Four lots top a million as prices soar at Tatts
BUSINESS was booming at Tattersalls on Tuesday.
The second day of the December Mare Sale recorded the third highest ever turnover in a session at any sale in European auction history when four lots sold for a million guineas or more.
Sumora, the dam of Maybe, favourite for next year’s 1000 Guineas, had been widely tipped as one of the star lots and she did not disappoint.
The nine-year-old, by Danehill, who is also a three-parts sister to Newmarket-trained Oaks heroine Dancing Rain, was sold in foal to Galileo and was bought on behalf of Maybe’s owners Derrick Smith and Michael Tabor for 2.4 million guineas, making her the highest priced mare to be sold at the December Sale since 2007.
Purchaser M V Magnier said: “She is a fantastic mare. It is rare that a mare such as this comes on to the market and we were hoping we would not have to go so far to buy her.”
Japanese buyers were very much in evidence at Park Paddocks and Shunsuke Yoshida, son of the owner of Northern Farm in Japan bought Reve D’Iman for 1.7 million. The dam of the Irish 1000 Guineas winner Bethrah was sold on behalf of a London-based partnership and offered in foal to Montjeu.
Pearling, a full sister to the great Giant’s Causeway, sold in foal to Galileo, was knocked down to the owners of Derby winner Authorized, Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar, who run the Blue Diamond Stud at Tuddenham. They had to go to 1.3 million guineas to buy her.
A total of 160 lots were sold for 25,258,800 guineas, a rise of 31 per cent on the corresponding session in 2010.
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