2006 DECEMBER FOAL SALE DAY 3
PRESS STATEMENT
TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE SURGES AHEAD
Trade stepped up massively on the third day of the Tattersalls December
Foal Sale with colts by OASIS DREAM and DANSILI both making more than 200,000
guineas and a further 7 lots breaking the 100,000 guineas mark. A total
of 169 lots were sold for 6,087,500 guineas, an increase of 7% on the corresponding
session last year, albeit with 98 fewer lots on offer. The average and
median both rose sharply, with the average up 44% to 36,021 guineas whilst
the median rose 32% to 27,000 guineas.
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Cat |
Off |
Sold |
Agg |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
238 |
189 |
169 |
6,087,500 |
36,021 |
27,000 |
2005 |
318 |
287 |
228 |
5,703,400 |
25,015 |
20,500 |
* Comparing Day 3 this year with Day 2 last year |
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Foals by Juddmonte Farms’ triple Group 1 winning sprinter OASIS DREAM were one of the highlights of last year’s December Foal Sale and that trend has continued this year with the top priced lot on the third day being a colt by the aforementioned sire out of the Group 3 winning ANABAA mare MISS ANABAA. Round Hill Stud’s Bobby Donworth and Croom House Stud’s manager Paul McCarten both made bold bids to secure the foal consigned from Trickledown Stud, but neither could match Shadwell Estates’ Angus Gold who secured the racy looking colt on behalf of Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum.
LOT 915: OASIS DREAM - MISS ANABAA
Purchased by Shadwell Estate Company for 260,000 gns
The action had begun briskly earlier as the second lot into the ring, the bay colt by HIGH CHAPARRAL out of the SALSE mare SITARA realised 165,000 guineas to the bid of locally based bloodstock agent Margaret O’Toole. The colt’s yearling half-sister provided one of the pinhooking highlights of Part 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales recently when she realised 340,000 guineas for a syndicate headed by the BBA Ireland’s Patrick Cooper, having been purchased at this sale last year for a mere 26,000 guineas. It was therefore no surprise to see Cooper open the bidding for the colt whose dam SITARA is a half-sister to SHOUK, dam of this year’s English and Irish Oaks winner ALEXANDROVA and Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner MAGICAL ROMANCE. Cooper made much of the early running for the colt along with Irish pinhooker Willie Browne and Grove Stud’s Brendan Holland, but none were able to match O’Toole who secured the Stringston Farm consigned colt on behalf of an existing Irish client.
LOT 748: HIGH CHAPARRAL - SITARA
Purchased by Margaret O'Toole for 165,000 gns
Only seven lots later the DANSILI colt out of the SADLER’S WELLS mare
REFLECTIONS attracted plenty of attention with bids coming thick and fast for
the Jamie Railton consigned foal. The colt is from a typically outstanding
Juddmonte Farms family, with his dam REFLECTIONS a half-sister to the Group
winners VORTEX, PROVE and DANEFAIR, herself the dam of Group winner and sire
TRADE FAIR, as well as to SANPALA, dam of the exciting three-year-old filly
SILVER TOUCH. Paul McCarten and Angus Gold were again to the fore and the pair
went head to head for the colt as the price raced past 200,000 guineas but
they were to be usurped by Blandford Bloodstock’s Richard Brown who landed
the colt for 240,000 guineas on behalf of an existing client.
