Lot 265:
the St Mark's Basilica colt out of Longina from Newsells Park Stud Ltd is bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 950,000gns.
“I thought he was an absolutely gorgeous colt and is out of a very good racemare by Monsun, who’s already produced a decent filly in Ottery," said Brown. "It’s a lovely back page, too. Obviously I was very keen on him, then Saeed Suhail saw him out here, and he was much braver than I would’ve been!
“There aren’t many owners out there who’ve owned two Derby winners, obviously he had Kris Kin and we bought Desert Crown here a few years ago now in Book 2. He likes mile plus horses, and this is certainly a horse who'll need a bit of time. He looks like he’s going to be a 1m2f or a 1m4f horse, but he’s a patient owner.
“Obviously Sir Michael is retiring. He had a tremendous relationship with Sir Michael over a number of years, they had two Derby winners together and a Guineas winner. There’s going to have to be a little bit of a restructure, which has already been discussed. At the moment he has horses in training with William Haggas and Andrew Balding, so it’ll be up to Saeed. We’ll have a chat at the end of the sales and work it out, but I’m sure any trainer would be happy to have this colt. I’m liking what I’m seeing from St Mark’s Basilica, who was an exceptional racehorse.”
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Lot 242:
the first foal out of the Group 1 Nassau Stakes winner Lady Bowthorpe makes 2,000,000gns. The colt by Dubawi is bought by Anthony Stroud for Godolphin, Sheikh Mohammed's team out bidding the Amo huddle standing in the bidders. Kia Joorabchian's was once again standing with his back to the auctioneer, a fact hat Alastair Pim used to his advantage and to the amusement of the sales ring crowd. The last bid of 1,900,000gns given by agent Alex Elliott was quickly batted back by Godolphin, who was outside and near the bidding tower, resulting in the shrugging of shoulders inside the ring.
Breeder Emma Banks was at Tattersalls to watch the first-born foal sell.
"I love his Mum and I love him, and I will follow him and I am very happy he has gone to a great owner and a great establishment," she said. "It was surreal to watch, I am just so happy he is going to a great place. He is a special horse.
"It seems to have been quick to get to this point, but also has taken forever, and today has been quick and also taken forever. There are so many things going on in the world, and I have just sold a horse for two million!
"I am just so proud that Lady Bowthorpe, and everyone who is involved with her – she was bred at Fittocks and has gone back there, and she is loving her life as a broodmare and the fact that she has had such a gorgeous attractive and well put together horse makes me so proud.
"Martin and all the Fittocks staff have done such a beautiful job of looking after him. He has just been a superstar since the day he was born... I am very biased, you might not have noticed!"
Of the mare's next offspring she said: "He has a lovely full-brother – I might be able to afford to keep him now – and she is in-foal to Too Darn Hot. Lady Bowthorpe does not like to travel too much, she just nipped around the corner to visit him at Darley," added Banks, who also said that "I try to get to the stud as much as I can, without getting on everyone's nerves!"
Of today's experience and generally that in horseracing she enlarged: "I have had a lot of expectation managing people around me, pointing out that it could go horribly wrong. You have these dreams – every time you go racing, it does not matter if it is Goodwood or Wolverhampton, you go expecting to win, otherwise you would not do this. So you come here expecting to win, and I knew he was nice and people were telling me he is nice, but you need two people to want him to get a price like that."
Anthony Stroud said: "I think he is a lovely horse, beautifully produced by Fittocks and the dam raced so well for Emma Banks and she took the plunge and bred her to Dubawi and it is nice that she ended up with such a good-looking horse."
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Lot 236:
the colt by Too Darn Hot and out of Knocknagree, consigned by Croom House Stud and bred by Epona Bloodstock is bought by Godolphin for 1,500,000gns.
He is a close relation to Idea Generation (Dubawi), winner of the Flower Bowl Stakes (G2) at Saratoga since the catalogue was published. She was bought by Mike Ryan at this sale in 2021 for 340,000gns.
"He is by a young stallion who has done very well in Australia and here and is on the upwards trend, and coming from Croom which is a great farm and we liked him a lot," said Stroud. "We are very happy to have him."
He added: "The market has been unbelievable, I am sure the sales rate is very high and impressive [86 per cent] and a lot of internationals here, and it makes such a difference when the principals are here, it is important."
It is Croom House Stud's leading family of Zoffany, Rostropovich, Spotlight and Berkshire Rocco.
Stud manager Joe Hartigan said: "We are absolutely over the moon, it is a great price and we are delighted. He has always been a belter of a colt, and when John O'Kelly came to see him in the spring he held him in high regard, but you never know what is going to happen in the ring.
"It is a family that keep on giving – Idea Generation won the Grade 2 recently and there was also the Group 1 win for Land Legend in the Metropolitan who is under the second dam. We did not sell the mare Knocknagree, and she is coming up with the goods now."
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Lot 234:
the Sea The Stars colt, bred by Sunderlands Holdings and consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment, makes 800,000gns, bought in a three-way split between Amo Racing, Al Shaqab Racing and Valmont.
Alex Elliott, who bought the own-brother to Al Aasy, winner of the Group 3 Glorious Stakes and the Geoffrey Freer Stakes (G3) since the catalogue was published, said: "It just makes sense and is something that happens a lot more in the US and Australia, people teaming up on big-money colts – you hope you can then buy enough for them, one hits and it pays for the lot. He is going to Ralph Beckett.
"He is a hell of a horse, he is huge, and he has a temperament to die for and is very light on his feet, let's just hope he wins the Derby."
They have very similar minds and trying to do the same thing, what is the point of competing? It limits the risk, especially when racing for less money. There are issues to consider, but if everyone can get on the same page, stay in the buggy it can work out."
