Lot 617: by Highland Reel and sold by The Castlebridge Consignment, the filly out of Leenavesta (Arch) makes €18,000 and is bought by Donnacha O'Brien Racing.
The February-born filly is a half-sister to four winners, including the Listed-placed Kodiac Gal (Kodiac).
The Wathnan Racing-owned Inverness, rated 94 and a Listed winner in Qatar, is bred on the same Highland Reel-Arch cross. (12:35)
Lot 611: is bought for €30,000 as a racing prospect by owner Vincent Gaul, who signed under the Wyanstown House banner.
The colt by Cotai Glory, sold by Gerrardstown House Stud and bred by Mr Frank Fahy, will be going into training with Ger Lyons.
"I liked him as an individual he looks like a two-year-old type," said Gaul who bid from the balcony. "I have a few already with Ger and I like to keep them until the end of their three-year-old years. This chap has a reasonable page –the dam's first foal [Ladise, 2022] is a winner and it goes back to some quality."
The pedigree definitely boasts some quality – dam Lady Hanson is by Galileo and she is a half-sister to Spirit Of Battle, who was Group 3 placed in the Prix Eclipse. Their dam Victoria Star is a Danehill own-sister to Mozart, the three-year-old champion sprinter of 2001, winner of the July Stakes (G1) and the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1).
Ladise (Calyx) is a September Sale Part 2 graduate, bought at last year's by Enrica Baragiola Sagam Srl for €24,000. (11:55)
Lot 598: the Starman form continues, this filly by the son of Dutch Art makes €20,000 bought by Mustardos Patryk Gorczyca.
Offered by Treadstone Bloodstock, bred by Treadstone and Tally-Ho, she is out of the mare It's Miraculous (Curlin) – her first runner and foal Merveilleux Lapin (Mohaather) is a winner since the catalogue was published.
It's Miraculous did not run but the other dams on the page are all black-type winners – her dam Kind Of Magic won the Listed Tara Stakes, grand-dam Look At Me was a Listed winner and Group 2 placed, third dam Queen Cleopatra won the 1000 Guineas Trial (G3), finished third in the Irish 1000 Guineas (G1) and was an own-sister to the dual 2000 Guineas winner Henrythenavigator.
The final dam on the page is Sequoyah, who won the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1).
It's Miraculous was bought by Treadstone for 25,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2021. (11:38)
Lot 593: has been bought to race and will be trained by Mark Fahey.
The Invincible Army filly, offered by Ballyshannon Stud and out of the Group 3 winner Indian Maiden the dam of eight winners including the Group 3 winner Maid In India, was bought by €25,000.
"She is an elegant filly, we like the pedigree and she stays in Ireland," said Jerry Horan of Paragon Bloodstock. "The mare's three-year-old Tina's Indian looks very good."
That colt, who is trained by Fahey, won on his career debut in August at The Curragh over 6f. The Racing Post report said: "He was green when he got there and it is exciting to think how much improvement there could be to come."
A thrilled Fahey said after that race: "He is a horse we love, we think he is very good. I've never had a horse to work like him. The owners gave him all the time he needed to develop into a horse. We were confident coming today. He is a huge horse and he has needed time."
Exciting time and no wonder he and the crew has stepped in to buy the yearling (11:26)
Lot 576: the first colt in the ring to sell by Capital Stud's first-crop sire Alkumait, winner of the Mill Reef Stakes (G2) and a half-brother to the 2,000 Guineas and Dewhurst winner Chaldean, makes €10,000 bought by The Ivy's Stables.
The Killeen Stables-consigned colt is out of the Nathaniel mare Goldspun, who is a daughter of the Oasis Dream mare Dream Day, who was a runner-up in the Fred Darling Stakes (G3) and is dam of the Listed placed third Delhi and of the dam of the Prx des Six Perfections (G3) winner Sydneyarms Chelsea (11:14)
September Yearling Sale Part 1... Recap
The leading buyer at the two-day sale by aggregate spend and average (for those with the double-digit yearlings purchased) was Rabbah Bloodstock, who purchased ten horses for an outlay of €586,000, buying for long-time leading owner Jaber Abdullah. The horses bought included the Mehmas sale-topper (Lot 321) who cost the owner €180,000, as well as the Starman filly from Baroda Stud for €120,000.
Marco Bozzi Bloodstock was the most prolific buyer over the two days, the Italian agent buying 19 lots for a spend of €347,500, an average price of €18,289. His top-priced purchase was Lot 83, a colt by Camelot and out of Just Pretending who cost €62,000.
With various different buying entities Joey Logan purchased nine lots, headlined by the Invincible Spirit full-sister to the Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Stakes winner Spirit D'Or (Lot 417). Logan is back on the sale ground this morning.
Numerous British and Irish trainers put their names on dockets, including Clive Cox, Andrew Balding, trainer of the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner and September Sale graduate Cool Hoof Luke, Richard Fahey, Gordon Elliott, Gavin Cromwell, Andy Oliver, Adrian Keatley, Iain Jardine, Eve Johnson-Houghton, Tom Dascombe Gemma Tutty and Jamie Insole.
