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£20,000 median going up by £250, although the £3,183,500 turnover fell by 1.9%.
DBS Breeze-up Top lots
Tattersalls Ireland Flat Breeze-up Tattersalls Ireland’s new breeze-up replaced the Guineas fixture previously held by its sister company in Newmarket, but it has some way to go before making a dent in the side of its Anglo-Irish rivals. The catalogue featured 73 lots, of which 35 were listed as sold, for a modest turnover of €294,100. The €8,403 average and €5,000 median suggested that few of those offered made significant profits at a sale where just three lots realised over €14,000. Newtown Stud, run by the late Brian Grassick’s widow Sheila and daughter Cathy, provided the two dearest lots. The pick of them was a €45,000 Dalakhani filly, who was bred jointly by Newtown, and bought by Cathy Grassick on behalf of client Yvonne Jacques, a member of the Highclere syndicate who owned Harbinger and a major yearling investor last year. Bobby O’Ryan paid €40,000 for a Rock Of Gibraltar filly who has joined Kevin Prendergast.
Sex/Breeding
Vendor
c Hard Spun-Saudia (Gone West)
Mocklershill
140,000
Sean Quinn
c Teofilo-Mamela (Protektor)
Harefield Lodge
110,000
Robin O’Ryan
c Shamardal-Genoa (Zafonic)
Meadowview Stables
105,000
David Redvers B/S
c Compton Place-Our Little Secret (Rossini)
Yeomanstown Stud
90,000
David Redvers B/S
c Clodovil-Forest Storm (Woodman)
Mocklershill
88,000
Peter and Ross Doyle
Brightwells has made Cheltenham racecourse into one of the principal National Hunt sales venues in a short time and it will be interesting to see if similar inroads can be made at Flat racing’s most famous arena, Ascot. While the multi-purpose Herefordshirebased company has long held low-key auctions at Ascot’s stables, it broke new ground when staging a breeze-up sale on the racecourse after racing on May 7. Consignors praised the facilities and, although there was one six-figure lot, a broader clientele would help the sale grow. There was a turnover of £567,400 for 35 lots sold at a clearance rate of 67%. Just as at Kempton, Doncaster, Tattersalls and Arqana, Willie Browne’s Mocklershill Stables consigned the sale-topper, a £100,000 first-crop Lawman colt who cost €35,000 at Goffs in October. Tom Malone made the successful bid for trainer Alan McCabe. Meanwhile, Anne Cowley, whose best horse The Rectifier came from Kempton’s breeze-up, paid £55,000 for an Invincible Spirit sold from Ger Kennedy’s Sherbourne Lodge to join Seamus Durack. Originally bought for €19,000 as a foal, the filly was bought in for 45,000gns as a yearling and again retained, this time at 35,000gns, when offered at this year’s Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale. THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER
Buyer
Five-year tale Year
Catalogued
Offered
Sold
Clearance (%)
Agg (£)
Avg (£)
Mdn (£)
2011
193
158
109
68.9
3,183,500
29,206
20,000
2010
186
161
122
75.7
3,247,300
26,617
19,750
2009
145
134
112
83.6
2,724,600
24,326
18,000
2008
170
140
115
82.1
3,288,500
28,595
22,000
2007
220
191
153
80.1
4,858,875
31,757
26,250
Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-up Top lots Sex/Breeding
Vendor
Price (€)
Buyer
f Dalakhani-Fringe (In The Wings)
Newtown Stud
45,000
Brian Grassick BS
f Rock Of Gibraltar-Karliysha (Kalanisi)
Newtown Stud
40,000
Bobby O’Ryan
c Majestic Missile-Miraculous (Marju)
Abbeyleix Stud
30,000
Bobby O’Ryan
f Hurricane Run-Peneia (Nureyev)
Ballyhane
14,000
Peter Morris/Bernard McKenna
13,000
Michael Grassick
c Elusive City-Bradwell (Taufan)
Brightwells Ascot Breeze-up
Price (£)
Donoughmore Stud
Year
Catalogued
Offered
Sold
Agg (€)
Avg (€)
Mdn (€)
2011
73
63
35
294,100
8,403
5,000
Brightwells Ascot Breeze-up Top lots Sex/Breeding
Vendor
c Lawman-Lady Elysees (Royal Academy)
Mocklershill
Price (£)
f Invincible Spirit-Beautiful Note (Red Ransom)
Sherbourne Lodge
55,000
Anne Cowley
c Proclamation-Winter Ice (Wolfhound)
Fernham Farm
41,000
David Flood
100,000
Buyer Tom Malone Bloodstock
f Invincible Spirit-Attachment (Trempolino)
Rangefield Bloodstock
35,000
Jane Allison
c Lemon Drop Kid-Plaisir Des Yeux (Funambule)
Mocklershill
30,000
Bobby O’Ryan
Year
Catalogued
Offered
Sold
Agg (£)
Avg (£)
Mdn (£)
2011
170
52
35
567,400
16,211
10,000
Arqana Breeze-up Once just a bit-player on the breeze-up stage, Arqana’s sale is now only a stone’s throw away from challenging Tattersalls for the mantle of Europe’s leading juvenile auction. As recently as in 2006, the French sale turned over €2.08m, only 17% of its Newmarket rival, but this year the €7,096,000 expenditure at Saint-Cloud was 76% of the total at the Craven Breeze-Up. There were 22 six-figure lots at Tattersalls and 20 hit €100,0000 in France, where the 80% clearance rate was better than anywhere else. Arqana continues to have the advantage of boasting buyers who rarely shop elsewhere,
most notably this year the Prime Equestrian group, who bought 27 lots for €1.38m. Prime Equestrian, who bought six lots at the 2010 Arqana breeze-up, is believed to be fronted by Nottingham-born entrepreneur Neil Helliwell, who runs Prime Projects in Dubai. Prime Equestrian had 34 horses registered in training in France prior to the sale, principally with Xavier Nakkachdji and Xavier Demeaulte. “It was the strongest breeze-up I’ve been at all year and it’s on the up and making inroads into Tattersalls’ lead,” said Paddy Twomey, whose Hawthorn Villa Stud sold four lots for an average of €111,750. “The demand was amazing and there was a huge cross-section of
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