Tattersalls

Two more wildcards have joined the bumper Tattersalls December Mares Sale with listed winner Sakti (Ire) (Caravaggio) set to sell on Tuesday as lot 1771B and maiden winner Naughty Eyes (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) catalogued as lot 1486D on Monday.  Three-year-old Sakti, who will be consigned by Grove Stud, is trained by Ger Lyons was placed on all three starts at two, including finishing runner-up in the G2 Debutante and G3 Park Stakes. She won a Dundalk maiden in March before returning to stakes company, winning the Listed Cooley Fillies &...

Another manic sale season is upon us. Goffs kick-starts what promises to be an exciting few weeks with the November Foal Sale getting underway on Monday followed by the mares sessions on Friday and Saturday before the action rolls on to Tattersalls at Newmarket before concluding at Arqana next month.  So where does the value lie over what is usually a helter-skelter few weeks of trade? Gwen Monneraye of the La Motteraye Consignment, Mimi Wadham of WH Bloodstock and Tally-Ho Stud's Roger O'Callaghan weigh in on the big topics ahead...

Trainer George Boughey has described Group 2 winner Believing (Ire) Mehmas {Ire}) as the "perfect outcross" for breeders ahead of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. The Highclere Racing-owned four-year-old, who has danced every dance this season and reached a career-high rating of 112, is one of the star attractions of the Sceptre Sessions at that sale and Boughey says that his stable star would be a no-brainer for potential buyers. He said, "With her being a Group 1 filly by Mehmas, who has had a record-breaking season and has become...

Blessed Truly (Super Speedy) and Moraless (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}) have been added to the Monday of the Sceptre Sessions at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Both mares are in foal to Too Darn Hot (GB) on southern hemisphere time. The seven-year-old Blessed Truly, a restricted stakes winner at Woodbine, will be consigned by Culworth Grounds Farm as lot 1485B. The unraced Moraless, now four and in foal for the first time, will be consigned by Imperium Sales as lot 1486B. She is a half-sister to the Group 2-winning duo of Hunting...

King Gold (Fr) (Anodin {Ire}) (lot 50), a winner of the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest, anchors the catalogue for the Tattersalls Online November Sale, which was released on Thursday. Featuring 109 horses in- and out-of-training, 42 broodmares, 28 yearlings, 11 foals, four stores, and breeding rights in Group 1 sire Ardad (Ire) (lot 194) and first-season sire Sergei Prokofiev (lot 195), the sale will be held on Nov. 20-21. A total of 196 lots will go under the hammer, a new record for the Tattersalls Online platform. King Gold...

Zero Gravity (GB) (Dansili {GB}), the dam of this year's G1 British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes winner Kalpana (GB) (Study Of Man {Ire}), has been added to the Tattersalls December Mares Sale as a wildcard and will be offered as lot 1485A during the Sceptre Sessions on Monday, December 2. She will be offered in foal to Chaldean (GB) by Ed Player's Whatton Manor Stud, who also consigned her Too Darn Hot (GB) filly at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale where she was purchased by Shadwell...

The best is yet to come from You Got To Me (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), according to her trainer Ralph Beckett, who drew parallels between the Irish Oaks heroine and his brilliant Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}) ahead of the December Mares Sale at Tattersalls, which takes place from December 2 to 5.  You Got To Me, who will go through the ring on Tuesday, December 3, is one of the star attractions at the upcoming Sceptre Sessions and Beckett admitted that he is quietly hopeful...

Tattersalls has donated £50,000 to the Retraining of Racehorses charity for the calendar year 2024. Having supported the RoR as sole sponsor of their popular Showing Series for thoroughbreds since its inception in 2015, the £50,000 Tattersalls contribution reflects a commitment to the Showing Series, but also to the wider work of the ROR whose strategy published earlier this year has been widely praised within the racing and breeding industry. Commenting on the donation, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said, "Tattersalls has been the proud sponsor of the Retraining of Racehorses...

Prix Marcel Boussac winner Vertical Blue (Ire) has been added to the Sceptre Sessions at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.  Trained by Francis-Henri Graffard for owners Gemini Stud and Argella Racing, the Mehmas (Ire) filly is the highest-rated juvenile in France.  Graffard commented, "I've loved Vertical Blue since she arrived and I was delighted that she was able to show that on the track. Physically she has plenty of scope to improve and her turn of foot, as well as her great attitude, have us all excited about what she...

Tweenhills owner David Redvers has applauded Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony for speaking out against the government's budget announcement that limits inheritance tax for farms to £1m.  Despite having just overseen another memorable sale at Park Paddocks, where a new record was broken for the highest-priced horse sold at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale at 1.3 million gns, Mahony used that platform to highlight changes made in the budget that he says will have a "negative impact on the whole racing and breeding sector" in Britain. Agricultural property has been passed...

Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony outlined his concerns arising from the government's budget announcement when reflecting on what proved to be a memorable Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale that saw a record-high price paid for the 1.3 million gns Delius (GB) (Frankel {GB}) earlier in the week.  That Coolmore-owned three-year-old was sold on Wednesday to continue his career in Australia for trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott and Mahony praised the large cohort of international buyers who made the trip to Tattersalls for what has been another successful sale at Park Paddocks. Despite...

The Australian buyers remained strong on what was an admittedly low-key Thursday affair at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses-In-Training Sale, with Stuart Boman securing Native King (GB) (Kingman {GB}) to join the stable of Annabel Neasham for owners Go Racing for a joint session-topping 85,000gns.  Boman has been busy at Tattersalls this week, with Native King the 14th horse he managed to secure, and the Blandford Bloodstock agent described the overall recruitment from the sale as the busiest ever for the agency.  "I had bought 13 horses before this chap so...