The breeze-up consignors did not miss either with Katie Walsh and Con Marnane buying some high profile lots, Marnane spending €115,000 on the Too Darn Hot from Limekiln Stud (Lot 471).
Leading consignorsThe Castlebridge Consignment led the field of consignors with 28 sold for €1,070,500 turnover, ahead of the 29 sold by Baroda for €961,000 and Tally-Ho Stud's €732,000 achieved by 22 sales.
Coole House Farm topped the list of vendors by average with two or more lots sold – the farm's two sold averaged €77,500. Brook Lodge Farm's two pinhooks were sold for an average price of €62,500, while Ridge Manor's two sold achieved an average price of €58,500.
Leading sires Sioux Nation was the Part 1 leading sire and the only stallion to achieve a turnover in seven figures, the son of Scat Daddy's total sales equalling €1,113,000. The first-crop sire Starman was next best with 19 sold for a turnover of €684,000.
Best by average with two or more sold was Too Darn Hot, who had three sell for an average price of €59,333. (10:51)
After an excellent two-day Part 1 September Sale, we move into the a one-day session for Part 2, and selling starts at 10am. (09:08)
Day 2
Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale Part 1
Lot 547 and Lot 550: despite the Part 1 section of the September Sale coming to a conclusion, buyers were still busy – Lot 547, a filly by Almanzor out of the Group 3 winner Elysium from Ballylinch Stud, was sold for €62,000, while the New Bay filly from Baroda Stud was bought for €50,000. She is out of the Shamardal mare Enlace, the winner of five races and dam of two winners. (21:03)
Lot 514: the Palace Pier colt out of Crystal Starlet, and from the direct family of the champion older horse Crystal Ocean and the Grade 1 winner Hillstar, is sold by The Castlebridge Consignment for €55,000 to Bronsan Racing / de Burgh Equine.
The Darley Stud sire has had three lots sell for an average price of €45,333. (20:00)
Lot 483: Aidan O'Ryan / Richard Fahey team up and spend €45,000 on the Lope Y Fernandez colt out of the US-bred mare Butterfly Kiss (Medaglia D'Oro).
The mare is a daughter of Laughing Lashes, winner of the Debutante Stakes (G2), runner-up in the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1) and third in the Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1). (19:34)
Lot 480: becomes the 59th horse sold for €50,000 or more over the two days of the Part 1 September Sale, the son of Kodi Bear bought on behalf of Billy Jackson Stops and Alex Elliott, who have left the Fairyhouse sales ground. He was sold by Parkway Farm.
The colt has a stallion's pedigree – his two-year-old-winning dam Boston Beauties (Zoffany) is a half-sister to first-crop sire Lucky Vega, winner of the Phoenix Stakes (G1) and twice Group 1-placed.
Under the third dam Satwa Queen, winner of the Prix de l'Opera (G1), is the 2023 German champion older horse Nations Pride, winner of Group 1 races and Grade 1 in the US and Canada, and Militarize, a champion two-year-old in Australia and a three-time Group 1 winner as a juvenile. (18:20)
Lot 471: pinhooked at the Tattersalls December Sale for 40,000gns by Foxrock from Newsells Park Stud, this son of Too Darn Hot sells for €115,000, bought by Con Marnane.
"We have three bonuses won this year in Ireland, worth €30,000, so that will help to break the back of it.," said Marnane, who was with his daughter Amy. " You have to take your hat off to Horse Racing Ireland and Irish Thoroughbred Marketing for supporting the industry so well with this scheme – it is unbelievable.
"We thought he was the nicest horse in the sale, and he will go to the breeze-up sales. If he doesn't sell, we can always race him."
Consignor Gerry Ross of Limekiln Stud said: "He was always a lovely horse, when we bought him as a foal his walk really attracted us last year alongside the pedigree which is all with Dubawi. He has been straightfoward all the way through and one of those you would not know was on the place. He has gone to a great home and Con will do the best by him." (17:56)
Lot 442: the Tally-Ho Stud sire Mehmas has been doing the farm proud on the racecourse this summer, the son of Acclamation now heading up the European two-year-olds sires' list, as well as over the two days of this sale – he leads the sale's sires' table by average for those with ten yearlings or more sold over the two-day sale.
Tally-Ho Stud itself gets a great result here from its own homebred colt – he was sold for €60,000 to Kevin Ross Bloodstock / Gavin Cromwell.
Dam Anything Goes (Nayef), who was rated 81, the winner of one race in France, was bought by the farm in 2020 for 30,000gns at the Tattersalls February Sale. She is a daughter of Winona (Alzao), who the Irish Oaks (G1) and finished third in the Coronation Stakes (G1). (17:39)
Lot 441: becomes the sale's 13th yearling by Sioux Nation to sell for €40,000 or more, the filly consigned by Baroda Stud fetching €48,000.
