Lot 1617: the colt by Al Kazeem is bought by John Deer, who stands the stallion at his Chepstow-based farm Oakgrove Stud, for 65,000gns from breeder Smarden Thoroughbreds and consignor The National Stud.

Oakgrove stud manager David Hilton is at Tattersalls, on bidding duties and signed the docket and he said: "I thought this colt is a direct mix of the stallion and broodmare Sea The Stars. The mare looks good, she has had a very well-rated horse [Live Your Dream] who could have black-type. It is a lovely back pedigree and he is a particularly good physical, and we could not have a go at buying him."

Of immediate plans for the colt Hilton said:"He will go home, there is no rush, we will give him plenty of time and break him in over the winter and he will go to a trainer in the spring, and no plans on that front have been made yet."

And of Al Kazeem, who is sub-fertile and covers a small book of mares each spring, he said:"Al Kazeem is good form, he covers his small book, but his stats are very good. He does tend to throw to the mare, for instance, we have two sprinters in training by him, two full-brothers who are 110 and 105 rated and 6f horses, yet you will get a horse like this colt who will be more than likely a 1m4f runner.

"Al Kazeem is now 16 and he is a real owner-breeders' stallion, and he is a lovely horse to have around. The team and vets look after him really well and despite being sub-fertile we get the mares in-foal – he will cover around 15 mares a year and his foal crop is around 10 each year. He has numerous stakes horses running for him at the moment.

"When you think he broke a pelvis, had a stint at stud, then went back into training, it is a hell of a story really." (12:38)

Lot 1590: this Massaat filly sold by Mickley Stud is bought via the online platform by Nick Bradley Racing for 26,000gns.

Mickley Stud's Richard Kent said: "I am really pleased with that, she is a beautiful filly. It is fast family and we bought the filly from our late friend Paul Blockley, and she has made double her reserve so that is great. Her full-sister has won four races, so hopefully this filly will go on and do the same.

"The stallion is capable of getting good horses, he has four good horses in Australia, now including Docklands who is to run the weekend after this in the Cox Plate."

Of Maassat, he said: "He is in top form, and very happy at home with his two goats Barry and Gary to keep him company. They are Adam Kirby's goats – they play and fight all day long, they butt Massaat and in turn he picks them up by their horns! All harmless, good natured fun!"

Docklands, a Tattersalls December Foal Sale and Tattersalls Ireland September Sale graduate, is trained by Harry Eustace. The four-year-old has won three times, and finished second to Charyn in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at this year's Royal Ascot for owner OTI Racing. (11:40)

Lot 1557: the first colt by Bangkok offered in the Tattersalls October Sale, is bought by Sean Grassick Bloodstock for 27,000gns from Chapel Stud, which stands the Group 2-winning son of Australia.

Chapel Stud's smiling stud manager Roisin Close said: "This colt was bred by Simon Davies, who stands Bangkok. We were really keen to get the horse some sharp mares and some Flat two-year-old type mares so that the sire gets the chance to be a Flat stallion – he really deserves it as he has such quality.

"This is a beautiful colt, and he has been from Day 1. I am so pleased for Simon, he is putting so much in and, while this might not be big money in the scheme of what we have seen over the past two weeks, for a stallion who stands at £3,000 and who many do view as 'non-commercial', it is a fantastic result.

"When people viewed this colt here, they all loved him. Everyone. And the four Flat foals Simon has bred by him at Chapel are all the same with quality, are big-moving walkers and attractive. I am really delighted."

This colt is out of the eight-time winning mare Wild Flower (Approve) from the family of the seven-time and Sandown Mile (G2) winner Swallow Flight.

Of the Bangkok himself, she laughed: "He is raring to go! He would cover 200 mares if people want to send them...."

In the Somerville Sale, the sire's top price was 17,000gns given by JS Bloodstock / Andrew Balding for a colt out of the Profitable mare Money Tree sold by Susie Sands. (10:48)

Lot 1552: Amy Marnane is a great woman for seeing a sale through to its conclusion, and still here working hard she pays 32,000gns for this colt by Tasleet for MRC International.

"I have been very lucky waiting until the very end of sales and every one else has got tired and headed off, this is when horses can fall through the cracks," said Marane. "I have bought a lot of stakes horses doing this.

Of her father Con, she laughed: "Dad has long gone – he is at home admiring the fancy Too Darn Hots that we have bought to breeze! We had to give a bit of money for them, but they are real quality. We also have a real nice Pinatubo colt, hopefully, they will be lucky and, hopefully, they can gallop."

Of this colt, she said: "I am absolutely delighted to get him, he is an absolutely stunning horse. He has been bought for my uncle David Marnane's MRC International racing syndicate. They had a very good winner yesterday at The Curragh, a horse called East Hampton and I bought him here last year [Book 2, 32,000gns] – and this is a very exciting horse for next year,

"He just looks like an out and out Royal Ascot two-year-old to me, and it is those big days on the track that the syndicate wants and that is what we are going to try and get for the team."

