2006 OCTOBER YEARLING SALE PART 3
DAY 1 PRESS STATEMENT
AVERTI COLT TOPS DAY 1 OF TATTERSALLS OCTOBER 3 YEARLING SALE
Richard Frisby purchased a son of AVERTI for 72,000 guineas on the first day of the two day October Yearling Sale Part 3 on a day when 132 lots were sold for 894,500 guineas, at an average of 6,777 guineas and a median of 4,000 guineas.
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Catalogued |
Offered |
Sold |
Aggregate |
Average |
Median |
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2006 |
215 |
186 |
132 |
894,500 |
6,777 |
4,000 |
2005 |
220 |
184 |
124 |
836,000 |
6,742 |
4,850 |
The opening day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Part 3 was split into morning and evening sessions and the top priced lot for the day was the fourth lot into the ring during the evening session. The colt, by AVERTI out of the PRIMO DOMINIE mare MARIA THERESA, was bred and consigned by Lord Margadale’s Fonthill Stud and is a great grand-daughter of Margadale’s great racehorse and broodmare JULIETTE MARNY, winner of the Irish Oaks, dam of four Listed winners and granddam of the Group 2 winner NICOBAR. Interest in the half-brother to the highly rated INTREPID JACK came thick and fast with bloodstock agents Will Edmeades, Johnny McKeever and Richard Frisby all signalling their interest, but it was Frisby who prevailed at 72,000 guineas with McKeever coming off second best. The Newmarket based Frisby indicated that the colt would race for a partnership.
LOT 1963: AVERTI - MARIA THERESA
Purchased by Richard Frisby Bloodstock for 72,000 gns
It didn’t take long for things to hot up during the morning session either, with the third lot to be offered, a filly by CHOISIR realising 40,000 guineas, the top price during the morning session and the third highest price for the day. Consigned from James Stewart’s Wellsummers Stud, the daughter of the dual Group 1 winning sprinter CHOISIR out of the SELKIRK mare BAYALIKA received considerable catalogue updates courtesy of her half-brother VITAL EQUINE who won the Group 2 Champagne Stakes and finished third in the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagadere. The filly was knocked down to trainer Rod Millman who indicated that he had purchased her ‘on spec’ and that she would return to his Devonshire base whereupon he would try and find an owner for her. The sale represented a pinhooking triumph for her owners, with Algarve Bloodstock’s Barry Root purchasing her as a foal at the 2005 Tattersalls December Foal Sale for a mere 5,500 guineas.
LOT 1855: CHOISIR - BAYALIKA
Purchased by Rod Millman for 40,000 gns
Locally based bloodstock agent Steven Hillen purchased the second highest priced lot for the day when he went to 45,000 guineas to secure the STATUE OF LIBERTY colt out of the RAINBOW QUEST mare MOUNTAIN DANCER. Consigned from Bryan Ryan’s Ballymorris Stud in Co Clare in Ireland, the colt is from the first crop of STORM CAT stallion STATUE OF LIBERTY, the Group 3 Coventry Stakes winner and Group 1 Sussex Stakes second. Hillen purchased the colt after he withstood the efforts of Newmarket trainer Nick Littmoden and indicated that he would join North Yorkshire based trainer Kevin Ryan at his Hambleton Lodge.