Day 1 session statistics: final

Lots catalogued: 290

Lots offered: 194

Lots sold: 186

Aggregate: 4,172,000gns

Median: 13,250gns

Average: 22,430gns

% clearance: 96%

Joint top lots:

Lot 232, Kalagia from Highclere Stud to Tim Lane, 130,000gns

Lot 251 New Jazz, Godolphin, Blue Diamond Stud Farm UK, 130,000gns

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Godolphin, 2. Cheveley Park Stud, 3. Shadwell Stud

Leading consignors (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Highclere Stud, 2. Glebe House Stables, 3. Cheveley Park Stud

Leading purchasers (by agg): 1. BBA Ireland, 2. Federico Barberini, 3. Tally-Ho Stud

Leading sires (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Shamardal, 2. Lope De Vega, 3. Dubawi (18:51)

Lot 393: trainer Roger Varian steps in for a friend and buys Gentlewoman – taking instructions off the phone he goes to 125,000gns for the daughter of Shamardal, signing as Ebonos. Underbidder was Kevin Buckley.

"She is for someone who could not travel due to the current restrictions, and I have just helped out," said Varian. "It is likely she will be going abroad. She is from a good family."

Sold by Godolphin, she is a half-sister to black-type performers and is out of Satin Kiss, an own-sister to Godolphin's Middle Park (G1) winner Lujain (Seeking The Gold).

Her last service this spring was to Harry Angel on May 15. (17:09)

Lot 388: Zarnitsa is another purchase today by TonyO'Callaghan for Tally-Ho Stud, this time the Irishman going to 90,000gns to buy this daughter of Dubawi.

"We are trying slowly to improve the quality of the broodmare band," said O'Callaghan. "Dubawi is a great sire and she is a good type. She'd be for Kodiac next year."

Zarnitsa is a half-sister to six winners, including the Listed-winning and Group 3-placed Zorion. Dam Zofzig is out of Zoftig, winner of the Grade 1 Selene Stakes. (16:52)

Lot 383: Camposanto, a Pivotal mare from Cheveley Park Stud, is bought by James Kelly of Linacre Stud.

"She is for a partnership between Linacre and Haras du Mont-dit-Mon. She is from a family I have been trying to get into for 20 years," smiled Kelly. "We sell as foals so that will be the plan - we will put a good cover on her and have some fun with her hopefully."

The unraced mare did not have a foal this year and is due to Dutch Art, covered by the Cheveley Park stallion on February 29. (16:36)

Lot 367: Maximum Effect (Iffraaj) was bred by Fiona Denniff and sold by the breeder as a yearling for 120,000gns. Trained by John Gosden she went on to win one race, achieve a rating high of 80, and only finished out of the first three places once in eight starts.

Offered today as a filly out of training, Denniff bought the filly back for 70,000gns.

Maximum Effect is from Denniff's very special family being a half-sister to the breeder's late star Group 3 winner and Group 1 performer Kachy.

"I am a pauper now!" laughed Denniff, who was assisted by Mark McStay of Avenue Bloodstock. "If I had not had Mark with me I wouldn't have carried on so far. Look we were keen to get her, we came down in the lorry this morning."

McStay added: "I was only bidding because Fiona's hand was shaking so much!The family has been so lucky for Fiona she could not leave without her."

Dubai Bounty, dam of Maximum Effect, Kachy and the Listed-placed Gifted Ruler, a 2017 colt by Muhaarar, has a Harry Angel foal at foot.

"He is gorgeous," smiled Denniff. "She has a yearling colt by Showcasing, we are to retain him, and trainer Tom Dascombe thinks a lot of Gifted Ruler, too." (15:58)

Lot 326: Mohassan (Sea The Stars) is bought by Richard Fitzimons of BBA Ireland for 62,000gns from the Shadwell draft.

"She is for a very good established client,"said Fitzimons. "We bought the Invincible Spirit half-sister Western Safari for a lot less and sold her Acclamation foal last autumn for 90,000gns."

