Lot 66, a Washington DC (Ire) half-sister to Eddie's Boy from Bearstone Stud is a lot of note. Some of the other highlights include a Profitable (Ire) half-brother to G2 Shannon S. winner Yonkers (Medaglia d'Oro) (lot 125) from Lynn Lodge Stud; Bearstone will offer a Mayson (GB) half-brother to group winner and G1 Commonwealth Cup S. third Ventura Rebel (GB) (Pastoral Pursuits {GB}) as lot 218; lot 73, a Profitable (Ire) half-sister to G1 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3 hero Salute The Soldier (Ger) (Sepoy {Aus}) is part of The National Stud draft; and Dark Angel's lot 49, is a half-sister to group winners Amade (Ire) (Casamento {Ire}) and Nakuti (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) from Castledillon Stud.

All yearlings catalogued are eligible for the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction S., as well as the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction S., held five weeks later. In addition, 88 fillies are registered for the Great British Bonus Scheme and are eligible to win up to £20,000 in bonus prize-money per qualifying race.

Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said, “It is a fitting tribute to the sale's ethos of precocious, well conformed yearlings that the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale and its predecessor the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale have produced Royal Ascot 2-year-old winners for two consecutive years. The strength of last year's sale and the outstanding season enjoyed by its graduates to date has resulted in a catalogue of real quality and depth. We are also looking forward to the inaugural £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction S. which provides an additional incentive to buyers, alongside the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale's burgeoning reputation as a consistent source of top-class juvenile talent.”

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Originally offered by Bearstone Stud at the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, the February foal brought 12,000gns from Highflyer Bloodstock and Harry Dunlop. He was re-offered by Mark Grant Racing at the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale, bringing £47,000 on a bid from Blandford Bloodstock in April.

A son of the listed winner Russian Punch, he is the fourth foal from his dam. Her latest offspring is a yearling colt by Ulysses (Ire), while her 2022 foal by Twilight Son (GB) died. This is the extended family of the G1 Phoenix S. runner-up Run to Jenny (Ire) (Runnett {GB}).

5th-York, £15,000, Alw, 5-21, 2yo, 6fT, 1:13.89, g/s.
BRADSELL (GB) c, 2, Tasleet {GB}
1st Dam: Russian Punch {GB} {SW-Eng}, by Archipenko
2nd Dam: Punch Drunk (GB), by Beat Hollow (GB)
3rd Dam: Bebe de Cham (GB), by Tragic Role
Sales history: 12,000gns Ylg '21 TATSOM; £47,000 2yo '22 GOFTY. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $10,118. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO.
O-Primavera; B-Mrs D. O'Brien (GB); T-A Watson. *1ST-TIME STARTER.

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That was literally the case, of course, when the embryonic version first staged at Ascot only in 2017 was last year transferred to Park Paddocks as an expedient of the pandemic. But it's an ill wind that blows no good, and the market adapted so healthily to its sanctuary that it was decided to keep it there.

Rebranded as the Somerville Yearling Sale, and deriving many logistical and psychological benefits from its setting, the hosts feel that the auction cannot be fairly measured against its nascent years. But with even those sales having produced some highly accomplished graduates, there was no mistaking the momentum behind this catalogue. Sure enough, trade soared along with the mercury. If the Indian summer made for exceptionally thirsty work for consignors and their staff, then for many the dividends made all their perspiration worthwhile.

Whatever asterisks may be required in making comparisons, turnover of 4,952,000gns outright doubled 2,458,418gns last year. Of a slightly larger offering into the ring, 270 up from 250, as few as 38 were unsold (47 last year), yielding an average of 21,345gns. That is 76% up on 12,110gns last year. The 16,250gns median was even stronger, up 93% on 8,400gns.

Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony was justly elated.

“We are absolutely delighted with today's inaugural Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale,” he said. “We had no choice but to relocate last year's Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale and it proved a great success—which made the decision to rebrand and permanently relocate the fixture a relatively straightforward one. Sale turnover of double last year's wide-margin record level, as well as huge rises in average and median, fully vindicate the decision and suggest that the Somerville Yearling Sale can legitimately be regarded as Europe's most progressive yearling sale.

“There has been a genuinely vibrant atmosphere around Park Paddocks for the past few days and, just as with last week's Tattersalls August Sale, it has been a pleasure to have been able to conduct the Somerville Yearling Sale without the need for any restrictions. We have welcomed buyers from throughout Europe and further afield, but perhaps the most encouraging feature of today's sale has been the prolific number of British trainers who have been active. They have all contributed to a sale which has produced more lots sold for 50,000 guineas or above than the previous four Ascot Yearling Sales combined, a record top price of 120,000 guineas and a clearance rate well over 80%.

