Renaissance Lady tops Tattersalls July Sale at 500,000 guineas

Renaissance Lady topped the opening day of the Tattersalls July Sale at 500,000 guineas, with Ace Stud landing the filly online after Tally-Ho Stud had pushed the bidding to 475,000 guineas. The 3-year-old bay, Lot 228 and foaled on 3 May 2023, was offered at Park Paddocks in Newmarket, Suffolk, where the heatwave did nothing to cool the trade for the right sort of mare.

The price made sense on pedigree alone. By Pinatubo out of Reem Three, Renaissance Lady came with a page loaded with residual value, the sort that matters most when buyers are shopping for future broodmare power rather than immediate racecourse returns. Tattersalls identified her as a half-sister to Group 1 winners Triple Time and Ajman Princess, with Ajman Princess the dam of Commonwealth Cup winner Inisherin. She is also a half-sister to Rosaline, dam of European champion three-year-old miler Rosallion, and her family includes Group 2 winner Ostilio, Group 3 winner Cape Byron, and Listed winners Third Realm and Captain Winters. The filly was bred by the late Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, adding another layer of significance to a family already proven at the highest level.

Renaissance Lady was not the only Godolphin filly drawing serious money. BloodHorse said Godolphin sold 28 lots during the session for gross receipts of 2,264,500 guineas, while Breednet noted that the draft of 28 fillies and mares supplied the four highest-priced lots of the day. That put hard numbers behind the sense that demand at the top of the market was firm, even if the bidding stayed selective. The same draft produced Wild Angel, the Too Darn Hot filly that made 400,000 guineas before Renaissance Lady moved above her.

Ace Stud’s double strike on Godolphin’s top two lots underlined the scale of its buying. The UK-based breeding operation run by Harris Li and Yuefang Zhang took the session’s first and second highest-priced horses for a combined 900,000 guineas, with both purchases tied to Pinatubo. Renaissance Lady was the headline, but the broader signal was just as clear: elite female families still commanded major money when the page, the sire and the market lined up.