The pair are out of the Group 3 winner Shamwari Lodge (Hawk Wing) and are half-sisters to the Listed winner and Group placed Oh This Is Life (Acclamation). (14:44)

Lot 251: New Jazz, the first in the ring today from the Godolphin draft, makes 130,000gns bought by Tony Nerses on behalf of Imad Al Sagar and Blue Diamond Stud.

"We always wanted a Scat Daddy!" smiled Nerses. "She is a lovely individual, we saw her as a yearling but she was beyond our pocket then. Glad to get her back now. She is a winner and has a decent page, very happy!

"We hope to cover with our own stallion [Decorated Knight ], she should suit him."

New Jazz was sold in-foal to Harry Angel on a February cover, her first pregnancy. She is out of an English Channel half-sister to Traffic Guard, runner-up in the Irish Champion Stakes (G1). (12:40)

Lot 232: Kalagia becomes the first lot at the July Sale 2020 to fetch a six-figure sum when selling for 130,000gns.

The daughter of Kodiac, a half-sister to first-season sire Prince Of Lir, was sold by Highclere Stud and bought by Tim Lane.

"I was rung up by a top-class British breeder and asked to bid on his behalf," reported Lane. "I am not sure of plans, but she has an exciting pedigree and obviously Prince Of Lir is flying."

Kalagia is also a half-sister to the Listed winner Nitro Boost, and from the family of the Group 3 Sprint Stakes winner Resplendent Glory. (11:53)

Sale statistics: +/- compared to 2019

Lots catalogued: 157 (175)

Lots offered: 116 (144)

Lots sold: 94 (121)

Aggregate: 2,680,500gns (-23%)

Median: 17,250gns (-28%)

Average: 28,511gns (-1%)

% clearance: 81% (84%)

Top lot: Lot 108 - Excelebration ex Open Book from Meadowview Stables to Highflyer Bloodstock/A. King, 140,000gns

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Hyde Park Stud, 2. Tally-Ho Stud, 3. Knockanglass Stables

Leading consignors (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Tally-Ho Stud, 2. Dolmen Bloodstock, 3. Meadowview Stables

Leading purchasers (by agg): 1. Highflyer Bloodstock, 2. Rabbah Bloodstock, 3. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Malek Al-Sabah

Leading sires (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Excelebration, 2. Kodiac, 3. Make Believe

Lots sold to the internet: 8

Other lots underbid by internet bidders: 5

57 internet bids accepted on 23 lots from 17 different bidders.

Lot 58 was purchased by a person bidding online in Hong Kong.

There were also a reasonable number of additional bids made which were not accepted ie. bid was taken in the ring rather than online.

Internet Sales = 177,500gns (17:27)

At the conclusion of the 2020 Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented:

“In the current climate we are all looking to accentuate the positives and I think we can reflect on solid if unspectacular trade at this year’s renewal of the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up.

"This is, however, a year where ’solid if unspectacular’ is a positive outcome and we would like to thank all those who have participated at today’s sale for their contribution.

"The buyers have worked incredibly hard and the breeze up consignors have had to endure uniquely difficult conditions in the run up to the 2020 breeze up sales season, but ultimately everyone can look back on sales which have largely exceeded expectations.

“It has been challenging staging events of this nature with the prevailing COVID-related regulations still in place but, despite continued travel restrictions, today’s Guineas Breeze Up has seen demand from throughout the world, including Australia, Bahrain, Dubai, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Kuwait, Qatar and Spain.

"The international demand has been accompanied by spirited bidding from the domestic British and Irish buyers and has resulted in some notable pin-hooking successes, while the overseas' buyers have made use of every possible means at their disposal to participate in the sale, including extensive use of our new live internet bidding platform as well as telephone bidding.

