Book 3 statistics: +/- compared to 2020

Record-breaking Book 3

Lots catalogued: 612

Lots offered: 547

Lots sold: 471

Aggregate: 10,593,150gns (+44%)*

Median: 18,000gns (+64%)*

Average: 22,491gns (+40%)*

*record

Lots 50,000gns+: 37

% sold: 86% (85%)

Leading consignors (cumulative, by agg): 1. Whatton Manor Stud, 2. The National Stud, 3. Barton Stud

Leading purchasers (cumulative, by agg): 1. Blandford Bloodstock, 2. A.C. Elliott, 3. Opulence Thoroughbreds

Leading sire (cumulative, by agg): 1. Time Test, 2. Havana Grey, 3. Dandy Man

Leading sire (by av, 2+ sold): 1. New Bay, 2. Mehmas, 3. Time Test

Top five lots

1. Lot 1451 Ulysses (IRE) / Regal Heiress (GB) B.C. (GB), Hegarty Bloodstock, Stroud Coleman Bloodstock / Clancy Bloodstock, 150,000gns

2. Lot 1602 New Bay (GB) / D'Oro Princess (USA) B.C. (IRE), Baroda Stud, Joe Foley, 100,000gns

3. Lot 1745 Time Test (GB) / Purest (GB) B.C. (GB), Whatton Manor Stud, Montgomery Motto, 95,000gns

4. Lot 1492 Havana Gold (IRE) / Storybook (UAE) Ch.C. (IRE), Lodge Park Stud, Federico Barberini, 92,000gns

5. Lot 1723 Ardad (IRE) / Night Affair (GB) B.C. (GB), Throckmorton Court Stud, R O'Ryan, 85,000gns (23:45)

Lot 1745: another top result for Time Test – this colt by The National Stud-based stallion makes 95,000gns, the top price of Day 2, Book 3 so far. He was bought by Montgomery Motto, underbidder was Amanda Skiffington.

The colt was bred by Nicky Welby at her farm in Sussex out of the unraced mare Purest (Shamardal), who is from the Bill Gredley-produced family of User Friendly.

"We only really got her as a companion," said Welby. "We had bought Western Pearl as a yearling, raced her with William Knight and were incredibly lucky as she got black-type. We thought we might as well have her at home and bred, we bought Purest to run with her. She was carrying her first foal by Delegator."

Ed Player of Whatton Manor Stud consigned the colt, and he said: "All the credit has to go to Nicky and her team at home. Her head man has been off with injury so they have been doing all the work. This colt got here looking fantastic, he has been incredibly well-behaved and as soon as he got here started eating his hay! Nicky and her team deserve 100 per cent of the credit."

Purest was covered by Adaay this spring and does not have a foal at foot.

Motto, previously based in the US, moved to Europe a couple of years ago having previously owned and trained his own team of horses at Calder. He disbanded the operation around seven years ago. He is putting together a small string of racehorses and admits it has taken some time to adjust his eye to looking at European yearlings, but is delighted with his purchase of this colt. Having seen some of the Time Tests sell earlier this week, he focused his attention on the sire's progeny.

"This is one of the best athletes I have seen here and he has a lovely temperament to match," said Motto. "It's hard to go wrong with a Shamardal mare and she has produced a useful runner abroad. I went a bit higher than planned, but the money nearly always finds the horse. He will go to Richard Brabazon for breaking and we will make plans from there." (15:17)

Lot 1723: Robin O'Ryan, assistant to trainer Richard Fahey, goes to 85,000gns for this son of Ardad. He is out of Night Affair (Bold Edge), a half-sister to the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1) and Haydock Sprint Cup winner Twilight Son, and to Music Master, winner of the Hackwood Stakes (G3) and third in the Haydock Sprint Cup (G1).

There are just two words to explain the reason as to why O'Ryan went so far to buy this Throckmorton Stud-consigned colt – Perfect Power. Fahey is the trainer of the colt who is a two-time Group 1 winner, is rated 115 and is the leading European juvenile sprinter of 2021.

"This colt is going racing and will not be a breeze-up horse," said new owner Steve Bradley, who was standing with O'Ryan and is an existing owner with Fahey. "I think the breeze-up boys were in competition with us. This colt looks a nice early type, these boys recommended him, there is Twilight Son on the page, hopefully he turns out lucky for us."

"He is a nice horse as well. The Ardads all look racy and he has done so well. We've had three this year and they have all won," informed O'Ryan, who, when asked if the other two slept as much as Perfect Power (the colt's social media photos from the yard have shown him mainly sleeping), laughed: "He sleeps too much!!"

O'Ryan continued: "But we've been lucky with him. He is absolutely fine and is on holiday now and we will probably run him in one of the Classic trials next spring, and that will tell us whether he will stay the Guineas trip. He is a relaxed horse so he has every chance."

The colt was bred by Peter Balding of the Worcestershire-based Throckmorton Stud with joint-breeder Lady Whent.

Peter's son Simon Balding chatted about the colt as he was walking back to Solario Barn.

"Ardad is a stallion who is working for us," he said. "We caught him at the right time – he is just up the road from us at Simon's [Sweeting, Overbury Stud], we know what a good job Simon does with his stallions, and he is by Kodiac. It was a straightforward choice.

