Lot 217: this Wings Of Eagles gelding matches the top price given today for a gelding by the sire when bought by Frances Fennessy for €22,000. The three-year-old was sold by Lough Na Sollis Stud.
The stallion has had three winners in Irish points this spring and his Irish-conceived crop are four-year-olds of this year. (19:34)
Lot 209: Tom Keating spends €21,000 on the Vadamos gelding from Noughaville Stud for Mrs M Hefferman.
Roughan Daisy is a half-sister to Dedigout, a ten-time winner, including once at the highest level when successful in the Punrchestown Champion Novice Hurdle (G1).
Vadamos's leading jump performer so far is the King Of Kingsfield, who finished second in the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle (G1) and third in the Brave Inca Novice Hurdle (G1) and the Punchestown Champion INH Flat Race (G1). It is a fourth purchase today for Keating. (19:27)
Lot 201: the Crystal Ocean gelding out of the French Listed Prix Wild Monarch Hurdle second-placed Really Royale makes €24,000. The mare's placed daughter Kahipiroska is dam of the Italian Grade 1-winning hurdle Vodka Wells
He was sold by Shanaville Stables to Canterbrook Stud having been bought by Morgan Sheehan as a foal at the November NH Sale. (18:33)
Lot 190: whatever one Bleahen brother can do, the other can match.
After John Bleahen sold the Jack Hobbs gelding for €42,000 (Lot 187), Niall Bleahen's Liss House sells a gelding in the same ballpark figure – this son of Affinisea is bought by the Crawford Bros for €40,000.
Stuart Crawford said: "We will get him home, get him broken in. He might be a bit more of a bumper horse, but he is a nice type. There have been two of three Affiniseas in today and they have all been very athletic and nice horses. We have had a few in the past and they have been tight, hardy horses.
"That is the only one I have bought here today, and I am happy to be taking him home."
Niall Bleahen said: "Last year I topped the sale and got the second-highest price and I wanted to bring another good horse to the sale again. I thought he deserved it, it was good to see him get over the line. He is a very nice horse and has a very good attitude – I think he'd make up into a four-year-old.
"He has gone to a good customer, he has been back a few times to buy and I recommended this horse to him and to the underbidder Sean Doyle as well. They took me at my word and I am delighted to see that – those clients are good to us. Whether you lose money or gain it, you have to do right by the clients and the horses.
"Funny Hunny in the second dam was placed for Sean and has gone to Dan Skelton, so Sean had a line on the family and had confidence in the pedigree, but the horse explained himself anyway."
The gelding was pinhooked by Bleahen as a foal at the November NH Sale for €11,000 from Whytemount Stud. (18:12)
Lot 188: the already-named Lady Blackmore, a daughter of the progressive Haras de la Hetraie-based sire Bathyrhon, goes to Milestone Bloodstock / James Kenny for €45,000.
"She has been bought with Colin Bowe," said Kenny, who produces horse with his father Liam. "I love her, she has a very good temperament, has a lovely way of going, walks well, lovely presence. Her stallion has not done a whole lot wrong. She will go to Colin's and, hopefully, we will see her out in the point-to-point field."
Sold by Galbertstown Stables, she is out of the five-time winner Pennsylvanie (Dadarissime), a sister to the dam of Jango Baie, the Grade 1 winner of the Tolworth Hurdle.
The son of Tiger Groom is a Tattersalls Ireland May Sale graduate when sold by Lakefield Farm to Matt Graham. After finishing second on his point-to-point debut, the horse was reconsigned at the Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale 2023 by Moate Stables when bought by Jerry McGrath Bloodstock for £170,000. (17:58)
Lot 187: Sean Doyle of Monbeg Stables signs for this Jack Hobbs gelding out of the winning bumper mare Penelope Pips (Presenting) at €42,000.
He said: "He is a big strong horse, and very good mover, I looked at him three times today and he stood out every time I saw him, I am delighted to have him on the team now. He comes from a good farm and we have had luck with them before – hopefully he will go on and do something. This is the first by the sire we have had, and I love to buy horses out of Presenting mares."
John Bleahen said: "I paid £10,500 for him as a foal and he was the same horse he is today – he just walked and, though I am a fan of Jack Hobbs, there is a lot of Presenting in him from the mare. She won at four and that does it for me. I had some shrewd men on him with Warren Ewing, Sean Doyle and Mick Goff, they have been lucky with our horses in the past and it is all about repeat business.
"I did expect every bit of that, but he will get a wonderful opportunity where he is going."
