Tattersalls

Bloodstock agent Mike Ryan has not ruled out offering his recent Grade II winner Be Your Best (Ire) at a European sales house but explained that priority number one was to bag a victory at the highest level with his homebred daughter of Muhaarar (GB). Ryan is perhaps best known for sourcing many champions on behalf of owners Klaravich Stables and trainer Chad Brown but described seeing Be Your Best, who he bred under his own St Croix Bloodstock, landing the Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational Stakes...

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Racing & Bloodstock made a visit to Newmarket on Thursday, 30th January, visiting John & Thady Gosden's Clarehaven Stables, the British Racing School, the National Stud and Tattersalls, where they received presentations and enjoyed lunch on the first day of the Tattersalls February Sale. The group, which included MPs Nick Timothy, Dan Carden and Jack Rankin as well as Baroness Harding, Lord Herbert and Baroness MacIntosh, were given presentations by Tattersalls Finance Director Caroline Scott along with the TBA's Chief Executive Claire Sheppard and Kevin...

Nine British Flat stallions will parade at Tattersalls on Thursday, January 30 ahead of the February Sale. As reported in TDN last week, A'Ali (Ire), Bangkok (Ire), Bradsell (GB), Caturra (Ire), El Caballo (GB), Isaac Shelby (GB), Lope Y Fernandez (Ire), Stradivarius (Ire) and Ubettabelieveit (Ire) will be available for viewing at Park Paddocks. They will be joined by nine former stars of the track for the inaugural RoR Showcase, which includes Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Native River (Ire). "The Retraining of Racehorses charity is a vitally important asset to...

Stallion viewings have continued apace this week throughout Europe, with many breeders descending on Newmarket farms following the Irish Stallion Trail, while the Route des Etalons is currently underway in Normandy. There remains no official stallion trail in Britain despite there having been a number of calls over the years for an emulation of the popular incentive which began in France and was swiftly picked up by Irish Thoroughbred Marketing. There was apparently no appetite to get behind this in England, though many stallion studs in Newmarket open their doors...

What is in store for the bloodstock industry in 2025? From a shoo-in for the first-season sires' championship, market predictions, a word or two on Amo Racing and much more, TDN Europe's Brian Sheerin has come up with 10 predictions for the new year. Yearling Sale Momentum Can Continue Into The Breeze-Up Market It can be hard enough to predict how strong or weak trade will be on the eve of a sale, not to mention three or four months out, but there are a few good reasons to believe...

A total of 331 lots have been catalogued for the two-day Tattersalls February Sale which will be held from Thursday, Jan. 30-Friday, Jan. 31. The sale will also feature the Tattersalls Stallion Parade at 11:30 a.m. on day one, as well as the inaugural Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) Showcase, which kicks off the entire two-day stand at 11 a.m. on Thursday, with the sale proper beginning immediately after the former. Friday's session will start at 10 a.m. Comprised of 124 fillies and mares in/out-of-training, 23 broodmares, 157 colts and geldings...

American owner Susan 'Pearly' Fallon, who lit up the Tattersalls December Foal Sale with a 700,000gns purchase of a Frankel (GB) filly out of Archangel Gabriel (Arch), is looking forward to seeing her colours graced on a British racecourse for the first time at Wolverhampton on Friday.  Fallon, who is based in America and works in the private aviation business, will be represented by the Ed Bethell-trained A War Eagle (Ire) (Make Believe {GB}) in an extended mile maiden with Aidan Keeley set to ride.  Just like the 700,000gns Frankel...

And breathe. If you listen carefully enough, you can almost hear the collective exhale from all of those invested in the bloodstock industry and its transfer market, as we near the conclusion of another dizzying year on the merry-go-round that is the European sales calendar. The relentless nature of it can have a bewildering effect at the best of times, but this year the sums changing hands were often so astronomical that you could be forgiven for mistaking what were you watching for a mirage. Only during the Sceptre Sessions...

From January 2025, a new mandatory levy will be collected from sales companies, vendors and purchasers across the board at British auction houses. This will provide vital extra funding for racehorse aftercare through British racing's official charity Retraining of Racehorses (RoR). A £6 contribution will be made to the RoR from Goffs UK, Tattersalls and ThoroughBid from each lot sold. A further £3 will be collected from the vendor of each lot as well as £3 from the purchaser. This includes online sales, with the respective sales companies providing the...

DEAUVILLE, France-Six months after doing the Hokey Cokey at the Goffs London Sale, Prix de Diane winner Sparkling Plenty (Fr) (Kingman {GB}) found another new owner when Coolmore and Michel Zerolo of Oceanic Bloodstock went to €5 million to secure the top-notcher on behalf of "a new partnership" on the opening day of the December Breeding Stock Sale at Arqana.  Few will forget the drama that unfolded with Sparkling Plenty earlier this summer. Scarcely has there ever been a greater form update, with the Patrice Cottier-trained filly winning the Diane...

Woodford Thoroughbreds and D acquired lot 1770B, a placed half-sister to G1 Sun Chariot Stakes winner Tamfana (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}), for 1,550,000gns as the final lot of the Sceptre Sessions on Tuesday. Slievebrook House consigned the placed The Palace Girl (Ger) (Areion {Ger}), who counts the high class GI Beverly D Stakes heroine Sea Calisi (Fr) as kin. She was bred by Gestut Etzean and Hans-Helmut Rodenburg. Kevin Coleman, Sean Grassick and Demi O'Byrne picked out the March-foaled bay for €30,000 out of the BBAG September Yearling Sale in...

Francis-Henri Graffard sent juvenile Group 1 winner Vertical Blue (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) through the Tattersalls ring as the penultimate Sceptre Sessions lot (1770A), and she duly made 3,200,000gns on the bid of John Stewart's Resolute Racing, bidding online. Bred by Haras du Mont dit Mont in Ireland, the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine is out of the Sea The Stars (Ire) mare Krunch (GB). Second dam Spinacre (Ire) (Verglas {Ire}) won the Listed Flame of Tara Stakes and was third in the G3 Prix Imprudence. Paul Nataf signed the ticket...