"What we have produced by him have all had a marvellous head about them, they have all been straightforward to prepare – it has got to be a big factor in the success he has had on the track.

"This lad he is a sharp boy, he does think he is is the king of the barn, and he certainly won't be sleeping all day long, he is a bit of a character. He is, though, exactly what you want from them – when you fetch them out of the box you want them to show, do the business, it is the little bits and pieces that goes with it all that is part of their characters, too.

"We are just delighted. Lady Sarah Whent has been a wonderful supporter over the years, we stood Bold Edge and Assertive for her, we are over the moon to have success for her as she has been a loyal supporter and a good friend.

"We left the mare Night Affair empty last year, but she is now in-foal to Mayson – we have always followed Mayson, we think he is great value.

"We've got quite a few mares in-foal to Ardad and quite a few foals on the ground, too. We probably won't be able to send so many to him in a few years' time, we have to make hay while the sun shines!" (13:59)

Lot 1776: trainer William Jarvis has had a great year with Lady Bowthorpe this season, the Nathaniel mare winning the Dahlia Stakes (G2) first time out and stepping up to success at Group 1 level when taking the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood in July.

She is daughter of Nathaniel, and the trainer buys a colt by the Newsells Park Stud-based sire here for 45,000gns. He was bred by Gerry Burke, out of the unraced Anabaa mare Lanita and sold by his farm, Glidawn Stud. The March-born colt's pedigree traces to the 1993 German three-year-old champion Lando and German champion two-year-old of 2007, Love Academy.

"He comes from a lovely German family, I thought he was an outstanding walking horse," said Jarvis. "He went for a bit more than I thought he might, but I very happy to have him, and I am looking forward to him. He has been bought for a partnership."

Of his star five-year-old mare, Jarvis said: "Lady Bowthorpe runs tomorrow in the QEII. She has been on the go for a long time this season, but she has a great constitution, we are very much look forward to taking part in what looks a very strong race. She deserves to be in the line-up."

He added: "She has been tremendous for us this season. I don't know plans for next year, but she owes us nothing." (12:20)

Lot 1644: agent Federico Barberini goes to 50,000gns for the daughter of Sioux Nation on behalf of Clipper Logistics. She was sold by Redgate Bloodstock and bred by the Gregoria Partnership.

"We were all here yesterday, we saw her a few times and have bought her with Joe Foley for Clipper. She is a lovely filly. She is by a first-crop sire and out of a mare who has already produced a good winner. She is very good-looking, has produced a good horse and is from a good farm – Damian and Emma Flynn do a great job," said Barberini.

"She is the first by the sire I have bought, she is a good advertisement for him. She looks like a two-year-old type, but she will tell us," added Barberini.

Her good sibling is a 2018 gelding by Toronado called To Glory (GB)/Beauty Glory (HK). As a runner in Ireland, in training with Ger Lyons, he won on his two-year-old debut and then this March on the All-Weather at Dundalk, achieving a BHA rating of 93 on the All-Weather and a Turf rating of 102.

He was subsequently sold to Hong Kong and is now in training with Tony Cruz. He has yet to run from his new yard. (11:21)

Day 1, Book 3 statistics: +/- compared to 2020

Record-breaking session for Book 3

Lots catalogued: 306

Lots offered: 280

Lots sold: 259

Aggregate: 7,268,800gns (+43%)

Median: 26,000gns (+63%)

Average: 28,065gns (+31%)

Lots 50,000gns+: 30

% sold: 93% (88%)

Top price: Lot 1451, Ulysses / Regal Heiress b,c. from Hegarty Bsk to Stroud Coleman Bstk / Clancy Bstk for 150,000gns

Leading consignors (cumulative, by agg): 1. Whatton Manor Stud, 2. Barton Stud, 3. The Castlebridge Consignment

Leading purchasers (cumulative, by agg): 1. Blandford Bloodstock, 2. A.E. Elliott, 3. Opulence Thoroughbreds

Leading sire (cumulative, by agg): 1. Time Test, 2. Havana Grey, 3. Dandy Man

Leading sire (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Ulysses, 2. New Bay, 3. Time Test

Top five lots

1. Lot 1451 Ulysses (IRE) / Regal Heiress (GB) B.C. (GB) Hegarty Bloodstock Stroud Coleman Bstk / Clancy Bstk 150,000gns

2. Lot 1602 New Bay (GB) / D'Oro Princess (USA) B.C. (IRE) Baroda Stud, Ireland Joe Foley 100,000gns

3. Lot 1492 Havana Gold (IRE) / Storybook (UAE) Ch.C. (IRE) Lodge Park Stud, Ireland Federico Barberini 92,000gns

4. Lot 1330 Havana Grey (GB) / Frequent (GB) Ch/Gr.F. (GB) Harry Dutfield Blandford Bloodstock 82,000gns

5. Lot 1416 Dandy Man (IRE) / Ocean Myth (GB) B.F. (IRE) Knockananig Stud, Ireland Owen Burrows 77,000gns (21:34)

Lot 1602: this colt by New Bay makes 100,000gns, bought by Joe Foley from Baroda Stud, bred by the China Horse Club.

