
Juddmonte based sire had no shortage of admirers after an eyecatching breeze
the day before. Newmarket based trainer William Haggas and Pam Sly, trainer
of last year’s 1,000 Guineas winner SPECIOSA, were both keen to land
the bay colt, but neither could match the final bid of 140,000 guineas from
Darley’s John Ferguson.