MORE GUINEAS FOR DANSILIS
Dansili’s burgeoning stud career was given a
diamond-studded advance by Rail Link’s Gr.1 Prix de
l’Arc de Triomphe victory, a success that was fortuitously timed in
relation to the sales season.
Those who want a foal by the Juddmonte stallion will have to pay
£30,000 to send a mare to him next year – up from £12,500 in
2005/06 – or they can buy at auction, a route attempted by several
key players yesterday when a bay colt by the sire was consigned by
Jamie Railton.
Produced by the Sadler’s Wells mare Reflections, a sibling to a
clutch of black-type earners, the foal was the subject of interest
from Croom House Stud’s Paul McCartan and underbidder Angus Gold of
Shadwell, but the winning 240,000gns offer came from Blandford
Bloodstock’s Richard Brown. He said later: “He was a quality horse
with a quality page, and his sire’s gone from strength to strength.
I’ve
bought him for a new client who wanted a colt foal to race.”
Brown was in the right place at the right time to pick up a member
of Trickledown Stud’s large draft later in the day. This was a colt
by Oasis Dream (Lot 922) and a first foal of the sharp two-year-old
Wunders Dream, who did so much to elevate Averti’s place on the
stallion ladder before his untimely death. Her first foal is likely
to be quick, a point not lost on Anthony Stroud and Peter Askew,
but Brown’s bid of
115,000gns closed out his rivals.
TATTERSALLS DECEMBER FOAL SALE – DAY THREE TOP LOTS
915 f OASIS DREAM – Miss Anabaa Trickledown Stud Shadwell Estate Co
260,000
755 c DANSILI – Reflections Jamie Railton, agt Blandford B/S
240,000
748 c HIGH CHAPARRAL – Sitara Stringston Farm Margaret O’Toole
165,000
859 c INVINCIBLE SPIRIT – Web of Intrigue Meadowlands Stud Rathmore
Stud 140,000
920 c CADEAUX GENEREUX – Gorgeous Dancer Trickledown Stud New Cross
B/S 125,000
948 c SELKIRK – Bird Key The Castlebridge Consignment Shadwell
Estate Co 125,000
922 c OASIS DREAM – Wunders Dream Trickledown Stud Blandford B/S
115,000
803 f NAYEF – Success Story Shoreham Stud Shadwell Estate Co
100,000
930 f MEDICEAN – Bright Future Silfield Bloodstock Osberstown Stud
100,000
Date:
24 November 2006