"It is a tribute to the resilience of the global bloodstock market that we continue to experience this level of international demand and we expect to see further widespread use of the live internet bidding platform at our two-day July Sale which commences tomorrow morning at 10.00am." (17:18)

Lot 148: Yvonne and Ger Kennedy of Sherbourne Lodge have enjoyed watching the racing in France this spring, in particular first-season Goken's continued success.... they had bought a colt by the sire last autumn, this spring's only catalogued breeze up offering by Goken.

Their colt, whom they purchased for just €9,500, did not let them down either and he was purchased today by trainer Willie Muir for 60,000gns, a fine return on the couple's pin-hook outlay.

"We loved this horse even before Goken's spring success, he is gorgeous horse," they smiled. "It has been great watching Goken go forward – he is fast sire and has thrived."

The Haras de Colleville-based stallion, a dual Group 3 winner and placed third in the King's Stand Stakes (G1), has made a fantastic start at stud. Despite the delayed start to the season, the son of Kendargent is now the sire of eight winners, including the unbeaten Group 3 Prix du Bois winner Livachope, (17:05)

Lot 108: immediately following the sale of the Make Believe, David Redvers had to settle as one of the underbidders again when out-pointed by Alan King, sat with Anthony Bromley of Highflyer Bloodstock, at 140,000gns for this colt by Excelebration.

"We don't go on times, but unfortunately he did a good time which increased interest in him, and pushed his price," said Bromley. "We just like to look at them as individuals, their strides and general way of going."

"This is the horse we really wanted and we had to really push the boat out to get him," added the agent.

King, fresh from his three-timer at Royal Ascot, added: "Delighted and he is for two long-standing supporters of the yard in Max McNeill and Niall Farrell."

The colt was a Meadowview Stables pin-hook, purchased at Tattersalls September Yearling Sale for €18,000.

He is a half-brother to four winners, and out of a Mark Of Esteem daughter of Sweetness Herself, a Listed winner and Group 3 placed. (16:13)

Lot 107: "It was massive!" smiled Dolmen Bloodstock when asked what impact Mishriff's Prix du Jockey-Club win at the weekend had on the sale of their own filly by the same young sire, Make Believe.

The partnership of Justin Timmons and Danny O'Donovan of Dolmen Bloodstock, paid just €10,000 for the filly at the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale last year. They were hugely rewarded for their foresight today when Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock paid 105,000gns for the filly.

"She has an engine, we were very happy withe breeze. She has been very busy, but it is always hard to gauge," said Timmons. "We had the right people on her."

Bidding against Brown was David Redvers.

Dolmen Bloodstock is based in Kildare and the lads are "work riders. mucker outers and do everything".

Dolmen Bloodstock is named after a landmark close to Carlow.

According to Wkipedia it is a dolmen "a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more vertical megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the early Neolithic (4000–3000 BC) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus.

"The largest dolmen in Europe is the Brownshill Dolmen in County Carlow, Ireland. Its capstone weighs about 150 tonnes." (16:01)

Lot 87: the first horse to sell at Tattersalls by the German-based Gestut Graditz sire Lucky Lion fetches 95,000gns to a winning bid from Jake Warren. Underbidder was Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock with Mags O'Toole also involved through for a long way into the bidding process.

"It is unique for a horse like this to be at a breeze up sale. He has size and scope to have breezed as well as he did has to be very positive – he has the credentials to become a Derby prospect

"He should make up into a lovely horse, middle-distance type, and the bulk of his career will come next year.

"We have not decided on a trainer yet, but he will stay in the UK. " of this year's trade, Warren said: "It has been a up and down, but has presented opportunities for us. We bought three horses at the Craven Sale and now five in total.

"We have been over-subscribed for a syndicate and with racing getting going there has bene a lot of excitement in the air."

Lucky Lion was a Group 1 winner in Germany over 1m2f (beating Noble Mission by half a length) and winner of the Group 2 Mehl Mulhens-Rennen (German 2000 Guineas).

He is a son of High Chaparral, and was bought by Stroud Coleman for €21,000 as a yearling. He was offered today by Tally-Ho Stud.