She is out of the Anyonecanbeasaint (Holy Roman Emperor), the dam of two winners from two runners, and from the immediate family of the Group 1 winner Turtle Island, a champion two-year-old in Ireland in 1993, winner of the Phoenix Stakes (G1), the Gimcrack Stakes (G2) and the Norfolk Stakes (G3). As a three-year-old he went on to take the Greenham Stakes (G3), win the Irish 2,000 Guineas, finish second in the Poule D'Essai des Poulains (G1) and third in the St James's Palace Stakes (G1). (16:55)
Lot 423: another by Sioux Nation hits the mark – Peter Fahey, in company with Mouse O'Ryan, was closest to the rostrum when spending €80,000 for Cooneen Stud's Sioux Nation colt, his fourth purchase over the two days.
The colt will be trained by Richard Fahey.
Fahey said: "He reminded us a lot of Native American [also a son of Sioux Nation] who cost €75,000 in this ring two years ago. Hopefully this one will be as successful."
Native American won last year's Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sale Stakes in the colours of Wathnan Racing.
O'Ryan was quick to get away, saying "we are not finished buying yet." (16:48)
Lot 417: a busy sale ring welcomed the Invincible Spirit full-brother to Spirit D'Or, the winner of the Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Stakes run at The Curragh on Irish Champion Festival weekend. It was a second career success for the filly, who has also been Listed-placed at Deauville in France for trainer Gavin Hernon and is rated 95.
Bids came from all round the ring for her year-younger brother, but it turned into a battle between Cormac O'Flynn, standing on the balcony, and Joey Logan standing by the stairs. Logan initially declined when offered the €100,000 bid, but after a quick reassessment of plans, re-thought matters and sealed the deal at the round figure, the colt becoming the eighth yearling to sell for a six-figure sum at this year's sale so far.
"He is by the right sire and his full-sister was very good up The Curragh last week, I thought she was very impressive," reported Logan. "He is a beautiful, attractive colt, very well prepared by the Irish National Stud and with the big update. If he is as good as his sister we will be happy. It is a lovely family, the mare is by Dubawi and the stallion can do no more.
"He has been bought with Alan Harte and his brother Roderick. No trainer is planned as yet."
Of his purchases so far at the sale, Logan said: "I have bought seven or eight so far. The stock is fantastic and it is very hard to buy the nice horse as there are so many people here and from all around the world. In fairness to ITM and Tattersalls they have done a great job getting people here. The stock is good but the people are here, too – the numbers following in a nice horse is unbelievable."
The colt was bred and sold by the Irish National Stud, and the stud's chief executive Cathal Beale was on hand to watch the sale.
He said: "We are absolutely delighted. We bought Across The Sea for 45,000gns [Tattersalls December Mares Sale 2020], and now she has produced a very good filly in Spirit D'Or, and now another one to Invincible Spirit for €100,000.
"We bought her really to try the Dubawi/Invincible Spirit cross, so it has worked out well. The colt has gone to a very good home, and is going to get every chance to progress the mare."
Of the mare, he updated: "We have a lovely Phoenix Of Spain colt at home, and the mare is back in-foal to that stallion."
Spirit D'Or is the first foal and sole runner so far for Across The Sea, and was a €55,000 Tattersalls Ireland September Sale purchase last year by David l'Estrange and Drummona House. (16:12)
Lot 395: Katie Walsh buys this Sioux Nation colt, bred by Noel Dool and sold by Kilbride House Stud, as a breeze-up prospect for €90,000.
"He is a lovely individual, a lovely walking colt, the sire has been good to me over the years and this lad was a bit of a stand-out for me today," said Walsh of the colt who is out of the Ruler Of The World mare Watersign, a half-sister to the Abu Dhabi Listed winner Haqeeqy (Lope De Vega).
Walsh and Sioux Nation have a very good relationship indeed, the son of Scat Daddy has certainly been a "lucky" stallion for her.
At the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale 2023, Walsh sold a colt by the sire for €240,000 to Avenue Bloodstock. He was named Letsbefrankaboutit, trained by Paddy Twomey and won the Round Tower Stakes (G3).
At this year's Guineas Sale, Avenue Bloodstock, this time in a purchase pairing with Twomey, paid €370,000 for Walsh's filly out of Decorative (Danehill Dancer). He has been named City Of Memphis and has not yet raced. (15:09)
Lot 381: Rabbah Bloodstock buys again for Jaber Abdullah, this time going to €120,000 for a filly by the exciting young sire Starman from Baroda Stud and bred by China Horse Club International.
The filly comes from the great John son-Houghton-developed family of Mohaather, Prize Exhibit, Accidental Agent and Polly Pott being out of Tschierschen who is an Acclamation daughter of Roo.
Tschierschen was bred by Corduff Stud – Roo having been bought by Blandford Bloodstock on behalf of Corduff Stud in 2009.
"We like the pedigree, she is a nice individual, vetted well and is by Starman, whose stock is looks very promising," said Mohamad Al Kaabi. "The mare's first foal Perotto is a six-time winner and is Listed placed and her two-year-old by Australia is a winner."
