Tattersalls To Disperse Ballymacoll Stock

With no buyer in the pipeline for Ballymacoll Stud in its entirety after being on the market for 12 months, manager Peter Reynolds and the trustees of the stud decided to disperse the farm's stock at Tattersalls over several of the Newmarket-based auction house's sales beginning in the autumn, Tattersalls announced Sunday. A total of 48 horses–made up of mares (14), horses in and out of training (16), nine yearlings and nine foals–will be offered for sale at Tattersalls in via the October Yearling Sale Book 1 Oct. 3-5, Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale Oct. 30-Nov. 2, December Foal Sale Nov. 29-Dec. 2 and the December Mare Sale Dec. 4-7.

Champion and Breeders' Cup heroine Islington (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), who won four times at the highest level and is in foal to Kingman (GB), highlights the dispersal. Justlookdontouch (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), carrying to Sea The Stars (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and MSW Abingdon (Street Cry {Ire}) will also be offered. Since being purchased by the Weinstock family in 1960, Ballymacoll Stud has produced 30 Group 1 winners including two G1 Epsom Derby winners in Troy (Ire) and North Light (Ire) (Danehill).

“It has been a privilege to have overseen the Ballymacoll Stud racing and breeding operation on behalf of the Weinstock family for 45 years,” commented long-standing farm manager Peter Reynolds. We have enjoyed so many truly wonderful days on racecourses throughout the world and I am enormously proud of what the team at Ballymacoll Stud has achieved over the years. To have owned or bred the winners of the Derby, the Oaks, the 2000 Guineas, the St Leger, the Irish Derby, the Irish Oaks, the Irish 2000 Guineas, the Melbourne Cup, the Breeders' Cup Turf, the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf and the Japan Cup all in the last 50 years, is a magnificent tribute to the commitment of the Weinstock family and all associated with Ballymacoll Stud. The success of Ballymacoll Stud reflects our consistent pursuit of excellence and Tattersalls is an appropriate stage on which to offer the Ballymacoll stock to as wide an international audience as possible.”

Added Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony, “For more than 50 years the famous pale blue silks of Ballymacoll Stud have been a symbol of sporting excellence throughout the thoroughbred world and Tattersalls is honoured to have been entrusted with the dispersal of such outstanding bloodstock. Rarely, if ever, has a broodmare band of relatively modest numbers achieved so much on the global stage, and the Ballymacoll Stud Dispersal at Tattersalls represents a unique opportunity to share in a legacy of spectacular success and unprecedented over achievement. Tattersalls is proud to be conducting this dispersal on behalf of the trustees of Ballymacoll Stud and proud to share with them the same enduring ethos of excellence and utmost integrity.”