Lots catalogued: 294 (318)

Lots offered: 225 (260)

Lots sold: 199 (227)

Aggregate: 4,226,000gns (-3%)

Median: 15,000gns (+36%)

Average: 21,236gns (+10%)

% sold: 88% (87%)

Leading consignors (by agg, cumulative): 1. The Castlebridge Consignment, 2. Park House Stables (A. Balding), 3. Newsells Park Stud Ltd.

Leading purchasers (by agg, cumulative): 1. BBA Ireland, 2. Godolphin, 3. Najd Stud

Leading sires (by agg): 1. No Nay Never, 2. Kingman, 3. Frankel

Leading sires (by av, 2+ sold): 1. New Bay, 2. No Nay Never, 3. Cotai Glory

Top five

1. Lot 2168: Miska (IRE) 2020 B.F. BY Kodiac (GB) EX Shobobb (GB) >> Godolphin >> Tally-Ho Stud >> 125,000gns

2. Lot 2171: Angel's Point (GB) 2019 B.F. BY Dark Angel (IRE) EX Madonna Dell'orto (GB) >> UPDATE >> Godolphin >> Genesis Green Stud 90,000gns

3. Lot 2173: Qatar Queen (IRE) 2016 B.M. BY Kodiac (GB) EX Alina (IRE) UPDATE >> Tweenhills Farm & Stud >> A C Elliott, Agent >> 80,000gns

4. Lot 2071: Bella Luce (IRE) 2018 B.M. BY Invincible Spirit (IRE) EX Prima Luce (IRE) UPDATE >> Barton Sales >> The National Stud >> 80,000gns

5. Lot 2248: Candy Kitchen (IRE) 2019 Ch.F. BY Lope de Vega (IRE) EX Bristol Bay (IRE) UPDATE >> Fitzroy House (M. Bell) >> Michelle McParland 75,000gns (19:05)

She is a full-sister to Bay Of Poets, a Listed winner and Group 2 placed at Meydan.

Her 2020 Kingman half-brother Highbank was an October Book 1 purchase for 750,000gns. He is a winner and has been placed twice since the catalogue was printed, while Sober, who is under the second dam, has finished third in Prix Royal-Oak (G1). (18:59)

She is the winner of one race as a three-year-old, and is from the family of the German champion older mare of 1994, Palacegate Episode, the grand-dam of the dual Group 1 winner and sire Dutch Art. (18:24)

The breeder put his money where his mouth is today and goes to 60,000gns for Rainbow Colours, a three-year-old bay filly by the Yeomanstown Stud sire and consigned by Godolphin.

She has been BHA rated 80 at her best, and is the winner of three races. She is a half-sister to the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes winner Amadeus Wolf (Mozart), the Sirenia Stakes (G3) winner Rouleau (Exceed And Excel) and the Surrey Stakes (L) placed Aurum (Exceed And Excel).

Second dam Rose Violet (Alleged) was second placed in the Oaks d'Italia (G1). (18:17)

She is bred by Rabbah Bloodstock Limited, and is out of the Sea The Stars mare Sealife. She has a colt by Too Darn Hot at foot. (18:01)

Last week, Trinity Park sold Lot 1051 - the Frankel foal out of Roodle to Camas Park Stud for 310,000gns (18:00)

"She is for Laundry Cottage and she goes back there," said Elliott. "She is a very attractive mare and cost 400,000gns as a yearling. She is carrying a Kameko colt, we are big fans of the sire from the foals that we have seen."

There is a plenty going on in the top of the female family as Elliott outlined: "The dam has a Dubawi half-brother who made 750,000gns at Book 1, and a Dubawi filly foal, here is lot happening for her."

Of plans, Elliott said: "Qatar Queen has two Zoustars on the ground and she is in-foal to Kameko, she should be easy to mate but we have not really thought that far ahead yet."

Further in the family is the speedy and tenacious international traveller Gordon Lord Byron, winner of the Prix de la Foret and the George Ryder Stakes (G1) and placed six times in Group 1 sprints. (16:29)

She is a half-sister to two black-type winners – I Can Fly (Fastnet Rock), the Group 2 winner of the Solonaway Stakes and four times Group 1 placed, and the Listed winner and Group-placed Viscount Barfield (Raven's Pass). Under the second dam is the French Classic winner, US Grade 1 winner and Coventry Stakes (G2) Landseer (Danehill). All bred by Rockwell.

