Tattersalls Breeze Up Sales Schedule Confirmed

The 2021 breeze-up sales scheduled was announced by Tattersalls on Tuesday. The Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale (Apr. 12-14) and the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up and Horses in Training Sale (Apr. 29-30) will be conducted in Newmarket. Fairyhouse will host the Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale from May 20-21. The Tattersalls Ascot Breeze Up Sale will not be held next year. Nominations for all three sales are now open and inspections will begin in January.

“It will be a huge relief for all concerned to have the Tattersalls Breeze Up Sales return to their traditional dates after this year’s COVID-related disruption,” said Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony. “Obviously the possibility of further disruption in both Britain and Ireland still exists, but the recent news that we can expect limited crowds to be allowed back to racecourses in Britain in the very near future gives us all optimism as we look forward to next year.

“Between the three Tattersalls and Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up Sales we will be aiming to accommodate very similar numbers to the total catalogued in 2020, but without staging the Ascot fixture which this year took place alongside the Craven Breeze Up owing to the calendar changes. Rationalizing the number of Breeze Up sales should alleviate the demands placed upon all participants in this important but congested sector of the bloodstock market and we are confident that the 2021 Tattersalls portfolio of breeze-up sales will allow us to accommodate the requirements of consignors and buyers better than ever.”

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Kitten’s Joy Filly, Dialed In Colt Top Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale

The relocated Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale, transferred from its original venue and date at Fairyhouse in May to Park Paddocks, Newmarket in July due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions, saw sustained healthy and strong trade throughout the one-day session.

Overall, 125 horses were sold for an aggregate of €3,816,490 (US$4,448,506), an average price of €30,532 (US$35,588), an improvement of 9 percent compared with 2019, and a median price of €21,978 (US$25,617), an increase of 22 percent. The clearance rate was 85 percent.

The sale was conducted in sterling and four lots sold for six-figures with the Grove Stud consigned filly by Kitten's Joy fetching the top price of £220,000 (US$281,623) (Lot 74).

Her sale was a serious pinhook result for consignor Brendan Holland of Grove Stud – she cost just $27,000 as a yearling last summer.

“I bought her off my pals at Hunter Valley. She has done really well, she is a lovely, lovely filly, she has loads of quality. She was always very natural, I am delighted it is a great result,” said Holland.

The filly's sale was 2020's penultimate breeze up offering from Grove Stud and Holland added: “It is a great end to the season. I look forward to relaxing and watching Goodwood next week, but we have got yearlings in and we are starting to prep them.”

Another of the pinhook results of the day came late in the day – the colt by Dialed In, named Onesmoothoperator, purchased by Ger Kennedy of Sherbourne Lodge last autumn for $5,000, sold for £140,000 (US$179,217) today (Lot 244). He was bought by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock, standing on the stairs with trainer David Simcock.

He didn't do a fast time at all, but he is bred to be a [mile and a quarter] horse so you would not expect it – he is out of a Medaglia D'Oro mare from Stormy Atlantic's family,” said Brown. “He is a phenomenal mover.  he has a wonderful way of going. He has been bought for our Never Say Die re-sale syndicate. We will put him in a field for two weeks now and he will probably go to David's in September.”

“Ger found him late on in the U.S. at the Fasig October Sale,” said Yvonne Kennedy. “Buying yearlings in France and the U.S. has been good to us this year, and there has been a lot of interest in the horse this spring.”

Ger added: “The sale companies have all been brilliant with everything this year, and there is no place like an auction ring to find the true value of a horse.”

At the conclusion of the sale, Tattersalls Ireland Director Simon Kerins commented:

“Firstly, I would like to thank the vendors who have risen to the challenge of today's sale being relocated to Park Paddocks at the 11th hour. Like many in the bloodstock industry, the breeze up consignors have had to deal with difficult circumstances in the run up to the 2020 Breeze Up season, notably with today's sale original dated in May and they have met the change in date and venue with tremendous positivity and it was pleasing to see several vendors have excellent results.

