Propelled by global demand for high-quality mares, the Tattersalls December mare sale concluded on Thursday with benchmarks in total receipts and average price.

Tattersalls reported 762 horses from 1,132 offered as sold for $150,402,703 (69,498,500 guineas), a 4.9% increase from last year’s record-breaking sale, when 870 horses were sold.

Average price was a record $197,376 (91,205 guineas), up 19.8% from 2006. Median price was $49,774 (23,000 guineas), down 23.3% from last year.

John Ferguson, bloodstock adviser for Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, went to a European record of $7,339,920 (3.4-million guineas) for French Group 1 winner Satwa Queen (Fr), the sale’s highest price.

The five-year-old chestnut Muhtathir (GB) mare won six of 16 career starts, including the 2007 Prix de l’Opera Casino Barriere d’Enghien les Bains (Fr-G1), and earned $776,721 in four seasons.

Consigned by Ecurie Jean de Roualle, Satwa Queen is a half sister to Group 1 winner Spadoun and is one of four stakes winners out of the Irish River (Fr) mare Tolga.

Satwa Queen was one of five mares or fillies to sell for three-million guineas or more during the four-day sale. Others were Ocean Silk, a Group1-placed stakes winner by Dynaformer in foal to Pivotal, who was bought from the Swettenham Stud dispersal, and Group 2 winner Sander Camillo, who each sold for $6,908,160 (3.2-million guineas); Mandellicht, carrying a full sibling to Group 1 winner Manduro, and multiple Grade 1 winner Angara (GB), in foal to Montjeu (Ire), who were both purchased for $6,476,400 (3-million guineas).

Overall, ten fillies and mares fetched one-million guineas or more.

Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahoney said those statistics might not be bettered for many years to come.

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