Quality Qatar Racing draft at Horses-in-training Sale
Qatar Racing will sell a high-quality draft of around 30 horses at the Autumn Horses-in-training Sale at Tattersalls this week...
Tattersalls sales ground in Newmarket will be a hive of activity this week as well over 1,500 horses are catalogued to sell between Monday 30 October and Friday 3 November, including many who have been carrying the Qatar Racing silks to success this season.
The Qatar Racing draft will be consigned by Jamie Railton, and potential star lots on Monday include Lot 266 Gold Spinner, Lot 267 Holy Cat and Lot 377 Savannah Storm.
Gold Spinner has come a long way in his first season of racing, winning twice earlier in the year and finishing third in a handicap off 96 in September; Holy Cat's potential stretches beyond her racing career as she's a daughter of Kitten's Joy with a Gr. 3 runner-up effort to her name; and Savannah Storm has a Timeform rating of 108 after finishing third in a Listed race and looks a cracking jumps prospect.
Tuesday's lots include three more that are sure to attract the interest of National Hunt buyers, namely Lot 433 Bold Knight, Lot 434 Fearsome and Lot 540 Murgan.
Bold Knight has run well every start since switched to handicaps and still has staying trips to explore; Fearsome improved for the step up to a mile and a half when a close third last time; and Murgan has some strong form in the book and is a very good-looking horse with physical scope.
Buyers on Wednesday will have their chance to land a collector's item when a son of Galileo and 1,000 Guineas 'winner' (demoted to second) Jacqueline Quest goes through the ring as Lot 892. World War has been in top form of late, making all at Gowran last time, and he will be very popular.
World War is far from the only high-profile Qatar Racing-owned horse selling on Wednesday. Likeable three-year-old Naval Warfare (Lot 957) finished a close fourth in the Listed Fortune Stakes at Sandown in September; Fierce Impact (Lot 1038, pictured) finished second in the Listed Cocked Hat Stakes at Goodwood in May; and Sumbal (Lot 1080) won the Gr. 2 Prix Greffulhe and was fifth in the Gr. 1 Prix du Jockey Club as a three-year-old.
Other key lots on Wednesday are Lustrous Light (Lot 1140), a Timeform 107-rated son of Galileo, and Lightening Fast (Lot 1141), an impeccably bred son of Frankel and Gr. 1 winner Lightening Pearl who could also develop into a Stakes horse next year.
The Qatar Racing horses selling on Thursday and Friday include three-time winner Dutch Uncle (Lot 1440) and Soar Above (Lot 1701), a two-year-old colt out of the Gr. 2 Lowther Stakes winner Soar.