He added: "I thought he might be a bit of a stand out here, which he was. There is an adjustment in the market at present, and we adjust with the market – we have crops coming behind and we have to keep moving forwards."
The family stretches back to the 18-time winner Auntie Dot, Townley Stone and Father Paddy. (17:49)
Lot 181: this gelding by Affinisea, a 13-year-old son of Sea The Stars, is sold by Ballywoodan House Stud for €31,000 to Warren Ewing.
Out of the Flemesnfirth mare, he hails from the talented family of Dr P J Moriarty Chase (G1) winner J'Y Vole, the French Lisred winner JeanQuiri, the Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 placed Lifetime Ambition, the Grade 1 placed Life In The Park, and the Grade 2 winners My Sister Sarah and Ilovethenightlife. (17:05)
Lot 166: John Queally goes to €17,500 for the Jet Away gelding out of the Beneficial mare Nia, the dam of one winner.
The stallion is the second-leading sire in the session by turnover – seven lots sold for €69,000m behind Success Days, whose three sold so far have created a turnover of €83,500.
The 17-year-old Jet Away, a son of Cape Cross, stands at Arctic Tack Stud, and his leading horse is the Grade 1-winning mare Brandy Love. (16:49)
Lot 151: the gelding from the second crop of the Galileo sire Idaho and out of Miss Opera (Alflora) is purchased by Denis Hayes for €20,000 from Castledillon Stud.
He is from the fine family of Opera Hat, a 13-time winner over fences including the Grade 1 Melling Chase, she was also placed 18 times, four times at Grade 1 level. She is dam of the Grade 1 chaser and Grade 2 hurdler Woodland Opera.
Since the catalogue was published, the gelding's half-brother Ez Tiger (Sholokhov) has a second race over hurdles. (16:29)
Lot 145: this three-year-old gelding by the Shade Oak Stud-based sire Telescope sells for €30,000, bought by Monbeg Stables.
He is a half-brother to two winners – the five-time winner Road Warrior, and Theformismighty, a winner over hurdles this year. His second dam Maid Equal won the Grade 2 Long Distance Hurdle at Ascot.
"Telescope is going well, this lad caught my eye in the yard and we have waited for him," said Cormac Doyle.
He was sold by Clonamery Stud, which spent €8,000 when buying him as a foal at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale 2021. (15:38)
Lot 140: the Yeats full-sister to Mary, third placed in a Listed mares' hurdle at Newbury, is bought by Ronnie O'Neill for €15,000. The filly is also a half-sister to Give Me A Moment (Mountain High), who has won twice over hurdles and five-times over fences.
Dam Maryann is a Bob's Return half-sister to Wymott (Witness Box), winner of the Prestige Hurdle (G2), and to the Grade 2-winning chaser Testify.
She was sold by Deerpark Stables for breeder Charlie Walsh (15:35)
Lot 121: AJM Horses goes to €15,000 for the Flag Of Honour gelding from Shanaville Stables. The March-born gelding is out of the Take Risks mare Lady Hight, a half-sister to Mister Hight, a runner-up in the Ballysax Stakes (G2) and winner of the Spring Juvenile Hurdle (G2).
Flag Of Honour's first crop are three-year-olds of this year. The stallion's form highlight came when successful in the Irish St Leger (G1) having previously been a Group 3 and Group 2 winner of the Curragh Cup and the Irish St Leger Trial.
He also finished second in the Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1).
By Galileo he now stands at Ballycurragh Stud having started out at the National Stud in the UK. (15:24)
Lot 116: the Diamond Boy half-brother to the Grade 3 novice hurdle and chase winner and multiple graded race performer Robin Des Carlow is bought by J D Moore for €21,000. He was sold by Stone Lodge Stud as Agent.
Second dam Nas Na Riogh was a Grade 1 winner of the Finale Junior Hurdle nand this horse was originally purchased by B McConville at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale 2021 for €8,000 (15:09)
Lot 114: "It is the second I have bought by Success Days today, I went in on Lot 85 with Rob James," said point-to-point trainer Matthew Flynn O'Connor after spending €36,000 on this May-born filly. "This is a lovely lady and she goes back to Ballycrystal. These are the first by the sire I've had – we are going in blind!"
"It is not easy to get the good ones, but we will keep trying," he added and although O'Connor did not offer a horse at yesterday's one-day point-to-point sale, he said: "It was good for the point-to-point men, it gave people somewhere to bring the horses to sale from the last two weekends' racing."
Of his year he concluded: "I've got a good few gone and we've had a good year."