The Australia was unnamed when the catalogue was published but is now called Cercene and won at Naas on September 10 on her second career start. She is entered in the Group 3 Weld Park Stakes.
Underbidder was the trainer Joseph Murphy. He is the trainer of Cercene, the filly having been bought at this sale last year by Crampscastle Bloodstock for €50,000. (14:32)
Lot 368: trainer Clive Cox supports a first-crop stallion he knew well as a racehorse – the Lambourn-based trainer spending €45,000 on a filly by Supremacy. The son of the leading juvenile sire Mehmas was trained by Cox to Middle Park Stakes (G1) success, the colt becoming the first Group 1 winner for his sire.
This filly, bred and sold by Yeomanstown Stud, is out of the Siyouni mare Tencaratrubieslace, an own-sister to the multiple Group 2 and 3 winner Finsbury Square. (14:09)
Lot 365: the Croom House Stud-consigned filly, bred by Epona Bloodstock and by Kodiac, makes €68,000 and was purchased by Hubie De Burgh. She is out of the Born To Sea mare Taste The Salt, a half-sister to the Norfolk Stakes (G2) winner Baitha Alga.
The mare has had two winners from two runners, headlined by the 84-rated Cashew, who won twice as a juvenile.
"She will go to Fozzy [Stack] with whom we have had a lot of success," said De Burgh. "We really liked her, she looked very sharp. She's a Kodiac, and he's a proper proven sire. She looks sharp and we hope she is a Queen Mary filly. She's a May 22 filly, but she is quite well up behind. She going to level off, and she will be bigger. She looks quite like a Kodiac, and is sharp. I know the family because Sheikh Hamden had a bit of it, and there are some very good horses in there.
"I think she is value. When I looked and saw the price in sterling, I think she would make more in Book 2 at Tattersalls. We have been very lucky here, Fozzy and myself, so why not go back to the lucky well." (13:53)
Lot 351: by Bated Breath and a first foal out of Sub Sahara (Muhaarar) and sold by Kildallan Farm makes €50,000 and is bought by MRC International.
A two-time winner at three in France, the mare is a half-sister to the Group 2 winner and Group 1 Champions Stakes third-placed Subway Dancer, and her Group 3-placed dam Sub Rose is a half-sister to Astonishing, dam of three black-type-placed runners. (13:08)
Lot 324: the Footstepsinthesand colt from Olive O'Connor Bloodstock, the last by the sale catalogued in Part 1, makes €42,000 and is bought by Paolo Aragoni.
He is out of two-time winner Sindjara (Include), who is the dam of two winners from four runners, including the 87-rated, four-time winner and nine-times placed Claire Underwood (Declaration Of War). (12:53)
Lot 321: becomes the top lot sold at the sale so far, the daughter of Mehmas bought by Rabbah for owner Jaber Abdullah, who is at Fairyhouse.
Abdullah's nephew Mohamad Al Kaabi was in charge of bidding, the team of David Ryan, manager of Abdullah's Kilfrush Stud, and Mr Abdullah staked out in one of the upstairs offices. The filly's underbidder Amanda Skiffington was standing down by the ring and, after some deliberation taken over her final bid, the agent shook her head when asked by the auctioneer to top the €180,000 mark laid down by Rabbah.
"Mr Abdullah has a lovely Mehmas filly called Star Of Mehmas, she broke the track record when winning the Listed Harry Rosebery Stakes at Ayr, she is a super filly and we have great plans for her,"said Ryan. "This is one of the nicest fillies in the sale and we have been lucky with Mehmas. Mr Jaber has bought five fillies and two colts, we are not only looking for fillies – if a horse is nice and looks like a racing prospect it does not matter as we want to have some fun on the racecourse."
Of the price that the team expected to pay, Ryan said: "I thought that she would make €120,000 to €150,000, but she stands out here, she is a beautiful filly. She vetted well so we knew she was going to make €120,000 plus – we did not think she would get to the final price, but we were keen not to leave her behind. She will have to do it on the track to make that outlay worthwhile!"
When asked how long he has been a racehorse owner, the 82-year-old Abdullah laughed: "It has been a long time! I think since the early 1980s."
The filly was sold by Timmy Hillman's Castledillon Stud.
"She's a picture; she was a standout really," he said. "She had about nine vets, and all the people you would want to be there. We thought she would make €80,00 or €100,000 because she was so popular, but we could never have imagined that. She's a Castledillon-bred.
"I bought the mare [140,000gns in 2021] and we got 105,000gns for the filly she was carrying last year, and now this. We're delighted she is going to race for such a good owner, too. The mare is in-foal to Shaquille." (12:21)
Lot 316: this colt by Lope De Vega, the only lot catalogued in the sale by the Ballylinch Stud sire, is bought for €68,000 and sold by Glacken View.