Angel's Point was sold by the farm for 260,000gns to Andrew Balding as a yearling at the Book 1 Sale in 2020.

Michael Swinburn said: "Andrew thought a lot of Angel's Point, but she had a few training issues. We do have a filly foal by Fastnet Rock out of the mare, aa full-sister to I Can Fly, and we have had enquiries about her. We'd love to keep her and race he, but with prize-money the way it is, we may end up selling her.

"If so we have no other daughters out of Madonna Dell'orto so it made sense to buy Angel's Point back. We have no plans as yet regards stallions." (16:17)

"We'll see what to do with Miska, but she'll likely go to stud now."

Dam Shobobb is the dam of full-brother Gifted Master, a Group 3 winner of the Pavillion Stakes and the Autumn Stakes. He was also Group 2 placed.

Tally-Ho Stud, who sold Miska as a yearling for 210,000gns at the Book 2 October Sale in 2021, has bought 15 fillies and mares this week, and described the trade as "good" and that it was a "very good catalogue".

Second dam Belle Argentine was a Listed winner and Group 1 Classic placed in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. (16:10)

Consigned by Godolphin the three-year-old filly is a winner and is BHA rated 90. She has run twice in Listed races for trainer John Gosden, but finished down the field.

Bred by Godolphin she is a grand-daughter of the Epsom Oaks (G1) and Preis der Diane (G1) winner Dancing Rain, the dam of Magic Lily, a Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed. It is also the family of the champion Maybe. (15:54)

Sold by Cheveley Park Stud Ltd, she is out of the Listed winner Queen Of Ice, a Polar Falcon daughter of the Listed winner Ice Palace. Queen Of Ice has had two winners, including the Listed placed Ice Spite (Zoffany). (15:16)

In-foal to Bated Breath on a February cover, the bay mare has a Group race-winning dam – Prima Luce (Galileo), winner of the Athasi Stakes (G3) and runner-up in the Solonaway Stakes (G3) and placed in the Ballyroan Stakes (G3) and the Platinium Stakes (L).

Prima Luce is dam of Emmaus (Invincible Spirit), winner in the UK of the Listed King Richard III Stakes and placed at Woodbine in the Connaught Cup Stakes (G2), and an own-brother to Bella Luce.

Third dam Rahaam, is dam of Cassandra Go, the dam of Halfway To Heaven and ancestress of the top horses Magical, Rhododendron, Auguste Rodin, Verglas, Land Force and this year's new Grade 1 Breeders' Cup winner Victoria Road.

Barton Sales enjoyed its a first-ever seven-figure Tattersalls sale last night when consigning the Group 3 winner, the 105-rated Jumbly (Gleneagles), sold to MV Magnier / Joseph O'Brien for 1,250,000gns (Lot 1914). (14:46)

She is in-foal to Space Blues (Dubawi) on her first pregnancy, covered on February 15.

A grand-daughter of the Aga Khan Studs-bred Irish Oaks runner-up Shamadara (Kahyasi), dam of the Group 1 winner Shamdala (Grand Lodge), the Listed winners Shamanova (Danehill Dancer) and Shamakiya.

The family stretches to Shergar, the champion three-year-old of 1981 and one of the most impressive Derby winners ever. (12:38)

Bubbly (Excelebration) was sold by Whitsbury Manor Stud and has had two foals, the first a 2021 daughter of Zoustar and, second, a colt by Showcasing, who was born this spring. She is in-foal to Havana Grey.

Marsha has yet to have a runner, but her her 2020-born daughter Tender Kiss (Galileo), bred by Coolmore, is entered in next year's Irish 1,000 Guineas. (12:20)

She is a half-sister to the 2018 Fred Darling Stakes (G3) winner Dan's Dream (Cityscape) and from the family of Penkenna Princess, also a winner of the Fred Darling (2015).

Caernarfon, a half-sister to Oksana Astankova, has added her own update to the page this autumn and is the two-year-old the winner of the Listed Montrose Stakes. Maybe another one for the Fred Darling? (11:39)

She is out of Wemyss Bay (Sadler's Wells) and is an own-sister to Allmankind, a Grade 1 winner over hurdles and the fences.

