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Bromley and King pay 140,000gns for colt

Highflyer Bloodstock’s Anthony Bromley and trainer Alan King have been long standing supporters of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale and the pair purchased four lots at this year’s renewal for 258,000 guineas including headlined by the sale-topping Excelebration (Exceed And Excel) colt for 140,000 guineas.  

"We don't go on times, but unfortunately he did a good time which increased interest in him, and pushed his price," said Bromley. "We just like to look at them as individuals, their strides and general way of going. 

"This is the horse we really wanted and we had to really push the boat out to get him," added the agent.

King, fresh from his three-timer at Royal Ascot, added: "Delighted and he is for two long-standing supporters of the yard in Max McNeill and Niall Farrell."

Catalogued as Lot 108, the colt is out of the placed Mark Of Esteem (Darshaan) mare Open Book - who is the dam of four winners. 

Open Book herself is out of French Listed winner Sweetness Herself (Unfuwain), making her a half-sister to fellow Listed winner Jagger (Linamix). 

Overall 94 of the 116 lots offered were sold for a total of 2,680,000gns at a clearance rate of 81 per cent. At the 2019 renewal 121 of the 144 lots offered sold for 3,489,500gns. The average of 28,511gns was comparable to the 2019 figure of 28,839gns where as the and the median was down 28 per cent from 24,000gns to 17,250gns. 

Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony thanked everyone who had contributed towards today’s sale. 

“In the current climate we are all looking to accentuate the positives and I think we can reflect on solid if unspectacular trade at this year’s renewal of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up,” he said. 

“This is, however, a year where ’solid if unspectacular’ is a positive outcome and we would like to thank all those who have participated at today’s sale for their contribution. The buyers have worked incredibly hard and the Breeze Up consignors have had to endure uniquely difficult conditions in the run up to the 2020 Breeze Up sales season, but ultimately everyone can look back on sales which have largely exceeded expectations.

“It has been challenging staging events of this nature with the prevailing COVID related regulations still in place but, despite continued travel restrictions, today’s Guineas Breeze Up has seen demand from throughout the world including Australia, Bahrain, Dubai, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Kuwait, Qatar and Spain. 

“The international demand has been accompanied by spirited bidding from the domestic British and Irish buyers and has resulted in some notable pinhooking successes, while the overseas buyers have made use of every possible means at their disposal to participate in the sale, including extensive use of our new live internet bidding platform as well as telephone bidding. 

“It is a tribute to the resilience of the global bloodstock market that we continue to experience this level of international demand and we expect to see further widespread use of the live internet bidding platform at our two-day July Sale which commences tomorrow morning at 10.00am."