She is in-foal to Siyouni on a last service date of April 14.

The four-year-old mare, won once as a three-year-old, is out of the Listed winner Silver Rain (Rainbow Quest) and is a half-sister to the Liisted winner and Group 3-placed Baahama, dam of two Group 3 winners.

Third dam Gold River was a Group 1 winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, the Prix Cadran and the Prix Royal-Oak, and dam of a Group 1 winner in Riviere D'Or, grand-dam of the star racemare Goldikova, the winner of 14 Group and Grade 1 races (19:43)

Purchaser Adrian Nichol said: "Her Sea The Stars foal made 400,000gns last week, the two-year-old Infinite Cosmos is supposed to be very good, she is a lovely looking mare, she is a stakes winner – I am very happy!

"She is going to Ireland and for a partnership. We have not decided what we are going to do yet as regards stallions. She is a lovely mare and a great reflection of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild's breeding programme, she is one of the picks of the day." (19:42)

The Motivator mare already bred the Listed winner and Group 3 -placed Ottoman Fleet (Sea The Stars), winner of the Listed James Seymour Stakes, since the catalogue was published. She is in-foal to Zarak on a March cover and was sold today by Fittocks Stud.

"We are really pleased to get her, she was our main pick for today, " said Lamb. "She is a lovely individual, her first foal is very highly rated and now on a mark of 115, and I loved her Le Havre yearling who I saw – she was bought here by David Redvers for 350,000gns, she was a beauty. She is going to Ralph Beckett so is in safe hands.

"We liked the Zarak cover, too."

Lamb added: "We have no stallions in mind at the moment, she is a complete outcross."

Innevera is a half-sister to the 2002 champion European older miler Keltos and four further black-type winners. (19:12)

Star Snap is out of Hot Snap (Pivotal), winner of the Nell Gwyn Stakes (G3), second in the Blandford Stakes (G2) and third placed in the Nassau Stakes (G1).

The pedigree is one of the best in the Juddmonte stud book – second dam Midsummer is dam of the champion older mare Midday, who is now the dam of the dual Group 3 winner Midterm and the Listed winners Mori and Noon Star.

Third dam Modena produced the dual Group 1 winner Elmaamul, the 1996 champion juvenile filly Reams of Verse, as well as three further Group race winners. (18:19)

Divine Herald is an own-sister to Seven Heavens, who was placed in the Listed Surrey Stakes and the King Charles II Stakes, and she was sold in-foal to No Nay Never. She had a colt by Dutch Art in the spring, her first foal.

Heaven Sent is an own-sister to the Yellow Ribbon Stakes (G1), John C Mabee Handicap (G1) winner and multiple graded race winner and placed filly Megahertz.

Divine Herald was bought at the July Sale 2021 for 100,000gns by Cormac McCormack. (18:06)

She is in-foal for the first time having collected two Listed third placings in the Beckford Stakes and the Salsabil Stakes for trainer Jessica Harrington through the 2021 season.

She is out of the Singspiel mare Singing Field, bred by Ballyreddin Stud & Lope De Vega Synd, and is a half-sister to the Grade 2 winner Herboriste and the Grade 1-placed Fast And Furious. (17:59)

She is a half-sister to Ivawood, winner of the Richmond Stakes (G2) and the July Stakes (G2), runner-up in the Middle Park Stakes (G1) and third in the 2,000 Guineas (G1), the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) and the Greenham Stakes (G3).

Second dam is the Prix de l'Opera (G1) winner Kinnaird, the dam of black-type winners Berkshire, Abdon and the Group 3 March Stakes placed Frankel gelding Ben Vrackie.

New England Stud was responsible for consigning the mare, who is in-foal to Wootton Bassett. (17:32)

She is out of the Unfuwain mare Lailani, winner of seven races, including the Irish Oaks (G1), the Nassau Stakes (G1) and the Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes (G1) and dam of three black-type performers.

Sunset Wish was sold with a covering to Masar on February 24. (17:03)

A winner of four races, including the Montrose Stakes (L), the Star Stakes (L) and placed second in the Musidora Stakes (G3), the Sweet Solera (G3) and the Prestige Stakes (G3), she also collected a fourth spot in the 1,000 Guineas (G1).

She is out of the dual Group 1 winner Fading Light and from the family of the Group 1 winners Wonderful Tonight and Camelot.