This filly is out of the Peintre Celebre mare Koubba, a daughter of Elyaadi, dam of the Listed-placed Dewcup and Gaoth Chuil. (14:45)
Lot 109: the Joshua Tree three-year-old gelding, out of the winning Classic Cliche mare Kilbarry Cushty, a half-sister to the black-type winner Kilbarry Chloe, and from Clenagh Castle Stud, makes €32,000, bought by Suirview Stables.
Jack Doyle said: "He is a gorgeous horse, he is as nice a horse as is here today, from a good family and looks a big athlete, delighted to get him," said Doyle. "We had one by the sire before, he went well and we liked him and he had a lot of ability. He is from a good farm, horse are always done well. He will go pointing. We watched the online video of him loose schooling – he can certainly jump!"
The further family features leading performers such as Racing Demon, Abolitionist, Askanna, Silenet Approach and Minella Cocooner.
Consignor Adrian Costello said: "He's a lovely big chasing type of horse and I think he deserved to make a fair price and hopefully he will work out for his new owners. If he wins his point-to-point I think he will be very valuable.
"I bought him here as a foal from Kilbarry Lodge and he has a lovely pedigree, from one of their good families. Joshua Tree only stood in Ireland for two years but he is a very good sire in France and one I like, I think he is a good and proven stallion.
"I sold one to Pat [Doyle] before and he is a great man to train a pointer, he just wants a bit of luck and hopefully he will be lucky for him." (14:36)
Lot 95: leading buyer Monbeg Stables purchases a seventh lot today going to €23,000 for the Westerner gelding from Woodhouse Stud.
The April-born is out of Inchiquin Rose, a grand-daughter of the Grade 2 winner Rose Of Inchiquin, who is dam of the Grade 1-winning chasers Empire Of Dirt and Panther Claw.
The fourth dam Boreen Belle is ancestress of the black-type winners Be My Belle, Snake Eyes, Hold The Pin, Monalee and Monty's Star. (14:09)
Lot 86: the Dawson family's UK-based Nunstainton Stud made the journey over to Fairyhouse worthwhile selling this gelding by its own stallion Dragon Dancer for €17,000 to Ian Ferguson / Nigel Twiston-Davies.
the gelding is out of Hazy Manor, who was placed over hurdles and is a half-sister to Humphrey Bogart, who won the Listed Derby trial and was also a winner over hurdles.
It is the extended "H" family from the Aga Khan Studs featuring the Oaks (G1) third-placed Hazarista, the dual Derby winner and champion Harzand, as well as Big Rock, the champion miler of 2023, Hurricane Lane, the champion three-year-old stayer of 2021, the Group 1 mare Seal Of Approval and Emily Upjohn, the champion older European mare of 2023 and a runner in tomorrow's Coronation Cup (G1) at Epsom. (14:02)
Lot 85: "As soon as I saw her I had to have her," said Rob James after buying this Success Days three-year-old filly for €37,000. "She has size and scope and strength – she looks like a gelding and Success Days is obviously by the good late sire Jeremy.
"She will go down the point-to-point route and will be one we will look to get going with early."
The filly was sold by the County Clare-based Cnoc Na gCapall Stud, and Fachtna Twomey said: "I bought her as a foal, out of a field. She was always a cracker, always a big strong filly and straightforward to handle. I buy a couple of foals every year and keep turning them over."
She is out of Hayes Princess (King's Theatre), dam of two winners, including Mylesfromwicklow, a dual winner over fences this year for trainer Dan Skelton and a Tattersalls Ireland May Sale and Tattersalls Cheltenham November Sale graduate. (13:33)
Lot 64: the already-named Lola des Bambous, consigned by Mockleshill Stables, is bought by Warren Ewing / Rodney McIlveen for €15,000.
By Masked Marvel, whose son Teahupoo won the Stayers' Hurdle (G1) at this year's Cheltenham Festival and the Champion Stayers Hurdle (G1) at the Punchestown Festival, the gelding is from the young family of the multiple graded race winners and performers Limerick Lace, Sway, Oiseau de Nuit and Up To You.
Her dam Farida des Bambous is by the leading French sire No Risk At All.
Mockleshill sold the fourth top lot at last week's record-breaking Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up Sale – a son of Profitable to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for €270,000. (13:30)
Lot 61: Colin Bowe's Milestone Bloodstock spends €18,000 on the El Salvador filly out of the two-time bumper placed King's Theatre mare Fair Funny.
She was sold by Lacken Stud for breeder Paul Rothwell and is from a winning family.
