Tattersalls October Yearling Sale

It's been tricky to focus on the racing of late with all the theatrics at Tattersalls, so let's call this fourteen days and attempt a catch-up in the brief period between the sales starting up again at Arqana on Tuesday. The extraordinary prices of Books 1 and 2 at the October Yearling Sale tell only half the story, and we all know that in any sales season there are tales of the haves and the have-nots. Perhaps the most interesting element of the top end is what feels like a...

NEWMARKET, UK -- The contrast could not have been more stark. From the high-flying bids of Book 1, the wave of a hand or catalogue was harder to spot on Friday as Books 3 and 4 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale drew to a close. If last week and the beginning of this week had an almost surreal air, this then was reality. Overall, however, there was little doubting since the close of Book 1 that this would be a vintage edition of the sale as a whole, and...

NEWMARKET, UK -- Blood will out. At 4,300,000gns a new record was set for a yearling colt at Tattersalls on Thursday from the immediate family of the most expensive yearling ever sold in Europe. But he was far from the sole highlight in the final session of Book 1, which can only be described as a bonanza. Record turnover, average, median and a world record yearling price in 2024 were the key indicators of a sale that has lit up an otherwise somewhat underwhelming European yearling sales season so far...

The bids came in thick and fast for lot 402, a daughter of Camelot (GB) and the multiple group placed Sense of Style (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) from the draft of Camas Park Stud. Amo Racing made the winning bid at 2,900,000 gns on the third day of Tattersalls October's Book 1. They had shelled out 4,300,000 gns for a son of Wootton Bassett (GB) earlier in the day. Her dam is a half-sister to multiple Group 1 winner Luxembourg (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), as well as G2 Mooresbridge Stakes hero Leo...

NEWMARKET, UK -- As a statement of intent it was a pretty serious one. Ten yearlings bought and 11,045,000gns spent by Amo Racing while many at Park Paddocks were still finishing their lunch. Amo principal Kia Joorabchian, amid an entourage which included Nottingham Forest FC owner Evangelos Marinakis and bloodstock agent Alex Elliott, would not be beaten on the day's leading lady, Newsells Park Stud's Frankel (GB) filly out of Aljazzi (GB) (Shamardal). The hammer eventually fell at 4,400,000gns - the second-highest price ever paid for a Book 1 yearling....

Amo Racing purchased their second seven-figure lot of the afternoon at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Tuesday when going to 2,500,000gns for Staffordstown's Frankel (GB) full-sister to Alpinista (GB), who counted the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe among her six Group 1 victories. Evangelos Marinakis, the owner of Nottingham Forest football club, has been standing alongside Amo's Kia Joorabchian all day. Lot 72 is out of the Listed-winning mare Alwilda (GB) (Hernando {Fr}) which also makes her a half-sister to the Listed winner Alpenblume (GB) (Kendargent...

The seven-figure mark was breached in some style at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Tuesday as a filly by Frankel (GB) sold for 4,400,000gns to Amo Racing. Offered by breeders Newsells Park Stud, lot 68 is the second foal out of the G2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes winner Aljazzi (GB) (Shamardal) who won five of her 16 starts for Marco Botti, with her other victories including the G3 Atalanta Stakes. She in turn is a daughter of the Listed-winning Danehill Dancer (Ire) mare Nouriya (GB). Evangelos...

NEWMARKET, UK -- A sister to Alpinista (GB)? How about one to St Mark's Basilica (Fr) or Charyn (Ire), or a brother to Hurricane Lane (Ire)? Then there are the first foals, by Dubawi (Ire) no less, of Lady Bowthorpe (GB) and Glass Slippers (GB), or the first foal from Wonderful Tonight (Fr), by Frankel (GB), with those two top stallions accounting for 10 per cent of Book 1 entries between them.  Camelot (GB) leapfrogged Dubawi on Sunday to be head of the sires' table for Europe when his daughter...

"This business is a great leveller," says Emma Banks, who is preparing for the sales debut of the first foal of her star mare Lady Bowthorpe (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) at Tattersalls next week. The Dubawi (Ire) colt is being consigned by Fittocks Stud, where he was born, and is lot 242 on Wednesday.  "It's getting nerve-wracking. He's going to be the second horse I've sold this year. I had a yearling in the Somerville Sale, which didn't sell. I'd have happily raced him but Tim Easterby bought him outside the...

Wine and racehorses. What, as they say, is not to like? It worked for Marchese Mario Incisa della Rochetta, whose delicious drop of Tuscan red, Sassicaia, is revered the world over, and who found fame in the Thoroughbred world as the co-owner and breeder, with Federico Tesio, of the great Ribot (Ity) among others.  Now Graham Smith-Bernal, who bought Newsells Park Stud from the Jacobs family in 2021, is aiming for a similar sideline in excellence.  In the name of proper and thorough journalistic research, a crack team of wine...

The £150,000 Tattersalls Auction Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse's Rowley Mile will be run at seven furlongs beginning in 2025. Previously conducted over six furlongs, the race is open to graduates of Book 3 and Book 4 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale. The 2025 edition is scheduled for Oct. 4, 2025. Graduates of Books 3 and 4 of the 2024 October Yearling Sale will also be eligible for the first time for the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes, which will be held over six...

A full-sister to G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}) will be offered by her breeder Kirsten Rausing's Staffordstown Stud during the first day of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, the sales company announced on Tuesday. Book 1 of the sale takes place from Oct. 8-10 in Newmarket. Kirsten Rausing said, "Lanwades and Staffordstown are proud to present world champion Alpinista's own sister at Tattersalls October Book 1. The filly, an exceptional individual whose pedigree speaks for itself, represents the pinnacle of my...