Fireglow was sold with a cover to Persian King on February 20. (16:49)

She is out of the Group 2 winner Khawlah (Cape Cross) and is a half-sister to Masar, Darley stallion and winner of the Epsom Derby (G1) and third placed in the 2,000 Guineas.

Kenspeckle, who is an own-sister to the Group 2 placed Sayyida, was covered by Frankel in the spring but believed not to be in-foal.

Third dam is Mekikah, runner-up in the Irish Oaks (G1), and a daughter of Urban Sea. (16:40)

He added: "I believe the Kingman and the Frankel out of her are nice, the reports are quite good. She should physically suit Lucky Vega and we think the nick of Mr Prospector will work on Lucky Vega."

Lucky Vega, owned by Mr Zhang Yuesheng, won the Phoenix Stakes (G1) and was runner-up in the Middle Park Stakes (G1) and the St James's Palace Stakes (G1), and third in the 2,000 Guineas. He is by Lope De Vega and stands at the Irish National Stud. Next spring will be his second season at stud.

Violante has had eight foals – her 2015 gelding by New Approach is the Group 3 Prix Messidor winner Impulsif. In 2020, she had a filly by Frankel, in 2021 a colt by Kingman and this year a colt by Frankel.

Donohoe's words "it is a great family" is bit of an understatement – Violante is out of the Group 3 winner Allez Les Trois (Riverman), and is the dam of three black-type winners, headed by the Group 1 Prix Jockey Club Anabaa Blue. She is grand-dam of Tamayuz and Santiago.

Second dam is Allegretta, dam of nine winners headlined by the wonderful Urban Sea, the European champion older mare of 1993, winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and dam of Galileo, Sea The Stars, Black Sam Bellamy, My Typhoon, Born Too Sea, Melikah, Cherry Hinton, All Too Beautiful and Urban Ocean. (15:55)

The four-year-old by Frankel is unraced, and is carrying her first pregnancy to New Bay on a February cover.

Billesdon Brook, Ave, Anna Monda, Helmet and Epaulette are the five Group 1 winners on the page. (15:02)

She is a grand-daughter of Fraulein (Acatenango), winner of the E P Taylor Stakes (G1), and was sold by WH Bloodstock to Jill Lamb Bloodstock. (14:55)

She is in-foal to Sea The Moon, and has had one runner so far – Hedwig, the winner of two races. (14:05)

However, by this time next year, Fiery Sunset could be the dam of that second stakes horse – her two-year-old of this year, the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Circle Of Fire (Almanzor), an impressive winner on his second start when winning a novice over a mile at Salisbury.

John Warren said after the victory: "He is big and impressive physically and for his size and scope Sir Michael has been seeing something at home. He had a nice introduction, partly because he wasn't so quick out of the stalls when he started. The penny dropped, he got into gear and Ryan was impressed. He's a nice horse for the future, he looks as though he's got exciting potential."

Circle Of Fire, who holds a 2023 Derby entry, was one of The Queen's last winners – he won at Salisbury on September 1, the last winner she had was the Clive Cox-trained Love Affairs who won at Goodwood on Tuesday, September 6. (13:53)

The filly was sold by The Royal Studs, and was the winner of one race as a two-year-old in 2021 over 6f. She is a half-sister to Ideal Beauty (Invincible Spirit), winner of the Group 3 Prix de Saint Georges, and their dam Discernable won the Listed Prix Six Perfections.

The extended family finds its way to the Coronation Cup (G1) winner Lupe, and the champions Loup Sauvage and Loup Solitaire. (13:07)

She is a 2011 mare by Royal Applause, out of Madamoiselle Jones (Emperor Jones), the dam of Dam's Dream, a Cityscape winner of the Fred Darling Stakes (G3), and Caernarfon, also by Cityscape and Listed placed and a Listed winner since the catalogue was published.

Tiriana, second dam of Royal Ffanci, is the dam of Penkenna Princess, another winner of the Fred Darling, and a runner-up in the Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1).

It was another successful sale this morning for Furnace Mill Stud on behalf of Hunscote Stud.

"She has been bought for one of the Ballylinch stallions," said buyer John O'Connor of Ballylinch. "I love a mare who can produce more than one stakes horse, and Caernarfon looked quite impressive in his win in the Montrose Stakes, he looks as though he could on again next season.

