2008 JULY SALE DAY 2 PRESS STATEMENT
SON OF ELUSIVE QUALITY TOP ON SECOND DAY OF TATTERSALLS JULY SALE
The Tattersalls July Sale continued in robust fashion on the second day with 154 lots selling for 1,788,200 guineas at an average of 11,612 guineas and a median of 7,250 guineas. The clearance rate on the second day was a hugely impressive 93%, fuelled by demand from buyers from a variety of countries including Greece, Scandinavia as well as the Gulf states of Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2008 |
250 |
166 |
154 |
1,788,200 |
11,612 |
7,250 |
2007 |
247 |
180 |
163 |
3,175,900 |
19,484 |
13,000 |
The top lot for the day was during the morning session when the unnamed two-year-old colt by ELUSIVE QUALITY out of the CLEVER TRICK mare CLEVER MONIQUE realised 55,000 guineas to the bid of bloodstock agent Christoph Nouvellet. The colt, who had missed his original date at the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up, was consigned to the sale from Jim McCartan’s Gaybrook Lodge Stud in Ireland. Nouvellet indicated that the half-brother to the Grade 1 winner YES IT’S TRUE could be put into training in either the United States or in France.
The next lot into the ring, the CHEROKEE RUN colt out of the NIGHT SHIFT mare INNOCENT AFFAIR, a half-sister to the Derby winner NEW APPROACH, was another lot to miss his breeze up appointment, this time the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up. Consigned from Ger Kennedy’s Sherbourne Lodge in Ireland, the two-year-old was knocked down to the BBA Ireland’s Eamonn Reilly for 52,000 guineas after he saw off the efforts of Irish agent Bobby O’Ryan.