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Lot 218:
Brightwalton Stud is having the best week ever – after its homebred filly Makarova (Acclamation) won the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye at ParisLongchamp on Sunday, the five-0ear-old filly's swan song before before retiring to the paddocks, the farm sells this Lope De Vega colt for 750,000gns to Godolphin.
It is the best-ever sale ring price for the Berkshire-based farm.
The farm's Jeffrey Hobby, who is walking around Tattersalls with a beaming smile on his face, said: "We have had an amazing week, it has been too much! I need to go and lie down in a quiet corner. It is fantastic. I have always loved the horse, and hoped he would find his value, and he is an absolute rock star."
Hobby purchased the mare Isabella (Galileo) for 225,000gns here at Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2021 and he said: "I loved her, and we bought her from the Sir Robert Ogden dispersal. I did ask myself after we had bought her, why I had not instead purchased her full-sister went for about a third of the price [Pandora, 75,000gns]?
"Then I remembered that Isabella is such a lovely physical – we had to have quite a kick at the time to push to get her, but it has reaped dividends."
Of Sunday's race day and sales day, Hobby said: "Sunday was what it was about and another level, but this is another level for us, too – our previous best was 340,000gns for a foal."
Of onward plans he laughed: "The plan is to reinvest here in December – we go again, we get more mares! We have bought the farm next door, doubled the size of the stud and we need some mares to fill it... though my wife might disagree with me!
"But this is all down to a great team, we prep them at home and they do all the hard yards. Tom Blain and Barton Stud help me here and Stroud Coleman works with me to buy."
The final word needs to go to Makarova, and Hobby updated: "She will stay for a short while with Ed Walker, have some wind down time with him and then she will come hime – we have saved the paddock in front of the house for her!"
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Lot 201:
Clare Manning of Boherguy Stud gets her biggest result to date with a yearling in the Tattersalls sale ring, selling the Mehmas half-brother to the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Mac Swiney for 800,000gns. The colt was bred her grand-father Jim Bolger, and bought by Anthony Stroud for Godolphin.
"I am thrilled," said Manning. "I thought we are going well and to have Blandford and Godolphin get in a battle and the price get to 800,000gns. It is unbelievable. I have just been on the phone to 'granda' and he is delighted and over the moon. We are so pleased he has gone to a good home, we have had a good rapport over the years with Godolphin, so nice to see him go there. "
Of selling plans, it was always the plan for the colt yo be offered as a yearling.
"This was always the plan. We did not sell him as a foal and we sat down and talked about it in the early spring time and decided he was our one and then we just had to decide where we were going to sell – we felt he was good enough to come here and stand out."
Mehmas has certainly had a year of years on the track and the colt has been able to bathe in that reflected glory.
"It has just been a bonus," smiled Manning. "The year Mehmas is having, getting the National Stakes winner and then the filly in the Marcel Boussac, everything has just clicked into our favour."
She added:"And Tatts has done a serious job for this sale – the amount of international people here this week, you just have to look at the results, they have been phenomenal, I don't think anyone thought this was going to happen. It is great to be part of it, I will enjoy it for a while!
"It is my third year offering in Book 1 and, personally, I am delighted, but I am thrilled for granda and all the lads who bred him and reared him, it is a team effort. it is nice to see when you get a result like that."
Of the colt as an individual and comparisons with Mac Swiney she said: "He is a ranger horse, this lad is a true cross between 'Teo' and Mehmas, he is more compact. He is a May foal but he does not look like it, he is really strong. But it is his walk... if I counted the amount of times people commented on it, he just walked up and down for fun, he has the smoothest action, you could stand and watch him all day."
Manning is done for Book 1 and has a couple of lots to consign through next week's Book 2 sale – she is going to give herself a deserved day off tomorrow!
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Lot 184:
the Frankel colt out of Gale Force (Shirocco), the own-brother to the 22021 European champion three-year-old stayer Hurricane Force and the Listed placed Frankel's Storm , and half-brother to the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Sweet William, is bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 850,000gns from breeder Watership Down Stud.
Gale Force, who is a half-sister to the British Champions Mile winner Seal Of Approval, was bought by Charlie Gordon-Watson Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2019 for 300,000gns from the Normandie Stud partial dispersal.
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Lot 183:
the full-sister to this year's dual Group 1 winner Charyn becomes the first seven-figure sale of Day 2, the daughter of Dark Angel bought by Godolphin for 2,900,000gns.
It was a sale of dreams for Guy O'Callaghan of Grangemore Stud – the farm's previous best at Tattersalls being 850,000gns given by Sumbe for her year-older full-sister at this sale last year.
Charyn's owner Sumbe were again involved, this time into seven figures, but Nurlan Bizakov's operation then dropped away and the bidding developed to a match between Anthony Stroud for Godolphin, standing outside with Sheikh Mohammed in attendance, and Amo Racing, the team of Alex Elliott and Kia Joorabchian positioned in the same spot as yesterday, in the bidders area by the window.
After the 2,500,000gns mark, Alex Elliott and Joorabchian's bidding started to slow, and eventually pulled stumps when there were asked to better 2,900,000gns mark.
"It is the stuff of dreams and as a breeder it is what you always hope this could happen, two buyers such as Amo and Godolphin going head to head, then it can go any where," smiled O'Callaghan. "She has been flat out since she got here, but she has never turned a hair and showed exactly the same every time – it takes a very special horse to do that."
Although very controlled when talking after the sale, he said: "Don't worry I am doing cart wheels inside! I was not at Royal Ascot when Charyn won as I could not get away from home, but it is so very difficult for a horse to win there, it takes a great performance and that was special day – and days like this can't happen without that first."