"I liked her physically, she is quite a neat mare. The breeder has also retained a couple of fillies out of the mare." (11:32)

Country Carnival, who cost 70,000gns, won twice at two and three and finished third in the Listed Marygate Stakes at York. (11:15)

She was sold by Barton Sales. (10:43)

She had a colt foal by Sottsass this spring and was bought by Suzanne Roberts / Deerpark Stud. (10:18)

Selling starts at 9.30am (08:37)

“Strong yearling sales will always drive demand for foals and the extraordinary strength of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales has been followed by a Tattersalls December Foal Sale, which has achieved significant increases in average and median as well as a record turnover in excess of 35 million guineas.

"The cream of the British and Irish foal crop has been assembled here at Park Paddocks and buyers at every level of the market and from throughout the world have all contributed to yet another record breaking sale in a year of extraordinary sales at Tattersalls.

“To see so many British and Irish breeders rewarded so handsomely this week reflects the quality of the stock which they have brought to the market and we should thank the consignors for their confidence in the Tattersalls December Foal Sale which consistently showcases the finest foals to be found in Europe.

"The buyers, whether looking to race or to pinhook, know that the Tattersalls December Foal Sale will satisfy every possible requirement and the competition for quality foals has been unrelenting. In addition to Whitsbury Manor Stud’s outstanding one million guineas sale-topping KINGMAN filly, the sale has produced the four highest-priced foals in Europe and a record-equalling 27 foals sold for 200,000 guineas or more, all of which has demonstrated the sustained appetite for the best European bloodstock which has been so evident at every Tattersalls sale in 2022.

“While the December Foal Sale is always dominated by the tireless and loyal British and Irish pinhookers, their European counterparts have also made their presence felt, as have a significant number of the world’s leading owners who recognise the December Foal Sale as a consistent source of Classic and Group 1 performers.

"It is no coincidence that the connections of the Group 1-winning two-year-olds BLACKBEARD and CHALDEAN, both bought at the 2020 December Foal Sale, have again targeted this sale and international buyers from America, China, France, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Spain, Switzerland and from throughout the Gulf region have also made significant contributions, particularly at the top of the market.

“The international influence will without doubt be even stronger as we move on to the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, which starts on Monday and features the inaugural Sceptre Sessions for elite fillies and broodmares. We have an exceptional catalogue which includes some of the best race fillies and mares to be offered at public auction for many a year and we look forward to ending the Tattersalls year on a high note." (18:00)

Lots catalogued: 1,173 (1,072)

Lots offered: 983 (906)

Lots sold: 744 (734)

Aggregate: 35,255,050gns (+13%)**

Median: 26,000gns (+4%)**

Average: 47,386gns (+12%) **

% sold: 76% (83%)

Nos 300,000gns+: 14

Nos 200,000gn+: 27

Leading consignors (by agg, cumulative): 1. Whitsbury Manor Stud, 2. Tweenhills Farm & Stud, 3. New England Stud

Leading purchasers (by agg, cumulative): 1. Juddmonte Farms, 2. Yeomanstown Stud, 3. Shadwell Estate Company

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

Leading sires (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Kingman, 2. Frankel, 3. Lope De Vega

The top five

1. Lot 1025: Kingman (GB) / Suelita (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Whitsbury Manor Stud >> Juddmonte Farms >> 1,000,000gns

2. Lot 1063: Frankel (GB) / Sunny Again (GB) B.F. (IRE) >> Mount Coote Stud, Ireland >> Moyglare Stud >> 550,000gns

3. Lot 1041: Frankel (GB) / Awesometank (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Heatherwold Stud >> Juddmonte Farms >> 500,000gns

4. Lot 928: Lope de Vega (IRE) / Poet's Vanity (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Langton Stud >> Juddmonte Farms >> 500,000gns

5. Lot 1056: Frankel (GB) / Mrs Gallagher (GB) B.F. (GB) >> New England Stud >> Sumbe >> 425,000gns

** record (17:39)

Lots catalogued: 254 (223)

Lots offered: 213 (198)

Lots sold: 150 (145)

Aggregate: 2,567,750gns (+7%)

Median: 12,000gns (+20%)

Average: 17,118gns (+3%)

% sold: 70% (73%)

