Longtime buyers got their last chance to dance at Tattersalls on November 21 when the opening stanza of the nine-session December Sale was headlined by a well-connected person. star sea small at 260,000gns (US$324,351).
Matters boiled over with Tom Goff of Blandford Bloodstock and Alex Elliott, who were standing at the top of the stairs left and right facing the podium. Entering the fray late in the piece, it was Elliott who made the decisive bid.
The chubby pooch (Lot 80), bred by Airlie Stud and offered through Whatton Manor Stud, is a sibling of three winners, most notably her group winner brother that Fifty Stars, who won the Tab Australian Cup in 2020 before retiring from Sunnyhill Stud to team up with Jack Cantillon’s Bloodstock.Racing. Fifty Stars isn’t the only high-flying winner among the little girl’s siblings, as her half-brother the name of the brewed wine landed in Paddy Power Future Champions Hurdle for beginners.
“She’s going to Ralph Beckett to find Valmont,” Elliott said. “She was a Book 1 goofy girl who missed that sale because she suffered minor injuries, but we still had to pay Book 1 prices for her. This year we have a Sea The Stars little girl. named Trust The Stars, who has won the Newmarket Young Women award, and hopefully, she can be the Oaks. This baby can also develop into the Classic type.
“She has a pedigree and she was bred by Airlie Stud, a wonderful breeder, on a pony. I love trying to buy them out. Usually you can’t, but they are organic and they give The mare has a Sea The Stars (dirty) pony, she’s in Sea The Stars and she’s going back to Sea The Stars, so there’s a lot going on in the genealogy.”
Valmont colors are growing in popularity throughout 2022, taking home the likes of Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes (G3) Lose yourself and Captain Wierzba, for whom Rossa Ryan was controversially stripped of his belt after an elbow from Christophe Soumillon during the Prix Thomas Bryon Jockey Club de Turquie (G3).
Elliott continued: “Hopefully she’s one that we can race and then breed over time. We’ve bought 32 ponies and are 33 now, and have 60 horses in training. , but we’re also trading because we’ve sold a few horses. We’re just trying to play the game.”
Later in the session, Elliott made sure Ten Sovereigns half-brother with half-brother beak of thorns from Croom House Stud with a bid of 110,000gns ($137,226). The youngster (Hip 162) will also wear the colors of Valmont but will join training with Paul and Oliver Cole, which maintains a relationship that began with the bright boy Sunningdale.
that boy Gleneagles a foal 50,000gns ($71,521), owned by Valmont, Magnier and Paul Cole and was sold to Abdullrahman Al Said for 300,000gns ($360,727) at the Fall Horse Training Sale.
This session saw 130 out of 151 Lots offered for sale find buyers with a sell success rate of 86%. Revenue fell 11% to 4,501,500gns ($5,615,644), although 15 fewer lots changed hands compared to 2021, while the average was mostly unchanged at 34,627gns ($43,197). The average fell 19% at VND22,000 billion ($27,445), compared with VND27,000 billion ($28,350) 12 months ago.
Sales on Monday lifted the total one-year total spend on fingerlings at Tattersalls in 2022 to a whopping 211,572,800gns ($263,938,126), breaking the 200 million guineas mark for the first time and easily surpassing the record. previous best in 2018.
Dubawi and Frankel’s Colts Stand Out
Draft Shadwell is one of quality over quantity because it offers two strong included dubawi colt (lot 154) from the list of winners and group 2 Fadhayyil , who made a bid of 180,000gns ($224,551) from Yeomanstown Stud. The pony is the brother of two winners, including Australia’s 2nd top scorer turaath.
Dubawi pony is deposited in Lot 154 in the ring at Tattersalls
Yeomanstown’s David O’Callaghan said: “We bought him to put him up for sale in a good time. “We like him a lot and think he looks very agile. Obviously, he is a top stallion and from a very good mare and we don’t have many opportunities to buy this so so We said if he didn’t buy put up a silly price we would join.
“Luckily he falls right in our range. He’ll be back in one of the highlights, maybe Craven or maybe France; we’ll see. I’ve never crossed Dubawi before. here, but he looks really fast. let’s hope he’s okay.”
Also set up for an easy campaign is Frankel half-brothers (Lot 178) to Peace envoy after the colt consigned by Glenvale Stud was knocked down to Tally-Ho Stud for 130,000gns ($162,176).