He is a half-brother to the Group 3 winner Abby Hatcher and the Listed winner Purciaretta and is out of the Dubawi mare Sharqawiyah. It is the extended family traces to the Group 1 winner Poet's Word, the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Beckford and the Group 3 winners Malabar and Tiber Flow. (11:46)
Lot 306: this filly is bought by Anthony Bromley of Highflyer Bloodstock for owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede, and she will be running in the double green colours.
By Saxon Warrior, theSunderland Holding-bred filly cost €75,000 and she is out of the Listed Pretty Polly Stakes-placed Sea The Stars mare Sea Karats. She is an own-sister to Al Asay, winner of three Group 3 races and placed in the Coronation Stakes (G1).
"She is something a little bit different," said Bromley of his purchase, adding: "She has not been bought for the sales race, she is a different type for this sale, really.
"I love the pedigree, there is a lot of Sea The Stars about her and I do like her sire Saxon Warrior. I thought she is a very active filly, more of a late two-year-old and three-year-old type. I had a lot of competition in the ring, I was hoping she was not going to be as expensive as that!"
He continued: "All the horses in the family have good ratings, and there is a Sea The Stars out of the second dam going to Book 1 from The Castlebridge Consignment. I have heard that might be a smart type, so there is a lot going on in the pedigree.
"We have just got to decide on the trainer."
Of trade seen so far at the September Sale, Bromley said: "This trade is really quite healthy, and has been at all levels. At so many sales if you are bidding for a horse in the top 25 per cent you are fighting people in the sale ring but at the lower end you are just fighting the reserve and there is no competition.
"Here there are so many different bidders, and at all levels – it is a testament to work done by ITM and the sale company. There is also a completely different feel and atmosphere here than at some sales I have been to this year."
Bromley has bought five horses so far, and he said: "I am not doing very well here, so I am rather pleased I have bought so many already!" (11:35)
Lot 295: the first over €70,000 this morning is a daughter of the good French sire Galiway, sold by Baroda Stud.
Bred by Framont & Grove Stud, the bidding came from a persistent online bidder and from the ring, eventually settling at €78,000.
She has been bought to go to France by agent Valredo Valiani for owner Massino Benedetti, who was alongside the agent in the ring at Fairyhouse.
"She was our pick of the fillies, we are keen to buy a filly as Massino is looking for a racehorse and then a broodmare prospect," said Valiani, adding that Benedetti owns a couple of fillies and future broodmares already, including a filly by Pinatubo who is racing in Italy.
This filly is out of the winning Invincible Spirit mare Sarbacane, a half-sister to Sudan, winner of the Group 1 Gran Premio di Milano. (11:00)
Lot 291: from Whitehall Stud, the Barronstown Stud-bred filly by Ten Sovereigns and out of the black-type producer Sanna Bay (Refuse To Bend), makes €42,000.
Sanna Bay's top runner is a daughter of Shamardal – she won five races including the Chester City Plate (L), and was also placed 16 times. She has produced a Grade 3 winner of her own, as well as two black-type placed performers.
Sanna Bay has also bred two Group-placed horses – Achnaha (Haatef) and Gifts Of Gold (Invincible Spirit). (10:41)
Lot 278: the first in the ring this morning picks up from where we left off last night – the colt by Make Believe from Peter Nolan Bloodstock makes €30,000.
Out of the Fastnet Rock mare Rock Samphire, the mare has had one winner from one runner – Touching Hands (New Bay), who was successful as a three-year-old this year.
The colt was bought by Stefano Botti Turf, a second purchase this week for the team having bought Lot 143, a filly by Zoustar yesterday. (10:20)
Withdrawals: 299,  309,  345,  394,  395,  406,  420,  444,  447,  461,  485,  527,  548,  549,  554 (09:53)
After a buzzing day yesterday for Day 1 of the September Yearling Sale, we are looking forward to more of the same for Day 2.
Follow all the action here on sales day live (08:41)
Day 1
Lot 253 and Lot 266: two by Sioux Nation catch the eyes of the buying bench.
Lot 253 is out of Prosili (Dansili) and The Castlebridge Consignment-offered filly is bought by Tom Whitehead's Powerstown Stud for €65,000 (Lot
Prosili is a half-sister to a Listed horse in Japan, and is a grand-daughter of the Group 1 Prix Vermeille winner Pearly Shells, who was dam of the Group 3 winner Pearl Banks and grand-dam of the Group 1 winner Pearls Galore.
Lot 266, sold by Ballyvolane Stud and bred by Premier Bloodstock, is a chestnut filly by the sire and out of a Raven's Pass half-sister to Wells Farhh Go, winner of the Group 3 Bahrain Trophy (G3) and Acomb Stakes (G3). She was bought by Nick Bell / Peter Trainor.
Lower down the page includes Ibn Bey, a champion three-year-old colt and the winner for four Group 1 races, and his half-sister Roseate Tern, winner of the Yorkshire Oaks (G1), second in the Oaks (G1) and third in the St Leger Stakes (G1). (20:31)
Lot 233 and Lot 244: two first-crop sires hit the mark again – Mark Grant goes to €85,000 for a colt by Starman, whose stock are being so well received, while trainer Gemma Tutty and Kings Bloodstock spend €80,000 on a filly by Lucky Vega. It is a new best price at Fairyhouse for a yearling by the Irish National Stud sire.
