Tattersalls

Thanks to you, Nick.

All right, Tattersalls are assembling an enviable catalogue for the Mayor's Sale, which begins on November 30th and features the now-famous Scepter Sessions, which are pretty extraordinary this year, and a number of Group 1 winners will be passing under the hammer.

Jason Singh from Tattersalls is with me now.

Right, Jason, give us a flavour.

Morning, Nick.

But we know from the Point to Point Association, who are really involved with this with us, that we've had a lot of increased Hunter Cert registrations for these races, and we're really looking forward to a really competitive series of 15 races.

So the first one is, as I said, at Lower Mackin next weekend, and that race is sponsored by Tattersalls.

But the whole series and the £10,000 bonus scheme is being supported by not just the levy, but we're in a fantastic position that Arena Racing, both Goffs and Tattersalls are all financially backing this as well.

So David Redvers has really worked very hard to pull this together, and we...

So as a little group, there's been a lot of combined effort to get this over the line in quite a short space of time.

So if you, if you're, you're talking a horse ...

Say you're buying a horse from, uh, the Tattersalls horse in training sale, which is next week, and you, and you're bringing it out, you're looking at about 50 to 55,000 in, in, in travel costs, um, to bring the horse out to, to Australia, uh, with travel and related co- costs and quarantine.

You then know you've also got to pay, um, GST on its value on arrival i- into Australia because it's moving there permanently.

If you're talking a horse in training like Omni Man, you're not gonna get any change from 100, 110,000 moving the horse from Ireland to, to Australia for its travel.

So it's a case of as you were for the master of Ballydoyle and not the switcheroo that he suggested at the beginning of the week.

What else today? We're off to Tattersalls Book 2 with Charlotte, not once but twice.

We find out who wins the Breeders' Cup Classic with NBC's Matt Bonier, and also which point to pointers are likely to make a big impact under rules this season.

Jody Standing has her new book out, and there's a discount for Nick Luck Daily subscribers as well.

But clearly lots of, uh, of lessons are, are gonna have to be learned by various parties as a result of this.

All right.

Well, of course, as you know, the sale season continues, and yesterday was the final day of book two of the Tattersalls October Yearling sales, and of course, Charlotte was there.

Well, I'm delighted to be joined now by Australian bloodstock agent, John Foote, who, uh, typically has been getting stuck in over the last few days.

Um, you know, uh, we should have, I wish we had Zoe here because she's our sales expert.

But, uh, the Tattersalls sale over in Europe, uh, y- y- I mean, Sheikh Mohammed, um, boy, was he out on a spending spree.

Uh, he spent the equivalent...

He bought 25 yearlings for the equivalent of 37.4 million US dollars.

So I'm sure they'll be winning on the grass somewhere for Chad Brown [laughs] in the future as Klaravic, uh, is, is a, is a powerhouse and, uh, especially does well on the grass.

Okay, so that's a wrap-up of what happened at, uh, uh, Turf Paradise.

We'll keep, uh, our eye on that story and also what's going on with Micropoli and Tattersalls.

We're gonna take a break.

He's been busy looking for yards at the headquarters of British Racing over the last couple of weeks.

Uh, he's yet to know exactly where he's gonna train from, but it's another exciting new venture, uh, for Niels, who at Tattersalls this week, uh, called up with our, uh, Scandinavian racing correspondent, Xander Brett.

Niels, good to see you back in Newmarket.

You're, you're a regular here, and soon you're gonna be a resident of the town.

I, I, I don't, I just don't see it happening at all.

Um, I'll tell you what wasn't wishy-washy was some of the prices that were flying around Newmarket last week at Book 1 for Tattersalls.

Uh, so I'll throw you out just some of the figures which were, were crazy I guess, um, at the top end.

So Book 1 yearling sales at Tattersalls from Tuesday to Thursday last week ended with the second-highest average and median prices in the sale's history, along with a healthy turnover and a clearance rate of 85%.

Godolphin came out as the leading buyer with 25 lots bought for a total of 26.9 million guineas, with MVMagner and Whitebridge Farm in second with 8.1 million guineas spent for six lots.

The leading consignors, that was Newsells Park Stud.