Champion Filly Porta Fortuna To Star At Tattersalls December Mares Sale

Four-time Group 1 Winner Porta Fortuna Will Headline the Sceptre Sessions

Champion filly PORTA FORTUNA is to be offered at the forthcoming Tattersalls December Mares Sale which will take place from December 1st – 4th. The four-time Group 1 winner will be consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency and will head the fourth edition of the elite Sceptre Sessions which will be held on Monday 1st and Tuesday 2nd December.

Trained by Donnacha O’Brien for a partnership of Taylor Made’s Medallion Racing, Steve Weston, Dean Reeves, and Barry Fowler, PORTA FORTUNA first announced her outstanding talent on the global stage when a dominant winner of the Group 3 Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot, defeating subsequent Group 2 winner MATRIKA and five further future Group winning fillies.

Placed efforts in the Group 1 National Stakes and Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes followed, before PORTA FORTUNA claimed her first Group 1 victory in the historic Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket and ended her juvenile season finishing a brave second, beaten just half a length, in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf ahead of subsequent five-time Grade 1 winner SHE FEELS PRETTY.

PORTA FORTUNA came within a neck of claiming Classic victory when second in the 1000 Guineas on her first start at three, before an outstanding win in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, beating Group 1 winners OPERA SINGER, RAMATUELLE, ELMALKA, CONTENT and ROUHIYA.

A three and three-quarter length demolition of the field in the Group 1 Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes followed before her third Group 1 victory of the season in the Matron Stakes, defeating three-time Group 1 winner FALLEN ANGEL, winner of the 2024 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas, to confirm her status as the best filly of her generation.

PORTA FORTUNA was crowned Champion Three-Year-Old Filly at the Cartier Champion Awards, joining the ranks of turf luminaries such as ENABLE, MINDING, TREVE and ZARKAVA. A comfortable winner of the Group 2 Lanwades Stud Stakes on her only start this year in race-record time, PORTA FORTUNA will be the first Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old Filly ever to be offered for sale as a filly in/out of training.

PORTA FORTUNA’s pedigree blends top class American speed with some of the very best European Classic bloodlines. Her sire CARAVAGGIO was a brilliant juvenile when unbeaten in four starts, and added a Group 1 sprint victory at three in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot. CARAVAGGIO is a son of the outstanding SCAT DADDY who is fast developing equal renown as a broodmare sire with this year’s Epsom Derby winner LAMBOURN joining Irish Oaks winner SAVETHELASTDANCE as European Classic winners out of SCAT DADDY mares.

Her dam TOO PRECIOUS is the HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR own-sister to the top class NUMERIAN, a three-time Group 2 winner and multiple Group 1 runner up, and to Group performer MONTESILVANO, from the Classic Aga Khan family of European Champion MILAN, winner of the St Leger and second in the Breeders’ Cup Turf, Yorkshire Oaks heroine KEY CHANGE and the brilliant dual Derby winner KAHYASI.

Medallion Racing Manager Phillip Shelton commented:

“Porta Fortuna has given our Medallion partners, along with Steve, Dean and Barry, memories to last a lifetime. We all feel incredibly lucky to have been a part of her journey. She was the most accomplished two-year-old filly of her generation, as the only filly with a Group 1 win and two other Group victories, as well as the only filly with a Group 1 win and Group 1 placings, with three Group 1 placings to her credit. She hit new heights as a three-year-old winning three consecutive Group 1s after a narrow defeat in the 1000 Guineas, culminating in being named Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. Full credit must go to Donnacha O’Brien and his team at Bawnmore Racing, who have campaigned her brilliantly. Our plan was always to sell at the end of her four-year-old year, and we felt that Tattersalls was the perfect place to showcase a once-in-a-lifetime filly for our partners.”

Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;

“Porta Fortuna is a true Champion and a rare jewel. In the history of the Cartier Awards never has the winner of the Champion Three-Year-Old Filly title been offered for sale as a filly in training until Porta Fortuna and to be offering such an outstanding Champion at Tattersalls on behalf of her owners Medallion Racing, Steve Weston, Dean Reeves and Barry Fowler is an absolute privilege. A Group 1 and Royal Ascot winner at two and a Champion and triple Group 1 winner as a three year old, Porta Fortuna possesses all of the attributes one looks for in the thoroughbred and her sale promises not only to be the highlight of the Sceptre Sessions at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, but also one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the 2025 global bloodstock sales calendar.”