2007 GUINEAS BREEZE UP SALE PRESS STATEMENT
TOP PRICE OF 90,000 GUINEAS AT INAUGURAL TATTERSALLS GUINEAS BREEZE UP SALE
A filly by CLODOVIL and a colt by INVINCIBLE SPIRIT shared top billing at the inaugural Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale when they both realised 90,000 guineas on a day when 76 lots sold for a total of 2,129,000 guineas at an average of 28,013 guineas and a median of 23,000 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2007 |
164 |
125 |
76 |
2,129,000 |
28,013 |
23,000 |
Lot 38, the grey filly from the first crop of DANEHILL's Group 1 Poule d'Essai
des Poulains winner CLODOVIL, out of the MANILA mare TROPICAL PARADISE set
the early benchmark for the day when knocked down for 90,000 guineas to Newmarket
trainer Ed Dunlop. Dunlop, who was stood alongside Blandford Bloodstock's
Richard Brown secured the filly, who was consigned from John Cullinan's Horse
Park Stud, after a protracted bidding duel with Stetchworth Park Stud principal
Bill Gredley. The sale provided a windfall for her owners who purchased the
filly for €15,000 at last year's Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling
Sale.
Lot 38: CLODOVIL - TROPICAL PARADISE
Purchased by Blandford Bloodstock for 90,000 gns
The first crop of the GREEN DESERT stallion INVINCIBLE SPIRIT included a world record thirty-five individual two-year-old winners last year headlined by the Group 2 winning pair CONQUEST and CAPTAIN MARVELOUS and his progeny have understandably been in great demand since and so it proved with lot 63, the bay colt out of the NISHAPOUR mare SHABARANA. Consigned from Mark Dwyer's Oaks Farm Stables, the half-brother to the Grade 2 winner SHANAWI was knocked down to locally based agent Anthony Stroud for 90,000 guineas after he saw off the efforts of McKeever St Lawrence's Oliver Gaisford-St Lawrence. Like the CLODOVIL filly who topped the sale earlier, the son of INVINCIBLE SPIRIT will be joining Newmarket trainer Ed Dunlop at his Gainsborough Stables base.
Late in the afternoon Carmel Stud principal Peter Morgan purchased a daughter of CAPE CROSS for 72,000 guineas. The half-sister to the Listed placed HOVERING is out of the GONE WEST mare ORLENA, herself a half-sister to the Group 1 1000 Guineas third VISTA BELLA and a daughter of the multiple Group winning COX ORANGE. The daughter of CAPE CROSS, who was consigned to the sale from Jim Ryan's Milltown Stables in Ireland, is set to join trainer Clive Cox at his Beechdown Farm Stables near Lambourn.
Lot 133: CAPE CROSS - ORLENA
Purchased by Carmel Stud for 72,000 gns
At the conclusion of the inaugural Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;
"In the context of this year's European breeze up market we would have to be satisfied with today's sale. 2002 was the first time that the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, which is Europe's premier two-year-olds in training sale, achieved an average in excess of 30,000 guineas and today's inaugural Guineas Breeze Up has produced returns at a similar level with an average of 28,013 guineas and a top price of 90,000 guineas.
"In common with the earlier breeze up sales the market has again been selective, but as usual two-year-olds that breezed well found a good cross section of buyers at all levels and we were encouraged to see new faces from throughout Europe in particular a good number from Greece and Spain."