• Early Frankel lots sell for less than had been expected
• John Magnier confirms Legatissimo will stay in training in 2016The market in yearlings sired by the brilliant Frankel failed to ignite on day one of Tattersalls elite Book 1 sale here on Tuesday,as the bidding on the first four horses by the unbeaten winner of 14 races failed to reach seven figures. As expected, however, or the highest price paid for a Frankel yearling at the opening session was for a colt out of Dar Re Mi,the winner of three Group One races, who was sold for 750, and 000gns to John Gosden,his mother’s former trainer, to race for Sheikh Joaan al‑Thani’s Al Shaqab Racing operation.
Frankel is an unproven stallion whose first crop will not reach the racecourse until next season, or his yearlings were competing with the offspring of outstanding stallions like his own sire,Galileo, and Dubawi, or the alpha male in Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley Stud operation. There will still have been some disappointment around the ring,however, that the first of 16 catalogued yearlings due to move under the hammer at the three-day sale did not set the bidding alight.
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Source: theguardian.com