2006 DECEMBER MARE SALE DAY 2
PRESS STATEMENT
WORLD RECORD 4.6 MILLION GUINEAS FOR MAGICAL ROMANCE
MAGICAL ROMANCE broke the world record for a broodmare when she was was sold for 4,600,000 guineas ($9.4m) on the second day of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale on the highest grossing day in European auction history. No fewer than four fillies or mares sold for 1 million guineas or more, with turnover for the day reaching a staggering 29,936,500 guineas for the 221 lots sold, 42% up on the previous auction record, set on this day last year. Amazingly, the turnover after two days now stands at 49,505,000 guineas, just under 3 million guineas ahead of last year's record breaking sale with 2 days remaining. The average for the day was up 41% to 135,459 guineas whilst the median rose 23% to 58,000 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
307 |
273 |
221 |
29,936,500 |
135,459 |
58,000 |
2005 |
306 |
267 |
219 |
21,060,500 |
96,167 |
47,000 |
It was standing room only as the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner MAGICAL ROMANCE entered the Tattersalls sales ring, consigned by Stephen and Louise Kemble’s Elms Stud on behalf of Con Wilson. The daughter of BARATHEA out of the SHIRLEY HEIGHTS mare SHOUK is a half-sister to the English, Irish and Yorkshire Oaks winner ALEXANDROVA and was offered in foal to Cheveley Park Stud’s outstanding stallion PIVOTAL. Lodge Park Stud’s Seamus Burns made the early running along with locally based bloodstock agent Anthony Stroud as the price breezed past 1 million guineas. Shadwell Estates’ Angus Gold soon took up the running along with London Thoroughbred Services’ James Wigan, purchaser of yesterday’s 3 million guineas filly SPINNING QUEEN. Wigan looked to have secured MAGICAL ROMANCE as the price rose above 3 million guineas, but no sooner had Gold waved the white flag than Sheikh Mohammed’s bloodstock advisor John Ferguson entered the fray, advancing the price beyond the previous 3.4 million guineas record for a thoroughbred at auction in Europe. Ferguson and Wigan traded bids as the price rose into unchartered territory, with Wigan finally successful at 4,600,000 guineas, a world record for a mare at auction and a European record for a thoroughbred at auction. Wigan purchased MAGICAL ROMANCE on behalf of Lady Serena Rothschild and she will be joining SPINNING QUEEN at the Rothschild’s Waddesdon Stud in Buckinghamshire.
LOT 1945: MAGICAL ROMANCE
Purchased by London Thoroughbred Services for 4,600,000 gns
The dispersal from Roger Baines’ Britton House Stud promised to be one of the highlights of the Tattersalls December Sale and the consignment of eight fillies and mares did not disappoint with the Grade 3 winner and Grade 1 placed MACKIE, who was offered in foal to UNBRIDLED’S SONG, leading the way. The half-sister to the Kentucky Derby winner SEA HERO and dual Grade 1 winner HERO’S HONOR is the dam of Grade 2 winner MR MELLON and Grade 3 winner SEEKING THE BEST as well as the Group placed two-year-old DANEBURY HILL and the Listed placed BEAUCETTE. De Burgh/Farrington’s Hubie De Burgh made a bold bid to secure the daughter of SUMMER SQUALL out of GLOWING TRIBUTE, along with Kern Lillingston’s Lincoln Collins, but neither was able to match John Ferguson who purchased the mare for 1,600,000 guineas on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed.
LOT 1977: MACKIE
Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock for 1,600,000 gns
Four lots later Richard Frisby went to 1,000,000 guineas to secure the four-year-old DUBAI MILLENIUM filly CARISOLO. The daughter of SOLO DE LUNE, who was knocked down to the BBA Ireland’s Adrian Nicoll for 775,000 guineas two lots earlier, is a half-sister to the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary winner CERULEAN SKY and the 2003 European Champion three-year-old filly L’ANCRESSE as well as to the DALAKHANI filly who topped the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale last week at 700,000 guineas. Frisby beat off the challenges of locally based agent Grant Pritchard-Gordon and John Warren to secure the filly on behalf of an International client. In total the Baines dispersal of eight mares, five foals and 1 yearling realised a total of 6,175,000 guineas.
LOT 1981: CARISOLO
Purchased by Richard Frisby Bloodstock for 1,000,000 gns
Earlier in the day HIGH CHAPARRAL’s own-sister HELENA MOLONY, by SADLER’S WELLS out of the DARSHAAN mare KASORA, became the first of four fillies or mares who broke the million guineas barrier when she was knocked down to John Warren for 1,100,000 guineas. The winner and twice Listed placed four-year–old filly was bred by HIGH CHAPARRAL’s breeder Sean Coughlan and raced for his wife Anne, and was consigned on their behalf by Rory Mahon’s Mountain View Stud. Kern Lillingston’s Luke Lillingston, standing alongside New England Stud’s Peter Stanley made the early running along with Anthony Stroud, but neither was able to deny Warren who purchased the filly on behalf of Klaus Jacob’s Newsells Park Stud.
