Sedaka (NZ)

The five-year-old broodmare Sedaka (NZ), offered in foal to Too Darn Hot (GB) on a Southern Hemisphere cover, has been sold for a record 210,000gns to Bruce Slade of Kestrel Thoroughbreds, on behalf of Nocab Racing. The top-priced lot in the Tattersalls Online December Sale, she also becomes the highest-priced broodmare ever sold on the platform. The daughter of Savabeel (Aus), who was twice Group-placed as a three-year-old, was consigned by Watership Down Stud and is set to stay in Britain in the short term, with a return visit to...

The inaugural Southern Hemisphere Session catalogue, featuring an octet of mares in foal to Group 1 sire Too Darn Hot (GB), was released by Tattersalls Online and Inglis Digital on Friday. A champion first-season sire in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the Darley stallion will not shuttle to Australia this year. Set for Dec. 11-12, the sale features the previously announced group-placed duo of Know Thyself (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Sedaka (NZ) (Savabeel {Aus}) and the lightly raced Crimson Coronet (GB) (Zoustar {Aus}). The five new additions to the catalogue...