Aegina tops Tattersalls July Sale Day 2 at 240,000 guineas

Aegina’s 240,000-guinea price put a clear number on what the July market wanted most: a stakes-placed filly with speed, black type and breeding upside. Nick Turnbull’s County Durham-based Elwick Stud landed the 3-year-old daughter of Havana Grey on Day 2 of the Tattersalls July Sale at Park Paddocks in Newmarket, where buyers kept pushing higher for fillies with proven form and scope.

The sale underlined that appetite in emphatic fashion. Tattersalls said Day 2 produced five horses making 200,000 guineas or more, 14 lots sold for 100,000 guineas or more, and the clearance rate held at 95 percent. Aegina stood at the top of that market, and the price reflected more than recent form alone. In a session where the previous day had already seen Ace Stud spend 500,000 guineas on Renaissance Lady, the trade continued to show real conviction for well-bred performers with a future beyond the track.

Aegina brought exactly that profile. She ran four times for Donnacha O’Brien and Skara Glen Stables, finishing runner-up on her first two starts before earning black type when third to Ipanema Queen in the Listed Legacy Stakes. She had also been sold online through The Castlebridge Consignment, with one report saying she was offered by Skara Glen Stables and bought on behalf of Elwick Stud. Another account noted that she was placed in all four starts as a 2-year-old in 2025, with a maiden win and a listed-race placing at Dundalk in October, details that sharpened the view of both her consistency and her upside.

That combination is what made her so attractive in the ring. A stakes-placed Havana Grey filly already has immediate racetrack value, but Aegina’s profile also carries residual broodmare appeal if she continues to progress. For Elwick Stud, the purchase adds a filly with form, speed and black-type credentials at a time when the market is rewarding exactly that type of horse. Tattersalls catalogued 931 lots for the 2026 July Sale, which ran July 7-10, and Day 2 showed that buyers were still willing to spend heavily when the pedigree, performance and commercial profile lined up.