Lot 2038: Bint Elmalek (Kingman) is bought as a racing prospect by Michael Donohoe of BBA Ireland, the agent bidding online and going to 70,000gns.

"We watched her first two runs and they looked promising, but she was a little green," said the agent on telephone from home and in the midst of sorting Christmas decorations.

"She is for an existing client, and she will be given some time to strengthen before we make nay plans. She vetted very well. She has a proper deep pedigree and she has plenty of options both as a racing prospect and as a broodmare further down the line."

The two-year-old filly is out of the Jazil mare Maayaat, a half-sister to the champion Bahri and the Group 1 miler Bahhare, the same pedigree as Lot 2032

Currently, today's top six lots today have all been from the Shadwell Estate draft. (15:40)

Lot 2035 and Lot 2039: both bought by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for different clients.

Lot 2035, Tahneed by Warfront, is going to Ashbrittle Stud in Somerset, while Lot 2039, Giladah by Muhaarar, is heading over the Irish Sea.

Matt Coleman said of Tahneed: "She is for James Rowsell of Ashbrittle Stud to breed from. I was underbidder on her Masar foal to Tally-Ho and he is a really nice foal. She is a nice mare from a good pedigree."

She is carrying her second pregnancy and is in-foal to Awtaad.

The mare is out of dual winner Auld Alliance (Montjeu), she has had one winner Modus Operandi, who is rated 100 and was with Aidan O'Brien. Anthony bought her 2020 colt by Frankel for 625,0000gns in Book 1 for Godolphin, and she also has a 2021 colt by Frankel, too. There is plenty going on."

She hails from the Ballymacoll-nurtured family of Golan, Tartan Breaker, Bonny Scot, North Light, Sought Out, Greektown and Gamut.

Anthony Stroud gave the details of the next purchase of Giladah. .

"She has been bought for an Irish client, he likes her profile, likes the family and she is going to race on," he said. (14:34)

Lot 2033: Ghazawaat, in-foal to Tamayuz, a winner of two and placed third in the Listed Prix La Camargo, makes 80,000gns.

The successful buyer Cathy Grassick said: "She has been bought for an existing Irish client. This autumn, I bought her daughter by Dark Angel as a yearling, I like her a lot and she is going to Jessie Harrington."

Grassick added: "It is hard to tell at this stage, but you can't go to wrong with a Siyouni stakes mare – she was rated 100 and he really looks like the broodmare sire of the future, he is such a lovely stallion. She also has got the benefit of being out of a Choisir mare, and he has been a very lucky stallion for me and he really is a broodmare sire that I like.

"In fact, she is a real mix of Choisir and Siyouni – she has the quality of the Siyouni and the strength and the colour of Choisir. You could see both of them in her and I like that." (14:17)

Lot 2032: Urjuwaan (Cape Cross), from the Shadwell family of champion three-year-old miler Bahri and the Group 1 winner Bahhare, is bought by Tom Goff of Blandford Bloodstock for 65,000gns.

"I bought her for a client in Ireland and she is going there," he said. "She has a proper Shadwell page, she is not a mare that has been bought by the stud. We have been looking to try and get into the families that Sheikh Hamdan made and this goes back to Bahri and Bahhare, John Dunlop and all those glory days."

"She has got a good cover, she has a had a good Dark Angel, and the two-year-old has been placed in France, I believe. She is a very nice mare.

The mare's Dark Angel foal (2017) was named Alfareeq and is the winner of two races and has finished third in a Listed race at Deauville. Her 2019 foal Tahasun (Tamayuz) was third at Chantilly on her second start, trained by Freddie Head.

Of the mare's Ribchester cover, Goff added: "I bought a couple of yearlings by Ribchester and some at the breeze ups – they need a bit of time but think come the end of next year it will prove to be a good cover, I hope." (14:09)

Lot 1960: Nawassi is joining the Yeomanstown Stud broodmare band, the Dubawi filly purchased by the O'Callaghan family farm for 120,000gns, and with a plan in mind.

"I think she will go to Supremacy," said Robert O'Callaghan of plans for the filly to visit. the farm's new sire for 2022. "Her Dark Angel was very good so it will be bred on the same lines. We’re trying to buy some nice fast mares for Supremacy. We’ve bought seven mares now.

"She’s a very good-looking Dubawi, from a very good family as a daughter of a Queen Mary winner – that was a big draw. Her foal who sold here the other day was a beauty and Philip Stauffenberg bought him [Lot 999A, 100,000gns].

"It makes it a lot easier to buy these mares when you can see what they’re producing. She was the one today that we wanted to buy and we’re very glad to get her."

He added: "We bought Que Amoro last night and she will go to Dark Angel. She was second to Battaash in the Nunthorpe so she is a very fast filly and we were keen to get her for Dark Angel.

"We’re very excited about Supremacy. He’s gone down extremely well with breeders so it is a very exciting year ahead. It is our first Group 1 winner since Dark Angel to go to stud; if he can be half as good as Dark Angel we’ll be happy! We had a lot of showings and bookings. Generally we’d have two or three shows a day through December and January and then we can kick on in February and start covering.”

Nawassi is a winning two-year-old and is carrying her third pregnancy having had a filly by Exceed And Excel in 2020, and a colt by Dark Angel this spring. She is in-foal to Shadwell Stud's Commonwealth Cup (G1) winner Eqtidaar, and wasabred and sold by Shadwell Estate,

She is from a real two-year-old family – she is a daughter of Maqaasid (Green Desert), a Queen Mary Stakes (G2) winner, and also placed third in the 1,000 Guineas (G1) and the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1).

