Catalogue for Two-Day Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale Online Now
The catalogue for the fourth edition of the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale is now online and can be viewed at www.tattersalls.com. A two-day sale for the first time, the catalogue features 465 yearlings who will be offered for sale on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd September, all of which will be eligible for the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes as well as the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes.
Graduates of the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale have been lighting up racecourses in recent times with 28 individual Group/Listed performers in 2023/24. Leading the way is ANISETTE, the triple Grade 1 winner of the Gamely Stakes, American Oaks and Del Mar Oaks. The 26,000 guineas purchase joins 12,000 guineas buy BRADSELL, winner of the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes, as top-level winning graduates. They are joined by the exciting Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes winner ARABIAN DUSK, bought for 80,000 guineas at last year’s sale before going on to fetch 525,000 guineas at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale.
Other Somerville stars to taste Group success during the last twelve months include the Group 2 Lowther Stakes winner RELIEF RALLY, who went on to sell for 800,000 guineas in the Sceptre Sessions at last year’s Tattersalls December Mares Sale, Group 3 Tattersalls Acomb Stakes winner INDIAN RUN, Group 3 Prix Penelope winner MAKING DREAMS and Italian 1000 Guineas winner BEENHAM.
The catalogue for this year’s two-day Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale is brimming with quality, with own or half brothers and sisters to 77 Group and Listed performers, and 66 yearlings out of Group/Listed performing mares.
Among the highlights is the EARTHLIGHT half-sister to Grade 1 Natalma Stakes winner LA PELOSA. She will be joined by the INNS OF COURT half-brother to last weekend’s Group 2 Sapphire Stakes winner BELIEVING and the DANDY MAN half-brother to Royal Ascot’s Windsor Castle Stakes winner AIN’T NOBODY, alongside the STARMAN half-sister to Group 3 Palace House Stakes winner SEVEN QUESTIONS.
Progeny of high-class mares catalogued include the LUCKY VEGA colt out of the Group 2 Queen Mary winner GILDED, the KAMEKO colt out of the multiple Group 3 winning ROSE OF KILDARE, the PALACE PIER filly out of the Group 3 Firth of Clyde Stakes winner QUEEN OF BERMUDA, and the TIME TEST filly out of Group 3 winner SPIRIT OF APPIN.
The list of proven Group 1 producing sires with yearlings catalogued includes ACCLAMATION, AUSTRALIA, BLUE POINT, CAMELOT, CARAVAGGIO, CHURCHILL, DANDY MAN, DARK ANGEL, GALIWAY, GLENEAGLES, HAVANA GOLD, HAVANA GREY, INVINCIBLE SPIRIT, KODIAC, LOPE DE VEGA, MEHMAS, NEW BAY, NO NAY NEVER, OASIS DREAM, SAXON WARRIOR, SEA THE MOON, SHOWCASING, STARSPANGLEDBANNER, TEOFILO, TERRITORIES, TOO DARN HOT, WOOTTON BASSETT and ZOUSTAR.
Tally Ho Stud’s first season sire STARMAN leads the way numerically with 23 lots catalogued, followed by Overbury Stud’s ARDAD with 22 lots, and then Rathbarry Stud’s KODI BEAR who will be represented by 21 yearlings. Stallions with their first crop of yearlings catalogued include A’ALI, ALKUMAIT, BANGKOK, LOPE Y FERNANDEZ, NANDO PARRADO, PALACE PIER, RAGING BULL, SPACE BLUES, ST MARK’S BASILICA, STARMAN, SUPREMACY, UBETTABELIEVEIT and VICTOR LUDORUM. Promising first crop sires EARTHLIGHT, KAMEKO, SANDS OF MALI, SERGEI PROKOFIEV and MOHAATHER are also well represented.
The largest consignment of yearlings will come from Tally Ho Stud with 21 lots catalogued, followed by Barton Stud with a 19 strong draft, whilst last year’s sale topping consignor Whitsbury Manor Stud will offer a draft of 11 lots.
All yearlings catalogued in the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale are eligible for the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes as well as the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes, held five weeks later and in 2025 to be run over seven furlongs for the first time. WOODHAY WONDER, a 26,000 guineas Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale purchase, landed the notable sales race double in 2023 and has earned £223,000 in prize money to date. There are also 110 fillies catalogued that are registered for the lucrative Great British Bonus scheme and eligible to win up to £20,000 in bonus prize money per qualifying race.
Commenting on the catalogue for the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said:
“The Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale has quickly established itself as a leading source of top-class racehorses with Group 1 winners Anisette and Bradsell leading the way alongside recent Group 2 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes winner Arabian Dusk. Ultimately the decision to expand the sale to two days was a straightforward one with the unprecedented demand for places reflecting not only the strength of the first three Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sales, but also the outstanding racecourse successes. In terms of quality we are confident that the sale has taken another step forward and Europe’s most progressive yearling sale yet again looks set to attract a wide cross - section of domestic and international buyers.”
The catalogue is online now at www.tattersalls.com and will be available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives from Friday, August 2nd.
£100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes
6 furlongs, Newmarket July Course, 23rd August 2025
£150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes
7 furlongs, Newmarket Rowley Mile Course, 4th October 2025