2008 BREEZE UP SALE DAY 1 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 1: SENSATIONAL OPENING DAY OF TATTERSALLS CRAVEN BREEZE UP
The Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale got off to a sensational start at Park Paddocks with a busy sales ring witnessing six lots that made 300,000 guineas or more and ten that realised 200,000 guineas or more, a figure made all the more remarkable by the fact that only five lots made that figure over the two days of last year’s sale. A total of 64 lots were sold for 6,477,000 guineas, a rise of 26% on 2007, with the average up 36% to 101,203 guineas and the median up 30% to 67,500 guineas. The clearance rate also improved significantly from last year to a healthy 77%.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2008 |
100 |
83 |
64 |
6,477,000 |
101,203 |
67,500 |
2007 |
108 |
99 |
69 |
5,138,000 |
74,464 |
52,000 |
GONE WEST stallion MR GREELEY was the flavour of the opening day with three
of his seven lots offered realising 300,000 guineas or more. The son of GONE
WEST was represented by the Group 1 winning fillies FINSCEAL BEO and SAOIRSE
ABU last year and leading the way on the opening day was lot 78, the colt
out of DEHERE OF THE DOG consigned from Eddie O’Leary’s Lynn
Lodge Stud. He was knocked down to Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum for 375,000 guineas
after he saw off the efforts of Saleh Al Homaizi, who co-owned Derby winner
AUTHORIZED, stood alongside his bloodstock advisor Tony Nerses and Fiona
Shaw, bloodstock advisor to Earle Mack. Three lots earlier a filly out of
the Grade 3 winning ROYAL ACADEMY mare MISS GAZON was knocked down to Kern
Lillingston’s Luke Lillingston for 300,000 guineas. Interest in the
filly consigned from Willie Browne’s Mocklershill Stables came initially
from traininer Mark Johnston, and agents Jamie McCalmont and Marc-Antoine
Bergracht, but none could better Lillingston’s bid of 300,000 guineas.
The two sales both proved great pinhooking results for their vendors, having
been purchased for $260,000 and $90,000 respectively.
Lot 78: MR GREELEY - DEHERE OF THE DOG
Purchased by Shadwell Estates for 375,000 gns
Late in the evening lot 83, a filly by MR GREELEY out of the SADLER’S WELLS mare DANSE DU DIABLE provided another pinhooking triumph, this time for Con Marnane’s Bansha House Stables, when knocked down to Blandford Bloodstock’s Tom Goff for 340,000 guineas after he saw off the efforts of agent Amanda Skiffington. Marnane had purchased the filly for €75,000 as a yearling.
Lot 83: MR GREELEY - DANSE DU DIABLE
Purchased by Blandford Bloodstock for 340,000 gns
Whilst progeny of MR GREELEY dominated the day, top price honours went to lot 46, a daughter from the first crop of Shadwell Estates’ HAAFHD who was knocked down to Luke Lillingston for 380,000 guineas. The daughter of the Listed winning TREMPOLINO mare ALLESPAGNE and half-sister to the Listed winning and Group placed CRUZSPIEL was consigned to the sale by John Hassett’s ‘The Bloodstock Connection’ and was secured by Lillingston after he saw off the efforts of agent Jamie McCalmont, stood alongside Paul Shanahan and Michael Tabor.
Lot 46: HAAFHD - ALLESPAGNE
Purchased by Shadwell Estates for 380,000 gns
The other two lots which realised 300,000 guineas on the opening evening were lot 52, a son of ARCH consigned from Con Marnane’s Bansha House Stables which was knocked down to Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum and lot 81, a son of DANSILI consigned from Gay O’Callaghan’s Yeomanstown Stud, who was knocked down to Irish agent John McCormack.