"She's been a very good mare, you like to see Green Desert there for some speed with Nathaniel. This an exceptional moving horse, he is going to need time, he is a Classic type of horse," said Brown of the Strawberry Fields Stud-bred youngster, adding: "I did not expect to have to pay that!"

The mare's second foal by Archipenko named Archie McKellar / Flying Thunder, was a winner in the UK, but has since collected a Group 3 after transferring to race in Hong Kong, while her 2019 Archipenko yearling sold here for 425,000gns in Book 1 last year, bought by Brian Meehan. He has yet to run. (18:24)

The filly is a first foal out of Delevigne, an unraced Redoute's Choice daughter of Model Queen, the dam of Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup and Prix Maurice De Gheest (G1) winner Regal Parade (PIvotal), and three further black-type performers.

"I loved her, she is my favourite filly in the sale,"said Donald. "We stretched bit to get her, everyone was on her. She walks for fun, it is a lovely family to be involved with and there is probably more happening in it as well. She is for King Power Racing. " (18:15)

Julian Dollar of Newsells said: "When we bought Date With Destiny some people asked us if it was because of that rarity value, but it really wasn't. We'd had some luck with the family before, and Flawly was one of the first mares we bought and she produced Best Name – she was one of the best mares we had early on in terms of sales and as a producer. We were very fond of the family so when the opportunity came to buy a bit more of it, we came in with her.

"We mated her to Galileo and she produced a lovely filly in Beautiful Morning, so we went to the son. The Churchill was an interesting mating going back to something familiar but to put in a bit more speed and precocity, the mare herself was quite precocious."

Dollar reflected on Enable's retirement announced today – the star mare being a flagship for the Newsells' Park Stud stallion Nathaniel.

"I saw John [Gosden] and I just said 'thank you'!," said Dollar. "John trained Nathaniel and we got involved in Nathaniel as a racehorse and that was fun time, but Enable has just been wonderful, wonderful for Nathaniel and just great for racing."

Of the sire, Dollar added: "Nathaniel is great, he is throughly consistent and the yearlings coming through are the first ones after Enable's success as a three-year-old so I am excited about what he has got to come over the next few years." (18:07)

The April colt, out of Cruck Realta, a Listed winner of the Ballymacoll Stakes, was bred by Wansdyke Farms Ltd.

Ballylinch Stud stallion Make Believe (Acclamation) got his first Group 1 winner this year, courtesy of Mishriff's Prix du Jockey Club (G1) victory. The John Gosden-trained and Prince Faisal-owned colt holds an entry in the Champion Stakes (G1) at Ascot this weekend. (17:10)

"We bought the dam Cristal Fashion for €25,000," said Paddy Burns of Loughtown. "She is daughter of Jeremy and has a top back pedigree. The whole team at home have done a top job and I'd just like to thank my head man Tom Brinkley, my wife Helena and everyone. She has gone to a great stable and wish them all the best with her. She has been a cracker all the way through."

Cristal Fashion traces her pedigree to highly talented bunch of horses, including her third dam, the May Hill Stakes (G3) winner Solar Crystal, the Fillies' Mile (G1) winner Crystal Music, the Grand Prix de Paris (G1) runner-up Ocovango, and the Yorkshire Oaks (G1) third State Crystal.

Doyle was delighted with his purchase.

"I said to Richard Hannon on the way down to see her 'I think she is the best filly I have seen in a three days', and he agreed when he saw her and said 'We have to have her!'

"She is from a great farm, a lovely nursery. Her physical is outstanding and she is out of a black-type mare – the last time we bought an Invincible Spirit out of a black-type mare like that was Zebedee." (16:59)

This yearling was bred by The Coquette Noire Partnership, named after the filly's dam a Holy Roman Emperor mare, rated 81 as a racehorse, a winner herself and dam of a winner from three runners. That winner is called Thunderbolt Rocks (Farhh) – he has won two races and is rated 86.

The second dam Coquette Rouge (Croco Rouge) is dam of Jacqueline Quest, the disqualified 1,000 Guineas winner now dam of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Line Of Duty, the Listed runner-up Hibiscus, and Onassis.

Onassis, of course, gave Hayley Turner a second Royal Ascot winner in this year's Sandringham Stakes (L), but she has subsequently gone on to win a Listed in Chantilly in July, achieve a fourth placing in September's Group 3 Sceptre Stakes and win the Listed October Fillies Stakes at Goodwood yesterday.