“We should also pay tribute to the consignors, both British and Irish, who have allowed us to take this sale to a new level. They have supported the sale with quality stock and their confidence in the sale and the venue has been rewarded. The inaugural Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale has been energetically and widely promoted, not least with the introduction of the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction S., and the enthusiastic response from buyers is a positive indicator as we look forward to the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale and Books 1 to 4 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.”

Sale Topper's Topsy-Turvy Tale

Bloodstock sales depend on industrial levels of optimism, and we all know that few of the dreams embraced here will ever be realized quite as hoped. At the same time, however, the unpredictability of the business can cut both ways—and the 120,000gns given for a son of Twilight Son (GB) (lot 206) represented a far happier ending than was once envisaged for his dam; or than seemed remotely possible, in a terrifying episode coming up here, for the colt himself.

For the two yearlings comprising the Petches Farm consignment were extremely fortunate to escape unscathed from a crash that required them to be transferred to another lorry on the roadside. Stud manager Ollie Costello, who had been following a few minutes behind, explained, “The lorry was run off the road: it is a write-off. I rang Keith Harte, whose farm is only five minutes away. He jumped into his own lorry and came out, he was with us really quickly, and both horses behaved impeccably. Thank God everyone involved, and the horses, were all okay. And today's result is fantastic, I am so pleased for all the team.”

But the colt would not have been foaled at all, had his dam not made a narrow escape of her own. In her racing career, Baileys Jubilee (GB) (Bahamian Bounty {GB}) was one of those who really did achieve the kind of things buyers aspire to. Though only a £19,000 yearling, she won a listed race in France and was placed in races as prestigious as the G1 Cheveley Park S. and the G2 Lowther S.

But within weeks of coming out of training she was stricken by laminitis. “It was touch and go for a while,” recalled Simon Venner, sales director of Baileys Horse Feeds and son of its managing director Paul. “So we always felt she was slightly on borrowed time.”

Yet she defied the odds, and is now one of few among their broodmare band to be kept on home soil as opposed to farming French premiums at the Haras de Trois Chapelles. Her Twilight Son (GB) colt proved a fine advertisement for the house nutrition in forcing Adam Driver of the Global Equine Group to go far higher than he had anticipated.

“I was hoping we might get him for around 75,000gns,” admitted Driver, who was acting for Raed El Youssef. “But there you go. He was the only one on my shortlist! We will get him back to Jo Fenton's and let her work her magic, break him in and get him backed. He's a strong, solid horse, so we'll see what he shapes up into.”

Venner, of course, was conversely delighted by the price. “Obviously we were very hopeful,” he said. “We knew we were bringing a nice individual to the sale and all the right people were on him. But we couldn't expect quite that level. He's been flat out since he got here. I think he owned this runway [in the Further Yard] and caught quite a few eyes.”

As for Baileys Freedom, now 11, she was given a break in the last cycle and is now in foal to Oasis Dream (GB).

Aguiar Jumps to it

In an environment like this, all hot sunshine and precocious yearlings, it was pleasant to be reminded of the sheer diversity of our business. For the nursery that produced an Ardad filly (lot 128) to realize 85,000gns from Robson Aguiar was Cobhall Court Stud, where the late Robin Knipe bred Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Master Oats (GB) (Oats {GB}) and, more recently, another warmer of National Hunt hearts in Thistlecrack (GB) (Kayf Tara {GB}).

Over the years Cobhall Court was also home to a series of important jumps stallions, but nowadays Knipe's widow Scarlett operates at the opposite end of the spectrum.

“I sell foals, mainly, and I'll be going home now to get 11 ready for December,” she said. “But we're starting to keep the fillies now, as you just can't sell them [as weanlings].”

This was a case in point, as a daughter of Sparkling Eyes (GB) (Lujain), acquired here in 2008 for 16,500 gns carrying her first foal. That turned out to be eight-time winner Pea Shooter (GB) (Piccolo {GB}).

“The mare's getting older now but she had a nice colt foal by Tasleet (GB) and she's in foal to Havana Grey (GB),” reported the happy breeder. “I just go for something I think good-looking and hope they come out straight and correct: if they do that, you're halfway there, aren't you?”

Nonetheless this dividend was rather more than she had expected. “I'm slightly gobsmacked,” she admitted. “But she's never really in her box here, and she's been good as gold, a joy to deal with.”

Aguiar, bidding online and presumably somewhere in the shade, also gave 75,000gns for a Tasleet (GB) filly presented as lot 100 by Trickledown Stud on behalf of Richard Tucker's Nelson Farm in Devon.

As this Valentine's Day delivery entered the ring, auctioneer Ollie Fowlston commanded attention for “an out-and-out Queen Mary filly.”

“Ollie said that, and we all like to think our fillies might be,” reflected Paul Thorman of Trickledown. “But she really could be, you know.”