Of the 11-year-old mare Futoon, who was bought by Grangemore at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale for 100,000gns in 2017, he said: "Futoon is an amazing mare, her yearling of last year was special and sold well, she a Dark Angel colt at foot and is in-foal to Blue Point. He had really impressed me last year with his first crop and I booked her to him after Charyn won the Group 2 in April."
It has been announced that Charyn is to retire to Sumbe to Haras de Montfort and Preaux at the end of this season.However his next stop will be the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Qipco British Champions Day, before possible travel to either the Breeders' Cup meet at Del Mar or to Japan.
O'Callaghan said: "Charyn looks as though he will be champion miler this year and I will be definitely booking in some mares to him!"
Successful buyer Anthony Stroud said: "She is an extremely good looking filly, moved incredibly well, her pedigree speaks for itself. It is so difficult to buy these fillies, and she was one that we all liked very much. It was more than we had anticipated."
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Lot 178:
this New Bay colt, bred by Corduff Stud with Tim Rooney, becomes the second-most expensive by the sire sold to date in the Tattersalls sale ring – the half-brother to the Hong Kong star Romantic Warrior bought by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock for 450,000gns.
He is also the most expensive out of the mare Folk Melody (Street Cry) sold so far in the sale ring.
Romantic Warrior has prize-money earnings over £15,000,0000 and has won eight Group 1 races in Hong Kong, Australia and Japan – the six-year-old won the Yasuda Kinen (G1) last time out in June.
He put in a smart breeze at Happy Valley last Saturday and the Danny Shum-trained gelding's season may take in such races this season as the Group 1 Saudi Cup and Dubai World Cup.
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Lot 163:
the Churchill half-brother to the Richmond Stakes (G2) winner, the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) runner-up and the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) third-placed Royal Scotsman, is bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 750,000gns, Richard Brown in charge of bidding.
Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock, he was sold by Barton Stud.
"He is smashing colt, out of a Pivotal mare who is really done it with Royal Scotsman who is really talented horse and Churchill has sired a number of top performers. He comes from a very good hotel, and I think he is an outstanding individual," said Brown. "We had to stretch and, hopefully, he can do the job."
Of yesterday's trade, Brown said: "Extraordinary! It was amazing to see. Everyone bashes our [British] product but I can still tell you that the best racing is here, you can't beat it! You go to Royal Ascot and when you are standing there and your horse has won, there is no feeling like it. We have got the best product on earth and we should be proud of it. We should stick our chests out, but this is where everyone wants to compete – this is the Premiership here.
"I do think our racing and our bloodstock is the best in the world. I do think Jimmy George did a very good piece on Luck On Sunday talking about how good prize-money can be [with the Tattersalls Book 1 bonuses and the development races], it is not over yet!"
(12:10)
After such an amazing
day's trade yesterday, we reconvene for Day 2's session at 11am today.
(10:41)
October Book 1, Day 1 Sale statistics:
+/- compared to last year
Catalogued: 149 (177)
Offered: 130 (154)
Sold: 117 (124)
Turnover: 42,680,000gns (+39%)
Median: 260,000gns (+27%) *record median for a day at the October Book 1 Yearling Sale
Average: 364,786gns (+48%) *record average for a day at the October Book 1 Yearling Sale
% Sold: 90% (81%)
Top lot: 4,400,000gns
Leading consignor (by agg): 1. Newsells Park Stud, 2. Ballylinch Stud, 3. Staffordstown
Leading purchaser (by agg): 1. Amo Racing, 2. Godolphin, 3. Yulong
Leading sires (by agg): 1. Frankel, 2. Kingman, 3. No Nay Never
Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Frankel, 2. Dubawi, 3. No Nay Never
Top five lots
Lot
68: Frankel (GB) / Aljazzi (GB) B.F. (GB) Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Amo Racing Ltd >> 4,400,000gns
Lot
72: Frankel (GB) / Alwilda (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Staffordstown, Ireland >> Amo Racing Ltd >> 2,500,000gns
Lot
92: No Nay Never (USA) / Bella Estrella (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Ballylinch Stud, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 2,200,000gns
Lot
85: Frankel (GB) / Atone (GB) B.C. (IRE) >> Baroda Stud, Ireland Amo Racing Ltd >> 1,100,000gns
Lot
39: Dubawi (IRE) / Waldlied (GB) Ch.F. (GB) >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Richard Knight / Salhia Stud >> 925,000gns
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Lot 136:
M V Magnier & White Birch Farm got to 500,000gns for the Wootton Bassett colt out of the 101-rated Detailed (Motivator). He was offered by New England Stud for breeder Charlie Hanbury.
The mare has had one winner from two runners and had a Wootton Bassett filly this year.
Detailed, from the family of the champion three-year-old miler Sendawar, was bought by Triermore Stud for 250,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2019.
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Lot 123:
from Frankel to Dubawi – Amo Racing Ltd spends 650,000gns on the Chevely park Stud-consigned colt by the leading Darley sire and out of the Galileo mare Criteria, who was placed in the Aphrodite Stakes (L) and third in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes.
She is the dam of two winners from three runners and is an own-sister to the Falmouth Stakes (G1), the Matron Stakes (G1) and the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) winner Alice Springs
Criteria had a colt by Lope De Vega this spring and was covered by Too Darn Hot.
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Lot 107:
is a ninth purchase already made today by Amo Racing – the Siyouni own-sister to the dual champion colt St Mark's Basilica and the half-sister to the 2,000 Guineas winner Magna Grecia (Invincible Spirit), purchased for 675,000gns from breeder Norelands.
Amo is the leading purchaser by both spend and numbers of horses bought –Kia Joorabchian's organisation so far spending 10,420,000gns (average 1,157,778gns) on nine horses. It is over eight million more than the next best, which is Godolphin's purchase of the one colt from Ballylinch Stud for 2,200,000gns.
