Seven ‘Super Sale’ Sires

As things turned out, the difference between Tuesday’s opening session of this week’s Tattersalls October 1 yearling sale and the subsequent two sessions could be summarized by the following statistic: Galileo (Ire) and Dubawi (Ire), between them, had 42 yearlings catalogued to the sale. On Tuesday, only six of those 42 were catalogued; the remaining 36 were catalogued on Wednesday and Thursday. Darley’s Dubawi, who had 10 sell of his 13 catalogued throughout the whole sale, actually returned a higher average than Galileo, who had 22 sell of 29 catalogued. Dubawi averaged 654,500gns (about $1.1-million); Galileo averaged 577,727gns (about $977,000). Very significantly, all 10 Dubawis were bought by Maktoum entities: John Ferguson signed for six, Rabbah for three, Shadwell for one. That’s a statement.

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