The top five

1. Lot 1222: Mohaather (GB) / Time of Change (IRE) B.C. (GB) >> Barton Stud >> Shadwell Estate Company >> 110,000gns

2. Lot 1250: Masar (IRE) / Hawaafez (GB) B.C. (GB)UPDATE Overbury Stud >> Yeomanstown Stud >> 110,000gns

3. Lot 1182: Sergei Prokofiev (CAN) / Hadeeya (GB) B.C. (GB) >> Kirtlington Stud >> Camas Park Stud >> 70,000gns

4. Lot 1231: Havana Grey (GB) / Highly Dancer (IRE) Ch.F. (GB) >> Houghton Bloodstock >> Drummond Bloodstock >> 70,000gns

5. Lot 1148: Mohaather (GB) / Muaamara (GB) B.F. (GB) UPDATE >> Barton Stud >> Tally-Ho Stud >> 68,000gns (17:56)

The week has also set a record median of 26,000gns and record average 47,386gns. (17:43)

Third dam Infamy won the Grade 1 Rothman's Invitational Stakes at Woodbine, the Group 2 Sun Chariot Stakes and the Gordon Richard Stakes (G3). She is quite the successful broodmare producer of the multiple Group and graded winner Moon Queen, the Group 3 winner Barafamy and Rostropovich, winner of the Saval Beg Stakes (L).

Hinting was bred by Godolphin and was bought by Jill Lamb Bloodstock for 28,000gns at the July Horses in Training Sale 2020. Her first foal is by Harry Angel, was sold by Stringston Farm to Redgate Bloodstock for 46,000gns. (17:00)

Speculating already has been a bit of a broodmare star – her first foal by Havana Grey made 21,000gns here last year bought by the new pinhooking syndicate The Gals Gals. The girls resold the colt in Book 2 to Oceanic Bloodstock for 150,000gns.

Both mares are half-sisters to black-type winners – Enough's Enough is a half to Laugh A Minute, winner of the Cork Stakes (L) and placed in the Chipchase Stakes (G3) and the Prix de Meautry (G3), while Speculating's half-brother is Danehill Kodiac, winner of the Cumberland Lodge Stakes (G3). (16:12)

"He was magic, I was on the limit the whole way but I knew he'd keep finding," said Skelton

Le Milos is out of the star Listed-winning mare Banjaxed Girl (King's Theatre) and was sold by Little Lodge Farm to Agencie FIPS for €27,000 as a foal in November 2015.

The mare's three-year-old by Blue Bresil was sold by Oak Tree Farm at this year's Derby Sale to Milestone Bloodstock for €75,000.

With the late John Fowler, Banjaxed Girl was part-bred by Robert Chugg, who sadly died in February. The victory is a great testament to both his and the Fowler family's NH bloodstock legacy. (15:34)

As Sweeting explains, it is quick return on an investment made in February this year.

"Richard Brown bought the mare for me here in February, I was not around and he did it himself," explains Sweeting. "It looked like a chancy buy to start with but the mare was an exceptional racehorse and Rogue Millennium has come along, and everything else has landed into place, too – the two-year-old is now one for one and her Kingman yearling has gone to trainer George Boughey.

"It is definitely a progressive family, but that sale did take me by surprise, but it is a lovely surprise to have! He was a late foal, but he has been very straightforward and everything has worked out well."

Hawaafez by Nayef and winner of the Cumberland Lodge Stakes (L) was bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 14,000gns at the February Sale.

In May, her 2019 daughter Rogue Millennium (Dubawi) won the Listed Lingfield Oaks Trial and in June finished second in the Hoppings Fillies Stakes (G3), while Naomi Lapaglia, her two-year-old by Awtaad, won on her career debut at Kempton earlier this month.

Sweeting also has some exciting sale plans next week.

"We are offering a mare in-foal to Dubawi, the only one to be offered this year at public auction. I have no idea what will happen, but she is there and we want to sell her. However, she is a super mare and if I have to take her home, I wouldn't be that sad to breeding a Dubawi next year!

"We don't know what sex the foal is, but she is an exciting prospect to be bringing to sale."

The mare is Mohjatty (Awtaad), a three-parts sister to the champion Taghrooda. She sells as Lot 1872 in Tuesday's Sceptre Session. (14:48)

The filly, a first foal for the mare and bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud, was sold by Houghton Bloodstock to Drummond Bloodstock.

