Cloudbreaker , a winning and stakes-placed daughter of Sea The Stars topped the Tattersalls December Online Sale when selling to Mark McStay of Avenue Bloodstock for 220,000gns (US$294,509, 1gns=US$1.34).
The Rabbah Bloodstock-bred 3-year-old was a 200,000gns purchase by Charlie Gordon-Watson from Houghton Bloodstock at Tattersalls Book 1 and shelved her maiden tag with a victory at Newmarket last July.
This term, she was fourth to subsequent Yorkshire Oaks (G1), Prix Vermeille (G1), and Ribblesdale Stakes (G2) heroine Warm Heart in the listed Fillies’ Trial Stakes at Newbury and then fourth to Desert Hero in the King George V Stakes at Royal Ascot.
She picked up black type when a fine second to 2022 Fillies’ Mile (G1) second Novakai in the listed Aphrodite Fillies’ Stakes on Newmarket’s July course this summer.
She is well-related too, being out of the Cozzene mare Deveron , making her a half sister to listed winners Lamar and Haddaf . Deveron, a winner and third in the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) for Ismail Mohammed, is a sister to Canadian grade 2 winner and grade 1-placed Windward Islands .
Ian Williams purchased the once-raced Pivotal colt Regal Defence for 52,000gns from Roger Varian’s Carlburg Stables. The 2-year-old was a two-length third at Kempton Dec. 13 behind the smart-looking Lessay. He is a half brother to a handful of winners and out of the winning Shamardal mare Al Sharood.
The breeding right to Havana Grey went unsold at 270,000gns.
