Shadwell makes massive impact

WITH a total spend of just over £2.2 million, Shadwell Stud’s importance to the sale cannot be overstated. With 18 purchases at an average of £122,389, and the most expensive of their buys costing £210,000, they are always a welcome sight.

Fifteen of their purchases made six-figure sums and, apart from those reported elsewhere, these included a Cable Bay first foal out of a mile-winning Shamardal mare. The January-born home-bred from Highclere Stud cost Angus Gold £175,000, one bid more than he gave for a son of Maxios from Luke Barry’s Manister House Stud.

That colt is also a first foal, this time of an unraced Galileo mare, and he represented a stunning pinhook success, being purchased from Newsells Park Stud last December by Corbin Blumberg for just 15,000gns and now making £170,000. He comes from the family of Group 1 winning mares Pride and Speciosa.

Another Cable Bay making its way to Shadwell is Highclere’s daughter of Angels Wings, a two-year-old winning daughter of Dark Angel. Bred in partnership by Highclere and Jake Warren, the full-sister to Flash Henry, who has been placed three times this year at two, cost £105,000.

Yeomanstown Stud bred the Dark Angel colt out of the winning Dandy Man mare Relation Alexander in partnership and he was bought on behalf of Shadwell for £145,000. Yeomanstown also sold a Dark Angel out of Staceymac to Shadwell for £125,000. This own-brother to the listed winner and group-placed Easton Angel, unsold as a foal for 55,000gns, was bought in February for €80,000 from his breeder James Waldron.

Two Shadwell purchases who cost £100,000 each were Croom House Stud’s Acclamation out of a half-sister to Mehmas, while Whatton Manor Stud’s Exceed And Excel filly out of the winning Oasis Dream mare Dispel made great profit on her foal price of €30,000.