2005 OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 2 DAY 3 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 3: TATTERSALLS OCTOBER PART 2 THUNDERS ON
The Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Part 2 continued in a similar vein to the opening two days with unrelenting demand forcing the average and median ever higher. The turnover for the day of 2,689,500 guineas was up 15% on last year's corresponding session, a figure all the more impressive given that there were 91 less lots catalogued on day 3 this year. Once again the average skyrocketed, rising 61% to 20,375 guineas whilst the median rose 64% to 16,000 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2005 |
178 |
155 |
132 |
2,689,500 |
20,375 |
16,000 |
2004 |
269 |
256 |
184 |
2,333,900 |
12,684 |
9,750 |
The National Stud in Newmarket have had a year to remember, with resident stallion BAHAMIAN BOUNTY enjoying huge success on the racetrack with Group 1 victories for his two sons, GOODRICKE and PASTORAL PURSUITS. The latter's victory in the Darley July Cup was a double triumph, since the Newmarket nursery purchased a share in him last year and will stand him alongside his sire in 2006. The stud had more to celebrate as the consignors of lot 1314, a colt by SAKHEE out of the LOUP SOLITAIRE mare PREMIERE DANCE who was sold to noted breeze up consignor Willie Browne for the day's top price of 90,000 guineas. Tally-Ho Stud's Tony O'Callaghan and bloodstock agent David Redvers both made valiant efforts to secure the colt, with Redvers the eventual underbidder, but the pair were thwarted by Browne who is likely to reoffer the colt at next year's Tattersalls Breeze Up Sale. The National Stud also enjoyed a spectacular pinhooking success earlier in the evening when lot 1293, a CADEAUX GENEREUX colt out of MIDSUMMERNITEDREAM was knocked down to Devon-based trainer Rod Millman for 55,000 guineas, having been purchased at the 2004 Tattersalls December Foal Sale for 9,000 guineas.
LOT 1314: SAKHEE - PREMIERE DANCE
Purchased by Willie Browne for 90,000 gns
Later in the evening another son of SAKHEE took centre stage when selling for 78,000 guineas to Blandford Bloodstock's Richard Brown. Catalogued as lot 1344, the colt out of the winning HAMAS mare SHUKRAN was consigned by Raffin Stud on behalf of Liza Judd and attracted interest from Middleham trainer Mark Johnston and bloodstock agents David Redvers and Geoffrey Howson, with the latter ending up the underbidder. The colt is set to join Neville Callaghan at his Rathmoy Stables in Newmarket. The sale continued the strong demand for yearlings for Shadwell Estate's homebred stallion SAKHEE, whose sixteen yearlings sold at Parts 1 and 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale have averaged 80,125 guineas and included the fillies out of DODO and IMITATION who realised 260,000 guineas and 220,000 guineas respectively.
