Park Paddocks

A total of 314 yearlings have been catalogued for the third edition of the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale set for Park Paddocks on Tuesday, Sept. 5. Bradsell (GB) (Tasleet {GB}), a 12,000gns alum from the inaugural edition of the sale, won the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot in 2022, and added the G1 King's Stand S. this term. Other notable graduates of the sale are GII San Clemente S. heroine Anisette (GB) (Awtaad {Ire}), and £250,000 Weatherbys Super Sprint victress Relief Rally (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), who was also runner-up...

The re-located one-day Tattersalls Summer Sale, held Tuesday at Newmarket's Park Paddocks, saw 77 lots of the 96 offered pass through the ring as sold (80%) for gross receipts of 778,200gns. Formerly under the now-defunct Tattersalls Ascot umbrella, the sale averaged 10,106gns, and the median was 5,000gns. Horses owned by Rabbah Bloodstock were offered by a variety of agents and filled the top three spots, with wildcard entry Midnight Lion (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) (lot 79) bringing 85,000gns from Nick Taylor, assistant to Tom Malone Bloodstock, to top the day. The...

Seven wildcards have been added to the catalogue for Tuesday's Tattersalls Summer Sale, which gets underway at 11:00 a.m. at Park Paddocks in Newmarket. Among the additions are the 3-year-old colt Midnight Lion (GB) (Nethaniel {Ire}), who captured a Goodwood maiden in June. He is a half-brother to flat Listed winner and Group 3 hurdles winner Eradicate (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) and Group 3 winner Oh Goodness Me (GB) (Galileo {Ire}). The Tattersalls Summer Sale, formerly the Tattersalls Ascot July Sale, will offer 125 lots and the catalogue can viewed on...

The winning Laafi (Fr) (Cloth Of Stars {Ire}) (lot 74) is one of 120 lots catalogued for the Tattersalls Summer Sale set for Tuesday, July 18 in Newmarket. Moved to Park Paddocks and formerly the Tattersalls Ascot July Sale, the sale features 37 fillies and mares in and out of training, 55 colts and geldings in and out of training, four broodmares, four point-to-pointers, and 15 store horses. Consigned by William Haggas's Somerville Lodge, Laafi is rated 98, having a win and a fourth-place run in the Listed Lingfield Derby...

NEWMARKET, UK--Nobody prospecting breeze-up horses here on Thursday will have needed reminding that there is "many a slip twixt cup and lip." For one thing, the perils of the horse trade had been tragically amplified by the shocking accident that had meanwhile claimed the colt who set a sale record at Doncaster the previous week. The highest price recorded in the opening Horses-in-Training session here, meanwhile, actually represented only a quarter of the sum for which the same horse had been knocked down in the same ring last October. Nonetheless...

The catalogue for the 2023 Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up and Horses-in-Training Sale is now online. Breezes will take place at Newmarket's Rowley Mile Racecourse at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3. The horses-in-training portion of the sale, featuring 154 lots, will begin at 9:30 a.m. on May 4. There are 201 lots for the breeze-up sale, which begins at 2 p.m. later that same day. Past graduates of the Guineas Breeze-Up Sale include crack sprinter and multiple Group 1 winner The Platinum Queen (Ire) (Cotai Glory {GB}), G2 Beresford S. hero...

Barely two months have passed since the Tattersalls December Sale ended the Park Paddocks sale year, and the curtain is already rising on the 2023 sales season, as the two-day February Sale, begins on Thursday. The catalogue features a diverse group of over 370 fillies and mares in/out-of-training, broodmares, colts and geldings in/out-of-training, yearlings, and 2-year-olds. One of the highlights of the sale is consigned by Barton Sales on behalf of Lady Ogden, lot 93. A striking bay son of the late Galileo (Ire), the Apr. 26-born juvenile is out...

Group 2 winner Sky Full Of Stars (Ger) (Kendargent {Fr}), in foal to three-time Group 1 winner Advertise (GB), leads 12 wildcard entries to the Tattersalls February Sale on Feb. 2-3. Consigned by Wood Hall Sales as part of a dispersal, she is lot 190D; and will be joined by the Grade 1-placed black-type heroine Frenzified (GB) (Yeats {Ire}) (lot 190C), who is out of a half-sister to G1 Australian Oaks winner Colette (Aus) (Hallowed Crown {Aus}) and is also in foal to Advertise. Other mares in foal to Advertise...

A total of 463 lots have been catalogued for the two-day Tattersalls February Sale and can be viewed online. The sale will begin after the TBA Stallion Parade, which starts at 11 a.m., on Tuesday, Feb. 2, and at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 3. The catalogue is comprised of 203 fillies and mares in/out-of-training, 37 broodmares and one stallion, 200 colts and geldings in/out-of-training, 11 yearlings and 11 2-year-olds. There are high class consignments from leading owner-breeders including Godolphin (16) and from leading British trainers including Andrew Balding (10),...

Lot 1063, a bay daughter of Frankel (GB)--Sunny Again (GB) (Shirocco {Ger}), caught the eye of Fiona Craig, who shelled out 550,000 gns on behalf of Moyglare Stud Farm at Tattersalls on Friday. The second-highest lot of the day so far, the Apr. 4 foal from the Mount Coote Stud draft, is a half-sister to Group 3 winner Elisa Again (GB) (Champs Elysees {GB}), stakes winner and G1 St Leger runner-up Berkshire Rocco (Fr) (Sir Percy {GB}), and the G1 Moyglare Stud S. third Sunset Shiraz (Ire) (Time Test {GB})....

Heatherwold Stud's lot 1041 proved popular at Tattersalls on Friday, making 500,000 gns to Juddmonte, once again. Already responsible for acquiring a 500,000gns Lope De Vega (Ire) filly (lot 928) and a 1 million gns Kingman (GB) filly (lot 1025), the operation extended their support for their resident stallion Frankel (GB), whose filly is out of dual listed winner and GI Beverly D. S. runner-up Awesometank (GB) (Intense Focus). Third dam Slip Dance (Ire) (Celtic Swing {GB}), a stakes winner and Group 3-placed, is related to G1 Irish St Leger...

Taking the lead at Tattersalls on Friday, was a bay filly by Kingman (GB) (lot 1025), who sold for 1 million gns to Juddmonte Farms. That outfit had already struck for Friday's previous top lot, lot 928, a filly by Lope De Vega (Ire), for 500,000gns earlier in the session. Offered by breeder Whitsbury Manor Stud, the daughter of the winning Suelita (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}) is a half-sister to G1 Dewhurst S. hero Chaldean (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and G2 Mill Reef S. victor-turned-sire Alkumait (GB) (Showcasing {GB}), as well...