Jason Singh

Orlaith Nangle
Orlaith Nangle Appointed New Tattersalls Marketing Executive

Orlaith Nangle joined Tattersalls as a marketing executive last month. She started her new role on February 16 after holding a bloodstock assistant role at McEvoy Mitchell Racing in Australia. Previously, Nangle completed breeding seasons at Coolmore America and Ballyphilip Stud, the National Stud Diploma and also Godolphin Flying Start. Tattersalls marketing director Jason Singh said, "We are delighted to welcome Orlaith to the Tattersalls marketing team. She brings fresh perspective and creativity, as well as a clear enthusiasm for both marketing and the bloodstock sector." Added Nangle, "I am...

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European Mares Tempt Various American Agendas

Those American prospectors sufficiently resourceful--in every sense of that word--to mine some genetic gold at the European breeding stock sales generally fall into two camps. For some, an expanding and ever more lucrative grass (and synthetic) schedule in North America will offset the commercial distrust of turf bloodlines in their homeland. But others may also recognize that Thoroughbreds are more versatile than we typically allow them to be, hoping to emulate the impact on dirt of bloodlines imported from Europe by outstanding breeders of the last century. Both agendas have...

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Matthew Prior Named Managing Director as Tattersalls Appoints Four New Board Members

Matthew Prior, an associate director of Tattersalls since the beginning of 2024, has been appointed to the new role of managing director. Prior joined Tattersalls in the bloodstock sales department in 2012 and has developed into a senior member of the Tattersalls management team, combining yearling inspections and horse recruitment with the position of head of sales at Cheltenham. He has also represented Tattersalls on a number of industry committees, as well as sitting on the Board of Tattersalls Ireland since 2021. "It is an enormous privilege to be appointed...

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'My Predecessor Went Out on a Stonker of a Sale': Jason Singh Looks Forward to Another Big Fortnight at Tattersalls 

Roll up, roll up. It's the bloodstock equivalent of the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, live and exclusive in Newmarket for three days only.  Yep, it's Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and doors open this year on Tuesday, October 7. That is indeed if there are any doors left, as they were blown right off last year with the most sensational yearling trade ever witnessed in Europe. Turnover reached a new high of almost 128 million gns, and while on first glance that tally is only just above...

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Bromley: 'Market In A Sound Position And I'm Excited About The Somerville'

Top bloodstock agent Anthony Bromley and more speak about the yearling market ahead of the Tattersalls Somerville Sale He may have accounted for a little over seven per cent of the £14,327,000 turnover at last week's Goffs Premier Yearling Sale by coming home with 18 lots on behalf of various different clients, but Highflyer's super agent Anthony Bromley has revealed that the job is only half completed and that he is excited about what business can be drummed up at the Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale this week. Despite the Somerville...

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'This Game is Built On Dreams': Merry Pranksters Seeking Furthur Success

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE -- One of the happiest men at Arqana on Saturday was a Tatts man. Yep, you read that right.  Tattersalls' marketing director Jason Singh contemplated leaving Deauville early in order to watch his syndicate horse Furthur in action but, having stayed put, he yelled the horse home from the Arqana sales complex instead. The son of Waldgeist, trained by Andrew Balding, claimed Newbury's G3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes by three lengths to ignite a Classic dream for Singh and his band of Merry Pranksters who own the horse. Furthur...

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Tattersalls Bids To Build On 'Perfect Timing' Of Brilliant Believing At Craven Breeze-Up Sale

There can be no bad time for a sale company to produce a Group 1 winner but, star graduate Believing (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) bagging a much-deserved breakthrough success at the highest level in the Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan last week provided Tattersalls with something extra to shout about on the eve of the much-anticipated Craven Breeze-Up Sale.  The George Boughey-trained speedster became the fifth Group 1 scorer to emerge from the Craven in the past three years alone, joining genuine top-notchers like 1,000 Guineas winner Cachet (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}),...

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Singh, Bell and Prior Appointed Associate Directors At Tattersalls

Harvey Bell, Matthew Prior and Jason Singh have been appointed as associate directors at Tattersalls, the sales company announced on Friday. Bell will now operate as head of bloodstock while Prior will carry out the duties of head of sales and Singh as marketing manager. Prior and Bell joined Tattersalls in the Bloodstock Sales department in 2012 with the latter now combining auctioneering and yearling inspections with overseeing sales administration, while Prior, in addition to yearling inspections and horse recruitment, oversees sales at Cheltenham and is on the Board of...

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12 Questions: Jason Singh

TDN: First job in the Thoroughbred industry? Believe it or not, the one I'm in! I have worked for Tattersalls now for 22 years, having answered an advert for a marketing executive in the Racing Post back in 2000. I had previously run a very amateur racing website called Ausracing, but since it brought me no income, it could hardly be called a job. TDN: Biggest influence on your career? Always a hard one, but perhaps it was the friend who took me to Sandown racecourse in Melbourne's Eastern suburbs...

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The Importance Of Mentors: Jason Singh

Who has been the biggest inspiration in your career? JS: My first job in racing is the one I'm in now so Jimmy George has been my boss and biggest influence on my career for more than 20 years now. Whilst he's taught me a lot, I cannot name him as his head will explode. A couple of years before I started work at Tatts I was running a very amateur website on Australian racing and breeding and Susan Archer, who was working for the NZTBA at the time, offered...

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