Thorman disclaimed all credit for the filly. “We only met her here,” he said. “And she consigned herself. Anybody could consign a filly like this. You know, sometimes they can be a bit trappy: they don't want to do this, they don't want to do that. But she just had everything you need. I'd say the best thing of all about her is her head: she had over 100 views and she just loved it, being walked up and down in a heatwave. Great temperament, physically hard to fault, and of course she had a page as well.”

Her half-brother A Momentofmadness (GB) (Elnadim) was a prolific, group-paced sprinter, and the second dam Applaud (Rahy) won the G3 Cherry Hinton S. But Thorman thought that the contribution of her rookie sire, the son of Showcasing (GB) standing at Nunnery Stud for just £5,000, should not be underestimated.

“They tell me that by the end of October he'll be the one we're all talking about,” he said. “There are supposed to be some very nice ones around.”

“She stood out for me,” said Aguiar. “She has a good walk, she's strong, she looks sharp–like a 2-year-old. Like a Royal Ascot filly!”

Buyers Snapping Up Breeze-Up Prospects

In a catalogue like this, it was no surprise to see Aguiar's breeze-up rivals active throughout the day, though prices were hardly leaving them a comfortable margin for error. It spoke well for the Zoustar (Aus) filly offered as lot 236 by Galloway Stud, then, that he was knocked down to one as shrewd as Jim McCartan at 70,000gns. The docket was signed in the name of MC Bloodstock.

Sadly this is the final foal of Cordial (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who had been a low-key Juddmonte cull as a 3-year-old in 2014. “Unfortunately the mare died last year,” revealed Stuart Thom of Galloway Stud. “But the team at home have done a fantastic job and the filly never put a foot wrong. And we had some perfect timing on the updates.”

Those included a graded stakes placing at Kentucky Downs for the dam's half-brother Monarchs Glen (GB) (Frankel {GB}) on the eve of the sale, while her Helmet (Aus) filly Libertine Belle (GB) won for a third time the same day. Not that it's a family that needs a great deal of help, second dam Mirabilis (Lear Fan) being a Group 1-placed half-sister to that classy Juddmonte filly Nebraska Tornado (Storm Cat).

“She's been walked off her feet,” Thom said. “And I've done a few steps myself! But Tattersalls have done a marvellous job, the quality of the catalogue is fantastic. Some people haven't quite picked up on Zoustar yet, but they will next year!”

That, of course, is when the Australian star's first Northern Hemisphere crop will start to exhibit their wares on the racetrack.

Pinhook Catches Tylicki's Eye

One of the bigger pay-outs of the day had to be placed in the context of its biggest stake, the Expert Eye colt consigned by Kilminfoyle House Stud as lot 173 having been the sale's top foal pinhook when sold by Dukes Stud for 41,000gns to JC Bloodstock here last December. The wager paid off here when Freddy Tylicki signed an 80,000gns docket.

“I loved him, I thought he was the pick of the sale,” Tylicki said. “I am very taken with how well Expert Eye is throwing them. This is for a client, no trainer is planned yet, we'll have to have a chat and make plans but he'll stay in Britain I'm sure. We were very keen on this lad, so we're delighted to have got him. He has a lovely physique, a great walk, plenty of presence, very good eye to him. He ticked a lot of the boxes—probably all of them!”

Certainly a tick could be applied to a page that might have held up well enough here next month: the dam, who has already produced a graded stakes winner in the U.S., is a Dalakhani (Ire) half-sister to G1 Coronation S. winner Balisada (GB) (Kris), their mother in turn of a half-sister to Inchmurrin (GB) (Lomond), runner-up in the same race.

That might only get you so far, of course, with a colt. But a few minutes later there was a case for saying that an Awtaad (Ire) filly (lot 188) from Tally-Ho might eventually justify the 65,000gns paid by Jamie Piggott and Nigel Tinkler simply as a breeding prospect. For her dam, already a black-type producer, is a half-sister to Independence (GB) (Selkirk), the dual Group-winning dam of G1 Eclipse winner Mount Nelson (GB) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}); while the next dam is a half-sister to Derby winner Reference Point (GB) (Mill Reef).

The same partnership bought another Awtaad colt for 50,000gns in Book II here a couple of years ago, now the 99-rated four-time winner Isla Kai (Ire). “So this one was a no-brainer,” Piggott said. “She's a big, strong, beautiful filly.”

October Quality a Month Early

Another fine example of the maturing quality of this auction was the 70,000gns paid for lot 105, a Kodiac (GB) filly from Knockatrina House. She, too, has clear potential in terms of residual value as a half-sister to Group 3 winner Laraaib (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) out of a stakes-winning half-sister to several black-type producers, including the dams of Gutaifan (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), Maraahel (Ire) (Alzao) and Ventura Storm (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}). As such, she could easily have been reserved for next month.

