2006 DECEMBER FOAL SALE DAY 4
PRESS STATEMENT
TRADE SKYROCKETS AT TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE
Trade at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale launched into orbit on a phenomenal
fourth day with turnover passing 12 million guineas which represented a
record for a single day at the foal sale and 32% greater than last year’s
previous record day. A total of 154 lots were sold on the fourth day for
12,064,000 guineas, at an average of 78,338 guineas and a median of 55,000
guineas, representing rises of 32%, 60% and 53% compared with last year’s
corresponding session. There was a staggering 42 lots which sold for six
figure values whilst no fewer than 9 realised 200,000 guineas or more.
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Cat |
Off |
Sold |
Agg |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
241 |
188 |
154 |
12,064,000 |
78,338 |
55,000 |
2005 |
294 |
241 |
187 |
9,171,000 |
49,043 |
36,000 |
* Comparing Day 4 this year with Day 3 last year |
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Late in the evening the SADLER’S WELLS half-brother to the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner LANDSEER and Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes third IKHTYAR entered an expectant sale ring. Yorkshire based bloodstock agent Jeremy Brummitt made much of the early running for the colt along with Irish bloodstock agent Denis Sheehy, but as the price approached 400,000 guineas, Irish veterinarian Demi O’Byrne signalled his intent, finally seeing off Sheehy and signing for the Genesis Green Stud consigned foal for 420,000 guineas.
LOT 1207: SADLER'S WELLS - SABRIA
Purchased by Demi O'Byrne for 420,000 gns
The dispersal from Roger Baines’ Britton House Stud looked a highlight of the foal sale and resulted in two of the top three prices for the day with colts by ELUSIVE QUALITY and SADLER’S WELLS both topping the 300,000 guineas mark. Lot 1145, the colt by ELUSIVE QUALITY out of the SUMMER SQUALL mare MACKIE entered a busy sale ring and the BBA Ireland’s John Tyrell and agent Denis Sheehy were soon in a head to head duel to secure him. Just when Sheehy looked to have secured the colt, Darley Stud’s John Ferguson staked his claim and after a short battle landed the colt for 325,000 guineas. MACKIE, who is a Grade 3 winner and a half-sister to the Kentucky Derby winner SEA HERO, has been represented by the Grade 2 winner MR MELLON and the Stakes horses DANEBURY HILL and BEAUCETTE whilst SEEKING THE BEST provided a timely catalogue update by winning a Grade 3 in Japan recently.
LOT 1145: ELUSIVE QUALITY - MACKIE
Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock for 325,000 gns
Two lots later the SADLER’S WELLS colt out of the LAW SOCIETY mare SOLO
DE LUNE realised the highest price for the day when knocked down to Camas Park
Stud’s Timmy Hyde for 370,000 guineas. London Thoroughbred Services’ James
Wigan made the early running and Denis Sheehy again made a bold to secure the
colt, but neither could match Hyde’s efforts. SOLO DE LUNE, who has been
represented by the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary winner CERULEAN SKY and the Irish
Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf runner-up L’ANCRESSE,
was in the headlines earlier in the week when her DALAKHANI colt topped the
December Yearling Sale at 700,000 guineas.
LOT 1147: SADLER'S WELLS - SOLO DE LUNE
Purchased by Tim Hyde for 370,000 gns
Earlier on Timmy Hyde had also signed for the MONTJEU colt out of the GREEN
DESERT mare ALABASTRINE for 285,000 guineas after he saw off Kerr & Co’s
Bert Kerr and Irish pinhooker Paddy Twomey. The colt, who was bred by Kirsten
Rausing and Sonia Rogers, was consigned from Rogers’ Airlie Stud and
hails from a classic family of Rausing’s with ALABASTRINE a half-sister
to numerous luminaries including LAST SECOND, dam of Group 1 Poule d’Essai
des Poulains winner AUSSIE RULES, ALOUETTE, dam of multiple Group 1 winners
ALBANOVA and ALBORADA and JUDE, dam of Irish 1,000 Guineas winner YESTERDAY
and Group 1 Moyglare Stakes winner QUARTER MOON. Hyde indicated that both
his high priced purchases were possibles to return to the Tattersalls sales
ring at the October Yearling Sales next year.