This is the sire's first crop of two-year-olds. (15:23)

Lot 61: Oliver St Lawrence goes to 72,000gns for this colt by New Approach out of Gacequita, sold by Egmont Stud.

"I thought he was a nice solid horse, he did a very good time. He was been bought for Fazwi Nass with Dubai in mind. He will probably be sent to a trainer over here to start with, but he should be a progressive type.

"On my times did the tenth fastest breeze and he is a nice individual."

Of this spring's breeze up trade, St Lawrence said: "It has been very solid, fair better than hoped and at all levels."

Egmont quickly followed up with another good sale selling Lot 67, a bay colt by first-season sire Pearl Secret, for 35,000gns.

Egmont's Mark Flannery bought the colt as a yearling for just £14,000. (14:23)

Lot 47: the Kodiac filly from Katie Mcgivern's Derryconnor Stud from County Wexford makes 90,000gns.

She was a vendor buy-back as a yearling and sold today for a partnership between breeder Naffety Stud and Mcgivern.

"She did the fastest in the breeze, she clocked a fast time," reported Mcgivern. "She is lovely, very straightforward filly – I hope she is a stakes filly for the new owner.

"She has loads of ability, and is very easy – the good ones are generally easy in my barn, maybe not in everybody else's barn, but in my barn they are!

"She was always a powerful filly and looked like a colt, and still does."

According to Mcgivern she will certainly live up to the title "ready to run".

"She will be ready in two weeks, is ready to crack on with.

"The coronovirus didn't stop her as she is actually a middle of the summer of the filly, a 6f or7f filly, she has not missed the boat."

Of this year's breeze up season, Mcgivern was very positive.

"It has been consistent for me, I have sold everything I have offered so far. There has been a great sale at every sale I have been at, no different from any other year apart from the precautions we have had to take, "she said, adding: "For me there is a good solid market at every level."

Of future plans for the filly, trainer James Tate said: "Run as soon as possible! She did a very fast time, I thought she was a stand-out filly in the catalogue. She will be the most expensive, but I thought she was decent value at that.

"I hope she will be running in July, she looks fit and well, hoping if she stays that well she can run soon."

Rabbah Bloodstock signed the docket for new owner Sheikh Juma Dalmook Al Maktoum. (14:04)

Lot 21: agent Richard Knight with purchaser Sheikh Abdullah Al-Malek Al-Sabah go to 57,000gns to buy the Hardwood Stud-consigned son of Acclamation.

"He will go to Richard Fahey, he is a horse that Sheikh Abdullah liked, and we hope he will be very lucky," said Knight. "I am sure he will make a two-year-old."

The colt, a three-quarters brother to Group 3 winner Hitchens, was bought as a yearling by Hardwood Stud for €16,000. He was bred by Norelands Bloodstock & D. E. H. Turner. (12:57)

Lot 6: bought for 16,000gns at last year's October Book 3 Yearling Sale, this colt by Starspangledbanner gives Knockanglass Stables a fine return today when selling for 77,000gns.

He was purchased by Sean Quinn, who has had some luck before with breeze up purchases by the sire – he bought subsequent Group 1 winner The Wow Signal from the Ascot Breeze Up Sale in 2014.

"This horse did a very pleasing breeze and what I liked is he got stronger as the breeze went on," said Quinn. "I didn't have any intention of buying a breeze up horse, but when I saw him he caught my eye and I discussed it with Dad [John] and said he might be a good addition to the team.

"I watched the breeze at home just because it is a long week if you are down here all the time and we are quite busy at home, but John [Kilbride] was here and he watched it live and gave me a bit of help.

"He is for an existing man in the yard so he is happy!", said Quinn, adding: "Starspangledbanner is a vey good stallion and this is a nice horse. This is a very late April foal so we will get him home, but there is no rush with the horse, we will let him tell us." (12:33)

Chairman's Statement At the conclusion of the 2020 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented:

“First and foremost we would like to pay tribute to each and every individual who has worked so hard to make sure that the 2020 Craven Breeze Up Sale took place under almost normal conditions, albeit more than two months later than intended.

