Tom Blain, Managing Director of Barton Stud, was thinking about a “surreal” evening, on which the Bury St. Edmunds Farm sold two of the top 10 lots on December 5, during the second of the Blue chip scepter sessions, including the 4,500,000 GNS (5,933,395 US dollars), Top-Los-Los (US $ 5,933,395, 1GN = US US $ 1.32) Top-Los-Los). Summary .
The winner of the Prix Vermeille (G1) was offered at the Tattersalls December Sale in Fohlen Frankel and went the path of Juddmonte, who had to see the determined challenges of Coolmore and Godolphin to secure the daughter of Lake the stars .
“I always knew that she was nice and we loved her since we picked her up from Roger Varian,” said Blain about Teona. “She looked incredible up here what was a great recognition for my assistant Zoe Isaacson and everyone at home. It quickly became clear that she was something special when some very crucial people said that she was basically the perfect broodmare.
“There was a moment in the ring in which everything could stop and everything you could hear were her footsteps. It was such a surreal feeling to look around and see a moment that I always dreamed of developing in front of me. That was very moving.”
Barton Sales also presented the Royal Ascot winner Defects Millennium In the name of Tom Clover Racing. The daughter of Group 2 and the daughter of Group 1 by the daughter of placed daughter of Dubaw Sold to David Lanigan and Ted Durcan, agent of the Heider family, with 1,650,000 GNS, a sum that contributed to Barton's total value of 7,200,000 GNS in the evening.
“The sale of December -Mares sales was one of our ambitions when we set off,” said Blain. “We started selling two seasons in Book 3 10 years ago. Progress is a great reflection in the team that we returned in Barton and the customer base that we build. I am very proud of everyone who was involved, and I am incredibly grateful to the people who moved me and Barton -Stud about these amazing horses.”
He added: “It is early morning, slow nights, foals, all the things that go to stud farm. It is not really a job, it's a way of life. The world is changing again and again and people want nine to five jobs, but our boys are on the road at all times and I'm very proud of them.”
Although Blain also does not make a full-time member of the team, he also praised Ted Stanner, the commissioned man, to lead Teona through the notable Park-Paddocks-Ring. “All the boys call him great Ted because he always does our handsome!” said Blain. “He was very steadfast on sale and he is a fantastic showman.”
In Barton, 66 plots of land were registered in the four sessions of the December Mares sale, a draft that followed a 44-member entry in December foal sales, which contained a 250,000GNS Pinatubo Bought stut foal from Blandford Bloodstock.