“She was accepted for Book II,” disclosed Canice Farrell of Knockatrina. “But I thought she might get lost in it. Don't get me wrong, she's a phenomenal filly. We've had a lot of good horses over the years, three or four Group 1 winners—and this is a Royal Ascot filly. But I knew she'd be in the top 10% here, and she's had 100-plus shows. She has a great mind, and a lovely action.”

While Farrell nodded towards Brendan Cooney as he led the filly back to the Wall Boxes, describing him as “the one who has really done all the work”, there's no doubting his own, innate horsemanship. He bred G1 Golden Jubilee S. winner Fayr Jag (Ire) (Fayruz {GB}); pinhooked the prolific miler Paco Boy (Ire) (Desert Style {Ire}); and was plainly raised to have the same kind of eye as that so respected in the American industry in his sister, Marette.

Remarkably, given the proliferation of black type on the page meanwhile, Farrell was able to pick up this filly's dam Sahool (GB) (Unfuwain) for just 4,500gns here in December 2016, just a few months before Laraaib's emergence as a juvenile. Having retained another of her daughters, herself in foal to Kodiac, Farrell will be hoping that this one excels for Kevin Ryan.

The same trainer, again accompanied by Roger Marley, had earlier recruited lot 49, a Cotai Glory (GB) half-brother to Weatherbys Super Sprint winner Bettys Hope (GB) (Anjaal {GB}), for 47,000gns. Sadly, Llety Farms this spring lost their dam Miss Poppy (GB) (Averti {Ire}), a half-sister to the champion sprinter Kyllachy (GB) (Pivotal {GB}).

“There's plenty of speed in the family,” said Marley. “And we all like speed! Kevin has had a good one by the sire.”

That would be Atomic Force (Ire), winner of the G2 Prix Robert Papin after being found by Ryan and Stephen Hillen for just €22,000 at Goffs last September.

Night of Thunder Lights up the Evening

The embers of a sweltering day, in and out of the ring, were stoked up in the cool of the evening by the appearance late in proceedings of a Night Of Thunder colt consigned as lot 272 by Whatton Manor Stud.

Out of the wryly-named Fleabiscuit (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}), a debut winner at two before managing only one more start, he brought 78,000gns from Kevin Ross after some determined breeze-up competition.

“He's by a proper sire,” the agent said. “And a good, solid colt. The mare must have had a lot of ability, for a High Chaparral to win as a 2-year-old, and we just liked the individual.”

Ross was acting on behalf of Paul and Clare Rooney, as had been the case earlier when he gave 68,000gns for lot 247, a Dandy Man (Ire) filly consigned by Cooneen Stud. The big spur there was the blossoming of half-sister Corazon (Ire) (Markaz {Ire}), unraced on publication of the catalogue but winner of the G3 Prix d'Arenberg just five days previously for George Boughey.

“Obviously that was a nice update,” Ross said. “But we thought she was a nice, racy filly in her own right.”

St Lawrence Feels the Heat

“Very hot!” said Oliver St Lawrence, when asked about how he was finding the afternoon. And he was referring to the trade, not the weather, having been underbidder to Robson Aguiar on both the top prices paid to that point, when he finally landed a Kessaar (Ire) colt from Tally-Ho Stud for 62,000gns.

The agent admitted that he hadn't particularly had the rookie stallion in the front of his mind, coming to Doncaster and then here, but had been quite taken with what he had seen of his output so far.

Though the family tapers through the studs of Aga Khan and Marcel Boussac, it has recently been concentrating on outright speed and that wouldn't seem likely to change with lot 138, result of the union of Kessaar with an unraced Whipper mare already responsible for half a dozen juvenile winners.

“I just thought this was a lovely colt,” St Lawrence said. “All the siblings are rated in the 90s and 80s, and they're all 2-year-olds. He'll be off to Phil Makin and let's hope it'll be the top hat and all that.”

Cox Plucks Another Apple from a Cherished Tree

A single glimpse at the catalogue page would have sufficed to anticipate the author of the 50,000gns bid that landed lot 66, a Starspangledbanner (Aus) filly presented by Ballyphilip Stud. Sure enough, the congratulations from the rostrum were offered to Clive Cox, who could compress a whole chapter of his ever-lengthening CV under the second dam Great Joy (Ire) (Grand Lodge).

The Lambourn trainer won the G2 Vintage S. with her son Xtension (Ire) (Xaar {GB}); made a champion sprinter of one grandson, Harry Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}); and won the G1 Middle Park S. with another, Supremacy (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}). For good measure he also trained this filly's dam Our Joy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) to win a maiden for the McCartans of Ballyphilip after she never made the sales.

“It's a family that has been extremely successful for us,” Cox said. “There are many fond memories, all the way down the page really. And this is a lovely filly, she has a very athletic walk, a very strong hip. There are a lot of similarities to [others in] the family and I am delighted to get her.”