“The bloodstock industry is truly resilient, and this was evident today by the strong demand for the choice lots. It was immensely satisfying to sell the second highest price ever for a two-year-old at the Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale with Grove Stud's Kitten's Joy filly selling for £220,000 (US$281,623) to David Simcock. There were considerable increases in the average of £27,284 (US$34,919) (up 9 percent from €27,992 (US$32,627) in 2019) and median of £20,000 (US$25,596) (up 22 percent from €18,000 (US$20,980) in 2019) considering that the numbers offered were down significantly on 2019, while the high clearance rate of 85 percent also needs to be acknowledged. We can now look forward to the Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale returning to Fairyhouse Racecourse and Tattersalls Ireland respectively in 2021.

The Tattersalls Ireland team look with positivity to hosting our Derby Sale and May Store Sale on Aug. 18-20, followed by the August NH Sale on Aug. 27-28 in Ireland.”

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Breeze-Up Season Concludes In Positive Fashion

NEWMARKET, UK–A turbulent season of disrupted breeze-up sales has seen many firsts. Goffs UK and Arqana teamed up as allies to stage a combined sale, while Tattersalls stepped in to the breach to host the final 2-year-old sale of the year for its sister company Tattersalls Ireland, which had only a year earlier combined forces with Goresbridge to host this particular auction at its Fairyhouse base. With quarantine rules still stricter in Ireland than in Britain, a late move was made to bring the Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze-up Sale to Newmarket, prompting yet another first: Tattersalls eschewing guineas at its UK home for the day to sell in modern-day sterling.

Whether in sterling or euros, the day’s top price of £220,000 was way in excess of last year’s €175,000 leader, and that was given for Grove Stud’s daughter of Kitten’s Joy (lot 74), who will remain in Newmarket to join David Simcock’s stable.

Brendan Holland of Grove Stud is no stranger to being atop the leader board in this sector. He has sold the top lot at the Arqana breeze-up for the last two years running, and the highlight of this sale was a filly bought at Keeneland September for $27,000, having originally passed through that same ring for just $4,000 as a weanling. Bred by a partnership including Kitten’s Joy’s owner Ken Ramsey, the April-born filly is a daughter of the four-time winner Desertstormelite (Chester House)

“I bought her from my pals at Hunter Valley,” said Holland. She has done really well, she is a lovely filly and has loads of quality. She is very natural, always.”

The pinhooker admitted to a degree of relief at the end of a delayed season. He added, “This is a great end to the season. Personally, we have done fine, and most consignors are relieved it is all over and everyone is still in the game, I’d say. I look forward to relaxing and watching Goodwood next week, but we have got yearlings in and we are starting to prep them.”

Jamie Spencer did the bidding on Simcock’s behalf and the trainer and jockey were also involved in the purchase of lot 17, a colt by Free Eagle (Ire), offered by Knockgraffon Stables and knocked down at £82,000.

“His breeze really caught the eye, the sire has been doing very well, and this is a horse for the future,” said Simcock of the third foal of the Exceed and Excel (Aus) mare Tristara (GB), whose first two offspring are both winners.

Relief All Round…

However strange and, at times, fraught this season has been, the most important thing for the breeze-up consignors and, in turn, the yearling sales to come, was to ensure that these sales took place in whatever format possible. The flexibility and patience shown by both sales houses and consignors should be applauded, and they have both been rewarded in the main with decent trade throughout the season–a relief all round when set against the backdrop of heavily reduced prize-money in Britain and Ireland and restricted access to the races for owners.

Last year’s Goresbridge Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-up delivered an impressive clearance rate of 91% and though that couldn’t quite be matched this year, the 85% recorded on Friday was still decent.

