A 41,000 guineas Royal Applause (GB) colt topped day one of Tattersalls’
December Foal Sale in Newmarket Wednesday when sold by James Read’s Selwood
Bloodstock to pinhooker Ciaran Flash Conroy’ of Co. Tipperary-based Glenvale
Stud. Lot No. 494 is out of the unraced Three Gifts (Cadeaux Genereux).
“He was a great mover, a nice individual and will come back here for October
book 2,” said Conroy after outbidding Gay O’Callaghan of Yeomanstown Stud. “The
stallion gets plenty of winners and has been lucky for me. I was happy overall
with how we got on at the yearling sales this year and the market held up very
well considering the world economy.”
The 26-year-old Read led up his homebred colt, who was consigned through Paul
and Sara Thorman’s Trickledown Stud, for whom he has worked since July and
finished Wednesday.
“I’m in shock,” Read said. “I bought his dam Three Gifts for 10,000 guineas
at the 2006 December Sale. I only have one other mare, who I bought for 800
guineas in July, but will be looking for another next week.”
While a lot of Wednesday’s foals were bought for resale, one that is unlikely
to be reoffered as a yearling was a 40,000 guineas Singspiel (Ire) colt (Lot
474) out of Ribbons and Bows (Dr Devious [Ire]). The brown colt was sold by
Voute Sales to Jose Hormaeche, manager of Felipe Hinojosa’s 800-acre Yeguada de
Milagro in Spain, a stud farm set up four years ago.
“I like his sire, he was a very classy individual and moved very well,”
Hormaeche said. “It’s most likely that he’ll be kept to race in Spain. Racing
has been through a tough time with us, but prize money is steadily increasing
and the government is still behind us.”
The sale continues Thursday.