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Colt bound for Hong Kong after being bought by SackvilleDonald for 240,000gns

The Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale continued in Newmarket on Wednesday, with a son of Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) lighting up the sale ring when selling for 240,000gns. The clearance rate remained a feature of the sale, finishing on 88 per cent whilst the turnover of 10,408,500 guineas was the fourth highest for the sale since 2008. Overall 121 lots sold at an average of 86,021gns and median of 68,000gns. The figures were up from the 2020 renewal where 70 lots sold for 6,649,500gns at an average of 94,993ngs and median of 61,000gns. 

SackvilleDonald's Alastair Donald secured the attractive colt by first-season sire Caravaggio for 240,000gns after seeing off the efforts of Irish trainer Michael O'Callaghan. Out of Bright Sapphire (Galileo), the colt is a half-brother to the Group-placed colt Wall Of Fire (Canford Cliffs). He was catalogued as Lot 143. 

"He is for a new Hong Kong client, he will go out to Hong Kong at the end of the season," revealed Donald. "He will be pre-trained in England, he is a lovely big horse and he has a nice pedigree. He breezed well for a big horse and looks the type to do well in Hong Kong." 

Donald added: "They don't race until they are three-year-olds, so don't want a 'here and now' horse. The sire looks like he has got a very nice two-year-old already and this is the first I have bought by the sire, I did like the yearlings - they are particularly good walkers, and this horse's movement is very good." 

The colt was sold by Yeomanstown Stud, who bought the colt at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale for 155,000gns. Yeomanstown Stud's David O'Callaghan commented;  "He is a beautiful colt, he breezed really well and has a great attitude. We're very pleased, he was always a lovely horse and he hasn't missed a day."