That was brought about through the sale of 125 juveniles from the 147 offered after a high number of withdrawals. This meant that the turnover of £3,473,000 (€3,816,490) was down by 24%, but from 54 fewer horses sold than last year. The figures for both average and median were up however: the average of £22,784 (€30,532) was an improvement of 9% and the median of £20,000 (€21,978) jumped by 22%.

“Firstly, I would like to thank the vendors who have risen to the challenge of today’s sale being relocated to Park Paddocks at the 11th hour!” said Tattersalls Ireland Director Simon Kerins. “Like many in the bloodstock industry, the breeze up consignors have had to deal with difficult circumstances in the run up to the 2020 Breeze Up season, notably with today’s sale original dated in May and they have met the change in date and venue with tremendous positivity and it was pleasing to see several vendors have excellent results.

“The bloodstock industry is truly resilient, and this was evident today by the strong demand for the choice lots. It was immensely satisfying to sell the second highest price ever for a two-year-old at the Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale with Grove Stud’s Kitten’s Joy filly selling for £220,000 to David Simcock. There were considerable increases in the average of £27,284 (+9% – €27,992 in 2019) and median of £20,000 (+22% – €18,000 in 2019) considering that the numbers offered were down significantly on 2019, while the high clearance rate of 85% also needs to be acknowledged. We can now look forward to the Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale returning to Fairyhouse Racecourse and Tattersalls Ireland respectively in 2021.”

Walsh Out In Front Again…

Former crack amateur rider Katie Walsh had a memorable day and her Greenhills Farm led the consignors’ table with four sold through the session for a total of £323,000. That included two of the top four lots of the day.

The more expensive of the duo was lot 26, by Night Of Thunder (Ire) and the most expensive colt of the sale at £160,000, who was bought by Mark McStay of Avenue Bloodstock. The first foal of the unraced Fastnet Rock (Aus) mare Kymera (Ire) hails from a family which includes the Arc winner Sagamix (Fr) as well as dual Group 1 winner Japan (GB), who contests Saturday’s G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S. He will now return to Ireland to join John Oxx’s stable on the Curragh.

“The sire speaks for himself, he is doing fantastic things,” McStay said. “This horse did an exceptional breeze, he vetted particularly well and was well presented by Katie. I am delighted to get a Night of Thunder, they are only going to get more expensive as the year goes on.”

The colt was bred by Micheal Ryan of Al Eile Stud and prepared for the breeze-up by Walsh, who said, “[The Ryans] decided they would go to the breeze ups, my father [Ted] trains for Michael Ryan, Micheal’s father. He breezed really well and it is a fantastic result: great for the breeder, and great for Greenhills Farm, as well. Hopefully, he will go on now and be lucky for Mark McStay and his owners.”

Walsh added of the sale’s move to Newmarket from Ireland, “Personally, I was delighted to see the sale moved to here. You need the British-based clients, and this is where they are. It is apparent when you go into the sale ring.”

She continued, “He is an April foal and the breeders wanted to give him every chance, as he is tall, scopey and rangey, and so the Goresbridge sale was always the plan. Goresbridge has been very lucky for me in the past and I was delighted to come here with him.

“Trade has been great–it has not been an ideal year for everyone–but trade has been really good and everyone’s getting them sold, that’s the main thing. We can all go back shopping in a couple of weeks now, and that is what it is all about, it has been a short turnaround for everyone.”

Walsh’s other six-figure sale came with lot 172, a Lope de Vega (Ire) colt from the family of G1 Prix Ganay winner Corre Caminos (Fr), who was one of three juveniles signed for by Peter Nolan, this one at £100,000.

“They are for the same client, who is new to me, and they will head to Ireland,” said Nolan.

The sale concluded with a number of wildcards following the main catalogued lots and leading the way in this section was lot 244, a colt by American-based Dialed In out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Sueno d’Oro and a half-brother to two winners. Already named Onesmoothoperator, his £140,000 tag was a huge lift from his yearling price of $5,000. The pinhooker in question was Ger Kennedy, who runs Sherbourne Lodge Stud with his wife Yvonne.

