Eyes down for the next Desert Crown or State Of Rest as Book 2 entries unveiled

The catalogues for Books 2, 3 and 4 of the 2022 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale have been published online.

Book 2 features 821 yearlings and will take place from Monday, October 10 to Wednesday, October 12.

Book 3 has 642 lots catalogued and will take place on Thursday and Friday, October 13-14, while Book 4 has a further 85 yearlings selling on the morning of Saturday, October 15.

Leading the October Book 2 stars in 2022 has been the Derby winner Desert Crown, who was purchased at the sale in 2020 for 280,000gns.

He faces stiff competition as the headline graduate, however, from 60,000gns purchase State Of Rest, who has won four Group/Grade 1 races in his last five starts, including the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot, and could conceivably add to that haul in the Prix Jacques le Marois this Sunday.

Hong Kong Group 1 winner Romantic Warrior, German 2,000 Guineas winner Maljoom and Richmond Stakes winner Royal Scotsman are other October Book 2 purchases to have lit up racecourses around the world this year.

The 2022 catalogue features full- or half-brothers and sisters to an impressive 181 Group and Listed winners, including the Sea The Stars half-brother to Group 1 Prix de Royallieu winner Loving Dream, the Camelot half-brother to the Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist, the Highland Reel half-brother to the six-time Group 1 winner Laurens and the half-brother to this year’s Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Alenquer, by The Great Gatsby

This season’s Group winning two-year-olds The Ridler and Lakota Sioux, winners of the Norfolk and Sweet Solera Stakes respectively, both have siblings catalogued. The National Stud consigns a Time Test half-brother to The Riderl, while Galbertstown Stables consigns a Blue Point half-brother to Lakota Sioux.

In addition, there are 132 sons and daughters of Group and Listed winning mares catalogued, including the Siyouni colt out of the champion racemare Ribbons and the Galileo colt out of the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner Tiggy Wiggy.

Fillies on offer include a No Nay Never daughter of the Grade 1 winner Sophie P, a Kingman daughter of the Group 1 Queensland Oaks winner Winning Ways and a first-crop daughter of the champion racehorse Waldgeist out of the Grade 1 winner Dynaforce.

All of the yearlings in Books 3 and 4 of the October Yearling Sale are eligible for the ever popular £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes.

Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said: "There can be no better advertisement for a catalogue than selling the winner of the Derby, and Desert Crown has been an outstanding ambassador for October Book 2, as has the 60,000gns purchase and four-time Group 1 winner State Of Rest.

"Both are perfect illustrations of the quality and value to be found during the second week of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and why it is the focus for so many yearling buyers from throughout Europe and further afield.

"Demand for places has enabled us to assemble outstanding catalogues which showcase so many of the best British and Irish bred yearlings and will cater for all sectors of the market."

Catalogues for the sales can be browsed here.

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