Tattersalls

Top bloodstock agent Anthony Bromley and more speak about the yearling market ahead of the Tattersalls Somerville Sale He may have accounted for a little over seven per cent of the £14,327,000 turnover at last week's Goffs Premier Yearling Sale by coming home with 18 lots on behalf of various different clients, but Highflyer's super agent Anthony Bromley has revealed that the job is only half completed and that he is excited about what business can be drummed up at the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale this week. Despite the Somerville...

After getting the yearling sale season up and running in style when selling two colts for significant profit at the Premier Yearling Sale at Goffs UK, Hetty Spencer is optimistic about keeping the momentum going at Baden-Baden, where the young consignor will offer one of the biggest drafts at BBAG.  The English native, who is now based in Ireland, set up her own consignment last year. Things have gone from strength to strength throughout the past 12 months for Spencer Sales and the 30-year-old is relishing the opportunity to sell...

Tattersalls has been announced as the sponsor of three prestigious two-year-old contests at Newmarket on Saturday, September 27, including the G1 Middle Park Stakes and G1 Cheveley Park Stakes. The Middle Park for colts and Cheveley Park for fillies both take place over six furlongs and offer total prize-money of £275,000, while Tattersalls also extends its backing to the £125,000 G2 Royal Lodge Stakes, a one-mile contest for colts and geldings. Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said, "Tattersalls have long been proud supporters of British racing and Newmarket Racecourses, and we...

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE -- One of the happiest men at Arqana on Saturday was a Tatts man. Yep, you read that right.  Tattersalls' marketing director Jason Singh contemplated leaving Deauville early in order to watch his syndicate horse Furthur in action but, having stayed put, he yelled the horse home from the Arqana sales complex instead. The son of Waldgeist, trained by Andrew Balding, claimed Newbury's G3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes by three lengths to ignite a Classic dream for Singh and his band of Merry Pranksters who own the horse. Furthur...

A Territories half-brother to this year's G1 July Cup heroine No Half Measures is among the potential highlights in the newly-published catalogue for Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, which is scheduled to take place from Monday, October 13 to Wednesday, October 15. The sibling to No Half Measures will be offered as lot 789 by Finbar Kent, on behalf of Sally Nicholls. Another star performer from this year's Newmarket July Festival, the unbeaten two-year-old colt Zavateri, features among the high-profile graduates of Book 2 in recent years,...

The hunt for the next Group 1 star is now officially on after Tattersalls released the Book 1 catalogue for the October Yearling Sale, which has produced high-class horses like Camille Pissarro, Dynamic Pricing, Royal Patronage, Al Riffa, Believing and many more in recent years. This year alone, there have been three Group 1-winning graduates from Book 1 and 22 Group winners all told. There is no shortage of potential top-notchers in this year's sale with 30 Frankels, 11 Dubawis, 30 Wootton Bassetts and 35 horses by Sea The Stars...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- You knew this wouldn't last much longer. Chad Brown's Saratoga barn has too much young talent inside of it. Eventually, the trainer was going to find his way to the winner's circle with one of his juvenile runners. That day was Saturday when Brown's Capital Partner (GB) (Kingman {GB}) unleashed a furious closing kick to win the second race at the Spa, a $100,000 maiden special weight for 2-yeasr-olds. With jockey Flavien Prat doing the steering, Capital Partner flew down the stretch in the 1 1/16-mile...

Friday's G3 Bonhams Thoroughbred Stakes at Goodwood was shorn of the Godolphin duo Opera Ballo and Spectacular View, and it was the former's Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes vanquished Seagulls Eleven (Galileo) who stepped forward to claim a stakes breakthrough in his eighth attempt at black-type level. "I have just about recovered from his dad getting beat in the Sussex Stakes," joked Hugo Palmer. "Ryan Moore came and did us on the line that day with The Ghurka, so to turn the tables with his son is nice. We probably...

Amo Racing's Ancient Egypt (Frankel) had already caused a stir when knocked down for 1,100,000gns at last year's Tattersalls October Book 1 sale and he made a winning debut for the Charlie Johnston stable in Tuesday's EBF Novice Stakes at Beverley. "Nothing but winning would have done today and we'd have been disappointed with second," admitted Mark Johnston. "He got a bit warm and was coltish beforehand, so I was a little bit concerned. The race didn't pan out exactly as planned and it took a little while for the...

Former Tom Clover trainee and dual Listed winner Witness Stand (Expert Eye), now representing the training partnership of Jamie Insole and Richard Newland, was let go at 25-1 for Tuesday's G2 HKJC World Pool Lennox Stakes at Goodwood and made a mockery of his extended odds with a stunning victory in a dramatic renewal of the seven-furlong contest. The well-supported dual winner Kinross (Kingman) was withdrawn at the start after receiving a kick from eventual third Audience (Iffraaj). "I have been involved in a lot of big winners and to...

Jaber Abdullah's once-raced Hope Queen (Night Of Thunder), a granddaughter of storied European champion Attraction, posted a debut success for the Karl Burke stable at Beverley last month and repeated the dose on black-type bow with a battling victory in Thursday's Listed European Bloodstock News EBF Star Stakes at Sandown. "We knew we had a nice filly after she won at Beverley and it's nice to get a Listed win into her," said winning rider Clifford Lee. "Once we got a clear run, I knew I was always going to...

Havana Grey, the sire of the most expensive lot at the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale in both 2023 and 2024, will be represented by 10 yearlings when the Whitsbury Manor Stud stallion tries to repeat those sale-topping exploits at this year's Somerville, which takes place at Park Paddocks on Tuesday, September 2. A total of 272 yearlings have been catalogued, with lot 145 featuring among the sons and daughters of Havana Grey. Offered by Bearstone Stud, the filly is a full-sister to the G3 Prix Eclipse and Weatherbys Super Sprint...