Eight buyers have already spent over a million in this first session.
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Lot 92:
"He is one of the nicest horses we have ever brought to a sale,"said John O'Connor of Ballylinch Stud after selling this colt by No Nay Never out of the Listed winner Bella Estrella (High Chaparral) for 2,200,000gns to Godolphin.
"And possibly the nicest horse – and we have sold quite a few Group 1 winners here, too. Ronan Wade, our yearling manager at Castlemartin, gave him the highest mark he has ever for a horse. We are delighted Sheikh Mohammed has bought the colt, we wish him every success."
Of the colt as an individual, he added: "He is just the perfect yearling, and I hope he will make the perfect racehorse. He has the most wonderful temperament, so consistent in how he shows, he has beautiful action, he is the perfect mover, he vetted very well. Most of those who you think could buy a very good horse, wanted to buy him.
"Sheikh Mohammed is having some success with our stallions, let's hope this horse goes on well, too."
Of the price he was expecting beforehand, he said: "I never jump the fences before I get there, but there was always a possibility that there would always be a clash between two significant buyers and at that point you never know what they are going to make. "
Of the family, he outlined: "This mare was very good, and it is an original pedigree from when the McCalmont family was based at Ballylinch. I bought Unchartered Haven here out of training at the December Sales, and most of that black-type on page has been bred by us – it is a very active family."
When discussing whether this colt was typical of the family, O'Connor said: "He is medium-sized, deep, very active, they are seldom very tall horses, they are generally strong bodies, and are good-walking sorts. They generally have good temperaments. She has worked really well with Lope De Vega before producing Iberian. Bodicus [1,100,000gns, Tattersalls October Book 1,2023] is with Andre Fabre and he likes him, he might run before the end of the season."
Buyer Anthony Stroud said: "He is a lovely horse, a very good-looking horse, we all really liked him a lot. He has a wonderful pedigree, is from a very good stud farm it and he was the one horse we really wanted today.
"It has been a blockbuster start to the sale with the two fillies' sales. There are a lot of people from around the world here, which is good to see."
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Lot 85:
becomes a third seven-figure lot by Frankel and bought by Amo Racing – this colt out of the Oasis Dream mare Atone, dam of the Park Express Stakes (G3) runner-up Redressed (Le Havre).
Sold by Baroda Stud for 1,100,000gns, the colt is out of a winning own-sister to the champion older mare and six-time Grade 1 and Group 1 winner Midday, the dam of the black-type winners Midterm, Mori, Noon Star, and a half-sister to Sun Maiden, Hot Snap, and Midsummer Sun.
Under the third dam are the Group 1 winners Elmaamul, Reams Of Verse as well as the Group race winners Manifest, Modern Day, Modernise and High Walden.
The colt was bred by Yulong Investments, BBA Ireland having bought the mare from the Juddmonte draft at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale for 300,000gns in 2022. She was then the dam of two winners and yet to have a black-type performer.
David Cox of Baroda said: "He is a homebred for Yulong, he has always been a lovely horse and was a lovely foal, I am delighted to be able to bring him here.The lads have done a great job to prepare him for the sale, and Sam did a great job with him up here. He showed perfectly every day, he is a great mover, and is the image of his father. Coming here I was hoping he would make close to a million and it is great to go over that and to have Coolmore and Amo after him.
"It is a fantastic pedigree. Mr Zhang has been a great supporter, he is selling and buying here and this horse was always going to be offered. Yulong has a bunch of horses they are going to sell, a bunch to go into training, a bunch to go to Japan and some going to China, it is a worldwide operation and it is great to be involved."
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Lot 72:
one of the expected stars of the day did not disappoint – the Frankel own-sister to the six-time Group 1 winner, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) winner and 2022 European champion older mare Alpinista sold for 2,500,000gns, also bought by Amo Racing.
"That pedigree, a sister to an Arc winner, that is not a lot to tell you that we don't all know!" laughed Elliott of the Staffordstown-consigned filly. "Kia has been in the game for a certain amount of years now, and to compete at the top table you have to have the best pedigrees – it is the only way to compete consistently.
"Amo has got to a level now that it is ready to try and do that, and that filly has just about the best pedigree in the book. It doesn't get any better than that. She is a fine big scopey filly, she worth a hell of a lot of money residually. We will see how she goes, we will take our time, it is very much a late developing family and she looks that physically, but we are up and running!"
He added: "We have obviously got some horses who will stand at stud, such as King Of Steel – I am not saying they will be for him, but if he proves himself good enough these mares could be ... we have got an awful lot of proving to do!
"But Kia is ready for the operation to prove itself at the next echelon and that is where we are trying to get to and that is why we need to get into these families. The fact that these horses are staying here is huge for British racing and we should all be huge cheerleaders for it."
Once he had finished dealing with well-wishers, Joorabchian said: "We need strong pedigreed fillies, and we have a lot of horses going to stud in the next year, such as Buccanero and King Of Steel, it will be this year or next year we will have to make a decision soon., and we have Persian Force already at stud. We need to back them, otherwise we are just going to get left behind – we have to back our stallions to have a chance of winning.
"It is very difficult to buy such mares because the likes of Juddmonte, Coolmores, Shadwells, all the big guys own all the big mares. So we have to come out here and hope that what we are buying in terms of pedigrees, will make us competitive.
"It is very hard to buy [such pedigrees] after yearling stage – once a filly has won a Group 1 you are in very high prices, so you have got to try and get them earlier and hope that they go on well."