Foley said: "We bought a colt by him on Monday, and the sire is doing really well, and doing really well in the last fortnight.

"We admired Bayside Boy at the sales last year, and he is a good two-year-old this year, and this colt reminded us of him. New Bay is starting to really impress, and this is the second colt by him we have bought.

"The mare is by Medaglia D'Oro is a lot of like in the family, Ad Valorem is a champion two-year-old in there, and this was a colt we really wanted to buy.

"A good colt, a lovely colt and he has been bought for Clipper Logistics. Baroda Stud is a top class farm China Horse Club and sells loads of good horse.

"Federico and myself have loved him all day. I saw him yesterday evening, he was the first horse I saw in this Book 3. I went, 'Jesus he is a good one.' We went back to see him this morning the two of us, we loved him. In the outside ring he was just like a cat, I would say that our underbidder [Richard Brown] thought the same. There was a few shrewdies hanging out the back so we came to the back stairs to bid from here.

"We have bought three today, a Dandy Man, Kodi Bear and this horse. There have been some lovely yearlings here today, some belters, a nice horse or two in the outside ring at every stage of the day. It is a compliment to the sales company.

"There has been a huge trade all season. Trade has been so heartening and people making money, and it bodes well for the mare and foal sales. It is fantastic to see. This sale has been the cherry on the top, it has just been great trade all the way through, the best trade I have seen, all the way through, in years."

David Cox of Baroda Stud said: "It has been some trade all day. He is a lovely horse, a China Horse Club homebred, and he has been well prepared by the lads at Coolmore. He showed really well, I showed him to Clive Cox earlier and he loved him, and Marcus Tregoning and Halycon Thoroughbreds and they bought Perotto, also by New Bay, off us and they were very keen on him. The stallion is doing very well, it is great.

"It was all about this horse as an individual, he looked a real two-year-old. He has not put a foot a wrong all day, it's a great way to end the evening." (21:18)

Lot 1557: another by Time Test catches the buyers' eyes, this filly sold by Mount Coote Stud, for its breeding partnership with Mark Dixon, fetches 72,000gns, bought by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock.

The National Stud stallion is leading the Book 3 sires' table by turnover - 349,000gns for seven lots sold.

"She is beautiful," said buyer Brown. "She looked amazingly sharp out there, she looks a serious athlete, very light on her feet. I only saw her for the first time this morning, and have seen her twice since, and had to get on the phone to find someone for her. And I have! She is gorgeous.

"She is some athlete walking around, she comes from a very very good farm and that is a big part of the decision making," added Brown.

Luke Lillingston of Mount Coote was equally enthusiastic about the filly and her pedigree.

"Joint-breeder Mark is a nephew of the great owner-beeeder Dick Hollinsworth and this family stretches to his great Felsetta family, and we are lucky enough to have a number of mares from the pedigree.

"Bari's four-year-old Maud Gonne Spirit is going onwards and upwards and she will stay in training next year. Her owner Olivia Hoare, a client of ours, bought her as a yearling she stays in training next year to try and get black-type, she is edging closer to it.

"Time Test – luckily we got him right and we got him at the word go. We have bred his highest-rated filly so far – although she is still a maiden, Sunset Shiraz finished third in the Moyglare.

"I am a big believer in the sire, he hasn't had many runners but he has already had four black-type winners, a Group 1-placed filly, and a very promising maiden winner with Marco Botti."

Of the reasons why he supported Time Test from the beginning, Lillingston recalls: "I thought he was good value, a breeding right was £20,000 and for a son of Dubawi out of a Group 1-winning mare by Dansili... I like investing in stallions and he seemed relatively inexpensive.

"I remember the late Guy Roxburghe saying, 'Take a breeding right in this horse.' I told him I needed to see how the sales went, but that I was minded to do it.

"He rang me again just after the sales, and said 'Are you coming in?' He was so enthusiastic about the horse, it was his project and it is really sad that he is not around to enjoy what is happening now, it really was his deal.

"He told me that I was then the only man in Ireland to buy a breeding right in the stallion! I have bought another since, and I hope he is going to be one of those horses that goes onwards and upwards now. The memory of his acceleration in the Tercentenary Stakes at Royal Ascot, I know it was not a Group 1 race, but he was spectacular." (19:51)

Lot 1522: agent Alex Elliott was underbidder on today's top lot, but the agent righted that wrong when buying this colt, also by Ulysses, from Churchtown House Stud for 70,000gns, it is the same family as Book 2's Lot 1105.

"To be honest, I couldn't really split them physically but the recent update for the other one made him a bit more expensive," reported Elliott. "He is going to trainer Grant Tuer, who has had an unbelievable few years and is for a new partnership, a couple of pals of mine who have had a few horses. Grant supported me a few years ago and we bought a few yearlings, he is an exceptional trainer, it is nice to give him a bit back. If you look at his stats, he is right up there.

"I think Ulysses had a lot of speed for a Galileo out of an Oaks winner, and in the 6f, 7f maidens those horses by him are starting to stand out – they can only do better next year. I think he has had a very good start and he is a sire I like."

Of the last two weeks' of the October Sale, Elliott said: "I bought 14 in Book 1, 11 in Book 2, and I have bought six today so far. They are for a wide variety of people from Brad Spicer in Australia, to American clients, to British-based clients, and for a lot of people looking to trade.