Second dam Wemyss Bight was a champion three-year-old filly in Ireland in 1993, winner of the Irish Oaks (G1). She is dam of the Grand Prix de Paris (G1), Arlington Million, Turf Classic (G1) and Manhattan Handicap (G1) winner Beat Hollow.

Third dam is the Juddmonte star mare Bahamian (10:51)

It beats a two-month-old record created on the Wednesday of the Tattersalls October Book 1 Yearling Sale of 49,545,000gns. (21:04)

Lots catalogued: 291 (320)

Lots offered: 232 (265)

Lots sold: 192 (224)

Aggregate: 54,005,000gns (+29%)**

Median: 112,500gns (+7%)

Average: 281,276gns (+50%)

Nos of horses sold for 1,000,000gns: 11

Nos of horses sold for 500,000gns: 33

% sold: 83% (85%)

Leading consignors (by agg, cumulative): 1. The Castlebridge Consignment, 2. Park House Stables (A. Balding), 3. Newsells Park Stud Ltd.

Leading purchasers (by agg, cumulative): 1. BBA Ireland, 2. Godolphin, 3. Najd Stud

Leading sires (by agg): 1. No Nay Never, 2. Kingman, 3. Frankel

Leading sires (by av, 2+ sold): 1. New Bay, 2. No Nay Never, 3. Australia

Top five

1. Lot 1904: Alcohol Free (IRE) 2018 B.F. >> Park House Stables (A. Balding) >> BBA Ireland >> 5,400,000gns

2. Lot 1878: Saffron Beach (IRE) 2018 Ch.F. >> Jane Chapple-Hyam Racing >> Najd Stud 3,600,000gns

3. Lot 1909: Tranquil Lady (IRE) 2019 Ch.F. >> The Castlebridge Consignment >> Godolphin 2,700,000gns

4. Lot 1893: Ville de Grace (GB) 2018 B.F. >> Norris Bloodstock >> One Agency >> 2,000,000gns

5.Lot 1891: Desert Berry (GB) 2009 B.M. >> Strawberry Fields Stud >> M V Magnier >> 1,900,000gns (20:54)

Of her filly's immediate future Northern Farm's Shingo Hashimoto said: "We haven’t decided yet, but there is a possibility that she will race on. She can’t race in Japan so if she’s going to race she’ll stay in Europe. She’s a good horse, she’s a fast horse and her results are very good. She’s one of the best two-year-olds in the world so she’s very attractive. With her speed she might suit a stallion like Lord Kanaloa.”

The Platinum Queen has been one of the fastest juveniles of the year. She kicked off her racing career with victory at Ripon, won her novice at York in July, a conditions race at Goodwood the same month before she ran a blinder in the Nunthorpe Stakes beaten just two land a half lengths by Highfield Princess. She filled the same spot in the Flying Childers before taking the Prix de l’Abbaye at the Arc meeting. She was the first two-year-old to win the Group 1 sprint since Sigy in 1978.

Hollie Doyle said after the victory: “The Platinum Queen has done that brilliantly. She had a bit up her sleeve I felt and she had the race put to bed, but half a furlong out she idled. Luckily, I had some company and she stuck her neck out again.”

By Cotai Gory and out of the Kodiac mare Thrilled, a half-sister to the Listed-placed The Gold Cheongsam, she is from the family of the Mill Reef Stakes (G2) runner-up Sir Xaar, winner of the Ripon Champion 2YO Trophy (L).

Second dam Fuerta Ventura was a three-time winner and Listed runner-up in Italy. (20:07)

"She is a really nice filly, she can either go into training or go to see Dubawi," said Stroud. "We will discuss and will come to a plan, and obviously if she goes into training it will be with Charlie [Appleby] and for Godolphin. We will see where we are at, there is more racing in her, she is only three. Charlie came up and looked at her."

Bred by Tinnakill Bloodstock, she was owned in training by Teme Valley Racing, having been purchased by Richard Ryan as a yearling.

“It was a bittersweet situation really," said Ryan. "It’s so hard to acquire something at this level, with these credentials – that clean, that sound, and her best year is next year - but we knew there was an incredible desire at this moment and you don’t know how long those windows stay open.

"We were pretty brave to quite a long way ourselves to make sure she wasn’t going to be undersold, and Joseph had a team very keen to try to retain her, but this is a fabulous result. There’s a lot more to come from her.”

