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Doncaster Day One Gives Positive Vibes

24.08.10 20:27:59 International Thoroughbred

DAY ONE has proved to be a good day at the DBS Premier Sales. The final average of £27,457 was just up on the whole sale’s average in 2009 and on a par with the first day last year – a considerable achievement in the current financial world. In 2009 five lots fetched more than £100,000 – on this first day, already four lots have fetched such a sum, with strong hopes of plenty more on day two.

With the non-participation of the Maktoum family at the Arqana sales seemingly setting a trend that had been repeated at Doncaster, these more than adequate results have to be viewed positively.

There was good trade for the Donny standard – precocious-looking, strong early commercial types of colts – many of the correct horses finding a price between £25,000 and £50,000. However, the top lot was a filly. By Kyllachy, her pedigree enjoyed a significant update at the weekend after her half-brother Wootton Bassettt won the DBS Premier Sales race. She was bought by Dwayne Woods for £120,000 and was sold by Furnace Mill Stud on behalf of Laundry Cottage Stables.

Her price was matched by a colt by Le Vei De Colori offered by Rathbarry Stud. He is a first foal out of the unraced mare Broadways Millie, a half-sister to the Group 3 sprinter Eastern Purple. She was bought by Sir Robert Ogden, who in total bought three lots, bringing over his spending habits, along with the rain, from Deauville.

Demi O’Byrne bought one lot – a Dylan Thomas colt offered by Newsells, for whom he paid £90,000.