Of Frankel he enthused: "Frankel has had huge success, and he just keeps on producing – the Matron Stakes was a real eye-opener, four of the field were by Frankels and one Too Darn Hot. You look at all the Frankels and what they are doing, these amazing mares and fillies, you just have to back him."
(15:35)
Lot 68:
becomes the second highest-priced lot ever sold at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale, the filly by Frankel and the second foal out of Aljazzi (Shamardal) making for 4,400,000gns.
Once the bidding topped the the two million guineas mark, it turned into a match between Mitsu Nakauchida, who was standing in the bidders' area by the rostrum and on the telephone, and bloodstock agent Alex Elliott who was with owner Kia Joorabchian in the bidders' area by the window.
It was the latter who stayed strong with the Elliott-Kia huddle confidently bidding the 4,400,000gns leaving Nakauchida just shaking his head.
Once Elliott had taken a breath, he said: "Phew! Kia and partners wanted the filly very badly – a Frankel filly from that family and with that physical, she was always going to be a collectors' item. It is a deep price tag and, though we had discussed her at length, obviously I did not see her making that – but we had very much honed in on her.
"But she is part of Team Amo now... wow! She is a spectacular filly, it is a spectacular price, a spectacular bunch of horses here. I'd like to say I was a cool customer when all that was taking place, but that would be a fib – I have never been in that rarified atmosphere before."
He added: "We have seen Ylang Ylang from the same farm and from the same cross, we just need history to repeat itself! The figure I had in mind was a good bit below that, but, as I keep saying to people, good horses will pay you back, now she has got a lot of paying back to do!
"It is great that she is staying here, it is great for British racing that these people are around to buy these horses as we all understand how difficult the product is to promote at the minute. To have two men to say they are going to keep her here, it is huge kudos to them. Kia knows you have got to buy them at the top level to compete at the top level."
Elliott continued: "All the teams select the best horse and it is who blinks first, and fair play to Kia he certainly did not blink, I think I did!
He concluded: "This filly has got through most of the hoops – she is by the right stallion, she is out of a good Shamardal mare, she is from a great farm, she has come to a sale, she has shown she is in the top echelon of horses, now she has got to keep going!"
Her dam Aljazzi was sold to Newsells Park Stud at the Autumn Horses In Training Sale 2018 for a record-breaking price of 1,000,000gns. She was sold by Marco Botti's Prestige Place Stables having been owned in training by breeders Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar.
She had won the Group 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes and was fourth-placed in the Prix Rothschild (G1).
Her great grand-dam Majestic Sakeena was bought by Tony Nerses at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2006 for 200,000gns.
Consignor Julian Dollar of Newsells Park Stud said: "To be honest with you, I was hoping she would make a million and that would have been nice, but obviously some good players had her valued at twice that. We are obviously delighted.
"Mitsu [underbidder] is a great trainer and a lovely guy and he loved her, and obviously Kia, Amo and Alex loved her too... it is unbelievable .
"I said to Graham [Smith-Bernal] that there were two fillies that I'd like to keep, she was one and the other was the Dubawi filly. We also have a nice filly to sell on Thursday, the half-sister to Ylang Ylang.
"But I I always loved this filly and thought she was outstanding. I am thrilled with that price, it makes a big difference to a commercial operation like Newsells. It is great."
Of buying Aljazzi for that record price in 2018 he said: "We'd had a good yearling sale, and I went out and spent most of it at the Autumn Horses In Training Sale. She was a fish out of water at that sale and I said to Andreas Jacobs [former owner of Newsells Park Stud] that it might be an opportunity to buy a nice filly at a lower price than she would make at the December Sale. We were happy at the million, I know it sounds crazy but I think we thought we had a chance at that price.
"Her first foal by Galileo was very nice but sadly had a few problems and did not race – she is in-foal to Wootton Bassett. Aljazzi had a couple of barren years, then this filly. She has a nice Frankel colt to follow and she is in-foal to Too Darn Hot."
In 2018, prior to buying Aljazzi, the "good sale" referenced to by Dollar saw Newsells the leading consignor at October Book 1 Sale with aggregate sales of over 11 million guineas, the farm selling the Galileo colt out of Shastye for 3,400,000gns to MV Magnier. The colt was subsequently named Mogul and went on to win the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase and the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris.
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Lot 64:
McCrackens Farms, regular consignors at Tattersalls but making its Book 1 debut, is well rewarded with its best-ever price here selling this daughter of Sir Mark's Basilica for 250,000gns.
The filly is a half-sister to the champion Australian stayer and international Group 1 winner Best Solution and El Bodegon, winner of the Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1). Both were bred by the farm out of Al Andalyya (Kingmambo), a first Flat mare bought by the County Down-based farm by Cecil McCracken for 10,500gns at the 2012 Tattersalls February Sale.
"The mare is part of the family now!" laughed Craig McCracken. "She had a filly foal by Ghaiyyath this spring."
Of this St Mark's Basilica, he said: "She was very received. We think she is a racehorse let's hope she is."
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Lot 53:
Amo Racing Ltd steps in at 750,000gns to buy the Sea The Stars colt offered by Lynn Lodge Stud, consigning on behalf of Giggingston House Stud.
The February-born colt is the second foal out of the Muhaarar mare Zahratty, who is a half-sister to the Criterium de Saint-Cloud (G1) winner Dubai Mile and the Listed winner and Group 3-placed Naadirr, they are out of the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1) runner-up Beach Bunny.
Zahratty was purchased by Mags O'Toole for €350,000 in 2021. She has a Night Of Thunder filly foal and was covered by Night Of Thunder this spring.
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After 50 lots
through the ring, the median for the session so far is 295,000gns, up +44 per cent on last year's Day 1 final figure, while the average running at 32 per cent over 2023 at 326,750gns. The clearance rate is 87 per cent.