Highly Dancer was covered by Showcasing this spring. (14:25)

"He was very slick today.... he was breathtaking," said jockey Nico De Boinville to ITV Racing. (14:25)

Angus Gold said: "Obviously, we are a bit biased, Mohaather was a very special horse for us. We thought he was slightly underrated if anything, for me what he did at Goodwood that day in the Sussex Stakes was out of the ordinary, I have not seen a horse quicken like that since Kingman in the same race.

"So we are big fans and I have liked the stock I have seen. What I particularly liked is that, leading into this week, lots of people have told me that they have a really nice Mohaather foal, which is great to hear. We bought one two days ago, and the vendor told me they had an even better one at home. There are some really good vibes about him."

Of this foal. Gold outlined: "I thought this was a really smart horse, and a lot of people thought the same, I heard he had ten vets on him so he was always going to cost a bit. He is out of a half-sister to a horse who ran second in the Gimcrack and was a handy horse, and this horse looks a sprinter. If he is any good he will be fast and hopefully will be one to get the stallion off to a good start.

Of the buying at this sale through the week, Gold added: "We have bought seven foals. Obviously we sold over the last couple of years we sold many mares that we ended up with around 50. With some barren or slipped or were maidens, it means that the stud's foal crop is only have around 35 and by the time we they go into training we will be down on numbers in training.

"I spoke with Sheikha Hissa and she was keen to get some foals to supplement the racing team, if we could buy at relatively sensible money."

Explaining a little more of the Shadwell plans, he said: "Over the last two years it was about getting it all to a manageable size. The family has got a bit more structure to the whole organisation now and I think Sheikha Hissa is just trying to see what sot of size she would like it to be. We will have around 100 horses in training next year, we had about 75-80 this year."

Buying plans for next week are currently fluid.

"I will be looking at mares next week," smiled Gold, and referencing to a certain new stallion on the Shadwell roster, added: "If there is anything that Stephen Collins and I think we should be buying to add to the broodmare band, we will chat – we have got a real reason to get some nice mares!

"I don't know whether the family will want to be at that end of the market straight away, but next week's sale looks a lovely catalogue on paper. We will see what happens."

The colt was bred by consignor Tom Blain under his own Ickworth Stud banner.

Blain said: "We are really pleased, the mare Time For Change is owned in partnership, it is a great thrill and I am delighted for all involved. It was a bit weird to watch one sell of our own! We bought her for 9,000gns, she is a lovely mare by Exceed And Excel and I know the family, we used to board her dam Purple Tiger and there is a lot happening under the second dam.

"She is a good-looking mare and she has thrown an an absolute beauty of a first foal, it is really exciting. I think he should make up into a serious racehorse and just want to thank Angus for his support. It is great Shadwell and Sheikha Hissa are backing their own stallion, we used him a number of times in the first year so really happy." (14:03)

Silver Clouds was purchased for 40,000gns by Stringston Farm here in 2017. She is unraced and out of the once-raced Sadler's Wells mare Jane Eyre, a daughter of the German champion older mare Albanova, the dam of Alwilda, who is, of course, dam of the star Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Alpinista. (13:30)

"He is stamping them and they look active, which is great. He looks like he is another stallion that Ed Harper has hit the jackpot with. This foal is a baby, an April 30th foal, a real youngster and we were thought he might be a little too immature to take this. He has been out 35 times this morning, he is a little person, ears pricked walking along, getting on with it and has been the same all the way through.

"We have had the family for a while – Good Old Boy [Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner under the second dam] was raised at Kirtlington. The pedigree is owned in partnership with Sarah Hamilton and Sarah is great, we've owned horse together for many years, sometimes it goes well and sometimes it doesn't! But we breed them to sell them, and today is a good day."

Budgett also sold Lot 1184, a chestnut colt by Ulysses, for the Exors of the late owner-breeder Dr Catherine Wills, who died in July.

Budgett said: "That is the last one for her. When she told me earlier this year that she was terminal, she said I very much doubt that I will get to the sales, and do you actually I am pleased that she didn't as she bred to race not for the sales. She had such fun racing them, and they were from her Dad's families and she kept them going. It is a sad day and we have couple of mares entered next week." (12:23)

The March foal is out of Muaamara (Bahamian Bounty), who is a half-sister to Master Of War (Compton Place), winner of the Rose Bowl Stakes (L), and runner-up in the Richmond Stakes (G2), the Mill Reef Stakes (G2) and third placed in the Solario Stakes (G3).

