THE Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale has developed a reputation for producing stakes horses at affordable prices. In 2021, Shantisara and Trueshan became the sale’s latest Group/Grade 1-winning graduates, having cost just 10,000gns and 31,000gns respectively.

The 2022 flagbearer was 57,000gns buy The Platinum Queen and, in 2023, the sale was advertised by four group winners that cost an average of 39,750gns each. The trend continued last year, with seven stakes winners bought for 80,000gns or less.

The cheapest of those was Anshoda, a Group 3 winner that had been picked up by David Loughnane for 5,000gns just over three months earlier. It was her first start for Team Valor and Gary Barber, who had purchased her privately after finishing second in a listed race.

It’s safe to presume she cost the US owners considerably more than she fetched at Tattersalls, and another to cash in on their bargain’s accomplishments was Patrick Cooper.

The BBA agent’s 38,000gns Guineas Breeze Up buy Village Voice sold to John Stewart’s Resolute Bloodstock for 1.3 million guineas in December, when her CV included three stakes wins and multiple group placings.

Michael O’Callaghan was another who reaped rewards, selling Beresford Stakes winner Crypto Force to Amo Racing for £900,000. He was sourced by O’Callaghan for 160,000gns from the Tally-Ho Stud draft, which included The Platinum Queen that same year.

Another six-figure breezer to justify his price was Far Above, the Palace House Stakes winner bought by Blandford Bloodstock from Matt Whyte’s Bushypark Stables for 105,000gns. Blandford Bloodstock were the leading buyers last year and, so far, their purchases have shaped promisingly.

Strong Warrior, who was bought from Yeomanstown Stud for 150,000gns, is rated 91 after winning both his starts, while Cornwallis Stakes third Kullazain cost the same price from Longways Stables. Weissmuller, who they bought from Beechlea Bloodstock for 68,000gns, finished fourth in the Windsor Castle Stakes.

Last year’s renewal featured 11 six-figure lots, but the strength at the top of the market didn’t transfer to the lower tiers, with the clearance rate falling to 72% from 84% 12 months prior. The median price fell by 10% to 27,000gns, but demand for the top lots helped to produce a respectable average price of 41,894gns; the third highest in the sale’s history.

Thomond O’Mara’s Knockanglass Stables sold multiple Group 1 winner Trueshan to Anthony Bromley and Alan King at the 2018 renewal and brings five to Park Paddocks next week, including a Footstepsinthesand colt out of Cherry Hinton Stakes heroine Sandor Camillo.

Willie Browne’s Mocklershill sold another Group 1-winning graduate in Trip To Paris, who was knocked down to Federico Barberini for 20,000gns. Browne’s upcoming draft features a St Mark’s Basilica filly out of Group 1 sprinter Keep Busy (Lot 248).

Havana Grey sired the 1,750,000gns top lot at the venue’s Craven Breeze Up Sale and has nine lots catalogued next week, including a half-sister to dual Group 3 scorer Future History, offered by Jerry Horan’s Ballynure Park Stud as Lot 252.

Another vendor set for a big result, should their charge breeze well is DNA Equine, who offer a Kingman colt out of Argentinian Grade 1 winner Samba Inc, which cost €20,000 as a yearling.

Kilbrew Stables offer what looks another well-bought pinhook, having paid €17,000 for Lot 366 as a yearling, despite her being a full-sister to King’s Stand Stakes runner-up Twilight Calls.

Horses will breeze at the Rowley Mile from 9am on Wednesday, April 30th and will sell the next day, following the Horses in Training section, which gets underway at 9.30am.

AN unraced filly topped the Tattersalls Guineas Horses In Training Sale last year, and unknown entities appear to be the highlight of next week’s catalogue, which goes under the hammer from 9.30am on May 1st.

The well-related two-year-old Kingman filly who sold to Alex Elliott and Billy Jackson-Stopps for 130,000gns made a promising debut earlier this month for Andrew Balding, finishing second to what looked a smart prospect in a Newbury maiden.

The sale’s most recent flagbearer has been Lammas, who was sold by David Loughnane to Ron Charles for 42,000gns. Rated 89 in the UK, the Heeraat gelding has since won two Grade 3s and another three blacktype stakes for new connections.

Last year’s increased catalogue of 198 lots produced the sale’s highest turnover, average and median prices. That offering drops to 163 lots next week, with Barton Sales accounting for the largest consignment at 20 lots, featuring a number of well-bred unraced horses.

Those of note include a Lope De Vega three-year-old out of Lowther Stakes heroine Living In The Past (Lot 26), a Galileo colt out of dual Group 1 winner Amazing Maria (Lot 55), a New Bay half-brother to Group 1 performer Ghostwriter (Lot 86) and a two-year-old Sea The Stars half-brother to Ajaya (Lot 85).

The Juddmonte draft contains a number of unraced, well-related colts, including Concert Tour, an own-brother to Enable (Lot 148), and a Frankel colt out of a half-sister to Dansili (Lot 146).

Consign Ltd offer up a promising type in Veblen Good (Lot 114), who got off the mark in October and is now rated 90 after finishing second on his three-year-old return. Path To Dubai could prove popular with the National Hunt fraternity, as the 82-rated Masar gelding is a half-brother to listed bumper winner Audacity.