Tattersalls December Mares Sale

NEWMARKET, UK -- There was still plenty of business to be done as the December Sale drew to a close - in the ring, at the bar, and around the local stallion studs still busily showing to breeders in welcome sunshine.  For many, money earned at the sales over the last few weeks is quickly reinvested. Wendy Miller, whose Jarosa Stud was responsible for the first lot in Tuesday's Sceptre Session, was back on Wednesday to buy a new mare. Miller bred Fair Angellica (Harry Angel) herself and when she...

Alpha Racing's Barnavara (Calyx) became the new sale topper at Tattersalls December's Sceptre Sessions at 4.8 million gns. She was bought online by Sugar Whiskey Trading, believed to be an associate of Ace Stud. Henry Lascelles, on the phone, was a determined underbidder on the Baroda Stud-consigned filly. Sold as lot 1753, the three-year-old daughter of Calyx captured the G1 Prix de l'Opera this autumn, after taking the G2 Blandford stakes in September for trainer Jessica Harrington. The daughter of Alfea (Kentucky Dynamite) was bred by Andriy Milovonov and V....

MV Magnier shelled out 2.6 million gns for Group 1 winner Tamfana (Soldier Hollow) (lot 1743) later in the Sceptre Sessions on Tuesday. Bred by Gestut Etzean and Hans Helmut Rodenburg, the Menuisier trainee won the 2024 edition of the G1 Sun Chariot Stakes for Quantum Leap Racing VIII and Friends. Tamfana was picked up by Jeremy Brummitt for €20,000 out of the BBAG September Yearling Sale in 2022. Offered by Quantum Leap, the four-year-old was Magnier's third purchase of the day, after the classy Porta Fortuna at 4.5m gns...

Queen of the course and queen of the ring, four-time Group 1 winner Porta Fortuna (Caravaggio) was knocked down for 4.5 million gns to MV Magnier during Tuesday's Sceptre Sessions of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, the daughter of winner Too Precious (Holy Roman Emperor) has the option of racing again. Bred by Whisperview Trading, the four-year-old filly is out of a full-sister to multiple group winner Numerian, second in the G1 Australian Cup and G1 Doomben Cup. Porta Fortuna raced for Medallion Racing,...

Champion filly Porta Fortuna still has "plenty of racing left in her" according to trainer Donnacha O'Brien, who admitted that he will be experiencing "mixed emotions" when his stable star goes through the ring at the forthcoming December Mares Sale at Tattersalls. The daughter of Caravaggio made it to the racecourse only once in 2025, when registering her eighth career win in May's G2 Lanwades Stud Stakes at the Curragh, but she has been given a clean bill of health by O'Brien ahead of her appearance during the second of...

Ed Harper has admitted to wrestling with the decision to part with Whitsbury Manor Stud's outstanding producer Suelita (Dutch Art) at the forthcoming December Mares Sale at Tattersalls. The dam of the 2,000 Guineas winning-sire Chaldean, among others, Suelita will go under the hammer as lot 1726 during the second of the two Sceptre Sessions on Tuesday, December 2. Harper stressed that the team at Whitsbury Manor will forever be indebted to the now-16-year-old, whilst acknowledging that, if she was ever going to be sold, now was the time.  ...

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...

Trainer Simon Crisford has hailed Choisya as "an absolute pleasure and a real joy to have in the stable" ahead of her appearance at the forthcoming December Mares Sale at Tattersalls. The daughter of Night Of Thunder is set to be one of the star attractions when Park Paddocks plays host to the second of the two Sceptre Sessions on Tuesday, December 2. An eight-time winner from 23 career starts, Choisya registered her career high when winning April's GI Jenny Wiley Stakes at Keeneland, a victory which sets her apart...

A quartet of top-level winners headline the catalogue for the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, which takes place from Monday, December 1 to Wednesday, December 3. A total of 885 lots will be offered across the three days, with the cream of the crop set to go under the hammer during the fourth edition of the Sceptre Sessions scheduled for Monday, December 1 and Tuesday, December 2. Heading the stellar cast in 2025 are the four-time Group 1 winner Porta Fortuna (Caravaggio) (lot 1734), the first Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old Filly ever...

Survie, runner-up by a head in the G1 Prix de Diane, will be offered during the Sceptre Sessions at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale from December 1-3. She will sell as lot 1723 on Tuesday, December 2. The daughter of Churchill will be consigned by co-trainers Nicolas Clement and Frauke Hermans on behalf of owners China Horse Club International and Gerard Augustin-Normand. A winner of the G2 Prix de Malleret at three, the four-year-old was third in the G1 Pretty Polly Stakes, second in the G1 Prix Jean Romanet and...

High-class filly Barnavara, last seen winning the G1 Prix de l'Opera at ParisLongchamp, is set to go under the hammer at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. She will be consigned by Baroda Stud and will feature as part of the fourth edition of the Sceptre Sessions, which will be held on Monday, December 1 and Tuesday, December 2. Trained by Jessica Harrington for Alpha Racing, Barnavara has gone from strength to strength since gaining her first black-type victory in June's Listed Kooyonga Stakes at Navan. The daughter of Calyx has...

Tamfana, who won the G1 Sun Chariot Stakes a year ago this weekend, is to be offered during the Sceptre Sessions at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, which begins its four-day run on Monday, December 1. Prior to that, she is set to race in Sunday's G1 Prix de l'Opera at Longchamp. Trained by David Menuisier for Quantum Leap Racing, the four-year-old daughter of former German champion sire Soldier Hollow broke her maiden at two, winning a Kempton maiden by nine and a half lengths before landing the G3 Prix...