2006 DECEMBER FOAL SALE DAY 5
PRESS STATEMENT
RECORDS SHATTERED AT TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE
The Tattersalls December Foal Sale concluded with another record breaking
day taking the five day trade to new levels with records across the board.
The fifth day saw 126 lots sold for 6,347,000 guineas, at an average of
50,373 guineas and a median of 35,000 guineas. Turnover was up marginally
on the corresponding session last year albeit with 83 fewer lots on offer
today whilst the average and median rose 42% and 59% respectively. Turnover
for the five days was a record 28,861,600 guineas, a rise of 24% on last
year’s record breaking sale. The average rose 34% to a record 38,688
guineas whilst the median rose 22% to 22,000 guineas, also a record.
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Cat |
Off |
Sold |
Agg |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
1,131 |
908 |
746 |
28,861,600 |
38,688 |
22,000 |
2005 |
1,281 |
1,089 |
809 |
23,305,600 |
28,808 |
18,000 |
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Cat |
Off |
Sold |
Agg |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
206 |
153 |
126 |
6,347,000 |
50,373 |
35,000 |
2005 |
298 |
236 |
178 |
6,320,600 |
35,509 |
22,000 |
* Comparing Day 5 this year with Day 4 last year |
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The KYLLACHY three parts sister to this season’s unbeaten dual Group 1 winning two-year-old DUTCH ART looked one of the standouts of the foal catalogue and so it proved as she topped proceeding’s on the fifth day when knocked down to locally based bloodstock agent Amanda Skiffington for 280,000 guineas. Chris Richardson, representing Cheveley Park Stud who stand KYLLACHY and will stand DUTCH ART when he retires, opened the bidding at 100,000 guineas, and with Shadwell Estates’ Angus Gold and Lodge Park Stud’s Seamus Burns both signalling their interest, the price raced past 200,000 guineas. Burns saw off Gold and Richardson for the filly consigned from Paul and Sara Thorman’s Trickledown Stud, but had no answer when Skiffington staked her claim, buying the filly on behalf of an undisclosed client. The sale represented a great result for the partnership headed by Thorman who purchased HALLAND PARK LASS at last year’s Tattersalls December Mare Sale for 12,000 guineas and will re-offer her next week in foal to TOBOUGG.
LOT 1375: KYLLACHY - HALLAND PARK LASS
Purchased by Amanda Skiffington for 280,000 gns
The progeny of dual Derby winner GALILEO were in great demand during the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales and the Tattersalls December Foal Sale following the exploits of his progeny on the racecourse in 2006 headed by the Breeders’ Cup Turf winner RED ROCKS, the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner NIGHTIME, the St Leger winner SIXTIES ICON and the Dewhurst Stakes winner and Champion two-year-old elect TEOFILO. Two of his colts hit the headlines on the final day with the half-brother to the Listed winner and Group placed BERK THE JERK realising 260,000 guineas to the bid of London Thoroughbred Services’ James Wigan. Wigan secured the Parkway Farm consigned colt who is out of the REFERENCE POINT mare POCKET BOOK, after he saw off Croom House Stud’s Denis Brosnan, and indicated that the foal would stay in England and was purchased on behalf of an undisclosed client. The other GALILEO to hit the headlines on the final day of the foal sale was the colt out of the GRAND LODGE mare TREE TOPS. Consigned from Tom Gaffney’s Churchtown House Stud, the colt was knocked down to Ashtown House Stud’s Paul Shanahan for 210,000 guineas.
LOT 1340: GALILEO - POCKET BOOK
Purchased by London Thoroughbred Services for 260,000 gns
LOT 1368: GALILEO - TREE TOPS
Purchased by Paul Shanahan for 210,000 gns
The progeny of MONTJEU, like GALILEO a son of SADLER’S WELLS and resident
at Coolmore Stud in Ireland, have also been in great demand and the filly out
of the GREEN DESERT mare GAMRA was the third highest priced lot for the day
at 220,000 guineas. Consigned from Joe Hernan’s Castletown Stud, the
half-sister to the Listed winner ROXAN was knocked down to Irish bloodstock
agent Brian Grassick on behalf of an undisclosed client after he saw off German
bloodstock agent Ronald Rauscher.
LOT 1266: MONTJEU - GAMRA
Purchased by Brian Grassick Bloodstock for 220,000 gns
At the conclusion of the 2006 Tattersalls December Foal Sale Tattersalls
Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;
“This has been a truly phenomenal December Foal Sale from start to finish. New records for average, median and turnover barely do justice to the extraordinary trade we have experienced this week and it bodes well for the four days of breeding stock to come.
“The statistics say it all. Last year’s foal sale achieved records for turnover and median and an average that had been bettered only once. This week the median has gone up a staggering 22%, the average has shot up 34% from 28,796 guineas to 38,688 guineas and with nearly 200 less foals offered, the turnover has gone up 24% to nearly 29,000,000 guineas. Equally telling has been the number of six figure foals which has gone from 32 in 2005 to 67 in 2006 .
“We have an outstanding catalogue for the mares’ sale which begins on Monday and the trade this week has meant that everyone can look forward to next week with considerable optimism.”