£2.5 Million Won By Owners Through the £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus as they Celebrate their 100th Winner

Tattersalls is delighted to announce that a total of £2.5 million has now been won by owners through the £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus scheme as they celebrated the 100th winner of a £25,000 bonus.

NAYEF ROAD, a decisive winner of the Smarkets EBF Novice Stakes at Haydock yesterday, marked the 100th £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus winner. The Mark Johnston trained colt collected a total of £39,616 for his owner Mohamed Obaida with the Book 1 Bonus adding £25,000 to prize money of £7,116 and a Plus10 payment. 

The son of GALILEO out of ROSE BONHEUR was purchased by Rabbah Bloodstock for 100,000 guineas from Oaks Farm Stables at Book 1 of last year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, with all lots offered at the October Book 1 Yearling Sale eligible for a £25,000 bonus.

Introduced in 2015 the £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus offers a payment of £25,000, on top of race prize-money, for winners of all Class 2, 3 and 4 maiden and novice two-year-old races in Britain and all Open two-year-old maiden races in Ireland.

Jimmy George, Marketing Director of Tattersalls, commented;

“We are delighted to have the 100th winner of a £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus. Since its introduction the response to the scheme has been fantastic. It provides owners with the unprecedented opportunity to earn prize money of £30,000 or more from around 300 British and Irish two-year-old novice and maiden races and it is particularly appropriate that Mark Johnston has trained the 100th winner of a £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus.

“Mark has always recognised that October Book 1 combines quality with value and six of his seven £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus winners have been bought for 100,000 guineas or less including this year’s 62,000 guineas Group 3 Albany Stakes winner MAIN EDITION and German 1,000 Guineas winner NYALETI who he purchased for 40,000 guineas.”

Book 1 of the 2018 Tattersalls October Book 1 Yearling Sale, Europe’s premier yearling sale, takes place 9th – 11th October. The catalogue looks set to number around 500 yearlings, all eligible for a £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus, and will be available later this month.