Cox conceded disappointment with Supremacy's latest failure to rekindle his juvenile form, at Haydock last Saturday. “He came back fine,” he said with a shrug. “It was a little disappointing: he was top-class at two, and isn't quite reaching that level this year. But he is fine.”

Ballyphilip's Paul McCartan was one of many to identify “an upward curve” in this auction, having brought the filly here specifically to shine at this level, with the relocation to Newmarket and her eligibility for restricted races both viewed as a bonus. He'll be commuting back for the “Fairyhouse” auction and then the October Sale, where he promises the full brother to the stud's champion graduate Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) will be revealed as “a gorgeous horse.”

More Acclaim for Sheehan

Good horsemanship is good horsemanship, whatever your level, and James Sheehan of Clonmult Farm reiterated the skills that made such an impression at this end of the market a couple of years ago when presenting an Acclamation (GB) colt to realize 45,000gns as lot 36.

Sheehan, who sold a €1,000 yearling by The Last Lion for €78,000 to double the next highest lot at the Goffs Autumn Sale of 2019, co-bred this son of a multiple winner by New Approach (Ire) with Rachel Robinson. He was pleased to hear from purchaser Will Douglass that the colt will be going to Richard Hannon.

“They know what to do with their Acclamations there!” remarked Douglass of the firm that gave us Mehmas (Ire) and Harbour Watch (Ire). “Obviously he's by a very, very good sire and he's a really good-moving, lovely horse who really stood out.”

Douglass was acting on behalf of Jassim Bin Ali Al Attiyah, who has had a fine summer with a representative of this sire-line in Gubbass (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}), winner of the Weatherbys Super Sprint for Hannon before placing in the G2 Richmond S.

Sheehan, for his part, was another full of enthusiasm for the overall direction of this auction.

“I liked it at Ascot too, it was laid-back and we had good luck there too,” he said. “But whether it was there or here, there's definitely better quality every year as you can see from what they're doing on the racetrack. This lad certainly suited this sale: he wasn't going to be missed, in fact he had 100 views. And there's every likelihood he will be a racehorse.”

Ardad Sets Early Pace

Ever since being forced to share top billing at the remarkable Doncaster breeze-up sale of 2016, where he sold another £170,000 son of Kodiac (GB) in Prince Of Lir (Ire), Con Marnane has been keen to keep on the right side of Ardad (Ire).

Both Ardad and Prince Of Lir, of course, went on to win at Royal Ascot—and both have already sired sons to do the same. Marnane was duly emboldened to pay the biggest price of the opening hour for lot 13, a son of Ardad from Manor Farm Stud (Rutland), at 42,000gns.

“I'm a huge fan of the sire, have been all along,” he explained. “I have a share in him, and a couple of mares in foal including a half-sister to Dutch Art (GB) (Medicean {GB}).”

For all his enthusiasm, Marnane had been forced to wait until now to pinhook an Ardad yearling at Bansha House. “I couldn't afford any!” he exclaimed with a grin. “But he's proven now, Richard Fahey's horse [G1 Prix Morny winner Perfect Power (Ire)] is an absolute machine. This one has a beautiful back pedigree and I'd hope to bring him back here to the Craven Sale.”

Sure enough, the dam—herself by Dutch Art—is out of a half-sister to those popular stalwarts Orientor (GB) (Inchinor {GB}) and Yeast (GB) (Salse). Their dam Orient (GB) (Bay Express {Ire}) is one of the linchpins of the speedy pedigrees cultivated by the Watson family, albeit she has not proved quite so remarkable an influence as Penny Pincher (GB) (Constable {GB}), who holds together the pages of so many good horses including Churchill (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). And the latter, auspiciously, is only a couple of winners behind the precocious Ardad as their respective first crops—who currently have them first and fifth respectively in the freshman prizemoney table—approach the autumn.

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The Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale was incorporated in 2017 as a boutique auction laser-focused on the type of sharp, precocious youngsters that were gaining so rapidly in popularity, and it turns out the desire for that kind of animal has not waned one bit. Off the back of last year's excellent results-which built on the year-on-year gains the sale had achieved since its inauguration–heads went together at HQ and it was announced that the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale would be permanently relocated to Park Paddocks and re-branded the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale. The first edition of the sale under its new guise takes place on Tuesday with 292 catalogued.

“The success of the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale at Park Paddocks last year posed the question to everyone here, “should we hold the sale here permanently? And I think it was a pretty straightforward decision to do that,” explained Tattersalls Marketing Executive Bobby Jackson. “And moving it here, we felt it would need a new name and its own identity.”

It was decided the sale should honour Somerville Tattersall, the last member of the Tattersalls family to lead the firm, he having done so through another very turbulent period in history, the first half of the 20th century.