Third dam is the Oh So Sharp Stakes (L) winner Sarayir, dam of Ghanaati, winner of the 1,000 Guineas (G1), the Coronation Stakes (G1), runner-up in the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1), and third in the Sussex Stakes (G1). (11:35)

Lot 1955 and Lot 1956: were both offered by Overbury Stud, are both from the same family, both bred by Litex Commerce, and were both bought by Tina Rau for 57,000gns (Lot 1955) and 20,000gns (Lot 1956). That is where the connection ends as they have been purchased for different clients.

"I love this family and have bought three from it this year," said Rau, "I purchased Paggane at the horses in training sale in France, and she is a daughter of Preis der Diana winner Penelopa, who is a half-sister to this mare Ledena. Their dam Lady Linda was a talented racemare in the US, and has produced 11 winners from 11 runners, and Ledena is, of course, by the good broodmare sire Pivotal.

"Pegota [Lot 1956], is out of Penelopa. She did not race, but the two who have run out of Penelopa have both won."

Ledena was sold in-foal to Gleneagles, while Pegota is carrying to Without Parole. (11:30)

December Mare Sale, Day 2 statistics: (+/- compared to last year)

Lots catalogued: 320 (295)

Lots offered: 265 (235)

Lots sold: 224 (186)

Aggregate: 41,912,000gns (+68%)

Median: 105,000gns (+75%)

Average: 187,107gns (+39%)

% sold: 85% (90%)

Leading consignors (cumulative): 1. The Castlebridge Consignment, 2. Newsells Park Stud, 3. Shadwell Estate Company Ltd

Leading purchasers (cumulative): 1. BBA Ireland, 2. Jill Lamb Bloodstock, 3. Blandford Bloodstock

Leading sires (aggregate, cumulative): 1. Dubawi, 2. Galileo, 3. New Approach

Leading sires (average, 2+ sold): 1. Dandy Man, 2. Australia, 3. Gutaifan

Lots 1,00,000gns+: 4

Lots 500,000gns+: 17

Lots 300,000gns+ (cumulative)+: 48

Lots 100,000gns+ (cumulative): 161

Top 5 lots

1. Lot 1839: Waldlied (GB) 2015 ch,m. Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Jill Lamb Bloodstock >> 2,200,000gns

2. Lot 1840: Cayenne Pepper (IRE) 2017 ch,f. Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >>Tom Magnier >> 2,000,000gns

3. Lot 1810: Sunday Times (GB) 2009 b,m. Goldford Stud (Agent) >> M V Magnier >> 1,800,000gns

4. Lot 1798: Flotus (IRE) 2019 b,f. Gainsborough Thoroughbreds >> Katsumi Yoshida >> 1,000,000gns

5. Lot 1765: Shades of Blue (IRE) 2016 br,m. The Castlebridge Consignment >> Oceanic Bloodstock for White Birch Farm SC >> 850,000gns (22:10)

Lot 1840: also from the Newsells Park Stud draft, Cayenne Pepper was bought by Tom Magnier for 2,000,000gns.

The Australia filly is the winner of the Blandford Stakes (G2), the Flame Of Tara Stakes (G3). She was runner-up in the Irish Oaks (G1) and the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1), third in the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1) and fourth in the Fillies' Mile (G1) and the Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1).

"She is a lovely mare we knew what she could do on the race track,"said Magnier. "Jessica Harrington held her in high regard, owner Jon Kelly was a very close friend of our family, we've had some Jon Kelly blood in Australia it is nice to have some here, too.

"She was just lovely physical, she will go to Wootton Bassett, hopefully we will have a bit of luck with her. All the top people have been talking about her all week, we are fortunate to have got her. It is a page we know well, and when you have a page like that and the physical, and the ability, we are delighted to have her."

The filly was originally bought at the 2017 December Foal Sale for 195,000gns from consignor Bumble Mitchell by Harriet Jellet for the late Jon S Kelly, a frequent visitor to Tattersalls.

Tonight's sale was an emotional ten minutes for Jellet.

"Jamie McCalmont and Philippa Mains helped select her as a foal," recalled Jellet. "She boarded then with Derek Veitch [at Ringfort Stud] before she went to Jessie."

Jellet added: "We when saw her straight out of the box with Bumble, she had such an incredible hind leg action and a lovely hip, you need an engine when you buy a racehorse.

"Jon had given us some money to buy pinhook, but when we came to prepare her as a yearling it was decided that she wasn't strong enough or big enough – and we'd be better off to race her. It was the best decision, she is a filly that has always given her most, always does her best. Jon was such a huge part of it, he would have loved tonight, his excitement would have been palpable."

The fillies' third dam is one of the best in the book – Allegretta, dam of Urban Sea and King's Best, and grand-dam of Sea The Stars, Black Sam Bellamy, Galileo and My Typhoon. (20:45)

Lot 1839: the anticipated stand out of today's Tuesday session lived up to expectations, Waldlied, the New Approach half-sister to the Group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Waldgeist, offered in partnership between Newsells Park Stud and Gestut Ammerland, was sold for 2,200,000gns.

Bids came from all around the ring for the chestnut mare, in-foal to Kingman, as well as interest online, but eventually the bidding developed into a match between the two part owners – agent Jill Lamb sat with Newsells Park Stud's new owner Graham Smith-Bernal, and agent Crispin de Moubray taking instructions on the phone from Dietrich von Boetticher's Gestut Ammerland.

The hammer came down in favour of the Newsells Park Stud team, Lamb and Smith-Bernal were delighted with the transaction, which was signed under the Jill Lamb Bloodstock banner.