Third dam Gharam finished third in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (G1) and second in the Sweet Solera Stakes (L). (11:21)

It is a third-best price at the foal sales for Paul Coe and Simon Nicholson's farm in Warwickshire and the team was delighted with the result, it is a fine return on the mare's purchase in at the February Sale in 2015.

"We bought her for just 3,500gns," said Coe. "American Sonja has been an exciting runner for her this year, she has a Guineas entry. The mare has always given a lot of strength and size to her foals. We decided on Mohaather, we thought he'd suit her physically, she has always done a good job and we thoughts she deserved a step up the ladder. She is not in-foal as she was a bit late, we don't have any covering plans as yet – we have to see how we get on here first!"

American Sonja (Tasleet) is in training with Joseph O'Brien, was sold by the farm as a foal for 22,000gns to Timmy Hillman. Castledillon Stud sold her for £30,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale to Con Marnane, who breezed her at the Craven Sale selling her to Peter Trainor for 95,000gns.

She is the second winner for the mare Gumhrear (Kodiac)and picked up her maiden at The Curragh on her fourth career start after finishing runner-up twice. She has a BHA rating of 87. (11:14)

Selling starts at 10am, and you can follow all the results, stories and updates here at sales day live. (09:32)

Lots catalogued: 282 (283)

Lots offered: 226 (221)

Lots sold: 182 (183)

Aggregate: 20,110,000gns (+17%)

Median: 68,000gns (+13%)

Average: 110,495gns (+19%)

% sold: 81% (83%)

Leading consignors (by agg, cumulative): 1. Whitsbury Manor Stud, 2. Tweenhills Farm & Stud, 3. New England Stud

Leading purchasers (by agg, cumulative): 1. Juddmonte Farms, 2. Yeomanstown Stud, 3. Camas Park Stud

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

Leading sires (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Kingman, 2. Frankel, 3. Lope De Vega

The top five

1. Lot 1025: Kingman (GB) / Suelita (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Whitsbury Manor Stud >> Juddmonte Farms >> 1,000,000gns

2. Lot 1063: Frankel (GB) / Sunny Again (GB) B.F. (IRE) >> Mount Coote Stud, Ireland >> Moyglare Stud >> 550,000gns

3. Lot 1041: Frankel (GB) / Awesometank (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Heatherwold Stud >> Juddmonte Farms >> 500,000gns

4. Lot 928: Lope de Vega (IRE) / Poet's Vanity (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Langton Stud >> Juddmonte Farms >> 500,000gns

5. Lot 1056: Frankel (GB) / Mrs Gallagher (GB) B.F. (GB) >> New England Stud >> Sumbe >> 425,000gns (19:44)

Lot 1074 is a Ghaiyyath filly from Norelands Stud. She is out of the Dalakhani mare Tanoura, dam of two the Group 3 winners Tanaza and Taniyar, and cost 375,000gns.

Shadwell, this week's third leading buyer, has bought six foals this week for an aggregate spend of 1,202,000gns at an average price of 200,333gns.

A further three purchasers have spent seven-figure sums this week – leading buyer Juddmonte has bought four foals for an aggregate spend of 2,425,000gns, Camas Park has spent 1,205,000gns on seven lots and Yeomanstown has bought 11 foals for an outlay of 1,190,000gns.

BBA Ireland and Tally-Ho Stud have been busiest buyers – both picking up 13 foals each.

Unsurprisingly, Whitsbury Manor Stud is the week's leading consignor by aggregate at 2,201,5000gns and the only farm to edge over the two million bracket.

Tweenhills Farm & Stud, New England Stud, Norelands Stud and The Castlebridge Consignment are the other consignors to achieve seven-figure turnovers.

The week's leading farm by average is Langton – three lots sold for an average price of 248,333gns. (19:13)

Her yearling of this year by Sea The Stars was bought by Godolphin for 550,000gns, and her foal is sold today for the same amount, bought by Moyglare Sud Farm, Fiona Craig in charge of bidding.

"She is a Frankel! And we all know how much he is going to be next year," laughed Craig. "If you breed, you don't know if you are going to get a colt or something upsides down. This is a filly, she is nice, she is not a great big striding filly, but I know what Homeless Songs looks like.

