HAZARIYA stole the show on Tuesday at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale when she sold to MV Magnier and Mayfair Speculators for 2,000,000gns. She was one of 27 lots to achieve a sale price tag in excess of a quarter of a million guineas and her value was almost twice that of the next best priced mare.
Offered by Newsells Park Stud and in foal to Invincible Spirit, Hazariya was bought by Newsells for €480,000 at Goffs two years ago and has produced fillies by Fastnet Rock and Dansili for the farm. They are being retained and Julian Dollar was sad to see her go but thrilled with her price. “Of course we would have loved to have kept her, but we have two fillies out of her and it is the right decision for us.”
The dam of three stakes winners, it is her Sea The Stars son Harzand who has impacted most on the family. After signing for the sale topper Magnier said “she is a lovely mare, and any mare who breeds a Derby winner is special. She is for my parents and Michael and Derrick and she will go to Galileo.”
The winning Bernardini mare Eblouissante is a half-sister to the near unbeatable Zenyatta and the triple Grade 1 winner Balance and she is carrying her second foal, this one by Dansili. She was an obvious target for an American purchaser and so it proved to be, with Jane Lyon of Summer Wind Farm having the final say at 1,100,000gns.
She was delighted to secure the mare who will first head to Ireland to foal. “I am very excited. We watched Zenyatta as did the rest of the world. It is a phenomenal family and we don’t have anything of the pedigree in the broodmare band at home. She is an imposing, breath-taking individual and could be bred to any stallion.”
The €16,000 Goffs yearling Irish Rookie, a daughter of Azamour, looked to be on her way to becoming a sale millionaire, but at 935,000gns Andreas Putsch’s Haras de Saint-Pair, through Crispin de Moubray, had the final say and took home the listed winner who was runner-up in the French 1000 Guineas. Irish Rookie’s third dam bred Zafonic. Irish Rookie was not the only cheap yearling to sell for a high price. Jessica Harrington had an order for a yearling colt, bought a Champs Elysees filly instead for €10,500 at Tattersalls Ireland and her owner Gerry Byrne named her Jack Naylor. A group winner at two and three years and runner-up in the Irish Oaks, she sold to James Wigan of London Thoroughbred Services for 800,000gns as part of The Castlebridge Consignment.
Chartreuse was not a cheap yearling purchase at €100,000 in Goffs, but she was great value as the three-year-old daughter of Lawman won a listed race in France, was placed in a number of group races and earned £78,000 on the racetrack. In the sale ring Highclere Thoroughbred Racing sold her to Ballylinch Stud for 825,000gns and left all parties to the transaction satisfied.
Ballylinch Stud made another significant acquisition when John O’Connor gave 675,000gns for Screen Star, sold by Mark Johnston. The trainer bought the mare for 52,000gns in the same ring three years ago and then trained her Shamardal daughter Lumiere to win the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes. Covered by Golden Horn, she was a collector’s item.
Group 1 winners always have appeal and one that is heading to Japan is Euro Charline. Winner of the Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes and the earner of more than £1.5 million, she was once sold for 800gns but this time it took a bid of 750,000gns to gain ownership. Katsumi Yoshida’s Northern Farms will be her new home. Another bound for Japan is the five-year-old Acclamation mare Queen Catrine, a Group 3 winner this year from Ger Lyons’ stables, and she cost Haruya Yoshida 500,000gns. Incidentally this was the same price given for the stakes winner Whatdoiwantthatfor, in foal to first season sire Muhaarar, and she will foal in England before heading to Japan for owner Akira Katayama.
The Galileo three-year-old Follow A Star was well named. Though unraced and put in foal to a February cover by Zoffany, she has two siblings of note – the dual Oaks winner Alexandrova (by Sadler’s Wells) and the Cheveley Park Stakes winner Magical Romance (by Sadler’s Wells’ son Barathea). She cost Stephen Hillen 575,000gns on behalf of Highbank Stud.
There were a number of high-value mares in The Castlebridge Consignment draft and they included the Cheshire Oaks winner Anipa. This daughter of Sea The Stars is in foal for the first time to Zoffany and she cost John and Jake Warren 450,000gns. The Group 2-placed One Chance, a daughter of Invincible Spirit and carrying to Gleneagles, cost China Horse Club 380,000gns, Cormac McCormack paid 280,000gns for the group-placed Coolibah in foal to Dark Angel, while the Galileo mare Blue Chip, in foal to Siyouni, sold for 260,000gns.
Jacqueline Norris’ Jockey Hall Stud sold the stakes-placed Cascading to Meridian International for 525,000gns and the young mare, in foal to Siyouni, received a timely boost when her half-brother National Defense won this year’s Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. The same draft included the winning Shamardal mare Act Fast, in foal to Sea The Stars, and the Warren father and son team paid 260,000gns for her.
Barouche Stud offered the stakes winner Shermeen, dam of the Group 1 winning juvenile Sudirman, in foal to Dark Angel and the Nagle’s Barronstown Stud will be her new address following her 450,000gns sale. Bible Belt, a Group 3 winner and with an attractive Invincible Spirit covering, found favour with Blandford Bloodstock and sold from Kiltinan Castle Stud for 425,000gns.
The Hanly’s Ballyhimikin Stud sold a pair of mares in foal to Muhaarar and they made within a bid of each other. The dual listed winner Avenue Gabriel just had the edge, the daughter of Champs Elysees realising 375,000gns from Haras du Cadran, while the listed-winning Shamardal mare Dusky Lady sold to China Horse Club for 370,000gns. Oghill House Stud also sold a mare in foal to Muhaarar and this was the dam of Washington DC. Barronstown Stud snapped her up for 260,000gns.
Baroda & Colbinstown Studs sold Anipa for 450,000gns and a little earlier received 350,000gns from Mick Flanagan for Stars At Light, a winning Galileo mare in foal to Mastercraftsman.
The unraced Sea The Stars mare Onshore had a desirable first covering by Frankel and Juddmonte parted with her to Diamond Creek Farm for 320,000gns. They also sold the 15-year-old dam of Group 1 winner Mutual Trust for 270,000gns, in foal to Kingman.
La Dorotea is a winning daughter of Lope De Vega, and importantly an own-sister to the Group 1 winner Jemayel. With a Golden Horn covering she sold to Dick O’Gorman from Glebe Farm Stables for 310,000gns. Highclere Stud’s Façade cost Hubie de Burgh and James Harron 280,000gns and the stakes-placed daughter of Galileo is expecting her first foal by Zoffany.
The Nayef mare Ennaya is in foal to Siyouni and she is also a half-sister to that stallion’s best runner, the three-time Group 1 winner Ervedya. She sold from European Sales Management to Hillwood Bloodstock for 270,000gns.