"She is coming back home, where she belongs, she is a beautiful mare in terms of her demeanour and attitude, she is a very special horse from a very special family. It was breaking one partnership and forming a new partnership," said Smith-Bernal. "We also own 100 per cent Waldlerche now, as well as her number one daughter so far. She was a great racehorse, I think she was rated as high in training as Waldgeist by Andre Fabre. She is very special horse and we are absolutely delighted to have her back with us."

"It is very exciting, especially as it is for a new partnership," said Lamb. "Waldlied's Siyouni filly is still owned in partnership with Ammerland."

De Moubray said: "I was bidding on behalf of Ammerland and we are disappointed not to get the mare."

Waldlied is a half-sister to the champion Europe and French older horse of 2019, the winner of nine races, including four Group 1 races headlined by his Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe success. He ran 21 times, and his only results out of the first four was when fifth three times in Hong Kong, the Breeders’ Cup and a ParisLongchamp Group 2

His only run outside of stakes class was when he was successful in his maiden at Chantilly in the September of his two-year-old season. (20:22)

Lot 1829: Daily Times, the Gleneagles daughter of Sunday Times, the half-sister to Newspaperofrecord, makes 800,000gns. She was bought by James Wigan of London Thoroughbred Services on behalf of Erdenheim Farm, based in southeastern Pennsylvania.

"She is going to stay here for the time being. She will foal here and will probably go to Kingman, before travelling to the US, hopefully, in-foal," explained Wigan, who has previously purchased at the December Mares Sale for the McCausland family farm.

Daily Times came to last year's mares sale but was not sold. She was re-presented this year in-foal to Lope De Vega.

Wigan was underbidder in 2020 and he laughed that his persistence paid off: "I was underbidder on her last year when she was bought back for 600,000gns. The vendor has stuck to their guns, I have had to wait a year and pay more!"

When asked of the difference in buying the daughter for 800,000gns rather than 1,800,000gns for her dam, he said: "We have got more time than the Mum, but she has done it, we haven't, hopefully we will!" (19:33)

Lot 1810: Sunday Times (Holy Roman Emperor), dam of Newspaperofrecord, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and the Just A Game Stakes (G1), sells for 1,800,000gns, bought by MV Magnier.

Bids came from all around the sale ring after the bidding opened up at 400,000gns. US breeder Greg Goodman was involved in the early action, but the battled narrowed to a head to head between MV Magnier, who was outside, and David Redvers, who was sat with owner breeder David Howden in the Gods, they had joined the proceedings at 1,400,000gns.

Eventually Magnier had too much firepower and successfully bought the mare at 1,800,000gns.

"She is an absolute cracker," he said. "She has bred a champion and hopefully she is carrying a full-sister to her. She is a very nice mare, she has done it before and Newspaperofrecord was incredible what she did in the Breeders' Cup that day. She will be for Wootton Bassett."

He continued: "There is plenty going on in the page all the way down. It is a lot of money for her, but let's hope it is worth it!"

She was sold by Allan Belshaw, whose bloodstock interests come under the banner Times Of Wigan, named after Belshaw's engineering company.

He said: "I am satisfied, happy about it, slightly disappointed as I have had her since a baby but there comes a time when she had to move on. I have plenty of babies from the family so it is like starting again with a young family – she has helped the cause for the young family. We can play up there now with stallion fees instead of looking at the basement," he laughed looking upwards and then down to the ground.

Belshaw recalled that Sunday Times's previous visit to the Tattersalls sale ring was not such a profitable day.

"She was not sold as a yearling for 10,000gns. I bought her here to Book 2, Holy Roman Emperor was just starting his career. I don't know if there was even a bid, I was hoping to get 30,000gns for her," he rued, before adding how equine fortunes can change. "But she turned into a good race horse and an even better broodmare, and the big moment, of course, was with her daughter in the Breeders' Cup.

"Someone bid me for Sunday Times when I was in Kentucky, and I thought that I could not sell her then. But since then we have had two fillies, another by Lope De Vega [2020], who is with Roger Varian, and a Kingman filly this year. We also have half a dozen half-sisters so we are in a good place."

After Sunday Times was bought back in she went on to win the Sceptre Stakes (G3) and finish second in the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) for trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam.

All of Belshaw's mares board with today's consignor Goldford Stud in Cheshire, and Richard Aston of Goldford helps Belshaw with his mating plans. He said: "Allan is such an enthusiast, he gets all the books out around him on the floor. We decided on Lope De Vega because Shamardal had already done well with the family, and we loved the toughness of Lope De Vega winning the Poule d'Essai des Poulains (G1) and the Prix de Jockey-Club (G1) in such quick succession."

As alluded to by Magnier this is not a one horse family – Question Times, the Shamardal half-sister to Sunday Times, is dam of Latrobe, Irish Derby (G1) winner, Irish St Leger (G1) and Mackinnon Stakes (G1) runner-up, the Group 2 winner Diamond Fields, as well as the Listed winner and Group 1-placed Pink Dogwood. (19:03)

Lot 1798: this year's Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) runner-up Flotus (Starspangledbanner), trained by Simon and Ed Crisford, is bought by Northern Farm for 1,000,000gns. Underbidder was trainer Roger Varian.

She was consigned by Gainsborough Thoroughbred for owners J-E Dubois, B Kwok, E Babington Et Al having been purchased as a yearling at the 2020 October Book 1 Sale by Arthur Hoyeau for 125,000gns.

Simon Crisford understandably had mixed feelings about the sale.

"She is a beautiful filly, top class, and we wish her new connections the best of luck for the future," said Crisford. "We are very sorry to see her go, but she has done a fantastic job for us."