Fair Funny is a half-sister to Dedigout (Bob Back), a ten-time winner of £229,00 in earnings with victories including the Champion Novice Hurdle (G1) at Punchestown, the Ballybin Hurdle (G2), the Boyne Hurdle (G2), the Lismullen Hurdle (G2) and the Galmoy Hurdle (G2). He was also placed four times in graded races, including in two Grade 1 chases.
Third dam is Winning Nora, won won 11 races and was placed in the Kerry National (L), the Galway Plate (L), the Nas Na Ri Chase (L) and the Kerry Group Rose Handicap Chase (L). (13:12)
Lot 50: Rebecca Menzies Racing / D P O'Dwyer Bloodstock go to €15,000 for the Jukebox Jury gelding out of Dawn Flyer (Broadway Flyer).
Sold y Lakefield Fam, the gelding boasts a top class NH pedigree being out of the Broadway Flayer mare Dawn Flyer and a half-sister to the 26-time winner Moscow Flyer, who had 19 wins over fences including ten Grade 1s. He also won thre Grade 1 hurdle races.
Another half-brother Lenabane has Grade 1-placed form over fences in the Kerry National (G1) and the Guinness Handicap Chase (G1).
Darren O’Dwyer has enjoyed a great May Sale – he purchased yesterday's second top lot Dippedinmoonlight in February for €9,500 and she sold in yesterday's point-to-point sale for €130,000 to trainer Emmet Mullins after winning her debut point-to-point by 40 lengths for Daragh Barry.
Menzies produced 32 winners last season from her Durham-based yard, a second-best season for her by winners trained and prize-money earned. (13:10)
Lot 46: sold by Drumoose Stables, this son of Tirwanako is bought by David Mullins Bloodstock for €15,000. He is the second foal out of the unraced Flemensfirth mare Coole Millie, from the family of the Grade 3 hurdler and chaser Tullymurry Toff.
Tirwanako got his first Grade 1 winner this spring when Jasmin De Vaux, trained by David Mullins' uncle Willie Mullins, won the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at the Cheltenham Festival. The five-year-old gelding just got the better of the Gordon Elliott-trained Romeo Coolio, who had been purchased at the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale 2023 for a sale-topping £420,000.
The stallion stands at Knockhouse Stud. (12:59)
Lot 37: the Order Of St George gelding out of Celtic Cailin (Beneficial) and sold by Ballyrudder to Monbeg Stables makes €22,000.
Celtic Cailin picked up Grade 2 and Grade 3 placed form and is dam of two winners under Rules and one point-to-point winner.
Order Of St George, a multiple Group 1-winning son of Galileo, has first crop four-year-olds this year. He has had five Irish point-to-point winners and one winner under Rules so far – Mighty Bandit, winner of a maiden hurdle on debut, a runner at the Cheltenham and Punchestown Festivals and bought for €420,000 by Highflyer Bloodstock at the Andy and Gemma Brown Dispersal, held at Fairyhouse in February. (12:20)
Lot 30: makes €30,000, bought by Monbeg Stables.
Offered by Clonmult Farm, this filly by Night Wish is a February-born foal and is out of the dual winner Bonne Franquette (Doctor Dino). She is a daughter of the Flat Listed winner Bonne Gargotte and the Group 3 -placed Bonne Gargotte, the dam of two Listed-placed runners on the Flat.
Under the third dam is a rare horse – a 20-time winner who ran 84 times. Trait De Genie's many wins included two Listed successes and he also was Group 3 placed.
This filly was first purchased as a foal at the Tattersalls Ireland November Foal Sale 2021 by the Flying Wish Syndicate for €20,000. (11:21)
Lot 16: knocked down to the "Doyles" by auctioneer Alastair Pim, this sole lot catalogued in the May Sale by Saintgodrel makes €27,000 and is signed for by Monbeg Stables.
Already named Baldilou, and sold by Derry and Robert White's DAR Bloodstock, he is a half-brother to one winner from two runners out of his Kapgarde mare Baldinoa, who ran once over jumps in France.
Saintgodrel is a son of the former champion and veteran sire Saint Des Saints. He stands at Foxwood Farm in Ireland, the first son of the champion to stand in Ireland having started his career in France. He is out of the mare Loumie (Loup Solitaire), who was a Listed winner over jumps and Grade 1 runner-up twice. Her best runner so far is the Grade 1-placed chaser Nick Lost.
Saintgodrel's first crop are now five-year-olds. (10:46)
Lot 9: the second lot in today by the 11-year-old sire Poet's Word makes €21,000.
