Tattersalls October Yearling Sale

Sandtrap (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}--Zindaya {GSW, $567,240}, by More Than Ready) began her career as a juvenile in the care of trainer Ralph Beckett and the dark bay broke her maiden at first asking to earn a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', at Salisbury that September. The filly was the runner-up to eventual GI Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf heroine Gezora (Fr) (Almanzor (Fr) in the G3 Prix des Reservoirs Stakes at Deauville a month later. Both Sandtrap and Gezora were transferred to Chad Brown's...

INSTABILITY (IRE) (c, 3, Lope de Vega {Ire}--Miss Katie Mae {Ire} {SW-Can, GSP-Ire, MSP-USA, $166,139}, by Dark Angel {Ire}) was made the 6-5 favorite for this unveiling and did not disappoint his supporters with a strong performance over the Tampa lawn. A 440,000gns ($591,663) purchase at the Tattersalls October yearling sale in 2024, the son of leading sire Lope de Vega (Ire) set up comfortably in mid-pack as the frontrunners posted opening splits of :23.14 and a half-mile in :47.67. He steadily improved his position from there behind six panels...

Alex Solis, one of the American buying bench's most prolific operators, described trade at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale as being "back to reality", after signing for another five yearlings this week to take his overall number of purchases across Books 1 and 2 to 14. Solis and Jason Litt, his partner in Solis/Litt Bloodstock, were registered as the buyers of four fillies and a colt at Book 1, as well as signing for four fillies in the name of leading American owner Mike Repole. The total spend on those...

The 16th and final seven-figure lot this year at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale was Ballyhimikin Stud's Night Of Thunder colt out of Wild Rye (Bated Breath), who was knocked down to Karl and Kelly Burke for 1,000,000gns. Successful once in three career starts for Juddmonte, Wild Rye is a sibling to seven other winners, including the G1 Grand Prix de Paris-winning sire Zambezi Sun (Dansili), G2 Guillaume d'Ornano hero Kalabar (Kahyasi) and Listed scorer Zero Gravity (Dansili), the dam of the high-class filly Kalpana (Study Of...

Tom Harris of Lordship Stud will never forget the day he first laid eyes on the Le Havre mare Ville De Grace, nor will he forget the sale of her first foal after the filly by Frankel went the way of Juddmonte for 1,500,000gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. A three-time winner for the Sir Michael Stoute stable, notably winning the G3 Pride Stakes, Ville De Grace is now based at Lordship Stud after being bought for 2,000,000gns at the 2022 Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Recounting...

Night Of Thunder made it a fantastic four at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Thursday when a filly consigned by Barton Stud joined his three other millionaires already sold this week, with lot 494 being knocked down to Henry Lascelles for 1,100,000gns. Bred by Jeff and Phoebe Hobby of Brightwalton Stud, the Night Of Thunder filly is a half-sister to their G1 Prix de l'Abbaye heroine Makarova (Acclamation). Their dam, Vesnina (Sea The Stars), was a 68,000gns purchase at the 2015 Tattersalls July Sale. Ed Walker,...

Eddie O'Leary's Lynn Lodge Stud landed a 2,200,000gns windfall through consecutive lots at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale on Wednesday, headlined by the Night Of Thunder colt who was knocked down to Amo Racing for 1,700,000gns. Lot 275 is out of the G3 Sweet Solera Stakes third Model Guest (Showcasing), whose second foal, Evolutionist (Night Of Thunder), is an intended runner in Friday's G1 Fillies' Mile at Newmarket. Picked up by Yulong for €600,000 at Book 1 of the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale, Evolutionist was last seen...

Notable absentees from the first-day buyers' sheet at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, the Coolmore partners made their second seven-figure purchase of Wednesday's session when going to 1,700,000gns for the No Nay Never colt out of the G1 Cheveley Park Stakes heroine Millisle (Starspangledbanner). Consigned by Watership Down Stud, lot 266 is the third foal out of Millisle, who also won the G3 Ballyogan Stakes as a three-year-old. Her first foal, Alfareqa (Frankel), successful once in five career starts, was herself a Book 1 yearling when bought...

Having endured bad luck with Crypto Force (Time Test) after his G2 Beresford Stakes victory as a juvenile, Kia Joorabchian will be praying that things pan out more smoothly for the Wootton Bassett half-brother who cost the Amo Racing founder 2,200,000gns during the second session at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. Matching the sum fetched by the Fittocks Stud-consigned Frankel colt earlier in the day, lot 247 is the fourth foal out of the winning Galileo mare Luna Mare, from the family of Lord Weinstock's globetrotting champion...

Like so many of his predecessors from Lodge Park Stud - and indeed this family - the Night Of Thunder colt who went through the ring as lot 134 proved a red-hot commodity during Tuesday's session at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, with the Juddmonte team making its first purchase of the sale in securing him for 1,000,000gns. Juddmonte's Simon Mockridge said, "He is just a super horse, a lovely horse, and that is what you have to pay - it is very expensive in there [the...

The annus mirabilis for James Hanly and his Ballyhimikin Stud continued at Tattersalls on Tuesday with the sale of a Blue Point colt to Godolphin for 1,000,000gns, making him the second seven-figure lot during the opening session of Book 1 of the October Yearling Sale. Lot 67 is out of the G3 Ballyogan Stakes second Boston Rocker (Acclamation), who is the dam of six winners from as many runners to date. They include the G2 Zabeel Mile scorer and G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains third San Donato (Lope De Vega),...

NEWMARKET, UK -- After a weekend of brutally cold winds and rain at Park Paddocks, summer decided to reappear to bless the final yearling viewing day at Tattersalls with warm sunshine. An omen of bright days ahead, perhaps? Or if you're not a fan of symbolism, a more concrete guide to what could be in store over the next three days of Book 1 of the October Sale may have been gleaned from a car park full to the brim by early morning on Monday as the crowd rolled in...