A trying breeze-up season for European consignors reached a satisfactory plateau in the BBAG Sale at Iffezheim on Friday, with indices recovering from a tough session last year.
The sale of 52 lots from 77 offered almost exactly replicated the clearance rate in 2017, at 67.53%, but both average and median inched forwards to €10,052 (up 4.6%) and €10,014 (up 1.5%) respectively. With only 43 lots sold last year, however, much the biggest gain was in turnover of €522,700, up 26.5%-albeit still not quite back to the levels of the three preceding years.
At €55,000, the top price of the day was paid by Blandford Bloodstock for a Maxios (GB) colt. Consigned by Philip Prevost Baratte as Lot 22, he is out of the listed winner Sarabia (Ger) (One Cool Cat)–previously responsible for a scorer at the same level in Simba (GB) (Teofilo {Ire})–and had changed hands in the same ring last September for €28,000.
The top filly was Lot 84, by Camelot (GB) out of an unraced daughter of Pivotal and G1 Golden Jubilee S. runner-up Danehurst (GB) (Danehill). Presented by Huggan Bloodstock, she raised €49,000 from Adelresort.
Andreas Lowe meanwhile gave €43,000 for Lot 39, a colt by Adlerflug (Ger) out of Burning Heart (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}). And if the majority of the other lots sold made just four figures, then their purchasers will all know that subsequent Arc winner Danedream (Ger) (Lomitas {GB}) changed hands here for just €9,000 in 2010.
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