It is the best price the stud has achieved for a filly in the Tattersalls sale ring, the third-best price overall and the farm's best since 2017 (top price 600,000gns in 2015 for a colt by Exceed And Excel).

"She has been the busiest horse we have ever brought to the sales in terms of showing, she has had so many vets, and everyone said she is beautiful," said Michelle Morgan. "We knew we had a lovely filly, we came with two nice fillies, we had a pinhooked Kodiac in Book 1 [Lot 36, 260,000], and they have both sold well. Hopefully, they both go on and are nice adverts for the stud."

Of the mare's sole runner to date, Queens Guard (Havana Grey), who has won since the catalogue was published, she said: "She won but did not get black-type for us ahead of this sale, but she was declared for the Lowther Stakes and was a non-runner because of the ground. Hopefully, the pair of them can go on and do great things next year.

"I am a natural-born worrier and it is incredible when they reach their reserves and the market appreciates them, the important thing now is what they do on the track."

Of her mare So Brave, who traces back to a Juddmonte pedigree of Interval: "We bought her grand-dam Valiantly at the December Sale 2004 from Juddmonte. You can never really go wrong with those Juddmonte families.

"So Brave was a lovely quick filly, unfortunately she was injured and did not fulfil her potential. Queen Guard by Havana Grey was also a lovely yearling [Lot 1499, 125,000gns] and sold in Book 3 last year. So Brave has now got a beautiful Pinatubo colt foal and is in-foal to Blue Point."

Morgan added: "We always try and buy a couple of foals every year, but pinhooking is difficult – it is hard to find what you want and then afford them. So we try and do a bit of both, and we have seven in-foal mares for next year."

Buyer Ben McElroy, standing outside the ring in the glorious autumn sunshine, said: "She has been bought for Stonestreet and goes to the training facility in Florida. We will assess her through the winter and spring and make a decision on trainer in February or March. She looks a real Royal Ascot type. Her sister is a two-year-old winner, we have bought a couple of Showcasings before for Barbara [Banke]and they have all shown a lot of ability. This filly, hopefully, will be the same."

Of his business through the last ten days, he said:"We bought four in Book 1, then I kinda kept my powder dry for Book 2 as we are looking for a particular type of filly...I am so glad we waited. We might try and get one or two more, it is hard to find then looking like that." (17:23)

At last year's Tattersalls Somerville Sale, and with Stroud Coleman Bloodstock, he purchased a Tamayuz filly for 26,000gns. She was subsequently named Woodhay Wonder and has since gone on to win three races, including two lucrative Tattersalls-sponsored races – the Somerville Auction Stakes in August and last weekend's October Auction Stakes. She has won over £151,000 in earnings.

Today Ward, again with Stroud Coleman, spends 60,000gns on a colt by Territories and out of Sami (Champs Elysees), sold by The Castlebridge Consignment.

Bred by Brook Stud Bloodstock Ltd, the yearling is a full-brother to one winner, the only runner so far for the mare, and she is a half-sister to three black-type individuals, including the Listed-winning, Group 3-placed Nell Gwyn third-placed Festivale (Invincible Spirit). (16:13)

"She goes to Ed Walker," said Sackville. 'Obviously there is plenty of depth through the second dam and Pintaubo is an exciting young sire. Seagull is daughter of Sea The Stars, has had four winners from four runners and all have been highly rated." (15:34)

Rose Bonheur was bought by Ben Sangster to race and he has retained the Danehill Dancer filly as a broodmare, breeding all of her seven foals of which five are race winners.

The filly's second dam is the Group 1 Moyglare Stakes runner-up Red Feather (Marju). She was bred by Michael Dalton and sold to the Castlemartin/Skymarc Farms as a yearling. The late Lady O'Reilly raced Red Feather and Castlemartin Stud and Skymarc Farm has bred all of her offspring. (14:58)

Carwyn Johns, who is at Tattersalls overseeing the quintet of horses, was all smiles admitting he could not have asked for a better start. The new operation will be run out of Denis and Clare Barry's Wiltshire-based Glebe Farm Stud, where Johns has been working for the last seven years. He and his partner Amy Wilkinson are set to sign the lease on the stables in the near future, and was selling this colt on behalf of the Barrys.

"We bought the mare here for Denis and Clare from Shadwell carrying him, and Shadwell has purchased today – it has gone full circle and this colt has gone home!" smiled Johns, whose Greyridge Bloodstock only started trading this year. "He was the big one for us for the year. We bought the mare with Tom Biggs of Blandford Bloodstock."

Johns started out in the bloodstock industry on the National Stud Diploma, then spent time with Ted Voute, Coolmore America, Chasemore Farm and Tweenhills, and has been at Glebe for the past seven years.

"Denis will keep a few mares with us and we are not far from Whitsbury so we can board mares going to the stallions. It is a great opportunity to take on the farm and we are very much looking forward to this upcoming breeding season," he said, adding: "We have prepped 15 this year, which has gone quite well so far. Amy is at home holding the fort this week."

Ridaa was purchased by the Berrys for 135,000gns from the Shadwell dispersal at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale 2021. She is a descendant of Roseate Tern, winner of the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and purchased from breeder Lord Porchester by Sheikh Hamdan after she concluded her racing career.

For any breeders looking for boarding facilities near to Havana Grey – the farm is 65 acres, there are around 15 permanent boarders and 32 boxes for prepping yearlings and foaling mares. (14:12)

He is out of Regal Splendour Pivotal, the dam of the Zetland Stakes (G3) runner-up Recovery Run. and a daughter of the dual Group 3 winner Regal Realm. It is the direct family of the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) winner Regal Rose.

"He is a beautiful colt has been show more times than any other horse I have bought to sale," said Chris Richardson, managing director of Cheveley Park Stud, the farm having enjoyed a fabulous Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) victory at the weekend with Inspiral.

"He walked for fun, has a great mind and I am very grateful to Anthony Stroud, the underbidder and to Najd Stud and wish them the best of luck. Sons of Shamardal have really caught the imagination this season through Blue Point, and we have supported him and Pinatubo strongly."

