Tattersalls Ascot December Sale concludes 2018 Ascot Sales with a top price of £37,000

The 2018 sales season in the Tattersalls Ascot Sales Arena concluded with the December Sale producing an aggregate of £541,150, a median of £3,200 and an average of £5,882. 

Headlining the sale was Steven Crawford's four-year-old Arakan gelding Gennady who was placed on his only start in a Bumper at Ayr. The promising youngster caught the eye of agent Tom Malone and the hammer fell at £37,000 (Lot  149). 

A winner at three, Kings Highway (Lot 91) proved sought-after when the son of Shamardal was knocked down to trainer Ivan Furtado for £32,000. The colt boasts an impressive family being out of an own-sister to BEAT HOLLOW and Ancient Culture and was sold by the day's leading consignor Godolphin. 

Nothing Man only had one appearance on the track when finishing fourth in an Ayr Bumper for Steven Crawford and Stuart Crawford. By Ask, the promising four-year-old was sold to trainer David Dennis for £26,000 (Lot 130). 

 Hurricane Arcadio showed promise when placed 3rd, beaten only three and a half-lengths in a four-year-old Maiden at Rathcannon for Seamus Spillane and heads to Michael Blake Racing after being sold for £22,000 by Spillane's Kilclare Stables (Lot 137). 
                                                                                                             
At the conclusion of the sale, Director of Horses in Training Sales Richard Pugh commented; 
 
"Today's sale saw demand for horses boasting form and it was pleasing to sell a top lot of £37,000 along with 19 horses making £10,000 or more, 10 more than the sales' most recent edition. There was a diverse range of buyers with the top 20 lots all going to 20 individual purchasers. Concluding the sales season here today at Ascot has resulted in an encouraging set of returns and we look forward to getting 2019 off on a positive start with the Ascot March Sale on 21 March 2019."