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Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale concluded with colts by leading first season sires Non Nay never and Kingman and the established Dark Angel leading the way.
The sale turnover was a record whilst the average and median were both on a par with last year’s wide-margin record-breaking sale.
The clearance rate came in at an impressive 86% and a record breaking forty-five lots sold for 200,000 guineas or more.Ballyphilip Stud sold their Non Nay Never colt for 450,000 guineas on the third and final day.
The colt is out of the Fayruz mare Jacquelin Jag, a half-sister to the G1 winner Fayr Jag, and was bought by agent Alex Elliott on behalf of football agent and racehorse owner Kia Joorabchian.It was a superb pinhook result for Ballyphilip Stud as the colt was bought as a foal for 40,000 euros.
Whatton Manor Stud’s Dark Angel colt out of the Oasis Dream mare Minwah was knocked down to SackvilleDonald’s Alastair Donald for 420,000 guineas.Whatton Manor had purchased Minwah for just 46,000 guineas at the 2014 Tattersalls December Mare Sale.
Her first foal Blyton, by Kodiac, has won three races as a juvenile including York last week.Bloodstock agent Stephen Hillen went to 400,000 guineas to secure the Kingman colt out of the Galileo mare Legende Bleue on behalf of French trainer Henri-Francois Devin.
The catalogue for the Tattersalls December Foal Sale will number 1175 lots.The sale take place from November 28 to December 1.
Europe’s premier foal sale boasts 133 foals by the current top 10 active British and Irish sires and well over 200 by the current top 20.The sires include Acclamation, Camelot, Dark Angel, Dubawi, Frankel, Galileo, Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Lope De vega, Pivotal and Sea The Stars.
The catalogue also features own and half brothers and sisters to almost 170 Group and Listed winners.There are 30 first crop sires represented.
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2018 October Yearling Sale Book 2 |
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