2006 OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 1
DAY 4 PRESS STATEMENT
TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 1 ENDS ON HIGH NOTE
Fillies by SADLER'S WELLS and KEY OF LUCK provided the highlights on the final day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Part 1 realising 1,200,000 guineas and 900,000 guineas repsectively, as 100 lots sold for 14,332,000 guineas, at an average of 143,320 guineas and a median of 87,500 guineas. The four day sale saw 432 lots sold for 55,035,000 guineas, the second highest turnover for a yearling sale in Europe, at an average of 127,396 guineas and a median of 82,000 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
652 |
563 |
432 |
55,035,000 |
127,396 |
82,000 |
2005 |
688 |
592 |
499 |
59,635,000 |
119,509 |
70,000 |
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
159 |
142 |
100 |
14,332,000 |
143,320 |
87,500 |
2005 |
171 |
147 |
120 |
14,302,000 |
119,183 |
69,000 |
Well bred fillies have been in great demand throughout the week, and lot 543, a bay filly by SADLER'S WELLS out of the DARSHAAN mare TIME AWAY proved no exception. The daughter of the Group 3 Tattersalls Musidora Stakes winner is an own-sister to this year's Group 2 Prix de Malleret winner TIME ON and is a great-granddaughter of the Champion mare TIME CHARTER. Consigned from agent Jamie Railton, the filly saw interest from agent John Warren and Coolmore supremo John Magnier, but neither could match the efforts of London-based agent Charlie Gordon-Watson who purchased her on behalf of a new client.
LOT 543: SADLER'S WELLS - TIME AWAY
Purchased by C Gordon-Watson Bloodstock for 1,200,000 gns
Gordon-Watson also signed for the second highest priced filly, the regally bred KEY OF LUCK filly out of the CAERLEON mare ALLELUIA. Consigned from Sonia Rogers' Airlie Stud, the half-sister to this year's Group 2 Lancashire Oaks winner ALLEGRETTO, hails from the one of the best families in the stud book, with Group 1 winners AUSSIE RULES, ALBANOVA, ALBORADA, YESTERDAY and QUARTER MOON all out of half-sisters to ALLELUIA. Interest in the filly was understandably high, with bloodstock agents James Wigan, Anthony Stroud, Dick O'Gorman and Brian Grassick all signalling their interest during bidding, but none could match the efforts of Gordon-Watson whose bid of 900,000 guineas landed the filly on behalf of the same client as that of the top lot.
LOT 621: KEY OF LUCK - ALLELUIA
Purchased by C Gordon-Watson Bloodstock for 900,000 gns
The progeny of Cheveley Park Stud's PIVOTAL have been in great demand all week with 19 lots selling for a 5,027,000 guineas, including lot 498, a colt out of the Listed winning MISWAKI mare SOLAIA who was knocked down to Shadwell Estates' Angus Gold for 525,000 guineas. The colt, consigned from Chris Budgett's Kirtlington Stud, is a half-brother to the Grade 2 winner OLAYA and a grandson of the Listed winning and Graded Stakes placed INDIAN FASHION.
LOT 498: PIVOTAL - SOLAIA
Purchased by Shadwell Estates for 525,000 gns
Coolmore Stud principal John Magnier and Irish veterinarian Demi O'Byrne have both been very active this week, with the pair signing for 23 lots for 5,670,000 guineas this week, with the highest priced of these on the final day being the 400,000 guineas given for lot 535, a colt by SADLER'S WELLS out of the Group 1 Fillies' Mile winner TEGGIANO. Magnier saw off the efforts of agent John Warren to secure the colt consigned from Klaus Jacobs' Newsells Park Stud.
LOT 535: SADLER'S WELLS - TEGGIANO
Purchased by John Magnier for 400,000 gns
The first lot into the ring on the final day, a bay filly by DIKTAT out of the SALSE mare SITARA, represented one of the best pinhooking results for the sale, with the 340,000 guineas sale price a massive result her owners, having been purchased by BBA Ireland's Patrick Cooper for a mere 26,000 guineas at the 2005 Tattersalls December Foal Sale. The Islanmore Stud consigned filly, whose dam SITARA is a half-sister to SHOUK, dam of this year's English and Irish Oaks winner ALEXANDROVA, was knocked down to Newmarket trainer James Eustace.
LOT 494: DIKTAT - SITARA
Purchased by James Eustace for 340,000 gns
At the conclusion of Part 1 of the 2006 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;
"The 2005 Tattersalls October Yearling Sales were hugely successful and were always going to be hard acts to follow but the average and median prices this week have held up well and the turnover is second only to last year's record levels with a marginally smaller catalogue.
"In the course of the week there have been some notable highlights with two seven figure transactions including the highest priced yearling colt sold in Europe this year, some major pinhooking triumphs and sustained demand for well bred fillies from start to finish. It has not, however, always been a straightforward week and while the top of the market has been very strong we would have liked to have seen a little more depth to the middle market. In a year when Part 1 of the October Yearling Sale has produced four individual British and Irish Classic winners as well as Group 1 winners like INDIAN INK, YOUMZAIN and RED EVIE for 25,000 guineas, 30,000 guineas and 58,000 guineas respectively, the buyers could scarcely have had more encouragement.
"Since the move away from the super select format of the Houghton we have been at pains to convey the message that October 1 is not just the preserve of the big battalions and with 652 yearlings catalogued as well as serious horses coming from the Sale at all levels of the market, that message should ring loud and clear. Although the average at this sale is well above 100,000 guineas, more than half the catalogue will always make less than that figure and trainers and owners can feel confident of coming to this Sale armed with lesser budgets and finding the INDIAN INKs and RED EVIEs year after year, because that is the reality. This is still a relatively new format but the vast majority of the top 50 trainers in Britain have been here this week, and as long as we maintain the size of the catalogue they will continue to come.
"Looking ahead to next week we have a big catalogue and a good catalogue. 16,000 guineas Derby winner SIR PERCY and top two year old STRATEGIC PRINCE are both graduates of Part 2 of the October Yearling Sale and we look forward to welcoming buyers from throughout the world in search of more of the same."