There were plenty of fireworks during the one and only session at the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale with five lots selling for six-figure sums and an EXCEED AND EXCEL filly selling for 470,000 guineas, the second highest price for a filly at a European breeze up sale. The sale, which is in only it’s second year, saw 80 lots sold for 3,833,000 guineas which makes it the second highest grossing breeze up sale in Europe in 2008, behind the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale. The turnover was up 80% on the 2007 figure whilst the average and median rose 71% and 30% to 47,913 guineas and 30,000 guineas respectively.
Lot 134: EXCEED AND EXCEL - BOIS DE CITRON
Purchased by R O'Gorman Bloodstock for 470,000 gns
Lot 95: JOHAR - DIPPERS
Purchased by R O'Gorman Bloodstock for 370,000 gns
Lot 15: MR GREELEY - MARIAMME
Purchased by Blandford Bloodstock for 155,000 gns
Lot 40: EXCEED AND EXCEL - COMMON RUMPUS
Purchased by Marcus Tregoning for 150,000 gns
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