The Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-Up sale marks the final stop on the main European circuit and it is the culmination of two selling seasons that Glending Stables’ Roderic Kavanagh will be hard-pressed to surpass.
Last year the consignor’s outstanding colt was a son of Havana gray whom he bought as a yearling for 42,000gns and became a quick seller for 625,000gns. That colt became the undefeated 2023 winner of the Crisfords Prix Morny (G1) and Middle Park Stakes (G1). Vandeek who will make a seasonal return at Haydock on May 25.
This year, Kavanagh repeated his stunning win in the angling with the last Galileo to come to auction, buying the colt for 125,000gns in December and selling him for 1 million guineas last month.
Having such outstanding results so early in the year has been both a blessing and a curse, something Kavanagh is acutely aware of.
“Obviously we’ve got off to a great start, and in some ways have taken the pressure off for the rest of the year, but you can’t close your eyes and not see the reality of it; There are probably more horses there.” people will buy them,” Kavanagh said. “You won’t get too excited yourself, but basically, if you bring nice horses to market you’ll be fine.”
For the final sale of the season, Kavanagh brings a strong quartet to Fairyhouse and the caliber of horses on offer has increased in tandem with the success of Tattersalls’ Breeze-Up Sale Ireland. The 2023 edition had two winners in the youth group Kairyu And Be frank about it and list the winners Ballymount Boy And Fun With Flags .
The traditional view of fast horses is also changing, with the success of Chan Son shifting perspectives. Friendly to the surrounding environment a brilliant graduate, has thrust himself into the reckoning for Derby (G1) glory with a win in the Lingfield trial for the classic and a win at Epsom for the son of Gleneagles will be another step on the journey of sales growth.
Kavanagh said: “Last year was a classic innovation in terms of the number of graduates that went out; Kairyu, Fun With Flags, Ballymount Boy”. “It’s great to see horses like that being sold in the sale because it gives a lot of confidence in the product being sold—they’re always being produced better and better; I have never seen such good winds.” like this year.
“The general standard of horsemanship at these flash sales has risen very high, it is a very competitive game and the horses are being produced very well.”
purple lily also emerged from last year’s sale and Paddy Twomey’s Salsabil Stakes (G3) runner-up, who remained in the Irish One Thousand Guineas (G1) before the May 24 announcement, is a daughter of Bell . Glending Stables offers a perfect Calyx in the third Prix des Lilas in Delhi 2014, which resembles Purple Lily, the cover star of the sale catalog.
From the start, the catalog was filled with exciting prospects and Glending Stables’ draft had one of the day’s earliest potential stars in Lot 7, a second season son of the first season’s leading sire . Green point .
In addition to Timpani, Raven’s Pass’s half-sister won the 2008 Preis von Europa (G1) Poseidon’s AdventuresThe flying pony impresses with his breeze on a chilly May morning at Fairyhouse.
“The Blue Point horse is probably the star attraction,” Kavanagh said. “Blue Point needs no introduction and hopefully he can get a classic win on the weekend; Rosallion looks very good and he is his clone, we are very excited and hope the market will pick him up.
“He’s a strong, big horse and it took him a lot of time to perfect his frame. That’s why we aimed this sale at him.”
Grade 2 winner Cruiser Catalina the son of Alliance rags who stood at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, was not a name familiar to Europeans, but Kavanagh was enthusiastic about the second policeman’s dirty work and her appeal to a certain area Market determination has been enticed by Fairyhouse.
He said: “Catalina Cruiser is only 2 years old, she was born on May 22, but she is a lovely girl, big, healthy and spacious. We are very excited for her and think She could be one of the deserts.”
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The international buyers brought together by the teams at Tattersalls Ireland and Irish Thoroughbred Marketing are a notable aspect of the sale, with a diversity of languages spoken around the sales floor and on the street. racing across the street is growing again.
It’s the last time in this thriving season that Kavanagh and every other consignor will have to wait to discover their fate, as the sale begins at 10 a.m. local time Friday.
