Success

 

Highclere Stud has regularly been amongst the leading vendors at the major sales, including:

 

2009

Top vendor at Tattersalls October Sale Books 1 and 2, with impressive averages of 146,043gns and 67,708gns respectively, well above the overall average for each sale.

 

2008

Top vendor at Tattersalls October Sale Book 1

 

2007

Top vendor at Tattersalls October Sale Books 1 and 2, and DBS St Leger Yearling Sales. 

Click here for the list of top vendors.

 

The highlight of the 2009 Tattersalls consignment was the Pivotal half-brother to Fantasia purchased by Michael Goodbody for 450,000gns.  This colt was bred by Fittocks Stud and consigned by Highclere, as was his half-sister Pink Symphony who realised 400,000gns in 2008 as a yearling.  In 2007, the Gone West colt out of Myth To Reality sold to John Ferguson for an impressive 1,000,000gns.

 

Highclere Stud's homebred out of Model Queen sold for 600,000gns in 2006, and his half-brother sold for 430,000gns the previous year. The latter, named Regal Parade, has won several Stakes races including the Prix Maurice de Gheest (Gr.1) and Haydock Sprint Cup (Gr.1).

 

Other major winners on the racecourse include the Highclere bred and top lot at DBS St Leger Sales in 2007, Ouqba.  He finished second in the Lockinge (Gr.1), having previously won the Jersey Stakes (Gr.3) at Royal Ascot and European Free Handicap (L).

 

Further Highclere Stud bred and sold success on the racecourse includes Group 1 Moyglare winner, Lemon Soufflé, who was the Top Filly of the 1993 European Two-Year-Old Classifications, and other Stakes winners or perfomers: Birdie, Captain Hurricane, Caramba, Flashmans Papers, Fickle, Lyric Fantasy, Niche, Tincture, Tora Bora, Smirk and Stetchworth Prince.


High-priced sales success is not new to Highclere. The multiple Stakes winning and Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner, May Ball, sold for 550,000 to Shadai Farm at Tattersalls December Broodmare Sale in 2006.

 

In 1989 Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks winner Roseate Tern sold for 1,100,000gns at the same sale. Her dam, Rosia Bay gave the stud some international sales success when selling at Keeneland for $600,000 the year before having been purchased for only 6,200gns.

Recent yearling sales highlights:

2009 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale - Book 1
269 C Pivotal Blue Symphony MH Goodbody 450,000gns
413 F Dansili Frappe Shadwell Estate Co 330,000gns
588 F Encosta de Lago Model Queen Hugo Lascelles Bloodstock 280,000gns
88 C Cape Cross Something Exciting John Ferguson 240,000gns
120 F Galileo Tarfah John Magner 240,000gns
587 C Street Cry Miznah John Ferguson 200,000gns
620 F Cape Cross Night Frolic Blandford Bloodstock 200,000gns
 
2008 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale - Book 1
Lot Sex Sire Dam

Buyer

Price
400 F Montjeu Blue Symphony Paul Cole 400,000gns
78 C Motivator Model Queen Michael Jarvis 230,000gns
206 C Cape Cross Shimna John Ferguson 200,000gns
5 C Cape Cross Ladeena John Ferguson 200,000gns
53 C Pivotal Maskunah John Ferguson 200,000gns

 

2007 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale - Book 1
Lot Sex Sire Dam

Buyer

Price
217 C Gone West Myth To Reality John Ferguson 1,000,000gns
198 C Danehill Dancer Model Queen Ed Dunlop 350,000gns
501 C Cape Cross Wimple Bryan Smart 300,000gns

Montjeu ex Blue Symphony 2008 yearling realised 400,000gns

Motivator ex Takarna 2008 yearling realised 140,000gns

Gone West ex Myth To Reality 2007 yearling realised 1,000,000gns

Montjeu yearling ex Model Queen

May Ball

Lemon Souffle

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