Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up and Horses in Training Catalogue Now Online
The catalogue for the 2024 Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up and Horses in Training Sale can now be viewed online at www.tattersalls.com. The sale features 202 breeze up two-year-olds and will take place 1st - 2nd May with the two-year-olds breezing at Newmarket's Rowley Mile Racecourse on Wednesday, 1st May starting at 9.00am. The Horses in Training section of the Guineas sale numbers a record 195 lots with the sale taking place over two sessions, beginning on Wednesday, 1st May at 5.00pm and concluding on Thursday, 2nd May with a session beginning at 9.30am prior to the Guineas Breeze Up lots.
Highlights amongst the well-related colts catalogued in the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale include the WOOTTON BASSETT colt out of Champion three-year-old filly PEEPING FAWN, the dam of three Group/Listed performers including the multiple Group 1 placed SEPTEMBER, and the colt by QUALITY ROAD out of three-time Group 1 winner ALICE SPRINGS, already the dam of Group placed filly PRETTIEST. Both are consigned by Mocklershill who will also offer the WOOTTON BASSETT half-brother to Group 2 winners HIGH DEFINITION and INNISFREE. The catalogue also features a host of well-related fillies including the ZARAK half-sister to the dual Grade 1 winner SHAMAN GHOST consigned by Longways Stables and Mayfield Stables’ ARDAD filly out of the Group 1 placed MISS YOU TOO.
No fewer than 55 of the stallions with two-year-olds catalogued have already sired Classic or Group/Grade 1 winners, including ACCLAMATION, ARDAD, AUSTRALIA, CAMELOT, CHURCHILL, DARK ANGEL, HAVANA GREY, INVINCIBLE SPIRIT, KODIAC, LE HAVRE, MEHMAS, NEW BAY, NO NAY NEVER, OASIS DREAM, SAXON WARRIOR, SEA THE MOON, SHOWCASING, STARSPANGLEDBANNER, WOOTTON BASSETT, ZARAK and ZOUSTAR.
A strong contingent of overseas sires are represented including Grade 1 producing American stallions DAREDEVIL, DIALED IN, LAOBAN, LIAM’S MAP, QUALITY ROAD, SHARP AZTECA and THE FACTOR, and there are also 17 first crop sires with two-year-olds catalogued including ARIZONA, EARTHLIGHT, FAR ABOVE, KAMEKO, KING OF CHANGE, MOHAATHER, SANDS OF MALI, SHAMAN, THREAT, WITHOUT PAROLE and SERGEI PROKOFIEV, who has already produced an impressive debut winner. They are joined by exciting French-based contemporaries HELLO YOUMZAIN, PERSIAN KING and WOODED and their American counterparts HONOR A P, WAR OF WILL and YORKTON.
Owners and trainers looking to benefit from additional incentives will be well catered for with nine fillies registered for the Great British Bonus Scheme and 13 two-year-olds qualified for French Owners’ Premiums. A further 38 juveniles are entered in the 2025 Swedish Derby and Oaks Series and four are entered in the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes, two in the £100,000 Tattersalls Somerville Auction Stakes, and four in the €250,000 Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sales Stakes.
The Horses in Training section of the Guineas Sale features an unprecedented 195 lots with the largest consignment of horses in training coming from the Castlebridge Consignment, who have 71 lots catalogued over the two days including more than 50 lots to be sold on behalf of Coverdale Stud or Titanium Racing Club. Eye-catching lots amongst the Castlebridge team include the unraced three-year-old INVINCIBLE SPIRIT colt FIRST AMBITION who is the first foal out of the outstanding six time Group 1 winner LAURENS, the unraced three-year-old DUBAWI colt TWISTING PHYSICS who is a half-brother to the Group 2 winner TROPBEAU, the winning three-year-old NO NAY NEVER filly NEVERSTOPDREAMING out of GALILEO mare SNOWFLAKES, the winning four-year-old DUBAWI filly FIFTH HARMONIC out of the Group 3 winner PEACE IN MOTION and GOTTA SHOW ME, a SHOWCASING half-sister to Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner NANDO PARRADO who now stands at the Irish National Stud.
The Guineas Horses in Training Sale also features several highly rated older performers including Gainsborough Thoroughbreds’ CROUPIER, runner up in the Buckingham Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot last year and offered with an official rating of 102. Baroda Stud will consign a smart draft including the Timeform 95 rated AL FARABI, a four-year-old son of KINGMAN out of Group 1 runner up ALTYN ORDA, alongside several smart performers on behalf of Amo Racing including the three-year-olds THUNDER BLUE, who has an official rating of 94, and MASHADI, rated 87 by Timeform.
Other promising three-year-olds catalogued include the progressive DR FOSTER who will be offered by Mick Appleby’s Langham Racing Stables with a Timeform rating of 87. The consignment of eight lots from Juddmonte also looks certain to attract plenty of interest and features unraced colts and geldings by stallions DUBAWI, KINGMAN and SEA THE STARS from the exceptional Juddmonte families of star performers BRIAN BORU, CALYX, ENABLE, FAMOUS NAME, FLINTSHIRE, MIDDAY and NATIVE TRAIL.
Commenting on the catalogue, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said;
“The Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up enjoyed another excellent year on the racecourse in 2023 with the redoubtable TRUESHAN adding yet another Group 1 to his roll of honour alongside Group and Listed winners in Britain, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the USA, illustrating the quality and diversity that buyers have come to expect from the sale. This year’s Guineas Breeze Up has been very well supported by consignors and we are confident the selection of two-year-olds will appeal to domestic and international buyers in all sectors of the market, alongside the largest horses in training section in the sale’s history.”
Catalogues will be available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls overseas representatives from Tuesday, 2nd April. The breeze for the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up will take place at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse on Wednesday, 1st May starting at 9.00am. The two day sale will take place Wednesday, 1st May starting at 5.00pm and Thursday, 2nd May beginning at 9.30am. The breeze will be shown live on the Tattersalls website via Sale Day Live and on the Tattersalls Facebook page.