"In particular we should recognise the patience and commitment of the breeze up consignors who have worked with us every step of the way and have adapted to the challenges that the global pandemic has thrown at people in every walk of life.

"None of us can pretend that the past few months have been easy, but in these times of adversity it has been even more pleasing than usual to see so many of the consignors well rewarded.

"A clearance rate of 83 per cent, an average price nudging 100,000 guineas and a top-priced colt matching last year’s highest-priced colt, are very respectable statistics and reflect the outstanding professionalism of the breeze up consignors who, as ever, brought a fine collection of two-year-olds to the Craven Breeze Up Sale.

"We should equally recognise the huge contribution made by today’s purchasers. They have yet again demonstrated the enduring appetite for quality European thoroughbreds and the esteem in which the Craven Breeze Up is held.

"Even in these extraordinary times we have had buyers active from all corners of the world including Australia, Bahrain, Dubai, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Qatar and Spain and the domestic demand has also exceeded expectations.

"Obviously the highlight was Johnny Collins’ spectacular pinhooking triumph with his outstanding 575,000 guineas sale-topping Night of Thunder colt, but there were numerous other success stories and we can be confident that there will be plenty of 2020 Craven Breeze Up graduates performing at the highest level.

“We are expecting international travel restrictions to be eased in the near future, which will be a great relief, and as we look forward to the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up and July Sale it has also been encouraging to see the new internet bidding facility being widely used by buyers at all levels of the market.

"We have done our best to explore every possible way for buyers to participate at our sales in these unusual times and it has clearly been well received." (18:40)

Sale statistics: +/- compared to 2019

Lots catalogued: 154 (147)

Lots offered: 84 (109)

Lots sold: 70 (85)

Aggregate: 6,649,500gns (-36%)

Median: 61,000gns (-28%)

Average: 94,993gns (-22%)

% clearance: 83% (78%)

Top lot: Lot 134 - Night Of Thunder ex Thurayaat from Brown Island Stables to Blandford Bloodstock, 575,000gns

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Tally-Ho Stud, 2. Mocklershill, 3. Brown Island Stables

Leading consignors (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Brown Island Stables, 2. Star Bloodstock, 3. Mocklershill

Leading purchasers (by agg): 1. Blandford Bloodstock, 2. John & Jake Warren, 3. Simon Chappell

Leading sires (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Night Of Thunder, 2. Kodiac, 3. Siyouni (18:24)

Lot 152: The Cool Silk Partnership / Stroud Coleman rounds off the Craven Sale with a bang going to 375,000gns for this filly by Hard Spun, sold by Mocklershill.

Buyer Peter Swann was with agent Matt Coleman and said: "We really liked this filly and waited for her. She is a lovely horse and travelled over well. She has only done her prep since March and has handled it well.

"She might end up going abroad, we have just sent Midnight Sands to Brendan Walsh in the US.

"This filly will have some resale value, too"

Of the breeze-up sales, Swann added: "We like to buy at the breeze up sales as you get to see how the horse is mentally dealing with training.

"At the sale we look at times and strides and everything really, we have Matt with us and James [Given] to vet, but we also like to see the horses in the yard and see their characters.

"I think the market has been quite strong, we were underbidder on the Twilight Son filly. As the breeze ups have been so late this year we have had to be patient, but we hope we have bought a classier type."

Consignor Willie Brown of Mocklershill said: "I am flabbergasted! She is a lovely filly, a seriously good filly, and has been very busy since we got here.

"She has been training well and only arrived with us on March 2. Then the only sale open was Goresbridge, but with the delays, and as she was working so well, we entered her here on a wild card."