Of the decision to sell, Crisford explained: "She is owned by a syndicate and it was decided that the time was right to sell. I am sure she will have a fantastic career not only on the racetrack but also as a broodmare. She has not stopped growing all year, and I am sure she will have a very successful three-year-old career."

"She is an exciting filly," said Shingo Hashimoto. "We have not decided yet whether she will race on, I need to talk to the Boss – it could go either way. If she is going to race on, she will stay in Britain. She was brilliant at Newmarket, an outstanding performance and we are very excited to have her. We are looking for good horses."

The filly has run five times, winning on her race debut at Goodwood over 6f in May. She won the Listed Ripon Two-Year-Old Trophy on her fifth career start before her excellent performance in the Group 1. The Racing Post wrote after that effort "Although by a sprinter, there's stamina on the dam's side and she should be able to win a decent race next year."

She is the fifth filly or mare bought here this week so far by Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm for a spend of 2,870,000gns. (18:04)

Lot 1765: Shades Of Blue, the Kodiac two-time winner and Summer Stakes (G3) and Petit Couvert (G3) runner-up, is bought by Oceanic Bloodstock for owner-breeder Peter Brant's White Birch Farm. She was sold in-foal to Frankel, her first pregnancy.

Michel Zerolo of Oceanic Bloodstock was bidding by the acorn. He said: "The plan is simple, she will be sent to be bred Sottsass for Mr Brant. She was a good two-year-old, she is good-looking mare, in-foal to Frankel. She is by a stallion you can cross with Sottsass. She was expensive, but Mr Brant wanted her. The whole package is there – the physical, the race record, the stallion she is in-foal to, she is a young mare, she is what we are looking for for Sottsass. Mr Brant is going to send him plenty of mares to him, and good mares, too."

She was trained by Clive Cox and owned in training by Miss Alison Jones and Partner. Shades Of Blue was purchased at this sale last year for 320,000gns by BBA Ireland. She was consigned today by The Castlebridge Consignment.

"She is in-foal to the right sire. She should suit the sire, she was a fast filly herself. She was very very busy down at the yard, we are delighted with the result, we are over the moon," said Dwan.

The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Sottsass (Siyouni), also successful in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1), the Prix Ganay (G1) and the Prix Niel (G2), was owned in training by White Birch Farm, who purchased him as a yearling for €340,000. He stands at Coolmore. (16:52)

Lot 1764: Silk Forest, the Group 2 and 3-placed daughter of Kodiac, is bought by Kern/Lillingston Association for 575,000gns.

Peter Stanley, who was with Lillingston, said: "She is for a partnership between Chris Kilroy and my brother. Teddy [Lord Derby] was very keen to reinvest in a young mare and this was a bit of a queen, she is from one of the great families, built up by one of the greatest breeders."

Luke Lillingston said: "There are no weak links, in blood or performance."

The family stretches to the Gerald Leigh-developed pedigree of Prix de la Foret (G1) winner Brocade, dam of Barathea, Gossamer and Zabar.

When asked for his thoughts on the December Mares Sale, Lillingston said: "It's a small number of mares, the best that come onto the public sale, at the best auction of its type in the world, in an 'up' market."

She is in-foal to Sea The Stars, having seen the leading sire on April 18. (16:50)

Lot 1758: Fev Rover, the three-year-old daughter of Gutaifan, winner of the Prix du Calvados (G2), twice second in Group 2s , third in the 1,000 Guineas (G1), fourth in the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) and rated 108 is bought by Lincoln Collins with Joe Miller on behalf of US racehorse owner and breeder Tracy Farmer. She cost her new team 695,000gns, the bidding starting off outside at 600,000gns.

Bred by Minister House Stud, she was bought as a yearling by Howson & Houldsworth, sent in to training with Richard Fahey. She is another talented race filly owned by Nick Bradley, this time Nick Bradley Racing 43 & Partner. She was sold today by Musley Bank Stables (R. Fahey).

"We are happy to get her, we thought she was the best racing prospect in the sale and she should have plenty of residual value as a Group 2 winner and Classic placed," said Miller. "She will go to the US now, and hopefully have a successful four-year-old season racing there."

Collins added of the reasons why he felt she would suit racing in the US: "The trip is just right, she was effective at a mile to 1m2f, which is perfect, it looks as if her best ground is firm or good to firm, her least races have been on heavy ground. There are lot of opportunities for her in the US, if she is as good there as she was here.

"She will go to Florida to Mark Casse," outlined Miller.

And of future breeding plans, Farmer may or may not add her to his broodmare band in Kentucky. "It is a possibility that the client will breed for her in future, he has a broodmare band," said Collins. "He has had success with horses he has bought, usually as yearlings but his Belmont winner of a few years ago, Sir Winston, is a homebred. We have also had significant success with a filly we bought, Perfect Alibi. She won the Spinaway Stakes (G1). It is partly due to her that we are here as she sold at Fasig-Tipton a couple of weeks ago."

The sale ring result in the US was pretty significant and has certainly helped to fund the purchase of Fev Rover – at the beginning of November, Perfect Alibi (Sky Mesa), trained by Mark Casse, was sold for $2,000,000, bought by Spendthrift Farm.

Successful consignor Nick Bradley said: "Three fillies that have grossed the best part of two million guineas between them and bought for an average of £20,000 each should give people out there the confidence to get involved. I've studied, worked hard and learned, learned, learned. Every year I get better and now we've have five stakes winners in a year.

"The number of people in the syndicates is always changing, but it is about 500 to 600. We're based in Lincolnshire where we have a couple of farms, and last week we sold 500,000gns worth of foals that we bred.