“Tattersalls is all about innovation and moving forward, but also tradition, and Somerville Tattersall encompassed all of this, and it felt right to give the sale that name,” Jackson said. “Somerville Tattersall shaped the modern Tattersalls as everyone knows it now. We felt you could compare his story to the Ascot Yearling Sale, and how in a short space of time it has been thrust into the limelight and come quite a long way.”

One aspect of the Ascot sale that endeared it to its loyal vendors and buyers was the personal service offered by the Tattersalls Ascot team, and Jackson noted the Tattersalls team is committed to maintaining that. Jackson and fellow Tattersalls marketing executive Chloe Pitts have joined forces with Tattersalls Ascot's Matt Hall and Shirley Anderson-Jolag as the dedicated team working on the Somerville Yearling Sale, with Ollie Fowlston doing the yearling selection.

“Something people liked about the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale was the personal touch that the Tattersalls Ascot team had,” Jackson explained. “That's something we wanted to keep going with the Somerville Sale. Even though it's now called the Somerville Yearling Sale, we're keen that it still has that personal touch that the Ascot Yearling Sale had.”

Jackson was likewise keen to stress that the move to Park Paddocks does not mean that the Somerville Yearling Sale will become amalgamated with the two-week October Yearling Sale that begins four weeks later. Helping keep that identity separate is the fact that the sale has produced so many big-name graduates in its short history-10 stakes winners in the last two years alone, led by the G2 Lowther S. victress Miss Amulet (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) and the G3 Molecomb S. winner Steel Bull (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}), graduates of the 2019 sale at £7,500 and £15,000, respectively. The second renewal of the sale in 2018 proved a bumper edition, producing group winners Shadn (Ire) (No Nay Never) and Liberty Beach (GB) (Cable Bay {Ire}) as well as listed winners Summer Sands (GB) (Coach House {Ire}) and Flippa The Strippa (Ire) (Outstrip {GB}). Summer Sands, bought for a mere £2,000, evolved into an 85,000gns breezer and six months later was hammered down for 625,000gns at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale after winning the Listed Redcar Two-Year-Old Trophy and finishing third in the G1 Middle Park S.

Last year's sale has already produced three stakes winners among its 41 winners thus far: 17,500gns purchase Windstormblack (GB) (Brazen Beau {Aus}) won the G3 Premio Primi Passi in June, while 10,000gns purchase Chipotle (GB) (Havana Gold {GB}) scaled some of racing's highest peaks the same month when winning Royal Ascot's Listed Windsor Castle S., having already taken the Brocklesby Conditions S. and the Royal Ascot Two-Year-Old Trial Conditions S. for trainer/purchaser Eve Johnson Houghton. Saturday marked the victory of 12,500gns purchase Eve Lodge (GB) (Ardad {Ire}) in the G3 Sirenia S. at Kempton.

Jackson said horses like Chipotle are exactly what the Somerville Yearling Sale has, and will continue to, target.

“We were conscious as a team that we wanted the Somerville Yearling Sale to remain about the precocious, early, athletic 2-year-olds that had been known to come from the Ascot Yearling Sale, and that's definitely what has been catalogued in the Somerville Yearling Sale,” he said.

Steadfast supporters of the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale have gotten behind the Somerville Yearling Sale with some of their more precocious yearlings: Tally-Ho Stud brings 19, Barton Stud and Rathasker Stud 11 apiece and Trickledown Stud 10. And some of the circuit's leading vendors are bringing drafts to the sale for the first time, like Yeomanstown Stud, Lynn Lodge Stud and Castledillon Stud. The catalogue includes half-siblings to stakes-winning graduates Windstormblack (lot 2, a filly by Adaay {Ire}) and Flippa The Strippa (lot 222, a colt by War Command). Other siblings to black-type horses catalogued include a Cable Bay (Ire) half-sister to Chilworth Icon (GB) (Sixties Icon {GB}), winner of Italy's Primi Passi and Epsom's Listed Woodcote S. (lot 144); a full-brother to Listed El Gran Senor S. scorer Sweet Gardenia (GB) (lot 71); a Jungle Cat (Ire) half-sister to G3 Renaissance S. victor and G1 Commonwealth Cup third Ventura Rebel (GB) (Pastoral Pursuits {GB}) (lot 271); a colt by Unfortunately (Ire) who is a half to three stakes-placed winners including this season's G2 Coventry S. third Vintage Clarets (GB) (Ardad {Ire}) (lot 261); and a Kodiac (GB) filly (lot 105) out of the Listed Chalice S. winner and multiple Group 2-placed Sahool (GB) (Unfuwain), whose Laraaib (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}) won the G3 Cumberland Lodge S. Another daughter of Sahool has produced Alnaseem (GB), stakes-placed in the U.S. this year, and it is also the family of multiple group-winning juvenile and productive young sire Gutaifan (Ire). The stakes-winning and Group 1-placed Baileys Jubilee has a colt by Twilight Son set to sell (lot 206).

