"She is for Newsells," said Jill Lamb. "She is in-foal to a very exciting young stallion and we are excited to get her. She has a lot of quality, she is a black-type Siyouni mare and it is an exciting thing to have.

"We are selling a few and we are looking to replace them, unfortunately they all come in the wrong order, but we wanted to get one under the belt today. A lot depends what happens tomorrow, how we proceed, but obviously she is quite late and so Graham [Smith-Bernal] said we have got to be brave before she goes through.

"He is a horse that 12 months ago, people said 'Zarak?', now everyone must have one! I have not seen him in the flesh, but I watched some videos of him this morning with Tom Blain and he is a beautiful horse – he looks in the mould of Time Test to me. He looks to have lots of quality and is a beautifully bred horse."

Consignor Tom Blain added: "She is a lovely mare, owned and bred and raced by Berend Van Dalfsen. She was a good race filly, is in-foal to Zarak who is up and coming, by Siyouni and from a family that Berend has bred. It is a great result for him, she is a lovely mare and she warranted a good price."

Of the connection with Van Dalfsen's horses, Blain said: "She has been with us for six weeks, we prepped her. We know the pedigree well as we have boarded the family for a long time for foaling."

Tech entrepreneur and businessman and racehorse owner Smith-Bernal purchased Newsells Park Stud this summer from Andreas Jacobs. The Newsells Park mare due to sell late in this week's second session, one of 21 catalogued lots, Lamb was alluding to the prospective and exciting sale tomorrow of Waldlied, the New Approach half-sister to the champion and four-time Group 1 winner, successful in the 2019 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and now a Ballylinch Stud-based stallion, Waldgeist (Lot 1839) (14:16)

The farm's John Tuthill reinvested 100,000gns of the proceeds into Quickstep Lady, a grand-daughter of the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) winner Lochangel, a sister to Lochsong, the champion English and European older mare of 1993 and 1994, also a winner of the Nunthorpe, twice a winner of the Prix de l'Abbaye (G1) and of Royal Ascot's King's Stand Stakes (G2).

Quickstep Lady was consigned today by Keith Harte on behalf of Jeff Smith's Littleton Stud, breeder of most of the horses on this pedigree page. The Australia filly is the winner of £46,477 and two races at three and four. She is a half-sister to the two Sceptre Stakes (G3) winners, Dancing Star (Aqlaam) and Foxtrot Lady (Foxwedge). (12:31)

Sold in-foal to Showcasing, she is a sibling to two Group 1-placed performers – she is an own-sister to Strath Burn, winner of the Hackwood Stakes (G3) and runner-up in the Haydock Sprint Cup (G1), and a half-sister to Polar Force, placed 22 times including in the Phoenix Stakes (G1). (12:19)

"She has been selected and bought for a client to come back to Fittocks – we are hoping to give the farm a Royal touch!" laughed the couple. "It is a beautiful pedigree, and although Memory has a had a lot of colts, she has a 2020 filly by Dubawi and a 2021 filly by Night Of Thunder, we will hope both can do something. Dusty Dream is in-foal to Showcasing on an early cover, which is a positive, and we need to discuss future covering plans with our client."

Dusty Dream is a half-sister to three black-type winners, Call To Mind (Galileo), Grade 2 winner of the Belmont Gold Cup Invitational and placed in three Group races in Europe, Learn By Heart (Frankel), a Grade 3 winner in Scandinavia, and Recorder (Galileo). He won the Acomb Stakes (G3) and is at stud at Montfort et Preaux in France, about to enter his fifth covering season. (11:33)

She is out of the Listed-placed mare Riqa (Dubawi) and is a half-sister to three winners, including Tantheem, winner of the Petit Couvert (G3), the Prix de Meautry (G3) and the Prix de Cabourg (G3). the family stretches to Allez Les trois, dam of Anabaa Blue, winner of the Prix du Jockey Club (G1).

This week there are 19 further opportunities to buy a filly or mare by Frankel (10:58)

Tanaaghom is a Dubawi half-sister to Antarah, an October debut two-year-old winner by Sea The Stars, trained by John and Thady Gosden. His win came at Newcastle where so Gosden now starts so many of his young horses, and the Racing Post in-racing comments reported " kept on strongly and went clear final 110yds, won going away, impressive".

They are both out of the Group 3-placed Adool (Teofilo), a daughter of the Nell Gwyn (G3) winner Khulood and a grand-daughter of Elle Seule, ancestress of the champion Mehthaaf, new sire Bangkok, and sires Ribchester, Elnadim, Mondialiste and Intello.

Tanaaghom has run a couple of times. (10:40)

She was sold in-foal to Bated Breath on a March cover. (10:29)

We will be reporting here on sale day live all week follow all the action here and on twitter on @Tattersalls1766 (09:29)

“The highest-priced foal sold in Europe since 2002, 14 of the 15 highest-priced foals sold in Europe this year, turnover in excess of 30 million guineas and a clearance rate bettered only twice this century are all impressive statistics reinforcing the status of the Tattersalls December Foal Sale as the premier sale of its kind in Europe.