"I'd like to think the success this year has been down to more than just luck. We had 30 two-year-olds in training last season and next year we'll have a few more. My ambition is to win the Queen Marys, Cheveley Parks, Cherry Hintons and Albany Stakes, races like that, and also the Oaks and Guineas. I've bought 36 yearling fillies this year, and I'll be looking to buy another 15 to 20 horses from January 1 to the end of the breeze-ups.

"In the meantime I've got a house in France and I'm going down there for a month's holiday because I'm absolutely exhausted. It's not rocket science, it's down to learning from mistakes and looking at 150 horses a day and thinking about what goes into making a racehorse. Add in management and training, all those little edges add up." (16:39)

Lot 1746: Haruya Yoshida of Oiwake Farm buys Mystery Angel for 500,000gns. The daughter of Kodi Bear ran 17 times, achieving three wins, one at Listed class, and a further nine placed results in stakes races, the three-year-old filly’s career highlight coming when she finished second in the Epsom Oaks (G1) to Snowfall.

A Nick Bradley Craven Breeze Up purchase for 22,000gns from Hyde Park Stud, she was owned in training by Nick Bradley Racing 27 & Partner from Saffron House Stables.

Representative Yuya Yasuda said: "I like her very much, she was very talented, she is a very good mover. Her race form is good and she was beaten by Snowfall who is a daughter of Deep Impact. I am not sure whether she will race on or will breed straight away, but she goes to Japan now." (16:20)

Lot 1739: Just Beautiful (Pride Of Dubai), the winner of five races from seven starts including last time out the Sceptre Stakes (G3), achieved a rating high of 110 after her Group race win. She was bought today for 625,000gns by trainer Paddy Twomey through BBA Ireland.

She is out of the Oh So Sharp Stakes (G3) winner Astrelle (Makfi), also dam of the Group 2 winner Fearless King (Kingman) and McKulick (Frankel), the winner of one race in the US as a juvenile this year and third in the Miss Grillo Stakes (G2). She is trained by Chad Brown, having been bought here by Mick Ryan last year for 180,000gns.

Astrelle's 2020 colt by Cracksman was bought by Sackville Donald for 200,000gns this autumn.

Just Beautiful was bought here as a yearling in the 2019 October Book 3 Sale by trainer Ivan Furtado and Doncaster Racing for just 8,000gns from Hazelwood Bloodstock, bred by Essafinaat Ltd.

"It is a fantastic story, it is dream come true for us, she has been a joy to deal with, it took us to the next level, we are ever so grateful to her, she has been really easy to deal with her, the team at home have done a great job and I wish the best to her new connections. She was a joy and thanks to Jamie Railton for consigning her so well," said Furtado

"She was great looking, not the biggest, put together well, a nice dark bay and she walked well and from the beginning she always moved well and she always had a great head and was very professional. She is very clever filly and she transferred that to her racing, she always tried so hard, a proper trier.

"We talked about going another year, but she has done fantastically for us, she won her first Listed race, she won her Group 3, but the time was right, we don't want her to go, we love her to bits, but the time is right," added Furtado.

Purchaser Twomey said: "She is a lovely filly, Ivan has done a greta job with her, we hope to do the same. She should have a bright racing career ahead, she has been bought for an existing client." (16:07)

Lot 1735: Three-year-old race filly Dandalla (Dandy Man), the winner of the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes (G2), the Albany Stakes (G3) and the Scottish Sprint Stakes (L), and fourth in the Commonwealth Cup (G1). She won her first three career starts.

She was bought by Shingo Hashimoto of Northern Farm, signed for under Katsumi Yoshida's name.

She was BHA rated 106 at her best and was originally bought for €22,000 by Kelly Burke, daughter of trainer Karl Burke, at the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale in 2019. She was subsequently owned in training by Nick Bradley Racing 28 & E Burke.

"She is very good, she was very fast, her race results are very good. We will take her back to Japan and see how she goes on, she will not race on," said Shingo Hashimoto.

The Burke family was in the sales ring to watch the filly sell, and trainer Karl Burke said: "I wish them all the best, she has been a lovely mare. To be honest I cocked her season up – at the start of the season I was convinced that she would stay 7f and hopefully turn her into a Guineas filly. At home she was nice and relaxed, but at the track she just got quicker and quicker as she got stronger.

"Clifford Lee rode her at Goodwood in the Oak Tree and she basically ran off with him – he came back and said she was a 5f filly. I laughed at him! Then Jamie Spencer rode her over 6f at Pontefract and came back and said the same. We dropped her back to 5f then. We missed a few nice races with her and that is why I was convinced there was another year in her if she had stayed in the UK."

He added: "Kelly does a great job at the sales she is a great asset."

Yearling purchaser Kelly Burke said of her selection at the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale: "She wasn't your typical Dandy Man, she wasn't small and robust, she was always athletic and scopey. She was just really correct and had a lovely walk. When I do the short list for Dad, I take off anything that I don't like or is incorrect – she just floated along and went about her business, I just really liked her.

"When we followed her through, there was no one else really there for her. We were just really lucky, the year before I had picked Lord Of The Lodge at the same sale and he is a Dandy Man colt and he was second in the Gimcrack so I had a bit of a soft spot then for Dandy Man. What I liked about the colt the most was his walk and this filly was similar.

"We were lucky. I didn't sell a share in her until February, no one was really interested, she was our last filly to sell. We sold Nick a share, he asked, 'Which one?' I said, 'This one!'