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Lot 49:
the Frankel filly out of the two-time Group 1 winner Wonderful Tonight (Le Havre), and sold by breeder Stratford Place Stud, is bought by Yulong, via an online bid, for 750,000gns.
The figures matches the previous best price achieved by Stratford Place in the Tattersalls sale ring.
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Lot 39:
bloodstock agent Richard Knight, acting for Salhia Stud, spends 925,000gns on the Dubawi filly out of the Prix de Mallerret (G2) winner Waldied, sold by Newsells Park Stud and bred by Newsells Park Stud & Lordship Stud.
"She is a filly I absolutely adored when I saw her and Newsells has a fantastic draft of horses, they have been so well prepared," said Knight. "She is a Dubawi filly from the family of Waldgeist, and is just a beautiful physical, a lovely strong filly. We are looking to build a racing band whom we will breed from at the end of the day, and she looks like the type of broodmare we will love to have. We are all delighted to get her – I don't know who will train her yet, we will make that decision at a later date."
Salhia Stud has its first runners in Britain this year and Knight reports that the stud currently has ten in training, ten fillies and two colts, and has had three winners so far. Trainers on the list at present with William Haggas, Roger Varian, William Knight and Kevin Philippart de Foy.
"We are pleased with the race course results so far, many of them to have run are types really bought to come to themselves next year," said Knight, adding: "We ill be looking to develop a breeding operation in Britain."
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Lot 36:
the Dark Angel colt out of the Park Hill Stakes (G2) runner-up Vivonn from Cheveley Park Stud is bought by Peter Harris through Stroud Coleman for 420,000gns.
"He is by a great sire, from a proper farm and he looks like a racehorse," said Harris, who bought the Jane Chapple-Hyam-trained Group 1 July Cup winner Mill Stream here in the 2021 Book 2 sale ring for 350,000gns. Harris added of this colt: "He will go into training with Jane."
Mill Stream, a four-year-old by Gleneagles, is entered in this month's British Champions Sprint Stakes (G1) and Harris updated: "We are planning to go to Ascot and all is on track!"
It is the further family of Playful Act, the colt's third dam and a champion two-year-old filly in 2024.
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Lot 18:
becomes the most expensive yearling sold so far in the Tattersalls sale ring, and the fourth-most expensive yearling sold to date, by the French-based Aga Khan Studs-based sire Zarak, sire of this year's Poule d'Essai des Poulains (G1) winner Metropolitan and the Prix Ganay (G1) star Haya Zark.
This chestnut colt was consigned by Barton Stud for breeder Brightwalton Stud and fetched 230,000gns bought by Hurworth Bloodstock.
He is a half-brother to the Listed winner and Group 3-placed Lady Day, and to the Group 3-placed Maximus.
Brightwalton, of course, had the most amazing weekend with Makarova's Group1 Prix de l'Abbaye victory at ParisLongchamp on Sunday, the last racecourse start for the homebred Acclamation filly.
She is out of the Sea The Stars mare Vesnina, the two-year-old winner bought from Cheveley Park Stud at the Tattersalls July Sale 2015 by StroudColeman Bloodstock for Brightwalton for 68,000gns.
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Lot 8:
the No Nay Never colt from Lynn Lodge Stud, bred by Gigginstown House Stud, makes 625,000gns, and is a first early strike by MV Magnier. The colt is the first foal out of the Zoffany mare Thar She Blows, an own-sister to Prosperous Voyage, winner of the Falmouth Stakes (G1).
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Lot 6:
the fabulous Charyn (Dark Angel), this year's dual Group 1 winner and Group 1 runner-up (twice), was bought by Sumbe at the October Book 2 Sale in 2021 for 250,000gns, and Nurlan Bizakov's farm will be hoping lightning will strike again, the team spending 400,000gns on this Blue Point colt from Kilminfoyle House Stud.
The Awbeg Stud-bred half-brother to Tomiko (Footstepsinthesand), winner of the Premio Oaks d'Italia (G2), was pinhooked last year by JC Bloodstock for €85,000.
Charyn's sister is due through the ring tomorrow as Lot
183, offered by Grangemore Stud.
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Lot 4:
Quirke Bloodstock / RP Racing go to 300,000gns for the Newsells Park Stud Ltd-offered colt by Siyouni out of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (G1) winner Teppal (Camacho), bred by Al Shahania Stud.
Conor Quirke and RP Racing have had great success from the Tattersalls Sale ring – at the Tattersalls 2023 December Yearling Sale the team went to 175,000gns to buy a Mohaather colt. He was subsequently named Big Mojo and has gone on to win this year's Molecomb Stakes (G2) and finish second in the Flying Childers Stakes (G2).
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Lot 3:
one of the cheapest pinhooks of today gets a sale ring result, the daughter of Ifraaj, bought as a yearling at Tattersalls December for 22,000gns by KS Bloodstock, is returned to market otday and makes 105,000gns. She is bought by Federico Barberini.
The filly was bred by The Pocock Family.
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Lot 1:
it is a packed sale ring to welcome out first lot in the ring, the son of Sea The Stars from Rathbarry Stud.
And we get off to a flyer... the colt, who is the second foal out of the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) fourth-placed mare Tango (No Nay Never), is bought by Yulong for 500,000gns. It is a fine pinhook result for Abbeylands, who paid 330,000gns, for him as a foal at Tattersalls December last year, the most expensive foal purchase offered today.
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Good morning
and welcome to the start of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.
Selling starts for today's first day of the Book 1 catalogue at 11am. Follow all the action here on sales day live.