The colt was sold by Rathbride Stud, which has sold four lots today for an average price of €51,250 and a gross of €205,000.
Coole House Farm sold the filly – the farm has sold two today for a gross of €155,000 and an average price of €77,500 (19:42)
Lot 231: one of only two colts in the sale by Shaman sells for €110,000 to Alex Elliott, the result giving Grangemore Stud a great pinhooking profit, the farm having paid just €16,000 for the colt, bred by Barry Lynch's Funcheon Bloodstock, as a foal last year.
The page benefited from a very timely update – yesterday evening the colt's half-brother Rebel Diamond (Cotai Glory) won the Ballyhane Blenheim Stakes (L) at Fairyhouse for trainer Natalia Lupini.
Elliott laughed: "The update killed us a little bit, we were hoping to pay a bit less! He was on our radar very early yesterday as he is out of a Teofilo mare which are like gold dust. It is great for Barry as the first foal out of the mare is now a Listed winner.
"The stallion is a being a bit slow getting there, but they are getting there now and he had the favourite for the Mill Reef Stakes in Brian. This horse has size, scope, strength, great action, comes from a very good home and a great touch for them - but they kind of deserved a good touch with everything lining up, he is a beautiful horse."
The colt has been purchased for Gary Gillies, who won the Newbury's Haynes, Hanson and Clark with Royal Ulixes. Although Andrew Balding trains that son of Ulysses. no trainer has been decided for this colt yet.
"This is the only horse I have bid on all day and I am delighted to get him," added Elliott.
Guy O'Callaghan of Grangemore said: "We got the update, it is great for Shaman, he has had a good start to his season and it is great to see a horse of this calibre sell so well. We are delighted to see him getting the support from such good buyers.
"This colt was a big, strong, man of a horse as a foal, and he has come back a bigger and more powerful version. He got the update and then Shaman has had some nice winners, too." (19:13)
Lot 222: by Sioux Nation and out of Our Joy (Kodiac) and from Ballyphilip Stud makes €70,000.
The brown colt hails from a long-developed top-class Ballyphilip Stud family – Our Joy is a half-sister to the Hong Kong Group 1 winner Xtension and to Beatrix Potter, dam of the July Cup (G1) and Haydock Sprint Cup (G1) winner Harry Angel and Pierre Lapin, who won the Mill Reef Stakes (G1).
Since the catalogue was published, her second foal Infinity Blue (Blue Point) has got off the mark winning as a three-year-old at Newmarket. (18:47)
Lot 209: the only lot in the sale by first-crop sire Japan (Galileo), who stands at Gestut Etzean in Germany and was a dual Group 1 winner at three with victories in the International Stakes and the Grand Prix de Paris, is bought by Razza Latina from The Castlebridge Consignment for €45,000.
The February-born colt is out of the Night Of Thunder mare No Limit Credit, winner of a Group 3 in Germany and multiple Group race placed. It is a ninth purchase already at this year's sale by Latina, both on her own and in partnership. (18:40)
Lot 202: becomes the first yearling by first-crop sire Lucky Vega to sell so far in the Fairyhouse sale ring to fetch €50,000, bought by BBA Ireland/MD O'Callaghan, sold by Church View Stables.
He is a half-brother to three winners, including Eccelia (Exceed And Excel), the grand-dam of Light Back, winner of the Listed Elfin Stakes in Japan, and placed third in the Yushun Himba (oaks) and the Oka Sho (1000 Guineas).
The pedigree is very much a international one featuring the Prix Saint-Alary (G1) winner Sobetsu, the Group 2 Meydan winner and Keeneland Grade 1- placed English Rose, Tower Of London, who won the Sprinters Stakes (G1) at Nakayama, and the Group 1 Satsuki Sho (2000 Guineas) winner Dee Majesty. (18:24)
Lot 201: the only colt selling today by the Aga Khan Stud-based sire Sea The Stars makes our top price of the sale, fetching €130,000 and bought by bloodstock agent Billy Jackson Stops and trainer George Scott.
"This colt was obviously brought here to stand out and he did that!" smiled Scott. "Every time we went to see him, he showed himself better and better, he was well placed in this sale.
"It is hard to buy progeny by Sea The Stars and we are really pleased. He is for a new client who wants a horse to race at a high level and we think this could be the one. The client has had racehorses before but is a new to me and I just put this one up to him and luckily he went with it."
Looking forward to the prospect of training a horse of this type, Scott said:"If you get enough of that type of horse into the yard then you so improve the chances of getting a nice one."
Of the expected price to pay for the Sunderland Holdings-bred colt, Scott admitted that the budget had to be pushed, smiling: "You always have to push a little harder, and we did have to stretch to get him."
