The European breeze-up season gets underway with the Tattersalls Craven sale Apr. 14 to 16, and the catalogue for that three-day stand is now online. A total of 145 juveniles are slated to sell, including the siblings to 43 stakes winners. Those include a full-brother to last year's G1 Irish Champion S. and G1 Prix du Jockey Club winner The Grey Gatsby (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) (lot 85). Mocklershill will offer a colt from the first crop of champion Cape Blanco (Ire) who is a half to G2 UAE Derby winner and GI Pacific Classic and GI Breeders' Cup Classic-placed Toast of New York (Thewayyouare) (lot 36), and other well-related offerings will include lot 134, a Distorted Humor half-brother to Mastercraftsman;lot 129, an Invincible Spirit (Ire) half-sister to Grade I winner Folk Opera (Ire) (Singspiel {Ire}); lot 113, a War Front half-brother to GI Spinaway S. scorer Mani Bhavan (Storm Boot); and lot 141, a full-sister to the Grade III-placed Photo Call (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) out of the Group 3-winning Theann (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), herself a half-sister to G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner Halfway to Heaven (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}).
“Well established as the premier sale of its type in Europe, the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up consistently produces performers of the highest caliber throughout the world and this year's catalogue has all the ingredients to attract buyers at all levels of the market from throughout the world,” said Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony. “Godolphin's very recent Australian Group 1 winner Contributer is one of nearly 60 individual group and listed performers from the sale since 2012, and it is the combination of racecourse achievements and quality catalogues which make the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up such a compelling sale.”
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