Figures fall during low-key second session of expanded Part II sale

Clearance rate of just 65 per cent over the two-day auction

Tattersalls Ireland: two-day Part II session returned turnover of ?1,868,400

Trade was on the quiet side during the second session of Part II of the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale, besides a ten-minute spell before lunchtime in which the day's two priciest lots went through the ring.

John Hussey almost gave up as the price crept higher for a daughter of Acclamation out of Sister Red, but he thought better of it and was rewarded for his perseverance when securing the Cooneen Stud-consigned filly at €46,000.

"I had to spend more than I planned but she had an awful lot going for her and I thought she was the nicest filly in this part of the sale. She is one for the breeze-ups," Hussey said of the filly, who descends from a Cheveley Park family.

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Aisling CroweBloodstock journalist

Published on 23 September 2016inSales reports

Last updated 20:32, 23 September 2016

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