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[email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU TODAY’S HEADLINES TATTERSALLS EBN Sales Talk Click here to is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com VEGA COLT TOP AT SECOND STRONG SESSION Further strong trade yesterday at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2 saw turnover rise four per cent to a figure just shy of Earthlight, Godolphin’s dual Gr.1-winning two-year-old by 18,000,000gns and ensured the remarkable opening day was no Shamardal, has been retired from racing and will stand at one-hit wonder, writes Carl Evans. Kildangan Stud in 2021. Full story on page 12. © Steve Cargill Also up was the average price, which gained a percentage point to reach 84,448gns. The median dropped 20 per cent to 52,000gns, but at a time of so much COVID-19-driven uncertainty another superb clearance rate of 85 per cent will have cheered IN TODAY’S ISSUE... the bloodstock and breeding industry. At the session last year 68 horses made a six-figure sum, yesterday 63 reached or breached Racing Round-Up p13 that mark. It was heady stuff in the circumstances. Stakes Fields p23 Leading the way was a 675,000gns Lope De Vega colt (Lot 945), who was sold to Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin after Pinhooking Tables p26 being consigned by Newsells Park Stud, the Jacobs family’s LOT 584 SHALAA ex Arch Of Colours The son of multiple Gr.1 winner and Champion SHALAA is a half-brother to the Group-placed winner MOISSON PRÉCOCE.