Jacqueline Quest's 2020 yearling by Dubawi sold in Book 1 for 525,000gns bought by Godolphin. (16:35)

Alison Begley, Al Shaqab's UK racing manager, was with Gordon-Watson and said: "He will stay in England, and we will decide on trainer allocations later in the autumn."

Gordon-Watson explained for the reasoning behind the purchase of the colt: "He is by Teolfilo, who is a very good stallion, and he is a very nice horse and out of a good Cape Cross mare."

Dam Cape Magic is a dual winner, once at Listed level. She is a half-sister to Portage – a Group 3-placed son of Teofilo and so closely related to this yearling – and tracks back to the Juddmonte family of Dockage, the ancestress of Group 1 winners Rail Link and Linda's Lad. (15:03)

Her first yearling sold last year for £175,000. He is now named Laneqash, is owned by Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum and won his first start at Ascot in August and finished second in the Listed Flying Scotsman Stakes at Doncaster in September. He was then behind subsequent Royal Lodge Stakes (G2) winner New Mandate.

Her second February-born foal, by the same son of Invincible Spirit, sold today 150,000gns, bought by Stroud Coleman.

She is now in-foal to fellow Highclere Stud sire Land Force. (14:36)

His dam Bella Lulu, bred and owned by Saleh Al Homaizi & Imad Al Sagar, was sold here at the December Mares Sale 2018 by The Castlebridge Consignment for 75,000gns. She was then carrying a pregnancy to Muhaarar, the subsequent breeder of the March 6-born filly listed as being The National Stud.

Today Blue Diamond Stud Farm UK gets back into the family going to 100,000gns for the Muhaarar filly sold by The National Stud.

Tony Nerses initally bought the grand-dam Loulwa here as a yearling in 2005 for 370,000gns from breeder Max Ervine. (14:23)

Atlantic Drift is dam of one winner from one foal of racing age – Arctician (Dark Angel) who boasts Group 2 and Group 3-placed form in the Marble Hill Stakes and Railway Stakes.

Atlantic Drift is a half-sister to the Group 1 Sussex Stakes winner and sire Lightning Spear.

Gainsborough purchased four lots last week, the most expensive being 500,000gns paid for Lot 437, a Kingman colt out of She's Mine and from Old Mill Stud. (14:00)

Goff, who had been standing next to football agent Kia Joorabchian of Amo Racing in the bidders' area, spent 320,000gns on this colt by 2020's leading first-season sire, added: "I think a lot of people wrote him off at the beginning of the year as cheap speed, and he has defied all of that! This is a lovely, lovely colt and I had a brief to buy a horse to hopefully makeup into a sharp two-year-old and he fits the bill. He is out of an Exceed And Excel mare, he is a beautifully topped colt, he has a great action and looks rapid. John Gosden will train."

The colt is the most-expensive yearling by the Tally-Ho-based sire Mehmas to sell at public auction to date.

Mehmas, a son of Acclamation, is now sire of 35 winners in Europe, headed by his Group 1 star Supremacy, winner of the Middle Park Stakes and Richmond Stakes (G2), his Group 2 winner Minzaal and the Listed winners Acklam Express and Method, who also finished third in the Cornwallis Stakes (G3). Mystery Smiles has also collected third placed finishes in the Gimcrack Stakes (G2) and the Sirenia Stakes (G3).

Mehmas retired to stud at a fee of €12,500. This colt was bred off a fee of €10,000 and the stallion stood this spring at just €7,500.

This colt's unraced dam Ashtown Girl has produced two winners from three runners, including Ziarah (Iffraaj) a multiple winner in the US. She is a half-sister to the Temple Stakes (G2) and Cornwallis Stakes (G3) winner Hot Streak (Iffraaj). He was bred by Barry Noonan and sold by Cregg Stud.

John Noonan of Cregg Stud, said: "I'm delighted for the O'Callaghans. He's been the busiest horse at the sale. The mare has been very lucky for us, I didn't sell her as a yearling but she's been good to us since. She's in-foal to Ribchester at the moment. I bought her dam here at the December Sale and I bred her. I have ten Flat mares and five NH – I'm a NH man through and through really." (13:01)

It was also a fine pinhooking result – the colt having been purchased here last December by agent Mags O'Toole for 24,000gns sold today by Lynn Lodge Stud.

The March -born colt he is a half-bother to two winners, including Agnes Stewart (Lawman), winner of the May Hill Stakes (G2) and Group 1 runner-up in the Fillies' Mile.

