Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up and Horses In Training Catalogue Now Online

The catalogue for the 2021 Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up and Horses in Training Sale can now be viewed online at www.tattersalls.com. Numbering 233 breeze up two-year-olds and 36 horses in training, the sale takes place April 28 – 30, with the two-year-olds breezing at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Racecourse on Wednesday 28th April starting at 9.00am.  

The Guineas Breeze Up Sale has produced no less than thirty individual Group/Listed performers since 2018 including 31,000 guineas purchase TRUESHAN, winner of the Group 2 British Champions Long Distance Cup last year by seven and a half lengths and top sprinter FAR ABOVE, winner of the Group 3 Palace House Stakes last year.  

No less than 43 of the sires with two year olds catalogued have already sired Classic or Group 1 winners, including ACCLAMATION, AUSTRALIA, BATED BREATH, CAMELOT, DARK ANGEL, EXCEED AND EXCEL, FASTNET ROCK, FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR, IFFRAAJ, KODIAC, LOPE DE VEGA, MAKE BELIEVE, MASTERCRAFTSMAN, MEHMAS, NATHANIEL, OASIS DREAM, PIVOTAL, SEA THE MOON, SHOWCASING, SIYOUNI and ZOFFANY.  

In addition there are 19 first crop sires with two year olds catalogued including Group 1 winners ACLAIM, ALMANZOR, CHURCHILL, DECORATED KNIGHT, ECTOT, GALILEO GOLD, HIGHLAND REEL, NATIONAL DEFENSE, POSTPONED, RIBCHESTER and ZELZAL, as well as PROFITABLE who has already produced an impressive debut winner.  

The Horses in Training section of the Guineas Sale has quickly established itself as a consistent source of high class performers and the 2021 renewal includes the Juddmonte Farms consigned KINGMAN three-year-old ALPHA KING, who has been second on two of his three starts and has a ‘Timeform’ rating of 82. Others sure to attract interest include the Group & Listed performer CROSSED BATON, the ‘Timeform’ 100 rated four-year-old WILL TO WIN and the three-year-old NORTONTHORPE BOY who has won six times since Christmas for trainer Phil McEntee and is rated 92 by ‘Timeform’ following his most recent victory when successful at Kempton Park over 7 furlongs.  

Owners and trainers also have the added incentive three lots entered for the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes, fourteen lots eligible for lucrative French Premiums, eleven lots eligible for Great British Bonuses, nine lots entered in the Swedish Derby and Oaks Series and six lots entered for the Irish EBF Ballyhane Stakes.  

Commenting on the catalogue, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said;  

“The Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale has a long established reputation for producing top class performers at all levels of the market and last year’s Ascot Group 2 winner TRUESHAN, bought for 31,000 guineas, is another fine advertisement for the sale.  This year’s Guineas Breeze Up has been very well supported by the leading consignors and features two-year-olds which will appeal to a cross-section of buyers, alongside a number of high class proven performers.”  

The full breeze will be shown live on the Tattersalls website via Sale Day Live and on the Tattersalls Facebook page starting at 9.00am on Wednesday 28th April and catalogues will be available from Tattersalls and from all Tattersalls overseas representatives from Wednesday 7th April.