2003 OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 1
DAY 4 PRESS STATEMENT
TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 1 SHATTERS ALL RECORDS
Trade on the final day saw 171 yearlings sold for a total of 4,078,700 guineas, at an average of 23,852 guineas and a median of 20,000 guineas, bringing the sale total to 788 yearlings sold for a mammoth 43,527,700 guineas, at an average of 55,238 guineas and a median of 35,000 guineas, all representing new records at Part 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2003 |
1,065 |
955 |
788 |
43,527,700 |
55,238 |
35,000 |
2002 |
927 |
833 |
701 |
30,196,500 |
43,076 |
30,000 |
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2003 |
270 |
238 |
171 |
4,078,700 |
23,852 |
20,000 |
2002 |
234 |
208 |
172 |
3,728,000 |
21,674 |
18,500 |
The top price on the final day was the 150,000 guineas paid by Peter Doyle for the smashing MUJADIL colt out of the winning STATOBLEST mare REFINED. Offered by Mr Max Ervine, the colt is a full brother to the Richard Hannon trained two time winner VERMILLIANN who is set to start one of the favourites in tomorrow's Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot. Shadwell Estates' Racing Manager Angus Gold was underbidder on the yearling who will join his full sister at Richard Hannon's East Everleigh Stables.
LOT 864: MUJADIL - REFINED
Purchased by Peter Doyle Bloodstock for 150,000 gns
The second six figure transaction of the day also owed plenty to a highly rated two year old half sibling. The filly from the first crop of Darley based SEEKING THE GOLD stallion LUJAIN is the half sister to recent Stakes winning and Group 2 placed two year old AUDITORIUM as well as the Group 2 winning two year old MISTER COSMI. The filly, out of the WARNING mare DEGREE, was a fine advertisement for her young sire who himself was a top class two year old, having won the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes for trainer David Loder. The filly was consigned from David Shekells' Old Mill Stud and was the second consecutive six figure lot out of the mare as AUDITORIUM was sold at this sale last year for 115,000 guineas.
At the conclusion of Part 1 of the 2003 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale
Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;
“ Last week’s record breaking Houghton Yearling Sale certainly
gave cause for optimism going into Part 1 of the October Yearling Sale, but we
could not have predicted the massive rises across the board. Trade this week
has been truly phenomenal and the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale record book
has been completely rewritten.
“The Sale has been the highest grossing European Yearling Sale ever, with
the average well over 50,000 guineas for the first time, a median in previously
uncharted territory, the first ever million guinea October yearling and a staggering
125 lots selling for 100,000 guineas or more.
“Last week we would have preferred a slightly larger catalogue, and this week slightly smaller as the sheer numbers have made it a demanding week for buyers, but the week has been a resounding success. As ever enormous credit must go to the vendors who have brought the cream of the European Yearling crop to Tattersalls in the last two weeks and buyers from throughout the world have responded in spectacular fashion.”