'Very gifted' Matron Stakes winner Pearls Galore Tattersalls-bound

Haras de Saint Pair's Matron Stakes winner Pearls Galore has been revealed as another top-class offering at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale's new Sceptre session next month.

Taking place at Park Paddocks from November 28 to December 1, the Sceptre sessions will be held on the evenings of November 28 and November 29 and already include a stellar cast such as Alcohol Free, La Petite Coco, Saffron Beach and Desert Berry, the dam of Derby hero Desert Crown.

The five-year-old Pearls Beach is a homebred of Haras de Saint Pair and has won seven of her 17 starts for Paddy Twomey, including last month's Matron Stakes on Irish Champions Weekend as well as the Group 2 Lanwades Stud Stakes in May and a brace of Group 3 events last year.

By Invincible Spirit, Pearls Galore hails from the family of Haras de Saint Pair's foundation mare and Prix Vermeille heroine Pearly Shells. She is out of the Group 3-winning Pivotal mare Pearls Bank and a half-sister to two black type winners including German Group scorer Lucky Lycra and Pearly Steph, the dam of this year's dual Group 3 winner and Champions Day hope Eternal Pearl.

Pearls Bank, a daughter of Pearly Shells, is a half-sister to three black type horses including the Group 2-placed Smile Makers and stakes scorer Pearls Or Passion, the dam of Group winner Pelligrina.

Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said: "Haras De Saint Pair’s homebred Pearls Galore is another top-class Group 1-winning filly coming to this year’s Tattersalls December Mares Sale and anyone who saw her recent emphatic victory in the Group 1 Matron Stakes could not fail to have been impressed.

"She joins her Group 1-winning stablemate La Petite Coco and is another wonderful addition to the inaugural Sceptre sessions which promise to showcase some truly exceptional fillies and mares at this year’s December Mares Sale.”

Haras De Saint Pair’s Andreas Putsch added: "Pearls Galore has everything you could want in a broodmare prospect. A May foal, she has progressed throughout her career putting up an exceptional performance on her last start to beat three other Group 1 fillies by three lengths and more in the Matron Stakes.

"Over four seasons racing Pearls Galore proved herself again and again to be tough, consistent and very gifted. She is sound and healthy after 17 career starts.

"She comes from a great family we have had at Saint Pair since her grand dam Pearly Shells won the Prix Vermeille but which also includes the Classic winners St Mark's Basilica, Magna Grecia, Sariska and Beauty Parlour. She has no Sadler's Wells, Danehill or Mr Prospector in her pedigree and will be an attractive cross for most of the world's best stallions.”

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