Camille Pissarro

A new record for the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale was set on Monday as Clara Stud's Dark Angel (Ire) half-sister to Group 1 winners Camille Pissarro (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) and Golden Horde {Ire}) (Lethal Force {Ire}) was sold for 900,000gns. Henry Lascelles placed the winning bid for the daughter of Entreat (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) but declined to name his client. He confirmed that the filly (lot 63) had been bought for an English owner-breeder and would go into training in Britain. Breeder James Cloney of Clara Stud said that the...

As poster boys and girls go, the Group 1-winning three-year-olds Economics (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) and You Got To Me (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) aren't too bad at all. It's a truism that plenty of top-flight winners in Europe are owned by their breeders, but it also the case that all breeders have to sell some of their young stock, and plenty of hard graft at the foal sales can unearth a good one.  The Classic winner You Got To Me returns to the December Mares Sale next week in...

During a time where rising costs and a shaky underbelly to the yearling and foal market is causing many producers to rejig their approach to the breeding season, James Cloney certainly did his bit to provide smaller breeders either side of the Irish Sea with some much-needed encouragement when Camille Pissarro (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) entered the Royal Ascot picture by making a winning debut for Aidan O'Brien at Navan last weekend. Sold by the breeder to Coolmore's MV Magnier and Peter Brant's White Birch Farm for 1.25 million gns...