Sale: Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale (Parts I & II) at Ratoath, Co Meath.

Date/time: Tuesday and Wednesday, September 23rd-24th (Part I, 10am both days) and Thursday, September 25th (Part II, 10am)

Lots: 505 in Part I, 165 in Part II.

Info: All lots sold in the ring are eligible for the €250,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Stakes at the 2026 Irish Champions Festival.

Web: tattersalls.ie

THIS might just be the easiest sale preview I’ve ever written.

It’s as simple as this: graduates of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale won three Group 1s at Royal Ascot this year and none of them cost more than €50,000.

There’s only eight Group 1s in the entire week of the Royal meeting. Three of those Group 1 winners never went to the sales, and the other two were Juddmonte’s Field Of Gold and Godolphin’s Ombudsman, both of whom made a fortune at the sales.

When you think of the money spent trying to buy a future Royal Ascot winner, it really is incredible that the Fairyhouse sale could throw up three of them at the highest level.

First there was the Queen Anne winner Docklands, a £16,000 purchase by Blandford Bloodstock from Clenagh Castle Stud in 2021 (the sale held in Newmarket that year).

Next came Time For Sandals, winner of the Commonwealth Cup, sold by Rathbride Farm to Harry Eustace and David Appleton for €35,000 at the 2023 sale.

And finally the Coronation Stakes heroine Cercene, a €50,000 purchase by trainer Joe Murphy from Baroda Stud at the 2023 sale.

It’s early days to be judging the 2024 crop but Alparslan, the impressive winner of the Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sale Stakes at the Curragh last Sunday, looks stakes class. He was a €75,000 purchase from Mark Dreeling’s Coole House Farm by Federico Barberini.

According to the latest statistics compiled by Tattersalls Ireland, the September Sale has produced 20 blacktype winners so far in 2025. Copacobana Sands (€7,000 purchase) is among them, winner of a listed race and Group 3 for trainer Michael O’Callaghan.

All of this, coupled with a strong start to the European yearling sales season, will give vendors plenty of optimism ahead of this week’s sale. Part I takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by Part II on Thursday.

The median price at last year’s Part I sale was €24,000, down from €28,000 the year before. However, the catalogue was 10% bigger last year, which probably accounted for the slight drop in some of the key stats. This week’s Part I catalogue is 10% smaller.

In 2024, the Part II median price was €4,000, half of what it was two years earlier but then the catalogue size for Part II has more than doubled. That too has been considerably slimmed this year.

Catalogue highlights

Part I

Lot 7: Bated Breath half-brother to four stakes horses including Group 1 winner Juliet Foxtrot.

Lot 9: Tasleet three-part brother to American Sonja.

Lot 12: Elzaam half-brother to Champers Elysees.

Lot 14: Blackbeard half-sister to Arizona and Nay Lady Nay. Also related to this year’s high-class two-year-old colt, Publish.

Lot 28: Naval Crown half-sister to Grade 1 winner La Pelosa.

Lot 36: No Nay Never half-brother to two stakes horses including 1000 Guineas Trial winner Who’s Steph.

Lot 66: Havana Grey own-sister to Azizam, placed third in Windsor Castle Stakes and Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes, Kentucky Downs.

Lot 91: St Mark’s Basilica half-brother to French Group 1 performer First Minister.

Lot 92: State Of Rest sister to two winners out of Group 3 winner and Grade 2 placed mare Nations Alexander.

Lot 96: No Nay Never filly out of the stakes mare Nell Gwyn, an own-sister to Rock Of Gibraltar.

Lot 112: St Mark’s Basilica filly out of Group 3 Nell Gwyn Stakes winner and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf-placed mare Osaila.

Lot 120: Sioux Nation own-brother to stakes performer and Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sale Stakes winner Native American.

Lot 147: Pinatubo filly out of a winning own-sister to Quadtrilateral.

Lot 168: Caturra half-sister to listed placed King Cuan.

Lot 234: Supremacy filly out of 1000 Guineas Trial winner Stormfly.

Lot 236: Minzaal filly out of Oasis Dream mare Strathnaver.

Lot 296: Cotai Glory colt out of a half-sister to Trawlerman.

Lot 298: Minzaal half-sister to Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye placed Gold Vibe.

Lot 340: Starman half-sister to Terror.

Lot 342: Space Blues filly out of a stakes-placed half-sister to Twilight Payment.

Lot 343: Kingman colt out of a half-sister to Group 2 Long Distance Cup second Biographer.

Lot 371: Nando Parrado half-sister to Group 3 winner Copacabana Sands.

Lot 371: St Mark’s Basilica half-sister to Austalian Group 2 winner Delphi.

Lot 378: St Mark’s Basilica filly out of Group 1-winning mare Capla Temptress.

Lot 385: St Mark’s Basilica half-brother to classic winner The Gurkha.

Lot 446: Sioux Nation half-brother to Group 3 winner Novus and out of a winning half-sister to Cheveley Park Stakes winner Millisle and four other stakes winners.

Lot 449: Sioux Nation half-sister to stakes winner Mantastic and out of a half-sister to multiple Group 1 winner and champion mare Alexander Goldrun.

Lot 451: Havana Grey half-sister to Group 3 winner Fast Attack and out of multiple stakes-winning mare Fort Del Oro.

Lot 467: Too Darn Hot colt out of stakes winner and multiple stakes-placed mare Gorane.

Lot 481: Footstepsinthesand filly closely related to this year’s Nunthorpe Stakes runner-up Ain’t Nobody.

Part II

Lot 513: Supremacy filly out of Lady Kermit.

Lot 519: Gleneagles filly out of a half-sister to multiple Group 1 winner Linngari.

Lot 521: Showcasing half-sister to Bravais and out of multiple Group 2 winner Lucky Kristale.

Lot 541: Calyx half-sister to five winners and out of a half-sister to US Grade 1 winner Subtle Power.

Lot 550: Starspangledbanner half-sister to Coltrane.

Lot 557: Supremacy half-brother to nine winners from nine runners including Boston Rocker.

Lot 562: Australia filly out of a half-sister to four stakes winners including Ubettabelieveit.

Lot 575: Invincible Army out of a winning half-sister to Mill Reef Stakes winner Toocoolforschool.

Lot 578: Persian Force filly out of a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Insinuendo.

Lot 591: Lope Y Fernandez filly out of an own-sister to Group 1 winner Krypton Factor.

Lot 598: King Of Change half-sister to six winners including listed placed Magny Cours.

Lot 601: Bayside Boy colt out of Auxilia.

Lot 611: Coulsty colt out of an own-sister to Crimson Rosette and a half-sister to Courage Mon Ami.

Lot 615: Arizona half-brother to Coventry Stakes winner Rajasinghe.

Lot 616: Kodi Bear half-sister to Norfolk Stakes-placed Imperial Force.

Lot 618: Sottsass half-brother to French listed winner Calistoga, out of a Group 3-winning half-sister to Irish 1000 Guineas runner-up Golden Silca.

Lot 626: Supremacy half-brother to five winners out of Group 2-placed mare Cochabamba.

Lot 644: Equiano colt out of a half-sister to multiple Group 3 winner Sandiva.

Lot 648: Ghaiyyath colt out of multiple listed winner and Group 3-placed mare Flying Fairies.

Lot 651: Showcasing half-sister to two winners and out of Group 2-placed mare Gavota.

Lot 654: Blackbeard colt out of a winning half-brother to multiple stakes winner and Group 1-placed Grocer Jack.

Lot 669: Kuroshio half-sister to Bowerman.