Tattersalls
Former Kildangan Stud resident Jungle Cat (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) became the latest freshman off the mark when the Karl Burke-trained newcomer Miss Jungle Cat (GB), a 60,000gns Tattersalls Somerville yearling, pounced late to snag Saturday's Betway EBF Novice S. going a shade over five furlongs at Musselburgh. In fourth and under pressure at halfway, the 16-5 chance refused to wilt at the business end and kept on relentlessly under a continued drive to deny Explicit (Ire) (Expert Eye {GB}) by 1 1/4 lengths inside the final 100 yards. Miss Jungle...
NEWMARKET, UK—The excellence of the Tattersalls marketing team is familiar, but nobody realised they had friends in quite such high places. For the racing gods, as a rule so notoriously uncooperative, have this week followed a script that could scarcely have promoted the Craven Breeze-Up Sale more lavishly—with graduates of last year's auction winning Classic trials, just up the road on the Rowley Mile, shortly before each of its two sessions. On Wednesday it was the turn of champion juvenile Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who extended his unbeaten...
NEWMARKET, UK—We know that these breeze-up consignors have nerves of steel: otherwise they simply couldn't do the job. As such, the bloodstock industry could not have appointed a better echelon to test the stormy waters of the last couple of years, when they were first to be broadsided by the pandemic and then tried to put things back on an even keel last year. The opening session of the opening sale of the European circuit, then, gave them a chance to put their world back on its axis—even as they...
A filly by Zoustar (Aus) has been added to the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale as lot 89A and will be offered on the opening evening of the sale Apr. 12. A daughter of Saccharose (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), the bay is consigned by Aguiar Bloodstock. The filly, who is from the extended family of Classic & Group 1 winners Vahorimix, Voleuse De Coeurs, Val Royal, Incarville, Valixir, Vadamos, Vazira, Vadawina and Valyra, is a member of Zoustar's first Northern Hemisphere crop. The sale begins Monday, Apr. 11 and...
Whitsbury Manor Stud resident Havana Grey (GB) (Havana Gold {Ire}) notched his first winner when David O'Meara-trained debutante Star of Lady M (GB) battled to victory in Monday's Flat Is Back On Racing TV Fillies' Restricted Novice S. at Redcar. The 15,000gns Tattersalls October Book 3 yearling went postward as the 9-2 second choice for the straight five-furlong test and broke well to race in a prominent second from the outset. Shaken up passing the quarter-mile marker, she gained a narrow advantage approaching the final furlong and was driven out...
The catalogues for the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-Up and Horses-in-Training Sale were released on Wednesday. There are currently 206 2-year-olds and 120 horses-in-training ready to go under the hammer on Apr. 28. Beginning at 9 a.m. local time on Apr. 26, the breezes will take place over Newmarket's Rowley Mile Racecourse. They will be shown live on the Tattersalls website and on the Tattersalls Facebook page. Graduates of the sale won group races in Britain, France, Germany and the U.S. in 2021, led by top-level winners Trueshan (Fr) (Planteur {Ire}) and...
The catalogue for the Tattersalls Online Sale scheduled for Mar. 23 has been published online and can be viewed at www.tattersallsonline.com. A total of 32 lots will feature in the 11th sale conducted on the Tattersalls Online platform, including a diverse range of Flat and National Hunt prospects and a selection of breeding stock and 2-year-olds. Among the highlights is the Johnstown Stud draft of four lots sold as part of the Late Sir Robert Ogden's complete dispersal, including a pair of No Nay Never 2-year-old colts, one out of...
Tattersalls has released a catalogue of 163 juveniles for its Craven Breeze Up Sale, which takes place on Apr. 12 and 13 with the breeze happening on the Rowley Mile on Apr. 11. This year's graduates will have big shoes to fill, as last year's sale produced not only the champion 2-year-old and unbeaten G1 Dewhurst S. and G1 National S. winner Native Trail (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}), but also Group 2 winners Asymmetric (Ire) (Showcasing {GB}) and Go Bears Go (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}). Among the Group 1 siblings...
Willmount (GB) (Blue Bresil {Fr}) (lot 8) and Shannon Royale (Ire) (Walk In The Park {Ire}) (lot 12) finished one-two in a 4-year-old maiden point-to-point at Comea in Ireland on Feb. 13, and that is also the order they finished in at the top of the leaderboard at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale on Thursday. Willmount was sold to British-based trainer Neil Mulholland, who saw off the likes of Harold Kirk, Gerry Hogan and Eddie O'Leary to secure him for £340,000, while Shannon Royale was bought by Mags O'Toole to...
Ben Chan, who worked for 19 years for the Hong Kong Jockey Club as a TV reporter and analyst, has been appointed South East Asia representative for Tattersalls. Chan, who recently moved to Newmarket, will focus primarily on promoting Tattersalls sales in Hong Kong, but his role will also encompass Macau and Singapore. In addition to his raceday role in Hong Kong, Chan also covered international meetings for the Hong Kong Jockey Club and is a contributor to the Chinese language Hong Kong racing publication Hong Kong Daily News. Chan...
Tattersalls will renew its £250,000 Tattersalls Craven Royal Ascot/Group 1 bonus, as well as its £15,000 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Bonus Scheme, for the 2022 season. The Royal Ascot/Group 1 Bonus will pay £125,000 to the first Craven Breeze Up winner of a 2-year-old race at this year's Royal Meeting, with £100,000 paid to the owner and £25,000 to the vendor. An additional £125,000 bonus, with the same split, will be paid to the first Craven Breeze Up winner of any of the 15 European Group 1 races open to...
Weveallbeencaught (Ire) (Getaway {Ger}) (lot 14), a debut winner at Dromahane last month, topped the Tattersalls Cheltenham January Sale staged on Saturday for just the second time when knocked down to Twiston-Davies Equine and Jimmy Wenman for £210,000. The newly turned 5-year-old was offered by Michael Kennedy Racing and was one of 12 horses from 39 offered to cross the six-figure threshold. Fillies and mares filled the next three top spots, headed by the 5-year-old Queens Vic (Ire) (Shirocco {Ger}) (lot 8), who was bought by Joey Logan, Gordon Elliott...