“The obvious highlight of the past four days was the spectacular sale of the Swinburn family’s outstanding Dubawi colt out of their wonderful mare Madonna Dell’Orto for 1.8 million guineas; the highest price for a foal in Europe and North America this year, but the real feature of the 2021 renewal of Europe’s premier foal sale has been the unrelenting British and Irish demand from start to finish.”

“Strong yearling sales drive the foal trade and the significant rises in all the key indicators this week reflect the extraordinary strength of the market throughout the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and also pay tribute to the endeavours of the pinhookers who have worked tirelessly all week. Owners looking for quality foals to race in the future have also made a major contribution to a successful sale, but as ever during the December Foal Sale, Park Paddocks has primarily been the domain of the British and Irish pinhookers, joined by many of their counterparts from throughout Europe.

“The sustained demand at all levels has been notable and the record number of foals selling for 50,000 guineas or more has demonstrated a depth to the market which is encouraging as we turn our attention to a quality renewal of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale which begins on Monday and showcases the finest breeding stock to be found in Europe." (17:20)

Lots catalogued: 1,072 (934)

Lots offered: 906 (791)

Lots sold: 734 (628)

Aggregate: 31,301,500gns (+19%)

Median: 25,000gns (+25%)

Average: 42,645gns (+2%)

% sold: 81% (79%)

Leading consignors (cumulative): 1. Genesis Green Stud, 2. Barton Stud, 3. Norelands Stud

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

Leading sires (aggregate, cumulative): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Dubawi, 3. Showcasing

Leading sires (average, 2+ sold): 1. Dubawi, 2. Frankel, 3. Sea The Stars

Lots 300,000gns+: 8

Lots 100,000gns+: 62

Lots 50,000gns+: 204

Top 5 lots

1. Lot 965: Dubawi / Madonna Dell'Orto ch,c. Genesis Green Stud >> Godolphin >> 1,800,000gns (the joint second-highest price ever given for a European foal, the highest price in Europe since 2002)

2. Lot 915: Frankel / Whatami b,c. Furnace Mill Stud >> M V Magnier >> 675,000gns

3. Lot 988: Sea The Stars / Frankellina b,f. Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd. >> Blandford Bloodstock >> 625,000gns

4. Lot 966: Sea The Stars / Sahel b,f. Marwell Park >> Gestüt Fährhof >> 350,000gns

5. Lot 998: Sea The Stars / Incharge b,f. Barton Stud >> BBA Ireland >> 350,000gns (17:14)

Lots catalogued: 223 (152)

Lots offered: 198 (125)

Lots sold: 145 (97)

Aggregate: 2,400,700gns (+83%)

Median: 10,000gns (0%)

Average: 16,557gns (+22%)

% sold: 73% (78%) (17:09)

Masar has had 17 lots sell for an average price of 32,824gns, a median of 26,000gns and a top price of 110,000gns. (16:13)

The filly is out of the Oasis Dream mare Hazy Dancer, a daughter of Shadow Dancing, a Listed winner and multiple Group race placed including when second in the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2) and third in the Oaks (G1).

The colt is out of the Fuisse mare Salome, a grand-daughter of Silvermine, winner of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (G1) and three-times Group 1 placed. She was dam of Sillery, winner of the Prix Jane Prat and also three-time Group 1 placed.

The filly made 35,000gns purchased by Paula Flannery, while the colt fetched 46,000gns, bought by Howson & Houldsworth Bloodstock / Aughamore Stud.

The sire is averaging 33,400gns for 25 lots sold with a filly (Lot 1228) a colt (Lot 1254) left to sell. (15:37)

"She is a gorgeous mare, she is my sort of mare, she is basically three big circles and she has got a lovely easy walk, she is very correct, I don't know how I managed to buy her for 1,000gns," recalls a still-amazed Oakshott. "I was sitting in the ring, watching her going round and thought she was lovely.

"When she didn't sell for 2,000gns, I thought 'Hang on!' So I went to the box and offered a 1,000gns, and the rest is history. She has lovely back pedigree, there is a lot going on under her own dam and, if she can produce foals like that, who knows what she could do!"

Feliciana was offered then not in-foal, but she had been covered in May 2019 by Zoustar.

Oakshott had a breeding right to Ardad hence the decision to send his new mare to the new sire in 2020.

"I had a breeding right, that I have now sold, and he is the result," explained the breeder. "He has just been a lovely, very straightforward colt from day one, I have loved him all the way and I think he is very typical of the sire's stock – since he has been here, if he was not out showing, he was horizontal and asleep."

Oakshoot continued: "Some great people have bought him, I sure they will do very well out of him and that would make me very happy! She is not a mare I am going to be moving on, she is in-foal to Land Force on a very early cover and I will have to make up mind as regards next year." (14:32)

"He was bred by the Wardalls, very good breeders," said Foley. "We have supported the sire well in his first years, we have got some very nice yearlings to go into training by him, we are a fan of the sire, he was a very good racehorse from a very good sire line.