The gelding was consigned by Boardsmill Stud, and is out of the Shirocco mare Annie Good News. She is dam of one winner from one runner – Go Johnny Go (Hillstar), the winner of a 2m Flat race point-to-point on his career debut at Milbourne St Andrew.
Poet's Word only runner over hurdles so far is the four-year-old Pacini. He was bred by William Slattery when the sire was based in the UK at Nunnery Stud, is already a hurdle winner for trainer Gordon Elliott and finished second in the Winning Fair Juvenile Hurdle (G3) at Naas in February.
Poet's Word's first Irish-bred crop are three-year-olds of this year and he stands at Boardsmill Stud. (10:32)
Withdrawals: 5,  21,  90,  100,  101,  127,  129,  130,  138,  142,  147,  156,  178,  195,  197,  227,  243,  249,  253,  256,  264 (08:28)
After a successful May Point-to-Point and Horses In Training Sale yesterday, the Tattersalls Ireland store horse sales season for 2024 kicks off today.
Today's May Sale is the first in our triumvirate of annual store sales, and selling starts at 10.00am. (08:28)
Tattersalls Ireland May Point-to-Point & Horses In Training Sale
Lot 3: Ultimate Survivor, offered by Sean Doyle's Monbeg Stables, was bought by Mel Smith Bloodstock and Sarah Shields for €40,000.
A half-brother to the Grade 2-winning hurdler and Listed chaser Born Survivor, after a good fourth on debut at Toomebridge on May 11, the four-year-old son of Court Cave went on to score at Stradbally a week later.
He was Tattersalls Ireland November Foal when sold by Moyfinn Stud and bought by Gerry Hogan Bloodstock for €17,000. (18:46)
Lot 22: Dance Rules from Ballyarthur Stables, was bought by Webb Hill for €48,000.
A five-year-old gelding by Dansant and out a winning Kings Theatre mare, Dance Rule finished a good second on debut at Ballindenisk on May 19. (18:40)
Lot 10: Arslan by Wootton Bassett and out of Harmonious (Dynaformer) makes €180,000, bought by Harold Kirk.
This four-year-old son of Wootton Bassett made very impressive debut at Tralee on Saturday when beaten just by a length into second. He is out of dual Grade 1-winning mare Harmonious, dam of the Listed-placed Ajayeb, and was bred by Al Shaqab Racing.
He was sold today by the County Wexford-based Richard Black of Ballinapark Stables.
Black was all smiles after the sale and said: "He had been in training in France and came recommended, he had not done much. We built him up slowly and he did a couple of good bits of work lately. He was still green when he ran and there is still some a good bit of improvement in him. I am delighted with where he is going. He is a beautiful animal in every way."
Although Black only has around three or four horses in his care this is not his best sale to date – he topped the Tattersalls Cheltenham Festival Sale with Maire Banrig in 2017 who fetched £320,000.
Of this May Sale, he added: "It has been brilliant this sale has been put on, we have been looked after to the best here by a top class team. This sale has been massive for us."
Purchaser Harold Kirk, buying for Willie Mullins said: "This is a beautiful horse, by a fantastic sire and with a pedigree. I spoke to trainer Francis Graffard who had him in France and he said the horse was just big and backward, and he did not really train him.
"I loved him in his point-to-point – he could be a two miler, could be a 1m4f Flat horse, could be a good hurdler, he could do two jobs and we are hoping he will make a good dual-purpose type. He is a beautiful individual by one of the best sires in the world.
"He has shown he can jump – and there is just loads of class in his pedigree and in his race he showed loads of class."
Of this sale, Kirk added: "If this sale was not here, that horse and that sale wouldn't have happened. It is well done to Tattersalls for doing this – they are always thinking ahead. It has suited everyone and got all the horses here in the one place." (17:48)
Lot 5: Dippedinmoonlight by Zarak and out of Born Again (Cape Cross) is bought by trainer Emmet Mullins for €130,000.
An impressive 40-length winner on debut and in the fastest time of the day when seen to put in a fine turn of foot, she is a well-bred sort – her dam is a half-sister to the 14-time Group 1 winner Goldikova, as well as five further Flat Group race winners.
She was sold by Daragh Barry's Furziestown Stables having been bought by Danny Hussey / D P O’Dwyer Bloodstock for just €9,500 in February.
