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November Sale Catalogue Unveiled By Tattersalls Ascot

The Tattersalls Ascot November Sale catalogue, featuring 104 lots on the Flat and over jumps, is now online. Slated for Nov. 3, the sale comprises 35 fillies and mares in/out of training, 52 colts and geldings in/out of training, 11 stores, five yearlings and one point-to-pointer. Trainers under both codes have supported the sale, including Cullentra House Stables, Clarehaven Stables, East Everleigh Stables, Godolphin, Jane Chapple-Hyam, Lodge Hill Stables, Middleham Park Racing, Park House Stables, Urloxhey Farm, and WH Bloodstock. Supplementary lots will be accepted until Friday, Oct. 28.

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Record Turnover Reached at Doncaster Spring HIT/PTP Sale

Demand for horses-in-training and point-to-pointers was strong at Goffs UK's Doncaster complex on Wednesday, which reached record turnover of £5,085,700 during the first session. Of the 180 lots through the ring, 162 sold for a 90% clearance rate. The average was £31,393 (-1.1%) just down on 2021 and the median was marginally lower at 4% (£22,000).

Leading the way among the pointers and bumper horses that made up the majority of the first session was Porthill (Ire) (Flemensfirth), who brought £250,000 from the buying duo of H. Kirk and Willie Mullins. Consigned by Colin McKeever's Loughanmore Farms, the 4-year-old gelding (lot 420) placed second on debut and is from the family of Grade 1 winner Relegate (Ire) (Flemensfirth).

Of the other six lots to make six figures, the placed Passing Well (Fr) (Coastal Path {GB}) (lot 465) was next at £185,000. From the Leighmoney Stables draft, the gelding caught the eye of Tom Malone and Jamie Snowden.

Rounding out the top three was lot 431, Myretown (Ire) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}). Another consigned by Leighmoney Stables, the winning point-to-pointer and half-brother to Grade 3-placed hurdler A Fine Young Man (Ire) (Snurge) was purchased for £135,000 by Tom Malone and Lucinda Russell.

The second and final day of the Doncaster Spring HIT/PTP Sale will begin at 10 a.m. and feature the Million In Mind Dispersal.

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Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up and HIT Catalogues Released

The catalogues for the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up and Horses-in-Training Sale were released on Wednesday. There are currently 206 2-year-olds and 120 horses-in-training ready to go under the hammer on Apr. 28. Beginning at 9 a.m. local time on Apr. 26, the breezes will take place over Newmarket's Rowley Mile Racecourse. They will be shown live on the Tattersalls website and on the Tattersalls Facebook page.

Graduates of the sale won group races in Britain, France, Germany and the U.S. in 2021, led by top-level winners Trueshan (Fr) (Planteur {Ire}) and Shantisara (Ire) (Coulsty {Ire}). There have been 46 group or listed performers since 2017, with a quintet at that level already from last year's edition led by Hierarchy (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}), who was second by a head in the G2 Mill Reef S.

There are 46 stallions with juveniles catalogued that have already sired Classic or Group/Grade 1 winners, Including Acclamation (GB), Australia (GB), Exceed and Excel (Aus), Iffraaj (GB), Invincible Spirit (Ire), Kodiac (GB), Make Believe (GB), Mehmas (Ire), New Bay (GB), Night of Thunder (Ire), No Nay Never, Oasis Dream (GB), Sea the Moon (Ger), Showcasing (GB), Starspangledbanner (Aus), Wootton Bassett (GB), Zoffany (Ire) and Zoustar (Aus). Also represented in the catalogue are the international sires Galiway (GB) and Zelzal (Fr) from France, and American stallions Astern (Aus), Caravaggio, First Samurai, Stormy Atlantic and triple German Champion Sire Soldier Hollow (GB).

A total of 32 lots are by second-season sires, and some of those sires are Ardad (Ire), Churchill (Ire), Cotai Glory (GB), Galileo Gold (GB), Profitable (Ire), Time Test (GB) and Zarak (Fr).

First-season sires also have a few juveniles in the sale, among them the offspring of Group 1 winners Cracksman (GB), Expert Eye (GB), Harry Angel (Ire), Havana Grey (Ire), Hawkbill, Lightning Spear (GB), Roaring Lion, Saxon Warrior (Jpn), U S Navy Flag, and Sioux Nation, as well as American freshman sires Accelerate and Bolt d'Oro.

Eighteen fillies are registered for the Great British Bonus Scheme and 14 2-year-olds qualified for French Owners' Premiums. Three juveniles are entered in the 2022 Swedish Derby and Oaks Series and another trio are entered in the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction S., with one lot additionally entered in the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction S.

There is also a high-quality horses-in-training portion, with some lots of note including: lot 96, the winning My Little Tip (Ire) (Belardo {Ire}), who is rated 95 from George Boughey's Saffron House Stables; Kaboo (More Than Ready) (lot 108), who is listed placed and rated 101 from Karl Burke's Spigot Lodge Stables; the 96-rated John The Baptist (Ire) (Caravaggio) (lot 91) from the Castlebridge Consignment; and five from the Juddmonte, among them the once-raced Fraction (GB) (War Front) (lot 82) out of Group 1 winner Proportional (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}); and the unraced colts Winterscape (GB) (Frankel {GB}) (lot 85), who is a full-brother to G1 Nassau S. heroine Winsili (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and lot 84, Polemon (GB) (Frankel {GB}), a brother to the Group 1-placed Weekender (GB) (Frankel {GB}).

Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said, “The Guineas Breeze Up enjoyed yet another outstanding year on the racecourse led by the champion stayer Trueshan and USA Grade I winner Shantisara, both of whom illustrate the quality, diversity and value for money that buyers have come to expect from the sale. This year's Guineas Breeze Up has been very well-supported by consignors and we are confident the selection of 2-year-olds will appeal to domestic and international buyers in all sectors of the market, alongside the second largest horses in training section in the sale's history.”

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Olympic Sport Loses Riding As Facet Of Competition

Horseback riding will be removed from the modern pentathlon discipline at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, according to ESPN. A suitable replacement for the jumping portion of the sport is being investigated by the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM). Modern pentathlon competition includes cross-country running, fencing, pistol shooting, show jumping and swimming.

The removal of riding from pentathlon was spurred by widespread criticism of equine welfare during the 2021 Tokyo Games, when German coach Kim Raisner hit competitor Annika Schleu's horse when it refused to jump. Though the UIPM had committed to reviewing and protecting horseback riding as a component of pentathlon, a meeting of the UIPM Innovation Commission after the event resulted in recommendations to remove riding from the competition.

Raisner was disqualified from coaching the men's event at Tokyo.