A total of 465 yearlings have been catalogued for the fourth edition of the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, which will be held over two days at Park Paddocks for the first time this year. The opening session starts at 10am on Monday, September 2.
Graduates of the Somerville Yearling Sale include Anisette (GB) (Awtaad {Ire}), who started her career in Britain after being bought for 26,000 guineas back in 2021. She later joined Leonard Powell in the US and was last seen gaining her third top-level win in the Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita in May.
Anisette joins Bradsell (GB) (Tasleet {GB}), successful in last year's King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, as top-level winning graduates. Bradsell sold for 12,000 guineas, also in 2021, while last year Arabian Dusk (GB) (Havana Grey {GB}) was picked up for 80,000 guineas. She went on to fetch 525,000 guineas at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale and recently showed her top-class potential when winning the G2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes at Newmarket's July Festival.
The catalogue for this year's sale includes full- or half-siblings to 77 Group and Listed performers, plus 66 yearlings out of mares who achieved Group or Listed black type while racing. Highlights include lot 235, a half-sister to the GI Natalma Stakes winner La Pelosa (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}) by Earthlight (Ire); lot 279, a half-brother to last weekend's G2 Sapphire Stakes heroine Believing (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) by Inns Of Court (Ire); lot 156, a colt by Lucky Vega (Ire) out of the G2 Queen Mary Stakes scorer Gilded (Ire) (Redback {GB}); and lot 366, a Kameko colt out of the multiple Group 3 winner Rose Of Kildare (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}).
All yearlings catalogued will be eligible for the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes, as well as the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes. In addition, 110 fillies are registered for the Great British Bonus scheme and are eligible to win up to £20,000 in bonus prize-money per qualifying race.
Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said, “The Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale has quickly established itself as a leading source of top-class racehorses with Group 1 winners Anisette and Bradsell leading the way alongside recent Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes winner Arabian Dusk.
“Ultimately the decision to expand the sale to two days was a straightforward one with the unprecedented demand for places reflecting not only the strength of the first three Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sales, but also the outstanding racecourse successes.
“In terms of quality we are confident that the sale has taken another step forward and Europe's most progressive yearling sale yet again looks set to attract a wide cross-section of domestic and international buyers.”
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