Mullins said: "She got a brilliant pedigree, it was a brilliant performance and fingers crossed she can be a nice filly going forward. We will get her home and she has had a busy spring as she was only bought in February and came out pointing, so we will give her some time off and see what she is like then. She ought to be a nice dual-purpose filly and ownership plans are to be made."
He added of Zarak: "He had the Galway Hurdle winner last year and he has been flying on the Flat, too, and some Group 1 winners this spring. You have the sire and the dam line, it is all there as well as the performance, there is not much to crib her on." (17:21)
Selling for the evening session starts at 5pm.
Withdrawals: 17, 25 (16:27)
Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up Sale
Lot 275: the wildcard Twirling Candy colt from Mocklershill is sold for €190,000, bought by Dr Khaled Salami.
The US bloodstock agent Justin Casse and Avenue Bloodstock's Mark McStay were underbidders.
He is out of the talented Broken Vow mare Rosalind, winner of the Ashland Stakes (G1) and runner-up in the Alcibiades Stakes (G1) and placed in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and the E P Taylor Stakes (G1). She is dam of three winners, including the Listed-placed Chanceux. (20:25)
Lot 266: the wildcard entry, an Oasis Dream colt from Meadowview Stables, makes €150,000, the colt bought last autumn for just 10,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 2 Sale.
He is out of the Sea The Stars mare Halfwaytothemoon, a half-sister to Biographer (Montjeu), winner of Noel Murless Cup (L) and second in the Long Distance Cup (G2).
Third dam is the black-type winner Korveya, dam of the five-time Group 1 winner Hector Protector, the champion three-year-old filly Bosra Sham and the French Classic winner Shanghai. (20:11)
Lot 218: the only filly in the sale by the first-season sire Shaman is sold by Kingsfield Stud for €100,000 to trainer Michael O'Callaghan.
She is a grand-daughter of Artistic Jewel, winner of the Listed Flying Fillies' Stakes and a Group 3 second in the Renaissance Stakes. She is out of the Australia mare Rosy Life, whose first runner Bay Of Australia (Inns Of Court) was placed three times at two.
Her sire's career highlight came when second in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains (G1) to Persian King. He stands at Yeomanstown Stud at a fee of €5,000. (18:57)
Lot 215: the colt by the US-based Bolt D'Oro and out of the three-time winner Rockport Babe (Rockport Harbour) is bought by Alex Elliott for €130,000.
He was sold by Ballybush Stables having been purchased for $30,000 by Paddy Vaughan and Barry Nolan last October.
Under the third dam Clever But Costly is the Grade 1 Futurity Stakes winner Traitor, the multiple graded stakes winners Sun King and Ocean Drive. She is ancestress of the Grade 1 winners Peeping Tom and the Grade 1-placed Hurricane Bertie. (18:56)
Lot 212: the Coulsty colt is bought by trainer Kevin Ryan, Brendan Holland taking instructions over the telephone, at €200,000. The sale represented a fine pinhooking profit for Knockgraffon, the colt having been purchased last year for €21,000.
He is a half-brother to the Italian multiple winner and Listed fourth-placed Francisca Pink (Helmet), and an own-brother to Crystal City, now named High Cloud and shipped to run in Hong Kong after winning his two-year-old maiden on his second career start. (18:14)
Lot 211: Blandford Bloodstock / Go Racing spend €105,000 on the Mohaather filly out of the Soldier Hollow mare Quintessenz, the dam of two winners from three runners.
She hails from a predominately German-based pedigree – Quintessenz being a half-sister to Quelle Amore, winner of the Group 2 Schwarzgold Rennen.
Since the catalogue was published Quantanamera, a grand-daughter of Quelle Amour and Germany's 2022 champion two-year-old filly, has finished second in Prix Corrida (G2).
The leading runner in the pedigree is Que Belle, winner of the Preis Der Diana (G2), runner-up in the Prix Ganay (G1) and third in the Aral-Pokal (G1).
Go Racing is a southern-hemisphere syndicate business, but has been buying in Europe this spring. (18:13)
Lot 188: the Sea The Stars colt out of Narrative, offered by Meadowview Stables, is bought by Kevin Ross Bloodstock for €110,000.
He is a grandson of the black-type placed mare Drama Class, the dam of the Group 3 winner Eleanora Duse and the Listed winner Scottish Stage, who was a runner-up in the Irish Oaks (G1) and the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2). The family traces to the multiple Group 1 winner Sun Princess, the dam of the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) winner Prince Of Dance. (18:13)
Lot 181: Avenue Bloodstock strikes again... Mark McStay's buying team going to €140,000 for the grey Dark Angel colt from Brown Island Stables.