The filly, who is out of the Grade 3-placed Lemonette (Lemon Drop Kid), was not sold in the US as a yearling when consigned by Normandy Farm LLC. (15:37)

Lot 134: Tom Biggs of Blandford Bloodstock sees off Mark McStay and David Redvers to buy the Night Of Thunder colt from Brown Island Stables. Biggs was forced to go to 575,000gns, the sale's top price, in order to achieve a successful purchase.

"He will stay in Newmarket," said Biggs. "It was a little more than we had wanted to spend, but you have to pay for this sort of horse. He is a lovely horse, he did a very nice breeze and is sire is doing so well."

Johnny Collins of Brown Island paid just £72,000 to buy the colt as a yearling, purchasing from breeder Selwood Bloodstock.

"I had one by Night Of Thunder last year and really wanted to get another to join the team. He went through very early, looked like an April 28 foal. and was only 15hh high – he is 16hh horse now!

"The time delay this spring has probably helped him, but he has always been a powerful galloper."

Of his sire,Collins added: "Who could have foreseen what he would achieve? He has got better books coming forward and he really is taking himself up into the higher brackets." (14:47)

Lot 96: agent Alex Elliott is the successful purchaser of this Kodiac colt from Tally-Ho Stud, the agent going to 220,000gns.

"He is for a partnership and goes into training with Archie Watson, he did a very good breeze. He came highly recommended, Roger [O'Callaghan] told me of two horses in the early spring and this was one of them.

"I bought Setarhe from Tally-Ho last year and she finished second in last week's Albany Stakes

"Kodiac had a great Royal Ascot and is the sire on everyone's lips." (13:47)

Lot 83: David Redvers went to 200,000gns for the Dubawi filly out of the Group 2 Park Hill Stakes winner Mezznah (Dynaformer). She was sold by Egmont Stud.

"She has been bought on behalf of Sheikh Fahad as a long-term prospect to add to the broodmare band.

"She is out of a good mare and by a top class stallion. She goes to John Gosden and will need a bit of time – she looks more of a three-year-old type.

"But we know she can gallop, we know she is sound so we are delighted."

Redvers's thoughts were not far away from a certain horse in training at Kingsclere.

"Kameko is very well, he did a sensational piece of work yesterday," smiled Redvers. "He is very well, he is a class horse, and everyone, including all at Kingsclere, have got the butterflies churning looking ahead to Epsom." (13:40)

Lot 80: "He has been bought for Isa Salman Al Khalifa and goes to Richard Hannon," said Jake Warren after going to 250,000gns for the Siyouni colt from Longways Stables and Star Bloodstock.

"He is by a top sire and out of a brilliant racemare, he is a very exciting prospect," added Warren.

It was a third purchase by Warren today – on behalf of Bermuda Racing he earlier went to 210,000gns for the Twilight Son filly out of Laqataat from Tally-Ho Stud Lot 67).

For Highclere, Warren spent 90,000gns on a Vadamos colt, also sold by Tally-Ho (Lot 33). (13:28)

Lot 68: "This horse did an exceptional breeze, in every way - visually, on time and stride, it really ticked all the boxes," said Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock after spending 250,000gns on the son of Shalaa offered by Malcolm Bastard.

"Shalaa has made a good start, we like the stallion. His runners so far look as though they are going to 7f / miling types. This mare has done it already.

"We are delighted to have bought this horse, he was the one we highlighted early. He goes to Simon Crisford.

Bastard said: "A fantastic sale, we are delighted, especially as we were not sure coming into today. he came to me in January and has always worked well. He is going to a good trainer."

Bastard was with breeder Toby Barker, who explained why the horse was not offered as a yearling.

"He was a bit backward, so we decided to wait. Malcolm has done a great job," said Barker, adding: "We liked Shalaa before he retired to stud. She has been a phenomenal mare for us and I just try to keep out of her way!"

Lauren Louise is dam of four winners from six runners, including the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner Blaine and the Redcar Two-Year-Old Trophy winner Bogart.

Alex Elliott, standing outside, was one of the underbidders. (13:18)