| Tattersalls Millions
A new series of races for 2007/8, the feature of which is
the Tattersalls Million, for 2yo colts and fillies over 7f.
The race will be limited to graduates of the Part 1 October
Yearling Sales. There is also the Tattersalls Fillies’
800, for fillies that are graduates of the same sale. Thirdly
there will be the Tattersalls £400,000 3YO Classic’
– unique in so much as it is a sales race for three
year olds.
More details are as follows:
Prize Money and Entry Details
- TATTERSALLS MILLION - 7 furlongs for colts, geldings
and fillies, October 2008
First: £550,000
Second: £225,000
Third: £100,000
Fourth: £50,000
Fifth: £25,000
Sixth - Tenth: £10,000
Entry mid - January 2008: £2,000
1st Forfeit - April 2008: £2,500
2nd Forfeit - July 2008: £2,500
6 Day Declaration: £3,000
- TATTERSALLS FILLIES' 800 - 7 furlongs for fillies
only, October 2008
First: £440,000
Second: £180,000
Third: £80,000
Fourth: £40,000
Fifth: £20,000
Sixth - Tenth: £8,000
Entry as above except:
6 Day Declaration: £1,000
- TATTERSALLS £400,000 3YO CLASSIC - 10 furlongs
for colts, geldings and fillies, April 2009
First: £220,000
Second: £90,000
Third: £40,000
Fourth: £20,000
Fifth: £10,000
Sixth - Tenth: £4,000
All entries left in races after April 2008 1st Forfeit eligible.
6 Day Declaration: Free
- Watership Down Stud Sales race
Originally the brainchild of the Thoroughbred Breeders’
Association (TBA), the Watership Down Stud Sales Race is
open to two-year-old fillies sold under the hammer at any
specified yearling sale in Britain.
The race, run over 6½ furlongs at Newbury in September,
has a guaranteed minimum prize money of £250,000.
Fifty per cent of that goes to the winner with prize money
paid to tenth place.
The TBA also provides Breeders’ Prizes to the first,
second and third placed horses, if qualified under Order
196, in addition to those regularly paid by the HBLB.
- £250,000 Tattersalls October Auction Stakes
This race is only open to two-year-olds purchased at the
previous year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale
(Part II).
To be run over six furlongs on the Rowley Mile course at
Newmarket.
Like many sales races, weights in the Tattersalls Autumn
Auction Stakes are determined by a horse’s purchase
price with more expensive lots carrying a greater amount.
Fillies get a 5lb allowance.
- The £300,000 St Leger Yearling Stakes
In 2005, Doncaster Bloodstock Sales (DBS) and Doncaster
Racecourse have increased the guaranteed minimum value of
his race to £300,000 and altered its title accordingly.
That more accurately reflects that prize money in this race
has, for many years, been worth much more than the £300,000
initially stated in its title.
Open only to two-year-olds who were sold ‘under the
hammer’ at the previous year’s St Leger Sale
at Doncaster, this race also carries prize money to tenth.
- The DBS St. Leger Yearling Stakes
In 1999 the option of a second race was brought
in to ensure that Owners were not disappointed by being
unable to run in the £200,000 St. Leger Yearling Stakes.
The DBS St. Leger Yearling Stakes is run on the Friday
of the St. Leger meeting (in September) if more than 37
are declared at the overnight stage for Wednesday's race.
This race has also enjoyed a maximum field of 22 in each
of its six runnings resulting in a value of £54,000.
- DBS October Yearling Sales Stakes
Unsurprisingly, to run in this race you have to have been
sold ‘under the hammer’ at the Doncaster October
Yearling Sale.
This £30,000, six furlong, race for two-year-olds
is held during the Racing Post Trophy meeting at Doncaster
in late October.
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