2006 OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 2 DAY 1 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 1: SPECTACULAR START TO TATTERSALLS OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 2
Part 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale got underway in spectacular fashion with turnover up 59% on last year's corresponding figures and average and median also posting strong rises as 220 lots sold for 10,230,500 guineas. The average of 46,502 guineas represented a 35% rise on the corresponding 2005 figures whilst the median of 36,500 guineas represented a 40% rise. A total of 20 lots sold for 100,000 guineas or more on the opening day, one more than last year's four day total.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
309 |
274 |
220 |
10,230,500 |
46,502 |
36,500 |
2005 |
253 |
223 |
186 |
6,424,500 |
34,540 |
26,000 |
Demand for well bred fillies continued unabated on the opening day of Part 2 of the October Yearling Sale with a top price of 250,000 guineas for lot 906, the daughter of the triple Group 1 winning first season sire OASIS DREAM and the MARK OF ESTEEM mare TOP FLIGHT QUEEN. The filly hails from a top Cheveley Park family that includes Group 1 winner CHORIST and that stud's manager Chris Richardson made a valiant attempt to secure the granddaughter of the Yorkshire Oaks second BLESSED EVENT, but was to finish as underbidder to Newmarket based trainer John Gosden. The sale provided a great result for Saleh Fustok's Deerfield Farm who consigned the colt, having purchased TOP FLIGHT QUEEN via agent Richard O'Gorman for 23,000 guineas at the 2001 Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale.
LOT 906: OASIS DREAM - TOP FLIGHT QUEEN
Purchased by John Gosden for 250,000 guineas
Lot 904, the bay colt by HALLING out of the Listed winning DANZIG mare TIME CHANGES was the second highest priced lot for the day, being knocked down to the Irish based bloodstock agent Hugo Merry for 200,000 guineas. Consigned from the Tarry family's Islanmore Stud in Ireland, the colt is a grandson of the multiple Grade 1 placed Listed winner MAKE CHANGE, herself the granddam of the Grade 1 horses ANDROMEDA'S HERO and SUPERFLY. Merry secured the colt after seeing off the efforts of underbidder Richard O'Gorman and indicated that he would go into training with Brian Meehan at Manton House Stables.
LOT 904: HALLING - TIME CHANGES
Purchased by Hugo Merry Bloodstock for 200,000 guineas
The progeny of former champion sprinter and successful sire CADEAUX GENEREUX were in great demand during Part 1 of the October Yearling Sale and the trend continued on the opening day of Part 2 with a colt and a filly both realising six figure sums. Lot 694, the colt out of the TINA'S PET mare ELLEBANNA was the highest of the pair and third highest price for the day when knocked down to Darley's John Ferguson for 195,000 guineas. Consigned from David and Trish Brown's Furnace Mill Stud on behalf of Courtleigh Stud, the half-brother to the history-making triple Bunbury Cup winner MINE saw interest from his trainer James Bethell as well as agents Amanda Skiffington and McKeever St Lawrence's Johnny McKeever, stood alongside trainer Brian Meehan. Ferguson soon entered the fray and just as he looked to have secured the colt, bloodstock agent Angie Sykes made a late bid for glory, but was to end up the underbidder as Ferguson prevailed. Earlier London-based bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon-Watson went to 125,000 guineas to secure a CADEAUX GENEREUX half-sister to Group 3 winner APPLAUD and the Listed winner SAUTERNE. Gordon-Watson secured the daughter of the NORTHERN DANCER mare BAND, who was consigned from Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber's Watership Down Stud, after seeing off the efforts of locally based bloodstock agent Grant Pritchard-Gordon.
LOT 694: CADEAUX GENEREUX - ELLEBANNA
Purchased by John Ferguson Bloodstock for 195,000 guineas
Lot 779, the chesnut colt by INDIAN RIDGE out of the DARSHAAN mare MAID OF KILLEEN received a massive catalogue update when his own-sister INDIAN INK won the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket 11 days ago. Consigned from Killeen Castle Stud in Ireland, the colt was knocked down to McKeever St Lawrence's Johnny McKeever for 180,000 guineas after he saw off the efforts of Lambourn based trainer Sylvester Kirk. McKeever indicated that the colt would be another to go into training at Manton House with trainer Brian Meehan.