The pedigree has also gained the latest of updates, Richardson outlined: "Regal Jubilee, who is by Frankel and out of Regal Realm [second dam] won by 7l on just her second career start this afternoon at Windsor for John and Thady Gosden."

The Racing Post report says, "The choicely bred filly is in top hands and should be one to look forward to next season." (13:51)

She was bred by Ickworth Stud, and is the first foal out of the two-time winner Queenhope (Kendarent), an own-sister to the Group 3 winner and Group 1 placed Kenhope, and out of a half-sister to the Bedford Set, a champion two-year-old and three-year-old filly in Germany.

The family traces back to the blue hen mare Flame Of Tara, the dam of the Group 1 winners Salsabil and Marju, both of whom were owned by Sheikh Hamdan.

Queenhope was bred Guy Pariente, owner of Haras de Colleville. She was purchased as a yearling by Patrick Barbe in 2018 and raced before she was sold to Blue Day Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Sale in 2021 for 65,000gns. She was again sold at this year's February Sale bought by Hugo Merry for Blue Diamond Stud at 140,000gns.

This spring, Queenhope had a filly foal by New Bay and was covered by Teofilo. (13:22)

"He is a lovely colt," said Tom Blain of Barton Stud. "Ghaiyyath is looking very promising at this early stage and Dutch Art is prolific as a broodmare sire. He has been sold for some clients and is a good result, we are delighted."

The colt was pinhooked as a foal last year for €82,000. (12:25)

The farm got itself another result this morning with its Too Darn Hot colt out of Precious Ramotswe (Nathaniel) bought by Anthony Stroud for 350,000gns. He signed as Stroud Coleman and the colt is going to John Gosden, who trained Too Darn Hot.

The mare is a daughter of the Listed winner Miss Pinkerton (Danehill) and is a grand-daughter of Rebecca Sharp, winner of the Coronation Stakes (G1) and placed second in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1). It is the extended family of the 2015 champion three-year-old colt Golden Horn.

James Frank, Hascombe's stud manager, said: "He has always been a free-moving individual. He was born on the farm, raised nicely, done well, the last three weeks he has really flourished. When he came here he showed himself well and he deserved that price. He has done what we thought he should do."

Of the nine-year-old Precious Ramotswe, who has had one winner from one runner, he said: "She is very gentle, she is very caring, very laid back. She can be in a field and you wouldn't notice her, she just gets on her life. They are the best ones. We are hoping she is going to produce more for us."

The mare has a Time Test filly foal at foot and was covered this spring by Sea The Stars.

And reflecting on the Book 1 and Book 2 sale so far, he said: "You prep these horses and you think they are going to make some money, and when they make such an amount of money, then the hard work is rewarded.

"We have come to the sales before and horses have not sold to what we thought they should, and this year we managed to sell everything in Book 1 and everything so far in Book 2. Hopefully, we keep this going!"

He added: "Sometimes when you keep them on the stud and you do not know their value, at the moment we do. The team effort is brilliant, we go from foaling to yearling stage and the concentration this year on the yearlings has been very high. After the last one sells on Wednesday we can go home and have a good night's sleep!" (11:52)

The Dubawi filly had been due to sell as Lot 12 in Book 1, but was withdrawn. Breeder Damien Burns of Lodge Park explained the circumstances that forced a change of plan.

He said: "She got on the lorry, and she was doing a little bit of jumping round, nothing unusual for any yearling, but the video from the next door stall and our best guess is that her headcollar got caught and she cut her jaw. This happened as they were going down the driveway! She came off the lorry and went back to her stable, she was fine but had the laceration on her jaw.

"We took her down to Fethard, they stitched her up, kept her overnight and she ate up fine. She got back home, and she was back out in her paddock. The Friday before Book 1 we got in touch with Tattersalls and the transporters and said, 'Look we think this filly will be ok.'

"The wheels were set in motion to come here for today. Aalot of thanks goes to the guys at home, we were over here with Book 1, they did a great job – there was a drain on her cut and they had to deal with that – got her back on the box, and get her travelled. She arrived on Wednesday morning and she was showing by Wednesday lunchtime – she is actually a quiet filly!"

He added: "Thanks also to Tattersalls for accommodating this, I think it helped being a week in front so we had time. We discussed everything and waiting for the December Sale was the original thought. It might have also meant us putting a saddle on her, but usually we don't keep them out of young mares, we are a commercial stud so we let them start paying their way. We let them get a few foals sold – they are easier to look at when they have paid for themselves!"

Of this filly as an individual Burns said: "She is quite typical Dubawi, but with a bit more action than some, which she gets from her dam line, that bit of quality. She vetted very well – the family does tend to vet well, I don't know why, those hidden genetics you can't see!

"The family has been very good to us – the Night Of Thunder (Lot 129) who sold for 400,000gns is from another branch. We have Park Bloom, Stellar Glow and a Dark Angel four-year-old filly called Express Way who won her sole start. She is in-foal to Night Of Thunder, Park Bloom has a Wootton Bassett on the ground and is in-foal to Baaeed."

Buy Anthony Stroud said: “She’s a very nice filly out of a Galileo mare. She moved very well and has a good outlook. Obviously she’s by Dubawi, who’s an unbelievable stallion. She’s bred on a good cross and comes from a very good farm, so we’re very lucky to receive her. She compares very favourably with the stock on offer at Book 1, she’s a lovely filly. She’s very classy.

“They did very well to get her here this week, there’s a scar under her jaw but the vets have clearly done a very good job. She’s behaved incredibly well, especially considering she’s been through a lot.”

