The Kingman half-sister to Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes winner Chaldean makes 1,000,000gns
Tattersalls December Foal Sale D3
Lot 1025: the Kingman half-sister to Chaldean, this year’s winner of the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes, sells for 1,000,000gns. She was bought by Juddmonte Farms, and is the farm’s most expensive Tattersalls sale ring purchase.
Chaldean, a son of Frankel, was bought as a foal by Juddmonte at this sale in 2020 for 550,000gns.
She is also the sixth most expensive foal ever sold at a Tattersalls December Foal Sale and the most expensive filly since 2018.
The March-born filly was sold by breeder Whitsbury Manor Stud, her four-time dam winning dam Suelita bought at the mares’ sale by Chris Harper in 2013 for 21,500gns. She has had six winners from six runners – one a Group 1 winner, two black-type winners, and two who have collected placed form in Listed races.
Bidding started at 200,000gns, and Philipp von Stauffenberg in the left gangway, Michael Donohoe, who was sat to the left of the rostrum with Mr Zhang, Simon Mockridge in the right gangway and an online bidder took the early bidding along.
David Redvers, standing in the bidders’, stepped in at 850,000gns and pushed out a couple of bids, Mockridge eventually pressing the button at 1,000,000gns.
Mockridge said: “We are delighted. It is always going to be expensive buying a filly like that when you’ve got a new Group 1 winner on the page. Chaldean is very exciting, we were delighted to buy him from Whitsbury a couple of years back and the Harpers do a great job, I am very happy for Ed Harper and his team.
“The family want to reinvest in pedigrees, this is a very strong page and with Chaldean, who knows what is going to happen next year? This filly could be a very valuable prospect going forwards.”
When asked if there are comparisons between the two, Mockridge said: “Chaldean was a slightly smaller horse, she is bigger, she has a big backside on her. She looks faster, if you can say that, but she is an exciting filly. Kingman has had such a good season two Group 1 winners and 14 individual Group winners, he is going from strength to strength.”
Consignor Harper said: “What has it been, two months’ since the Dewhurst? It feels like a long long two months! Thank goodness we had her entered here, I could not have hung ion another year waiting to sell her. Every time someone dropped a spanner at home, you fear.
“It is lovely to get a big round figure like that, it is fantastic and we really appreciate Juddmonte’s support. The farm supported us by buying Chaldean and has done it again. Hopefully ,she can repay that faith and be a bit of sport on the racetrack before going to Frankel in a couple of years’ time. She is nailed on to be a broodmare for Frankel.
“With luck, she is the perfect sort of mare for him, not just pedigree and physic, too – hopefully she wins a couple of Group 1s on the way!”
When asked if there were ever any thoughts about retaining her, Harper laughed and said: “I’d like to keep my hair line if possible! I am very happy, there are no regrets. Alastair Pim did a great job in the ring and gave her every chance. There have been a lot of people involved in getting here – and don’t forget, this was the last mare that Dad bought so not a bad way to finish off his buying.”
The preceding lot from Whitsbury, Lot 1024 by Frankel and out of the Listed-placed Showcasing mare Heartwarming, was bought by Tina Rau Bloodstock / Gestüt Fährhof for 320,000gns.
Andreas Jacobs said: “She’s been bought to race. We liked the pedigree. There’s a lot of quality coming up in the next three or four years, there’s lots of potential for it to grow. We love the mating, Frankel over Showcasing. She’s a handy version of Frankel which we like.” (17:03)