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WORLD RECORD PRICE AS THREE TOP MILLION AT TATTERSALLS OCTOBER 1
The world record price for a yearling filly was shattered at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when the SADLER’S WELLS filly out of the IRISH RIVER mare BRIGID sold for 2,500,000 guineas on a day when three yearlings sold for 1,000,000 guineas or more. A total of 121 yearlings sold for 18,837,000 guineas, at an average of 155,678 guineas and a median of 90,000 guineas. This took the four day sale turnover to 64,922,000 guineas for the 510 lots sold, a rise of 18% on the 2006 figure. The average for the four days was 127,298 guineas and the median 80,000 guineas.
The world record price for a yearling filly was shattered at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale when the SADLER’S WELLS filly out of the IRISH RIVER mare BRIGID sold for 2,500,000 guineas (£2,625,000 or $5,330,000). The previous record for a yearling filly was the $4,400,000 paid for the STORM CAT filly out of EAST OF THE MOON in Kentucky in 2000. The own sister to recent Group 1 Meon Valley Stud Fillies' Mile winner LISTEN was knocked down to London based bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon-Watson who was acting on behalf of Cheshire based owner Craig Bennett, after outlasting agent Simon Christian, who was seated alongside owner Patrick Fahey. Bennett, the former Finance Director of mobile phone business ‘Phones4u’, indicated that the world record breaking filly would join Newmarket trainer Luca Cumani who also trains Bennett’s current Melbourne Cup favourite PURPLE MOON. The filly was sold on behalf of Brittas House Stud from former Cheltenham Gold Cup winning jockey Mark Dwyer’s Oaks Farm Stables and as well as being a new world record price for a yearling filly, the daughter of SADLER’S WELLS is also the highest priced yearling to be sold in the world in 2007.