The Acclamation sire line was to the fore on the higher echelons of commerce on the Goffs Orby Sale Oct. 3, the place the primary of two Ebook 2 periods returned a clearance fee of simply 70%.
On the opening day of Ebook 2 in 2023 two horses bought for six figures, however Thursday not a solitary yearling bought nearby of that mark, with the highest worth this time round coming in at €80,000 (US$88,268, €1=US$1.10).
The median fell by nearly 1 / 4 year-on-year with Thursday’s determine of €15,500 (US$17,102) a decline of 23% on the €20,000 returned final 12 months. The decline within the common was not as a pointy as that evidenced within the median with the ultimate tally of €21,697 (US$23,939) representing a drop of 9.6% on final 12 months. General receipts have been down by 15% to €3,753,500 (US$4,141,424) from €4,366,500 in 2023.
It was a troublesome day for a lot of distributors, though patrons reported stiff competitors for the handful of heaps that caught the eye of these with orders to fill.
Rathbarry Stud’s stalwart sire supplied one of many two costliest heaps on a sticky day with Johnny Murtagh shopping for Scarlett Mullion’s colt from Boherguy Stud for €80,000 (US$88,268) whereas his grandson Supremacy provided the opposite yearling to succeed in that degree, with America’s Legion Bloodstock buying Yeomanstown Stud’s homebred filly on behalf of United States proprietor Graham Grace Stables.
Acclamation’s title appeared up shut within the pedigrees of six of the day’s seven costliest yearlings.
2020 Center Park Stakes (G1) winner Supremacy is from the primary crop of Mehmas and retired to Yeomanstown Stud at a payment €12,500 for the 2022 season. The 2020 Richmond Stakes (G2) winner whose race profile is sort of just like that of his sire had seven of his 10 heaps supplied Oct. 3 promote for a mean of €31,000.
His costliest, the filly purchased to race in America, possesses a pedigree with very apparent attraction to her patrons. She is the third foal out of Dreamadreamforme who gained at 4 for Sierra Farm and was bought by Yeomanstown at age 5 on the 2019 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale for $95,000. She is a Extra Than Prepared half sister to Daddy Lengthy Legs (Scat Daddy), who gained the 2011 Royal Lodge Stakes (G2) and 2012 U.A.E. Derby (G2) for Ballydoyle and Coolmore.
Legion’s Travis Durr, who will deal with her early coaching for Graham Grace, might see loads of her broodmare sire concerning the bay.
“I am not very accustomed to Supremacy however there may be numerous Extra Than Prepared on this filly which I actually like. She is going to go to my coaching middle in South Carolina to be began,” remarked Durr.
Along with Daddy Lengthy Legs, Dreamadreamforme is a half sister to the 2007 Esplanade Stakes winner Tres Dream (Chester Home).
Legion additionally bought a Mohaather colt from Baroda Stud for €38,000 and a son of Promote , supplied by Kildaragh Stud, for €26,000.
The ultimate of 4 days’ buying and selling in yearlings at Kildare Paddocks concludes Oct. 4.