Lynn Lodge picked up its best-ever result in the Tattersalls sale ring last week when selling Kingman ex Sante to Godolphin for 1,450,000gns. (13:00)

Bred by Karis Bloodstock Ltd & Rathbarry Stud, the filly is out of the Pavilion Stakes (L) runner-up Aneedah (Invincible Spirit) and is a half-sister to Gorgeous Noora (Raven's Pass), winner of the Listed Hever Sprint Stakes.

Under the second dam, the Listed winner Fairy Of The Night, is the multiple Group 2 and Listed-winning sprinter Muthmir (by Invincible Spirit and a ) and the Group 3 winner My Titania (SeaThe Stars). She is dam of the 2020 winner and Group 3 placed My Oberon (Dubawi). (12:41)

"He is from Norelands who do a fantastic job, he is a well-balanced horse, moved well and we have had a lot of luck with Kingman – Palace Pier and Persian King. He will go to be trained by Andre Fabre," reported Stroud, Godolphin having bought two lots by the sire in Book 1 (Lot 277, Lot 416) and Stroud Coleman one yearling (Lot 159).

Norelands was also maintaining its form of Book 1 – last week the Irish farm sold three lots for an aggregate of 2,530,000gns, an average price of 843,333gns with a top price of 2,000,000gns given for the filly by Frankel out of Fleche d'Or, bought by Godolphin.

"He is a very nice horse, nice horses are easy to sell, and there is a strong market for nice horses," admitted Harry McCalmont of Norelands. "Dam Allez Y is going to Australia, she belongs to John Camilleri, who bred Winx, and is in-foal to Lope De Vega on southern hemisphere time. I am delighted I have sold a good horse for him, very happy."

Allez Y (Rip Van Winkle) is a half-sister to Master Of Reality (Frankel), who is trained by Joseph O'Brien, owned by Lloyd J Williams Syndicate and holds a Melbourne Cup entry. O'Brien was underbidder on this colt.

The further pedigree is well-known to the O'Briens, and includes names such as Moonstone, Nelson, US Army Ranger and Orchestra.

Kingman has a further six lots catalogued in Book 2. (12:07)

"He is lovely, forward colt, a cracking individual and he will go to Roger Varian. He is for Teme Valley. New Bay has had great start, he has got lots of nice stock on the ground and think he will go on, too," said Ryan. "New Bay is a good stallion son of Dubawi and there is quite a bit of Dubawi about his horse."

New Bay has had ten European winners, including the Listed placed duo Imperial Yellow and Vafortino, last week's Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes winner Saffron Beach and the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes winner New Mandate.

This colt is a half-brother to the Group 2 and the Group 3 winner Forest Ranger (Lawman), and the Listed-placed Home Cummins (Rip Van Winkle). His dam Alava (Anabaa) was a Listed winner and rated 95. (11:20)

The Courtleigh Stud-bred filly is by Cheveley Park's first-season sire Twilight Son and she was bred off his 2018 stud fee of £10,000. She is a half-sister to the Listed winner and Group 1-placed Princess Loulou, a daughter of Cheveley Park Stud's leading sire Pivotal.

Twilight Son is a grand-son of Pivotal and is the sire of 15 European winners of 19 races, including the Group 3 Premio Primi Passi winner Aria Importante. (11:01)

Lot 547, an Invincible Spirit colt out of Aaraam (Street Cry), a half-sister to Saamidd and from the same family, makes 100,000gns. He was offered by The National Stud for breeder Mabaki Investments. (10:20)

“First and foremost we would like to express our sincere thanks to everyone who has participated at Book 1 of this year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, in whatever capacity.

"Since the early part of this year every walk of life has been thrown into turmoil and the global bloodstock industry is no exception. The scale of the disruption which everyone has faced is best illustrated by the fact that this week’s sale has been the first 2020 British, Irish or French yearling sale to have taken place at both its originally intended location and date. Nevertheless, since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic we have worked collaboratively alongside Goffs and Arqana to explore every possible means by which to stage sales and to ensure that trade continues to take place as normally as possible. Everyone must take enormous credit for the way they have reacted to the difficult circumstances and responded to all the rules and regulations under which we have had to operate in order to provide the safest possible working environment for all concerned.

“In terms of the market, none of us can pretend that all is plain sailing and a slightly lower clearance rate reflects prevailing commercial realities from which none of us are immune, but we can also reflect on a resilience and sustained demand for quality yearlings in spite of the wider challenges. Book 1 of the 2020 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale has yet again produced the highest price for a yearling sold in Europe and North America, as well as the highest-priced yearling filly in the world and three of the ten highest prices ever at this fixture.

