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B R E E Z E-U P S A L E S

Goffs Ready to Run
at Kempton

Seven months is a long time in racing.
When the curtain fell on the 2013 Goffs
Ready To Run Sale at Kempton on a freezing
March afternoon the sale looked solid but
unspectacular, with both the aggregate
and clearance rate showing declines on 2012.
Bids of £70,000 was all it took to top the
sale, with the partnership of Stephen Hillen
and Kevin Ryan twice offering that amount.
In October, however, one of those colts, a
son of first-crop sire Intense Focus consigned
by Grove Stud, landed the Group 1 Middle
Park Stakes as Astaire. The other, a Holy
Roman Emperor colt named Sleeper King,
also won, albeit a minor contest.
The decline in aggregate can be excused
by a slightly smaller catalogue than in 2012,
but this sale continues to draw trainers and
post good results on the racecourse.

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Tattersalls Craven

A record-breaking year for Tattersalls first
hit the heights at the company’s premier
breeze-up sale when a European record
price of 760,000gns was set, eclipsing the
previous mark of 625,000gns.
Jamie McCalmont signed the ticket
for the Lynn Lodge Stud-consigned son
of Elusive Quality, a half-brother to the
Group 2-placed Quarrel. A rare purchase
of a Darley-bred by Coolmore, the colt was
named Great White Eagle and went on to
win the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes.
A catalogue almost identical in size to
2012’s produced an increase in aggregate of
nearly eight per cent to 9,235,000gns, while
the average leapt by more than 22 per cent
to 89,660gns. The median did not follow
suit however, dropping by 8.3 per cent, while
the clearance rate of just 66 per cent told its
own story of a selective market.

Great White Eagle wins the Round Tower Stakes and (inset) selling for 760,000gns at the Tattersalls Craven Sale

price to £30,401, a negligible decline on
the previous year, but the sale also posted
notable declines in both aggregate (15.3 per
cent) and median (16.7 per cent).
Last year’s record price of £300,000
could not be bettered, but a trio of six-figure
lots led the way, headed by a Lawman filly
consigned by Mocklershill and purchased for

It was Sea The Stars who
once again provided
the ‘X factor’ at Arqana

DBS

A very satisfactory clearance rate of 81 per
cent proved buyers at every level were in
attendance at DBS, assisting the average

£210,000 by Richard Brown of Blandford
Bloodstock for Al Asayl Bloodstock Ltd.
Named Minnaloushe, the filly has twice
finished runner-up in all-weather maidens
at two for John Gosden.
A colt at the opposite end of the price
scale proved the sale’s best performer, with
Treaty Of Paris, a son of Haatef purchased

for just £16,000 by trainer Henry Candy,
landing the Group 3 Acomb Stakes.
Tattersalls Guineas

The Tattersalls Guineas breeze-up saw four
lots bring six-figure sums in 2013, compared
to just one in 2012, and the aggregate, for a
slightly larger catalogue, gain more than nine
per cent. Set against that, however, was both
the average and median declined slightly.
Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock
bagged the sale-topper, going to 110,000gns
for a Teofilo half-brother to Group 1 winner
Caradak. The colt was a great pinhooking
success for Adrian Costello’s Clenagh Castle
Stud, which paid just €25,000 for the colt
at Goffs the previous autumn.
Once again, the best performer thus far
from the sale emerged lower down the price
range, with Hot Streak, bought by David
Redvers for 42,000gns, landing the Group 3
Cornwallis Stakes and finishing second to
Astaire in the Middle Park Stakes.

EUROPE’S MOST EXPENSIVE BREEZE-UP BUYS IN 2013
NAME

SEX, PEDIGREE

Great White Eagle0
Maraayill0
Strategical0
Zarwaan0
Touzr0

c Elusive Quality-Gender Dance (Miesque’s Son)
c Sea The Stars-Navajo Moon (Danehill)
c More Than Ready-Mary Ellise (In Excess)
c Dutch Art-Develyn (Pivotal)
c Invincible Spirit-Carrig Girl (Nayef)

PRICE

760,000gns
€520,000
320,000gns
320,000gns
300,000gns

ARQ = Arqana; TC = Tattersalls Craven
SALE VENDOR

BUYER

BEST PERFORMANCE(S)

TC
ARQ
TC
TC
TC

McCalmont Bloodstock
Marco Botti
Anthony Stroud Bloodstock
Shadwell Estate Co.
Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock

Winner of two races, inc. Round Tower Stakes-G3
Placed second twice from three starts
Winner three of four starts, inc. Class 4 nursery
Winner of a maiden from two starts
Unplaced in one start

Lynn Lodge Stud
Channel Consignment
Friarstown Bloodstock
Mocklershill
Clenagh Castle Stud

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