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00:00The Castlebridge consignment is a perennial leading seller at Tattersalls and Goffs, but
00:07after a five year absence, they've returned this year to Arcana.
00:10We talked to Andrew Meade about their nine horse consignment.
00:15We've been missing from Dover, both from the December sale and the August sale, for roughly
00:20six years now.
00:22We've tended to focus on the Tattersalls sales and the Goffs sales in Ireland, and those
00:28have been going very well for us, we're very happy with that, but we reached a point where
00:32we just thought it was time to come back to Dover in December.
00:35The sale's been steadily improving, and we had enough nice horses this year to go to
00:41both Goffs, Tattersalls, and Arcana, and that's why we've come back here this year.
00:46We've come here this year with nine lovely horses, they're all selling on Saturday, which
00:52is obviously the select day.
00:54There's something for everybody in the sense there's pregnant mares, there's fillies to
00:58go to stud, and there's fillies that can race on, and I think they're all very high quality.
01:04We've got a few nice pregnant mares here, Boyne River, info to Night of Thunder, who's
01:09obviously an incredibly successful young stallion, and this is one of those few opportunities
01:15you can buy a lovely mare info to that stallion.
01:19Of the fillies in training, we've got two from Germany that are very attractive, a filly
01:24called Libra, who's a lovely black type filly, we like her a lot.
01:29There's a filly called Goldana, she won a stakes race on her last start, and we also
01:34have a lovely filly from Italy who's a wild card, Romagna Mia, and she won a grade two
01:41on her last start in Italy, looks to have plenty of racing still in her, and she'll
01:46make a lovely broodmare as well.
01:49Of the fillies that are being sold out of training, ready to go to stud, we've got a
01:54lovely Kingman filly, that's Vouchsafe, Loch Lundy is a stakes race Chammerdale filly,
02:02and Chammerdale's already a highly, highly regarded broodmare site, and we also have
02:07a very nice Night of Thunder filly in Thunder Beauty, who's also a very exciting broodmare
02:13prospect.
02:15We've arrived here in Deauville straight from a very strong sale in Newmarket, I think
02:22anybody in the horse industry following the sale results would say it was a remarkable
02:28sale.
02:29We found the market was equally strong across the board, whatever part of the sale you were
02:35selling in, and prior to that, we'd equally come straight from a very strong goth sale,
02:41where we had a lot of foals, and they sold extremely well, and some very nice mares sold
02:45in goths.
02:46So I think all sale companies at the moment are riding something of a crest of the wave,
02:52and let's hope Arcana equally finishes the season the same style.
02:57We've been very lucky over the years, and we seem to keep rolling along in terms of
03:02having good sales at Castlebridge, and myself and Bill Dwan, my partner and Marion Goodbody,
03:09we owe all our success to the people who work for us, because without them, it just
03:13wouldn't happen.