The Book 1 of the October Yearling Sale is the finest showcase of yearlings in Europe.
Fillies by No Nay Never and Dubawi headlined the opening day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when selling for 825,000 guineas and 800,000 guineas. The opening session saw a turnover of 25,201,000guineas at an average of 210,008 guineas and a median of 152,500 guineas.
Lot 110: No Nay Never (USA) x Lady Ederle (USA) sold for 825,000 guineas (Pic- Tattersalls)
German pinhooker Philipp Stauffenberg enjoyed his best-ever return in a sale ring when the No Nay Never sister to the Gr2 Coventry Stakes winner and Gr1 Dewhurst Stakes second Arizona was knocked down for 825,000 guineas to Cheveley Park Stud’s Chris Richardson.
The daughter of the English Channel mare Lady Ederle is also a sister to the Gr2 winner Nay Lady Nay and was secured by Richardson after he saw off Juddmonte Farm’s Simon Mockridge. She was a 260,000 foal purchase.
Juddmonte Farm’s Simon Mockridge didn’t have to wait long after missing out on the top lot of the day, striking to secure the Dubawi filly out of Gr2 winning Monsun mare Longina for 800,000 guineas. Newsells Park Stud consigned the filly on behalf of breeder Al Shahania Stud.
On the opening day, the top-priced colt was the Lope De Vega colt out of the Gr1 Premio Lydie Tesio winner God Given, who was knocked down to Godolphin’s Anthony Stround for 725,000 guineas.
The colt, who was consigned by the Player family’s Whatton Manor Stud on behalf of Andrew Stone’s St Albans Bloodstock, is out of a half-sister to the multiple Gr1 winner Postponed and is a great-grandson of Champion race filly Biance Nera.
MV Magnier secured the Galileo colt out of Dutch Art mare Lightning Thunder for 650,000 guineas. The colt was consigned by Peter and Frances Stanley’s New England Stud on behalf of breeder Christopher Hanbury.
Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continued on Wednesday 6th October and Thursday 7th October.
The October Yearling Sale Book 2 starts on 11th October.
