Tattersalls

A total of 13 wildcards, including Group 3 winner Alsakib, have been added to the Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale catalogue. The sale will be held from October 27-31, next week. Offered by Andrew Balding's Kingsclere Stables as lot 319B, Alsakib is joined by the listed winner and group-placed Room Service (Kodi Bear) (lot 726F), who is part of the Kevin Ryan draft. There are also several two-year-old winners including August George (Night Of Thunder) (lot 319C); Gentle George (Sergei Prokofiev) (lot 319D); and the two-for-two Ghisa (Belardo) (lot 726E). Three-year-old...

Survie, runner-up by a head in the G1 Prix de Diane, will be offered during the Sceptre Sessions at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale from December 1-3. She will sell as lot 1723 on Tuesday, December 2. The daughter of Churchill will be consigned by co-trainers Nicolas Clement and Frauke Hermans on behalf of owners China Horse Club International and Gerard Augustin-Normand. A winner of the G2 Prix de Malleret at three, the four-year-old was third in the G1 Pretty Polly Stakes, second in the G1 Prix Jean Romanet and...

Last term's G2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Powerful Glory (Cotai Glory) was the lowest-rated and least experienced contender lining up for Saturday's G1 Qipco British Champions Sprint at Ascot and, having beaten just one rival in two starts this season, came home with a career high after posting a 200-1 shock in the straight six-furlong dash. His odds are the longest for the winner of a European Group 1 contest, surpassing Qirat's 150-1 in this term's G1 Sussex Stakes. "We always thought he was a nice horse, but at 200-1...

Matt Dorman went from zero to 60 when starting his broodmare band with the purchase of 20 mares in 2020, but five years later, the native Marylander is happy to take a long-term approach to building his Determined Stud breeding operation. Dorman made his first in-person trip to the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last week and came home with eight yearlings--all fillies who, hopefully, will race for the operation before joining the broodmare band. "We really wanted to get some of the sire power that exists in Europe," Dorman said....

Lavinia Fabre, daughter of master trainer Andre Fabre, saddled her first winner, with just her second runner, when the two-year-old Wadi (Earthlight) carried the fledgling trainer's silks to a 1 1/2-length victory in Thursday's Prix Pharel over one mile at Saint-Cloud. The half-brother to this term's G1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis hero Tornado Alert (Too Darn Hot) made all in the hands of Maxime Guyon to comfortably outpoint Roi De La Liberte (Kingman).   🥇 Premier succès pour Lavinia Fabre en tant qu'entraîneur, elle qui sellait son deuxième partant ! Son entraînement...

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 Sceptre Sessions at this year's Tattersalls December Mares Sale will include Way To My Heart (Galileo), the dam of dual Group 1-winning juvenile Precise. She will be consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment. Precise, a daughter of Starspangledbanner has won her last four starts, including the Fillies' Mile and the Moyglare Stud Stakes, and she is currently favourite for next year's 1,000 Guineas. The 12-year-old Way To My Heart, who will be sold in foal to the late Wootton Bassett, is out of the Listed winner and Group-placed Mystical Lady...

TATTERSALLS, ENGLAND - Godolphin paid the ultimate compliment to unbeaten juvenile Avicenna by spending 900,000gns on his full-sister on day two of the Book 2 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.  The Starspangledbanner filly was bred by Sue Ann Foley and described by the Islanmore Stud manager Nigel Anderton as "a queen". It was Anthony Stroud, bidding on behalf of Godolphin, who saw off the attention of bloodstock agent Ed Sackville as underbidder. That purchase took Godolphin's total spend between Book 1 and 2 to over 20 million gns. Stroud said, "She...

TATTERSALLS, ENGLAND - After spending close to 14 million gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Amo Racing picked up from where it left off at Park Paddocks on Monday, spending 525,000gns on a Starman filly, which led the opening session of Book 2 and prompted Kevin Philippart De Foy to share his excitement about the prospects of training next year's batch of two-year-olds. Philippart De Foy, who took over at Freemason Lodge this year, has been a key cog in Kia Joorabchian's travelling posse at all...

NEWMARKET, UK - Mick Murphy has dedicated his lifetime's craft towards producing a horse good enough to win a Group 1 and, when his Longways Stables graduate Gewan (Night Of Thunder) crossed the line in front in Saturday's Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket, he and his wife Sarah were nowhere near the hubbub and celebration that rang out around the racecourse. Instead, Murphy was back at Park Paddocks searching for his next big-name star ahead of the Book 2 session of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. It is almost a year...

High-class filly Barnavara, last seen winning the G1 Prix de l'Opera at ParisLongchamp, is set to go under the hammer at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. She will be consigned by Baroda Stud and will feature as part of the fourth edition of the Sceptre Sessions, which will be held on Monday, December 1 and Tuesday, December 2. Trained by Jessica Harrington for Alpha Racing, Barnavara has gone from strength to strength since gaining her first black-type victory in June's Listed Kooyonga Stakes at Navan. The daughter of Calyx has...

Sheikh Mohammed Obaid's Listed Flying Scotsman runner-up Hankelow (Night Of Thunder) exhibited an unflinching attitude and led from pillar to post for a career high in Saturday's G3 Emirates Autumn Stakes at Newmarket, a contest won last year by subsequent G1 Eclipse and G1 Irish Champion hero Delacroix (Dubawi). "He has got such a great mind on him and can only get better," insisted trainer Karl Burke. "I think he will be better on a more level track and I'll see what [jockey] Cliff [Lee] has to say. He'd certainly...