"Inevitably the market is down, in broad terms to around the levels of 2015 after a sustained period of growth, but the global appetite for our sport remains intact and buyers from throughout the world, albeit in reduced numbers, have made a huge contribution to Book 1 of the October Yearling Sale, as have the British and Irish buyers who continue to recognise this particular yearling sale as the key fixture in the European yearling sales calendar.

"Success-fuelled demand from American and Australian buyers has been very evident from start to finish and the support and commitment from throughout the Gulf region, in particular Dubai, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, continues to be hugely influential and massively appreciated by the whole industry.

“The significance of the lucrative October Book 1 Bonus, arguably greater than ever, has also been a feature of the sale and having distributed almost £5.5 million in bonus prize-money to date, it has been rewarding to see so many owners, trainers and syndicates actively pursuing future bonus winners. Opportunities to win significant prize-money have never been more crucial and the importance of incentives such as the £20,000 Book 1 Bonus, as well as the Great British Bonus, should not be underestimated in the current climate.

"Equally significant has been the outstanding quality of the yearlings on offer this week. This was without doubt the cream of the European yearling crop; a true showcase for so many of the best yearlings to be found anywhere in the world and we must pay tribute to the breeders and consignors. The market may not fully reflect the quality of the horses at Park Paddocks this week, but everybody should be applauded for what they have achieved in the face of extraordinary challenges and we will now turn our attention to Books 2, 3 and 4 of the October Yearling Sale which are catalogues with all the ingredients to appeal to buyers at all levels of the market." (12:40)

Lots catalogued: 548 (552)

Lots offered: 466 (483)

Lots sold: 369 (397)

Aggregate: 82,385,000gns (-20%)

Median: 130,000gns (-13%)

Average: 223,266gns (-13%)

1 million+: 9

2 million+: 5

% clearance: 79%

Top price: Lot 436, Galileo (IRE) / Shastye (IRE) B.F. (GB), sold by Newsells Park Stud Ltd., bought by M V Magnier 3,400,000gns

Leading consignors (cumulative, by aggregate): 1. Newsells Park Stud, 2. Highclere Stud, 3. Floors Stud

Leading purchasers (cumulative, by aggregate): 1. Godolphin (16,430,000gns), 2. MV Magnier, 3. Mike Ryan

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

Leading sires (by average): 1. Galileo, 2. Dubawi, 3. Kingman (12:00)

Lots catalogued: 182 (184)

Lots offered: 154 (162)

Lots sold: 126 (129)

Aggregate: 33,258,000gns (-5%)

Median: 150,000gns (0%)

Average: 263,952gns (-3%)

% clearance: 82% (19:44)

"I thought she was an exceptional filly, she is by an exceptional sire, from a terrific family – there is really nothing more to add, she was absolutely gorgeous and looks like a runner," said Ryan, whose beat an online bidder to buy the filly. "I knew she was going to be expensive, you know what it takes to buy Galileos and she is a sister to a Group 1 winner. I am delighted we got her because I waited all day for her."

Ryan added: "How many more years are we going to be seeing Galileos? He is the greatest sire in my lifetime, probably in anybody's lifetime for that matter! She'll go back to the states. She'll get a bit of turnout , we'll break her in a month or so – hopefully you'll see her in Saratoga in the summer.

"And hopefully," he added, pointing to the sale ring wall, "we'll see a picture like that one of Newspaperofrecord over there! The first time I saw her was in the rain on Saturday and she blew me away. I saw her two or three times since then – it was a no brainer, there is no real skill picking out a filly like that!"

Ryan has bought "14 horses this week and they will fly to the US in ten days or so", and of his trip to Europe and state of the market, Ryan added: "I have been runner-up to Shadwell, Godolphin, Roger Varian, Henri Devin, we have run hard on some horses to 450,000gns, 550,000gns... but we have bought some very nice horses and I am pleased with what we've got.

"I am very happy to be here, and as I have said before, no disrespect to Japan or Australia or anywhere else for that matter, the best grass horses in the world are here and this is the best sale in the world for top-class grass horses. We've bought some good ones here and I hope the luck continues."

Bloodstock manager Rob Speers of Old Mill Stud was delighted with the sale.

