Black type mare Farne heads Tattersalls Online Sale at 50,000gns

Farne, a Listed-placed daughter of Stowaway, topped Thursday's Tattersalls Online Sale when purchased by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for 50,000gns.

Trained by Noel Williams, the eight-year-old has won or been placed in eight of her 13 career starts to date including a third place finish in last season's Listed Lady Godiva Mares' Novices' Chase at Warwick. During her bumper career she was also third in Sandown's Listed mares' bumper and fourth in the Grade 2 Nickel's Coin Mares' Bumper at Aintree.

"She has been bought for an existing client to initially race on and then to breed from in the future," commented agent Matt Coleman.

Farne is one of two winners out of the Turtle Island mare Bonnie Island and her back pedigree includes the Gold Cup and Sun Alliance Hurdle hero Davy Lad.

The National Stud's Aclaim hit the headlines last weekend with the victory of his first crop daughter Cachet in the 1,000 Guineas and a breeding right in the Prix de la Foret winner from the family of the brilliant Montjeu was a late addition to the sale.

That proved a shrewd move on the part of the seller as Dash Grange Stud went to 40,000gns to secure the right to send a mare each season to Aclaim, whose current fee is just £6,000.

For 24,000gns the same buyer also purchased the breeding right offered in Darley's Kings Stand Stakes winner Profitable. The son of Invincible Spirit sired last season's Queen Mary winner Quick Suzy, who is one of four stakes winners from the first crop of the son of Invincible Spirit. The right to send a mare to the son of Invincible Spirit starts from the 2023 season.

It's the third breeding right acquired by businesswoman Jayne McGivern's developing Cotswolds' operation in an online auction this year, following on from her six-figure purchase of a Time Test breeding right in February.

"These are both fantastic young up-and-coming stallions and I just could not let this opportunity pass by, not only as an investment but also to start looking into the other side of the market. These boys are, albeit, for the Flat but when you see the likes of Aclaim coming through, it is an opportunity not to pass up," McGivern said.

Teodelina will return to her place of birth, Clara Stud, following her 40,000gns purchase by her breeder James Cloney from Godolphin. The four-year-old daughter of Kodiac won two of her 13 starts and was fourth in the Listed Montrose Stakes for Richard Hannon.

She is one of three winners from three runners out of the unraced Teodelight by Teofilo, broodmare sire of this year's 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas winners.

A delighted Cloney said: "We retained her Lawman half-sister who went to Tally Ho's new sire Starman this year. This mare may go back into training but we will get her home and make sure she is safe and sound, and if all things are right she may go for an autumn campaign."

Ten of the 14 lots offered were sold for a clearance rate of 71 per cent with the aggregate reaching 165,900gns. The sale average was 16,590gns with the median at 3,550gns.

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