It is Godophin's fifth purchase of a Dubawi yearling over Book 1 and Book 2 for a spend of 3,400,000gns. (11:39)

Of course, Ballyhimikin sold the Ghaiyyath colt out of Tickled Pink (Lot 151) for 1,050,000gns to Godolphin last week and the consignor's six lots sold achieved a turnover of 2,415,000gns and an average price of 402,500gns. (11:04)

Catalogued: 532

Offered: 470

Sold: 391

Total: 95,395,000gns (-25%)

Median: 180,000gns (-10%)

Average: 243,977gns (-18%)

% Sold: 83%

Leading purchasers (cumulative, by agg): 1. Godolphin, 2. Blandford Bloodstock, 3. M V Magnier & White Birch Farm,

Leading consignors (cumulative, by agg): 1. Newsells Park Stud, 2. Watership Down Stud, 3. Ballylinch Stud

Leading consignors (by av, two or more sold): 1. Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd, 2. Ballyphilip Stud, 3. Newsells Park Stud

Leading sires (cumulative, by agg): 1. Frankel, 2. Wootton Bassett, 3. Lope De Vega

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Frankel, 2. Dubawi, 3. Lope De Vega

Book 1 top five lots

1. Lot 266: Frankel / Bizzarria b,c. >> Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd >> M V Magnier & White Birch Farm >> 2,000,000gns**

2. Lot 492: Frankel / Millisle ch,f. >> Watership Down Stud >> Shadwell Estate Company >> 1,600,000gns

3. Lot 240: Blue Point / Anna Law b,c. >> Ballyphilip Stud >> Godolphin >> 1,500,000gns

4. Lot 352: Wootton Bassett / Entreat br,c. >> Clara Stud >> M V Magnier & White Birch Farm >> 1,250,000gns

5. Lot 260: Lope de Vega / Bella Estrella b,c. >> Ballylinch Stud >> Sumbe >> 1,100,000

** the highest-priced yearling sold in Europe this year (10:00)

"Nevertheless, Europe’s premier yearling sale has enjoyed plenty of memorable moments very much reflecting the quality of the yearlings which have been on show throughout the past three days.

“Year on year the consignors show enormous faith in Book 1 of the October Yearling Sale with the sale showcasing the very best that Europe has to offer and yet again we have seen so many of the world’s leading owners competing for the finest Turf-bred yearlings to be found anywhere in the world.

"Amongst them have been a greater number of yearlings selling for 1 million guineas or more than all other European yearling sales combined, Europe’s highest-priced yearling yet again and 40 yearlings selling for in excess of 500,000 guineas, which similarly is more than all other European yearlings sales to date this year.

“As ever, Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale has attracted buyers from throughout the world, so many of them drawn annually to Park Paddocks by the consistent success of Book 1 horses at the highest level on the global stage. In the course of the past three days buyers from Abu Dhabi, Australia, Bahrain, China, Dubai, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the USA have all made significant contributions at all levels of the market confirming the unparalleled esteem in which the finest European yearlings are held and specifically those found annually at this particular sale.

"This is a sale that produces stallions and breed-shaping broodmares on an annual basis and it is the sale's unrivalled reputation which annually makes this fixture an unmissable event for so many of the most influential thoroughbred owners in the world.

“Amongst the success stories and numerous pinhooking triumphs, there has nevertheless been a selectivity to the market which we must recognise. Last year’s game-changing October Book 1 was always going to be a challenging target, and so it has proved with the sale turnover some way short of the massive 2022 total, but the median has held up well, second only to last year’s record level, the average of almost 250,000 guineas is an impressive figure and the clearance rate in excess of 80 per cent is a solid number.

"We extend our gratitude as ever to the consignors and purchasers alike whose support is what makes Newmarket and Tattersalls a true hub for the European bloodstock industry and we look forward to seeing this year’s crop of October Book 1 yearlings competing globally at the highest level as well as earning their owners in Britain and Ireland yet more lucrative £25,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonuses.

“In the meantime, we now turn our attention to Books 2, 3 and 4 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale which commences on Monday, October 9 with a quality three-day catalogue for Book 2 which is a sale with a rich history for producing outstanding racehorses, including the likes of 2022 Derby winner DESERT CROWN, EMILY UPJOHN, Hong Kong superstar ROMANTIC WARRIOR and this year’s outstanding two-year-olds BIG EVS and IBERIAN." (09:00)

Catalogued: 177

Offered: 156

Sold: 133

Total: 29,158,000gns (-35%)

Median: 155,000gns (-35%)

Average: 219,233gns (-32%)

% Sold: 85%

Today's top five

1. Lot 492: Frankel / Millisle ch,f. >> Watership Down Stud >> Shadwell Estate Company >> 1,600,000gns

2. Lot 483: Frankel / Materialistic b,c. >> Fittocks Stud >> M V Magnier & White Birch Farm >> 950,000gns

3. Lot 376: Dark Angel / Futoon gr,f. >> Grangemore Stud, Ireland >> Sumbe >> 850,000gns

4. Lot 470: Dubawi / Luminate b,f. >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Godolphin >> 800,000gns

5. Lot 371: Frankel / Foxtrot Liv b,c. >> Voute Sales Ltd. (Agent) >> BBA Ireland >> 650,000gns (18:29)

Angus Gold said outside the sale ring: "She is a lovely first foal, I saw her on the farm and loved her. I loved her every time we saw her here as did Sheikha Hissa. We knew she'd make a lot of money, but we need some fillies for the stud and a first foal out of Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) winner and by a great stallion, it was sort of fairly self-explanatory. She seems very athletic, very well-balanced and has a very good mind, so now she has got to be able to run!"

Of the current strategic plans for Shadwell, he outlined:"It is period of rebuilding, it is long term project for Sheikha Hissa. We have been lucky this year with the older horses, and Sheikha Hissa is happy to take a different route to her father Sheikh Hamdan who did not like to keep the older horses and she is prepared to if we think there is more to come, and she has been rewarded with a Group 1 winner. It is exciting times for the stud, but you have to keep regenerating."

Gold added: " Sheikha Hissa has loved coming here, I think she could stand looking at the horses all day if someone did not come and move her! She loves coming to see the yearlings , we saw them all on Monday and she has been back over the three days to see horses again. She is picking it up very quickly, like her father, and really enjoys the business."