"These clients recognise that we have the best product in the world that people will always want, and they will trade them if they get placed in a maiden and think they are not quite up to what is needed here. If we can get good money then we will move them on.

"I think it is very important, with prize-money the way it is, if you can get people to have that mentality that is why a lot of people are buying horses, because there are angles to trade them on.

"It is not good in the long term, and we need to sort that out – as Gosden and everybody keeps saying, when we sort prize-money, if this is strong now and we are racing for rosettes, imagine if they were racing for good money – they run £120,000 maidens at Churchill Downs, and what are we running for?" (18:12)

Lot 1492: "We bought Storybook in the US in-foal to Declaration Of War," said Damian Burns of Lodge Park Stud, his colt by Havana Gold out of the mare fetching 95,000gns, bought by Federico Barberini. "She was a good racemare herself, who won two our of two for trainer Michael Jarvis before she went to the US.

"She has bred good horses. Romeo Limo won first time out at Deauville by 10l, was very impressive. Since I bought her Get On The Bus has come along, he has been Grade 1 placed. The two-year-old is rated 91, he is not bad and is with Johnny Murtagh.

"I went to Havana Gold because I thought he was a good physical match for the mare, I thought he might have a good year coming up with the £15,000 horse. She has no foal and is in-foal Earthlight.

"This is a very professional horse with a lovely temperament."

Federico Barberini said: "He's for a very good client of mine, he is smashing horse by a sire who has done incredibly well this season. He is a real two-year-old type, a great mover with great athleticism. A trainer will be decided at a later date, but it is likely that he will be trained in Newmarket.

"There is no certainties in this game, but the mare has already done it a few times, the two-year-old is useful, too. The sire has done very very well with his first crop of quality foals, two-year-olds of this year – to me it made a lot of sense.

"The market has been tough all week and the previous week, too. I think, overall, this horse is not expensive – at this price he sticks out a bit in Book 3, but he would not have been out of place in Book 2. He comes from a very good nursery, who have bred a lot of good horses." (17:11)

Lot 1451: Hegarty Bloodstock enjoys the pinhook result of Book 3 so far: the 4,000gns foal purchase by Galley Flash Bloodstock of this Ulysses colt, bred by Cheveley Park Stud, becomes a 150,000gns yearling sale to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock / Clancy Bloodstock.

The colt is out of Royal Heiress (Pivotal) and is a full-brother to Gwan So, who ran third in this year's Listed Flying Scotsman Stakes.

"He has been very straightforward, he has never given us a problem, he came into prep and just blossomed," said Geraldine Hegarty. "My husband David chose him, he loves a really good-walking horse and his walk just said it all."

The Hegartys are based just outside Newmarket, and Geraldine explained that they both work full-time, too.

She said: "We enjoy what we are doing and we just have the pinhooks, David works full-time at Genesis Green and I work in a school. We live at Genesis, at the moment this is just a 'hobby', but is something that we eventually want to take further."

Of thoughts coming into the sale, Geraldine said: "He didn't stand us a lot so we could enjoy it, it was a bit nerve-wracking here though. He has been so busy with viewings, he is tired."

Trickledown Stud's Paul Thorman, who was part of the Galley Flash Bloodstock, explained his side of the story.

“I sent David a foal who looked a bit like a corkscrew and when it came back as a yearling it was still a corkscrew, but it looked unbelievable.

"I thought, ‘here’s this lad paying buttons for foals and turning them out brilliantly but getting nowhere’ so I said to him that we would buy a few foals together. We’ve been relatively lucky, but mainly because David is seriously gifted, and he and Geraldine work like you wouldn’t believe.

“This particular foal was in the Trickledown draft last year and he had gone through a rough patch and didn’t look at his best, but both David and Sara could see that there was scope there.

"We never imagined for a millisecond that [he would sell this well]. He didn’t have a great hock as a foal, but that just got better and better. Gwan So, the full-brother is talented and became a bit of a talking horse, so everything worked really. He turned into the most stunning horse and his full-brother and Ulysses did everything they could to help him.

“I hope it gives David the scope to buy foals that are worth buying. Sara and I were lucky when we were starting off that we had people helping us and I loved that.

“It is just one of those really good stories, the pair have been trying to buy a house so I hope this will help get them there.

“David has certainly got a talent for prepping them. They’re not produced to 100 per cent, they are 110 per cent."

Thorman added: "Three lots after this horse went through the ring, we sold one for two of the Whitsbury Manor Stud [Lot 1454] staff. They had bought the colt off their own bat for 11,000gns, and we got 32,000gns for him. I went to see them after the sale and they were in floods of tears."

Purchaser Matt Coleman said: “I bought him for a guy called Bill Mathis, an American client of Sean Clancy’s whom I also buy for. He owns Eve Lodge, who was the first horse I bought for him – I bought her after she won her maiden and she went on to win the Sirenia Stakes. Bill was keen to try and buy a few yearlings. He bought a share in a couple of fillies – one in Book 1 – and we tried to find a couple of colts, but we found Book 2 very strong so I thought we’d keep going here.

