Champion Filly Porta Fortuna to be Offered at Tattersalls December Mares Sale

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Four-time Group 1 winner Porta Fortuna is set to headline this year's Tattersalls December Mares Sale. She will be consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency and will head the fourth edition of the Sceptre Sessions, which will be held on Monday, December 1 and Tuesday, December 2.

Trained by Donnacha O'Brien for a partnership consisting of Taylor Made's Medallion Racing, Steve Weston, Dean Reeves and Barry Fowler, the daughter of Caravaggio will be offered as the winner of eight of her 13 starts and nearly £1.3 in total prize-money.

A four-time winner as a juvenile, including the G3 Albany Stakes and G1 Cheveley Park Stakes, Porta Fortuna returned the following the year with a runner-up finish in the G1 1,000 Guineas, before winning at Royal Ascot for the second year in succession when beating five individual Group 1 winners in the G1 Coronation Stakes. That was the first of three consecutive Group 1 wins as a three-year-old as she followed it with dominant performances in the Falmouth Stakes and Matron Stakes.

“Porta Fortuna has given our Medallion partners, along with Steve, Dean and Barry, memories to last a lifetime,” Medallion racing manager Phillip Shelton said of the Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, who also won May's G2 Lanwades Stud Stakes on her sole outing as a four-year-old.

“We all feel incredibly lucky to have been a part of her journey. She was the most accomplished two-year-old filly of her generation, as the only filly with a Group 1 win and two other Group victories, as well as the only filly with a Group 1 win and Group 1 placings, with three Group 1 placings to her credit. She hit new heights as a three-year-old winning three consecutive Group 1s after a narrow defeat in the 1000 Guineas, culminating in being named Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old Filly.

“Full credit must go to Donnacha O'Brien and his team at Bawnmore Racing, who have campaigned her brilliantly. Our plan was always to sell at the end of her four-year-old year and we felt that Tattersalls was the perfect place to showcase a once-in-a-lifetime filly for our partners.”

Bred by Whisperview Trading Ltd, Porta Fortuna is the first foal out of Holy Roman Emperor's Too Precious, who is a full-sister to the triple Australian Group 2 winner and G1 Australian Cup runner-up Numerian, as well as the G3 Prix Francois Boutin third Montesilvano. This is also the family of the G1 St Leger-winning sire Milan and the Derby and Irish Derby hero and prolific sire Kahyasi.

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