It has been 18 months of the highest order for Tranquil Lady’s family – not only has she collected two Group 3 races – the Blue Wind Stakes and the Prix de Flore but her Starspangledbanner half-brother State Of Rest has been campaigned at the highest level around the globe to win the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (G1), the Prix Ganay (G1), the Saratoga Derby Invitational (G1) and the Cox Plate (G1). He has now retired to stud at Rathbarry Stud in Ireland.

They are the two winners from three runners for the mare Repose (Quiet American), who was covered by Frankel in the spring and has a Sea The Stars filly at foot

Second dam Monaassabaat (Zilzal) won the Virginia Stakes (L) and is dam of two black-type winners, while third dam It’s In The Air was a champion two and three-year-old filly in the US, winner of the Alabama Stakes (G1), the Delaware Oaks (G1), the Ruffian Handicap (G1), twice a winner of the Vanity Handicap (G1) and the Arlington-Washington Stakes (G2). (19:37)

Donohue said: "She is for partnership to race in Australia, she vetted extremely well and clean for a filly with some miles on the clock. My vet was super happy with her. She is for partnership who have horses in training and breed as well. There is a lot of money to win in Australia – I think 87 races for this year worth a million plus so we hope to recoup a lot of what we paid for her and add a bit more, too.

"She is a filly with speed for 6f but stayed a mile, so there will be a lot of options for her. Andrew Balding and the team did a great job, she looked very fresh. I went to see her last week at Kingsclere.

"She will make a lovely broodmare in time, she has the physique and the pedigree, it is a family I know well as I bought the dam for Yulong Investments last year and she has a lovely Lope de Vega foal at foot and is in-foal to Lucky Vega."

Continuing with plans for Alcohol Free, Donohue added: "She will probably race for a season and then be covered, and we will probably send her to Frankel. So we will decide whether we will cover on northern or southern hemisphere time, but obviously Frankel is an exceptional sire and is doing it in both hemispheres."

Of bidding to over 5 million, Donohue laughed and said: "It was pretty cool! But to be honest I was born in auction ring at Goresbridge, I am used to all the theatre. Those blue hen fillies who come off the track, they are collectors' items, they don't come on the market, they are like a Picassos. If they do come to a sale, you just have to value them, and we had a figure in our head. I suppose I was bidding pretty strong so I guess it indicated there was a bit more petrol in the tank."

David Bowe, stud manager of owner Jeff Smith's Littleton Stud, said: "We are delighted, it is the end of a wonderful, wonderful journey that we have been on, a wonderful dream. To end up here at Tattersalls, it is magnificent. Ollie Fowlston did a brilliant job from the rostrum, we could not have been better treated and everyone was here to look at her.

"She walked in and looked beautiful. If it had been five years earlier with Jeff we might not have brought her to the sale ring. We have enough broodmares, she was not bred by us, but it is really to do with the timescale. She will make a beautiful mare in time and it is time for someone else.

"We have had so much luck... everyone involved with her, the team at home on the farm, the Caffneys whom we bought from, all her jockeys. I can't thank everyone enough, and for everyone who put their hands up in the ring... it was lovely. Everyone has had a massive part, I am just the one who happens to be here talking to you.

"It has been emotional, I can't believe, it just shows that whatever sales ground you are at, we are all trying to do the same thing and it has happened to the likes of us! It is extraordinary. It just goes to show, if you keep plugging away it can happen.

"Jeff was not here tonight, but it is all down to him, he let us buy her, let us all get involved in the whole dream. I am absolutely delighted, it is beautiful end to our chapter, and wish the new connections all the luck. We don't buy all awful lot of horses, but we have been lucky with the ones we have and I hope you are here talking to me again some time!"

Alcohol Free is the winner of four Group 1 races as two, three and four-year-old, a filly who had speed for 6f and could see out the mile trip.

Bred by Churchtown House Stud, bought by Littleton Stud as a foal for €40,000 she was raced by Jeff Smith and trained to achieve her brilliant racecourse glories by Andrew Balding.

The daughter of No Nay Never won the Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes on her third career start, and after win on her three-year-old debut in the Fred Darling Stakes (G3) she finished fifth in the 1,000 Guineas behind the race winner Mother Earth and second-placed Saffron Beach (Lot 1898).

