Quality Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale Catalogue Now Online

The catalogue for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, which will take place Monday 11th – Wednesday 13th April, can be viewed online at www.tattersalls.com and will be available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives from Wednesday 9th March. 163 high quality juveniles are catalogued for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale which last year alone produced unbeaten European Champion two-year-old NATIVE TRAIL, winner of the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes and Group 1 National Stakes, and two further Group 2 winning two-year-olds in ASYMMETRIC and GO BEARS GO.

All 163 lots are eligible for the £250,000 Tattersalls Royal Ascot/Group 1 Bonus, won in its inaugural year by NATIVE TRAIL. The scheme offers a £125,000 bonus for the first Craven Breeze Up winner of any of the six two-year-old races at the Royal Meeting and an additional £125,000 bonus to the first Craven Breeze Up winner of any of the 15 European Group 1 races open to two-year-olds. This is in addition to the £15,000 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Bonus which has rewarded the owners of horses bought from the Craven Breeze Up Sale with nearly £500,000 in bonus prize-money since its inception in 2019.  

The catalogue features own or half brothers and sisters to 27 Group or Listed winners, including the MEHMAS half-sister to last year’s Group 1 Phoenix Stakes winner EBRO RIVER and the NO NAY NEVER half-sister to the dual Group 1 winner HARLEM. Amongst the well-related colts are the LOPE DE VEGA half-brother to Irish 1000 Guineas winner JUST THE JUDGE, the SIOUX NATION half-brother to 2021 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner TWILIGHT GLEAMING, the ZOFFANY half-brother to Group 2 winner and Grade 1 placed LEMISTA, and the ADAAY half-brother to the luckless multiple Group 1 placed sprinter DRAGON SYMBOL.

In addition there are a further 24 two-year-olds out of Group or Listed winning mares catalogued including fillies by SHOWCASING and WAR FRONT out of the Group/Grade 1 winning mares PENELOPA and DANCING RAGS. Also amongst the highlights are the four two-year-olds by outstanding sire KINGMAN, comprising the filly out of the Group 3 Nell Gwyn Stakes winner and 1000 Guineas placed DABAN and three colts out of Group 3 winner and Group 1 placed FATE, Group 3 winner ONE LAST DANCE and EARRING, the Group 2 placed daughter of the English and Irish 1000 Guineas runner-up TOGETHER. The catalogue also features the LOPE DE VEGA colt out of the Listed performer HIBISCUS, an own-sister to the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner LINE OF DUTY, and the OASIS DREAM colt out of a full-sister to the Champion older sprinter MECCA’S ANGEL.

No less than 46 of the sires represented in the catalogue have already produced Classic or Group 1 winners including ACCLAMATION, AUSTRALIA, CAMELOT, DARK ANGEL, EXCEED AND EXCEL, FASTNET ROCK, INVINCIBLE SPIRIT, KINGMAN, KODIAC, LOPE DE VEGA, MEHMAS, NEW BAY, NIGHT OF THUNDER, NO NAY NEVER, OASIS DREAM, SEA THE MOON, SEA THE STARS, SHAMARDAL, SHOWCASING, SIYOUNI, STARSPANGLEDBANNER, ZOFFANY and ZOUSTAR. Several of the standout young sires of last season are also well represented with two-year-olds by ARDAD, COTAI GLORY, GALILEO GOLD and PROFITABLE catalogued.

They are joined by a strong contingent of USA based stallions including proven Grade 1 sires AMERICAN PHAROAH, DISTORTED HUMOR, HONOR CODE, KITTEN’S JOY, MEDAGLIA D’ORO, NYQUIST, SPEIGHTSTOWN and WAR FRONT, as well as two exciting first-season sires in Champion two-year-old GOOD MAGIC and Preakness winner CLOUD COMPUTING. Their domestic contemporaries are equally impressive with CRACKSMAN, EXPERT EYE, HARRY ANGEL, HAVANA GREY, JAMES GARFIELD, KESSAAR, SAXON WARRIOR, SIOUX NATION, SMOOTH DADDY and TASLEET all represented by their first crops of two-year-olds.  

Robson Aguiar’s Aguiar Bloodstock, which sold Group 2 Railway Stakes winner GO BEARS GO at last year’s Craven Breeze Up Sale, has the largest consignment with twelve juveniles catalogued and last year’s sale-topping consignor Tally-Ho Stud will offer a total of nine, alongside Willie Browne’s Mocklershill and John Cullinan and Roger Marley’s Church Farm & Horse Park Stud. Norman Williamson’s Oak Tree Farm, which sold the Champion European two-year-old NATIVE TRAIL at last year’s Craven Breeze Up Sale, has four colts catalogued.

In addition to all lots being eligible for both the £250,000 Royal Ascot/Group 1 Bonus and the £15,000 Craven Breeze Up Bonus, buyers looking to benefit from additional incentives will be well catered for with eight lots entered in the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes, three lots entered in the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes and six in the €300,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Stakes. There are also eleven two-year-olds eligible for French Owners’ Premiums, six fillies registered for the Great British Bonus Scheme and one lot entered in the hugely popular £20,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus.

Commenting on the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up catalogue, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said:

“2021 was a benchmark year for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale with the unbeaten European Champion two-year-old NATIVE TRAIL landing a huge Craven Group 1 Bonus when winning the Group 1 National Stakes and two additional Group 2 winning juveniles further enhancing the global reputation of the sale. The sale has been strongly supported by Europe’s leading breeze up consignors and the combination of an outstanding catalogue and unrivalled bonuses makes the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up a compelling prospect for both domestic and overseas buyers.”  

The ‘breeze’ for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale will take place at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse on Monday 11th April starting at 9.30am, with the sale taking place on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th April after the conclusion of racing on the first two days of Newmarket’s three-day Craven Meeting.