Horses under the hammer as Britain's first female bloodstock auctioneer makes debut

Shirley Anderson-Jolag said she felt ‘as sick arsenic a dog’ earlier becoming the archetypal pistillate to merchantability a equine astatine a nationalist thoroughbred auction successful Britain oregon Ireland astatine Tattersalls successful Newmarket

History has been made astatine the bloodstock income aft a pistillate conducted an auction for the archetypal time.

Shirley Anderson-Jolag stepped onto the celebrated rostrum astatine Park Paddocks successful Newmarket astatine the Tattersalls December Foal Sale to go Britain’s archetypal pistillate bloodstock auctioneer.

The merchantability of batch 211, a filly by Ubettabelieveit, did not interruption immoderate terms barriers, but the auction volition unrecorded agelong successful the past books arsenic she became the archetypal equine sold by a pistillate auctioneer astatine Tattersalls and astatine a nationalist thoroughbred merchantability successful Britain oregon Ireland.

The filly's palmy merchantability produced a circular of applause and, erstwhile Anderson-Jolag emerged from the rostrum aft selling her draught of 5 lots, she was astatine a flimsy nonaccomplishment for words and a small flooded with emotion.

"When I decided that this is what I wanted to do, it has been 2 years of practising, with a bully coagulated twelvemonth of signifier with Edmond [Mahony]," she said.

"Harvey Bell has been truly helpful, too, and I person sold cattle, antiques, sold aft auction races and astatine foundation events.

“About a twelvemonth and a fractional agone it was Hannah Wall and David Redvers who gave maine my archetypal foundation auction astatine a hunt shot – they benignant of made maine bash it, which was large arsenic I would astir apt person said no."

She added: "It has been thing but affirmative from everyone, and I americium gladsome I person yet done it. Standing down Edmond to spell up to the beforehand of the rostrum I felt arsenic sick arsenic a dog, but I knew I had the enactment of radical and, erstwhile I saw radical coming into the ring, that made maine truly happy, it was lovely. Once I got that archetypal batch nether my belt, I was okay."

Anderson-Jolag is simply a longstanding subordinate of the Tattersalls squad having started with the institution successful 2015, she has since played a cardinal relation successful processing and promoting Tattersalls income astatine Cheltenham, successful summation to her caller relation arsenic UK Client Relations liaison for Tattersalls Ireland.

Earlier this twelvemonth she was promoted to Sales Manager of Tattersalls Cheltenham, a relation which she has settled into seamlessly and precocious enjoyed her archetypal merchantability successful her caller absorption relation astatine the Tattersalls Cheltenham November Sale wherever beardown commercialized was seen throughout.

An progressive owner/breeder successful some the Flat and National Hunt spheres, Anderson-Jolag has been instrumental successful the maturation of the Tattersalls Cheltenham Sales successful caller years and has established beardown relationships with vendors and purchasers successful some markets.

Auctioneering has been an ambition of Anderson-Jolag’s for implicit 2 years and she has developed the accomplishment alongside her day-to-day responsibilities within.

She said she is hopeful that Tuesday’s debut volition promote further females into the unsocial relation of bloodstock auctioneering.

Anderson-Jolag returns to the rostrum connected Saturday for a stint connected the past time of foals and she added: "Hopefully, successful 5 years it volition beryllium the norm, and loads of women volition beryllium doing this.

“It did measurement connected maine a spot coming into day, but lone for affirmative reasons due to the fact that I wanted to beryllium bully for different women coming through."