Northern Farm hosted its mixed sale at the Northern Horse Park on Tuesday which featured a 100 per cent clearance rate for the 66 weanlings offered.
These were led by the Kitasan Black colt out of the Listed winner and G1 British Champion Fillies and Mares Stakes runner-up Delphinia (Galileo), who was bought by Louisville Racing for ¥460m (approximately €2.6m).
The same buyer had also signed up the first foal through the ring, a colt by Epiphaneia from the champion Argentinean two-year-old filly Carta Embrujada (Storm Embrujada) for ¥220m (€1.25m).
The demand for youngsters by Kitasan Black remains strong, and the Shadai stallion's four weanlings sold throughout the session returned an average of ¥205m (€1.16m).
Iridessa (Ruler Of The World), the G1 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner of 2019, was represented in the catalogue by her colt foal by world champion Equinox, who was sold for ¥92m (€522,928) to Tsuyoshi Suzuki. Equinox is also the sire of a grey colt out of the G1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Incarville (Wootton Bassett), who brought the hammer down at ¥170m (€966,450) in favour of Masahide Abe.
The turnover for foals amounted to ¥43bn (approximately €25m) at an average price of ¥65.79m (€373,884), a decrease of 3.8 per cent, and median of ¥49m (€278,418), which was up by 16.7 per cent.
Of the 43 fillies and mares offered, eight failed to reach their reserve and the session was topped by the 10-year-old Danon Grace, a daughter of Deep Impact and the G1 Oaks d'Italia winner Cherry Collect (Oratorio) who was Grade 3-placed and a four-time winner. She was sold in foal to the young Frankel stallion Grenadier Guards for ¥40m (€263,560).
The average for the broodmare session fell slightly by one per cent to ¥11.5m (€65,343) and the median was up by 22.5 per cent at ¥9.5m (€53,979).
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