"I wasn't going to buy an Oaks winner, I want to buy something fast – we have plenty of slow ones. Speed is so hard to find, she looks fast, the pedigree is great. Mount Coote is great and they raise loads of good horses. And... she is a Frankel!"

Tabitha Lillingston of Mount Coote said outside the sales ring: "It is so exciting, we have been so lucky with that mare. She fantastic, she does it every time, and now she has some really exciting horses to run for her. When Fiona saw the filly, she said she is just the same as Homeless Songs.

"The mare has rewarded us, sometimes you get lucky. Luke loves his pedigrees and he did a lot of looking at the covering, he was really excited about it. Fingers crossed!" (18:21)

The mare was a Listed winner and has had one runner so far – Miss Gallagher who was retained and has been placed once as a two-year-old this year.

The mare's Starspangledbanner yearling of 2022 sold at October Book 1 for 350,000gns bought by Richard Knight.

It is the fast family of Xtension, Harry Angel, Supremacy and this year's Listed filly White Lavender.

Sumbe has also bought Lot 923 (Showcasing ex Killermont Street) for 100,000gns and Lot 924 (Night of Thunder ex Roman Venture) for 200,000gns.

Tony Fry said: "She’s a lovely filly and we were underbidder on the Starspangledbanner colt as a yearling. She’ll go back to Hesmonds now. We have a plethora of stallions now and she will, hopefully, join our broodmare band when she finishes racing. The sire can’t do any wrong."

Of the farm's new stallion Mishriff, who joined the roster after his fourth place in the Breeders' Cup Turf, Fry said: “Mishriff is getting on super. We haven’t started showing him yet but already the bookings are coming in. You can’t but be impressed by him. People know his race record but when they see his physical they'll be even more impressed. We’re looking forward to showing him off.” (18:15)

Bloodstock advisor Jeremy Brummitt said: "It is bitter-sweet sale really, she is the final youngster to be sold from Heatherwold Stud under Mick Caddy's ownership – he is ceasing operations and has gone out with a bang!

"I bought the grand-dam Janey Muddles – I remember seeing her win first time out at The Curragh, I think she was Lawman's first winner as a two-year-old, she passed the whole field and was on the slowest of the ground.

"I never forgot her and the owner came around to sell her, she was carrying her second foal which was an in-house covering to Intense Focus. I bought her here for 115,000gns in 2014. That foal became an absolutely lovely yearling, was named Awesometank – we bought her back at the sales and raced her.

"She took us to Canada and Chicago and was second in the Beverley D, and now she is breeding. She lives in a field with her dam and they are two of the happiest mares I have ever seen, and they both raise happy and contented foals."

Of the Frankel covering, he added: "I am not terribly excited about in-breeding to Danehill but I risked it with this mare because she is such a fantastic mover. What I was really looking for was the power that Frankel could prove." (18:07)

Chaldean, a son of Frankel, was bought as a foal by Juddmonte at this sale in 2020 for 550,000gns.

She is also the sixth most expensive foal ever sold at a Tattersalls December Foal Sale and the most expensive filly since 2018.

The March-born filly was sold by breeder Whitsbury Manor Stud, her four-time dam winning dam Suelita bought at the mares' sale by Chris Harper in 2013 for 21,500gns. She has had six winners from six runners – one a Group 1 winner, two black-type winners, and two who have collected placed form in Listed races.

Bidding started at 200,000gns, and Philipp von Stauffenberg in the left gangway, Michael Donohoe, who was sat to the left of the rostrum with Mr Zhang, Simon Mockridge in the right gangway and an online bidder took the early bidding along.

David Redvers, standing in the bidders', stepped in at 850,000gns and pushed out a couple of bids, Mockridge eventually pressing the button at 1,000,000gns.

Mockridge said: "We are delighted. It is always going to be expensive buying a filly like that when you've got a new Group 1 winner on the page. Chaldean is very exciting, we were delighted to buy him from Whitsbury a couple of years back and the Harpers do a great job, I am very happy for Ed Harper and his team.

"The family want to reinvest in pedigrees, this is a very strong page and with Chaldean, who knows what is going to happen next year? This filly could be a very valuable prospect going forwards."

When asked if there are comparisons between the two, Mockridge said: "Chaldean was a slightly smaller horse, she is bigger, she has a big backside on her. She looks faster, if you can say that, but she is an exciting filly. Kingman has had such a good season two Group 1 winners and 14 individual Group winners, he is going from strength to strength."

