Book 1 for the ages ended October 6 with five other seven-figure lots and a peak price of 2,000,000gns (US$2,386,692) as the unprecedented trade saw the eras. The previous record in all the major market indexes was blown out of the water.
A staggering 126,671,000gns ($151,162,331) was spent in three sessions, not only a 47% increase year-on-year, but also a 19% increase from the previous best, set was established in 2018 when revenue reached 106,503,000gns ($127,094,929).
The median price rose 30% to 298,752gns ($356,515), also a new record, while the median was 200,000gns ($238.669), up 25% from 12 months ago and more than 19% from the high previous was 167,500gns ($199,885) in 2018. Clearance rate was 87% as 424 lots sold from 489 offered.
Tuesday’s top batch was dropped into the hands of Richard Knight, auctioned on behalf of an undisclosed customer who went up to 2,000,000gns for Frankel colt was provided by Watership Down Stud, the shipper of Wednesday’s title action of 2,800,000gns ($3,367,284) (Lot 221).
The young blue-chip player was bred by Bjorn Nielsen from Bold Lass, the daughter of Sea The Stars who has won four times in his own racing career. Her first pony and only runner to date is the one listed Sightstown dirty OMG.
“Obviously, he’s Frankel’s and I outbid a stallion yesterday,” Knight said after signing his seven-figure second sheet of the sale. “They’re as hot as anything and hard to buy, so I know full well that we’re going to have to pay a good price to get him. He’s a quality pony with a vision and he’s the one. a very comfortable, sporty and well tested horse.
Richard Knight at Tattersalls
“The dam has produced a 100-rated horse and it comes from a nice family. It’s just a lovely pony and we have to take on Godolphin, which is never easy. That’s the highest amount of our budget, but about where we thought we’d have to go to get him.”
Bold Lass is out of My Branch, who won a double in the listed competitions and also finished a tight runner-up against Blue Duster in the 1995 Shadwell Stud Cheveley Park Stakes (G1). bred eight paddocks winners, including Stanleybet Sprint Cup (G1) heroine Rose Tante . Another daughter, Rosie’s Posey, is the dam of the winners of the group/grade 1 Dubawi . Highland and Make-believe everyone is king of Mishriff .
The second session of Book 1 became the highest-grossing day in European auction history as 144 lots were sold bringing in sales of 49,545,000gns ($59,124,328). A flurry of activity earlier ensured the third day started in a similar fashion, and Knight reflected on the strength of the trade by saying, “This is the best portfolio of individuals we’ve ever seen at any expected sale this year Expected sales have been strong so far and here we go and they’ve got the best individuals, so it’s no surprise that it’s Such a great sale.”
He added: “The most senior stallions always seem to be in a slight bubble relative to the real world, and that’s always been the case. We’re very fortunate to be an industry that people want to be in. racehorses in the UK, Europe and around the world.”
Knight was the second highest spender of the three sessions with 16 aspirants sourced from 10,455,000gns ($12,476,432). Frankel ended the sale as the top male, with his 25 Lots bringing in total sales of 18,745,000gns ($22,369,271) and an average of 749,800gns ($894,771) for crossbreeds. for a fee of £175,000.
Coolmore Catch Frankel Fever
Just two seasons before Coolmore’s Magnier MV, starring Peter Brant, is taller than Godolphin’s Anthony Stroud, who stands with Sheikh Mohammed, at 1,900,000gns for Frankel colt (Lot 379) in Blue Waltz powered by Cumanis ‘Fittoks Stud.
Magnier and Brant’s Birch Farm signed up to 13 Lots for a total of 10,215,000gns ($12,190,029) in three days and 65% of that was spent on four Lots headed by Frankel, topped by 2,400,000gns (2,886,244 dollars) siblings (Lot 238) for Broome .
“It’s very exciting, especially since I’m still apprenticed at this job!” satirical Luca Cumani. “This is only our third year of consignment and we had a shipment yesterday that made 1,600,000 grams ($1,924,163) (Dubawi (IRE) colt (Lot 301) purchased. by JS Company and Yoshito Yahagi) and this pony has produced 1,900,000 grams today.
The dark horse Frankel is consigned as Lot 379 in the ring at Tattersalls
“It’s so exciting to be a part of this environment, I love it. We thought he could make five (hundred thousand) or eight or so, but other than that, you don’t know. “
The pony is a brother to the winning Blue Boat, who raced for Juddmonte Farms after the operation bought it for 450,000gns ($613,424) at Book 1 in 2020. Blue Waltz is a half-sister. with 4 winners, most notably a level 3 scorer Fantasia and address providing Give Thanks Stakes (G3) Pink Symphony everyone is the dam of Gleneagles ‘son won first prize’ Head of the Central Highlands .
Their intelligent purebred Cumanis Dubai colt Out From Under is in partnership with White Birch Farm, and Luca explains their relationship dates back several decades, saying: “Peter has been friends for many years and I have coached him for years. 80s and early 90s.
“I actually trained the Thunder Gulch (Thunderstream) dam for him and a nice guy called Roseate Tern, so we’ve known each other for years of cheating. I’m so grateful to MV and Paul Shanahan and especially my staff, who have done a great job, they really excelled themselves.”