“There are half brothers and sisters to 44 group and listed performers catalogued,” Jackson noted. “And there are 108 siblings to 2-year-old winners and 80 out of 2-year-old winning dams. It's still definitely the early, precocious 2-year-olds, which is what we wanted to keep in the catalogue going forward.”

The aforementioned daughter of Sahool is one of four by the ever-popular Kodiac in the book, and other proven Group 1 sires represented include Showcasing, Night Of Thunder (Ire), Dark Angel (Ire) and his sire Acclamation (GB), Ardad (Ire), Dandy Man (Ire), Holy Roman Emperor (Ire), Mehmas (Ire), Oasis Dream (GB), Starspangledbanner (Aus) and Zoffany. Currently popular young sires like Cotai Glory (GB), Galileo Gold (GB), Profitable (Ire) and Ribchester (Ire) are also represented. First-season sire Havana Grey is the most represented sire in the book with 21, and other first-crop sires with progeny on offer include Cracksman (GB), Expert Eye (GB), Harry Angel (Ire), Kessaar (Ire), Sioux Nation, Tasleet (GB) and Zoustar (Aus) with his first Northern Hemisphere crop.

The Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale begins at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. All yearlings offered are eligible for the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction S. as well as the new £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction S., which will be held five weeks apart in 2022 with the Tattersalls Somerville Auction S. taking place over six furlongs on the Newmarket July Course in late August, with prizemoney paid down to 10th place.

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Formerly the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale, the sale has been moved permanently to Newmarket and renamed the Somerville Yearling Sale and it retains the same ethos as its predecessor of meticulously selected, precocious yearlings.

The catalog features an impressive 292 yearlings who will be offered for sale on Tuesday, Sept. 7, all of which will be eligible for the all-new £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes as well as the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes.

The Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale quickly established a reputation as a consistent source of juvenile talent and last year's record-breaking renewal has produced a number of top-class performers headlined by the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes winner Chipotle at Royal Ascot. Purchased for 10,000 guineas by Eve Johnson Houghton and Highflyer Bloodstock, the son of Havana Gold began the season with victory in the Brocklesby Stakes and is one of 32 individual 2-year-old winners to come from the sale this year.

The sale has produced a remarkable 13 Group and Listed winners in its short history including Group 2 Lowther Stakes winner Miss Amulet, Group 3 Molecomb Stakes winner Steel Bull and this year's Group 3 winning 2-year-old Windstormblack who were purchased for £7,500, £15,000, and 17,500 guineas respectively.

The inaugural Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale looks certain to add to the roll of honor with an impressive catalogue that features own or half brothers and sisters to 44 Group and Listed performers including star graduates Windstormblack and the Listed winner Flippa the Strippa. Precocity features strongly with siblings to Group and Listed winning 2-year-olds Aqlaam Vision, Chilworth Icon, and Sweet Gardenia cataloged, as well as a half-sister to the top-class juvenile Ventura Rebel, placed in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup, and a half-brother to this year's Group 2 Coventry Stakes third Vintage Clarets by first-season-sire Unfortunately.

In total, there are siblings to 108 2-year-old winners cataloged and 80 yearlings out of dams who themselves won at two. These include 24 yearlings out of Group and Listed winning or placed mares including a Twilight Son colt out of the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes placed Baileys Jubilee and a Kodiac filly out of Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes runner up Sahool, already the dam of the Group 3 winner Laraaib.

The list of sires with cataloged yearlings includes proven Group 1 producers Acclamation, Bated Breath, Camacho, Dandy Man, Dark Angel, Dream Ahead, Fastnet Rock, Footstepsinthesand, Havana Gold, Holy Roman Emperor, Iffraaj, Kodiac, Mehmas, Night of Thunder, Oasis Dream, Sea the Moon, Showcasing, Sir Percy, Starspangledbanner, and Zoffany.

Whitsbury Manor Stud's Group 1 winner Havana Grey leads the way numerically with 21 yearlings cataloged and is one of seventeen stallions represented by their first crop of yearlings including Cracksman, Expert Eye, Gustav Klimt, Harry Angel, Hawkbill, James Garfield, Jungle Cat, Kessaar, Lightning Spear, Massaat, Sioux Nation, Tasleet, Unfortunately, Washington DC, and the champion Australian sire Zoustar whose first Northern Hemisphere crop are now yearlings.

The first crops of 2-year-olds by Ardad, Cotai Glory, Galileo Gold, and Profitable have set racecourses alight this season and all four have representatives catalogued, in addition to yearlings by exciting young sires Cable Bay, Gleneagles, Kodi Bear, New Bay, and Territories.