“Ger found him late on in the Fasig-Tipton Sale,” said Yvonne. “The sale companies have all been brilliant this season with everything this year. There is no place like an auction ring to find the true value of a horse.”

The colt was bought by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock for the Never Say Die Syndicate which had already signed up an American Pharoah colt at the Goffs UK Breeze-up Sale earlier this month. After a break he will eventually be joining David Simcock’s Trillium Place Stables in Newmarket.

“He didn’t do a fast time at all, but he is bred to be a 10-furlong horse so you wouldn’t expect it,” Brown said. “He is a phenomenal mover and has a wonderful way of going. We’ll put him in a field for two weeks now and he will probably go to David’s in September with a view to probably running on the all-weather through the autumn.”

Trainer John Ryan did the bidding for lot 94, the Dark Angel (Ire) colt from the well-credentialed family of top sprinter G Force (Ire) and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf winner Flotilla (Fr) (Mizzen Mast). Offered by Knockatrina House and sold at £85,000, the son of Lethal Lena (Ire) (Thousand Words {Ire}) will race for Flash Figs Racing.

The popular young stallion Night Of Thunder was to the fore again in the sale of lot 98, the sole offering from Johnny Hassett of The Bloodstock Connection, who also fetched £85,000.

The filly, who traces back to the Meon Valley foundation mare Reprocolor (GB) and is out of the Lord Shanakill mare Elevator Action (Ire), will join the newly relocated stable of William Knight after being bought by Jono Mills of Rabbah Bloodstock.

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Another New Home for Goresbridge Breeze Up

For the third time in as many years, Friday’s Goresbridge Breeze Up will have a different home. Originally developed and hosted by Martin Donohoe’s Kilkenny-based auction house, the sale merged with Tattersalls Ireland last year with proceedings transferring successfully to County Meath. Another switch, this one not of the strategic kind rather more out of necessity, sees the action move across the water to Tattersalls in Newmarket as the sale, originally slated for two months previously, bids to make up for lost time. Between additional wildcards and withdrawals around 150 horses breezed in Newmarket adjacent to the Rowley Mile Racecourse on Wednesday and while there was reportedly a smallish crowd in attendance it is hoped there will be enough interested parties on hand on Friday to allow for some decent trade to take place.

Surprisingly enough trade at the earlier rescheduled European breeze-up sales held up remarkably well given events throughout the world and while it is fanciful to expect Friday’s turnover to match last year’s figure of €5,010,500, Tattersalls Ireland’s Marketing Director Simon Kerins is hopeful another important metric, the clearance rate, will keep tabs on both previous editions and other breeze-up sales held this year.

“All things considered we are reasonably hopeful the sale will go well,” he said. “The Tattersalls team here in Newmarket have been brilliant, they put together a new stabling plan and they have been hugely helpful in accommodating the sale at very short notice. I think the transfer has gone relatively smoothly, obviously there have been challenges, especially for vendors who were working under the expectation that the breeze would be in Fairyhouse with the sale across the road from that in Tattersalls Ireland. That plan was changed at short notice but the breeze seemed to go well on Wednesday and given the amazingly resilient nature of this industry and the fact that trade has held up well at other breeze ups we are hopeful of a good solid sale.”

Last year’s top lot was a son of Lope De Vega (Ire) that Norman Williamson’s Oak Tree Farm sold to Blandford Bloodstock for €175,000 and subsequently named Haqeeqy (Ire). He has done well this summer for trainer John Gosden winning twice at Yarmouth and Newmarket. Meanwhile Parent’s Prayer (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), bought by BBA Ireland for €165,000 in 2019, got off the mark at the third time of asking in a maiden at Ayr for Archie Watson on July 14.

