2005 DECEMBER MARE SALE DAY 3
PRESS STATEMENT
TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE CONTINUES IN RECORD BREAKING FASHION
The Tattersalls December Mare Sale continued its remarkable march into the record books with a further 232 lots selling for 12,184,500 guineas, taking the three day total to 44,797,800 guineas, a record for the December Mare Sale by a wide margin, with one day still remaining. Turnover for the day was up 32% on last year's corresponding session whilst the average rose 7% to 52,519 guineas whilst the median rose 22% to 30,500 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2005 |
325 |
271 |
232 |
12,184,500 |
52,519 |
30,500 |
2004 |
277 |
218 |
189 |
9,243,100 |
48,905 |
25,000 |
Late in the evening the Classic placed five-year-old mare SUMMITVILLE was sold to Northern Farm's Katsumi Yoshida for 450,000 guineas after he held off the efforts of locally-based bloodstock agent John Warren. The daughter of GRAND LODGE, who finished third in the both the Oaks at Epsom as well as the Yorkshire Oaks in 2003, boosted her race record when she finished second in the recent Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket. Out of the SHIRLEY HEIGHTS mare TINA HEIGHTS, SUMMITVILLE won more than £250,000 in prizemoney under the tutelage of James Given at his Mount House Stables in Lincolnshire.
LOT 2501: SUMMITVILLE
Purchased by Katsumi Yoshida for 450,000 gns
The second highest priced lot for the day was the 410,000 guineas given by McKeever St Lawrence's Johnny McKeever for the MACHIAVELLIAN mare DELAUNCY. The eleven-year-old Listed placed mare, whose first foal is the Listed winning and Group 2 placed DELSARTE, was consigned by Voute Sales in foal to sire-of-the-moment PIVOTAL. BBA Ireland's Patrick Cooper and Big Red Farm's Shigeyuki Okada both made bold bids for the mare, as did the Niarchos family's racing manager Alan Cooper, but none were able to match McKeever, who was stood alongside Coolmore's Paul Shanahan.
LOT 2340: DELAUNCY
Purchased McKeever St Lawrence for 410,000 gns
One of the highlights on the third day was the consignment from the Aga Khan Studs which grossed 1,246,000 guineas for the nine lots sold. The highest priced of these was the Listed placed RAINBOW QUEST mare KARLIYNA who was purchased by locally based bloodstock agent Richard Frisby. The three-year-old filly out of the Listed placed LAST TYCOON mare KARLIYKA is a half-sister to Group 2 Doncaster Cup winner KASTHARI and the Group 3 winner and Group 1 placed KARASTA. Locally based agent Grant Pritchard-Gordon secured KALAMBARA for Paul Makin for 280,000 guineas after he outbid London Thoroughbred Services' James Wigan. The seven-year-old mare, who was offered in foal to LINAMIX, is a half-sister to Grade 1 Breeders Cup Turf winner KALANISI and Group 2 winner and Group 1 Eclipse Stakes third KALAMAN. Pritchard-Gordon indicated that KALAMBARA will be mated with STARCRAFT whilst her LINAMIX foal will be offered at next year's Tattersalls December Foal Sale.
TUGELA, dam of triple Group 1 Melbourne Cup winner MAKYBE DIVA was part of the Juddmonte Farms draft in 1997 when she was purchased for 21,000 guineas and there is always great interest in the consignment of fillies from Prince Khalid Abdullah's nursery. Their consignment of thirty-five fillies realised a total of 1,191,500 guineas at an average of 34,042 guineas with the KINGMAMBO mare SAME PAGE the highest priced at 125,000 guineas when knocked down to Australian bloodstock agent Kieran Moore. Moore is one of numerous purchasers from the southern hemisphere to make an impact at the December Sales, having bought eight lots so far for 363,000 guineas.