DBS Breeze Up Sale Begins Today

The DBS Breeze Up Sale will get underway Wednesday with 181 juveniles set to breeze over Doncaster Racecourse before they go through the ring Thursday. 

Numbers at the sale remain similar to last year’s catalogue which featured 182 juveniles, a 25% increase from 2013. Last year’s sale graduates include Italian Highweight and G2 Gran Criterium S. winner Hero Look (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), who sold for £62,000 and is currently aiming for France’s G1 2000 Guineas; and record-setting £340,000 sale-topper Likely (Ger) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), a five-length maiden winner at Carlisle who is being pointed at the G1 1000 Guineas. 

Many of the world’s leading stallions are represented in the 2015 catalogue, including Acclamation (GB), Cape Blanco (Ire), Distorted Humor, Exceed and Excel (Aus), Exchange Rate, Holy Roman Emperor (Ire), Lope De Vega (Ire), G1SW and DBS graduate Paco Boy (Ire) and Street Cry (Ire). 

Some of the catalogue’s highlights include Lot 8, a colt by Sky Mesa out of GISW See How She Runs (Maria’s Mon); Lot 11, a Siyouni colt out of a daughter of GI Kentucky Oaks winner Gal in a Ruckus (Bold Ruckus) and from the family of South African champion Soft Falling Rain (Saf) (National Assembly); Lot 19, a Street Cry (Ire) half-sister to GSW Necessary Evil (Harlan’s Holiday); and Lot 31, a Cape Cross half-brother to GSW and G1SP Penkenna Princess (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}).

The breezes, which start at 10 a.m. Wednesday, can be viewed live on the DBS website, and the sale gets underway at 10 a.m. Thursday. Click here to view the catalogue.