Just a week after supplying the sale topper at the Goffs Foal Sale, Dubawi repeated the feat as a daughter of the outstanding sire topped proceedings at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale when purchased for 800,000gns on Friday.
The filly, out of the G3 winner High Heeled, was offered by James Wigan’s West Blagdon Stud, and purchased by John Ferguson. The March-born foal is out of a mare who finished third in both the Oaks and the G1 Coronation Cup at Epsom, also hails from the family of the dual G1 winner Just The Judge.
The filly’s price tag marked the highest price paid at the Tattersalls Foal sale since 2002, and made her not only the most expensive filly sold in Europe this year, but also the third most expensive filly foal ever to sell at Tattersalls.
On a superb day for Dubawi, two more of his daughters smashed the half-million guineas mark. A half-sister to the Irish Derby third Memphis Tennessee, the G2 winner Royal Bench and G3 victor Mayhem, from the family of Cerulean Sky, was purchased by Peter and Ross Doyle on behalf of Marcus Jooste’s Mayfair Speculators for 720,000gns. The other leading lady of the sale was the first foal out of the G1 Phoenix Stakes heroine La Collina, offered by Kenilworth House Stud, who was purchased by John Ferguson for 625,000gns.
The only other foal to breach the half-million guinea mark was a Shamardal half-brother to the G1 winner and sire Intense Focus, offered by Airlie Stud and purchased by Peter and Ross Doyle. Shamardal was also responsible for a half-sister to two Stakes winners who was purchased by John Ferguson for 360,000gns.
