FRIDAY, 4TH DECEMBER 2020 NEW YEAR NEW OPPORTUNITY JANUARY EBN MON. 11 - THURS. 14 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [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 DECEMBER SALE ENDS ON UPBEAT NOTE Gr.1 Sussex Stakes victor Mohaather (Showcasing) will stand Inexpensive fillies and mares brought the Tattersalls December for £20,000 when he takes up stallion duties at Nunnery Stud Sale to a close yesterday, and in some style, writes Carl Evans. next year. Full story on page 10. © Steve Cargill Undeterred by world events, and apparently confident they were gaining value, minnow buyers took 80 per cent of the horses on offer at the final session. There was more choice, with an IN TODAY’S ISSUE... additional 26 horses going through the ring, yet counter intuitively the demand rose, overwhelming last year’s 69 per cent Goffs UK December Sale preview p9 clearance rate on the final day. The other key indicators made big gains, too. Stakes results p15 Turnover almost doubled, gaining 94 per cent to a mark of South African news p18 538,200gns, the median went up by 20 per cent to 3,000gns, while the average price of 5,077gns was up 35 per cent. A top Flashback Friday p20 price of 21,000gns tells its own story, but once again Tattersalls Stakes fields p21 managed to go a long way towards clearing the shelves. TDN, 3/11/20 Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: +353-25-31966. 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Tel: +353 (0)45 521251 www.irishnationalstud.ie SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 4TH DECEMBER 2020 Supported by: Al Basti TOP LOTS AL BASTI EQUIWORLD - DUBAI Equiworld TATTERSALLS DECEMBER MARE SALE – DAY FOUR Lot Sex Name (Sire) Covering Sire Vendor Purchaser Price (gns) 2195 3f BANMI (Kodiac) College Farm Stables Howson & Houldsworth Bloodstock 21,000 2258 3f DIVINE QUEEN (KIngman) Harraton Stud Stringston Farm 20,000 2158 6m THE STALKING MOON (Arcano) Selwood Bloodstock Creighton Schwartz Bloodstock 19,000 CLICK HERE FOR SALE RESULTS This was in part helped by a growing confidence in internet That auction has been shipped in from Cheltenham via Ireland, bidding online, which was particularly noticeable at the final and will be the first sale of jumping stock to be held at Tattersalls’s session. Since the mares and fillies on offer all had form, on headquarters in living memory. racecourses or in breeding sheds, and were going to be bought COVID lies behind that sale’s hopscotch nature, but then we cheaply, why go to the expense of travelling to Newmarket? For have become used to being agile in 2020. some that was a near impossibility given COVID-related travel The overall figures for the four-day mares sale also showed a restrictions. rise in the clearance rate, up three per cent to 85 per cent, but During four days of selling this week, 1,637 internet bids were downturns in the other figures. An additional 54 horses were accepted and 136 lots were sold online to 75 different bidders. offered, but the aggregate figure fell 25 per cent to 43,111,900gns. Just over 3,000,000gns was added to the pot via online investors. The average price was down 32 per cent at 58,656gns, while the The busy final day was some note on which to end the year at median lost 26 per cent at 20,000gns. Park Paddocks, but then again it has not ended, for a single The Castlebridge Consignment led the consignors, trading 55 session of young point-to-pointers and jumping horses will bring lots for 5,269,300, while BBA Ireland’s 29 purchases made it the a novel element to this famous venue on Thursday next week. leading buyer with 2,494,800gns. Expert Eye The only Group 1 winning miler 2015 b h Acclamation - Exemplify (Dansili) by sire of sires Acclamation 2021 Fee £12,500 1st Oct, Special Live Foal ALL EYES ON THE FUTURE First Foals 2020 Contact Shane Horan, Claire Curry or Henry Bletsoe +44 (0)1638 731115 | [email protected] www.juddmonte.