A DRAFT of mares from Derrinstown Stud supplied the majority of the day’s highest prices and enabled the Tattersalls Ireland Flat Foal & Breeding Stock Sale to conclude this evening with a set of figures that were very similar to those of 12 months.
A smaller catalogue saw the aggregate for the one-day auction drop by eight points to just under €550,000 but the median of €3,000 was the same as last year and the €6,442 average progressed by 4% on 2018.
The clearance rate also moved in the right direction, going from 50% to 55%.
Most of the sale was given over to foals but the main action took place for the mares that were on offer and centre stage went to Derrinstown’s Wahgah who cost Gerry Aherne, acting through the BBA Ireland, €50,000.
The daughter of Distorted Humor was sold in foal to Mukhadram and she bred a two-year-old winner by that sire this year. A dual stakes-placed runner on the track, Wahgah is a half-sister to a Grade 3 performer out of the smart Basaata.
“She’s a lovely big mare and I’ve bought her for an Irish client, a friend of mine, and she will be staying in Ireland. She was a decent racemare and she’s well bred mare off a good farm and her second runner is a winner so we’ll see what the spring brings,” said Aherne.
Royal Ascot
The Derrinstown draft also featured Buroog, an unraced Incinviclbe Spirit mare in foal to Iffraaj, and the daughter of the Royal Ascot-winning two-year-old Habaayib cost Maurice Burns €30,000.
“I’ve bought her for a client who had a couple of good sales this year,” reported Burns. “She’s from a nice family and is in foal to a good stallion on an early cover so there was plenty to like about her. She will go back to my client’s farm from here and in the spring she will visit one of our stallions.”
The Derrinstown-consigned Ejadah, a winning Clodovil half-sister to the Futurity Stakes winner First Cornerstone, also made an impression when selling to Tetromeen Ltd for €25,000.
Elsewhere in the mares section, the stakes-winning Cosmodrome cost Kill Bloodstock €30,000 after she came under the hammer carrying to Saxon Warrior.
Foals
The foal section of the sale was a quiet affair with centre stage going to a €24,000 son of Kodiac who was bought in a private sale by Razza del Velino.
Earlier, Flash Bloodstock signed for a €19,000 son of Adaay, who will have his first runners next year, while a trip to the store sales in 2022 is the plan for a son of Champs Elysees who cost Mount Eaton Stud €18,000.
Several sires made an impression with their first foal and the Scat Daddy horse El Kabeir supplied a €16,000 colt, as did the high-class sprinter Cotai Glory.
Day 1
YEAR CAT OFF SOLD AGG AV Med
2019 189 154 85 547,600 6,442 3,000
2018 229 195 97 599,100 6,176 3,000