TATTERSALLS Ireland boss Simon Kerins described last week’s Breeze Up Sale results as “extraordinary”.

In an exceptional one-day session there were multiple records broken, headed by a colt by Night Of Thunder from Yeomanstown Stud who became the highest-priced breeze-up horse ever sold in Ireland when purchased by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for €580,000.

That transaction was covered in last week’s report and was one of 31 who achieved a six-figure price on the day. A new record for turnover at the sale was set for the seventh year in a row, jumping this time by 21% from €9.6 million to €11.6 million.

It was also the sale’s sixth year producing a record average price of €54,992, the first time this statistic has exceeded €50,000, and an increase of 26% on 2024. The median price of €32,000 was up 14%.

The session’s clearance rate of 88% was the best produced so far at a European breeze-up sale this spring, and a repeat of last year’s achievement.

Kerins said: “From the outset, we were confident that the catalogue we had assembled – thanks to the support of our vendors – would deliver a strong sale. The positive feedback from purchasers throughout the lead-up only reinforced that belief.”

There were visitors from 15 different countries on the sales ground, including first-time buyers from Malaysia and Qatar, as well as regular clients from the UK, the Middle East, Italy, Scandinavia and the US.

Anthony Stroud, who bought 10 lots, was the session’s leading purchaser with an outlay of €1.76 million.

Four horses sold for €300,000 or more. Three of them were dealt with in last week’s edition. The fourth was Katie McGivern’s Derryconnor Stud-offered colt by Wootton Bassett (Lot 226), who sold for €320,000 to Sean Mulryan’s Granville Racing. The colt is out of the Oasis Dream blacktype-winning mare and producer Black Haku.

After outbidding Ted Durcan and Mark McStay for the colt, agent Ger Morrin said: “He goes to trainer Richard Hughes, who trained Bracken’s Laugh for Sean and Bernadine Mulryan. We are going to give this colt some time, he is more of a three-year-old and a big scopey sort. He is a very well-bred horse, and he is by a sire that we really love!”

It was a fine pinhooking result for Katie McGivern, the colt having been bought last autumn for €70,000.