Her second Group 1 was collected at Royal Ascot in the mile Coronation Stakes, a race run on heavy ground, where she beat Snow Lantern with Mother Earth in third. Snow Lantern turned the tables in the Falmouth Stakes, Mother Earth splitting the pair.

Alcohol Free then took on the boys at Goodwood on the Sussex Stakes (G1) showing them a clean pair of heels to Poetic Flare in the second.

She was the highest rated three-year-old filly trained in Britain.

At four, collected a fourth place in the Lockinge Stakes (G1), ran down the field when switched to a sprint trip at Royal Ascot Platinum Jubilee Stakes before arguably ran the race of her life to take the Group 1 July Stakes.

Andrew Balding said after that victory: “She's a very talented filly and this is her time of year as well, she's twice the horse she was in the spring and it's just lovely to have her back on song. She's obviously a speed miler rather than an attritional miler.”

She is a complete outcross and her dam Plying (Hard Spun) is a half-sister t the speedy and talented two-year-old Kissing Lights (Machiavellian), who finished third in the Flying Childers Stakes (G2) and the Princess Margaret Stakes (G3). (19:21)

Anthony Stroud said: "She’s a beautiful mare from a wonderful family nurtured by Mrs Cooper. We had luck with Glorious Journey. She should be a good fit for Dubawi. It’s nice and a privilege to buy one off a breeder who has been in the game for 25 years."

She was a dual winner at two, victories including the Radley Stakes (L), and was sold in-foal to St Mark's Basilica and was covered on February 17, (19:20)

Harris said: "We loved her, she was our pick of the sale, beautiful athletic, very good race filly and she is an outcross so she can be mated to all of the top stallions. it is very difficult to buy in this market, as owner breeders we are trying to invest in new blood for the farm and something like her to come and breed for us is a long term plan and an investment in the future. We are over the moon.

"It was a little bit more than we were initially going to pay, but it is so competitive and you go so far selecting the ones you like... it was a bit more, probably a lot more!"

Harris visited the mare a few times to view her at Tattersalls: "She is a very easy mare to look at! We saw her maybe three or four times. She is a beautiful and if the foals are as good looking and as athletic, then we will be happy. It was nice to see the Mum sell yesterday and she is producing very nice foals, and she will help us too."

Consignor Jenny Norris said: "It has been amazing, we had so many views, all the right people are here, Tattersalls has done an amazing job at getting everyone here. All credit to Hunscote Stud, they bred her and raced her and had the courage of their convictions, and she has rewarded their efforts."

Andy Lloyd of Hunscote Stud said: "Our plan was to buy Mum, we bought Mum. We knew there was phenomenal interest in the daughter from all over the world. I never dreamt in my wildest dreams, but hey it is the market place at the moment. We had Japanese vetting, Americans, French, English...

"I am thrilled, and we can keep in touch and go and see her and give her a pat. I am sure Trevor will have big mating plans, which will only help our family. it is a great result for Chris Humber, for us at Hunscote and everybody." (18:50)

"At the end of the day she has bred a Derby winner and from our point of view the Derby is everything, the most important stallion making race, the Holy Grail of racing.

"She has bred a Derby winner, is carrying a full-sibling to a Derby winner, she is a very good mare. We have no plans as yet, but there are a lot of stallions that we could pick, any of the sons of Galileo. There are plenty of options," said MV Magnier.

"I heard that Desert Crown is in good form and is going to run next year."

Gary Robinson of Strawberry Fields Stud, breeder of Desert Crown, said: "Merry Christmas! We are going to have a good party in a minute, job done! Definitely it is a problem losing one like that, but we have all the family behind – it is like losing a beautiful woman, they leave you but she has left me with her children!

"Everyone has done well from her, she has done well for us and the new owner can go on and create those family lines.

"She is a good mare and she will have a great home and great life, she has gone to proper home. They will look after her."

He laughed: "I did tell everyone that I would breed the Derby winner, and they did not listen. I told John Oxx, and he sent me a message saying that I had said so!"

At home Robinson has Desert Berry's daughter Rose Berry who is in-foal to Nathaniel, who is carrying a filly, and a full-brother yearling colt.