The colt's dam side matches up to the sire quality – bred by Ballymacoll Stud, Narrative (Archipenko) is a half-sister to the black-type winners Eleanora Duse, Scottish Stage, and the Group-placed Voice Coach. It is the extended family of dual Oaks and St Leger winner Sun Princess, the dam of the Dewhurst Stakes winner Prince Of Dance.
She was bought at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale 2019 for 38,000gns after racing for Qatar Racing and Kim Hung Fei. She was bought from the breeder by David Redvers and Meridian International Bloodstock from the Ballymacoll dispersal sale at the October Book 2 Sale in 2017 (18:01)
Lot 192: the first colt in the ring at the September Yearling Sale 2024 by first-season sire Kameko makes €50,000.
At the beginning of September, Kameko, a son of Kitten's Joy and based at Tweenhills Stud, became the first European first-season sire of 2024 to get a winner at the highest level – New Century, trained by Andrew Balding and owned by Qatar Racing, winning the Summer Stakes at Woodbine.
New Century holds an entry in the Futurity Stakes (G1) on October 26 – it is a race won by Kameko in 2019 when it was run on Newcastle's All-Weather surface.
The colt was sold today by Mount Eaton Stud, having been pinhooked by Creighton Schwartz last autumn for €10,000. He was bred by Miss Leonora Keane, who bought the mare Multicultural (Fastnet Rock) from Tweenhills Stud for just 4,000gns at the 2022 Tattersalls December Mares Sale with this colt in utero.
Multicultural, the winner of one race as a three-year-old, has had one winner from two foals – Cubanista, the winner of one race as a three-year-old. (17:29)
Lot 181: another good result for Starman, the colt out of Mistress Of Venice makes €80,000 and is bought by trainer Johnny Murtagh, signing for Tony Branigan Meats.
Talking to us after his purchase, Murtagh said: "The colt has been bought for Tony Branigan – his dad's and his uncle's colours have been famous over the years and Tony wants them back up and running."
Murtagh added: "This seems like a nice straightforward colt, came well recommended, and we are looking forward to him. The Starmans have been going well today, his mother got to Royal Ascot, so hopefully this lad will get there as well
Mistress Of Venice (Bated Breath) was the winner of one, and was placed in the Marygate Stakes (L), the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes (G2) and the Albany Stakes (G3).
The colt was sold by The Castlebridge Consignment and is from the extended family of the good family of Kalindi and her progeny Abigail Pett, Medicean Man and Cerveza. (17:01)
Lot 154 and Lot 157: are both bought by Adrian Keatley, the trainer spending €85,000 and €100,000 on the two.
Lot 154 is a son of Australia and was sold by Tom Howley and Caoimhe Doherty's Brook Lodge Farm, the pair having pinhooked the colt for €27,000 last autumn.
"He was bred by Eimear Mulhern," said Howley. "He has always been a really nice, straightforward colt, he is the first foal out of a Kingman mare and there is a lot of Kingman about him. We are delighted and, hopefully, he will go on to be a superstar."
Of the individual, he added: "He was quite raw when we bought him, but he has done really well over the winter, he loved his prep and he has just kept on developing. Before coming here we were hoping that he would double his money. We were so pleased with the sale of Lot 139, he was bought by Joey Logan and is going to Eve Johnson Houghton."
Of his purchase of the Australia colt, Keatley enthused: "He is a lovely horse, and a belting horse".
After a tap on the back of Keatley, a quick deal saw Logan agreeing to buy 50 per cent of the horse, the buyers' docket signed by Joey Logan Bloodstock / Keatley Racing
Keightley, delighted that half of the yearling's onward sale had been sorted with the colt's hoof prints still visible on the matting, continued: "He has a brilliant physique, the sire's a good one, and we are dying to see what Kingman can do as a dam-sire – he has the right profile. He will be trained to race. I haven't had one by Australia before, and I didn't want to leave that lad behind me. He's special."
After a pause for four lots, the trainer stepped into the ring again going to €100,000 for a son of the first-crop Tally-Ho Stud sire and Group 1 July Cup winner Starman, the colt also bred and sold by the County Meath farm.
"This is the first Starman I have bought," said the trainer, recalling: "I was strong on a couple in Newmarket at the Somerville Sale and did not get them. This is a fine stamp of a horse and he is out of Kodiac mare so he should be all speed, we will be hoping for big things from him.
"It is a cracking family and, if the sire can do it, then the rest of the family will look after itself,"said Keatley, who is enjoying a great season on the track this year, adding: "We have an owner for him." (16:30)
Lot 142: the Camogue Stud-bred Mehmas colt, who is out of the Showcasing mare Lyons Lane, is bought for €52,000 from Ballintry Stud.
It is the extended family of the Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1) winner Garswood, the Coronation Stakes (G1) runner-up Infallible, the Nassau Stakes third-placed Veracious and Mutakayyef (G1), who finished second in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1), third in the International Stakes (G1) and the Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1).