"She genuinely is a beautiful filly, she born and raised with us, she has done everything very easily," he said. "Prep was straightforward for her and she oozes class. We own the mare and have daughter of hers in the paddock, and the mare is just 16 so hopefully there will be more daughters to come.

"It was with a slightly heavy heart when I see a filly like her leave, but she is great hands with Mike Ryan and his team in America, and I wish them every success and I am sure she will be a star." (19:09)

Clive Cox, trainer of Supremacy (Mehmas), was an underbidder.

Sold by Owenstown Stud, dam Triggers Broom (Arcano) is a half-sister to Xtension, a Group 1 winner in Hong Kong and Vintage Stakes (G2) winner in the UK for Cox, as well as to Beatrix Potter. She is dam of Harry Angel (Dark Angel), who was trained by Cox to champion three-year-old sprint honours. (18:01)

The filly is out of the Sadler's Wells mare Sweet Firebird, Group 3-placed and Listed race third placed. She is dam of Ayrad (Dalakhani), a Listed winner and Group 3 runner-up, and Dawn Of Hope (Mastercraftsman), also a Listed winner and Group 3 placed.

Second dam is Fire The Groom (Blushing Groom), the Grade 1-winning dam of the champion three-year-old sprinter Stravinsky and Moscow Ballet, Grade 1 placed in the Secretariat Stakes. (17:22)

Julian Dollar spoke about this sale and that of the sales topper (Lot 436).

"I am delighted because it was we brought her here for," said Dollar of the Newsells Park Stud's top-lot sale. "Sales like that make all the difference – I am sad because I am a stud manager and you want to breed horses like that, you want to race them and you want them back into your broodmare band and that would have meant an awful lot. but it is what it is, it is reality.

"Having sold her I am absolutely thrilled that the MV and the Coolmore team have got her, that Aidan O'Brien is going to train her. He and Coolmore have done more than most to make the mare a success.

"It is probably right they have got her. We have also got a great relationship with Sheikh Fahad and Qatar Bloodstock and sad for them that they were underbidder again because they bring a lot to the game. They are great for the business and a wonderful supporter of this industry and we need these people, as we have seen with Sheikh Mohammed this week – he has been fantastic.

"I am disappointed for Sheikh Fahad, I am pleased the team at Coolmore was happy to have her, thrilled, delighted, relieved and sad at the same time!"

"There was talk that we might race her together [with Coolmore] and that was a possibility, but as the realisation came as to what coronavirus might mean for us, we felt that we probably had to put her on the market."

Of the latest news regarding Shastye, Dollar gave this update.

"She has been barren to Galileo for two years, she got in-foal to him briefly but lost the prgenancy, and didn't get in-foal two times this year so we brought her home and put her in-foal to Dubawi, so looks like this is the last Galileo filly out of the mare, which is sad.

"We are lucky that we have got a full-sister called Secret Gaze and we have two half-sisters one by Shamardal and one by Street Cry, obviously both good broodmare sires. We feel like this was another reason why we could afford to let her go, we just hope we can breed another filly or two out of her before she is retired.

"She looks great, she doesn't take anything out of herself, she looks like a 15-year-old mare, she is in great nick and I am hopeful we can get one or two more out of her and god willing it would be nice if it was one or two fillies."

Of the sale of Lot 468, Dollar said: "He is a nice colt and when James Wigan rang to ask if we'd sell a couple of colts for the Waddesdon dispersal I was very pleased to be able to help – Lady Rothschild was a lovely lady." (17:06)

Redvers said of his day: "It has just a little frustrating! We have been underbidder pretty much everything, it has been a very frustrating day on the better lots, but credit to Tattersalls for putting on the show and the market being as resilient as it is at the top end.

"This is a horse we loved from the moment we saw him – he has a stallion's pedigree, his mare is 100 per cent stakes horses, he is just the sort we are looking to add to the team.

"We have a lot of homebreds going into training this year and we have been selectively buying trying to acquire horses at the top end to slot into where we might have a bit of weakness. A Classic-bred colt like him by a stallion doing as well as Lope De Vega is with a stallion's pedigree is exactly what we want.

"We have been trying to add to the broodmare band with the best fillies, and we have been spectacularly unsuccessful! We have been going it a good go so it is nice to get a nice colt."

