2006 DECEMBER MARE SALE DAY 3
PRESS STATEMENT
DAM OF SPECIOSA SELLS FOR 1.85 MILLION GUINEAS AT TATTERSALLS DECEMBER SALE
SPECIFICALLY, the dam of this year’s 1,000 Guineas winner SPECIOSA topped proceeding’s at 1,850,000 guineas on the third day of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale as trade continued in record-breaking fashion. A total of 210 lots were sold for 13,848,000 guineas at an average of 65,943 guineas and a median of 36,000 guineas, rises of 14%, 26% and 18% on the corresponding session last year.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
337 |
267 |
210 |
13,848,000 |
65,943 |
36,000 |
2005 |
325 |
271 |
232 |
12,184,500 |
52,519 |
30,500 |
John Warren has been busy during the December Sales buying top class fillies and mares on behalf of Klaus Jacobs’ Newsells Park Stud and he needed to go to 1,850,000 guineas to secure the twelve–year-old mare SPECIFICALLY. Consigned from Michael Collins’ Lisieux Stud in Co Kildare, the daughter of SKY CLASSIC out of the ALLEGED mare SPECIFICITY is a half sister to the recent Group 1 Champion Stakes winner PRIDE as well as being the dam of the Grade 3 winner MAJOR RHYTHM and was offered in foal to DANEHILL DANCER. Warren was made to work hard to withstand the efforts of Kern/Lillingston’s Luke Lillingston, standing alongside New England Stud’s Peter Stanley, to secure the mare and provide her owner with a windfall, having been purchased by McKeever St Lawrence for €50,000 in 2004 on their behalf.
LOT 2273: SPECIFICALLY
Purchased by John Warren Bloodstock for 1,850,000 gns
The partnership headed by Trickledown Stud’s Paul Thorman have been cheering the efforts of the dual Group 1 winner DUTCH ART all year following their purchase of his dam HALLAND PARK LASS at the 2005 Tattersalls December Mare Sale for 12,000 guineas. The group were initially rewarded for their astute purchase when the KYLLACHY foal she was carrying in utero at the time of her purchase realised 280,000 guineas at the December Foal Sale last week. The seven-year-old mare, a daughter of SPECTRUM out of the Group winning DRUMALIS mare PALACEGATE EPISODE, was offered in foal to Darley Stud’s Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes winner TOBOUGG by Thorman’s Trickledown Stud. Northern Farms’ Shunsuke Yoshida made much of the running but was unable to match London based bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon-Watson who secured the mare for 710,000 guineas on behalf of a commercial breeder who intends to send her to this year’s 2,000 Guineas winner and 2004 Tattersalls October 1 sale-topper GEORGE WASHINGTON.
LOT 2269: HALLAND PARK LASS
Purchased by C Gordon-Watson Bloodstock for 710,000 gns
Earlier in the day Hugo Lascelles had to go to 650,000 guineas to secure the ten-year-old Listed placed DARSHAAN mare MAID OF KILLEEN. Consigned from Paddy Carroll’s Killeen Castle Stud in Co Meath, the daughter of SOVEREIGN TOUCH received a massive pedigree update in the Autumn when her two-year-old daughter INDIAN INK won the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket. Lascelles purchased MAID OF KILLEEN, who was offered in foal to the four-time Group 1 winner AZAMOUR, on behalf of an English breeder and indicated that she was likely to visit the dual Derby winner GALILEO who has been represented by the Classic winners SIXTIES ICON and NIGHTIME, the Breeders’ Cup Turf winner RED ROCKS and the Champion two-year-old elect TEOFILO on the racecourse this year.
