Sales

Waterhouse and McKeever buy two at Goffs London Sale

Australian Hall Of Fame trainer Gai Waterhouse was back in London on Monday and made two signings in conjunction with agent Johnny McKeever, parting with £300,000 (approx. AU$560,435) to land Cuban Dawn (Teofilo), who was also signed for by Mt Hallowell Stud, and £260,000 (approx. AU$485,710) for New Endeavour (New Bay). The pair previously ran... Read More

Plenty to cheer about ahead of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling and Broodmare Sale

New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 National Weanling and Broodmare Sale takes place tomorrow, featuring 170 weanlings (after withdrawals). It will be a full day of trade and the weanling numbers alone represent an increase of 60 lots compared with the 2022 sale which turned out to be quite buoyant. Broodmares, which haven’t been part of this... Read More

Alcohol Free to join Waterhouse/Bott stable after record sale

Alcohol Free (No Nay Never) will be trained in Australia by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott after her dramatic 5.4 million guineas (approx. AU$10.1 million) purchase for BBA Ireland and a Yulong Investments-led partnership at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale on Tuesday evening.  She will become the most expensive horse sold at auction to race... Read More

BBA Ireland outgun Coolmore for Alcohol Free

Four-time Group 1-winning mare Alcohol Free (No Nay Never) stole the headlines at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale yesterday when selling for 5.4 million guineas (approx. AU$9,658,170) the second-most expensive thoroughbred ever sold at auction in Europe.  The winning bid was landed by BBA’s Michael Donohue, sitting next to Mr Yuesheng Zhang, with Alcohol Free... Read More

Sherrin’s Frankel appeal sees breeder strike at Tattersalls

Queensland-based breeder Michael Sherrin’s love for Britain’s unparalleled champion racehorse and sire Frankel (Galileo) has seen the Sheralee Estate supremo travel halfway around the globe to source mares with which to breed to the Juddmonte stallion. Motor car racing businessman Sherrin, 72, and agent Jim Clarke first scoured the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale catalogue... Read More

Cambridge Stud aiming high with Tattersalls purchase

Brendan and Jo Lindsay’s Cambridge Stud went to 100,000gns (approx. AU$188,800) with Group race success in mind for three-year-old filly Terra Mitica (Ulysses), a daughter of Cheveley Park stallion Ulysses (Galileo), as the 2022 December Mares Sale went through the gears at Tattersalls yesterday. Catalogued as Lot 1512, the filly was bought in conjunction with... Read More