Irish Oaks heroine You Got To Me headlines Tattersalls December Mare Sale catalogue

Irish Oaks heroine You Got To Me and high-class sprinter Believing feature among 991 lots for a stellar renewal of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale. 

Alongside this year's Classic heroine and Group 2 winner Believing, a total of 34 Group and Listed-winning fillies will be offered across the two Sceptre Sessions, including Group 2 Dahlia Stakes winner and Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes runner up Stay Alert, Group 2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes scorer and Group 1 Matron Stakes runner up Rogue Millennium and this year’s Irish 1,000 Guineas second A Lilac Rolla. 

They will be joined by Grade 2 Flower Bowl Stakes winner Idea Generation, Group 2 Duke of York Stakes winner Azure Blue, and fellow Group 2 winners Term Of Endearment and Lumiere Rock. 

Top class racemares in foal are led by Group 1 Abbaye winner Mabs Cross, in foal to record-breaking young sire Havana Grey, and the Group 1-placed Cairde Go Deo and Rawdaa, in foal to Night Of Thunder and Lope De Vega respectively.

The Sceptre Sessions feature blue-blooded mares including Elizabethan, a sister to Roly Poly and U S Navy Flag, and Deadly Nightshade, a Justify half-sister to Above The Curve out of a Galileo daughter of Mariah's Storm, both offered in foal to Wootton Bassett. They will be joined by sisters to top-class performers Bay Bridge, Hurricane Lane, Porta Fortuna, Saffron Beach and Torquator Tasso.

You Got To Me: this year's Irish Oaks winner is one of the standouts of the catalogueCredit: Patrick McCann

Group 1 producers in these sessions include Frangipani, the dam of Deutsches Derby winner Fantastic Moon, who will be offered carrying a sibling by Sea The Moon, Landikusic and Morning Mist, both half-sisters to Group 1 winners, will be offered in foal to Too Darn Hot and Sea The Moon, the former on Southern Hemisphere time, alongside Sweety Dream, the dam of French 1000 Guineas fourth Romantic Style, and Kentucky Belle, the dam of French 2000 Guineas second Isaac Shelby, both carrying siblings by Night Of Thunder.

There are also the usual drafts from Juddmonte, Godolphin, Ballylinch Stud and Barton Stud, the last-named the leading consignor at the December Mare Sale in 2023.

Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said: "The acclaimed Sceptre Sessions at the Tattersalls December Sale continue to attract an abundance of outstanding fillies and broodmares with Irish Oaks winner You Got To Me exemplifying the quality that buyers from every continent in the world can expect to find at Europe’s premier breeding stock sale. 

"The Tattersalls December Sale is an unmissable event for so many, combining not only the quality and diversity to suit all budgets and requirements, but also the depth and numbers which make it the European breeding stock sale worth travelling for. 

"Crucially buyers know that there are future Group 1 producers to be found at every level of the December Sale market with the dams of 2024 superstars Charyn and Kalpana purchased for 3,000 guineas and 35,000 guineas respectively and it is results of such distinction which make the Tattersalls December Mares Sale truly the most influential breeding stock sale in Europe."

The sale will take place from Monday, December 2 to Thursday, December 5 with the Sceptre Sessions on the Monday and Tuesday. The catalogue can be viewed here.

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