“I just thought he was the best colt I saw here, he is very athletic. He’s a full-brother to Gwan So, who has been sold to go to Annabel Neasham in Australia.

"He’s a light-framed, athletic Galileo-type and I could see him doing well here for trainer Charlie [Fellowes] and then going to the states. He’s a full-brother to a good horse and he looks like a racehorse." (16:00)

Lot 1430: this filly by first-crop yearling sire Massaat (Teofilo), nicknamed Pippa by consignor Susie Sands, makes 40,000gns, giving a smart uplift on her foal purchase price of 10,000gns. Trainer Stuart Williams was today's successful purchaser.

Sister Sarah and dad, Philip Sands, were both at Park Paddocks to see the filly sell, as well as Finn Kent, son of breeders Richard Kent and Clare Lloyd of Mickley Stud.

"I tried to buy her as a foal off my Dad," laughed Kent jnr. "He put a 10,000gns reserve on her and when she got that with a bid from Susie, he told me to let her go as the filly was heading to a good home. She is a good representative of her sire, Susie has produced her really well, and we are pleased with Massaat's yearling sales this autumn," added Kent.

Mickley is now readying a draft of 50 foals for this year's December Foal Sale.

"Pippa has been straightforward and easy all the way through," said Sands, adding: "She has been a cracker, and I loved her as a foal when we saw her last year – my good friend Emma Foley viewed her with me, so I have to thank her for her help. I am delighted she is going to Stuart now." (14:39)

Lot 1416: Owen Burrows, formerly a private trainer for Shadwell, now forging plans as a public trainer, buys this daughter of Dandy Man for 77,00gns.

"I bought a couple of Sheikh Ahmed in Book 2, and we were after an early sharp type, we were outbid on four in Book 2," admitted Burrows. "We thought she fitted the bill perfectly, and pleased to have got her. She looks all speed, she is very strong. Hopefully, she will be an April or May two-year-old for him, we can gave a bit of early action.

"Then we've got some for mid-summer, a couple of nice horses that I was very pleased to have bought in Book 2, and then some homebreds to come, and they usually take a bit of time."

The filly, out of the two-year-old-winning Acclamation mare Ocean Myth, was bred by Noella Walsh and sold by Knockananig Stud. It has been a good year on the track for Walsh – she bred the Oaks runner-up Mystery Angel (Kodi Bear).

Shadwell's Minzaal runs in the British Champions Sprint Stakes (G1) on Saturday and Burrows updated on his form. The 2019 Book 2 graduate ran second in the Rous Stakes at the beginning of the month, his first run since a third placing behind Supremacy in the Middle Park Stakes (G1) in September 2020.

He said: "I drove back on Tuesday night to watch Minzaal work and then drove back up on Wednesday. He breezed very well, I was thrilled with his comeback run. There are plenty in it, there is a full field of 20, but it is an open year and that is why there is a full field, everyone is happy to have a go. If he runs up to his Mill Reef and Gimcrack form, he should have a sporting chance,." (14:15)

Lot 1359: sold by the Clearwater Stud (formerly Kathyrn Stud), this daughter of Expert Eye is bought by Avenue Bloodstock for 60,000gs. She is out of the Montjeu mare Interchange, the dam of the Listed-placed Tiburtina. Grand-dam is Key Change, winner of the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) and third placed in the Yorkshire Oaks (G1).

Farran Anstock of Clearwater said: "It is a fantastic result, she has gone down really well, she is a nice racy filly. When she was seen in May she was just a little bit small, but she has come on a lot. She has gone down well here, and she looks quite fast to me.

"Overall, I am very happy with the last couple of weeks, we have had a strong sale, we have sold to the right people, they have all gone to good trainers. Hopefully for more of the same for next year!"

He added: "The mare is in-foal to Oasis Dream, she had a good horse by him called Bronte, her first foal, she didn't really get the ground she wanted in Ireland when trained by David Wachman. I think Oasis is great value now.

"We bought Interchange from James Fanshawe, he thought she could have picked up some black-type."

The April-born filly was bought by Avenue Bloodstock, and Mark McStay said: "“She’s a nice filly by a sire that I give every chance to. He was a very fast horse, a Breeders’ Cup winner, from a sire line that obviously does very well.

"This family goes back to Key Change, who won the Group 1 Yorkshire for John Oxx. This filly has a nice pedigree and is a very racy and athletic filly. I wouldn’t be surprised to see her back here for a breeze-up sale in the future.” (12:04)

Lot 1330: gives pinhooker Harry Dutfield a great return – this filly by Havana Grey, bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud from Juddmonte's family of Showcasing and Camacho, was bought by Dutfield last December for 25,000gns, and sold today for 82,000gns.

He was understandably delighted, and the sale will help make a major difference to Dutfield's immediate future.

"Really pleased, didn't expect that, she has been very busy, but I don't expect much!" said Dutfield. "I have bought my own farm two months ago, I have bills everywhere! The planning alone cost £10,000.

"I work as a stud hand, and she cost basically an annual salary for stud hand! So to come back here and do that, I am just relieved.

"She just presents herself, I just have to make sure I don't mess her up. She has a really good mind on her. She has still been very fresh in the mornings, I didn't lunge her this morning because she had a busy day yesterday and she came out today full of herself, ready for action. She is a credit to herself and deserved that."