The largest consignment of yearlings will come from Tally-Ho Stud with nineteen lots cataloged, followed by Barton Stud and Rathasker Stud with eleven yearlings apiece and Trickledown Stud with ten. Last year's sale topping consignor Ringfort Stud will feature a small but select draft of four yearlings including colts by leading first season sires Cotai Glory and Profitable.

All yearlings cataloged in the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale will be eligible for the new £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes in addition to the immensely popular £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes held five weeks later. Eighty two of the fillies cataloged are also registered for the lucrative Great British Bonus Scheme and eligible to win up to £20,000 in bonus prize money per qualifying race.

Commenting on the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said;

“The catalyst for launching the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale at Park Paddocks was the extraordinary vibrance of last year's relocated Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale and consignors have embraced the permanent move with an outstanding group of precocious yearlings. The improving quality of yearlings being offered at the sale has been matched by the racecourse performance of its graduates, and the introduction of the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes will further enhance the appeal of the sale which has quickly established a reputation as a consistent source of top-class juvenile talent.”

The catalog is online now at www.tattersalls.com and will be available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives from Wednesday, Aug. 3.

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The Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale will be held under its new guise for the first time this year; the sale was previously known as the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale, and when the 2020 renewal staged in Newmarket due to COVID-19 restrictions returned records across the board, the decision was made to make it a permanent fixture at Park Paddocks. The sale places an emphasis on forward, athletic yearlings and last year's sale has already produced 17 individual 2-year-old winners headed by Chipotle (GB) (Havana Gold {Ire}), winner of the Listed Windsor Castle S. at Royal Ascot last week. Chipotle cost 10,000gns last year.

Graduates of the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale will be eligible for the Tattersalls Somerville Auction S. and the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction S.

“Our commitment to rewarding owners in as many innovative ways as we can has resulted in over £6,100,000 in bonus prize money being paid out by Tattersalls in the last five years,” said Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony. “The £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction S. will provide an opportunity for graduates of the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling sale to run for substantial prize money, and further enhance the appeal of the sale which has quickly established a reputation as a consistent source of top-class juvenile talent.”

Chipotle's trainer Eve Johnson Houghton said, “Having bought Chipotle for only 10,000gns at last year's sale, the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale is already in the diary and finding the winner of the new £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville S. will be the aim–as well as another Royal Ascot winner, of course.”

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The inaugural sale will be held on Sept. 7, combining the same emphasis on carefully selected, precocious yearlings as its Ascot predecessor and the unique advantages of the Tattersalls Park Paddocks complex in the “Home of Horse Racing.” All Tattersalls Somerville, yearlings will also be eligible for the ever-popular £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes.

Famously stepping up to the rostrum for the first time at age 22 during the 1885 July Sales when his ailing father's voice failed, Somerville Tattersall was the final member of the eponymous family to lead the company and was pivotal in shaping the modern Tattersalls.

Alongside the innovations that have transformed its physical home, the Tattersalls roster of sales has evolved in tandem with the wider bloodstock world and the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale was launched in 2017 to showcase a select offering of forward, athletic yearlings to purchasers. The sale has quickly established a reputation as a consistent source of top-class juvenile talent.

In the last two years, the sale has produced an impressive nine group/listed performers led by the Group 2 Lowther Stakes winner Miss Amulet and the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes scorer Steel Bull in 2020. The roll of honor also features Group 2 winner Shadn, Group 3 winner Liberty Beach, and five further listed winners including £2,000 purchase Summer Sands, who was subsequently resold as a 2-year-old at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale for 625,000 guineas.

Underpinned by the success of its graduates, the sale has enjoyed remarkable growth year-on-year and last year's renewal posted a record average, median, top lot and turnover with 17 lots selling for 30,000 guineas or more.

Commenting on the new Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said;

“The catalyst for launching the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale at Park Paddocks was the extraordinary vibrance of last year's relocated Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale. The new Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale will benefit not only from the outstanding facilities at Park Paddocks, but also from Newmarket's unique infrastructure and we are confident that the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, named in honor of one of the central figures in the history of Tattersalls, will harness the momentum established by its predecessor.”

Nominations are currently open for the 2021 Tattersalls Yearling Sales and will close on March 26.

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The sale, which has developed a reputation for turning out precocious runners, is named in honour of Somerville Tattersall, who began auctioning at the 1885 July Sales and was the last member of the Tattersall family to lead the company.

The last two years, the Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale has produced group-winning 2-year-olds Miss Amulet (Ire), Steel Bull (Ire), Liberty Beach (GB) and Shadn (Ire).

“The catalyst for launching the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale at Park Paddocks was the extraordinary vibrance of last year's relocated Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale,” said Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony. “The new Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale will benefit not only from the outstanding facilities at Park Paddocks, but also from Newmarket's unique infrastructure and we are confident that the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, named in honour of one of the central figures in the history of Tattersalls, will harness the momentum established by its predecessor.”

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