He said: "The full-brother is very similar to Desert Crown, spot on, same character. She is a good mare, she teaches that character, an individual. That is what we all want to see." (18:22)

La Petite Coco is a daughter of Ruler Of The World and has won the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes (G1), the Blandford Stakes (G2), the Give Thanks Stakes (G3) and finished third in the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and fourth in the Blandford Stakes (G2)

The filly was bred by Bernd and Ute Schone who sold her to owner Team Valor after she finished fourth in a Naas maiden as a three-year-old.

It proved a good transaction for both sides of the party – next time out the filly won her first maiden before working up the ladder to Group 3 success in the Give Thanks Stakes at Cork.

Progress was then very straightforward – she won the Group 2 Blandford Stakes on her last start at three, beating the dual Classic winner Love, and her 1m2f Group 1 on her four-year-old debut. She went on to collect third in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks. It was one of the best European fillies’ races of the year – she finished third behind the subsequent Arc de Triomphe winner Alpinista and Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner Tuesday

She has a pedigree of the highest order, too, with five champions on the page, dam La Petite Virginia (Konigstiger), a half-sister to the German champion Lavirco, as well as the Group 2 winner Laveron and the Group 3 winner Lyonels Glory.

Her third dam La Dorada was a German champion two-year-old, and dam of the champion La Colrada, dam of Lomitas, a German champion three-year-old in 1991. (17:17)

"I am thrilled and very excited," said Chapple-Hyam. "It is a big honour, we have got a good winter to look forward. I think going around the ring she was waiting for the saddle, she was giving a few bops with her backend! She is in good order, she is tough, I believe she will get the 9f in Saudi, never know about the surface but we will give it a go."

The daughter of New Bay does have an entry at the upcoming Hong Kong International meeting, but that looks to be off the radar now.

"I think we will have a little rest and then build her up and get her ready," outlined Chapple-Hyam. "I will have to do a very good racecourse gallop with her, when I sent her to Dubai World Cup meeting, I felt that, although we ran fourth and went well, the ones who finished in front and had had a run, I am aware of that."

Saffron Beach had to be led up by two handlers, so much on a mission around the ring and in front of a packed sale ring. The bidding opened up at 500,000gns, and ended up to a battle between Badgers Bloodstock, who pulled up at 2.9 million, and the Northern Farm representatives and Najd Stud. The Japanese answer every bid very quickly and looked home and hosed at 3.5 million, but Najd Stud threw 3.6 million guineas bid causing Japan to walk away.

The filly has been such a superstar for trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam and her owners the Sangster family and James Wigan.

Wigan said: "She has been wonderful for us. She looked fantastic tonight, Jane always has her looking fantastic and has done a wonderful job with her. We are very sorry to see her go, we have had a lot of fun."

Saad Al Mishriff, representive of Najd Stud, said: "She is for the Saudi Cup, Inshallah she will go to the Saudi Cup, Inshallah she will win it! She has good breeding from the dam's side to act on the Dirt, and we like her physically. We thought she would not make that much. We will see about plans after."

The daughter of New Bay was bred by China Horse Club and the last time she saw a sales ring she was purchased at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale for 55,000gns by Norris Huntingdon.

Since then she has shown her talents on the racecourse. After winning her maiden on her debut she took the Oh So Sharp Stakes (G3) on her second career start.

At three she ran second to Mother Earth in the 1,000 Guineas beaten a length. After failing to stay the Oaks distance at Epsom and a below-par effort in the Falmouth Stakes she bounced back to winning ways in the Atalanta Stakes (G3) before gaining her revenge on Mother Earth when an impressive 3l winner of the Sun Chariot (G1).

At four, she has won the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes (G2) under her Group 1 penalty, collected at the highest level again in the Prix Rothschild and then finished 3l behind Pearls Galore in the Matron Stakes.

Out of the Raven’s Pass mare Falling Petals, she is a grand-daughter of the Listed-placed Infinite Spirit, the dam of the Group 3 Criterion Stakes winner and Middle Park (G1) third-placed Huntdown. She is grand-dam of Cotai Glory, winner of the World Trophy (G3) and placed second in the King’s Stand Stakes (G1) and third in the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1).

