Steel Bull

Tattersalls Ireland's 2020 slate of flat sales comes to a belated close on Wednesday when the firm stages its November Flat Foal and Breeding Stock Sale, this year enhanced by a 109-strong yearling section. The sale was originally slated to be held on Nov. 13, but--like the company's November National Hunt Sale over the weekend--was moved when Ireland went back into stage five lockdown last month. The sale ring at Fairyhouse has now swung back into action, however, and this sale rides the momentum of a fruitful season on the...

The yearling sale caravan rolls onto Newmarket on Monday for the relocated Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale, where 257 commercial youngsters will go under the hammer. The fledgling sale which celebrate its fourth renewal rides the momentum of a pair of group-winning 2-year-olds at major meetings over the summer, with Steel Bull (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire})'s victory in the G3 Molecomb S. at Glorious Goodwood preceding Miss Amulet (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire})'s score in the G2 Lowther S. at York's Ebor meeting, which followed a victory in Naas's Listed Marwell S. Both...

The Tattersalls Ascot Yearling Sale has been moved forward a day and will now take place on Sept. 7 at Park Paddocks. The move is designed to accommodate those wishing to attend both the Ascot sale and Arqana's Deauville Select yearling sale, which has been moved forward two weeks to Sept. 9 to 11 in light of new French quarantine restrictions in the UK. The Ascot yearling sale enjoyed a significant boost on Thursday when Miss Amulet (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) took the G2 Lowther S. at York, following on...

Godolphin's unbeaten Earthlight (Ire) (Shamardal) faces his first major test of 2020 in a strong renewal of Sunday's 6 1/2-furlong G1 LARC Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville. Facing the older sprinters for the first time, last year's G1 Prix Morny and G1 Middle Park S. winner also meets Golden Horde (Ire) (Lethal Force {Ire}) who was a neck behind him when runner-up in the Middle Park at Newmarket in September. There was no sign that his delayed start to the season had meant a diminishing of his ability when...

Tattersalls has unveiled the catalogue for its Ascot Yearling Sale on Sept. 8 at Park Paddocks. The sale has drawn 257 yearlings, all of which are eligible for the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes. The Ascot Yearling Sale has established itself as a proven source of value. Since 2019 32 individual 2-year-old winners and nine black-type winners have been sold for an average of £12,500. Among the recent luminaries are last month's G3 Molecomb S. winner Steel Bull (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}), purchased for £15,000, and Listed Marwell S. scorer Miss...

Middleham Park Racing's G2 Prix Robert Papin winner Ventura Tormenta (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) was one of four supplementary entries on Tuesday to Sunday's G1 Keeneland Phoenix S. at The Curragh. He was joined, as expected, by G3 Molecomb S. winner Steel Bull (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}) as well as the G2 Airlie Stud S. winner Aloha Star (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) and the Aidan O'Brien-trained winner Giorgio Vasari (Ire) (Air Force Blue). Ventura Tormenta will be re-opposing The Lir Jet (Ire) (Prince Of Lir {Ire}), who he beat by a head in...

Exactly a month before Steel Bull (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}) won the G3 Molecomb S. he was parading around the sales ring as one half of the Kilbrew Stables draft at the Goffs UK Breeze-up Sale, which had been delayed from its traditional late April slot. Andrew and Riona Lynch of Kilbrew Stables took just two horses to Doncaster and in fact it was the other one, a colt by Mehmas (Ire), who was initially the star package as he vastly exceeded his yearling price when selling for £165,000 to King...