Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp winner The Platinum Queen has been added as a wildcard entry to the Tattersalls December Mares Sale and will be offered as lot 1924B on Tuesday, Nov. 29. She is the first Group 1 winning filly to be offered as a two-year-old at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale this century.
The Platinum Queen no stranger to rewriting the record books, becoming the first 2-year-old to win the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp since the great SIGY in 1978 with a tremendously game effort for trainer Richard Fahey and owners Middleham Park Racing who purchased her at the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale from Tally-Ho Stud.
An impressive winner on debut, The Platinum Queen blitzed the field by four lengths in the Alice Keppel Fillies' Conditions Stakes at Glorious Goodwood to break the juvenile course record in a time faster than the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes held earlier on the card. She then put up an excellent performance in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes on her next start when second to Highfield Princess, a three-time Group 1 winner this year and Cartier Champion Sprinter, with Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint runner up Emraaty Ana in third. A valiant second by a short head on soft ground in the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes followed before her tour de force in the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye, a race won in recent years by outstanding sprinters Bataash and Marsha.
Commenting on The Platinum Queen, Tom Palin of Middleham Park Racing said: “The Platinum Queen's breeze at the Rowley Mile back in April was unbelievably impressive and we were determined to buy her. She has been an absolute superstar for Middleham Park Racing ever since, taking us everywhere including Royal Ascot, Glorious Goodwood, the Ebor Meeting at York and ultimately to Group 1 glory in the Abbaye on Arc day at Longchamp where she achieved something which has not been done in more than 40 years. The Platinum Queen really is a special filly, a credit to Richard Fahey and the whole team at Musley Bank, and she has the physical scope to develop into an equally outstanding three year old.”
Bred by Tally-Ho Stud, The Platinum Queen is a graduate of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale and is out of the Kodiac mare Thrilled, who herself sold for 460,000 guineas at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. A half-sister to high class two-year-old The Gold Cheongsam, Thrilled is out of the Listed runner up Fuerta Ventura from the excellent Littleton Stud family of Arabian Queen and Barshiba.
The Platinum Queen is from the second crop of Tally-Ho Stud's European Champion first season sire Cotai Glory, a Group 3 winner as a 2-year-old and top class Group winning older sprinter who was beaten only a neck when runner up in the Group 1 King's Stand Stakes at four and placed in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at five. He is by brilliant Australian sprinter and Champion sire Exceed And Excel, a proven Group 1 broodmare sire in both hemispheres.
The Tattersalls December Mares Sale will take place from Monday, Nov. 28, to Thursday, Dec. 1, with the new Sceptre Sessions held on Monday, Nov. 28, and Tuesday, Nov. 29. The catalogue for the Tattersalls December Mares Sale can be viewed online at www.tattersalls.com and is available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives.
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