The Tattersalls October Yearling Sale drew to a close on Saturday with an abbreviated final session of Book 3. The top price on the day was 48,000gns, paid by trainer Mick Quinn on behalf of owner Kenneth Bruce for lot 1930, a filly from the first crop of Garswood (GB) consigned by Mickley Stud. Mickley consigned the daughter of the Dark Angel (Ire) mare Dora's Sister (Ire) on behalf of Dalwhinnie Bloodstock, and Mickley's Richard Kent said, “It is a group of three of us. One has a childrens' nursery and the other produces colours for plastics. We got together to race Radio Gaga [listed winner] and we've been friends since. We bought this mare privately from trainer John Quinn. Her first foal died, but [the 2-year-old out of the mare] Peggy's Angel, who we kept, is good and has chances of listed form this afternoon, and this Garswood is a very special filly.”
Peggy's Angel won a pair of races earlier this season but was last of 11 in Saturday's Listed Rockingham S. at York.
“I have two Dark Angel mares at home–Dora's Angel and Blanc De Chine, she is the dam of Havana Grey,” Kent added. “We chose Garswood because of his speed, and he was good value. The mare had a Hot Streak filly foal this year and went to Brazen Beau.”
The final session of Book 3 added 790,200gns to the sale's total, with 68 yearlings sold from 89 offered. The average for the day was 11,621gns, and the median 9,000gns. As last year's Book 3 was just two days, there are no comparative statistics.
Book 3 closes with 473 lots sold for 7,839,450gns. The average of 16,574gns was down 8%, while the median dipped 15% to 11,000gns. The buyback rate was down slightly to 20.6%.
At the conclusion of the 2017 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said, “There have been records broken, and extraordinary highlights over the past two weeks of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, but it is appropriate at this point to express our gratitude to the huge number of people who have all made a contribution to Europe's premier yearling sale. There is an awful lot of hard work and dedication which goes into producing yearlings for sale at any level of the market and it is a source of pride that so many breeders from throughout Britain, Ireland and further afield, make the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale their preferred choice. The quality of the stock offered at any sale is the key to attracting the buyers and to have seen so many new faces suggests not only that the global appetite for quality European bloodstock remains strong, but that the buyers recognise the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale as the premier source of Europe's finest yearlings.”
“In total nearly 160-million guineas has been spent at this year's October Yearling Sale; more than double the figure of as recently as 2011. The once-in-a-generation Ballymacoll Dispersal made a wonderful start in a record-breaking Book 1; the 4-million guineas Book 1 sale topper was the highest-priced yearling to be sold anywhere in the world this year; October Book 2 broke records across the board including a new individual high of 850,000 guineas, and Book 3 has also achieved record turnover and sustained international participation. There have been distractions this week, but all of the above suggests that there is so much to be proud of in the bloodstock industry and we will continue to work tirelessly to maintain the very highest standards which have made the Tattersalls name synonymous with bloodstock sales and integrity for the past 251 years.”
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