Sales
Sottsass date beckons as Demi O’Byrne lands 360,000gns session-topper
Few offerings draw prospective purchasers to the Park Paddocks ring quite like the draft of Juddmonte fillies and those lots again took centre stage during another solid session of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale on Wednesday. Khalid Abdullah’s operation offered 19 three-year-olds and a single juvenile and the draft duly brought an aggregate of 1,526,000gns... Read More
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Emotions run high as Coolmore land Palace Pier’s dam at 2,200,000gns
The close of one chapter invariably begets the start of another further up the racing and breeding chain, and that was certainly the case at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale on Tuesday as Highclere Stud bid farewell to Beach Frolic (Nayef), dam of champion miler Palace Pier (Kingman), as the hammer fell in favour of... Read More
Sam Haggas secures 410,000gns top lot at December Mare Sale opener
Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) hero Rekindling (High Chaparral) was led out of the Tattersalls ring unsold for 95,000gns (approx. AUD$181,500) as the December Mare Sale got underway on Monday. Trained by Joseph O’Brien to win the 2017 renewal of the Flemington showpiece, the Lloyd Williams-owned Rekindling has run just twice since, finishing last in... Read More
Sioux Nation colt repays inspired purchase by breeder Rebecca Matthews
A budding breeding syndicate received the sort of result any small player would barely dare to dream of when their Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy) colt sat on top of the standings at the final session of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale. Rebecca Matthews bought Autumn Snow ( Invincible Spirit), a once-raced maiden for Godolphin whose... Read More
Dubawi’s day again as Godolphin secure 700,000gns headline act
It took a long time for the fog to lift above Park Paddocks, seemingly an appropriate meteorological metaphor to describe racing’s wider uncertainties as the statistics rumbled along beneath what would usually be expected for the premier day of foal offerings. Step forward the potent combination of two sons of Dubawi (Dubai Millennium), one of... Read More
Warrior and Zoustar to the fore as Stars shines on day two at Tattersalls
First season shuttlers Saxon Warrior (Deep Impact) and Zoustar (Northern Meteor) proved popular with buyers during the second session of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale on Thursday, with both stallions returning impressive results. Coolmore resident Saxon Warrior had four colts sold for an average 100,750gns (approx. AUD$192,000), which included a 160,000gns (approx. AUD$304,000) Highclere Stud-consigned... Read More