Just a week after providing the 2.1 million guineas sale topper during Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling sales, Dubawi accounted for a new sale record for Book 2 when a colt consigned by Newsells Park Stud was purchased for 725,000 guineas on Tuesday. That price tag obliterated the previous record of 525,000gns, set just 12 months earlier by Dubawi's own son Poet's Voice.
Newsells Park Stud also consigned last week's 2.1 million guineas Dubawi filly, and this week offered the sole Dubawi yearling in Book 2. Bred by Getsut Fahrhof, the colt is out of the German G3 winner Goathemala and is a half-brother to the Listed winner Goiania, from a strong German family that has produced such top performers as Legatissimo and Fame And Glory.
First-crop sire Rio de la Plata had just one lot catalogued in Book 2 but that colt, out of a half-sister to the multiple Group-winning sprinter Tax Free, made a splash when knocked down to Bill Gredley for 105,000 guineas.
Lonhro, who yesterday added another European winner to his tally from his first northern hemisphere crop, had a pair of colts on offer yesterday both of which sold for six-figure sums. The most pricey of the pair was lot 1003, a half-brother to three Stakes performers in the US, who was snapped up by Peter and Ross Doyle for 160,000gns. Earlier in the session, Shadwell swooped for a colt out of the G3-placed Journalist, from the family of the Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Las Meninas, for 100,000gns.