Consignor Harper said: "What has it been, two months' since the Dewhurst? It feels like a long long two months! Thank goodness we had her entered here, I could not have hung ion another year waiting to sell her. Every time someone dropped a spanner at home, you fear.

"It is lovely to get a big round figure like that, it is fantastic and we really appreciate Juddmonte's support. The farm supported us by buying Chaldean and has done it again. Hopefully ,she can repay that faith and be a bit of sport on the racetrack before going to Frankel in a couple of years' time. She is nailed on to be a broodmare for Frankel.

"With luck, she is the perfect sort of mare for him, not just pedigree and physic, too - hopefully she wins a couple of Group 1s on the way!"

When asked if there were ever any thoughts about retaining her, Harper laughed and said: "I'd like to keep my hair line if possible! I am very happy, there are no regrets. Alastair Pim did a great job in the ring and gave her every chance. There have been a lot of people involved in getting here – and don't forget, this was the last mare that Dad bought so not a bad way to finish off his buying."

The preceding lot from Whitsbury, Lot 1024 by Frankel and out of the Listed-placed Showcasing mare Heartwarming, was bought by Tina Rau Bloodstock / Gestüt Fährhof for 320,000gns.

Andreas Jacobs said: "She’s been bought to race. We liked the pedigree. There’s a lot of quality coming up in the next three or four years, there’s lots of potential for it to grow. We love the mating, Frankel over Showcasing. She’s a handy version of Frankel which we like." (17:03)

Lot 999 is by Mehmas and out of the Lillie Langtry Stakes (G3) runner-up Dubka (Dubawi) from the family of Notnowcato. The further three foals are all out of black-type mares from the late Sir Evelyn de Rothschild's Crystal Ocean family.

Johnny McKeever reported on the purchase of the top-priced of the quartet, the Sea The Stars filly out of the Notnowcato mare Waila, a half-sister to the dam of Crystal Ocean (Lot 1002).

"James [Hanly of Ballyhimikin] will probably put her back through Book 1, but she is also a foundation broodmare," said McKeever. "It is a pinhook purchase, but also the purchase of a foundation mare if needs be. It is so hard to get into these families and it is a once-in-lifetime opportunity, sadly with the passing of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild there is a chance to get into families that would never be available."

McKeever added: "We understand that the full-sister is an extremely useful filly and she is to be offered next week [Infinite Cosmos, Lot 1954], so it will be interesting to see which trainer gets hold of her, but I believe Sir Michael thinks she is very very good. That was an added incentive to buy this foal.

"We have worked very hard at this sale and come away with nothing so far. James likes to buy the one that he gets a really strong feeling about, the really important ones. We have stopped on others but he was not stopping on her."

The four from Southcourt were sold by Peter Stanley's New England Stud and he had mixed emotions about the sale.

"It is incredibly sad when it comes to the end of an era and Evelyn was the most charming man," said Stanley. "I would much rather be talking to him than selling his horse for a lot of money. It is a great credit to him that he had four foals on the ground and they all sold as well that.

"It is to Sir Evelyn's credit that he created a couple of fantastic families. We should not forget that his sister Renee Robson was really the power behind the scene, she was the one who created these families with Evelyn – he gave her the firepower to do it, but he was always prepared to back her judgement.

"I have been lucky enough to be involved for the last 15 years and help with the matings. He was a great man to deal with and it is sad to be saying goodbye to him."

Looking ahead to the partial dispersal sale of mares next week, Sir Peter said: "There are some lovely mares there, it is sad to be letting go of horses like that. It is a legacy and I think what is wonderful is that Evelyn has left behind something to be very proud of, and for the family to be very proud of." (16:09)

"I am delighted with that price, it is fantastic and am really pleased for Anita Wigan who bred her," said James Read of Selwood Bloodstock, walking and talking back to Highflyer Paddock. "She is a beautiful filly, and I am delighted to get Anita such a great price.

"It is the best price we have for around 10 years. The mare is not in-foal, but is going to Baaeed next spring. Her Lope De Vega yearling made 150,000gns in October and is with William Haggas."

West Blagdon Bloodstock purchased Burning Rules for 95,000gns in 2016 as a four-year-old. She is a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Blue De Vega and has three winners from three runners, headed by her Group-winning daughter. (15:01)