OASIS DREAM COLT TOPS FIRST DAY OF TATTERSALLS BOOK 2

The top price for the day was 190,000 guineas for lot 841, the OASIS DREAM colt out of the RUDIMENTARY mare ROO who was knocked down to John Ferguson. The colt, consigned from Denis Brosnan’s Croom House Stud, had received a good catalogue update via his BAHAMIAN BOUNTY half-brother GALLAGHER who has finished fine seconds in both the Group 1 Prix Morny and Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes. His sire OASIS DREAM, who stands at Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Banstead Manor Stud near Newmarket, has enjoyed a particularly good year, with five Group winners in 2008 including his first Group 1 winner when NAAQOOS won the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere recently.  Ferguson only secured the colt after seeing off the efforts of locally based agent Grant Pritchard-Gordon, of Badgers’ Bloodstock.

Date: 14 October 2008