It is another successful pinhooking return for the consignor – the colt had been bought at the Tattersalls October Book 2 Sale for 20,000gns by Johnny Collins.
The colt's Dubawi dam did not race, but she is a daughter of the Cherry Hinton Stakes (G2) and Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) runner-up and Queen Mary Stakes (G3) third-placed Misheer. She is dam of the Listed winner Mistrusting, dam of the three black-type winners headed up by Althiqa, winner of the Diana Stakes (G1) and the Just A Game Stakes (G1) . (17:18)
Lot 145: another six-figure result for Hyde Park Stud, the Bourke family selling this filly by Kodi Bear for €125,000.
The dam of five winners, including the 14-time winner Dream House and the nine-time winner Excessable, she is out of the dual-winning Exceed And Excel mare Kummel Excess, who is a grand-daughter of the talented Girl From Ipanema, winner of the Listed Victress Stakes, second in the Falmouth Stakes (G2), and third in the Matron Stakes (G3) and the Prix de l'Air (G3). (15:49)
Lot 114: Mocklershill achieved one of the pinhook results of the sale – this colt by Profitable was bought by JB Bloodstock, named after Browne's son Jamie, for €6,000 and was sold today for €270,000 to Matt Coleman.
"He is a very good-looking horse, well recommended by Willie Browne and his team," said Coleman. "He is bred to be quick – he is by Profitable and out of Dandy Man mare, both proven speed sires – and he certainly looked to be quick. It is obviously also a fast family further back, too. He did everything he needed to in the breeze yesterday and then vetted very cleanly, and he was attractive to many buyers.
"He is a big, strong horse who should be ready to rock and roll and, hopefully, he will be fast as a two-year-old. He also has plenty of size and scope so he should be more than just a two-year-old. We have no plans as yet."
Willie Browne, standing in the rain by the outside ring, was all smiles and he said: "We bought him because we had the dam Fleeting Princess, there was no other reason really, although he is a very good looking horse as a yearling. His dam was very fast and we liked her.
"My partner Tracey [Kearney] spotted the pedigree, and it is a complete family job – Tracey, me and my son Jamie. We are over the moon."
The sale was a good old-fashioned breeze up horse – inexpensively purchased as a yearling and all about speed.
Browne added: "Speed is everything, thankfully we had it here, though in fairness he was always a good-looking horse. It is a great story for us." (15:11)
Lot 97: Gaelic Bloodstock missed earlier in the day but was the successful buyer of this colt by Earthlight at €300,000.
"He is gorgeous," said David Spratt, who was bidding in person and on the balcony. "We had no plans as yet, he will come home to the farm to start with."
The colt was consigned by Beechlea Bloodstock, and Conor Hoban was all smiles once the colt was safely back inside his stable.
"He is a lovely big strong horse, he is for the client Rathcairn Stud, who bred him. We got him before Christmas, we prepped him and he has just kept progressing all the way. He is a big horse and I thought he did a lovely breeze yesterday, finished out really well. He is an exciting horse going forward and wish his new owners all the best," said Hoban.
"We are delighted, it is a great result for the owner and everyone in the yard. We have had a great two weeks and this is the best result we have had – it is credit for the team at home and the work they have done.
"We had high expectations coming here based on this colt's homework, and the owner was prepared to race him if he did not make his money because he had shown us plenty at home. We thought he'd sell well and we got more than we had thought."
Beechlea, which has been consigning for two years, has produced nine horses this year and all have sold, Hoban said: "It is important that they can go on now and do it on the track. It has been a good season for us, and we are looking forward to getting back involved for next year.
"A lot of credit has to go to Tattersalls Ireland for today – there is great turn out, plenty of horses are getting done and this is definitely the strongest sale we have been at this spring." (14:51)
Lot 83: Greenhills Farm gets another top result at the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up Sale – this filly from Katie Walsh's consignment selling for €370,000 to Avenue Bloodstock / Paddy Twomey.
The filly was purchased as a yearling by Greenhills for €60,000.
Mark McStay of Avenue bid for the filly and said after he had signed the docket: "The filly speaks for herself she is by Sioux Nation and is going to trainer Paddy Twomey for an existing owner. Last year Paddy and myself found a colt here by the sire [Letsbefrankaboutit] and from Katie and he won a Group 3."
He added: "This filly came highly recommended by Katie, the filly did an outstanding breeze. We had to dig very deep to get her, but there are no regrets, let's hope she is lucky. The new owner is very happy and delighted to be able to send another horse to Paddy. I am delighted to get her and she looks like she is one who can rock on fairly soon."