Mehmas is currently heading up the European table of two-year-old sires and had a great weekend at the Irish Champions Festival courtesy of Tattersalls October Book 1 graduate Scorthy Champ, winner of the National Stakes (G1) for trainer Joseph O'Brien. (15:45)
Lot 139: from Brook Lodge Farm this colt by Elzaam returns a pinhook profit for his consignors – bought as a foal for €16,000 by CMD Bloodstock, he sells today for €40,000.
He is a grandson of Luminata (Indian Ridge), who was a good two-year-old – she was a Listed winner of the Silver Flash Stakes (L) and Group 1-placed in the Moyglare Stud Stakes and the Prix Marcel Boussac. (15:25)
Lot 121: bred and sold by Grangemore Stud and a son of the Yeomanstown Stud-based second-season sire Invincible Army, who has six lots catalogued for this Part 1 of the September Yearling Sale, makes €50,000, bought by Peter and Richard Fahey.
He is out of the Vital Equine mare Last Bid, the winner of three races as a two-year-old and placed second in the Roses Stakes (L). She is dam of four winners from five runners, including three Listed-placed siblings by Dark Angel. (15:01)
Lot 105: Ballyvolane Stud's colt by Cotai Glory and out La Cuvee (Mark Of Esteem), the dam of five winners most notably the Matron Stakes (G1) winner and Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes-placed Champers Elysees, makes €62,000.
The second dam Premiere Cuvee was a champion older mare in Germany in 1996, and is an ancestress of five black-type winners.
The colt was bred by Archway Stud, and pinhooked last year for €37,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland Sapphire Sale by GHS Bloodstock.
The colt was bought by Megan Nicholls, a first purchase by Nicholls in her own name at this sale since 2021. (15:00)
Lot 111: by the late Dandy Man and the first foal out of the Toronado mare Laciredeski this colt makes €75,000. He was sold by Mark Dreeling's and Barbara Fonzo's Coole House Farm.
A three-time winner, Laciredeski is a daughter of the Listed winner Sciolina (Oratorio) and a half-sister to Some Respect (Gleneagles), a nine-time winner, a Listed winner and a runner-up in the Premio Gran Criterium (G2), and to Erosandpsyche (Sepoy), who finished second in the Flying Five Stakes (G1) and placed in third in three Listed sprints.
The colt was purchased by agent Federico Barberini. (14:37)
Lot 101: the colt by Invincible Spirit, sold by the Irish National Stud for breeder Cherryvalley Farms, makes €110,000.
He was bought by Cristiana Brivia of Razza Latina for owner Fabrizio Cameli – his ownership highlight came last year when Goldenas, trained for Cameli by Endo Botti, won the Derby Italiano (G2). Understandably Cameli is hoping to repeat the success.
"He is a very nice horse, very good-looking colt, he is a very good model for a first foal, everything is special and he is our pick of the sale, he stood out when we were viewing yesterday," said Brivia. "I have been very lucky with the horses bought from this sale last year and this is a sale I particularly like to come to."
The colt's breeder Nicola FitzGerald was delighted with the sale, especially as this is a first foal for the mare Kotaya (Mastercraftsman), who was originally bought as a jumping prospect.
"We are very happy for the mare, it is a beautiful family, we have the full-brother at home and she is in-foal to Mehmas," said FitzGerald. "She was never a great walker, but she is a cracking big strong mare. She is from the Aga Khan and we put her into training with Willie Mullins but she did not race. As it is such a lovely page we decided to breed from her."
Of her breeding operation, she explained: "We keep most of 30-strong broodmare band in France, but we have half a dozen with the Irish National Stud, they are mainly jumping mares."
FitzGerald, who has a number of horses in training, admits that she was "very tempted" to keep this colt, but said: "We need to keep moving some on, and unfortunately you have to sell your nicest!"
She and her husband ran a breeding and a breeze-up operation in South Africa, moving back to Ireland six years ago and starting up the breeding operation. The couple are based in the north in County Antrim / County Down. (13:59)
Lot 82: agent Billy Jackson Stops, with trainer Andrew Balding, spend €80,000 on this Teofilo filly sold by Kildallan Farm, bred by Juneau Partnership.
Jackson Stops said: "She's to go to Andrew Balding for Michael Blencowe. He loves middle-distance horses. She is a very classy filly by a sire who I love, and the mare was very progressive who ended up running off a good mark, and it goes back to a good page. She is going to the right trainer.
"It's been hard enough to buy, and we followed the Hello Youmzain earlier who made a good price. It feels really competitive because there's a lot of buyers here, and I dont think it's going to be that easy to buy. We had to stretch a little bit further for her than we thought we would have to, and I think that will continue for the next two days."
The filly, who was born in February 24, 2023, is from a family that links back to the champion Group and Grade 1 winner Raven's Pass, herself out of a four-time-winning mare Juneau (Dubawi) and rated 90. She is dam of one winner from one runner, Dubai Treasure who won in July over 7f for trainer Saeed Bin Suroor. (13:50)

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