With so many withdrawals from the main catalogue it was a welcome boost for the sale to recently receive a number of well-bred wildcards to make up for some of the shortfall on offer and those late comers include an American Pharoah filly catalogued as lot 254, the last offering of the day. Offered by Tom Whitehead’s Powerstown Stud, the filly was purchased by her vendor as a yearling at Keeneland last year for $67,000. The daughter of stakes winner Innocent Love (Grand Slam) was actually knocked down to Richard Hughes and Paul Shanahan for £100,000 at the Goffs UK breeze-up at the beginning of the month but returns for another shot at it on Friday.

Another wildcard who didn’t find a buyer in Doncaster was Robson Aguiar’s son of Siyouni (Fr) who is offered as lot 251. The half-brother to two stakes performers was a €66,000 yearling purchase by Deuce Greathouse at Arqana last year, but was bought back by Aguiar at Goffs UK for £100,000.

Also among the wildcards, Willie Browne’s Mocklershill offers a couple of well-bred sorts in lot 227, a No Nay Never half-brother to the stakes winning filly We Are Ninety (Ire) (Thewayyouare) and lot 230, a filly by Night Of Thunder (Ire) that Browne bought at the Goffs February Sale this year for €30,000.

In the original catalogue an early lot that could make a splash is lot 28, a filly by Siyouni (Fr) from Brendan Holland’s Grove Stud. The bay is the first produce out of the Galileo (Ire) mare Surprisingly (Ire) who is a full-sister to G3 Balanchine S. runner up Butterscotch (Ire) and a half-sister to the speedy Coach House (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}). However, what doesn’t appear in the catalogue, is the fact that Surprisingly is also a full-sister to Tiger Moth (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who broke his maiden last month at Leopardstown before running second to Santiago (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) in the G1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby.

The only remaining juvenile in the sale by leading stallion Kingman (GB) is lot 48, a colt out of the stakes winning mare Mary Boleyn (Ire) (King’s Best). Although a relatively cheap yearling purchase at €20,000 by Egmont Stud’s Mark Flannery, the same vendor topped this sale two years ago with a Bated Breath (GB) colt that went from a 5,000gns yearling to a €210,000 breezer, so Flannery certainly knows how to prepare one for this sale. Egmont also offers a well-bred Gleneagles (Ire) filly (lot 153) out of a half-sister to Group 1 winners Excelebration (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) and Lancaster Bomber (War Front).

Johnny Collins is another master of his trade and he offers an interesting 2-year-old as lot 75. The colt is a son of US-based first-season sire Mshawish (Medaglia d’Oro), who Collins also pinhooked in Keeneland, before the horse went on to win twice at Grade I level in America for Al Shaqab Racing. This current pinhook cost Collins $60,000 at Keeneland last year and is out of the stakes producing Invincible Spirit (Ire) mare Refreshing (GB) from the brilliant family of Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy).

Ambrose O’Mullane and Mary Reynolds of Ardglas Stables have enjoyed some good results at this sale in its former guise and they offer a nicely bred filly on Friday as lot 139. The daughter of Footstepsinthesand (GB) is the second produce out of Miss Brazil (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), whose first foal Elaire Noire (Ire), a full-brother to this filly, was a stakes winner in Italy last year and also finished second in the G2 Premio Gran Criterium.

Among those who that caught the eye when being put through their paces on Wednesday was lot 87 from Longways Stables, a colt by Awtaad (Ire) who is a half-brother to four winners including the speedy Miss Elizabeth (Ire) (Intense Focus). She was a dual winner and was stakes placed for trainer Eddie Lynam.

Another reported to have clocked a fast time was lot 155 from Eddie Ahern Bloodstock. This filly by Zoffany (Ire), the sire of a recent stakes winning 2-year-old filly in Minaun (Ire), is out of the 2-year-old winner Limetree Lady (GB) (Selkirk) and whose pedigree traces back to the mighty Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}).

The sale will commence at 10:30 a.m. and there will be live internet bidding with potential purchasers required to register at the following link.

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