Simon Marsh, general manager of Watership Down Stud, said: "She is a beautiful filly she was born and raised at Kiltinan Stud, our farm in the Ireland, and has never put a foot wrong all her life. There were a lot of people interested in her – it is extremely rare to have filly out of a Cheveley Park winner come up for sale, and to be as attractive as she is. It is a lot more than we thought she would make, but ultimately I am not surprised.

"She is very similar to the mare, and she belongs to Francis Jennings. His father Jerry Jennings was a wonderful breeder and produced Sorbus, who became a foundation mare for Juddmonte. He also bred Eurobird and very good horses who mhe bred from his farm in Northern Ireland. We have had the mares at Kiltinan Stud for the last 15 years, and Francis bred Millisle and raced her. It is just reward for Francis and his family and for putting the enormous trust in us to raise the horses.

"Millisle has a two-year-old full-sister [Emerald Banner], who runs in a Listed race at Dundalk tomorrow, and Millisle has a Frankel foal on the ground and is in-foal to No Nay Never."

Of the purchase by Shadwell, Marsh added: "Sheikha Hissa has taken on the racing operation and Sheikh Hamdan's legacy and to see the horses running as well as they have over the last two years is a real tribute to him, it is wonderful that she is taking things forward again." (17:32)

"It is a great family, and this colt has always been a fantastic horse," said breeder Luca Cumani. "Right from the moment he was born, he has looked strong and has been a wonderful horse all the way through. We sold a by colt Frankel to MV Magnier last year and he won yesterday [Euphoric out of Blue Waltz] – he was very green and was always going to take a while.

"The guys from the farm will be so delighted. It is a great result and we are so grateful to the people who support us and work with us."

Sara Cumani added: "Materialistic is back in-foal to Frankel. Her three-year-old with John Gosden called Naaey is going to run in the Pride Stakes on Saturday week, they plan to keep her in training next year."

The family stretches to the leading performers such as Magic Wand and Chiquita and the Cumanis said: "It is a family that has been very good to us."

Luca Cumani bought Sulk, the dam of Puce in 2000, and recalls that "I got a hell of a bollocking then for spending so much money!" he said, adding: "Thank god it has worked out so well, and so many of the mares that have done really well, they have been culls. For example, Platonic struggled to win a race until she was a four-year-old – and look what she has produced! We owe this family a hell of a lot." (17:25)

It has been a good week for Merry Fox – the farm earlier selling (with The Castlebridge Consignment) the Lope De Vega colt out of Cursory Glance for 850,000gns to MV Magnier and White Birch Farm (Lot 298).

Luminate was bought at the 2018 December Mares Sale for 900,000gns by John Warren and this is her third foal.

Craig Bennett said: "Luminate was the first we bought in partnership with Newsells. She is a lovely walking mare and she passes that walk on. It is the first of hers we have brought to market and we have been very well paid for a good home. It is great cross, the Rainbow Quest in the second generation really suits the sire, particularly for fillies.

"The mare is in-foal to Lope De Vega with a filly, and we are just working out plans for next year. She does not have a foal. Her second foal who is called Highland Spring has been placed and is a winner in waiting and, hopefully, he will be a very nice three-year-old."

Reflecting on his trade this year, he said: "Last year we sold two for over a million and this year we have sold all four we brought here so I am very pleased. I think you have to match the physical to the book, and if you get it right you should be ok."

Anthony Stoud said: "We thought she is a very nice physical, she walks well and by Dubawi and one of the nicest by him at the sale and from Newsells, which is such a good nursery. It was a price that was fair to the person buying and to the person selling, it came within the budget." (17:07)

The mare had winning form in France as a juvenile and that was an important part of the Henley's decision to purchase the mare as a potential broodmare for their farm.

"It was my husband really, he almost insisted that we buy her," recalled Henley. "He has criteria we are thinking of buying that the horses must meet – the mare must be a winner at two, she must have achieved a certain rating and there must be black-type in the first dam, which she actually did not have. But she was a first foal and there were some nice horses coming, and in the end it was model and ratings that bought her – every other horse we were interested in was too expensive. But she is a really tough mare, and strong mentally and the whole pedigree has just exploded since."

The mare has since bred six winners from six runners, including three black-type winners headed by the Group 3 horse Seisai. She has also produced the Group 3-placed Micro Manage. They are all by a range of stallions and Henley said: "You can put her to anything, she is not fussy about her sires! She can produce racehorses – they are usually solid, sound of mind and tough. And they are all still running, and they keep going."

Under the filly's second dam are two Group 1 winners – Mont Ormel, winner of the Grand Prix de Paris, and Pyledriver, winner of the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Coronation Cup – while Linngari, winner of Group1s in Germany and Italy, is out of the filly's her third dam.

The May-born filly is actually listed as bred by her husband Peter, John Connolly (her father) and Pattern Bloodstock, which is Hanshen Tham's bloodstock company.

"Hanshen took a share in the mare after buying her Mehmas foal Magnanimous," outlined Henley, who was selling in Book 1 for the first time and was enjoying her biggest result in the sale ring.

The decision to send Lillebonne to Night Of Thunder was claimed by Tham, who said: "She deserved a good mating," before joking: "They went to all sorts of random stallion before 😉, and this the only thing I can take the credit for!"

Lillebonne has no foal at foot and is in-foal to Saxon Warrior, her Listed-winning daughter Thornbrook, also by Saxon Warrior, retained by the Henleys and to stay in training for 2024 with the hope of more to come on the racecourse.

The filly. consigned by Baroda Stud, was bought by L.E.B, and Will Farish of the US-based Lane's End Bloodstock has been at Tattersalls this week on buying duties.

"She is just a beautiful filly, we have liked her since we got here, it has been a long wait!" said Farish. "We tried on a couple of others but we always had our eye on her.

"The like that she has some size and Night Of Thunder has proven that he can do it in the US. We are not sure of plans for this filly, we might leave over here as a two-year-old or we might ship her straight, we will discuss." (16:22)

She is out of the Fastnet Rock mare Hundi, a half-sister to the Irish St Leger (G1) winner Flag Of Honour, the Minstrel Stakes (G3) winner Air Chief Marshal and the Listed winner Slip Dance.