"He is a lovely well-developed foal, he looks like Prohibit [full-brother to the mare], freakishly like him, Oasis Dream mares are very good, I like his pedigree, I have seen all the foals out of the mare over the years and he is the best one out of her. Let's hope he can prove that on the track. I was keen to buy one by Expert Eye this week, and he was my pick."

The colt is out of Respondez (Oasis Dream), placed in France and the dam of three winners from five runners, rated 85, 81 and 79. She was bought by Alvediston Stud for 75,000gns at December Mares Sale in 2011 from the Juddmonte draft. (13:26)

"She has been a lovely foal to deal with, very correct, strong and solid and the image of her Mum, she is just a 'mini me', reported Kate Sigsworth of West Moor Stud. "She is obviously young for this sale, which is the reason why I was keen to sell her on the Saturday rather than the Friday. It is a lovely page, the mare Thesme was very quick and this foal looked quick, too, even though she was only a May foal. She had a great backside on her!"

Sigsworth explained the background to the mare.

"The Fools Gold partnership owned the mare in training, she was bought as a yearling by Nigel Tinkler. She was a little star, the owners are close to York and she loved the track there – she won three times and was fifth in the Nunthorpe, she was very fast. The mare isn't in-foal now, but she is pencilled into go Blue Point next spring. We decided Dark Angel would be good cover – he is a good cross over Exceed And Excel, and physically he would suit her."

The cross has produced the Group 2 winner Birchwood, and the Listed winner Dark Liberty. (13:09)

The mare Si Belle (Dalakhani) was bought by Catridge at the 2010 December Mares' Sale in 2010 for 50,000gns from Lanwades Stud. She has bred four winners, headed by The Gill Brothers (Mukhadram), a dual winner and Timeform rated 91.

The colt's great grand-dam Gorgeous (Slew O'Gold) was a three-time Grade 1 winner in the US. (12:07)

This colt is bought by Willie Browne, signing as Oaks Farm Stables, and the pinhooker said: "I am very happy to get him. Mark liked him yesterday and I saw him this morning, I thought he was a very good horse. He will go to Mark's now. I keep the Irish ones and he keeps the British ones. We have bought six in Ireland and six here, we are about there now – the kitty is empty!"

Of Time Test, Browne added: "There is a lot of hype about the stallion, but he had a good back end to the season and he should progress."

After yesterday's million lot sale, Michael Swinburn was back in the bidders' area to watch this colt sell.

"He is a lovely horse, I bought the mare Stay Privately privately from Andrew Balding, she did not sell in the ring so I went to see her and a beautiful walker," he recalled. "I have some of the Time Charter family at home and they have thrown some belters. She is Acclamation again and I thought the Dubawi horse would suit, help shorten up – we have got a nice model and it is a first foal. She is in-foal to Farhh. For next year, I wouldn't mind a Kodiac horse on top of Acclamation or even a Sadler's Wells line stallion, they have got such good heads, but we will see – decision not made!"

"I can't believe the congratulations and good will we have had, but everyone is in the same canoe – look we are all here on a wet December day trying to do the same thing! And everyone has been so happy for us, Jackie Ward Ramos, who I worked for out in the US and was a great teacher and is now 90-year-old, even she was on the phone this morning!

"Look it is the same when it is the other way round – when any of the others get a result we are chuffed to bits for them. We all know how you come up here and you can miss by tiny margins." (11:35)

She is out of the winning Oasis Dream mare Adore, who was purchased by Jeremy Brummitt from Cheveley Park Stud for Clearwater at the 2016 December Mares Sale. She cost 78,000gns.

She has produced three winners from three runners, including the 90-rated Meaningful Vote, who is now running in Hong Kong. She is out of the Listed winner Fantasize (Groom Dancer), a half-sister to the black-type winners Dazzle, Baschar, and Hypnotize, the dam of the champion Hooray, as well as the placed Miswaki Belle, dam of the champion older mare Danehurst.

"I love Oasis Dream mares," said purchaser Richard Brown. "She has been bought for a syndicate to resell. Bated Breath has been going well in the US, and we bought with an eye on the US market, as a yearling she might appeal to US purchasers in next year's Book 1." (11:00)

"She is for resale next year, she is a very good model, she has a pedigree, and Nathaniel is very good sire of fillies. She is for a partnership to go to Ireland," said Nicoll.

The filly is out of the Listed Galtres winner Brushing (Medicean), and she was trained and bred by Tompkins. She reached a career high of 102 and comes from the Moyglare Stud family of Token Gesture and Relaxed Gesture. She is dam of one winner from one runner.

