Two bring £120,000 at Doncaster opener

Two bring

£120,000 at Doncaster opener

Doncaster's Premier Yearling Sale got off to a solid start Tuesday, with the

figures defying recent trends by holding steady. At the close of play, the

median of £21,000 was up by 5 percent on 12

months ago, while the average of £27,457

represented a mere 2 percent drop on its 2009 equivalent and the clearance rate

stood at 82 percent for the first half of the flagship auction of the Doncaster

Bloodstock Sales Company.

After the impressive performance of the highly regarded Wootton Bassett

(Iffraaj) in Thursday's DBS Premier Yearling S., his half-sister by this sale's

former graduate Kyllachy was always going to prove popular. In the end, it was

Dwayne Woods who held sway on behalf of owner Andrew Tinkler with a bid of

£120,000. Consigned by Furnace Mill Stud as

Hip No. 182, she was offered on behalf of Laundry Cottage Farm Stud. She will go

into training with Bryan Smart.

That price was later matched by Sir Robert Ogden's Racing Manager Barry

Simpson for Rathbarry Stud's Hip 205, a son of the deceased Le Vie dei Colori

whose dam is an unraced half to multiple Group 3 winner Eastern Purple

(Petorius). He cost Brian Grassick Bloodstock only

€38,000 at the Goffs November Foal Sale, and is set to join Wootton

Bassett's trainer Richard Fahey as Ogden's yearling spending spree continues

apace.

"He's a very racy individual," Simpson told Racing Post. "He's

good-bodied with a good attitude. He's a strong colt who looks a two-year-old."

A pair of yearlings by two of the world's leading sires were next in line

when selling for £105,000 apiece. The first

of those was Hip 75, a blue-blooded Elusive Quality colt from the draft of

Brendan Holland's Grove Stud. The Canadian-bred bay is a half-brother to the

impressive 2009 Alabama S. (G1) heroine Careless Jewel (Tapit) from the

immediate family of Subordination (Mt. Livermore), and he returned a profit on

the $85,000 paid for him at Keeneland November. Hugo Merry Bloodstock was the

name on the docket for the March-foaled youngster.

David Redvers later paid the same for Hip 213, Highclere Stud's daughter of

Oasis Dream (GB) whose granddam, Caramba (GB) (Belmez), captured the Falmouth S.

(Eng-G2) and Nassau S. (Eng-G2).

"We have been delighted with the first day's trade, which has seen

competitive bidding for the overwhelming majority of the lots," DBS Managing

Director Henry Beeby said. "Our vendors have worked with us to produce a catalog

of consistently good-looking individuals, and the racetrack performances of

previous year's graduates have ensured that buyers have been bidding with

confidence. In the current climate, how could we not be pleased? We look forward

to more the same (Wednesday)."

Full catalog and updates are available at dbsauctions.com.