Godolphin walked away from Park Paddocks with 18 new recruits from Ebook 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, with Sheikh Mohammed’s haul costing a mixed 22,020,000 guineas (US$30,167,400, 1gns=US$1.37), the largest spend by a person group throughout the three-day public sale.
The costliest of these was secured halfway by means of the concluding session Oct. 10 when the outfit outbid Coolmore at 3,700,000gns (US$5,069,000) for the Siyouni half-sister to Ylang Ylang from Newsells Park Stud.
“She’s an distinctive filly to take a look at and a half sister to a gaggle 1 winner,” mentioned Anthony Stroud. “She regarded like she had an exquisite temperament, she moved nicely. She’s by an exquisite stallion, out of a mare who’s produced a gaggle 1 winner, from an excellent farm. She ticked all of the containers.”
The main agent additionally shared his market reflections, saying: “The marketplace for fillies appears to have completely ballooned. When the market is as much as such an extent it’s extremely troublesome to anticipate what worth these horses will make. I assumed these high fillies had been all superbly well-bred and superbly offered too.
“I am shocked by how buoyant it has been, however once you get all these organizations coming in it is actually propelled the market to a distinct stratosphere. It exhibits how robust and various the market is.”
Bloodstock agent Anthony Stroud, adviser to Godolphin, was fairly busy in the course of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Ebook 1
The three,700,000gns filly was the third-top lot at this yr’s record-busting renewal of Ebook 1, and the fifth-most costly within the blue-chip public sale’s historical past. She was bred in partnership by Newsells Park and Craig Bennett’s Merry Fox Stud.
Bennett, standing in addition to Newsells Park proprietor Graham Smith-Bernal, reacted to the transaction by saying: “It is great. I am very happy. Graham’s staff have achieved a superb job. The dam simply retains on giving and we’re very fortunate to have her.”
Smith-Bernal picked up the thread, including: “It is onerous to imagine the place this market is at. We knew she was very particular, mirrored by the actual fact she had so many vettings, and have a look at the best way she carried out herself right here. She’s only a stunning filly.
“We want the brand new homeowners all the perfect, and we’re very glad as a result of we’ve got a Frankel (foal) sister to Ylang Ylang on the bottom and he or she’s again in foal carrying a Frankel colt. We’ll most likely preserve sending her to Frankel, or possibly Siyouni!”
The Newsells Park man additionally supplied an replace on Ylang Ylang’s 2-year-old Kingman half brother Kaizen, who was knocked right down to Qatar Racing and China Horse Membership for 425,000gns ultimately yr’s Ebook 1.
He mentioned: “I nonetheless retain a stake within the Kingman colt, who’s with John Gosden and is named Kaizen. The suggestions from Oisin Murphy not too long ago was this could possibly be a particular colt. We’ll retain the filly foal.”
Earlier within the day Godolphin went to 1,600,000gns for the Sea The Stars sister to 2023 Prix de Royallieu (G1) winner Sea Silk Street , who was provided by Kildaragh Stud.
“We had been very eager on Sea Silk Street when she went to the gross sales,” mentioned Stroud. “I assumed she was a really good filly, a smaller sort of Sea The Stars. She regarded very racy and it is a fantastic pedigree. I believe she’ll be a invaluable asset as soon as she’s completed racing for the paddocks.”
The filly price greater than 11 occasions what Sea Silk Street fetched at Ebook 1 as she was knocked right down to the Tsui household’s Sunderland Holding at 190,000gns in 2020.
The consequence was a private greatest for Kildaragh, and the farm’s Peter Kavanagh mentioned: “Funnily sufficient it hasn’t been ecstatic for us up till now. We have had issues that had been simply in need of the highest tier and it is not as buoyant there. However once you hit the house run you do not know the place it is going to cease. Simply all the pieces must align and are available collectively. You could have a set of 36 x-rays and something on a kind of can flip half your purchasers away.”
The Sea The Stars filly consigned as Lot 325 walks the ring at Tattersalls and sells to Godolphin for 1,600,000 gns
Godolphin additionally went to seven figures, a spherical 1,000,000gns, for the Mehmas half brother to three-time group 1 winner Excellent Energy , who joined the Dalham Corridor Stud roster in 2023. Bred and provided by Tally-Ho Stud, the colt turns into comfortably the most costly yearling by Mehmas.
Tally-Ho’s Tony O’Callaghan summed up the temper on the grounds, saying: “It has been an incredible week. There’s by no means been a Ebook 1 like this, by no means. And nobody predicted it. It is unbelievable. Lengthy could it final as a result of it is good for everybody, and the breeding facet (of the trade) wanted it badly.”
The Mehmas colt is out of Sagely, who was added to the Tally-Ho broodmare band at a price of simply 42,000gns in 2017. In addition to breeding 2021 Prix Morny (G1), 2021 Center Park Stakes (G1), and 2022 Commonwealth Cup (G1) winner Excellent Energy, she has additionally produced the listed-placed Golden Thoughts .
Reflecting on the seven-figure transaction, O’Callaghan mentioned: “I am delighted. Because the week went on folks appeared to love him an increasing number of, and the stallion has been excellent for the previous couple of months, which is a giant assist. We purchased the mare for 42,000gns on the December gross sales a couple of years in the past and he or she’s achieved nicely too.”