"She is a special filly and Mrs Thompson was very taken with her and we are very happy to have bought her," said Chris Richardson, managing director of Cheveley Park Stud. "She is beautifully balanced, lovely movement, great quality head and by a very successful sire in Sea The Stars and offers a pedigree that will be one to keep for breeding in the future.

"We bought a Blue Point earlier in the sale from Ballyhimikin Stud [Lot 378], a sharper type. We have a Classic type and a faster sort, we are pleased to have bought the two, it is very exciting to secure two very nice fillies."

The filly was bred by New England, Sir P Vela and Sunderland Holding. Hundi was bought by BBA Ireland at the October Sale 2013 from Barronstown Stud for 270,000gns. She was raced by The Hon Mrs P Stanley and Sir Peter Vela when she achieved a best BHA of 93, and won her maiden over 6f at Salisbury.

Sea The Stars has just two lots left to sell (Lot 485 and Lot 526) – the 20 sold so far at the sale by the Aga Khan Stud-based sire are averaging 280,750gns and have sold for a gross of 5,615,000gns. (13:56)

The filly's dam Hadaatha (Sea The Stars) was bought at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale from the Shadwell Stud dispersal by De Burgh Equine for 400,000gns. She boats a Listed race victory but also a third place in the Prix de l'Opera (G1).

All three dams on the page carrying large black-type ... granddam Hathrah (Linamix) won the Masaka Stakes (L), was second in the May Hill Stakes (G2) and third in the 1,000 Guineas (G1).

She was bred by Kildaragh Stud and was bought by Shadwell at the October Yearling Sale in 2002 for 340,000gns.

The third dam Zivania, bred by Citadel Stud Establishment, was Listed placed on three occasions. She was bought and raced by Kildaragh and is also ancestress of Lot 4, a colt by Churchill and from an arm of the family still under Kildaragh's tenure. (13:30)

The filly was bred and sold by Grangemore Stud and Guy O'Callaghan said: "We are delighted with that price. She has always been a spectacular filly at home – we are thrilled with the price she made and thrilled with the farm who has got her. She has been a pleasure to do, we had to come over to Tattersalls a day early because of the storm last week – she has been here nine days and not put a foot wrong, it is a lot for a yearling to take and she has been a class act.

"She is very similar to the other siblings, but probably the best – they have all so great out of the mare but there was just something about her."

Recalling the 100,000gns purchase of Futoon (Kodiac), O'Callaghan said: "My brother David and I bought her here as a four-year-old off the track from Stephen Hillen and Kevin Ryan. We were following her as a racehorse, we were very keen to get her at the sales. She has been a very lucky mare ever since. She comes from a real fast family, there was already a good Dark Angel in the family and she made so much sense" (12:27)

"He is a very good-looking colt, the whole team was impressed with him and we thought he was the best of the Frankels," said BBA Ireland's Michael Donohoe, who was following the sale remotely. "He is a good physical, looks precocious and, if he is a good two-year-old with Best Of Days and Foxwedge in the pedigree, he could be very desirable as a stallion in both hemispheres."

"He is a lovely colt and I am delighted, he has been bought by Yulong," said Voute. "He is a good walker, vetted well – he had three or four vets going in – and has been very straightforward here. He is very attractive, neat colt who looks like could run early."

Foxtrot Liv, who had a rating of 103 at her best, was bought here at the 2019 December Mares Sale by Charlie Gordon Watson for 400,000gns (12:15)

A smiling Charlie Vigors said: "It is a fantastic price and am very grateful to Godolphin, Ed Sackville as underbidder and Richard Brown, who was involved in the bidding as well. He is a lovely colt and some excellent judges were on him and we are delighted.

"Sea The Stars needs no introduction, and she was a very good race mare herself – a Group 3 and Listed winner over 7f and a mile. We felt the whole package would tie together, and that he would suit her. She duly produced a cracking first foal, he was foaled and reared the whole way through at Hillwood, so it is extra special."

The colt was bred by a syndicate called Stone Roses Bloodstock, but Vigors deflected any claims that the members of breeding group are big fans of the Manchester-based [excellent] 1980s Indie rock band.

"I'd like to say that we are very trendy, and I did like them, but actually the first mare we bought for this syndicate was called Stone Roses, so sadly it is not as trendy as it might sound!" laughed Vigors.

It was a fine sale result for Feliciana De Vega's debut yearling offering, and it will a couple of years until her next progeny comes to Tattersalls as she was barren this year. She is now in-foal to Kingman. (11:33)

Catalogued: 178

Offered: 160

Sold: 134

Total: 35,599,000gns (-28%)

Median: 195,000gns (-3%)

Average: 265,664gns (-23%)

% Sold: 84%

Leading purchasers (cumulative, by agg): 1. Godolphin, 2. M V Magnier & White Birch Farm, 3. Blandford Bloodstock

Leading consignors (cumulative, by agg): 1. Newsells Park Stud, 2. Ballylinch Stud, 3. Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd

Leading consignors (by av, two or more sold): 1. Ballyphilip Stud, 2. Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd, 3. Ballyhimikin Stud

Leading sires (cumulative, by agg): 1. Frankel, 2. Lope De Vega, 3. Wootton Bassett

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Frankel, 2. Dubawi, 3. Lope De Vega

Today's top five

1. Lot 266: Frankel / Bizzarria b,c. >> Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd >> M V Magnier & White Birch Farm >> 2,000,000gns**

2. Lot 240: Blue Point / Anna Law b,c. >> Ballyphilip Stud >> Godolphin >> 1,500,000gns

3. Lot 352: Wootton Bassett / Entreat br,c. >> Clara Stud >> M V Magnier & White Birch Farm >> 1,250,000gns

4. Lot 260: Lope de Vega / Bella Estrella b,c. >> Ballylinch Stud >> Sumbe >> 1,100,000gns

5. Lot 200: Kingman / Without You Babe b,c. >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd >> Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock >> 900,000gns

** the highest-priced yearling sold in Europe this year (19:20)

Breeder James Cloney of CN Farm Ltd was at Tattersalls to see the colt go through the ring, the February-born colt consigned by his family's County Kilkenny-based Clara Stud, which is run by his father-in-law Micheal Nolan.

