BEST EVER SEPTEMBER YEARLING SALE CATALOGUE OUT NOW
The September Sale has long been recognised as a constant source of winning trainers’ horses as well as quality racehorses, and already 50 two-year-olds sold at last year’s sale have won 62 races more than any other yearling sale in Ireland.
The exciting Royal Ascot Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner The Wow Signal, the only Royal Ascot winner sold at public auction in Ireland, now with the top autumn juvenile Group 1 races on his agenda, heads the growing list of successful graduates sold last year. The 14-time winner Lucky Nine, a graduate of the 2008 September Sale, continues to perform at the highest level on the international stage and won his seventh Group 1 in May when successful in the KrisFlyer International Sprint. Other horses of note include stakes winning 2yo’s: Jack Naylor, Convergence along with Black Type winners Fontanelice, Producer, Trumpet Major, Top Notch Tonto and Dutch Masterpiece.
Purchasers have the chance to buy into Lucky Nine’s family through Lot 132, a Vocalised colt offered by Al Eile Stud. He is a first foal out of the juvenile winner Zelloof, a Kheleyf half-sister to the dam of the Hong Kong-based star and a daughter of the champion juvenile Belle Genius.
This year’s Group 3-winning September Sale graduates include the Gladness Stakes winner Sruthan and the Glorious Stakes winner Pether’s Moon, whose family is represented by Lot 75, a March-born colt by first-season sire Frozen Power offered by Deer Forest Stud.
Buyers looking for quality pedigrees at this year’s September Sale have plenty of choice from the large selection of close relations to Group 1 winners catalogued.
From Bellewstown Farm Stud is an Approve colt (Lot 120) out of Violet Flame, a half-sister to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) winner Vale Of York, while Tally-Ho Stud has a colt by this year’s leading first-season sire Zebedee out of a winning half-sister to the dual Group 1 winner and multiple Group 1-placed Dick Turpin (Lot 119).
Redpender Stud offers a Sir Percy colt out of a half-sister to the multiple Group 1-placed Norse Dancer (Lot 318), and from Mount Eaton Stud is an Alfred Noble colt, a first foal out Its In The Air, a half-sister to the international Group and Grade 1 winner Storming Home (Lot 328). The Castlebridge Consignment offers Lot 665, a Zebedee filly out of a half-sister to this year’s leading sprinter, the Temple Stakes winner and King’s Stand (G1) third Hot Streak, a Group 1 juvenile runner-up last year.
The Irish National Stud-consigned colt by Jeremy (Lot 212) is out of Coill Cri, a half-sister to Phoenix Reach, a Group and Grade 1 winner in Canada, Hong Kong and Dubai.
A number of young mares boasting their own black-type have yearlings on offer – the Listed runner-up and Group 3-placed Blue Angel has a January-born Twirling Candy colt offered by The Castlebridge Consignment (Lot 173), Lot 165 is a Zebedee filly out of the Listed Flower Of Scotland Stakes winner Bali Royal and Lot 231 is a Compton Place filly out of Dame Hester, black-type placed and dam of Donnerschlag, Group 3 placed and a Listed winner in Germany this June.
Lot 380 is an Excellent Art colt out of the Listed runner-up Maybe Grace, while Lot 388 is a Zebedee colt from the Listed-placed mare Miss Donovan, a half-sister to the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Hellvelyn. Nina Blini, placed third in the Queen Mary Stakes (G2), has a Dark Angel colt due to be offered by Castledillon Stud (Lot 418).
There are also close siblings to Group-class horses for sale including Lot 419, a Mastercraftsman colt who boasts a Grade 3 winner and Grade 1-placed half-brother, while Rathasker Stud sells a Thousand Words close relation to the Group 3 winner and Group 1 runner-up Top Notch Tonto (Lot 336).
Pedigrees boasting recent black-type form are also much in evidence, including Lot 271, a Big Bad Bob filly out of Femme Fatale from the strong black-type family of Sultanina, recent winner of the Group 1 Nassau Stakes, Lot 661, also by Big Bad Bob, is a full-sister to Cherie Good, an Italian Listed-placed juvenile this June. This month the Group 2 Railway Stakes winner Kool Kompany added Group 1-placed form to Lot 452’s pedigree – a colt by Acclamation from Castledillon Stud.
Selling starts each day at 10.00 am each day. Overseas purchasers can continue to avail of the flight reimbursement scheme from our partners Irish Thoroughbred Marketing. Catalogue is available from the office, online and on the Tattersalls Ireland app.