Sales
‘She was the one I really wanted’ – James Delahooke nets Durance for €750,000
The high-class filly Durance (Champs Elysees) came to the fore on a day of highly competitive trade at Arqana’s Breeding Stock Sale on Saturday, making €750,000 (approx. AUD$1.22 million) to Pursuit Of Success LC. The German-bred four-year-old is the tenth foal out of the remarkable Djidda (Lando) – the dam of eight black-type performers including... Read More
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Banmi tops low-key finish to Tattersalls December Mares Sale at 21,000gns
Banmi tops low-key finish to Tattersalls December Mares Sale at 21,000gns After the first three days of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale saw 114 lots fetch six figures or more, a list headed by the 2,200,000gns (approx. AUD$4,182,000) Beach Frolic (Nayef) bought by MV Magnier, proceedings proved rather more low key during Thursday’s concluding session.... Read More
Sottsass date beckons as Demi O’Byrne lands 360,000gns session-topper
Few offerings draw prospective purchasers to the Park Paddocks ring quite like the draft of Juddmonte fillies and those lots again took centre stage during another solid session of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale on Wednesday. Khalid Abdullah’s operation offered 19 three-year-olds and a single juvenile and the draft duly brought an aggregate of 1,526,000gns... Read More
Emotions run high as Coolmore land Palace Pier’s dam at 2,200,000gns
The close of one chapter invariably begets the start of another further up the racing and breeding chain, and that was certainly the case at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale on Tuesday as Highclere Stud bid farewell to Beach Frolic (Nayef), dam of champion miler Palace Pier (Kingman), as the hammer fell in favour of... Read More
Sam Haggas secures 410,000gns top lot at December Mare Sale opener
Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) hero Rekindling (High Chaparral) was led out of the Tattersalls ring unsold for 95,000gns (approx. AUD$181,500) as the December Mare Sale got underway on Monday. Trained by Joseph O’Brien to win the 2017 renewal of the Flemington showpiece, the Lloyd Williams-owned Rekindling has run just twice since, finishing last in... Read More
Sioux Nation colt repays inspired purchase by breeder Rebecca Matthews
A budding breeding syndicate received the sort of result any small player would barely dare to dream of when their Sioux Nation (Scat Daddy) colt sat on top of the standings at the final session of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale. Rebecca Matthews bought Autumn Snow ( Invincible Spirit), a once-raced maiden for Godolphin whose... Read More