"The horse really sold himself, he is a lovely horse," said Cloney. "It is a once in a lifetime to have such a beautiful horse, he is the right shape, the right size, has the right walk and the right pedigree."

Cloney, with BBA Ireland, purchased Entreat for just 14,000gns at the Tattersalls July Sale 2016 from Cheveley Park Stud. She was sold in-foal to Lethal Force, a covering that produced Golden Horde. She has since produced Line Of Departure to a covering by Mehmas in 2017 – he won the 2021 running of the Cathedral Stakes (L) – as well as two further winners.

The mare's first stakes winner was the 2015-born and Cheveley Park-bred Exhort. She won the Pipalong Stakes (L) and was placed 10 times, including four times in Listed races.

In total Entreat has had seven winners from eight runners.

"Entreat is a special mare and just really produces top quality stock. We all have the same dream, thank god has it come through!" laughed Cloney.

He added: "Entreat has a beautiful Dark Angel filly foal, but she is barren at the moment. We also have a daughter at home called Dutch Treaty." (19:03)

The Summerhill Bloodstock-bred colt by Teofilo, out of the Listed Dragon Stakes runner-up Ejaazah and a grandson of Sweet Solera (G3) winner English Ballet, was pinhooked by the boys for 68,000gns.

This year the Tradewinds graduate Beautiful Diamond, bought at the 2022 Somerville Sale for 30,000gns and breezed up this spring, finished third in the Queen Mary Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot and won the Harry Rosebery Stakes (L) in September.

The colt is only the second horse offered by the pair in Book 1 (last year they sold a Caravaagio colt for 90,000gns to Highclere) and there is one more lot catalogued this year – Lot 523 a filly by Nathaniel and out of Nibbling, a 38,000gns pinhook. Next week Tradewinds has four lots due to sell in Book 2 and one in Book 3. (18:22)

The March filly is out of the winning Dream Ahead mare Dream Dana and is a half-sister to the winning Group 2 Coventry Stakes runner-up Army Ethos, as well two further winners.

Bred by Plantation Stud, she was pinhooked by RC BS for 58,000gns here in December. (18:02)

The March-born bay yearling, bred by Thomas Foy & Lope de Vega Syndicate, was sold by Chasemore Farm who pinhooked him for 140,000gns last year.

Lope De Vega has had aggregate sales of 6,360,000gns for 17 lots sold so far. (17:52)

"Gary Hadden and I do the matings and Lope De Vega works very well with Distorted Humor and we thought they'd suit physically," said Bennett. "Cursory Glance has been amazing, but it is her mother really [Time Control] – we bought her way back in 2006 as a yearling and everything from her up has been bred by us, it is fantastic and is a legacy from Time Control.

"There is also Sweet Memories [2020 daughter of Time Control, and a winner of the Chalice Stakes (L) and runner-up in Princess Royal Stakes (G3)] on the page now and she looks very promising as a Group horse for next year."

He added: "Cursory is in-foal to Siyouni and is currently in France. We need to work out the plans for next year, and today gives a strong hint that we might go back to Ireland. The most pleasing thing for me is to breed horses that Coolmore buys and Juddmonte underbids – it means you are ticking boxes at the elite level. When we first came into the game in 2006 is what we strived to achieve.

"Lope De Vega is having a great year, and any buyers could be on him. He has got some very smart two-year-olds, I am delighted this colt is going to Aidan, I presume. We have sold one horse to Coolmore before, jointly with Newsells, and that was Ylang Ylang and she is a Group winner and could be anything, let's hope this fella can do the same."

Time Control, bred by W & R Barnett Ltd And Globe Bloodstock, was purchased at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale in 2006 for 1,200,000gns. (16:46)

MV Magnier, standing in the gangway, saw off opposition from Godolphin and Juddmonte to buy the colt out of Bizzarria (Lemon Drop Kid). She is an own-sister to the Canadian International Stakes (G1) winner Cannock Chase and the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam winner Pisco Sour, and a half-sister to the three-time Group 1-winning filly Star Catcher (Sea The Stars).

"He is lovely horse and from a very successful stud in Hascombe, which has bred very good horses in the past and are very good breeders," said Magnier. "This is a well-bred horse, Frankel is flying and everyone [from the Coolmore team] liked him – and he goes to Ballydoyle."

Oppenheimer, who was sat in the ring to see his colt sell, said: "So far we have done quite well, and sold four, and he have more to sell [over the whole of the October Sale]. There were no regrets at all when he was going around the ring. I did not think we'd get as much as that, I know he is a very nice horses – refuelling the stud's finances and it can't do any harm!"

Hasombe has another two colts due through the ring in Book 1 – Lot 311 and Lot 372 – and six catalogued in Book 2.

The farm's aggregate for the four sold so far is 2,520,000gns.

Oppenheimer also had a very good weekend watching the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe – the hugely impressive Arc winner Ace Impact being by the Hascombe And Valiant Stud-bred stallion and son of Frankel, Cracksman. (15:32)

The farm's owner Nurlan Bizakov and general manager Tony Fry were bidding from the right stair well and are hoping to have purchased a future stallion prospect for the farm.

"He is a lovely horse, a lovely model, he is by a lovely sire, he is out of a lovely mare and, if he is good enough, he is potential stallion," said Fry. "That is what we are hoping for. No one needs pat on the back now, that can come in two years' time – if it all works out. We have no plans as yet for this horse, whether he goes to France or elsewhere."

Explaining the decision to try and purchase a stallion as a yearling and before he has raced, Fry added: "It is not easy to buy one [once they are proven] and they are owned by people not keen to sell. And ideally you like to be involved in from day one – to have bred yourself, raced them and then stand them." (15:20)

Anthony Stroud is no stranger to buying grey horses by the hugely exciting second-season sire – he purchased the stallion's dual Group 1-winning son Vandeek on behalf of KHK Racing at this spring's Craven Breeze Up Sale for a top lot price of 625,000gns.

