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Tattersalls begins 12-day December sale on Monday

Posted: Sunday, November 21, 2010 4:37 PM

Billed as “the world’s most international thoroughbred sale”, the Tattersalls December sale launches on Monday at Park Paddocks in Newmarket with the 12-day marathon including sessions for yearlings, weanlings, and breeding stock.

The sale includes 306 yearlings, 941 foals, and 1,097 broodmares, fillies, and horses in training, and begins with the yearling portion, the final such sale of the British and Irish sales season.

Among the yearlings cataloged are 31 horses eligible for the lucrative Tattersalls Millions, an eight-race series offering purses of approximately $2,798,115 (1.75-million British pounds).

The yearling catalog includes full or half siblings to 85 group/listed winners. Additionally, 18 of the current  top 20 active British and Irish sires are represented by offspring in the one-day session, including Cape Cross (Ire), Danehill Dancer, Dansili (GB), Invincible Spirit, King’s Best, Montjeu (Ire), Oasis Dream (GB), Pivotal, Shamardal, and leading sire Galileo (Ire), who stands at Coolmore Stud in Ireland.

U.S. stallions represented include Arch, sire of Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Blame; Bernardini; Dynaformer; Giant’s Causeway; Lemon Drop Kid; and Smart Strike.

“The Tattersalls December yearling sale is always a popular fixture, and this year’s catalog is outstanding,” Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said. “It is a larger December yearling catalog than usual with the sort of diversity to attract buyers at all levels of the market.”

Weanlings will be offered from November 24 through November 27 and the sale culminates with the breeding stock, fillies, and horses in training to be offered from November 29 through December 2, including ten mares in foal to 2009 Horse of the Year Sea The Stars.

Of the mares in foal to Sea The Stars, who stands at the Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud in Ireland, six are group or listed winners, and another is already the dam of a Group 3 winner and the remaining three are all half sisters to classic or Group 1 winners.

In addition to Sea The Stars, stallions who covered their first mares in 2010 are well represented with mares in foal to classic and Group 1 winners Aqlaam, Archipenko, Bushranger (Ire), Champs Elysees (GB), Intense Focus, Mastercraftsman (Ire), Naaqoos, Virtual, and Yeats.

Four mares in foal to Galileo will be offered, as well as three in foal to Dansili, three in foal to Oasis Dream, six in foal to Danehill Dancer, six in foal to Cape Cross, 11 in foal to Invincible Spirit, nine in foal to Montjeu, 15 in foal to Dubawi, and four in foal to Pivotal.

Included among horses in training are 2009 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (Fr-G1) (French One Thousand Guineas) winner Elusive Wave and 2010 Qatar Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (Fr-G1) winner Gilt Edge Girl

Europe’s leading owners-breeders with consignments include Castlemartin Stud, Cheveley Park Stud, Darley, Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard, Haras du Quesnay, Hascombe and Valiant Stud, Highclere Stud, the Irish National Stud, Juddmonte Farms, Kiltinan Stud, Lanwades Stud, Meon Valley Stud, Newsells Park Stud, and Shadwell Stud as well as from leading consignors Jamie Railton, Ted Voute, John Troy, and The Castlebridge consignment.

The Clay family’s Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Kentucky, has an eight-horse consignment.

“We have cataloged slightly greater numbers than last year in all three December catalogs and we are looking forward to the usual cosmopolitan crowd at Europe’s premier foal and breeding stock sale,” Mahony said.

“The catalogs have all the ingredients traditionally associated with the Tattersalls December sale and, as ever, December graduates have achieved outstanding results throughout the world in 2010. In particular, we are delighted that import restrictions with India have been lifted. Tattersalls has always been a happy hunting ground for Indian buyers and we are very much looking forward to welcoming them back to the forthcoming December sale.”

Online catalogs can be accessed by clicking here.