Sales Reports - 30 April to 1 May: Tattersalls' Guineas Breeze-up sale
Park Paddocks was bathed in sunshine for the third edition of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale which saw a total of 74 lots sell for 2,819,200 guineas, at an average of 38,097 guineas and a median of 25,000 guineas with a daughter of DANEHILL DANCER headlining trade for the day.
Catalogued as lot 57, the grey filly by DANEHILL DANCER out of the BE MY GUEST mare MOON FESTIVAL was knocked down to the London based agent Jamie McCalmont for 170,000 guineas after he saw off Irish based agent Hugo Merry. The filly was consigned to the sale by Willie Browne’s Mocklershill Stables in Ireland and provided a great return for her owners who had purchased her for €58,000 last year.
At the conclusion of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented;
“After the 80% rise in turnover at this sale last year it was hard to predict quite how the current economic conditions would impact on today’s sale, but overall we can be satisfied with the returns which have included more six figure transactions than last year.”
“The market has been selective and we would have liked a better clearance rate, but the trainers and agents have remarked throughout the day that it has been hard to buy a nice horse, which is how it should be. Two year olds that breezed well yesterday have attracted plenty of competition in the ring and the figures have comfortably bettered the levels of 2007, which must be regarded as perfectly respectable under the prevailing conditions. The domestic trade has held up well and we have welcomed new buyers from some emerging new markets including Morocco and Iran.”
Watching out at the Tattersalls parade ring
Lone breeze at the Newmarket Rowley Mile racecourse
Lot 57, a filly by Danehill Dancer, was purchased by agent Jamie McCalmont for 170,000 guineas
