Tattersalls Mare Sale purchases include 1.8m Pintara

The Tattersalls December Mare Sale concluded on Wednesday and Tweenhills were both consignor and buyer. Twenty-four fillies and mares were offered by Tweenhills across the three days and nine were purchased between David Redvers and Tweenhills. Those bought included Pintara for 1,800,000gns and Understudy for 525,000gns, both on behalf of John and Chelsey Stewart’s Resolute Bloodstock. 

Pintara was a marquee signing as it’s not often an unbeaten Stakes winner with realistic Classic potential comes on the public market. Naturally, it took good money to buy the daughter of Pinatubo and it will be fascinating to follow her career now she switches to Francis-Henri Graffard in France, trainer of Resolute Bloodstock’s Gr.1 winner Goliath among others. 

Understudy is another exciting filly who will continue racing. The Ribblesdale runner-up was second in a Listed race at Lingfield recently and it’s surely only a matter of time before the daughter of Sea The Stars wins a Stakes race. 

Irish Listed winner Onemoredance was picked up for 260,000gns with David acting on behalf of Qatar Racing – she will also carry on racing. David also bought broodmares Last Empire (by noted broodmare sire Pivotal) and Eyema Candy Girl (by Justify) under his name.  

The four purchases under the Tweenhills banner include a mare who readers may remember from her exploits on the track in 2013-15. Lucky Kristale was a flagbearer for trainer George Margarson, winning the Duchess of Cambridge and Lowther (both Gr.2s) as a 2yo. 

Lucky Kristale is a product of Twenhills. Not only is she by Lucky Story, whose promising stallion career at Tweenhills was cut tragically short, but she is out of Pikaboo, who David bought for 20,000gns as a filly in training before Tweenhills sold her at the 2012 December Mare Sale. Lucky Kristale was sold by Tweenhills as a Tattersalls Book 2 yearling and Pikaboo is also the dam of multiple Gr.1 winner Love.