The two stakes horses out of the mare Starlet (Sea The Stars) are Love Locket (No Nay Never), winner of the Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial (G2), and the Listed winner Raakib Alhawa (Kingman). Under the third dam is the stallion High Chaparral, as well as the 2020 Group 1 winner Fancy Blue. (16:44)

It is the further family of Fame And Glory, which has already enjoyed success at this year's sale (Lot 186, Dubawi colt out of Great And Small sold for 800,000gns) (15:50)

Shastye's sales yearlings usually arrive to a packed sale ring, but this year with COVID restrictions in place, the ring was eerily quiet and empty. Auctioneer Edmond Mahony dropped the asking price to 500,000gns to get the auction process underway, but then the bidding ripped up through the counter to the seven-figures, with all the action taking place in the cold both sides of the entrance to the ring.

Spotters Liz Lane and Matt Prior were kept busy with their eyes and calls watching their groups of buyers – David Redvers, standing with Oisin Murphy and Hannah Wall, and MV Magnier with Georg Von Opel and the Coolmore team.

Eventually it was Liz's call that sealed the price at 3.4 million, the filly set to join her full-brothers Japan and Mogul at Ballydoyle.

"It is a great result for everybody involved, she has been bought in partnership with Westerberg," said MV Magnier. "She is a very nice filly, she is a very nice mover, like Japan and Mogul. The mare produces great-looking stock and great racehorses, let's hope is she does it one more time."

"Those are the easy ones to sell!" smiled an emotional Julian Dollar, general manager at Newsells Park Stud, the breeder and consignor. "The team lead by Mark Grace, the yearling manager, has done a wonderful job. He loves that filly so he will be very sad, but he has done a great job."

Shastye has now produced three yearlings who have sold for over 3 million guineas – Sir Isaac Newton (3.6 million guineas), Mogul (3.4 million guineas) and today's filly. Japan, the European champion three-year-old of 2019, cost 1.3 million guineas.

The mare has three of the top ten prices since 1999 at the October Book 1 Yearling Sale, and her total yearling sales in the Tattersalls sale ring exceed 14 million guineas. galileo is sire of six of that top ten.

Of Japan and Mogul, Magnier reported that Mogul, winner of the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris since the catalogue was published, will stay in training for 2021 and, after his aborted Arc outing, may have global options through remainder of the 2020. The decision has not yet been made as regards Japan's future plans for next year. (15:28)

A March foal, she comes from a page full of black-type – dam Sante (Dream Ahead) was Listed placed, grand-dam Zeiting was a Listed winner and is dam of the Group 2 winner Combat Zone, Group 3 winners Royal Empire and Scottish, the Group 3-placed Bikini Babe (dam of recent Group 3-winning juvenile La Barrosa, trained by Charlie Appleby) and the Group 3-placed Zut Alors,. She is dam of Preciuese, winner of the Group 1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, as well as the black-type performers Peut Etre, Baccarat and Porcelaine.

The third dam Belle De Cadix is dam of Group 3 winner Dolled Up, and grand-dam of the Commonwealth Cup (G1) winner Eqtidaar and the Group 2 winner and three-time Group 1-placed Massaat.

"She was always a Queen and made a Queen's price there," said Eddie O'Leary, adding: "I hope she is very lucky for Sheikh Mohammed, she is a smashing filly."

Sante, who was bought by Margaret O'Toole for 310,000 at the December Sale in 2018, had a Kodiac colt this spring and is in-foal to Invincible Spirit. (14:17)

The colt by Frankel out of Marlinka, the dam of the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) and Prix de l'Abbaye (G1) winner Marsha, as well as the Group 3 winner Judicial, not sold in the ring yesterday for 1 million, is bought by Juddmonte Farms in a private sale for 850,000gns.

She was consigned by Furnace Mill Stud on behalf of breeder Elite Racing Club. (13:08)

WH Bloodstock is a partnership between Mimi Wadham and Violet Hesketh and this is the biggest result for the pair in the sale ring in three years of selling.

"He has been very popular all the way along, he has not put a foot wrong, we are delighted he is going to Ballydoyle, he is a really, really special horse and we are thrilled," said Hesketh. "It is our best pinhooking result so far."

Wadham added: "We own a part of him with clients, it is the best result we have had, we are thrilled. He is a very powerful, strong horse and he is going to the right stable. Let's hope he is as good as his full-brother. he is a stand out, and has not put a foot wrong and has come out and shown well every time."

