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Firm foundations or falling flat? How the breeze-up season is shaping up so far

James Thomas crunches the numbers behind the two-year-old sales

Lot 71: the Practical Joke filly who sold to White Birch Farm through Alex Elliott for 360,000gns
Lot 71: the Practical Joke filly who sold to White Birch Farm through Alex Elliott for 360,000gnsCredit: Laura Green

This time 12 months ago the first breeze-up sale was still over six weeks away as the schedule for selling two-year-olds felt the blunt force of the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic.

The key dates were ultimately salvaged, although with the entire season being staged so late in the year, with even the sales of early juveniles taking place after Royal Ascot, it rates an experience no-one would wish to repeat.

Following such a turbulent 2020, the hope was that this year's breeze-up sales would produce something more like business as usual.

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