Another Successful Tattersalls October Yearling Sale for John Camilleri

Mark Smith - Friday October 8

The timing was perfect for Fairway Thoroughbreds' John Camilleri when the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale began on October 5.

A day before the sale started, Angel Bleu (Dark Angel) won the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp.

Angel Bleu’s dam Cercle de La Vie is a sister to Camilleri’s Via Condotti, who had a Lope de Vega (IRE) filly in the Hazelwood Bloodstock draft on day two.

Godolphin had the final say on that one at 500,000gns.

Cercle de La Vie and Via Condotti had been the black sheep of the family. Their brothers include Highland Reel, Cape Of Good Hope, Idaho and Nobel Prize.

All, of course, are by Galileo from the grand producer Hveger, a sister to Elvstroem from the increasingly influential family of Circles Of Gold.

While not in the same league as Angel Bleu’s Longchamp triumph, Voice Of Angels carried the Fairway Thoroughbreds silks to a 5-length maiden win at Thurles in Ireland on October 7.

The Joseph O’Brien-trained daughter of Dark Angel had placed at her first two starts at The Curragh and Leopardstown before unseating Shane Crosse at her most recent start at Leopardstown.

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filly that defeated Voice Of Angels at her first start, Concert Hall (Dubawi), came out and won the Group III Weld Stakes at the Curragh on September 26.

Hazelwood Bloodstock consigned a Kingman half-sister to Voice Of Angels that Glen Hill Farm’s Craig Bernick bought for 650,000gns.

Though the dam Ring The Bell finished 43 lengths behind the winner at her only start at Leopardstown, she is racing royalty.   

The daughter of Galileo is a sister to the Group 1 winners Hydrangea, Hermosa, and The United States and a half-sister to multiple Group III winner and multiple Group 1-placed Fire Lily.

Camilleri scaled the heights at Tattersalls in 2019 when a Kingman colt out of the Group III Blue Diamond Prelude (fillies), winner One Last Dance (Encosta de Lago) sold to MV Magnier for 1,800,000gns.

He had to accept a much-reduced 100,000gns to the bid of Robson Aguiar for a full-brother this time around.

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