Third dam Eternal Reve was a Coronation Stakes (G1) runner-up. (17:05)

"She is a big two-year-old what she did for a big filly was extraordinary," said Donohue. "She vetted very well, and she can have a bit of time to acclimatise and we can decide on a trainer. We will play by ear, Saxon Warrior we feel has the making of a top class Classic-type sire. He has had a lot of backend maiden winners and those maidens are hard to win. She will be a nice miler or 1m2f filly, she has a pedigree to improve as she goes further."

He added: "The Australian market is very strong and it is very important to the industry in England, Ireland and Europe, the racing and prize-money is so strong. Wit the prize-money levels where it is in the UK, the market it important to breeders and sellers" (17:00)

Sold by The Castlebridge Consignment, the Group 3 Munster Oaks winner is in-foal on a March 10th service to Siyouni.

She is a daughter of the Listed placed Charlotte Bronte (Danehill Dancer) and from the family of the Australian Group 1-placed Whispering Brook, the Group 1 filly Pas De Response and the French star miler. Classic winner and stallion Green Tune.

BBA Ireland also purchased Lot 1860 — Rumbles Of Thunder, the Group 3 winner by Night Of Thunder, a great grand-daughter of the three-time Grade 1 winner White Star Line. She was sold by trainer Paddy Twomey's Athassel House Stud. (16:04)

Sold by Newsells Park Stud, she was a winner at three and is from the very best immediate family – she is a half-sister to the 2011 champion European three-year-old stayer Masked Marvel and to Waldlerche, the dam of Waldgeist, the 2019 European champion older horse and winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Second dam Wurftaube was a champion in Germany in 1996 and 1997. (15:58)

The four-year-old filly was bred by Sir Edmund Loder, who sold her as a yearling, and she is from the long-held family of the champion Marwell (third dam), the dual European champion filly Marling and was sold by ELiTE Sales.

Northern Farm's spokesperson Shingo Hashimoto said: "She is a lovely filly, she looked great, she raced very well since a two-year-old. She goes straight to stud, we don't have a stallion in mind yet. We don't have many by Camelot, I think it is just one so far."

Of the Sceptre Session, he laughed: "It will make the prices go up! But I think it is a good thing in general, will help with marketing and awareness of this business." (15:43)

"She is a very nice mare, we loved her physically, she has got a first foal on the ground by Sea The Stars, she is very very nice and there is lots going on in the family, she has three half-sister and there are having good coverings," said Lamb. "She is in-foal to Lope De Vega and carrying a filly. We are really pleased." (15:35)

She is unraced but is a half-sister to the Prix du Petit Couvert (G3) winner Tantheem and to the dam of Facteur Cheval (Ribchester), winner of the Prix Perth (G3) since the catalogue was published.

She was bought by BBA Ireland. (14:26)

The pair are half-sisters to Romaneque, who has been Listed placed in Australia, while the two-year-old half-brother Tenerife by No Nay Never is in training at Ballydoyle. He was purchased by Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock for 450,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 2 yearling sale in 2021.

The unraced Thar She Blows is in-foal to No Nay Never on a February covering date (13:55)

Six-times placed at Listed level, and once in a Group 3 when fourth in the Silver Flash Stakes, Golden Spell is out of a half-sister to the Hardwicke Stakes (G2) winner Bronze Cannon, the King Edward II Stakes (G2) winner Across The Stars and Valiant Girl, who won the Grade 3 My Charmer Handicap. (13:11)

She is out of Amazone (Adlerflug), the dam of two Listed-winning fillies, and a grand-daughter of Amarette, winner of the Preis der Diane (G1) and grand-dam of Alson, who won the Criterium International (G1).

Amarette is also an own-sister to Arras, who was placed third in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1). (12:01)

Sunstrike won as a two-year-old and was placed third in the Star Stakes (L) and fourth in the Sweet Solera Stakes (G3).

Her dam Extricate has produced a further two black-type Listed winners – Queen Of Love (Kingman) and Dark Liberty, a full-sister to Sunstrike.

Third dam Splice won and was placed in the Abernant Stakes (L) and was third in the King George Stakes (G3). She is dam of the champion two-year-old filly Soar, who win the Lowther Stakes (G2) and the Princess Margaret Stakes (G3).

