Sea The Stars – champion
Champion SA owners Ingrid and Markus Jooste were active on day one of the Tattersalls October Sale in Newmarket, acquiring 4 beautifully bred lots for a gross 945 000gns.
Highest price of the Mayfair Speculators’ quartet was a filly (#105) by champion Sea The Stars out of Cape Coz, a stakes-winning daughter of Cape Cross. She went for 425 000gns.
A Galileo colt (#142) out of the multiple winner producing Saddlers Wells mare Crystal Valkyrie was bought for 330 000gns.
The balance were a Mastercratsman colt (#126) out of a Danehill Dancer mare, City Of Cities, on which the hammer fell at 105 000gns and a High Chaparral colt (#40) out of the Sadler’s Wells mare, Alamouna, dam of two winners from two runners – he was listed at 85 000gns.
The yearling was bought for 750,000gns and Gosden knows the family well, having trained his dam, Dar Re Mi, to win six times, including three Group One races.
Ingrid & Markus Jooste – dominant force in SA racing
As well as Frankel, there was plenty of interest in the first-crop of Nathaniel, with Lot 145, a colt out of Danehill Dreamer, selling for 675,000gns to John Magnier.
He is a half-brother to three winners and out of an unraced half-sister to Group One winners Summoner and Compton Admiral.
Unsurprisingly, though, it was the proven sires Galileo and Dubawi that topped the averages. Galileo had seven sold for an average of 611,429gns, with Dubawi having the same number purchased for an average of 477,143gns.
Of the top three sales of the day, two were by Galileo and one by Dubawi.
Top lot was a beautiful-looking Galileo filly out of A Z Warrior, a second foal, selling for 1,300,000gns to John Magnier. There was plenty of interest in the sister to Cole Porter, who was third in a maiden at Tipperary on October 4 on his third start for Aidan O’Brien.
Magnier was also responsible for the second highest purchase of the day, Lot 43 going for 1 250 000gns.
Again, by Galileo, this colt is out of the Lodge Park homebred Alluring Park, which makes him a full-brother to Coolmore’s 2012 Investec Oaks winner Was.
Finally, the third highest sale of the day was the 900 000gns paid by Michael Wallace, acting on behalf of the China Horse Club, for a Dubawi half-sister to this year’s Wokingham winner Interception.
