On Wednesday 4th October we held our 2023 Owner Event and were joined by 50 HOTSR Owners for an exciting day in Newmarket at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales Book 1 – one of the world’s most prestigious sales!
We began with a delicious breakfast in the John Lambton Suite Palace House, before we delivered a talk and demonstration on what we look for when buying a racehorse at sales, how to read a sales catalogue and of course discussed our picks for the day who we felt would fetch the most money!
We also distributed our winning mementos to Owners of Walk In The Wild, Alpha Crucis and King Of Ithaca all of whom were bought at auction. We are confident there will be more winning prizes from our string before 2023 is out!
After we finished up at Palace House we were met by our guides from Discover Newmarket who told us about the history of Tattersalls, and gave us a tour of the outstanding site where we got to see potential buyers viewing horses, watch lots in the Parade Ring before they entered the sales ring and the exciting bit – sitting in the Auction room watching these top class yearlings sell for mega money!! The highlights for us were watching the striking half brother to Battaash sell for a cool 1.5 million gns to Godolphin (you could hear a pin drop!) and seeing the last yearling by the phenomenal Galileo!
Heart of the South has bought successfully from Book 1 in the past and did have a look at a few potential candidates but they were either not quite what we were looking for or a little out of the budget range! We will however continue to have a look for a new yearling over the coming weeks or return for the December sales – watch this space!
Thank you so much to those of you who joined us for our event. We’ve received so many lovely emails and we enjoyed the day just as much as you.
Look forward to our incoming 2024 events!
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