2005 DECEMBER FOAL SALE DAY 3
PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 3: SISTER TO FALBRAV STEALS SHOW ON DAY THREE OF TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE
A sister to the eight time Group 1 winner FALBRAV proved the star turn on the third day of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale selling for 470,000 guineas as turnover for the day passed 9 million guineas, a record for a single day at the foal sale. The turnover for the day was 19% up on last year's corresponding session at 9,171,000 guineas for the 187 lots sold with the average and median of 49,043 guineas and 36,000 guineas up 15% and 38% on last year's session respectively.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2005 |
294 |
241 |
187 |
9,171,000 |
49,043 |
36,000 |
2004 |
272 |
220 |
181 |
7,686,300 |
42,466 |
26,000 |
Demand for well bred fillies has been strong all year and the trend continued on the third day of the foal sale with lot 1048 a particularly attractive prospect, by SADLER'S WELLS out of the Listed placed SLEWPY mare GIFT OF THE NIGHT. The filly, consigned from Luca and Sara Cumani's Fittocks Stud outside Newmarket, is an own sister in blood to FALBRAV, whose sire FAIRY KING is an own brother to SADLER'S WELLS. FALBRAV, who returns to Shadai Farm in Japan after a season at Cheveley Park Stud, won a total of eight Group 1 races in four countries including victories in the Japan Cup and Hong Kong Cup. Demand for the filly came from all quarters, with Lodge Park Stud's Seamus Burns, Glidawn Stud's Gerard Burke and Italian agent Arturo Brambill all prominent early. The trio were eclipsed by London based bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon-Watson and Irish veterinarian Demi O'Byrne, who was standing alongside Coolmore principal John Magnier. O'Byrne and Magnier were to secure the filly when Gordon-Watson failed to answer their bid of 470,000 guineas.
LOT 1048: SADLER'S WELLS - GIFT OF THE NIGHT
Purchased by Demi O'Byrne for 470,000 gns
Badgers Bloodstock's Grant Pritchard-Gordon made a strong statement of intent when he opened up the bidding on lot 1237 at 100,000 guineas. The colt, by the dual Derby winner GALILEO, hails from one of the great Wildenstein families, being out of the SOUTHERN HALO mare VANISHING RIVER, a half sister to VERVEINE, dam of Group 1 winners VOLGA and VALLEE ENCHANTEE and to VALLEE DES REVES, dam of this year's Group 1 Coronation Stakes winner MAIDS CAUSEWAY. French bloodstock agent Marc Antoine Berghracht and Irish bloodstock agent Denis Sheehy both offered strong resistance, but Pritchard-Gordon silenced the opposition with a bid of 300,000 guineas. Pritchard-Gordon purchased the colt for Australian owner/breeder Paul Makin who has enjoyed a memorable European summer following the Group 1 victories in France and England by his superstar colt STARCRAFT. Like STARCRAFT, Makin indicated that the GALILEO colt would eventually go into training with Luca Cumani at his Bedford House Stables in Newmarket. Consigned from Paddy Kelly's Ballybin Stud on behalf of Laurel Dean, the sale represented a massive return for his owner who purchased the dam VANISHING RIVER for 62,000 guineas at the 2002 Tattersalls December Sale.
LOT 1237: GALILEO - VANISHING RIVER
Purchased by Badgers Bloodstock for 300,000 gns
The eagerly awaited first crop of Juddmonte Farms' Group 1 July Cup winner OASIS DREAM has been tremendously well recieved with twelve of his progeny sold to date this week grossing 1,208,000 guineas including two colts who sold for 240,000 guineas. The first of these was lot 1103, a colt out of the winning QUEST FOR FAME mare GRAIL consigned from Peter Stanley's New England Stud. GRAIL is a half sister to this year's Grade 2 Del Mar Breeders' Cup Handicap winner THREE VALLEYS and hails from the family of Breeders' Cup winners INTERCONTINENTAL and BANKS HILL. Croom House Stud's Denis Brosnan and Darley Stud's John Ferguson both competed for filly but neither were able to withstand the efforts of Ashtown Bloodstock's Paul Shanahan. Later in the evening, lot 1219, a colt out of the Listed winning and Group placed HIGHEST HONOR mare MISS HONORINE also realised 240,000 guineas to the bid of Ferguson , after he outlasted Yorkshire based bloodstock agent Gill Richardson and eventual underbidder, Tony Nerses. The son of the dual Group 1 winner was consigned from Jacqueline Norris' Jockey Hall Stud.
LOT 1103: OASIS DREAM - GRAIL
Purchased by Paul Shanahan for 240,000 gns