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 4TH DECEMBER 2020 M V Magnier of Coolmore Stud bought just one horse, but she cost 2,200,000gns, the sum he paid for the sale-topper, Beach Frolic, who was sold to dissolve a partnership between consignors Highclere Stud and Floors Stud. MAHONY’S LOOK BACK ON TURBULENT TIMES At the conclusion of the sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony reflected on the strangest of sales seasons, on the emergence of online bidding, and on the importance of international investors to a catalogue that was shy of the very highest quality. His company turned over 261,000,000gns during a turbulent #JUMPINGTOIT year, some 44,000,000gns down on 2019 and the lowest figure since 2013. Given the sense of shock when Britain was locked down initially in March, with no immediate end date, that reduction might not seem too bad now. Mahony’s close-of-sale statement read: “Traditionally at the conclusion of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale we would reflect upon the level of trade, both at the December Sales and earlier sales, £250,000 and also record our thanks and appreciation to all those who have contributed throughout the year. “In this strangest of years our thanks to all concerned is an even more central message, but we should start by expressing heartfelt paid out in GBB gratitude on behalf of the wider industry that the 2020 Tattersalls Jumps bonuses December Sales, Europe’s foremost foal and breeding stock sales, Make sure you DAY FOUR STATISTICS (GNS) breed, buy and race 2020 % 2019 Catalogued 202 145 GBB-qualified mares. Offered 133 107 Sold 106 (80%) 74 (69%) Aggregate 538,200 +94 277,300 Average 5,077 +35 3,747 Median 3,000 +20 2,500 MARES CUMULATIVE STATISTICS (GNS) 2020 % 2019 Catalogued 1,108 1,025 Offered 866 812 Sold 735 (85%) 668 (82%) Aggregate 43,111,900 -25 57,790,900 Average 58,656 -32 86,513 Median 20,000 -26 27,000 Xgreatbritishbonus.co.uk CUMULATIVE DECEMBER SALES STATISTICS (GNS) 2020 % 2019 Catalogued 2,215 2,352 Offered 1,799 1,900 Sold 1,485 (83%) 1,462 (77%) Aggregate 73,353,300 -20 91,278,700 Average 49,396 -21 62,434 Median 20,000 -20 25,000 Click here to contact IRT, or visit www.irt.com 4 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 SALES TALK EBN: FRIDAY, 4TH DECEMBER 2020 have been able to take place, under strict COVID-related protocols, successfully. More than half of the lots offered this week have on the advertised dates and with the minimum of disruption to the attracted internet bids and it has been notable that the online action established cycle of the bloodstock sales season. has been at every level of the market, including the very top end. “We have been able to bring a testing sales season to a successful “The implementation of the live internet bidding platform is a conclusion and for that we are enormously grateful. While the usual perfect illustration of how all involved in this industry have vibrance associated with this annual showcase of Europe’s finest successfully adapted and responded to circumstances outside their breeding stock has, by necessity, been lacking, we have again been control, as is the mutual cooperation with our counterparts at Goffs buoyed by the sustained resilience of the market and the and Arqana which has allowed us all to adjust sales dates when extraordinary determination of buyers from throughout the world needed. We have staged an unprecedented 16 sales at Park Paddocks who have contributed to yet another 2020 Tattersalls sale which has since the end of June and after every one of them we have reflected defied the prevailing social and economic uncertainty. on the admirable patience and determination which everyone has “In addition to the obvious issues, we were conscious that this shown to overcome unprecedented obstacles. The world has been year’s December Mares catalogue lacked a little of the depth of thrown into turmoil, but every single participant at our 2020 sales recent renewals, but nevertheless quality consignments from Britain, should be applauded for the manner in which they have accepted Ireland and France have attracted buyers from throughout the world the demands presented by the global pandemic. who have been active at all levels of the market, as ever demonstrating “Few will look back on the 2020 Tattersalls sales season with the enduring appetite for quality European bloodstock. While the pleasure, but they can look back with pride and our thanks go to undoubted highlight of the week was the 2.2m gns sale of Highclere each and every one who has contributed to a Tattersalls sales season and Floors Studs’ outstanding broodmare Beach Frolic to MV of remarkable resilience.” Magnier, encouragement can also be taken from the consistent global participation, with buyers from America, France, Japan, AGENT THORMAN SHOOTS STRAIGHT Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE all featuring amongst the leading buyers At a thinly-attended session even bloodstock agents were alongside new and established British and Irish investors.