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Aggregate and average rise 15 per cent at Tattersalls as four-day sale draws to a close
A record-breaking Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale concluded at Park Paddocks on Thursday. During the four-day sale 1006 lots sold for 36,164,500gns, up 15 per cent from a year ago when 1095 lots sold for 31,471,300gns. The average finished at 35,949gns, up 14.6 per cent from last year's figure of 31,377gns and median remained at 16,000gns.
Three lots sold for over 500,000gns. The Castlebridge Consignment was the leading vendor having sold 106 lots for 4,733,500gns at an average of 44,656gns. Wathnan Racing was the leading buyer having spent 1,750,000gns on nine lots. Najd Stud meanwhile spent 1,460,000gns on seven lots.
"It has been another extraordinary Tattersalls sale in a month which has seen the record books completely rewritten time after time. The unprecedented demand at all four books of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale has been followed by unrelenting demand from start to finish at this week's Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale," said Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony.
"Turnover has surpassed last year's record level by a considerable margin, the average has reached an unprecedented height, the median has equalled last year's record and the clearance rate has again been in excess of 90%, all of which points to a sale of genuine strength and depth at all levels of the market.
"The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale is a truly remarkable sale, unmatched anywhere else in the world and the sheer number and diversity of buyers here at Park Paddocks this week is a tribute not only to the quality of the stock on offer, but also to the high esteem in which British and Irish racing is held throughout the world.
|Swathes of overseas buyers from more than 30 different countries have as ever made a massive contribution and the domestic buyers, both Flat and National Hunt, have also been out in force. Particular mention must go to the huge contingent of buyers from throughout the Gulf region, spurred on by their burgeoning racing carnivals which have become such an important feature of the international racing calendar in recent years.
"Their contribution has been immense, and they have met determined competition, especially at the top of the market, from strong teams of buyers most notably from Australia and the USA."