Of his working life, Dutfield said: "I work for Philippa and Adrian O'Brien at Hazelwood Bloodstock. I have been helping them with Book 1 and Book 2 consignments, and they let me take a few days off to do my own. They very kindly allowed me to prep these two there, they had been kept elsewhere before but they allowed me to prep them myself at Hazelwood.

"The farm I have bought is 20 acres, just out by Thetford. I have bought a house just eight minutes away – I have sold my house here, I bought that with a pinhook, too. This sale will help a lot.

"The O'Briens are very nice people, they look after me so well. I really want to stress that, they really do. I am really thankful to them for allowing me to do the horses."

Purchaser Richard Brown said: " We’ve been very impressed with the Havana Greys that we’ve seen so far. She looked very forward, very sharp and mature. It is a speedy Juddmonte family and I would say she is the sort of filly who will be out early next year, April, May.

"She is going to David Simcock for an owner of David’s whose got a few mares. The brief was to buy a filly with a page and we’ve been blown out for two weeks, but I absolutely loved this filly.

"She’s a gorgeous filly and Harry does a superb job. He has presented her here looking amazing. I saw her a couple of times and every time she looked amazing. I saw her again this morning at about 8am and she came out like a lion. She looks a runner and we are delighted." (11:16)

Lot 1317 and Lot 1323: a good start to Book 3 for The National Stud… Lot 1317, prepared and sold by the farm, by Ribchester, sells for 36,000gns to JD Moore, while Lot 1323, a son of the exciting Time Test, who had such a good result here yesterday, is bought by trainer Archie Watson for 55,000gns.

"He has been bought on spec," said Moore. "He comes from a really lovely two-year-old family, he looks quick – his pedigree makes sense and his physical makes sense."

The colt is out of a Holy Roman Emperor mare, a half-sister to Lottie Dod, third in the Phoenix Stakes (G1), and Rockaway Valley, third in the Railway Stakes (G2) and the Round Tower Stake (G3).

The Time Test is out of the Excelebration mare Flame Out, from the family of the Upavon Stakes (L) winner and Sandown Mile (G2) third Premier Prize. She is dam of the Group 2 and Group 3 winner Cocktail Queen. (10:53)

Chairman’s Statement At the conclusion of Book 2 of the 2021 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented:

“At the end of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last week we referenced the depth and diversity of the demand, and the momentum established at Book 1 has been very much sustained throughout the three days of a record-breaking Book 2.

“New record turnover at any sale is always an achievement, but for Europe’s largest yearling sale to reach new levels as we all strive to return to normality after 18 months of turmoil is pretty extraordinary. Only ten years ago Book 2 of the October Yearling Sale had turnover of a fraction over 25 million guineas and an average price below 40,000 guineas. This year’s October Book 2 has broken the 50 million guineas mark for the first time, produced a record average in excess of 80,000 guineas and also an unprecedented median.

“Similar to Book 1, international buyers have again made a massive contribution to the market, with notable participation from American and Australian interests as well as from Hong Kong, Japan and throughout the Gulf region, but perhaps the most encouraging feature of the record - breaking sale has been the domestic demand. British and Irish trainers have been the backbone of the sale and to see such a voracious appetite for quality yearlings, not only at Books 1 and 2 of the October Yearling Sale, but also at our Newmarket based yearling sales last month, has been fantastic.

“As ever, we are hugely indebted to the consignors from Britain, Ireland and further afield, who make Books 1 and 2 of the October Yearling Sale the showcase for so many of the finest yearlings to be found in Europe. Consistent quality is the key to attracting the buyers in such numbers and we now turn our attention to Book 3 of the October Yearling Sale where buyers will continue to find yearlings of the highest calibre." (23:50)

Book 2 statistics: +/- compared to 2020

Lots catalogued: 808

Lots offered: 736

Lots sold: 650

Lots 100,000gns+ (cumulative): 182

Aggregate: 54,512,000gns (+13%)*

Median: 62,000gns (+24%)*

Average: 83,865gns (+10%)*

% sold: 88% (85%)

• Record for Book 2

Top price: Lot 895, Kingman (GB) / Reem (AUS) b,c. from Hazelwood Bloodstock to Juddmonte Farms for 525,000gns

Leading consignors (cumulative, by agg): 1. Tally-Ho Stud, 2. The Castlebridge Consignment, 3. Newsells Park Stud

Leading purchasers (cumulative, by agg): 1. Stroud Coleman Bloodstock, 2. SackvilleDonald, 3. Blandford Bloodstock

Leading sire (cumulative, by agg): 1. Kodiac, 2. Lope De Vega, 3. Showcasing

Leading sire (by av, 2+ sold): 1. Frankel, 2. No Nay Never, 3. Kingman

Top five lots

1 Lot 895 Kingman (GB) / Reem (AUS) B.C. (GB) Hazelwood Bloodstock Juddmonte Farms 525,000gns

2 Lot 944 No Nay Never (USA) / Seatone (USA) B.C. (IRE) Camas Park Stud, Ireland Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock 450,000gns

