2006 OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 2 DAY 2 PRESS STATEMENT
DAY 2: DOWNEY PAIR TOP DAY OF RECORDS AT TATTERSALLS OCTOBER 2
There can have been few days as momentous for Irish consignor Michael Downey whose only two colts, by CAPTAIN RIO and INVINCIBLE SPIRIT, realised 300,000 guineas each to share a new price record for Part 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. The sale continued on the second day in record breaking fashion with turnover after two days standing at 20,286,000 guineas, already 2.3m guineas ahead of last year's record turnover with 580 lots still to pass through the ring. The second day saw 242 lots sold for 10,055,500 guineas, up 54% on last year's corresponding session, whilst the average and median rose 29% and 28% to 41,552 guineas and 32,000 guineas respectively.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
310 |
279 |
242 |
10,055,500 |
41,552 |
32,000 |
2005 |
257 |
235 |
202 |
6,508,500 |
32,220 |
25,000 |
Lot 1210, the colt by first season sire CAPTAIN RIO out of the FORMIDABLE mare SLIDING, the half-sister to the Group winning brothers SUGGESTIVE and RASHBAG, was consigned from agent Michael Downey and a packed auditorium set the stage for the fireworks that were to follow. Bloodstock agent Amanda Skiffington made a bold bid to secure the stunning looking colt, but was unable to match Shadwell Estates' Angus Gold who bid 300,000 guineas, a record price for Part 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.
LOT 1210: CAPTAIN RIO - SLIDING
Purchased by Shadwell Estates for 300,000 guineas
A little more than 90 minutes later lot 1253, the INVINCIBLE SPIRIT colt out of the DEHERE mare YOU RANG HERE, provided Downey with another windfall when knocked down to bloodstock agent Angie Sykes for a record equalling 300,000 guineas. Interest came thick and fast for the colt, which Downey had secured as a foal for 23,000, with Amanda Skiffington, Ed Dunlop and Charlie Gordon-Watson all staking claims as the price rose skywards. Gordon-Watson looked to have secured the colt when Sykes entered the fray with a bid of 270,000 guineas and whilst Gordon-Watson countered, it was Sykes who silenced her opposition with her bid of 300,000 guineas.
LOT 1253: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT - YOU RANG HERE
Purchased by Angie Sykes Bloodstock for 300,000 guineas
Colts were the flavour of the day and sons of JOHANNESBURG and MEDICEAN both realised 200,000 guineas, when knocked down to Blandford Bloodstock's Richard Brown and Cheveley Park Stud's Chris Richardson respectively. The first of these was lot 1111, the JOHANNESBURG colt out of the Group placed mare LISKA, the BIGSTONE half-sister to the Listed winning Group 1 placed LIVADIYA and to LIDAKIYA, dam of the Group 2 winner LINNGARI. The colt, consigned from Timmy Hyde's Camas Park Stud, was purchased by Brown on behalf of the Eqyptian born businessman Ahmed Zayat.
LOT 1111: JOHANNESBURG - LISKA
Purchased by Blandford Bloodstock, Agent for Zayat Stables for 200,000 guineas
The second of the two 200,000 guinea colts was lot 1177, the MEDICEAN colt out of the BLUSHING GROOM mare RADIANT BRIDE who was consigned from James and Celia Miller's Freedom Farm Stud on behalf of Mr Ercan Dogan. Agents Charlie Gordon-Watson and Richard O'Gorman both made bold bids for the racy looking colt but were usurped by Cheveley Park Stud's Chris Richardson who indicated that the colt would go into training with Peter Chapple-Hyam at his St Gatien Stables.
