Tattersalls December Foal Sale – 2024 sale topper

A Frankel filly foal, a full sister to Chaldean who received the Dewhurst Stakes and the 2000 Guineas, has offered for two.5m guineas (£2.625m) on the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, equalling the European file within the course of.

The filly, who’s out of Suelita, was launched into the gross sales ring as “the queen of the present” by Tattersalls auctioneer Alastair Pim, and the opening bid was 1m guineas. It was Amo Racing’s Kia Joorabchian who made the ultimate bid after a quick telephone name. It’s the highest ever worth achieved by a filly foal in Europe – the earlier file holder was when My Hurricane went down for 1.8m guineas at this sale in 2002.

“What’s there to say? We have now spent 2.5m on an own-sister to a Traditional winner; I feel we now have made a very good transfer, and it’s a courageous assertion of intent by Kia,” mentioned bloodstock agent Alex Elliott. “I used to be prepared Kia to make that final bid, he needed to make a telephone name – he mentioned that he needed to telephone a pal; I mentioned don’t ask the viewers! I’m over the moon – such horses are so very onerous to purchase. The mare is unbelievable, the farm is unbelievable, the sire is unbelievable and she or he is a beautiful filly.”

The filly was bred and consigned by Whitsbury Manor Stud; Chris Harper, who took over the operating of the stud within the Nineteen Seventies and whose son Ed Harper now runs it, mentioned: “I’m very emotional. Suelita was the final mare I purchased, she was simply my type – very fairly, not very massive, a pleasant massive physique with brief legs. Did I feel she might change into what she has? By no means! What a fortunate chap I’m? It’s fairly extraordinary, I by no means thought this might occur to somebody like me!”

Ed Harper added: “It’s superb! It’s humorous, when we now have a extremely good one like this I’ve little or no to do together with her actually – the staff [at home] simply go into overdrive. She didn’t want any promoting, the mating deliberate itself. It has all been all the way down to the staff.”

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