The Sapphire Sale catalogue, featuring 200 foals, yearlings and breeding stock, is now online, Tattersalls Ireland revealed on Friday. Slated for Saturday, Nov. 12, the one-day sale will begin at 10:30 a.m. All of the yearlings offered will be eligible for the €300,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales S. at the Curragh on Irish Champions Weekend. Yearling sale grad Bellabel (Ire) (Belardo {Ire}) won the GII San Clemente S. at Del Mar this year and was also runner-up in the GI Del Mar Oaks. G1 Matron S. heroine Champers Elysees (Ire) (Elzaam {Aus}) is a Sapphire Sale weanling graduate.
Among the yearlings on offer is a full-brother to G3 Princess Margaret S. heroine Santosha (Ire) (Coulsty {Ire}) (lot 8); a Calyx (GB) half-sister to listed winner and Group 2-placed Easton Angel (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) (lot 20); and a Pearl Secret (GB) half-sister to two black-type horses in Tilly's Chilli (Ire) (Excelebration {Ire}) and Cormier (Ire) (Born To Sea {Ire}) (lot 16). Seventy of the 88 yearlings catalogued are out of winners or are siblings to winners, while 24 yearlings have black-type in the first dam.
There are also 23 winning mares or producers of winners in the broodmare portion of the sale. The stakes-producing Whitefall (Street Cry {Ire}) has been consigned as lot 200, while listed winner Fanditha (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) already has four winners to her credit and is consigned as lot 171.
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