"But from an early stage she literally bounded up the gallop. My Lucy rode her and she rode Laurens, too, and before Dandalla ran, she said, 'I hate comparing anything to a super star like Laurens, but this filly is the only I have ridden who takes me up the gallop like Laurens.'" (15:48)

Lot 1731: the Listed placed Rose D'Etoile (Zoffany) is knocked down to Adrian Nicoll of BBA Ireland. She cost him 600,000gns and was sold in-foal for her first pregnancy to Wootton Bassett on a February cover.

Nicoll said: "She is for partnership between a client and Ben Sangster. She is one of the best-looking mares on the place, and all the sisters to breed, she had ability and is in-foal to a good horse. It was absolutely top whack of what we were going to give, we would like to have given a bit less!

"She will go back to Ben's place at Manton, my investor has not really been in the horse business before, but he is Irish so it is an Anglo-Irish partnership. Let's hope she has a good foal."

Rose D'Etoile is a a half-sister to Joie De Soir (2018 filly Fastnet Rock), who is a Listed winner and Group 2 and Group 1 placed, the Group placed Villa D'Amore (2016 filly by Mastercraftsman) and the unraced Love Conquers (2019 filyl by Fastnet Rock). (15:07)

Lot 1724: is the first at this year's December Mares Sale to 500,000gns, the Italian Group 3 winner Farmah (Speightstown) bought by David Redvers for owner breeder David Howden for the sum. She was sold in-foal to Kingman by Shadwell Estate.

Redvers said: "I spoke to the trainer of her two-year-old [Zawaaya] and the three-year-old [Momarasa] and they were both complimentary about their chances of going on to win stakes races. This mare is a beautiful physical, is in-foal to a great stallion and she has been bought as a foundation mare for David Howden's young operation, hoping to breed future racehorses to carry his colours. He is a massive enthusiast.

"We have not thought on covering plans yet, but David has plenty of horses in partnership with Sheikh Fahad, there is a really good synergy between them, we will make up plan for her anyway. Something to dream about over the winter."

Farmah's first foal Taraateel (Oasis Dream) was bought by yesterday by Susan Hearn of Mascalls Stud for 230,000gns (Lot 1450). (14:49)

Lot 1710: Denis Brosnan's Epona Bloodstock goes to 300,000gns for Charming Spirit (Invincible Spirit), the winning own-sister to Digital Age, winner of the Turf Classic (G1)at Churchill Downs, and twice placed in US Grade 1s. She was offered by The Castlebridge Consignment on behalf of breeder Merry Fox Stud Limited.

Dam of the pair Willow View (Lemon Drop Kid) is a half-sister to Cursory Glance, winner of the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1), a daughter of Time Control hailing from the Barnett family's leading pedigree of Time Away, Time On and Mot Juste.

The 2020 filly by Sea The Stars out of Time Control, who is under the Merry Fox banner, fetched 680,000gns this autumn, headlining a productively commercial year for Craig Bennett's Merry Fox Stud. (14:26)

Lot 1681: agent Lincoln Collins buys on behalf of Tracy Farmer, owner of Shadowlawn Farm in Kentucky.

The team go to 250,000gns for the three-year-old filly Talbeyah by Lope De Vega. She is the winner of two races and was also twice fourth in Listed races – the John Musker Stakes (L) and the Height Of Fashion Stakes (L).

Talbeyah is out of Thai Haku (Oasis Dream), who boasts stakes form in France, the US and Dubai. She has also produced Listed winner Sarrocchi (Galileo). Her Galileo foal of 2019 is named Star Legend and was bought for 450,000gns here in Book 1 last October by Avenue Bloodstock. He is in training with Hugo Palmer and is yet to race.

Thai Haku did not have a foal in 2020, but produced a colt by Magna Grecia this spring. (13:24)

Lot 1679: "This is obviously a unique moment in thoroughbred breeding that an operation of this size is descaling so significantly, and three years ago a close-sister to Taghrooda would never ever have come onto the market as a young unproven maiden filly," said Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock after spending 250,000gns on Mohjatty, a Shadwell Stud-consigned Awtaad three-quarters sister to Taghrooda.

By Sea The Stars, Taghrooda was the champion three-year-old filly of Europe in 2014 and winner of the Oaks Stakes (G1), the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, and runner-up in the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe Stakes (G1).

Brown added: "Mohjatty is gorgeous and is a three-quarters sister to a champion. She is for Overbury Stud and as part of an upgrade of the broodmare band." (13:17)

Lot 1660: Tiempo Vuela, a Lope De Vega mare and the winner of one race as a two-year-old, bred by Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd and sold by the farm today, is heading to Ireland and the Egan family's Corduff Stud.

Corduff's Henrietta Egan was in charge of bidding and said: "She is a lovely mare, we are thrilled to get her. She is in foal to a proper stallion and it is a real black-type family."

Tiempo Vuela is out of the Listed winner Tempest Fugit (High Chaparral), a half-sister to Total Gallery (Namid), winner of the Prix de l'Abbaye (G1) and a champion sprinter, and a full-sister to Lady Darshaan, runner-up in the Fillies' Mile (G1) and third in the Cherry Hinton Stakes (G2).

Under the third dam are two Group 1 winners, Ambivalent, winner of the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1), and her daughter Teona, winner of the Prix Vermeille (G1), and the Group 1 third- placed Al Waffi. (12:26)

Lot 1628: in the early stages of this week's biggest session at the December Mares Sale, the good race filly Natalie's Joy (Lope De Vega), two-year-old winner of the Rose Bowl Stakes (L), is the first to 300,000gns bought by Plantation Stud from consignor Mount Coote Stud.

She is an October Book 2 graduate, bought in 2017 by Mark Johnston Racing for 35,000gns from breeder Moyns Park Estate & Stud Ltd. and Trickledown Stud.

