Fruitful foal sales

<p>The foal and breeding stock sales for 2012 are now complete, with some pretty spectacular results for the offspring of Darley sires. <br /><br />Riding high after a tremendous first season with runners, including G2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner <strong>Steeler</strong>, <a href="/stallions/our-stallions/ravens-pass">Raven's Pass</a> (pictured) had nine of his weanlings sell for an average of £144,627. Those included his top-price of 300,000gns paid by Shadwell for a colt out of Silk Trail, a winning daughter of Jersey Stakes heroine Satin Flower, who is in turn the dam of G1 winner Lujain. <br /><br />The ever dependable <a href="/stallions/our-stallions/dubawi">Dubawi</a>, with two more G1 winners in 2012 bringing his tally to nine at the highest level, posted an average of £143,150 for six foals offered and sold. Fractionally behind him was <a href="/stallions/our-stallions/new-approach">New Approach</a>, the champion freshman sire. Members of his third crop achieved an average price of £124,500 for ten sold – a figure in excess of five times his fee of £22,500 when these weanlings were conceived. <br /><br /><a href="/stallions/our-stallions/shamardal">Shamardal</a>’s foal average was only just shy of six figures, settling at £99,898 for five sold, including 115,000gns for a colt out of the Gone West mare Pioneer Bride who was pinhooked by Yeomanstown Stud. <br /><br /><a href="/stallions/our-stallions/exceed-and-excel">Exceed And Excel</a> is another sire to have had a fantastic year in 2012 and he was all the rage at the foal sales. A whopping 24 weanlings sold throughout the season for an average of £58,660, with three of them being knocked down for six-figure prices at Tattersalls. <br /><br /><a href="/stallions/our-stallions/teofilo">Teofilo</a> also had plenty of representatives in the ring and his 15 sold achieved an average of £56,529. His bestseller was the 140,000-guinea colt bought by RBS, who is a half-brother to German champion two-year-old Night Lagoon, herself the dam of G1 Gran Premio del Jocky Club Italiano winner Novellist.</p>