2006 FEBRUARY SALE PRESS STATEMENT
RECORDS FALL AT TATTERSALLS FEBRUARY SALE
MARGARET RIVER and a yearling by SELKIRK shared top billing at the one day Tattersalls February Sale when they sold for 92,000 guineas apiece whilst a new record for turnover was posted. A total of 203 lots were sold for 1,957,900 guineas, up 22% on last year's corresponding sale, for an average of 9,645 guineas and a median of 4,200 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
351 |
286 |
203 |
1,957,900 |
9,645 |
4,200 |
2005 |
275 |
207 |
157 |
1,599,200 |
10,185 |
5,000 |
MARGARET RIVER, the unraced three-year-old filly by SEEKING THE GOLD out of the ZILZAL mare MENIATARRA was purchased by locally based bloodstock agent Hugo Lascelles for 92,000 guineas after he outlasted Tattersalls' Martin Mitchell who was taking phone bids from Dublin-based bloodstock agent John McCormack. MARGARET RIVER, a grand-daughter of the Oaks winner SNOW BRIDE, the dam of Derby and Arc de Triomphe winner LAMMTARRA, was purchased by Lascelles on behalf of United States based clients and he indicated that the filly would probably be covered by MONTJEU in Ireland before heading stateside.
LOT 88: MARGARET RIVER
Purchased by Hugo Lascelles for 92,000 gns
The SELKIRK colt out of the MACHIAVELLIAN mare FIRST EXHIBIT was the first of four yearlings consigned from Kirsten Rausing's Lanwades Stud, on behalf of Matthews Breeding and Racing. The grandson of Matthews' two-time Group 1 winner MY EMMA was the equal top priced lot for the day at 92,000 guineas when secured by Irish pinhooker Paddy Twomey after he outlasted a spirited effort by fellow Irishman Ger Hourigan. The final of the four Matthews yearlings was the filly by DOMEDRIVER out of the NIGHT SHIFT mare PORTELET. The half-sister to Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner ETLAALA was purchased by Yeomanstown Stud's Gay O'Callaghan for 62,000 guineas after stiff competition from underbidder Seamus Burns and Niarchos' Alan Cooper.
LOT 137: SELKIRK - FIRST EXHIBIT
Purchased by Paddy Twomey for 92,000 gns
National Hunt prospects were in demand at Tattersalls, none more so than the three-time winner AMORIST who scored an impressive all the way win at Lingfield over 10 furlongs twelve days ago. Consigned from Sir Mark Prescott's Heath House Stables in Newmarket, AMORIST was purchased by Irish bloodstock agent Bobby O'Ryan for 80,000 guineas on behalf of owner Graham Wylie and trainer Howard Johnson. Wylie and Johnson have enjoyed great success buying Heath House Stables consigned lots at Tattersalls with Cheltenham Festival winners INGLIS DREVER and NO REFUGE both graduates of the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale.
LOT 242: AMORIST
Purchased by Bobby O'Ryan for 80,000 gns
The twelve strong consignment from Prince Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms
realised a total of 228,800 guineas with the filly PURPLE VISION proving
the most popular at 56,000 guineas. The daughter of RAINBOW QUEST out of
the NORTHERN DANCER mare KAMKOVA is a half-sister to Group 2 winner and sire
KIRKWALL and was purchased by Yorkshire based bloodstock agent James Delahooke.
EXPECTATION, the dam of Group 2 Richmond Stakes winner ALWAYS HOPEFUL proved the most popular of the mares on offer when she sold for 70,000 guineas to Emerald Bloodstock's Brendan Gallagher. By NIGHT SHIFT out of the ADONIJAH mare PHANTOM ROW, EXPECTATION was purchased by Gallagher on behalf of a group of Irish Breeders who intend to send her to the recently retired three-time Group 1 winner WHIPPER.
At the conclusion of the 2006 Tattersalls February Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;
“It was never going to be easy to follow a year as spectacular as 2005 where a record turnover was recorded at every sale, so it’s very pleasing to begin 2006 in such a positive manner, with another record turnover.
“The February Sale has grown in size from year to year and it was encouraging to see so many familiar faces at the seventh edition of what is now an important fixture on the sales calendar. A cosmopolitan cast of buyers is a feature of any Tattersalls sale and it was a great pleasure to welcome buyers from many European countries as well as Egypt, Kuwait and the United States to complement the typically strong English and Irish clientele.
“The support of many of Europe's leading owner/breeders has allowed the February Sale to grow in both size and quality and we look forward to it's continued expansion.”