"It is great for Mark, he is a big supporter of ours. We are big fans of Nathaniel as well," said Tim Lane, manager of The National Stud. (10:57)

1048,  1056,  1067,  1069,  1077,  1086,  1109,  1111,  1127,  1166,  1167,  1168,  1175,  1178,  1179,  1226,  1245,  1247,  1249,  1256,  1269 (09:20)

Selling is due to start at 10am. (09:20)

Lots catalogued: 283 (268)

Lots offered: 221 (218)

Lots sold: 183 (189)

Aggregate: 17,051,000gns (+4%)

Median: 60,000gns (+5%)

Average: 93,175gns (+8%)

% sold: 83% (87%)

Leading consignors (cumulative): 1. Genesis Green Stud, 2. Norelands Stud, 3. Barton Stud

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

Leading sires (aggregate, cumulative): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Dubawi, 3. Showcasing

Leading sires (average, 2+ sold): 1. Dubawi, 2. Frankel, 3. Sea The Stars

Day 3's top 5 lots

1. Lot 965: Dubawi / Madonna Dell'Orto ch,c. Genesis Green Stud >> Godolphin >> 1,800,000gns (the joint second-highest price ever given for a European foal, the highest price in Europe since 2002)

2. Lot 915: Frankel / Whatami b,c. Furnace Mill Stud >> M V Magnier >> 675,000gns

3. Lot 988: Sea The Stars / Frankellina b,f. Hascombe & Valiant Stud Ltd. >> Blandford Bloodstock >> 625,000gns

4. Lot 966: Sea The Stars / Sahel b,f. Marwell Park >> Gestüt Fährhof >> 350,000gns

5. Lot 998: Sea The Stars / Incharge b,f. Barton Stud >> BBA Ireland >> 350,000gns (19:43)

"She has been bought as a long term breeding prospect and will eventually be going to trainer Ralph Beckett," explained Cooper. "We obviously missed the last one, but this one was coming along right behind – hopefully this one will be the fastest!"

He added: " The top end fillies are the Sea The Stars and the Frankels, so that is why we ended up bidding on two by the stallion. She is for David and Vimy Aykroyd and she will go from here to Copgrove Hall Stud."

He explained why the couple were keen to buy a foal rather than a yearling as a racing prospect.

"If you buy a yearling the horse goes straight to the trainer or the breaking yard, so the owner never really gets to know the horse," said Cooper. "The Aykroyds live next door to Copgrove so they can spend a year getting to know the horse before she goes into training. They can get to know the individual and they will spoil her rotten!"

Incharge was bought for Brightwalton Stud by Matt Coleman of Stroud Coleman for 200,000gns as a yearling in Book 1 in 2017. She ran once but was retired after injury.

She is a half-sister to the dual Group 1 winner and five-time Group 1 runner-up Poet's Word and to the Group 3 winner Malabar, and was purchased from Woodcote Stud. Woodcote Stud bought the filly's third dam Inchyre from Hascombe & Valiant Stud for 260,000gns at the December Mares' Sale in 2009. (18:17)

He also does the same with Lot 989, a Dubawi filly out of Bizzarria (Lemon Drop Kid), a half-sister to Star Catcher (Sea The Stars), winner of the British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes (G1), the Irish Oaks (G1), the Prix Vermielle (G1) and the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2), to Cannock Chase, winner of the Canadian International Stakes 9G1) and Pisco Sour, who was a Group 2 winner.

"I have bought out the foal share," said Oppenheimer of the Sea filly out of Frankellina, runner-up in the Musidora Stakes (G3) and third in the Lyric Stakes (L).

The family traces to the long-nurtured farm pedigree of Rebecca Sharp and her descendants. (17:56)

Sahel comes from one of the leading German families and is an own-sister to Schiaparelli, Salve Regina, Samum and to Sanwa, the dam of the European champion three-year-old and exciting sire, Sea The Moon.

Loder explains how she came to buy Sahel.

"I went to buy this mare in France and she was withdrawn so I bought her privately, and she was not in-foal. I love German pedigrees and especially the German mares, they are tough and there is such a high standard of breeding and you can breed them to anything.

"I couldn't afford to send her to Sea The Stars so I am really thankful that they have offered me foal shares to him. I sold the full-sister last year to Etreham for 200,000gns, Andreas Jacobs did try that filly, and did not get her. So he came and to see this filly and I am delighted he has got her because you could not ask for a better home for a filly that you have bred."

Loder was not too concerned that Sahel was an older mare when she purchased her in 2018.

"As a young breeder it is very difficult to get into these big pedigrees, so I took a chance on her. I knew the family so well, and I jumped on the 'Sea The Moon bandwagon'. Anyway, it is still an active pedigree – since I have bought Sahel, Soudania started racing and has picked up the Group 3 so there have been some updates.

"Sahel is back in-foal to Sea The Stars carrying a colt and he will probably come here next year. I tend to bring a lot of my horses to the sales as foals and sent a price in my head, if they don't reach that I will represent them as yearlings. However, with a filly like that who is an 'end user filly', I don't think there is that much of a difference in price if I had kept her as a yearling." (17:54)

Stroud, who was bidding from outside, was taken to the seven-figure sum by Coolmore, MV Magnier bidding from the bidders' area in the sale ring.

