What were the sales of 20 years ago like? Well Tattersalls staged 10 days of selling at their December Sale and for the third year in a row saw their turnover rise. This time it was by a phenomenal amount, growing by more than eight million guineas to 34,743,120gns and nearly doubling the aggregate of just three years previously.
The highest price for a broodmare at the sale was the 500,000gns paid by Charlie Gordon-Watson for Crystal Spray. He purchased her on behalf of Sir (later Lord) Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Watership Down Stud and she was in foal to Sadler’s Wells. Robert Sangster’s Swettenham Stud sold her as agent for Michael Poland who was, among many other things, the Master of the Isle of Wight Foxhounds.
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