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Tattersalls September Sale
Chairman's statement
At the conclusion of the 2024 Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented:
“This is the fifth edition of a sale that was introduced in 2020 as a response to the COVID-related delay to the Flat season and numerically the smallest, and whilst we may have been short of obvious stars, there has been solid trade throughout the day from both domestic buyers and those from further afield. International buyers always play a significant part at Tattersalls horses in training sales, particularly those from the Gulf, but there has also been a vibrant domestic market including plenty of interest from the National Hunt community.
“We now look forward to Books 1 to 4 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, whose graduates have enjoyed spectacular global success in recent months and we look forward to welcoming an international cast of buyers to Park Paddocks during the fortnight that begins with Europe’s Premier Yearling Sale.”
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September Sale statistics:
+/- compared to last year
Catalogued: 242 (354)
Offered: 165 (237)
Sold: 128 (189)
Median: 10,000gns (+25%)
Average: 14,824gns (-14%)
Aggregate (inc private sales): 1,887,200gns (-42%)
% Sold: 77% (80%)
Top lot: 80,000gns
Leading consignor (by agg): 1. Baroda Stud, 2. The Castlebridge Consignment, 3. Dullingham Park
Leading purchaser (by agg): 1. Clare Dolan, 2. Jamie Osborne, 3. Nayef Ibn Ghayam / Adam Burton Bloodstock
Leading sires (by agg): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Kodiac, 3. Sioux Nation
Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Sioux Nation, 2. Muhaarar, 3. Dubawi
Top five lots
Lot
134: Debora's Dream (IRE) 2021 Br.C. >> Baroda Stud, Ireland >> Clare Dolan >> 80,000gns
Lot
71: God of Fire (IRE) 2020 B.G. >> Baroda Stud, Ireland >> O'Neill Racing / Dixon Bloodstock >> 70,000gns
Lot
169: Tourist (GB) 2021 B.G. >> The Castlebridge Consignment Robert Cowell >> 60,000gns
Lot
172: Rocking Tree (IRE) 2021 B.G. >> The Castlebridge Consignment >> Peter Harper Agent Sheikh Abdullah Alsabah >> 60,000gns
Lot
139: Remoji (IRE) 2021 B.F. >> Baroda Stud, Ireland >> Nayef Ibn Ghayam / Adam Burton Bloodstock >> 52,000gns
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Lot 198:
the Dark Angel grey colt Brave Empire, offered by Dullingham Park, is bought for 45,000gns is also bought by Alan O'Keeffe for Clare Dolan, a fourth purchase for the owner at today's sale.
The colt is the winner of three races from eight starts, last time successful off a rating of 94 in February at Lingfield since running in competitive handicaps over 5f and 6f, including the Palace Of Holyrood House Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Dolan has also bought Alzahir (Lot
199), a two-time-winning chestnut gelding by Sea The Stars and a half-brother to the Grade 1 winner Suedois, the top lot Debora's Dream (Lot
134) and Lot
136, Nazron, who is also by Dark Angel.
The quartet will be trained by a mix of Ivan Furtado, Grant Tuer and Jennie Candlish.
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Lot 172:
Peter Harper buys Rocking Tree for Sheikh Abdullah Salman Alsabah and the horse will be going to Saudi Arabia.
"He is a very strong horse, ideal for Saudi, he vetted clean and well, and he fitted the bill for the order," said Harper after spending 60,000gns on the Kodiac three-year-old, a winner last time out over a mile at Kempton on August 21.
Consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment, the gelding is a three-time winner and rated 92. He has been owned by Teme Valley Racing and trained by George Boughey.
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Lot 169
"He is a very consistent horse, his trainer has done very well with him and he is verging on a Saturday horse," said trainer Robert Cowell after spending 60,000gns on Tourist.
"There is the option to drop him down in trip, he has a lot of speed and he has been bought for a friend in the yard. We will be put the horse away now and we will aim for some big races next year."
Tourist has run 14 times, won twice and finished second or third eight times, picking up over £33,800 in prize-money. He has been trained this spring and summer by Hilal Kobeissi for Nibras Racing and won last time on August 24, that victory coming over 6f at Windsor and off a BHA rating of 78.
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Lot 139:
Nayef Ibn Ghayam / Adam Burton Bloodstock spend 52,000gns on Remoji, a three-year-old filly by Belardo, sold by Baroda Stud for Roger Varian.
The filly has run four times and is a two-time winner over an extended 7f and a mile, both wins coming on good to firm ground, first at Beverley and then Haydock.
"She goes to Saudi Arabia, she obviously won on her last start, we think she will be an ideal type for the Middle East, she goes on any surface and I think she will really enjoy the racing in the Middle East," said Burton. "She is unexposed and the fillies' programme in the region will suit her. I think we were willing to pay a little more, and I think she was a snip at that price."
Many readers won't be familiar with the Burton's name and that is with good reason – although he has bought at Tattersalls before, Burton is only 20 years of age.
He explained his early start to his career as a bloodstock agent.
"It is a new venture for me, I have been based with a couple of good people and was with trainer Adrian Keatley for a while, he taught me a lot and has been a really good mentor for me. I now do a lot of form work for Roger Fell and I have a few clients out in the Middle East, just building the portfolio and trying to get into things at a young age."
He added: "I met some contacts here at this sale last year, a trainer based in Kuwait, and I met a lot of contacts, his friends and family, through him. At that point, I had bought some horses for Roger and then met them at the same time, so all has come together and, touch wood, long may it continue."
Burton has also done some yearling shopping for Fell this autumn and says that he is "happy to buy any horse that the client is wanting, and I am open for business!"
The young man is looking forward to buying horses at the Tattersalls October Horses In Training Sale and finishes off with his sales pitch.
"That is my Derby, and I am looking forward to it," he said, continuing: "It is a big sale – plenty of horses, plenty of quality, and I will be here to buy for different people."
