2005 OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 2 DAY 2 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 2: RED RANSOM FILLY BREAKS OCTOBER 2 RECORD AS TRADE SOARS
Part 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continued in frenzied fashion
on day 2 with 202 lots sold for 6,508,500 guineas, at an average of 32,220
guineas and a median of 25,000 guineas. A daughter of RED RANSOM broke the
record price for the sale, set only 24 hours earlier, when sold for 270,000
guineas, on a day where 8 lots broke the 100,000 guineas mark in addition
to the eleven yesterday. The turnover, average and median posted massive gains
of 58%, 60% and 67% compared with last year's corresponding session.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2005 |
257 |
235 |
202 |
6,508,500 |
32,220 |
25,000 |
2004 |
271 |
248 |
205 |
4,122,000 |
20,107 |
15,000 |
Fillies with outstanding pedigrees have been in high demand during Parts 1 & 2 of the October Yearling Sale and one such yearling was Lot 1099, the bay filly by RED RANSOM out of the winning MACHIAVELLIAN mare MASKAYA. Northern trainers Brian Smart and Mark Johnston both made the early running and the pair were joined by Irish bloodstock agent Peter Doyle as the price raced towards 100,000 guineas. Yorkshire-based bloodstock agent Jeremy Brummitt and London-based bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon-Watson both entered proceedings and the price quickly soared past the 200,000 guineas barrier and it was not long before yesterday's record price of 210,000 guineas was consigned to the history books. Brummitt and Gordon-Watson traded bids as the price crept beyond 250,000 guineas, finally stopping at 270,000 guineas with Gordon-Watson successful on behalf of Nicholas and Philippa Cooper's Normandie Stud. The sale continued the spectacular run of success for Denis Brosnan's Croom House Stud which also consigned yesterday's 150,000 guineas GALILEO colt as well as a 300,000 guineas DANEHILL colt and a 240,000 guineas SADLER'S WELLS colt at last week's October Part 1 sale. The stud also enjoyed a great pinhooking success today with Lot 957, the MONTJEU filly purchased at last year's Tattersalls December Foal Sale for 38,000 guineas and sold for 100,000 guineas to Bill Gredley.
LOT 1099: RED RANSOM - MASKAYA
Purchased by C Gordon-Watson Bloodstock for 270,000 gns
Late in the evening, Lot 1192, the colt by INCHINOR out of the Listed-placed
mare TARA'S GIRL threatened the record price, falling just 10,000 guineas
short at 260,000 guineas. Consigned from Arglo House Stud in Ireland,
the easy moving colt saw interest from Blandford Bloodstock's Richard
Brown and Shadwell Estates' Angus Gold, but the pair were unable to hold
off the determined effort of bloodstock agent John Corbett, seated with
Dubai-based owner Malih Al Basti. The sale represented a massive pinhooking
success for his owners, having been purchased as a foal for only €62,000.
Al Basti, whose previous Tattersalls purchases have included Group 3
winner FANTASTIC VIEW, currently has the Group 2 May Hill Stakes winner
and Group 1 Fillies' Mile third NASHEEJ in training with Richard Hannon.
LOT 1192: INCHINOR - TARA'S GIRL
Purchased by Malih Albasti for 260,000 gns
The two-year-old colt RED CLUBS, winner of the Group 2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot and second in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes this year for trainer Barry Hills, has proven a great advertisement for his dam, the Listed winning FIRST TRUMP mare TWO CLUBS. It was no surprise to see Hills, accompanied by BBA Ireland's Adrian Nicoll bidding on the NOVERRE half-brother to RED CLUBS and he was joined by Blandford Bloodstock's Richard Brown, standing alongside Newmarket trainer Neville Callaghan in the battle to secure the colt. Peter Doyle joined the fray as the the colt became the eighth yearling to break the six figure barrier for the day, but he was unable to match the 170,000 guineas offered by Darley Stud's John Ferguson. The colt, who is from the first crop of Darley's Group 1 Sussex Stakes winner NOVERRE is the highest priced yearling by his sire to date and was consigned to the sale from Karen Tarry's Islanmore Stud in Ireland on behalf of American breeder Dr John Fike.
LOT 1196: NOVERRE - TWO CLUBS
Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock for 170,000 gns
Yearlings by DANEHILL's son DANEHILL DANCER have been in great demand over the past ten days with eleven of his yearlings selling for 100,000 guineas or more at Part 1 of the October Yearling Sale. Lot 1064, the colt out of the winning CAERLEON mare INTELLECTUELLE became the second son of DANEHILL DANCER to sell for a six figure sum at Part 2 of the October sale, having been sold for 135,000 guineas to the bid of Newmarket-based bloodstock agent Margaret O'Toole. The colt, consigned from Woodcote Stud in Epsom is destined for Irish trainer Charles O'Brien's Baronrath Stables.
