Quality Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale Catalogue Now Online

The catalogue for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, which will take place Monday 14th – Wednesday 16th April, can be viewed online at www.tattersalls.com and will be available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives from Wednesday 5th March.

182 juveniles are catalogued for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale which continued its outstanding run of racecourse success in 2024 with a remarkable fourth individual Group 1 winner since 2022. HOTAZHELL, a 200,000 guineas purchase, became the latest Group 1 winning two-year-old bought at the Craven Breeze Up Sale when claiming last year’s Group 1 Futurity Trophy for owner Silverton Hill and trainer Jessica Harrington, following on from the dual Group 1 winner VANDEEK and Champion Two Year Old NATIVE TRAIL.

The catalogue features own or half brothers and sisters to 31 Group or Listed winners, including the STARMAN half-brother to Craven Breeze Up purchase SPYCATCHER, second by a short head in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest and a multiple Group winner, and the MEHMAS own-brother to the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes winning young sire CATURRA. Fillies with top class siblings include the BLUE POINT half-sister to Group 1 winner and multiple Group 1 placed VENTURA STORM, the NEW BAY half-sister to Grade 1 winner GOING GLOBAL and Group 2 winner MITBAAHY, and the ST MARK’S BASILICA half-sister to last year’s Grade 1 placed two-year-old AL QUDRA.

In addition there are a further 28 two-year-olds out of Group or Listed winning mares catalogued including the colt by Champion sire DUBAWI out of the Group winning DAWN WALL and a colt by SPEIGHTSTOWN out of the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner and Champion American Two-Year-Old Filly SHE BE WILD. Further standout lots include the BLUE POINT colt out of Group 2 second ANAHITA, and the WOOTTON BASSETT colt out of black type performer MATERIALISTIC from the brilliant family of Group 1 winners CHICQUITA and MAGIC WAND.

No fewer than 46 of the sires represented in the catalogue have already produced Classic or Group 1 winners including ACCLAMATION, AUSTRALIA, BLUE POINT, COTAI GLORY, DARK ANGEL, DUBAWI, FARHH, HAVANA GREY, INVINCIBLE SPIRIT, KAMEKO, KINGMAN, KODIAC, MEHMAS, NATHANIEL, NEW BAY, NIGHT OF THUNDER, NO NAY NEVER, OASIS DREAM, SHOWCASING, SIOUX NATION, STARSPANGLEDBANNER, TOO DARN HOT, WOOTTON BASSETT, and ZOUSTAR. Whitsbury Manor Stud’s outstanding HAVANA GREY has the highest number of two-year-olds catalogued at 13, followed by exciting young sire SIOUX NATION with 11, BLUE POINT and MEHMAS with 10 lots respectively and HOTAZHELL’s sire TOO DARN HOT with 8 colts catalogued

A strong contingent of USA based stallions are represented including proven Grade 1 sires AMERICAN PHAROAH, BOLT D’ORO, CANDY RIDE, JUSTIFY, MACLEAN’S MUSIC, MCKINZIE, MUNNINGS, NOT THIS TIME, NYQUIST, OMAHA BEACH, PRACTICAL JOKE, SPEIGHTSTOWN, STREET SENSE, TWIRLING CANDY, UNION RAGS, and VIOLENCE, as well exciting first-season sires CHARLATAN and KNICKS GO. Their domestic contemporaries are equally impressive with A’ALI, LOPE Y FERNANDEZ, LUCKY VEGA, PALACE PIER, SPACE BLUES, ST MARK’S BASILICA, STARMAN, SUPREMACY and UBETTABELIEVEIT all represented by their first crops of two-year-olds.

Willie Browne’s Mocklershill will offer the largest consignment with ten juveniles catalogued, followed by Thomond O’Mara’s Knockanglass Stables and Tally-Ho Stud, last year’s leading consignor, both with nine. Glending Stables, consignors of the sale’s top lot in 2024 and dual Group 1 winner VANDEEK in 2023, will offer five lots whilst Eddie Linehan’s Lackendarra Stables, who consigned Group 1 Futurity Trophy winner HOTAZHELL last year, has three juveniles catalogued.

Buyers looking to benefit from additional incentives will be well catered for with 4 lots entered in the £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus Scheme, 6 two-year-olds eligible for French Owners’ Premiums, 20 lots entered in the Swedish Derby and Oaks Series and 7 fillies registered for the Great British Bonus Scheme. There are also several lots entered in lucrative Tattersalls sales races including the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes, the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes and the €250,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Stakes.

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

“The Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale is unquestionably Europe’s leading breeze up sale for Group 1 winners with Hotazhell the latest two-year-old graduate to score at the highest level, following in the illustrious footsteps of outstanding juvenile Vandeek and Classic winners Native Trail and Cachet. Both last year’s Derby runner up Ambiente Friendly and Believing, the top rated sprint filly in Europe who sold for 3,000,000 guineas at last year’s December Mares Sale, etched their own marks on the sale’s roll of honour and the calibre and the consistency of Group 1 winners sourced from the Craven Breeze Up Sale are a testament to the outstanding quality that Europe’s leading breeze up consignors offer year after year. This year’s catalogue is no exception and the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale looks certain to attract a strong contingent of domestic and international buyers.”

The ‘breeze’ for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale will take place at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse on Monday 14th April starting at 9.30am, with the sale taking place on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th April after the conclusion of racing on the first two days of Newmarket’s three-day Craven Meeting.