BREEZE-UP REVIEW: Five consignors review a record-breaking sales season 08 June 2025 Premium

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08 June 2025

Amy Lynam on 08 Jun 2025

BREEZE-UP REVIEW: Five consignors review a record-breaking sales season

Amy Lynam catches up with five breeze-up consignors to get their take on a season in which records were broken across the board

Amy Lynam

8 June 2025

An Acclamation colt provided Willie Browne with a career-best result in the ring when selling for 1,400,000gns at the Craven Breeze-Up Sale \ Laura Green/Tattersalls

"The problem is that if you give 50 grand or 250, sadly, if the horse is not able to gallop, you’ve lost everything" Willie Browne \ Laura Green/Tattersalls

"I had a very tough year last year – I barely came out alive - but the market felt very different this year" Cormac Farrell / Laura Green\ Tattersalls

"I think we're getting closer and closer to the American way that the top 30 horses on times seem to be what people are focusing on" Tom Whitehead \ Laura Green/Tattersalls

"I thought there was a lot of footfall at all the sales; you'd have over 100 shows for some horses, which is nearly unheard of for a breeze up" Brian Slattery (left) \ Healy Racing

"There were a couple of horses that I liked and that I loved, but there was never one that screamed that it was going to be very early" Katie Walsh \ Healy Racing

The Greenhills Farm team with their Mehmas colt who sold for £1million at Goffs UK \ Sarah Farnsworth/Goffs UK

Cormac Farrell thanks Anthony Stroud after he purchased his Night Of Thunder colt for €1.9 million at the Arqana Breeze Up Sale \ Zuzanna Lupa

Mocklershill graduate Light Infantry Man landed the A$2.5 million Group 1 Australian Cup in March \ Colin Bull

Too Darn Hot colt sold by Tom Whitehead's Powerstown Stud to Amo Racing for €550,000 at Arqana \ Zuzanna Lupa

WE have another sale to go, but how did the breeze-up sales season go for you this year?

Willie Browne, Mocklershill: We had some great results. The Acclamation horse at the Craven was obviously a brilliant result, but we sold a few others very well too; a Havana Grey, Siyouni… That said, you struggled to sell at the bottom end.