Doncaster October ends on positive note

Doncaster Bloodstock Sales' October Yearling Sale ended Friday with a 20

percent

increase in average and 25 percent rise in the median.

"The improved figures are

backed up by

a clearance rate of 78 percent, which does not just reverse earlier trends, but

is in total

contrast to them," commented DBS Managing Director Henry Beeby. "Our pleasure at

the

statistics is further enhanced by the positive response from so many vendors,

who were so

pleased with their results in the sales ring.

"But the real feature of the DBS

October Yearling

Sales has been the really excellent atmosphere from start to finish, which

emanated from a

large crowd of buyers who came to Doncaster safe in the knowledge that this

sale -- whilst it

may not be the most fashionable place to buy -- is a consistent source of winner

after winner."

Topping day two was a daughter of Kyllachy consigned as Hip No. 892 by Doncaster regulars

Catridge Farm Stud. Out of the listed placegetter Elsie Plunkett (Mind Games), she is

eligible for the £300,000 St Leger Yearling S. and was snapped up by David Brown for owner Ron

Hull for

60,000 guineas.

Full results can be viewed at www.dbsauctions.com.