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Click here<\/a> to add us to your Google preferred sources or find out more here<\/a><\/p>\n The Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale record was broken for the second time in 24 hours on Thursday when a half-brother to Talk The Talk<\/a> fetched a gasp-inducing \u20ac400,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tom Malone was involved from early in the piece as Paul Holden provided the first bit of resistance. As things began to get serious, Frank Berry, standing beside JP McManus on the top tier of the auditorium, entered the fray.\u00a0<\/p>\n Malone looked in a determined mood, particularly when signalling a bid of \u20ac300,000. However, Malone and the McManus camp were ultimately relegated to the role of underbidders after Mags O\u2019Toole and Rob Acheson, son of Robcour supremo Brian Acheson, made the unprecedented play of \u20ac400,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe looked at nearly every horse on the ground and Rob, who\u2019s a very good judge, said from day one, \u2018I don\u2019t know what we\u2019re buying here, but I know what we\u2019re not going home without,\u2019\u201d said O\u2019Toole.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI know it sounds an awful lot of money but four years ago Brighterdaysahead was \u20ac310,000 and others have made \u20ac350,000 and whatever, and that\u2019s the market. Nothing ever goes down in price. We\u2019re huge fans of Talk The Talk and this horse has everything; looks, movement, pedigree.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Also at the Derby Sale on Thursday:<\/p>\n ‘He was always going to make a lot of money’ – Kirk and Malone go toe-to-toe over \u20ac250,000 relation to Allaho<\/a><\/p>\n Already named Walk The Talk, the youngster was bred by Lune Vergette of Haras de Faydeau. He is by rising star sire Karaktar and is the second foal out of Walk The Walk. The dam\u2019s first offspring is Talk The Talk, winner of the Grade 1 Tattersalls Ireland Novice Hurdle during the Dublin Racing Festival. There is depth to the pedigree too as the mare is also a Walk In The Park sibling to the dam of Elimay and Goshen.<\/p>\n Rob Acheson shakes hands with John Bleahen after securing the half-brother to Talk The Talk<\/p>\n Acheson picked up the thread, saying: \u201cWe were both mad keen to get into the stallion again. We\u2019ve been waiting for the progeny of his better mares to come through as we\u2019ve had two so far [Kala Conti and Kamikaz Du Plessis] and they\u2019ve both won multiple races. We\u2019ve been playing the waiting game as it\u2019s been three years since we bought one.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAs Mags said, we saw pretty much everything here and he was just a standout. We\u2019ve actually tried to get into the family before with horses under the second dam but it hasn\u2019t come to fruition. When an opportunity comes along to get into a family you\u2019ve been desperate to get into, you have to give it a go.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Acheson said training plans would be made in due course, saying: \u201cHe\u2019s going to Paddy Kennedy to be broken and we\u2019ll make a decision about a trainer after that. The half-brother ran in a Grade 1 at four and he seems like a forward horse, so we\u2019ll get ready to kick on with him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Asked if they had expected to be pushed into such uncharted waters in terms of price, O\u2019Toole said: \u201cAbsolutely not! We got swept along, as did JP and Tom Malone. The standard of the horses here is just fabulous though and the market is hot, as it has been at all the sales this year. They\u2019ve produced some beautiful horses.\u201d<\/p>\n The record-breaking offering was sold by John Bleahen\u2019s Lakefield Farm, the same vendor who topped the Derby Sale with Brighterdaysahead in 2022.<\/p>\n Walk The Talk brings a record-breaking \u20ac400,000 <\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a dream,\u201d said an emotional Bleahen. \u201cI knew I had everybody in the place interested from the word go.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Explaining how he came to find the record-breaking youngster, Bleahen said: \u201cHe was a very lucky find. A lot of the credit goes to my brother Hugh, we owned him together. He spotted the horse first.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe was bred in France by Lune Vergette, who\u2019s a great lady and a great breeder. Dancing City came from her farm too so it\u2019s been very lucky for us. We looked at him together and bought him in ten seconds; it was an easy buy because you don\u2019t come across horses like him often.\u201d<\/p>\n Bleahen expanded on his perspective on the record-busting trade, saying: \u201cWhen you\u2019re buying these horses as foals, the dream is to get \u20ac80,000 or \u20ac100,000. That\u2019s the dream. You can never value those horses after \u20ac100,000. It was massive to see JP appearing here himself, the whole racing industry owes him so much. Tom Malone is an absolute legend and so plucky, he kept coming back, and Mags O\u2019Toole and Robcour, they\u2019re fabulous people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He also credited the work his team put in at the County Galway operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI have probably the best guy in the whole world working for me in Wesley Hayes,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s my eyes and ears and takes care of the whole thing. I don\u2019t want to sound like Aidan O\u2019Brien, but the team needs so much credit because they live and breathe these horses.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He added: \u201cI didn\u2019t have any stress. The only stress was that Luke and I forgot to set the reserve! He had a \u20ac50,000 reserve because they\u2019re here to be sold. If he\u2019s anything like the last one, Brighterdaysahead, it\u2019d be great.\u201d<\/p>\n More Derby Sale stories:\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘He was always going to make a lot of money’ – Kirk and Malone go toe-to-toe over \u20ac250,000 relation to Allaho<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"Rob](\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/_next\/image\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com%2Fprod-media-racingpost%2Fprod%2Fimages%2F169_1008%2Ff2bcd3d3e99c-img5953.jpg&w=3840&q=75\"\/)
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