2005 OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 2 DAY 1 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 1: DAUGHTER OF KYLLACHY BREAKS OCTOBER 2 RECORD ON OPENING DAY
A daughter of KYLLACHY topped proceedings at a record 210,000 guineas on a remarkable opening day of Part 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. A total of eleven yearlings sold for 100,000 guineas or more, compared to the five at the entire 2004 sale. A total of 224 yearlings were sold for 6,424,500 guineas, a rise of 39% compared with last year's opening session, whilst the average rose 36% to 34,540 guineas and the median rose 30% to 26,000 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2005 |
253 |
223 |
186 |
6,424,500 |
34,540 |
26,000 |
2004 |
273 |
254 |
183 |
4,638,100 |
25,344 |
20,000 |
Yearlings by KYLLACHY, resident at Cheveley Park Stud and son of their own superstar stallion PIVOTAL, were very well recieved at Part 1 of the October Yearling Sale, and the trend looks to have continued during Part 2. Lot 864, a bay filly by KYLLACHY out of the KRIS mare PLACEMENT was consigned to the sale from Michael Wates' Langton Stud and bids for the half-sister to multiple Listed-winning filly PRESTO VENTO came thick and fast. Newmarket-based trainer William Haggas and Cheveley Park Stud's General Manager Chris Richardson were both prominent early, along with Blandford Bloodstock's Richard Brown. Yorkshire-based bloodstock agent Gill Richardson entered the fray as the price breached the 100,000 guineas mark along with Manton-based trainer John Gosden. The pair went head-to-head as the price raced towards 200,000 guineas, with Gosden successful when his bid of 210,000 guineas went unanswered by Richardson. The filly was purchased by Gosden on behalf of Princess Haya of Jordon, wife of Sheikh Mohammed. Princess Haya has enjoyed success with Gosden this year with her colt LEO, a 60,000 guineas October yearling purchase last year, winning the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes at Newmarket, and PROCLAMATION, an 84,000 guineas October yearling purchase, who carried her colours to victory in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes for trainer Jeremy Noseda.
LOT 864: KYLLACHY - PLACEMENT
Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock for 210,000 gns
Dual Derby winner GALILEO has had a promising start to his stud career with the Listed winner INNOCENT AIR and the Listed placed pair of GALILEO'S STAR and GLOBAL GENIUS amongst his better performers from his inaugural crop of two-year-olds. Lot 855, a colt by GALILEO out of the RAINBOW QUEST mare NO QUEST was the only colt on offer by his sire at Part 2 of the October Yearling Sale and interest in the half-brother to Group 3 winner and Group 1 Canadian International second MACAW was high. Consigned from Denis Brosnan's Croom House Stud in Ireland, the colt saw initial interest from bloodstock agents Penny Barnes and Tim Corby as well as Charlie Gordon-Watson, but none of the trio was able to match the 150,000 guineas bid by Newmarket trainer Michael Jarvis.
LOT 855: GALILEO - NO QUEST
Purchased by Michael Jarvis for 150,000 gns
Another colt to sell for 150,000 guineas on the opening day was Lot 711, the bay by DANSILI out of the Listed winning DIESIS mare AUSHERRA, herself an own sister to English, Irish and Yorkshire Oaks winner RAMRUMA. Consigned from Anthony and Mary-Ann Penfold's Bugley Stud, the colt saw initial interest from Lambourn-based trainer Jamie Osborne as well as Anne Haslam, wife of trainer Patrick Haslam. Bloodstock agents Stephen Hillen, Angie Sykes and Will Edmeades all joined proceedings soon after as the price raced towards 100,000 guineas. Competion for the colt soon settled down to a duel between Sykes and Edmeades with Sykes ultimately successful with a bid of 150,000 guineas. The colt is set to join Whatcombe based trainer Paul Cole who trained his Listed winning and Group placed half-brother YORKSHIRE. It was to prove a busy day for Sykes who was also successful in securing two other six figures horses, Lot 725 and Lot 847, colts by MONTJEU and SPINNING WORLD which both sold for 105,000 guineas.
