2008 DECEMBER MARE SALE DAY 2 PRESS STATEMENT
PRINCESSE DANSANTE HEADS DAY 2 OF TATTERSALLS DECEMBER SALE
John Ferguson bought the listed winning five-year-old mare PRINCESSE DANSANTE for 1,700,000 guineas on the second day of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale as trade continued in similar fashion to the opening day with good competition for the prize lots. A total of 143 lots were sold for 13,811,800 guineas, at an average of 96,586 guineas and a median of 45,000 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2008 |
277 |
209 |
143 |
13,811,800 |
96,586 |
45,000 |
2007 |
301 |
261 |
179 |
36,199,500 |
202,232 |
85,000 |
PRINCESSE DANSANTE looked one of the standout lots on the second day with an outstanding pedigree and looks to match and there was no shortage of interested parties including Andreas Putsch, Cathy Grassick, Seamus Burns and Charlie Gordon-Watson but as the price rose past 1,000,000 guineas, it was Barronstown Stud’s David Nagle who took up the running, but when Darley’s John Ferguson responded, Nagle left it to Ashtown House Stud’s Paul Shanahan to continue. Ferguson and Shanahan went head to head, but with the price at 1,700,000 guineas it was Shanahan who waved the white flag. PRINCESSE DANSANTE is a Listed winner and Group 2 placed as well as being a half-sister to the dams of the Group 1 Derby winner AUTHORIZED, the Group 1 Grand Criterium winner OKAWANGO and Group 1 runners-up PROSPECT WELLS and PROSPECT PARK. She was consigned to the sale by Bill and Tara Dwan’s The Castlebridge Consignment and offered with a covering to Juddmonte Farms’ star stallion DANSILI. Ferguson indicated that the daughter of KING’S BEST would visit TEOFILO, Darley’s Group 1 winning son of GALILEO.
LOT 2045: PRINCESSE DANSANTE
Purchased by John Ferguson for 1,700,000 gns
There are few better pedigree’s in the stud book than that carried by the SEEKING THE GOLD mare REFLECTIVE who is out of the legendary RIVERMAN mare KORVEYA, dam of the Champions HECTOR PROTECTOR and BOSRA SHAM and the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner SHANGHAI. The five-year-old REFLECTIVE was consigned by agent John Troy on behalf of Richard Santulli’s Colts Neck Stables in North America and offered with a cover to MONTJEU, sire of the recent Derby winners AUTHORIZED and MOTIVATOR. REFLECTIVE was knocked down to Anthony Stroud for 550,000 guineas after he saw off the efforts of Northern Farms’ Shunsuke Yoshida.
LOT 2029: REFLECTIVE
Purchased by Anthony Stroud Bloodstock for 550,000 gns
Yoshida had been denied earlier in the day by Gestut Fahrhof’s Andreas Jacobs on the DANEHILL mare TENDERLY which was knocked down to Jacobs for 525,000 guineas. Consigned from Peter Stanley’s New England Stud, the pedigree of TENDERLEY has received multiple updates in the last couple of years with her half-sister PRIDE winning three Group 1’s including the Champion Stakes and Hong Kong Cup and SPECIOSA, out of her half-sister SPECIFICALLY, winning the Group 1 1000 Guineas at Newmarket. TENDERLEY’s cause was further assisted by the efforts of TEN MEROPA, her first foal who won the Grade 3 Baldwin Stakes at Santa Anita this year. TENDERLY was offered in foal to UNBRIDLED’S SONG .