The colt was bred by Tinnakill Bloodstock and Jack Cantillon and is out of the Diktat mare Rajeem, winner of the 2006 running of the Falmouth Stakes (G1). (12:59)

In a sharp rain shower that arrived at Park Paddocks, stud manager Chris Richardson said: "I have not spoken to Mrs Thompson yet, but I know she will be thrilled. For me he was one of the best horses I have brought up here as a physical. He ticked all the boxes and we are delighted that Sheikh Mohammed managed to secure him.

We're fortunate enough to be able to breed to stallions of that sort of nature and it is nice that Mr and Mrs Thompson have been rewarded.

"We would have loved to have raced him, but the policy is to offer the colts. We are thrilled and delighted – we bought [the third dam] Exclusive at Keeneland for $800,000 with David Minton, it is now foundation family for the Thompsons."

It is a family that keeps on giving – Existent, a Kingman two-year-old out of a half-sister to Provenance, won at Newmarket at the beginning of October and goes to the Group 3 Horris Hill Stakes. (12:48)

The successful purchaser saw off a sustained bidding effort from Demi O'Byrne and Tammy Toomey, but it was David Redvers, who was standing outside and entered the fray late on, who was left the thwarted underbidder.

"She a very nice filly, Aidan and all the lads liked her," said Magnier. "Breeder David Nagle has ben saying for a very long time how good a filly she is. We are very lucky to have been able to buy her with Michael, Derek, Georg Von Opel and everyone; we lucky to have her now. She has a great page, she comes from a very good nursery. "

Reflecting on her pedigree, Magnier added: "These kind of fillies are collectors' items, with Galileo and how he is doing as a broodmare sire. She is just exceptional. Sheikh Hamdan's horse was a very good horse, and it is a very active pedigree."

Prize Exhibit was bred by Gaie Johnson Houghton and sold as a yearling by Hillwood Stud in Book 2 in 2013 for 28,000gns. She won and was Group 3 placed in the Oh So Sharp Stakes for Osborne, who then shipped her to the US for a fourth-placed finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1). The daughter of Showcasing remained in the US with trainer James Cassidy. She ran for another three seasons, collecting two Grade 2 and a Grade 3 victory, as well as a further five placed efforts in graded races.

She was bought by Barronstown Stud for 775,0000gns at the December Mares Sale in 2017 from Jamie Railton Bloodstock. (12:22)

He is out of the unraced Prance (Danehill Dancer), a half-sister to the Futurity Trophy Stakes (G1) and 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Magna Grecia, and she is now dam of a two-year-old winner (Neptune's Wonder by Kodiac) since publication of the catalogue.

It is also the family of Solario Stakes (G3) winner Drumfire as well as the extended family of Pearly Shells, the third dam of last night's 700,000gns Frankel colt (Lot 350).

Lope De Vega is currently averaging 234,941gns for 17 lots sold with seven lots left to go through the ring today. (11:27)

O'Brien trains the Book 1 graduate Russian Camelot - he was bought by Brummitt at this sale in 2018 for 120,000gns. He won the South Australian Derby (G1) in May and the Underwood Stakes (G1) in September. (11:21)

Lots catalogued: 182 (184)

Lots offered: 154 (157)

Lots sold: 119 (132)

Aggregate: 21,377,000gns (-33%)

Median: 125,000gns (-17%)

Average: 179,639gns (-26%)

1 million+: 5

2 million+: 3

% clearance: 77%

Top price: Lot 174, Kingman-Galicuix b.c., sold by Houghton Bloodstock bought by Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock for 2,700,000gns

Top price filly: Lot 162, Frankel-Fleche D'Or, b,f., sold by Norelands Stud, bought by Godolphin for 2,000,000gns

Leading consignors (cumulative, by aggregate): 1. Highclere Stud, 2. Floors Stud, 3. Houghton Bloodstock

Leading purchasers (cumulative, by aggregate): 1. Godolphin, 2. Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock, 3. MV Magnier

Leading sires (cumulative, by aggregate): 1. Frankel, 2. Dubawi, 3. Kingman

Leading sires (by average): 1. Dubawi, 2. Kingman, 3. Frankel (19:02)

The April-born filly is a daughter of Pearly Steph (Oasis Dream) and a descendant of Pearly Shells.

"We bought Pearly Shells [third dam] as a yearling at Goffs and we have built the farm around her," said Putsch of the subsequent winner of the Prix Vermeille (G1). "This is a lovely filly and we have lots of the family so we decided to sell. We had also seen Pearls Galore race and saw that she is going to be very good."

Pearls Galore (Invincible Spirit) is a three-year-old daughter of Pearl Banks and so closely related to Pearly Steph. She has won twice and in September finished third in the Fairy Bridge Stakes (G3) behind Champers Elysees.