Magnier took the price to a million, but when Stroud kept responding, Magnier reached for the phone and ended up shaking his head when auctioneer John O'Kelly asked if he would like to top the winning bid.

Consignor Michael Swinburn was standing just below the Coolmore team, leaning on the rail, looking down at the ground throughout much of the bidding. Visibly emotional, after shaking hands with his underbidder, and then the successful buyer, Swinburn explained just why the sale had such personal ties to Genesis Green and the Swinburn family.

"I just wish Walter was here to see this, he owned the mare, and had her in training. I Can Fly [ 2015, Fastnet Rock filly Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed] was the last one he knew and he was absolutely over the moon with her," he said of his late brother, who rode won eight British Classics in his career as a hugely successful jockey and who died in 2016.

Swimburn continued: "She is a mare that I always thought would suit Dubawi, the shape of her. When I Can Fly came up I approached Liam O'Rourke at Darley and asked what was the chances of a foal share to Dubawi, and he said he would be delighted to have her.

"She is just a pure vessel of a mare, anything she has produced has been a good version of the stallion. She hasn't had any foal the same as the other one – she has just throws to the stallion and a good version of him."

He added: "It is so hard to get one that is nice, to get it through x-rays, through scopes, I just hope he comes up so lucky for Sheikh Mohammed. I have loved the stallion even since in his early days. I am happy for everyone at the farm, the lads are so loyal, and it is a big effort. We came to sell as a foal because otherwise you have got to keep them safe until a yearling, and if they are hot to sell...."

Recalling the investment into the family, it didn't get off on the best footing at home.

"I bought the grand-dam Sabria at a September Sale here years ago with Oliver St Lawrence, I went home and I went into the kitchen and Mum and Dad must have got wind of it that I had bought a mare, it caused an outcry, 'What the hell have you done that for?'

"Walter bailed me out at 25,000gns and we have had the family ever since and it has been fantastic for us – it has probably built Genesis Green."

Sabria became the dam of Landseer – winner of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains, the Keeneland Turf Mile (G1), the Coventry Stakes (G3) and runner-up in the St James's Palace Stakes (G1), and Ikhtyar, a Listed winner and Group 1 placed.

Swinburn updated the news on Madonna Dell'Orto: "The mare is in-foal to Fastnet Rock, carrying a filly, thank god, I wonder if Liam would be up for another foal share?!"

Standing outside Stroud said: "I didn't think we'd have to go that far, but he is a lovely horse, he is well bred and from a great farm.

"He is by Dubawi, who had such a wonderful Breeders' Cup, and the Boss said go for it. Huge respect to the underbidders, and we are very lucky to have the horse. As long as he is a good racehorse, that is all that matters."

In 1997, the Caerleon colt out of Doff The Derby, the full-brother to Generous, sold for 2,500,000gns, and in 2002 the Giant's Causeway out of Urban Sea, the subsequent Group 1 winner My Typhoon, fetched 1,800,000gns. (17:41)

The colt's second dam is the wonderful mare Cassandra Go, the dam of the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Halfway To Heaven, dam of Magical, Rhododendron and Flying The Flag.

"I have not had that many by Lope De Vega, but one filly is now a graded filly in the US. She was not that big, and nor is this chap. He has quite a bit of quality. I would have liked to have spent less, but that is the way of it!" said Stauffenberg. (16:39)

Breeder Clarecastle Stud offered the colt today as part of the Norelands Stud draft, and he made 210,000gns, bought outside by Jamie McCalmont Bloodstock.

Twitch's first foal, Tadita Twitch, a filly by Siyouni, has been placed three times as a juvenile this year, while the mare's 2020 colt by Kingman made 190,000gns in Book 2 bought by SackvilleDonald.

The family features the dual champion older horse in Hong Kong, twice a winner of the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes II Cup at Sha Tin, and Laughing, winner of the Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes (G1). (16:17)

"I can't say who she is for, absolutely gorgeous filly, I fell in love with her as soon as I saw her, she is an absolute queen, a belter. The sire is a first-crop sire and won't have any runners for two years, I have followed Indie Angel very closely.

"I just thought that she is a really lovely, beautiful athletic, racey filly and will definitely make a two-year-old. She is very much a racing prospect, she is not coming back!

Of the hopes for the sire Blue Point, Goff said: "He wasn't just an older sprinter, he won the Gimcrack, he was the real deal. I think he has got a fantastic chance, and he is by Shamardal. I have seen all of those by him who have been offered, and a lot on the farms, this was by far and away the best. "

Of the new sires, Goff said: "Magna Grecia's stock is very nice, and the Too Darn Hots are very nice, there are some exciting young sires coming along."

