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A colt by LA Stud shuttler Time Test tops session selling for 95,000 guineas.
Book 3 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale came to a close on Friday with a vibrant final session resulting in record turnover, average and median.
A colt by Time Test (Dubawi) was the most expensive to sell when Lot 1745 was bought by Montgomery Motto for 95,000 guineas.
Sold by Whatton Manor Stud the colt is out of the Shamardal (Giant's Causeway) mare Purest and was one of eight yearlings by Time Test to sell during Book 3 on Friday.
The LA Stud shuttler has made a flying start to his stud career with four individual Group/Listed winners in his first crop including the Group Three winner Romantic Time and Listed winner Tardis. It has been no surprise therefore to see his yearlings in such high demand at the sales,.
Motto, who saw off underbidder Amanda Skiffington, was previously based in the US and owned and trained his own team of horses at Calder, before moving to Europe a couple of years ago.
"This is one of the best athletes I have seen here and he has a lovely temperament to match," said Motto. "It's hard to go wrong with a Shamardal mare and she has produced a useful runner abroad. I went a bit higher than planned, but the money nearly always finds the horse. He will go to Richard Brabazon for breaking and we will make plans from there."
The colt was consigned by Ed Player's Whatton Manor Stud on behalf of breeder Nicky Welby who bought Purest at the 2013 Tattersalls July Sale for 12,000 guineas.
"We only really got her as a companion," revealed Welby. "We had bought Western Pearl as a yearling, raced her with William Knight and were incredibly lucky as she got black-type. We thought we might as well have her at home and breed, so bought Purest to run with her."
Whatton Manor Stud's Ed Player commented: "All the credit has to go to Nicky and her team at home. Her head man has been off with injury so they have been doing all the work. This colt got here looking fantastic, he has been incredibly well-behaved and as soon as he got here started eating his hay! Nicky and her team deserve 100 per cent of the credit."
Over the two days of Book 3, 471 lots sold for 10,593,150 guineas at an average of 22,419 guineas and median 18,000 guineas. During the 2020 renewal 459 lots sold for 7,367,200 at an average of 16,051 guineas and median of 11,000 guineas.