She was owned initially in training by Simon Chappell, Merriebelle Stable joining him ahead of her run at Royal Ascot when she finished seventh in the Chesham Stakes (L)

She was sold in-foal to Showcasing and is a grand-daughter of the champion two-year-old filly Blue Duster, winner of the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1). It is also the family of the Fillies' Mile (G1) runner-up Fantasia, the Middle Park Stakes (G1) winner Zieten and the Group 2 winner and the Group 1-placed Western Hymn. (11:50)

December Mare Sale, Day 1 statistics (to be confirmed): (+/- compared to last year)

Lots catalogued: 317 (325)

Lots offered: 276 (270)

Lots sold: 232 (243)

Aggregate: 15,281,000gns (+24%)

Median: 40,000gns (+33%)

Average: 65,866gns (+30%)

% sold: 84% (90%)

Leading consignors (cumulative): 1. The Castlebridge Consignment, 2. Godolphin, 3. Shadwell Estate Company Ltd

Leading purchasers (cumulative): 1. BBA Ireland, 2. Margaret O'Toole, 3. Amanda Skiffington

Leading sires (aggregate, cumulative): 1. Dubawi, 2. Siyouni, 3. Showcasing

Leading sires (average, 2+ sold): 1. Lawman, 2. Showcasing, 3. Fastnet Rock

Lots 300,000gns+: 6

Lots 100,000gns+: 46

Lots 50,000gns+: 99

Top 5 lots

1. Lot 1418: Crimson Rock (USA) 2014 b,m. Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Katsumi Yoshida >> 450,000gns

2. Lot 1426: Sun Tide (GB) 2017 ch,m. Juddmonte Farms >> Notting Hill Bloodstock >> 400,000gns

3. Lot 1425: Tacitly (GB) 2017 b,m. Juddmonte Farms >> Horse France >> 375,000gns

4. Lot 1469: Model Guest (GB) 2016 ch,m. The Castlebridge Consignment >> Margaret O'Toole >> 330,000gns

5. Lot 1503: Lady Hayes (IRE) 2018 br,f. The Castlebridge Consignment >> Margaret O'Toole >> 310,000gns (21:29)

Lot 1568: "I loved her run at Newbury [in the Fred Darling] hopefully she can come back to that form, she got beaten a head and her victor went on to to be a true Group 1 filly, it is all about her form," said Stephen Hillen after spending 300,000gns on Statement (Lawman).

"I don't who will train her, but she will stay in the UK. She is for myself and my wife, I am quite excited about her. She was bred by Ballylinch, a brilliant nursery."

Of Lawman, sire of this filly, he added: "I think he is going to be a tremendous broodmare sire."

Trained by Martyn Meade, Statement has run nine times, won once and finished placed on four occasions. She won her maiden at Newbury at the end of her two-year-old career before finishing second on her first three-year-old start in the Fred Darling Stakes (G3) to the subsequent three-time Group 1 winner, Alcohol Free.

She also finished third in the Princess Elizabeth Stakes (G3).

Hillen also bought Lot 1570, Twisted Reality, winner of one race and fourth placed in a Newbury Listed race for owner Qatar Racing and Ralph Beckett. She cost 110,000gns. (21:05)

Lot 1522: flight plans will need to be sorted for Final Thought as the three-year-old filly by Sea The Stars is heading to Australia, bought on behalf of Arrowfield Stud by John Warren, who signed as Highclere Agency. Consigned by Godolphin, she cost her new connections 240,000gns.

"She is a beautiful mare," said Warren. "Arrowfield is a big, successful operation and she will be a marvellous mare for one of their many stallions."

When asked why this mare in particular was targeted for export Down Under, Warren said: "She is from one of the best families, it is pretty hard to beat, and the stud is trying to introduce these sort of pedigrees into Australia for more diversity.

"It is a big pedigree, and you can't get a bigger page than this. Arrowfield is looking for something to stretch out, more Classic and less speed orientated. Arrowfield is a Classic organisation it doesn't want to be caught up in the narrow trend dominated by speed; she will offer that diversity. "

He added: "She will ship soon and will hopefully be covered on September 1st."

Final Thought is out of the Street Cry mare Anjaz, a four-time winner in the US, and a grand-daughter of Playful Act (Sadler's Wells), an English champion two-year-old filly in 2004, winner of the Fillies Mile (G1), the Lancashire Oaks (G2) and the May Hill Stakes (G2). She was also a runner-up in the Irish Oaks (G1).

Third dam Magnificient Style won the Musidora Stakes (G3) and is dam of Nathaniel, a dual European champion and two-time Group 1 winner of the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) and the Eclipse Stakes (G1), Great Heavens, a European champion three-year-old filly, Percussionist, winner of the Yorkshire Oaks (G2), Echoes In Eternity, winner of the Park Hill Stakes (G2) and Sun Chariot Stakes (G2) and Changing Skies, runner-up in the Flower Bowl Invitational (G1). (19:51)

Lot 1522: flight plans will need to be sorted for Final Thought as the three-year-old filly by Sea The Stars is heading to Australia, bought on behalf of Arrowfield Stud by John Warren who signed as Highclere Agency. Consigned by Godolphin, she cost her new connections 240,000gns.

"She is a beautiful mare," said Warren. "Arrowfield is a big, successful operation and she will be a marvellous mare for one of their many stallions."

When asked why this filly in particular was targeted for export Down Under, Warren said: "She is from one of the best families, it is pretty hard to beat, and the stud is trying to introduce these pedigrees into Australia for more diversity.

He added: "She will ship soon and will hopefully be covered on September 1st."

