St Mark’s Basilica Filly Lights Up Tattersalls

St Mark’s Basilica’s second and final offering at the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale also proved popular, with Rockfield Farm’s filly bringing 320,000gns from Mark McStay’s Avenue Bloodstock.

After co-signing with Patrick O’Brien, McStay revealed that Fozzy Stack would train her. “She’s a lovely filly with arguably one of the best pedigrees in the book, by a very exciting sire in St Mark’s Basilica,” the agent continued. “She’s not the only one of his offspring who’s lit up the ring this week.”

“She looks like a filly that could take you to some special places. Everyone here is dreaming of top hats and tails, and she looks the sort that could take you there. Time is not my God by any manner or means, but they need to clock and she did clock.

Darragh Lordan, who prepared the filly for the sale, commented: “I knew she’d breeze well and the Royal Ascot dream is alive for her.”

St Mark’s Basilica had provided one of the highlights the previous day, as Grangeclare sold a colt to Amo Racing for 750,000gns. It marked a successful pinhook for Joey Logan, having purchased the bay for 200,000gns.