"Vandeek has done very well and Havana Grey has done very well and this horse is out of a good mare, this is an extremely nice horse," said Stroud.

"He is a lovely horse, so we were pretty hopeful he would sell well – Havana Grey has gone from strength to strength. I have to thank the team at home, they prepared him beautifully, he has been very busy here," added Stauffenberg after the successful sale of the half-brother to the July Cup (G1) runner-up Dragon Symbol, recently announced as a new stallion for 2024 at Whitsbury where he will stand alongside Havana Grey. (14:52)

Bred and sold by Ballyphilip Stud, the colt was given the highest accolade by the farm's Paul McCartan when he reported that he thought this colt is the best individual that he and his wife Marie has bred.

"I have not said it to many people, but I think he is the nicest horse I have ever had anything to do with, I really think that," he affirmed. "I had always put Battaash number one, but when this colt got here and did everything right and everything came together... I think he is an absolute belter. I am delighted that Godolphin bought him and that Charlie Appleby will train him.

"He is the image of his father and his grandfather, Charlie loved him and could see that, too."

Of the decision to send his brilliant broodmare Anna Law to the young stallion Blue Point, recently a Group 1 winner-producing sire, McCartan said: "It was probably an act of lunacy to take such a risk with a mare who is so important to us – I probably should have sent her to a proven horse rather than a first-crop horse.

"But I was there the day Blue Point beat Battaash in the King's Stand. I thought Battaash looked great that day but I saw Blue Point come into the parade ring and I had one look at him and one look at Charlie Appleby and I said, 'We are not going to be winning today!'"

McCartan was keen to thank his team for all the efforts at home and on the sale ground saying, "I want to pay particular thanks to all the people who work for me, everyone knows they are the best team on the sale ground. My head lad Denis Lawlor, he never comes to the sales and Dinny McCarthy, who led up, they have all done a fantastic job. It is one of the most enjoyable parts of this for me – that we can all share it, we are all good friends."

Updating on Anna Law's recent coverings, he said: "She has a filly foal by Dark Angel and is in-foal to Frankel. It is a different approach, but he is the best stallion probably of all time, so why not?

"She has been an incredible mare to us. She started off a pretty grumpy old girl, but now every time she sees me in the field she knows I always have a fistful of nuts for her so we are the best of friends!"

Anthony Stroud, buying for Godolphin, said: "He was one that we wanted. Paul McCartan has had Tiggy Wiggy, Profitable, Harry Angel and so many more, it is a great nursery and they do a fantastic job. He is the horse that we thought would enhance Godolphin. I hope that we are standing here in two years' time and agreeing that this is one of the best that Paul has bred."

Underbidders included Najd Stud and Juddmonte. (14:23)

"He is a cracking individual, he put in an amazing show outside, he marched round and has a great attitude," said Brown. "He is a full-brother to a very talented horse, he has comes from a very good farm and breeder. He is a smasher and he looks like he will be quite forward. I am delighted to get him. He is going from here to Malcolm Bastard to be broken no trainer has been decided but he will stay in England."

Chindit is the winner of nine races, including the Summer Mile (G2), the Champagne Stakes (G2) and the Greenham Stakes (G3). He also has Group 1 placed form twice in the Lockinge Stakes (G1) and the Queen Anne Stakes (G1).

Since the catalogue was printed he has won the Superior Mile (G3) and the Fortune Stakes (L) and finished third in Joel Stakes (G2) and the Hungerford Stakes (G2). He is now owned by Villoo Poonawalla Greenfield Farms, bought by Dr. Cyrus Poonawalla for a future stallion career in India. (13:40)

Bred by French Bloodstock Agency, he was also one of the sire's highest-priced foals purchased last year for €105,000 by Hamish Macauley Bloodstock.

The April-born colt is a half-brother to Alistair (Panis) winner of the Prix Texanita (G3) and a new three-year-old winner, Kelly Key. (13:24)

Both horses purchased for Fawzi Nass and team.

"The Kingman colt is just a lovely model and I loved him from the first time I saw him," said St Lawrence. "He is a half-brother to a Group 1 winner and a Grade 1 winner. Hopefully, he can take us to the 2,000 Guineas and we can have a bit of fun, and he has an international profile. Hopefully he can be a stallion one day – that's the dream! I bought the Dubawi and was hoping we did not have to be stretched on him."

Breeder John Gunther and daughter Tanya Gunther are at Tattersalls today to see the sale, and it was a poignant moment as dam Without You Babe (Lemon Drop Kid) has died.

"It was sad losing the mare and this was her last foal," said Gunther Snr. "It was a tough decision to sell, he is such a fantastic yearling and it is a real heart breaker. Newsells has given him a tremendous start and he looked incredible here, he has gone to some very good owners and I am sure they will make us proud in future."

Expanding on the decision to sell, he said: "It was sort of like a flip of coin, really. We weren't going to let him go unless we got a good price for him, and it has turned out very well. We get to watch him run and we have his full-sister She's Got You so we can still carry on the family."

The Group-placed She's Got You had a filly by Frankel this spring. (12:35)

"She will head to Ballydoyle. It is one of the best pages in the book, and we have an update with her full-sister Infinite Cosmos," said Elliott. "She is a beautiful fully, medium sized and though she is by Sea The Stars I can even see her doing something at two, and then obviously getting better with age."

It has already been a good Book 1 2023 for Ballyhimikin – the farm consigned yesterday's session topper, the Ghaiyyath colt out of Tickled Pink, who was sold to Godolphin for 1,050,000gns.

This filly is out of the Listed winner Waila (Notnowcato). She was bred by Southcourt Stud and the late Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, who died last November.

Walia is a half-sister to the Listed winner and Fred Darling Stakes (G2) placed Crystal Star (Mark Of Esteem), the dam of the champion older horse and Prince Of Wales's Stakes (G1) winner Crystal Ocean (Sea The Stars), the Canadian International Stakes (G1) winner Hillstar (Danehill Dancer), the Group 2 winner Crystal Capella (Cape Cross) and the Listed winner Crystal Zvezda (Dubawi).

