A galaxy of well-bred potential stars featured in the release of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 catalogue on Wednesday, headed by the Frankel (GB) sister to Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Alpinista (GB), which had already been announced last week.
The Book 1 catalogue boats 21 yearlings by Dubawi (Ire), 25 Frankels, 26 by Kingman (GB), 29 by Lope De Vega (Ire) while fellow top-notchers Sea The Stars (Ire) [22], Siyouni (Fr) [10] and Wootton Bassett (GB) [23] are similarly well-represented.
The catalogue features own or half-brothers and sisters to 45 Classic and Group 1 winners and 219 Group/Listed winners. Frankel earned a second champion sire title in 2023 and has a typically high-class collection of yearlings catalogued, led by that sister to the Arc and six-time Group 1 winner Alpinista. She will be joined by the own brother to dual Classic winner Hurricane Lane (Ire) and colts out of Classic and Group/Grade 1 winners Beauty Parlour (GB), Blond Me (Ire), Pretty Pollyanna (GB), Seal Of Approval (GB) and Urban Fox (GB).
It wouldn't be Book 1 with a big offering for Dubawi, and the Daddy of Dalham Hall Stud has a number of big-ticket yearlings catalogued, with colts out of big-name mares Glass Slippers (GB), Lady Bowthorpe (GB), Loving Dream (GB) and Snow Lantern (GB) among his representatives.
Regally bred fillies catalogued by Dubawi include half-sisters to the multiple Group/Grade 1 winners Rizeena (Ire) and Uni (GB), as well as daughters of the Group 2 winner Waldlied (GB), the half-sister to Arc winner and European Champion Waldgeist (GB) and more.
Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said, “There is a simple reason that Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale holds its status as Europe's premier yearling sale and that is because year after year it produces the highest percentage of superior racehorses of any European yearling sale. It is a sale that produces stallions and breed shaping broodmares like no other and the 2024 catalogue has the abundance of Europe's finest yearlings that the leading buyers from throughout the world have come to expect.
“The combination of the best British and Irish yearlings and the hugely rewarding £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonuses available to every Book 1 yearling is a compelling package and the catalogue for Book 1 of the 2024 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale truly lives up to the sale's unrivalled position as Europe's premier yearling sale.”
Well over a third of the yearlings catalogued are by the top 10 sires currently standing in Europe and devotees of first-season sires are also well catered for with a strong cohort of freshmen represented including Group 1 winners Lucky Vega (Ire), Palace Pier (GB), Space Blues (Ire), Starman (GB), St Mark's Basilica (Fr) and Supremacy (Ire).
The largest draft comes from last year's leading consignor Newsells Park Stud who will offer 27 yearlings, followed by the Castlebridge Consignment with 22 and Baroda Stud who have 19 lots catalogued.
Participating owners will receive a £25,000 bonus if their 2024 October Book 1 purchase wins a Class 2, 3 or 4 two-year-old maiden or novice race in Britain run between 29 March 2025 and 8 November 2025 or any open two-year-old maiden run in Ireland between 16 March 2025 and 2 November 2025. The cost to enter the £25,000 Tattersalls October 'Book 1 Bonus' Scheme will be a single payment of £2,000 and the number of qualifying British and Irish two-year-old maiden and novice races is greater than 300.
The catalogue is online now and will be available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives from Wednesday, 21st August.
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