Burton Bloodstock and Nayef Ibn Ghayam also bought Natchitoches (Lot
129), a colt by Sioux Nation and a winner of two races in France.
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Lot 134:
this summer's two-time winner Debora's Dream (Sioux Nation) is bought by Alan O'Keeffe, assistant to trainer Jennie Candlish.
O'Keeffe signed on behalf of Clare Dolan at 80,000gns, the three-year-old colt, BHA rated 88, consigned by Baroda Stud on behalf of trainer Roger Varian and Opulence Thoroughbreds.
"He looks like he will be a nice horse for next year, his profile looks progressive, he has been bought for an owner and we are hoping he will be lucky," said O'Keeffe. "He has won on the Turf and the All-Weather and we think he can go on. He has come from a good yard, Roger's horses tend to keep progressing.
"It was a tad more than we had thought we'd need to spend, but when they have this sort of rating you have to go somewhere in that region."
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Lot 122:
"Olly Murphy is not here and asked me to take a look over this horse," reported Darren O'Dwyer after bidding for Starshine Legend, a half-brother to Home Of The Brave, on Murphy's behalf, the pair outbidding Anthony Bromley at 45,000gns.
O'Dwyer added: "He has shown form on soft and looks a type to go jumping. All the right National Hunt buyers were on him, too."
By Sea The Stars, the three-year-old gelding is the winner of one and has been in training with James Ferguson.
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Lot 69:
the chestnut gelding Risen Again (No Nay Never) and out of the Listed winner Easter Lily (Galileo) is bought by Alice Haynes Racing for 22,000gns.
Rated 71, the three-year-old has yet to win but has been placed four times from six starts for owner breeder China Horse Club International Ltd.
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Lot 86:
Premium Pass (Raven's Pass), owned by bred by Overbury Stallions and a winner three days ago at Wolverhampton over 5f for trainer Archie Watson, is bought by Prime Equestrian France for 32,000gns. She is a half-sister to the 2024 Group 2 Meydan winner and dual US Grade 1-placed Naval Power.
The two-year-old filly is out of Emirates Rewards (Dubawi), a half-sister to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Outstrip, who was also third in the Dewhurst Stakes (G1). She has a yearling filly by Ardad and a filly foal by Frankel.
Second dam is Asi Siempre, winner of the Spinster Stakes (G1).
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Lot 71:
the 87-rated God Of Fire, who has won three times this summer for Kubler Racing over 1m2f and 1m3f, is bought by Chris Dixon on behalf of Jonjo O'Neill Racing, Dixon signing the docket as O'Neill Racing / Dixon Bloodstock.
"Jonjo rang and asked to to give him a shout when we were doing doing the catalogue if we saw anything that could do a job hurdling, so we put this horse forward," explained Dixon. "He has obviously progressed nicely since Dan and Clare have had him on the Flat, he has got a winning hurdler in his pedigree, the only one who has tried it.
"Muhaarar has had a few good jumpers over the last year or so and he might be one of those who make a bit of an impact as a jumps stallion with the right type of horse; I do think he is a good and underrated stallion."
Dixon added: "He looks like the type of horse, he is not old, who could do well in novice hurdles and then go handicapping. Jonjo also did say that they are keen to have an odd horse who could run back on the Flat and this horse has got a high-enough Flat rating to get in some nice races."
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Lot 48:
the two-time winner Liv My Life (Awtaad), a granddaughter of the three-time Group 1-placed Mona Lisa (Giant's Causeway-Colorsnap), who finished second in the Prix de l'Opera (G1) , is bought by Stuart Williams for 6,000gns.
Liv My Life is a half-sister to the Listed Chesham Stakes-placed Pentle Bay (New Bay), who was bought for £400,000 in June by Richard Ryan and C Maneer Bloodstock, and to the three-time winner Sweet Betsy (Lawman).
Dam My Wish (Galileo) has a yearling by Supremacy, who is catalogued in October Book 1, and a colt foal by Naval Crown.
The three-year-old filly's last success came at Goodwood last September when successful in a 6f nursery off a mark of 74, her previous highest-winning rating being 76.
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Lot 41:
the four-year-old filly Evening Story (New Bay) is bought by Muhammad M Owaimar for 21,000gns.
She has won since the catalogue was published – successful at Newcastle on September 3 over 1m2f and off a BHA mark of 74 for trainer Grant Tuer. It is her highest winning mark for the four-time winner.
She is out of the Danehill Dancer mare Penny Rose and is a half-sister to the Hoppings Stakes (G3) fourth-placed Sweet Promise and a grand-daughter of the Group 3 winner Love Everlasting.
It is the further family of two-time Derby winner Shirley Heights and the two-time European champion filly Divine Proportions.
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Lot 8:
named since the catalogue was published, and raced when second on debut in a two-year-old maiden at Brighton on September 2 for trainer Dominic Ffrench-Davies, Martin The Saxon is bought by Valfredo Valiani for 32,000gns from Edwards Pre-Training.
The Saxon Warrior colt, who is out of the three-year-old winner Black Martini (Street Sense), a daughter of the US Listed-placed Christina D'Oro, was bought as a yearling by Edwards Pre Training for €6,000 last autumn.
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Today's withdrawals:
1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 20, 22, 23, 35, 38, 40, 47, 50, 51, 53, 54, 60, 63, 72, 75, 78, 81, 84, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 112, 119, 121, 124, 126, 127, 128, 137, 147, 153, 154, 155, 158, 162, 164, 171, 173, 174, 178, 183, 185, 187, 188, 190, 195, 196, 200, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 215, 220, 222, 224, 225, 232, 234
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Good morning and
welcome to the September Sale. Selling starts at 10am.
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