NEWMARKET, UK – There has been no respite for hardened shippers and their employees since last week’s massive extension of Volume 1 of the Tattersalls October Promotion. The hammer dropped on Lot 549 before long the next batch of fish was on the ground for sales, ready for three days of testing ahead of Book 2, which kicks off a three-day run from 10:00 a.m. Monday.
This is the week that really requires stamina for all involved: three new books to complete the October sale on Saturday, with the numbers continuing from last week, though to lot 2097 , who only needed to make it through the hoop before the doors flew back to start QIPCO British Championship Day.
Given last week’s unusually high prices – a factor that almost certainly means Volume 2 is also stronger than usual – it’s worth keeping in mind, for those looking for a minor for next year, i.e. Two years ago, the first book – Galileo Gold’s Crop Daughter (GB) was taken from Book 4 for only 4,000 g.
Acquired by Michael Aguiar from Kilpatrick Ranch, she made her way to George Boughey’s barn and named Oscula (Ire), she went on to race with great success for the Nick Bradley Racing organization. And boy, didn’t she dance every dance? Winner in May, then Group 3 winner in June, Oscula walked from the ski areas of Brighton and Epsom, to Royal Ascot, Newmarket, Deauville, Longchamp and Saint-Cloud. And that was just her 2-year-old season. This year, she added two group stage wins, at Glorious Goodwood and Deauville, as well as making her mark with ten equity positions here and there, not to mention a trip to Saudi Arabia on February. It’s safe to say that the Oscula is the kind of dirty dog we all love to own – and it would be better if we could find one just like her for 4,000gns.
Buyers will have to dig deeper into that over the next three days of Book 2, which is by any standard an elite sale in its own right. It owns the best bragging rights this year, having produced Derby Desert Crown (GB) winner (Nathaniel {Ire}), not to mention four-time Group 1 winner State Of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}). Strawberry Fields Stud rancher Gary Robinson pulled Desert Crown’s half-brother Study Of Man (Ire) from Book 1 last week, but he’s bringing up another relative in Book 2 in lot 817, one Expert eye (GB) overtakes the half-sister of Derby winner, six-time winner Rose Berry (GB) (Archipenko).
Winning graduates flocked to Tattersalls over the weekend. Charyn (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) continues her brilliant run for her owner Nurlan Bizakov in the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte just six days after Belbek (Fr) (Showcasing {GB}) won the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. Although Bizakov traditionally races with crossbreeds, he bought Charyn from breeder Guy O’Callaghan’s Grangemore Stud at Book 2 last year for 250,000gns. Her damn Futoon (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) has no desire to sell this year, but Grangemore’s draft of the year in Book 2 contains another Dark Angel [lot 919] who is the first pony to win the two-year-old Cup is listed as Summer Daydream (Ire) (Footsteps and {GB}).
At Newmarket, Book 2 by Fitri Hay Graduated Royal Scotsman (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) headed the G1 Darley Dewhurst S. when it finished second behind Chladean (GB) (Frankel {GB}). Over at the Curragh on Saturday, Joseph O’Brien’s Lumiere Rock (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}) continued her intelligent growth. She was also sold in Book 2 last year, for 55,000gns to Rockfield Farms, and she provided a timely update to the Castletown Stud shipper who supplies the other half-sister her mother by Zoffany (Ire) as Lot 1711 in Book 3. When the catalog was published, Lumiere Rock was not yet ranked.
Of course, this is just the tip of the horse iceberg and one of this season’s most exciting juvenile beasts, Lezoo (GB) (Zousar {Aus}), who was left out of the draft of Chasemore Farm last year Book 3 for 77,000gns by Hamish Macauley.
In short, those labeled ‘cream of the crop’ helped provide the Tattersalls with a historical re-enactment of Book 1 but, as always, first place runners for the next few seasons will be popping up from every corner of the world. market level. Price hunters should not be discouraged; they may have to wait a little longer than usual to strike this week.
