The “New Bay addict” Alex Elliott, goes to €115,000 for Tradewinds-sold colt

Tattersalls Ireland September Sale

Lot 243: gets the Day 2 trade off to fabulous start, becomes the top-priced lot so far at the 2022 September Yearling Sale, selling for €115,000.

The colt by New Bay, pinhooked for €24,000 by Windlestone Investments, is bought from Tradewinds Stud by agent Alex Elliott, who confirms that he is a “New Bay addict”!

“The sire has been very good to me, this is my favourite horse of the sale,” smiled Elliott. “His sister by Make Believe [All Lies Ahead], and so a three-parts sister, won a maiden this year, and bounced into the pedigree.

“I think New Bay is a superior sire and I can’t get enough of him. It can be hard to get one by the sire as good looking as this horse, but they all look as though they will run through a brick wall. This is the one I wanted to buy and I think he has a chance of being a good horse.” The colt won’t be seen by European racegoers – as soon as the paperwork is ready he is shipping to Australia.

Elliott outlines: “He is for Spicer Thoroughbreds, and will go to Australia. I have been doing business for Brad Spicer for two years, since Covid hit really. He has had a lot of success with European-bred horses, Camelot, Sea The Moons and, hopefully, now this New Bay. This horse will go to George Peckham to quarantine and then will head down.

He added: “Brad is planning to come up in October for Book 1.”

The Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale has been good to Elliott, and his graduates have achieved some good results in the sales race, in particular.

“I really like this sale, I have been for the last four years, it has been very lucky for me, ” he says. “I bought Stone Circle, who won the sales race in 2019, Star Of Orion, who was beaten by the smallest margin in the race in 2020 and he is now a 100-rated horse, and Dandy Alys who finished third this year.

“That €300,000 incentive is massive – for this sort of horse it is a huge pot to run for, you have got to be rated in the mid-80s to have a fighting chance.”

The most expensive of the Elliott-trio was Star Of Orion who cost €50,000 in 2018. (10:51)