Waila's daughter Infinite Cosmos has finished third at Listed level since the catalogue was published but boasts a previous Group 3 third placing in the Musidora Stakes.

Waila was sold as part of the Southcourt Stud dispersal (consigned by New England Stud) held at last year's December Mares Sale when she purchased by BBA Ireland for 550,000gns. (11:35)

The colt, sold by Newsells Park Stud and bred by Al Shahania Stud, is by Siyouni, a stallion with whom Coolmore has enjoyed such a lot of recent success – of course headlined this year by the four-time Group 1-winning three-year-old Paddington.

This colt is out of Vorda (Orpen), a French champion two-year-old filly, winner of the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1), the Prix Robert Papin (G2) and a Group 1 runner-up in the Prix Morny.

She has bred five winners from five runners, headed by the Listed winner Saiga (Teofilo) (11:12)

Catalogued: 177

Offered: 154

Sold: 124

Total: 30,628,000gns (-4%)

Median: 205,000gns (+28%)

Average: 247,081gns (+7%)

% Sold: 81%

Leading purchasers (by agg): 1. Godolphin, 2. Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock, 3. Blandford Bloodstock

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Newsells Park Stud, 2. Tally-Ho Stud, 3. Camas Park Stud

Leading consignors (by av, two or more sold): 1. Ballyhimikin Stud, 2, Meon Valley Stud, 3. Newsells Park Stud

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Dubawi, 2. Kingman, 3. Wootton Bassett

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Dubawi, 2. Ghaiyyath, 3. Frankel

Today's top five

1. Lot 151: Ghaiyyath / Tickled Pink gr,c. >> Ballyhimikin Stud >> Godolphin >> 1,050,000gns

2. Lot 96: Dubawi / Shastye b,c. >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Godolphin >> 1,000,000gns

3. Lot 28: Frankel / Poplin ch,c. >> Oakgrove Stud >> Godolphin >> 900,000gns

4. Lot 99 Kingman / Shirocco Star b,c. >> Meon Valley Stud >> Godolphin >> 750,000gns

5. Lot 35: Dubawi / Princess Loulou ch,c. >> Blue Diamond Stud Farm (UK) Ltd. >> Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock >> 725,000gns (18:32)

Like his older brother, this 2022-born son of Kingman was bred by Farmleigh Bloodstock Ltd and sold by Corduff Stud.

The pair are out of Turret Rocks (Fastnet Rock), winner of the May Hill Stakes (G2), the Blue Wind Stakes (G3), the Meld Stakes (G3), and the Victor McCalmont Memorial Stakes (L). She was also placed nine times, including in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac and the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1).

It is a family that stretches back to the blue hen mare Rivere D'Or, the dam of the Group 1 winner Gold Splash and ancestress of Goldikova, Galikova, Aondin and Gold Luck. (18:05)

The sale produced a battle between the two European power houses with the Coolmore battalions taking on Sheikh Mohammed's operation for the son of the young Darley stallion, both teams standing outside the ring, but it was Anthony Stroud who was successful at the seven-figure sum.

Breeder Trevor Stewart was understandably all smiles, his mare, who is a daughter of the Group 2 King's Stand Stakes winner Cassandra Go and a half-sister to the Classic winner Halfway To Heaven, the dam of Magical, Rhododendron and Flying The Flag, once again keeping the family's name in the headlines.

Stewart bought his wonderful mare Cassandra Go for 200,000gns as a yearling at the Tattersalls Houghton Sale in 1997.

"I am so lucky, it is the fourth over a million that I have got from the family, I did not expect it, but he is a gorgeous horse and it is wonderful that he is going to Godolphin," smiled Stewart. "The family seems to go on, we were very lucky with Victoria Road, and I could not be more thrilled."

Of the choice of the young stallion for his mare Stewart outlined: "Some of Tickled Pink's progeny have been a little on the neat side, so we thought we need to get a bit more height and length into the foals. He was obviously a great racehorse and it is risky going to a first-season sire, but time will tell. And then she produced this cracking colt..."

Stewart reflected: "It is a wonderful figure, and I hate to say it, but after number four I am getting used to it, at least the bank manager will be happy again, for a little while! I have been so lucky – two of the daughters of Cassandra Go sold for over a million and I have two others – one has just gone to stud and there is another two-year-old, hopefully there are plenty more to come along."

Of Tickled Pink, he updated: "She has an outstanding Saxon Warrior colt foal, he is actually like a twin of Victoria Road, his markings are exactly the same. She is in-foal to Saxon Warrior, hopefully carrying a filly but I don't know. We decided not to scan her – there is always a slight risk – it will be a surprise and I will pray!"

Stroud has bought a number of yearlings by Ghaiyyath this autumn, including Lot 95 earlier today (500,000gns) and he said: "He is an extremely nice horse from Ballyhimikin that has produced so many good horses, and this family is second to none. We also feel very strongly as to how good a stallion Ghaiyyath is." (17:50)

The filly is a Sea The Stars full-sister to Fifty Stars, winner of the Australian Cup (G1), a further three-time Group race winner and a multiple Group 1 and Group race performer.

"We are thrilled to get a filly with that pedigree, a full-sister to a Group 1 winner from a great farm in Ireland – the Rogers family goes back a long way," said Mangan. "She is going to the Gosdens. We also bought Lot 14, a Wootton Bassett filly. She is a very strong filly, with a good pedigree and her dam won at stakes level. It is competitive for good fillies here so we are pleased we have got two on Day 1."

It is the best result for the mare in the sale ring to date, and Anthony Rogers of Airlie was thrilled with the six-figure sum.

"Hopefully she will be the best on the course as well!" smiled Rogers. "She is a special filly and has been very easy to deal with, she has a very good mind. I think she will run... I really do."

When asked if the farm was tempted to keep this filly seeing as Swizzle Stick is in her teenage years, Rogers said: "The mare's foal of this year is a full-sister and the mare is carrying a filly again by Sea The Stars ... we might keep one of those." (17:01)