A vibrant and cosmopolitan ambiance on the Fairyhouse gross sales floor for the primary day of the Tattersalls Eire September Yearling Sale Sept. 24 produced robust commerce, a stand-out clearance fee of 86%, and 5 tons offered for €100,000 or extra, exceeding the variety of six-figure transactions remodeled each days final 12 months.
The session’s prime worth of €130,000 (US$145,308, €1=$1.12) was given for a colt by the Aga Khan Stud’s main stallion Sea The Stars purchased by bloodstock agent Billy Jackson-Stops and Newmarket-based coach George Scott (Lot 201).
“This colt was clearly introduced right here to face out and he did that!” mentioned Scott. “Each time we went to see him, he confirmed himself higher and higher. It’s laborious to purchase progeny by Sea The Stars and we’re actually happy. He’s for a brand new shopper who wished a horse to race at a excessive degree and we predict this could possibly be the one.”
Of the value paid for the Sunderland Holdings-bred, The Castlebridge Consignment-offered colt, Scott admitted that the price range needed to broaden a bit of, smiling: “You all the time must push a bit of more durable, and we did must stretch to get him.”
The Irish Nationwide Stud’s main sire Invincible Spirit was accountable for the second prime lot, a colt bred by Nicola FitzGerald’s Cherryvalley Farms out of the Mastercraftsman mare Kotaya (Lot 101).
Bought by agent Cristiana Brivio of Razza Latina for the group 2 Derby Italiano-winning proprietor Fabrizio Cameli, the duo needed to go to €110,000 to safe their buy.
“He’s a really good, handsome colt, a great mannequin for a primary foal, and he’s our decide of the sale,” mentioned Brivio, who’s a robust supporter of the September Yearling Sale and mentioned: “I’ve been fortunate with the horses purchased from this sale and it’s a sale I significantly like to come back to.”
The colt’s breeder Nicola FitzGerald of Cherryvalley Farms was understandably delighted with the end result.
“We’re very joyful for the mare, it’s a lovely household, we’ve got the complete brother at dwelling and she or he is in-foal to Mehmas ,” mentioned FitzGerald. “Kotaya was bred by the Aga Khan and is a cracking large robust mare.”
Lot 231, one in all solely two colts cataloged within the sale by Yeomanstown Stud’s first-season sire Shaman , offered for €110,000 to agent Alex Elliott. The sale offered Grangemore Stud with a fantastic pinhooking end result—final autumn the farm paid simply €16,000 for Barry Lynch’s Funcheon Bloodstock-bred colt.
The web page has benefited from a well timed replace—yesterday night the colt’s half-brother Insurgent Diamond gained the listed Ballyhane Blenheim Stakes at Fairyhouse.
Man O’Callaghan of Grangemore mentioned: “It’s nice for Shaman, he has had a great begin to his season and it’s actually pleasing to see a horse of this caliber promote so nicely. This colt was an enormous, robust, man-of-a-horse as a foal, and he has come again to the sale ring as a much bigger and extra highly effective model.”
The September Yearling Sale continues tomorrow at 10 am native time.
This press launch has been edited for content material and magnificence by BloodHorse Employees.