Bugle Major tops Tattersalls Sale

Juddmonte homebred Bugle Major topped the Tattersalls March Sale yesterday (31st March), selling to Richard Hughes Racing for 90,000gns. 

Taken from www.racingpost.com:

Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes, and the additional Tattersalls March Sale fixture certainly served its purpose in providing a platform to trade in a traditional live auction format, something that Britain and Ireland have gone without in recent months on account of Covid-19 restrictions.

The story of a busy session of selling was told by a clearance rate of 89 per cent as 109 of 123 offered lots found a buyer. Those transactions generated turnover of 1,273,300gns at an average of 11,682gns and a median price of 8,000gns.

The highest price of the day was brought by the Juddmonte Farms-consigned Bugle Major, who went the way of Richard Hughes at 90,000gns.

The six-year-old son of Mizzen Mast has some classy form to his name, including a two-length defeat of Intellogent at Deauville in January, while he was last seen finishing runner-up to Magny Cours, who subsequently finished third to Mystic Guide in the Dubai World Cup.

"I wasn't too happy when Magny Cours ran so well as we had Bugle Major earmarked before that, but that probably put another 20 grand on his price!" said Hughes with a wry smile. "He's been bought for some existing owners who want a Saturday horse.

"We'd discussed going to the breeze-ups, but to get a horse at those sales who might be rated 100 will probably cost an awful lot of money, and there's no guarantees. Then we found him and he looks like a Saturday horse ready for the lads to have some fun with."

Although he is now six, Bugle Major, a half-brother to the stakes-winning Seismic Wave and Group 1-place Teletext, ran just eight times for Pascal Bary, winning three races and achieving a peak Racing Post Rating of 100.

Hughes added: "He's had his issues, there's no doubt about it, but he's six now and seems to be over them. All the hard work has been done for us! You've seen a lot of horses lately who've been winning Group 1s at seven and eight or older. He's been well minded to get to this stage of his career."