Callisto Star (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) (lot 1534), the dam of 2022 Grade I American Oaks winner Rhea Moon (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) and offered carrying a full-sibling to that filly on a late February cover, was hammered down to Badgers Bloodstock for 675,000gns to top Monday's Sceptre Session on the opening day of trade at the Tattersalls December Mare Sale in Newmarket. The 8-year-old is also the dam of Listed Cheshire Oaks runner-up There's The Door (Ire), also a daughter of Starspangledbanner (Aus). “She's to stay here in Europe,” Tom Pritchard Gordon, who purchased Callisto Star on behalf of an existing client, told the Tattersalls team. “She's a beautiful mare and has already produced a Grade I winner with her first foal. Fastnet Rock is as good a broodmare sire as there is and her dam is by Galileo so it's all the bloodlines you want. She's the whole package. I haven't decided who she'll be covered by next year but Starspangled is an obvious target. Fastnet mares work with so many different bloodlines that she could go anywhere.”
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