The filly was bred by Ringfort Stud and Melina Hancock, and sold by Ringfort Stud. The farm sold her Dark Angel half-sister for 600,000gns as a foal in 2017 for 600,000gns to Capital Bloodstock. She is owned in training by Cheveley Park Stud.

She is the highest-priced foal sold so far this week by a sire with first-crop foals (15:59)

"He is a new client to me, he is an end user," said Donohoe. "The foal will going back to Norelands Stud from here, we will get him broke and put him into training and decide then as regards plans.

"The sire has been lucky for me, this is a beautiful colt, he is from an excellent breeder and with a great pedigree, it made sense."

Explaining why it makes sense to buy a racing prospect as a foal rather than yearling, Donohoe said: "We are following some of these nice foals through and if we think they represent value then we will go in, if not we let them off, we are not chasing them. Compared to what some of the Lope De Vegas were making, I thought as a yearling this lad would make more."

Racing ambitions for the client? Nothing less than to win the 2,000 Guineas and produce a stallion! (15:36)

Clique (Bated Breath) was a winner at three and this is her second foal having produced an Oasis Dream colt in 2020.

She is out the Listed winner Insinuate (Mr. Prospector), dam of the Supreme Stakes (G20 winner Stronghold and the Group 3 winner Convey.

The third dam is All At Sea, winner of the Prix du Moulin (G1), (15:27)

BBA Ireland, Gay O'Callaghan were amongst the early bidders, but the bidding developed into a fight-out between MV Magnier and Juddmonte Farms, Magnier, standing in the doorway, entering the bidding at 400,000gns.

The Juddmonte team of Simon Mockridge and Barry Mahon were sat in the seats and batted back the bids with enthusiasm, but in the end had to shake their heads at the final Irish bid.

"He's a very nice horse who's very good looking and a brother to a good horse as well. David and Trish Brown are very good breeders and we've known them a very long time so I'm delighted to be able to buy this horse from them. Sadly, David couldn't be here today but hopefully he'll be happy with that result," said MV Magnier.

"It is fantastic, worth all the sleepless nights," smiled Trish Brown, who watched the sale by the acorn. "He has been brilliant all the way through, a lovely horse, it was lovely to see him making that money.

"We bought the mare here as a three-year-old, I think she is 16 now. She was 25,000gns from New England Stud and she has been a star.

"We bred Juan Elcano by Frankel, and it was obvious to go back to him again. We felt the mare deserved a chance with him. We have her two-year-filly by Oasis Dream with us and she is in-foal to Sea The Moon. We have had three by Frankel, they have all had the most wonderful temperaments, wonderful horses to deal with."

Husband David Brown, a former cricketer who played 26 Test matches for England between 1965 and 1969 before establishing Furnace Mill, near Kidderminster in 1976, was not at Tattersalls today, and his wife explained: "He has not been good on his legs of late, and finds it difficult up here. He is holding the fort at home, I am sure he was watching – he can just about manage to operate the Tattersalls site!"

Grand-daughter Emily Brown was in charge of leading up duties.

Dam Whatami (Daylami) has produced the Group 3 winner Nkosikazi (Cape Cross) and Juan Elcano (Frankel), a Listed winner and three-time Group 2 placed. She is a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Whazzis, dam of Listed winner Whazzat, dam of James Garfield, winner of the Mill Reef Stakes (G2).

It is the further family of Invincible Spirit. (15:10)

"The client I bought him for is very into Sunday Silence and really liked the inbreeding to Galileo. He has been bought as a racing prospect and will go eventually into training with Ralph Beckett," said McCalmont.

Gerry Ross, stud manager at Kenilworth House Stud, said: "La Collina throws smashing stock, they all have her action. Let's hope he is a racehorse, he will get every chance at Ralph's."

Asked why Saxon Warrior was selected as a suitor for La Collina, Ross outlined: "There has been two that have gone to Japan out of the mare – her 2017 Oasis Dream colt Maitre Meneur and he won first time out in Japan, the Deep Impact link connects in Japan. Saxon Warrior is a good sized rangy horse and I thought he would suit her well as she is quite compact.

"She is back in-foal to Saxon Warrior – when this foal was a week or fortnight old, I thought that because he was such a nice foal it would make sense to go again.'" (14:14)

It has been good autumn for the farm – at this year's Book 2 the farm sold a Kingman filly out of Midnight Thoughts to Blandford Bloodstock for 300,000gns, the best price the farm has enjoyed in the sale ring.

This filly is now the farm's second-best sale, and stud manager Robert "Chocolate" Thornton said: "We are delighted, it is good money for a foal. He has been bought by Anthony Stroud, which is fantastic. It is great for the mare – she is back in-foal to Too Darn Hot, we went back to him on. the strength of this filly.

"It has been a fantastic autumn, we have had one or two miss, but two very good ones, which have made up for it. We have made a bit of money, but we also have a couple of racehorses for later on!"