3 Lot 1193 Time Test (GB) / Aurelia (GB) B.C. (GB) Ballyvolane Stud, Ireland SackvilleDonald 400,000gns

4 Lot 604 Night of Thunder (IRE) / Harlequin Girl (GB) Ch.C. (GB) Rathbarry Stud, Ireland (Agent) Dwayne Woods 375,000gns

5 Lot 1036 Gleneagles (IRE) / Swirral Edge (GB) B.C. (IRE) Redpender Stud, Ireland Stroud Coleman Bloodstock 350,000gns (23:45)

Lot 1285: the only filly offered this week by Wootton Bassett sells for 350,000gns. She was bought by Matt Coleman, standing in the bidders. She was consigned by Haras d'Etreham, which brought two horses to sell this week, both by the sire, who stood at Etreham until bought by Coolmore ahead of this year's covering season. This filly was bred off a €40,000 covering fee, the sire now stands at €100,000.

Matt Coleman said: "I've bought her for Anthony [Stroud], who couldn't be here today, and for an unnamed client. She's just a great-moving filly and we thought she was pretty much the filly of the sale. We bought the filly Audarya by Wootton Bassett, who has been lucky for us, and obviously he's become a fantastic sire so we're delighted to get her."

Born on May 13, this filly is a full-sister to the Group 3-placed Dave, and a half-sister to the Grade 3-placed Commander. Second dam is Troupe, a Group 3 winner and runner-up in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (G1). (19:46)

Lot 1279: is knocked down to Thady Gosden, who was standing in the stair well with his father John. The filly is a daughter of Zoffany, out of Curtsy (Galileo), a half-sister to Contradict, the dam of this year's star performer, Mishriff, who is trained by Gosden. The chesnut filly cost her new connections 350,000gns.

"She is brilliant moving filly, she has some class about her," said Gosden jnr. "She is exceptional type and it is a happening pedigree, that we know well. It will be nice if she is the same as Mishriff the track! Mishriff runs on Saturday in the Champion Stakes, the ground seems to be holding up at the moment

"She is for a new client, and hopefully she will do well for them. This filly has a very nice pedigree, so will have some residual value, too."

She was the only yearling brought to Book 2 this week by consignor Kilcarn Park, and Patrick Cosgrove of the family-owned farm was on the sales ground this evening.

"Delighted, over the moon!" said Cosgrove of the Mylestown Farm and Brid Cosgrove-bred, February-born filly. "We bought the mare here in 2018 in-foal to Almanzor, and we sold her as a yearling here last year for 95,000gns.

"We decided to come here to sell again this year, and I am happy. The mare is in-foal to Make Believe and she has a colt foal by Bated Breath. It has been great watching Mishriff this summer."

Kilcarn bought Cursty for 95,000gns at the December Sale. (19:37)

Lot 1236: becomes Mehmas's joint-second top-priced horse to go through the Tattersalls sale ring when selling for 250,000gns to Donnacha O'Brien.

"He is a beautiful horse, a strong sort, and is by Mehmas, who has had a great season. He looks a real two-year-old and looks exciting. It is the first by the sire I will train," said O'Brien.

David O'Callaghan of Yeomanstown Stud added: "He is a belter, big and strong , a powerful mover with great action and by a top-class stallion. When we bought him as a foal we thought he'd make a lot more, and he sold well today. A good day." Yeomanstown has welcomed a new stallion to the farm – Supremacy, also a son of Mehmas, and winner of the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and the Group 2 Richmond Stakes for trainer Clive Cox.

"Supremacy is with us now," said O'Callaghan. "He has an unbelievable temperament, he is exercising there with the yearlings, he just slotted in and he is happy out. It is great to get a Group 1 winner back on the farm, he is the first Group 1 winner to the farm since Dark Angel joined us in 2007, they are hard to get." (18:00)

Lot 1203: like Time Test, the Overbury Stud stallion Ardad has enjoyed a successful first season with runners and the sale of this bay filly by the son of Kodiac is reflective of that success.

She is the first foal out of Be My Angel (Dark Angel) and was sold by Norris Bloodstock to Manor House Stud for 190,000gns. She was bred by Countess of Rothes.

The February-born filly is the top-priced yearling by Ardad sold in the auction ring.

Jenny Norris said: "I am thrilled for the owner, and she raced Mullein [secodn dam] and Be My Angel. WE sold Mullein's Bobby's Kitten foal for 67,000gns earlier. The mare boards with us and the foal has been with me since she was just a couple of months' old.

"She was a hardy filly when she was younger and when we got her in to prep, the more she did, the better she got. She loves her work, she thrives on it, really enjoys it.

"The mare is a really big strong mare, a bullock. For a first foal she is impressive, she is strong – she is not overly big but is all power.

"I tend to back off them through the last week at home before they come up and let them put on a few pounds just in case they tuck up, but she has taken it all in her stride. She has not put a foot wrong and I am delighted for Lady Rothes, she is over the moon.

"Be My Angel has a colt foal by Bobby's Kitten and is in-foal to Time Test. I think it might have to considered going back to Ardad now!

"The filly vetted well and the scope was good. It is always nice when you have had them on the farm since they are little, when you know them that well and know everything that has happened about them, you can put your hand on your heart and recommend them fully.

