2004 DECEMBER MARE SALE DAY 2
PRESS STATEMENT
IPI TOMBE SELLS FOR 850,000 GUINEAS AT TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE
Trade stepped up dramatically on a strong second day of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale with the multiple Group 1 winning broodmare IPI TOMBE heading proceedings along with Group 1 producing broodmares RENASHAAN and KENMIST. 177 lots were sold on the second day for 14,330,300 guineas, at an average of 80,962 guineas and a median of 42,000 guineas. The average was down 1% and the median up 18% on last year's corresponding session which had included the 2,100,000 guineas European record priced mare RAMRUMA, and the Newgate Stud dispersal.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2004 |
274 |
223 |
177 |
14,330,300 |
80,962 |
42,000 |
2003 |
287 |
242 |
188 |
15,363,000 |
81,718 |
35,500 |
The triple Group 1 winning Zimbabwean bred IPI TOMBE was one of the best fillies of her generation with two Group 1 victories in South Africa before her spectacular victory in Dubai in the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free Stakes. The daughter of the MR PROSPECTOR stallion MANSHOOD was consigned from Craig and Holly Bandoroff's Denali Stud in Kentucky with a covering by twelve-time GB/Ireland Champion sire SADLER'S WELLS. European Bloodstock Management's Marc du Chambure made the early running along with Hill 'n' Dale Farms' Donato Lanni along with Britton House Stud's manager Anthony Penfold. As the price passed 500,000 guineas, the BBA Germany's Dirk Eisele signalled his interest as did Yorkshire based bloodstock agent James Delahooke. At the finish it was Delahooke who outlasted Penfold for the six year old mare with Penfold shaking his head when asked to counter Delahooke's bid of 850,000 guineas. Delahooke indicated that the mare was purchased for a group of US breeders and would return to the United States where she had her last racecourse appearance when winning Grade 3 Locust Grove Handicap at Churchill Downs.
LOT 1832: IPI TOMBE
Purchased by Mr J Delahooke for 850,000 guineas
Penfold received ample compensation for his disappointment shortly afterwards when he secured the ten year old Listed winning mare KENMIST for 775,000 guineas. The dam of this season's Group 1 Prix du Moulin winner GREY LILAS was offered from Marc du Chambure's European Sales Management with a covering to seven time Group 1 winner ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. Penfold had to withstand the efforts of Katsumi Yoshida of Northern Farm in Japan to land the mare on behalf of Roger Baines' Britton House Stud.
LOT 1884: KENMIST
Purchased by Penfold Bloodstock for 775,000 gns
The DARSHAAN mare RENASHAAN had also benefitted from a Group 1 victory this year when her three year old GOLD AWAY daughter ALEXANDER GOLDRUN won the Group 1 Prix de l'Opera at Longchamp. The fifteen year old mare, who is also the dam of Group 3 winner and Classic-placed MEDECIS, was consigned from the Castlebridge Consignment with a covering by sire of the moment PIVOTAL. Interest in the mare came initially from James Wigan along with Jim Collins, who was seated with Japanese bloodstock agent Ko Saito of Ever Union, and they pushed the price towards half a million guineas. At this point Barouche Stud's Rory Matthews, standing alongside his employer Barbara Facchino joined the battle for the mare along with Timmy Hyde. After a protracted duel, it was Matthews and Facchino who cried enough after Hyde had bid 640,000 guineas. Hyde indictaed that RENASHAAN would return to his Camas Park Stud in County Tipperary with mating plans as yet undecided. RENASHAAN provided her previous owners with a substantial profit, having been purchased at the 2000 Tattersalls December Sale for 30,000 guineas.
LOT 1877: RENASHAAN
Purchased by Mr T. Hyde for 640,000 gns
Another mare to break the 500,000 guineas barrier was the Group 1 Prix de Diane Hermes second TIME AHEAD who was offered by agent Jamie Railton carrying a foal to last year's Group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner DALAKHANI. The half sister to the Group 3 winner and Group 1 placed TIME AWAY is also a grand-daughter of the Champion mare TIME CHARTER, a four time Group 1 winner of the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes, Champion Stakes, Coronation Cup and Oaks Stakes. The BBA Ireland's Adrian Nicoll purchased the mare for 650,000 guineas after outlasting the efforts of Georges Rinaud, the French based representative of the Aga Khan Studs.
The day's top priced filly in training was AUSTRALIE, a daughter of SADLER'S WELLS out of the SPEND A BUCK mare ASNIERES. Consigned from Peter Stanley's New England Stud in Newmarket, and trained in Chantilly by Richard Gibson, the three year old filly, already a Listed winner, had added a victory in the Group 3 Prix de Flore at Saint-Cloud to her accomplishments since the catalogue was printed. Interest in the filly came from all quarters including Charlie Gordon-Watson, standing alongside Watership Down Stud Manager Simon Marsh, and bloodstock agents Penny Barnes and James Wigan, but it was locally-based bloodstock agent Anthony Stroud and Belinda Strudwick of Ballygallon Stud who then took up the running. It was the latter who was to prevail when Stroud failed to answer her bid of 500,000 guineas. Strudwick said that the filly would stay in training with Gibson in 2005.