McStay continued praising the work done by Greenhills: "Katie does a great job, she is one of the best in the business, her recommendations stand for an awful lot. The filly was extremely well produced, she did a superb breeze. I am not a clock worshipper but she did a clock very well, and Katie got paid accordingly.
Of the breeze up market, he said: "This breeze up consignors put a lot of money down, they put a huge amount of effort into it, it does not always come off. This year a lot of the middle market has been really tough for them, and when they get a good one like this they are entitled to get paid. However, the demand for good horses around the world is a strong as ever."
Of the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up Sale, he said: "Every year this sale produces. The timing is good, it gives the consignors a little bit of extra time, and they can take a later horse." (14:29)
Lot 73: it was a neighbourly affair for the sale of this filly by Sioux Nation for €270,000 – Matty (MJ) Tynan, the filly's breeder, owner and former trainer of dam Coto, is based next door to consignor Ryan Conran and partner Pamela O'Rourke of Lacka House Stables.
"The day that she won at Naas she beat some expensive horses from some of the big yards," recalled the trainer. "She then went and picked up some fourth placed black-type.
"We had two plans to either do this or race her ourselves – my son Matty Jnr is very friendly with Ryan and sorted this, we thought that if she did not make her money we could then train her. I'd love to have raced her, but if you can get a hand of money, you are not going to win it racing."
He added: "The mare had an Arizona colt this year and is being rested this year to get her covered earlier next year."
Conran, who has been consigning with O'Rouke at Lacka since 2020, said: "Matty bought her mother here at the September Sale for just €8,000, she won her two-year-old maiden, then went onto run in the Queen Mary, she was very quick.
"This filly came to me in October and she has been brilliant ever since and are just delighted to have the opportunity to sell her for our neighbours and good friends. We have had a great year, we had a good bunch of horses, we had nine to sell and they have all sold, sold well and gone to good homes.
"This is by far the best result, we are very lucky, and it great for all theTynan family, I am very grateful for them give us this chance."
Conran admitted that ahead of the sale he was quietly confident, based on what he had seen of her at home.
"I try and let the horses do the talking on the track, and thankfully it all went well and she backed up her homework. She came and breezed smartly, we were not surprised. But she has to go on and be good now, she has sold for a lot of money! I think she will be lucky for the new owners."
Purchaser Matt Coleman, who signed as Stroud Coleman and who was bidding from the bridge, said: "She is a very smart filly, she breezed in one of the quickest times of the day. She is a filly with plenty of size, scope and quality and from a very fast family.
"She is by a proven sire and out of a mare who was pretty smart herself. In my opinion Sioux Nation is upgrading his mares, and this mare could run anyway and has thrown a filly with plenty of talent the way she breezed. It was though the breeze that really stood out for us."
He concluded: "She is for a client and we have no trainer plans as yet." (13:52)
Lot 40: Jack Cantillon's pinhook of this Kingman filly for 30,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale has proved a shrewd move – with Ard Erin Stud he resells the filly today for €110,000 to Billy Jackson Stops' J S Bloodstock buying for Opulence Thoroughbreds. She is the only daughter of the Juddmonte sire catalogued in the sale, with a colt due to sell as Lot 146.
"I know the mare has not done it yet, but she is by Kingman and out of Galileo mare and there is plenty of depth to the page, so she is pretty exciting," said Jackson Stops. "She represents a bit of value – the price equates to £100,000 and is way less than the sire's covering fee, and we have seen that she can gallop which gives us a bit of a chance.
"From here she will go to a pre-training yard for a few weeks to let down, George [Gill] of Opulence will chose a trainer then. She should be an attractive prospect to sell to the syndicate, she is a good-looking sort and has resale value with that pedigree."
Her dam is Asanta Sana, daughter of the Group 3 winner Milanova, dam of Group 3 winner Pretty Perfect, an own-sister to Asanta Sana. Milanova is an own-sister to Holy Roman Emperor, the champion French two-year-old colt of 2006, winner of the Prix Jean Luc Lagardere (G1) and the Phoenix Stakes (G1), runner-up in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and the National Stakes (G1), and a highly successful international sire. (12:02)
Lot 19: the first two-year-old through the Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up Sale by first-season sire Arizona sells for €60,000 to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock.
The colt is a first foal out of the War Command mare What Endures, a half-sister to Bubbles On Ice, winner of the Memories Of Silver Stakes (L), and was sold by Drummona House. (11:36)

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