"Hannah, Verity and Jazz work hard at home and it is a real team effort. There are four of us on the farm who work the horses, and it has been a testing time this year with everything. It is great when you have got a good team behind you." (16:45)

Lot 1193: Time Test's top-priced foal of 2020 becomes the stallion's top-priced horse sold in the ring when this yearling colt by the National Stud's stallion is bought for 400,000gns by Al Donald of SackvilleDonald on behalf of King Power Racing. Underbidder was trainer Richard Hughes.

The March-born foal was sold by John Foley of Ballyvolane Stud, which is near Bruff in County Limerick. Foley had pinhooked the colt as a foal here last December for 56,000gns, signing as Otilia.

"He has very popular this week, he had 20 vets, he is an amazing horse, he has never missed a beat all week," smiled Foley of the foal bred by Mr Richard Moses & Mr Joe Callan.

"Since we have had him he has been amazing. He is a special horse, the best we have ever had. His attitude, his presence, he is a 'wow 'horse. He was a lovely, quality straightforward foal, very well produced by the National Stud – there is a reason he was the dearest Time Test foal.

"There are some that are nice foals who come back as nice yearlings, but he has done better than we thought. It has developed and he has improved the whole way through."

Foley is a regular pinhook buyer, but this debut venture under Otilia was slightly different

"Otilia is myself and three friends, it is the first one we have pinhooked together. We wanted to take a punt on the stallion and we knew he'd cost a few quid. We thought that, if he did not work out, with three of us involved the pain wouldn't be too much. It was a fair throw for him as a foal, we were taking a punt on him as a stallion, but sons of Dubawi have done well.

"Time Test has had a great year, he looks very good, his stats are good – I will definitely be using him next year! He will be very popular with breeders."

Time Test has had nine winners, two Group 3 winners and two Listed winners. Sunset Shiraz has also finished third in Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1) and second in the Debutante Stakes (G2). Foley added: "It is amazing to get a result like this as we all work hard – this is a very tough business there are more hard days than good days. We have great help at home. Donnacha Higgins helps me at home, and gives me a hand with the yearlings, and John, my Dad, who is 77, mucks out six or seven boxes every day.

"We have great staff here, too, and everyone is doing their best – it makes a huge difference when you have staff who want it to do well, and when it works out it is great."

Of his thoughts going into the ring, Foley said: "Plenty of people said he was as nice a horse in the sale, so we hoped he would sell very well. Time Test has not surprised us, but maybe he is a stallion who has gone above and beyond what people thought. Expectations are the biggest killer of a stallion, when people think they are good then they don't work out. It is the slow burners, they are the best ones."

And of Foley's future plans? "We will go back to the foal sales and try to do it all over again!"

Al Donald said: "He was my favourite horse of the week, and on a list of four that we put together. We decided to skip three of them and hold out for him, but it was a gamble worth taking.

"He's a beautiful-looking horse, the stallion's on fire and the mare has produced a third in the Oaks. He's a proper Classic type. Training plans have yet to be decided. We knew he would make a lot of money, and I'm thrilled to get him."

The colt is out of the Rainbow Quest mare Aurelia, the dam of four winners from seven runners, including Harlequeen Queen (Canford Cliffs), who finished third in both the Oaks and Irish Oaks (G1).

Second dam Fern (Shirley Heights) was a Listed performer. Under her pedigree entry are 12 black-type winners and performers, including the Grade 1 winner Forte Dei Marmi. (16:30)

Lot 1165: there are not many left by Shamardal to come onto the market – the son of Giant's Causeway died in April 2020 having covered 31 mares that spring.

This filly is the last yearling by him to be offered at this year's Book 2 sale and she is bought by Suzanne Roberts fro 210,000gns on behalf of part-breeder Trevor Stewart, who was buying out his fellow breeders.

"She will be going into training with James Fanshawe. They are a bit of a collectors' item at the moment, she is a nice sweet filly with good limbs, and it is nice to get her. I expected to pay a bit more," said Roberts. "It is a great family and it is not a big family, I can remember what the family looks like!"

It was another good result for Ballyhimikin Stud, who has had a fantastic week again at Tattersalls. The farm has sold 11 yearlings for an average price of 166,364gns and an aggregate of 1,830,000gns. This week's top price for the farm was 300,000gns given for Lot 617, the Kingman colt ex Hunaina, bought by the Hong Kong Jockey Cub.

A realistic and modest James Hanly of Ballyhimikin said: "I am lucky to have some horses by good proven stallions, who were worked out.

"I pay great tribute to the people who do the work at home. Helen and her husband Dermot Jones run the farm and are really good people, and they have assembled an excellent team. It is just lovely to be around these great people, who do such a wonderful job."

Of the horses brought here this week, some of which were bred by the farm alone, but some alongside his partners, Hanly added: "Some of the horses are owned by my wife and myself, but also we have a couple of partners who are also great friends and supporters. They have supported us through the bad times of which there has been plenty – and we are always aware that they are never too far away."

Of his thoughts coming into a yearling sales season in the midst of a global pandemic and with lockdowns still in existence in various parts of the world, Hanly said: "I just take each day at the time and do the best I can, and whatever will be will be. As long as we can get up in the morning and get around, then we are going well. If we can manage to sell a few horses, well then that's great." (15:11)