Of the decision to sell this filly as a foal rather than wait a year to offer her as a yearling, Thornton explained: "We were considering keeping her as a yearling, we entered everything up here with a view to see what sold and what didn't. Her Dark Angel half-sister missed in Book 1, so then we were definitely coming with this one as we now have a filly out of the mare. She is broken in and will go into training with Archie Watson."

The team decided to use the champion two-year-old and three-year-old Too Darn Hot, a three-time Group 1 winner, on the mare Astonished, who is by Galileo and dam of the Group-placed Gold Maze and the Listed-placed Surprise Exhibit, as he is a son of Dubawi.

"It is the Dubawi-Galileo cross, you can't go wrong with that!," smiled Thornton. "We couldn't get to Dubawi so went to his best son with a proven mare." (13:28)

"The plan is to reoffer her next year in Book 1, we loved her, she was our pick of the sale," said Mimi Wadham. "She is an incredible first foal and by a stallion who is just going up and up. She is the one we had to have, so we are thrilled.

"We had to push quite hard to get her. She comes back to us now and we will wrap her in cotton wool, hopefully she will be as nice a yearling as she is a foal. She has got a lot of residual value with that pedigree, as long as she stays in one piece she should keep that value."

Of the trade both here and at this autumn's earlier yearling sales, Wadham said: "We have bought three here, it has been very competitive, we have had to really push for the ones we want. We have got to have the numbers next year – and you have to be brave.

"The strength of the yearling sale gave us some confidence – the middle market has really thickened out, which is really encouraging, the top maybe not so much."

Chrysocolla was bought by Meridian International from Watership Down Stud in Book 1 in 2016 for 340,000gns. She won once in France and was placed five times. (13:09)

Ighraa, who was bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 34,000gns at the Horses In Training Sale in 2012 from Shadwell, is the dam of two winners from four runners. Her 2018 filly by Sea The Stars, named Surimar, has been placed in two career starts to date in France.

Ighraa is carrying to Ulysses. (12:02)

The March-born filly is out of Champagne Or Water (Captain Rio), rated 98 and the winner of four races, including the Listowel Stakes (L). She has had two previous foals – Champagne Please, a 2019 filly by Australia, who is yet to run, and a 2020 colt by Kodiac, bought by Mike Ryan at October Book 1 this autumn for 180,000gns. (11:56)

The mare is the dam of two winners, both her runners to date, with Rising Star (Fast Company) rated 92, and the winner of three.

She is the last by the Tally-Ho Stud sire through the ring this week – the son of Acclamation has had five sell for an aggregate of 258,000gns, an average price of 51,600gns, a median of 62,000gns and a top-price of 75,000gns. (11:50)

Lot 812, a Saxon Warrior colt out of Love And Laughter, goes to Camas Park Stud. She is a half-sister to the dual Grade 1 winner Wigmore Hall, to the Listed winner Lady Liberty, and to Ocean Road, reported as a Listed placed in the catalogue but third-placed in the Pride Stakes (G3) since the catalogue was published.

Lot 813, the Ten Sovereigns first foal out of Sundiata (Showcasing), is also the recipient of a pedigree update – under the young second dam Dawn Of Empire (Empire Maker), Delorean (Time Test) has been placed once at two years, 2021, his only start to date.

Sundiata was bought here by Emerald Bloodstock for 26,000gns at the December Mares' Sale in 2019 from the Juddmonte draft.

Both mares are now in-foal to Australia. (11:40)

The filly, out of the Charm Spirit mare Requirement, a half-sister to Robins Hood Bay, winner of the Winter Derby (G3) at Lingfield, was bred by Mickley in partnership with Tim and Miranda Johnson.

"The Johnson's are a very nice couple, we keep around half a dozen mares together and they race jumping horses," outlined Richard Kent of Mickley, standing outside the ring with son Fraser. "They live in Derbyshire and they have been great friends for 20 years.

"We have the grand-dam Bijou A Moi, and we bred Requirement, we sold her as a foal for 85,000gns, she went into training with Karl Burke. Finbar and I bought her back her last year for 45,000gns, she had a lot of ability but met with an accident in training.

"This is a gorgeous foal, she has a fantastic temperament and she has gone to a great home. It is great to get a result like that off a young mare," said Kent, adding: "Bijou A Moi is now in-foal to Ardad, and Requirement is in-foal to Mohaather."

Of this week's work, Kent said: "We have sold 17 foals so far, we are delighted with the sales."

The farm's consignment so far has produced an aggregate of 476,500gns, an average price of 28,029gns and a median of 20,000gns.

Mickley has another two to offer today (Lot 841 and Lot 907), and a further 20 due through the ring on Saturday. (10:56)

He is a half-brother to Connect, a Roderic O'Connor Listed winner, and to Atlantic Sun, also by Roderic O'Connor, placed at Listed class.

The mare Robema is a daughter of Cadeaux Genereux, was the winner of three races and has bred four winners from six foals. She is a half-sister to Lucky Chappy, third in the Hollywood Derby (G1). (10:35)

Geoffrey Howson, honorary president of the Federation of Bloodstock Agents, presented the award to Brown in the Tattersalls sale ring.

