Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale enjoyed a strong start with 12 lots realising 300,000 guineas or more headed by Tally-Ho Stud’s 525,000 guineas daughter of their leading first season sire STARMAN.
Amo Racing Strike for Starman Filly at 525,000 Guineas
STARMAN has enjoyed a spectacular start with his first crop of runners this year and his progeny have been duly popular in the sales ring. Tally-Ho Stud stand the leading first season sire and enjoyed an excellent result on the first day of Book 2 with their filly topping the session at 525,000 guineas to Amo Racing.
Amo Racing’s trainer Kevin Philippart De Foy was elected to speak by Kia Joorabchian and revealed:
“She is my pick of the sale, from a very good dam line. She is a very easy-going filly, very racy. Starman can do little wrong, he has had winners today. I was very keen on the filly from the start of the day, she was one of my top three.”
He added: “Starman looks like he is getting horses who will go on as three-year-olds, he is getting horses who have a bit of size and scope, hopefully they progress on. He has had a very strong start. It is a very exciting time for us, we have bought some lovely horses with good pedigrees and by good stallions.”
The filly was bred by Tally-Ho Stud and is the first foal out of the DARK ANGEL mare EMIRATES EMPRESS, who was bought by Tally-Ho for 30,000 guineas at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale from Godolphin in 2022.
Tally-Ho’s Tony O’Callaghan commented: “It is a great return on the mare’s purchase, and it is an exceptional trade here for fillies. We are obviously delighted with Starman’s progress, they should stay a mile. He has such a great temperament.”
450,000 Guineas Minzaal Filly is Excellent Pinhooking Result for Clunemore Lodge Stud
It was fillies to the fore on the opening day of Book 2 with the three highest priced lots all the fairer sex. Baroda Stud consigned a daughter of first-crop sire MINZAAL who realised 450,000 guineas to Karl and Kelly Burke, an outstanding pinhooking result for her young owners.
“She is lovely sort, vetted well and I am delighted to get her,” said Karl Burke. “We have bought a couple by the sire and a few months back now Jim Crowley, who used to ride him, said that he was a lovely, laid-back horse and recommended the progeny to us and that we should have a look at them all. I have been impressed by them. She has been bought for an owner in the yard, I did not think that she would get to that amount – it is a lot of money, hopefully she can run!”
The filly was bought for €85,000 by Clunemore Lodge Stud, the banner used by young pinhookers Fionn White, and brothers Jack and Max Galway whose father Richie Galway is Racing Manager at Punchestown Racecourse and the son-in-law of Jessica Harrington. It is the second big sales ring result for sixteen-year-old White, who sold a GLENEAGLES colt for 205,000 guineas in 2024 whom he bought as a foal for €36,000.
“It is the stuff of dreams – I can’t get around it!” smiled White. “The stallion could not have gone better for a first-crop stallion. She is a nice filly, we bought her off Rochestown Lodge Stud, and we weren’t expecting anything like that!”
He added: “Hopefully we will be back for more next year – but we are back in school tomorrow!” The March-foaled filly is a sister to two black type winners, both by MINZAAL’s sire MEHMAS. SARATOGA SPECIAL won the Listed Land O’Burns Fillies Stakes this year and TURN ON THE JETS is a Stakes winner and Grade 2 placed in the US.
Thoroughbred Racing Corporation Secure Night Of Thunder Filly for 450,000 Guineas
The progeny of NIGHT OF THUNDER were in high demand at Book 1 and continued to light up the sales ring during the second week of the October Yearling Sale after an outstanding weekend for the young sire led by the Dewhurst Stakes winner GEWAN. Plantation Stud’s filly was no exception realising 450,000 guineas to the bid of Jane Mangan on behalf of the Thoroughbred Racing Corporation.
“The Corporation is looking for well-bred and good physicals. We value them as individuals, and we met a lot of good company last week,” reported Mangan. “This filly is our pick of the entire sale this week. She is what we are looking for and by Night of Thunder, who needs no introduction. She goes to William Haggas.”
The buying team were frustrated on several occasions during Book 1, and on maintaining focus she said: “Last week we underbid five, but you need to keep standards and don’t settle, buy the horse and the individual, not the market – buy what you want to look at in the spring.”
The filly’s dam EDELLINE is a CAPE CROSS half-sister to multiple Group winner and Group 1 runner up EMERALD COMMANDER from the family of Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner LIT DE JUSTICE and Group 1 Racing Post Trophy winner COMMANDER COLLINS.
Godolphin Strike for Cheveley Park’s Night Of Thunder Colt at 425,000 Guineas
Sire of the moment NIGHT OF THUNDER also supplied the highest priced colt of the opening session with a son of Group 3 Dick Poole Stakes winner DARK ANGEL mare DARK LADY purchased by Godolphin for 425,000 guineas. The March-foaled colt is from the excellent Cheveley Park family of dual Group 1 winner PEERESS, and Cheveley Park Stud’s Managing Director Chris Richardson said:
“We are thrilled. He is a lovely horse with a great mind, and always puts his best foot forward. Mrs Thompson is a big fan of Night of Thunder – we have Estrange by him, while last weekend’s Dewhurst Stakes winner Gewan is out of a Lethal Force mare, who is a son of Dark Angel. We are lucky enough to be able to send two or three mares each year to the stallion, and it is great when a stallion can row a boat commercially and on the racecourse.”
Successful purchaser Anthony Stroud commented:
“He’s for Godolphin and will go to Moulton Paddocks. He’s bred very similarly to the Dewhurst winner on Saturday. Night of Thunder has done amazingly well, he’s going to be Champion sire and he’s got so many good horses.
“They seem to win over all sorts of distances, they’re very versatile and seem to have excellent temperaments. The progeny from his better books of mares are coming on-stream now so his results are only going to get better and better. It really highlights how important Dubawi is as a sire of sires.”
Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continues at 10am on Tuesday, 14th October.
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