Of the reasoning behind the cover of Frankel over Pearly Steph, Putsch said: "Why not Frankel? He is the best racehorse I have ever seen. Besides the cross over Oasis Dream mares has been very good." (18:49)

"We put what we thought was a sensible reserve on him as we knew we'd lots of interest in him, and you could see from the live bids around the ring that there were plenty of people on him. There were plenty in up to the 400,000gns-500,000gns and we were hoping to fetch in that range. That is the beauty of public auction, isn't it, when two people then lock on."

The successful buyer from that high-price bidding duel was Anthony Stroud, David Redvers left as underbidder.

This colt's pedigree has enjoyed a recent significant update – the two-year-old full-brother King Vega finished second in the Group 3 Solario Stakes in August.

"I think the plan is to run him in the Pertemps Futurity, if the ground is ok," said Vigors. "I know Andrew [trainer Andrew Balding] thinks very highly of him. He has got his black-type, if he could be a Group 1 winner would be even better!"

Dam Moi Meme is certainly enjoying something of a lengthy love affair with the Ballylinch Stud stallion Lope De Vega – all her four foals are by the son of Shamardal.

"The mare has a lovely Lope De Vega filly on the ground and she is back in-foal to hm again," said Vigors. "She has been married to him because the first ones were so nice! I don't think there is a much better sire to be married to at the moment – he is one of the top young sires around . We picked him out as a sire 'on the up' a few years ago and these were bred off a €60,000 nomination, and he has gone up to €100,000 now. You need pay days like this to keep going back to him!"

This colt was bred by a Hillwood Stud-managed syndicate called Fortescue Bloodstock, and Vigors explained: "The syndicate has been buying high dollar mares, and it is bunch of investors, mainly London based. They enjoy it very much and will certainly enjoy a day like today! There are three mares in the syndicate, with some more in another group – there are about seven or eight mares across two groups." (17:36)

Agent Tom Goff, with trainer John Gosden, reported: "She is an absolute queen, lovely filly, fabulous pedigree, lovely outcross and John Gosden is going to train her."

She is out of the Listed winner and BHA 100-rated Mischief Making (Lemon Drop Kid), the dam of five winners including the Lancashire Oaks (G2) winner Horseplay (Cape Cross) and the Listed winner More Mischief (Azamour). (17:03)

"We are really really happy, he is beautiful colt. he is a homebred and we have all the family at home, we are very pleased for our client and our first experience here," said Matthieu Gouesnard of the colt bred by Mr Rashit Shaykhutdinov.

Solenn laughed: "We was not so easy colt to prep as he is very cheeky! He has a brilliant mind, and he is a very good walker. We are very happy because he had lots of shows and he was a little bit stressed on the first shows, but then was perfect. We are very happy."

Of the reasons behind travelling to Book 1 for the first year, Matthieu Gouesnard said: "With COVID we decided we did not want to sell everything in the same place [in France], and for him always thought of Book 1."

Lot 140, a filly by Siyouni and a grand-daughter of the German champion Elle Danzig, was not sold by Ombreville yesterday. She has subsequently been sold in a private sale to agent Charlie Gordon-Watson. (16:50)

She is the second foal out of the Listed winner and Group 1-placed Lustrous (Champs Elysees) and was bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 310,000gns. Kingman stood at £55,000 when this crop was conceived.

Lustrous was bought by Jeremy Brummitt at the last year's Tattersalls December Mares Sale for 220,000gns. (15:56)

The first foal out of Laganore, a 2012 daughter of Fastnet Rock, a son of Danehill, was offered today by The Castlebridge Consignment, and is bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 430,000gns.

As a racehorse the mare won the Premio Lydia Tesio (G1) and was placed on a number of occasions in Group 2s and 3s in Ireland. She was bred and raced by Newtown Anner Stud Farm, who retained her and sold today's foal, a colt by Lope De Vega. (15:20)

Out of Khaimah (Nayef), he was bred by and sold by Tally-Ho Stud, and bought by M V Magnier.

Tally-Ho purchased the mare as an unraced two-year-old filly for just €19,000. She has had one previous foal – a full-brother who has won this year as a three-year-old.

Khaimah is a half-sister to six winners, including Motamarris, a Listed winner and third in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1), and Wadyhatta (Authorized). She is dam of Santiago, winner of this year's Irish Derby (G1). (14:55)