It is a third purchase so far this week for Natalma. (11:50)

Today's Sceptre Session due to start at around 3.00pm (09:23)

Lots catalogued: 314 (317)

Lots offered: 271 (276)

Lots sold: 221 (232)

Aggregate: 22,090,500gns (+45%)

Median: 55,000gns (+38%)

Average: 99,957gns (+52%)

% sold: 82% (84%)

Leading consignors (by agg, cumulative): 1. The Castlebridge Consignment, 2. New England Stud, 3. Godolphin

Leading purchasers (by agg, cumulative): 1. BBA Ireland, 2. Jill lamb Bloodstock, 3. C Gordon Watson Bloodstock

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Dubawi, 2. Galileo, 3. Frankel

Leading sires (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Gleneagles, 2. Camelot, 3. Holy Roman Emperor

Top five

1. Lot 1622: Archangel Gabriel (USA) 2013 B.M. >> Norris Bloodstock >> Hunscote Stud >> 800,000gns

2. Lot 1618: Crystal Zvezda (GB) 2012 Ch.M. >> New England Stud >> Stroud Coleman Bloodstock >> 775,000gns

3. Lot 1612: Innevera (FR) 2014 B.M. >> Fittocks Stud >> Jill Lamb Bloodstock >> 750,000gns

4. Lot 1617: Waila (GB) 2010 Ch.M. >> New England Stud >> BBA Ireland >> 550,000gns

5. Lot 1615: Ulster Blackwater (IRE) 2018 B.M. >> The Castlebridge Consignment BBA Ireland >> 470,000gns (21:56)

"We were one of the partners so obviously we were paying 50p in the pound," said successful purchaser Andy Lloyd of Hunscote Stud. "She is a gorgeous mare, you don't get many chances and we had one. I think she is decent buy for us on what she has bred. She has got a good cover and the family is very active, very lucky to keep her.

"Her progeny have made multiple times six figures, so we will see what the St Mark's Basilica brings in March. We have no plans as yet for the spring, you don't make plans unless you've got something – now we have got her we can make a plan."

The mare's foals who have sold at Tattersalls as yearlings have fetched 350,000gns (2019 King Of York by Kingman) and 325,000gns (2020 Foederato by Saxon Warrior).

She has a colt by Saxon Warrior this spring. (19:50)

"I know the mare well because she has boarded with us at Mount Coote for three years when she has visited Starspangledbanner," recalled Lillingston. "She is a very nice mare, and her foal I thought was one of the best foals of last week [Lot 1000]. He is a fantastic athlete.

"Nathaniel is very exciting as a broodmare sire, and she is a relatively young mare at only seven. She stays in England."

Of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Lillingston recalled: "My father was great friends with Sir Evelyn, and both Peter [Stanley] and I have been helping him for a long time. He and his sister Renee Robson were both wonderful.

"He really was great man – a huge enthusiast. It was lovely that he had so much fun with Crystal Ocean latterly, I remember seeing him at Ascot, he must have been 88 years of age, but when the horse was going from the pre-parade ring to the paddock, he was moving as well as anyone! It was lovely." (19:49)

Consignor Peter Stanley of New England Stud said: "They are lovely, lovey mares from Southcourt. I am so sad those lovely ladies leave us, they are gorgeous mares, each one is a queen. It is not often that you see such a beautiful group of mares together, each one athletic, every one with depth and substance and bone, just gorgeous.

"I think the testament was the four foals who sold so well last week, they showed the type of horses that they are breeding. You can't complain at the prices, but it is terribly sad that it is not to be any longer and things coming to an end."

Stanley added: "Evelyn and Renee loved it, they talked about it. They would be both very proud of what has happened. They will look down and smile. The children are not racing fanatics, but they do have a sense of the history for their father and I think they have been very moved by the whole thing.

"Sir Michael Stoute knew those families inside out – and the sky is now the limit for Infinite Cosmos [2020 Sea The Stars daughter of Lot 1617], Crystal Caprice, daughter of this mare is stakes placed, and they both have the capabilities of adding to the Rothschild legacy."

Purchaser Anthony Stroud said: "She is a beautiful mare from a very good breeder. Crystal Caprice is very highly regarded – you will see her tomorrow [Lot 1895]. This mare has been bought for a long established client who is looking for some very good mares, she stays in England.

"It is a fine pedigree developed by Sir Evelyn, but also shows what Sir Michael Stoute has done for the family and the pedigree, too. He has produced all these horses with his patient approach." (19:48)