This year has been a particularly successful one for Brown, and he earned the award following his breeze-up purchase of the Royal Ascot and dual Group 1-winning two-year-old Perfect Power, by Overbury Stud's first-season stallion whom he bought as a yearling and now manages and promotes.

Brown’s other successes on the track this year include the Group-winning two-year-old Caturra (Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes), Light Infantry (Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes) and the Listed winners With Thanks (October Stakes), Ad Infinitum and Nymphadora.

Howson said: “I first met Richard when he was being tutored by my friend, the late and great bloodstock agent, Joss Collins. I have always thought that Richard shows the same work ethic and professionalism as Joss, who must have been a wonderful mentor. Richard has a very similar modus operandi at the sales, including the same favoured bidding position at Tattersalls. I know that in his turn Richard now helps many young people aspiring to enter the industry.”

Brown recalled his path to life as a bloodstock agent.

"It is 20 years this year that I became an agent, and this is a great honour," he said. "I got kicked out of school when I was 16, you have limited options when that happens! Believe it or not, I then messed around riding in point-to-points, but I knew David Minton as I am originally from Shropshire and said to him that I wanted to get into the business.

"Minty got me jobs on studs and then through being at the BBA I met Joss and we hit it off straight away. He was like a second father to me, he was a mentor, he was amazing.

"In 2001 I was working at Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand, but the BBA was bought out by, essentially, asset strippers. Luckily, Joss and Tom [Goff] took a chance and offered me a job. Joss died in 2004, but we went on and we have since been joined by Stuart Boman and Tom Biggs."

Of the work that the Blandford Bloodstock agency does, Brown above all recognises the team ethos at the company.

"It is a huge team effort, every sale, we work as a team and I am just the one receiving this, but it is such a big team effort with us," he acknowledged, adding: "We are very lucky in that we have got an amazing group of clients, many of whom have been with us a very long time – they are very loyal and trust us to invest their money. I am just very fortunate that my hobby is my job."

For Brown achieving success for his clients and friends is the most satisfying aspect of the job.

"Most of our clients, in fact the vast majority, also become great friends – this is their hobby, they enjoy it, so seeing them achieve success is great. A client topped the sale on Wednesday and then yesterday too. The most satisfying aspect is definitely success for the client – in the sale ring for the commercial clients I work for, and also those we are buying racehorses for."

He continued: "Our clients put a lot of trust in us, we are spending extraordinary amounts of money for them – if you brought someone here who was not in the racing industry they would think you were absolutely bonkers, you are spending the equivalent of the price of a house on a little fluffy thing!

"So when those things come off, and it goes right, that is the pinnacle, I am very lucky to do what I do for a living."

Of this year's highlight, the success achieved by Perfect Power has understandably been a pinnacle of the year for Brown.

"This year's highlight has to be Perfect Power – I bought Ardad, manage Ardad, the horse is by Ardad, owner Sheikh Rashid has been a very big supporter of mine, as have his brothers, particularly at the breeze-ups they really back my judgement. When we bought Perfect Power he was the colt we were very high on that day.

"It is an amazing story, really – I will probably never get that ever again, it is the double whammy that I have bought a good horse, by a young stallion I am managing."

And of the future?

"I genuinely can't believe it is 20 years! I used to sit in this ring for day after day watching and watching, and then I led up a lot of horses around the ring. I just can't believe it has been so long. So, I guess, hopefully, the future is another 20!" (10:00)

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Lots catalogued: 328 (286)

Lots offered: 283 (247)

Lots sold: 235 (207)

Aggregate: 9,225,000gns (+32%)

Median: 30,000gns (+20%)

Average: 39,255gns (+16%)

% sold: 83% (84%)

Leading consignors (cumulative): 1. Whitsbury Manor Stud, 2. Trickledown Stud, 3. The National Stud

Leading purchasers (cumulative): 1. Tally-Ho Stud, 2. Yeomanstown Stud, 3. BBA Ireland

Leading sires (aggregate, cumulative): 1. Showcasing, 2. Land Force, 3. Advertise

Leading sires (average, 2+ sold): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Wootton Bassett, 3. Night Of Thunder

Day 2's top 5 lots

1. Lot 691 Sea The Stars-Careful Thought, b,f., Whatton Manor Stud, Blandford Bloodstock >> 225,000gns

2. Lot 706 Ten Sovereigns-Fashion Darling, b/br,c., The National Stud Ltd., Yeomanstown Stud >> 130,000gns

3. Lot 591 Night of Thunder-Pacifica Highway, b,f., Overbury Stud, JC Bloodstock >> 130,000gns

4. Lot 740 Acclamation-Winter Snow, b,f., Riversfield Stud, Ireland, Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock >> 115,000gns

5. Lot 595 Magna Grecia-She's So Flawless, b,f., Petches Farm, Arthur Hoyeau Agent >> 110,000gns (21:10)