Third dam Magnificient Style won the Musidora Stakes (G3) and is dam of Nathaniel, a dual European champion and two-time Group 1 winner, Great Heavens, a European champion three-year-old filly, Percussionist, winner of the Yorkshire Oaks (G2), Echoes In Eternity, winner of the Park Hill Stakes (G2) and Sun Chariot Stakes (G2) and Changing Skies, runner-up in the Flower Bowl Invitational (G1). (19:51)

Lot 1483: Camphor is bought by Amanda Skiffington, who was standing with John O'Connor of Ballylinch Stud, for 250,000gns.

The daughter of Camelot, a half-sister to the Group 3 winner and multiple stakes placed Max Vega (Lope De Vega), is the winner of three races, and herself six-time placed in stakes races. In total she ran 24 times and was Timeform rated 98 at her best.

"She is for a client, who is a share holder in Lope De Vega and she will go to him next spring," said O'Connor. "I liked her as a race filly, she was a very good consistent filly, she turned up regularly in good stakes races and I am a fan of runners. I like Camelot as a broodmare sire and her dam has already bred Max Vega – we know that the cross works so it is something we can work on. She will come back to Ballylinch."

She was sold by Baroda Stud having been trained by Jessica Harrington for owner OTI Racing. (17:54)

Lot 1450: Taraateel (Oasis Dream) from the Shadwell draft is bought by Susan Hearn of Mascalls Stud, breeder of this year's Ascot Gold Cup (G1) winner Subjectivist and Goodwood Cup (G1) third placed Sir Ron Priestley.

Out of the Group 3 winner Farmah, and a grand-daughter of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (G1) winner Torrestrella (Orpen), Taraateel cost her new connections 230,000gns.

"I have spent too much money!" rued Hearn. "But, hopefully, I have bought a really nice mare. I am happy, it is a lovely family and obviously Oasis Dream as a broodmare sire is very attractive.

"I know what is going in a bit further down in the family – Francois Rohaut, he trains for me in France, tells me he thinks a lot of two of Farmah's progeny, particularly her two-year-old."

Named Zawaaya, the two-year-old has run twice in France and won on her second start at Deauville. She is an Oasis Dream full-sister to Taraateel. There is also a 2020 filly by Frankel out of Farmah.

"It is helpful to have bit of inside information,"added Hearn, who said: "I don't know who Taraateel will be going to, but I will do my best to find something nice for her."

Reckoning, the dam of Sir Ron Priestley and this year's Ascot Gold Cup (G1) winner Subjectivist, was bought by Mascalls Stud at this sale in 2014 for 160,000gns from Mountain View Stud. (16:46)

Lot 1426: Sun Tide, the Siyouni daughter of the Listed winner Midsummer (Zamindar), a half-sister to the six-time Group 1 winner and champion Midday, dam of black-type winners Midterm and Mori, is bought by Charlie Vigors of Hillwood Stud, who was standing on the back stairs. He signed on behalf of Notting Hill Bloodstock at 400,000gns.

"She is for a new client, coming to us and the produce will be sold on. It is the client's first horse, they are looking to develop a boutique broodmare band, no better family to buy into," explained Vigors. "The client is British-based and they might race a filly, but the mare has been bought on a commercial basis, plans are fluid. It is an exciting family keen to get into and it is a nice commercial cover if they wish to sell."

Of the mare, Vigors added: "She is a very attractive mare, she is a neat mare so there will be plenty of options for her. There are some on the list for tomorrow, but we will speak, but that is it for today."

She was sold in-foal to Kameko (Kitten's Joy), winner of the 2,000 Guineas (G1) and the Futurity Stakes (G1). (15:55)

Lot 1425: Tacitly, the winning Dubawi daughter of Timepiece, successful in the Falmounth Stakes (G1), is bought by Horse France for 375,000gns

She was sold carrying to the champion sire and Juddmonte stallion Frankel on a February 23rd cover, one of only six mares catalogued this week in-foal to the son of Galileo, and just one of two by Dubawi in addition to Lot 1783.

"She is for a partnership between Ecurie des Monceaux and a client of Robert Nataf's," said Henri Bozo of Ecurie des Monceaux.

Nataf added of the reasons for her purchase: "The pedigree speaks for itself, and she is in-foal to the right stallion. It was not a brain scratcher!"

"And her price was within where we wanted to play," said Bozo, adding: "We have to discuss plans for her, but she could be one for Wootton Bassett."

Timepiece is a half-sister to the Group 1 winner Passage Of Time, dam of the Group 2 winner and exciting National Stud stallion Time Test. It is also the family of the champion Twice Over, and the two-time Group 1 winner All At Sea. (15:50)

Lot 1418: Crimson Rock, the Fastnet Rock half-sister to the champion three-year-old filly and a four-time Group 1 winner Peeping Fawn (Danehill), dam of the Fillies' Mile runner-up September (Deep Impact), and to Thewayyouare, winner of the Criterium International (G1), is bought by Northern Farm of Japan.

The farm's representative Shingo Hashimoto is at Tattersalls, who signed for Katsumi Yoshida at 450,000gns, was in charge of bidding and explained the reasoning behind the purchase.

"We have not decided yet whether or not she will go straight to Japan, hopefully she will suit the sons of Deep Impact on the farm, but at this moment we do not have any plans," said Hashimoto. "Of course, this mare line is one of the best, that was very attractive, and Fastnet Rock is going well in Japan."

Hashimoto added that his travel to the UK via the sales in the US went well, but he is facing new isolation rules when he returns to Japan with time to be spent in a hotel and then at home.

Underbidders included James Wigan of London Thoroughbred Services and Greg Goodman of the Lexington-based Mt Brilliant Farm. (15:31)