Of course, a certain colt by Tasleet has been lucky at Royal Ascot before – Bradsell, newly announced as retiring to stand at The National Stud after his run in the Breeders' Cup Sprint on November 2, won the 2022 running of the Coventry Stakes (G2) and then the Group 1 King's Stand Stakes in 2023. (10:34)

Book 3, Day 1 Statistics: +/- compared to the previous year

Catalogued: 311 (333)

Offered: 278 (303)

Sold: 245 (265)

Turnover: 6,451,000gns (-1%)

Median: 20,000gns (-5%)

Average: 26,331gns (+7%)

% Sold: 87% (87%)

Top lot: Lot 1342, Havana Grey ex Ealaan, 200,000gns *record price for a filly at Book 3

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Whitsbury Manor Stud, 2. Barton Stud, 3. New England Stud

Leading purchasers (by agg): 1. Blandford Bloodstock, 2. Amo Racing, 3. Hyde Park Stud

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Havana Grey, 2. Ardad, 3. Time Test

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Havana Grey, 2. New Bay, 3. Coulsty

Top five lots

Lot 1342: Havana Grey (GB) / Ealaan (USA) B.F. (GB) >> Whitsbury Manor Stud >> Amo Racing >> 200,000gns

Lot 1273: Blue Point (IRE) / Anahita (FR) B.C. (GB) >> New England Stud >> J B Bloodstock >> 150,000gns

Lot 1300: Time Test (GB) / Cashla Bay (GB) B.C. (GB) >> WH Bloodstock >> Najd Stud / Archdale Bloodstock >> 110,000gns

Lot 1390: Havana Grey (GB) / Kalfu (GB) B.C. (GB) >> Daymark Stud >> Oak Tree Farm >> 90,000gns

Lot 1392: Inns of Court (IRE) / Kasalla (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Hillwood Stud >> A C Elliott, Agent >> 85,000gns (21:00)

Lot 1497: the last lot to sell by the Tally-Ho Stud first-crop sire Starman at this year's Tattersalls October Yearling Sale is bought by Amanda Skiffington for 75,000gns

The filly, sold by Ballyshannon Stud, is out of Summmer Stakes (G3) winner Ridge Range, the dam of two winners from three runners and a half-sister to the King's Stand Stakes (G1) winner Profitable.

The son of Dutch Art has had 43 lots sell at Tattersalls yearling sales this autumn with a top price of 260,000gns given by Al Shaqab / Amo Racing for the colt out of Moment of Truth sold by Tally-Ho in Book 1. Twelve lots by the sire have fetched six-figure prices. (19:56)

Lot 1489: the New Bay colt out of winning mare Rapture, the Pivotal half-sister to the three-time Grade 1 winner and six-time Grade 1-placed Raging Bull (Dark Angel), is bought by Blandford Bloodstock and Tradewinds at 65,000gns.

Tradewinds has only been trading at scale at Tattersalls since 2018 (just one lot sold in 2017), and this colt is Shane and Alex Power's second-most expensive purchase at Park Paddocks.

However, wearing their consigning coats, the brothers have already sold 13 horses for six-figure prices across both yearling sales and breeze-up sales in both England and Ireland with a top price so far of 370,000gns. That was gained at last year's October Book 1 Yearling Sale when they sold a colt by Teofilo to Federico Barberini.

The colt was also the most expensive Tattersalls purchase so far for the boys costing them 68,000gns at the December Foal Sale. (19:37)

Lot 1461: Madeline and Maurice Burns watched this sale of their colt by Coulsty with smiles on their faces, the colt eventually selling for 60,000gns to Harrowgate Bloodstock and providing them with a fine return on their investment of €14,000 at last year's foal sales.

Madeline ducked the questions, and diverted to her father who said: "He is a nice colt. I bought him from a good client John Nicholson, he and his father before him have bred this whole family for years.

"John always sends me mares, and I went to look at this lad as a foal – he was very late in the sale which probably helped me buy him; all we have had to do is 'polish' him up really, and that is it. He is a proper horse and his half-brother Jer Batt [BHA rated 92, won over £88,000] is a decent horse with David Barron, who has bought this colt."

Coulsty stands at the Burns family's Rathasker Stud, and Burns said: "Coulsty is in good form. He started with small numbers, he has picked it up through his career, he has had some valuable race winners, and for a €5,000 investment he is paying a lot of people and he has a lot of happy breeders."

The farm also sold Lot 1453, a homebred colt by the stud's fellow stalwart stallion Bungle Inthejungle. The bay April-born colt fetched 50,000gns, was bought by Oliver St Lawrence and is out of the Shamardal mare Nafa, who is the model of consistency.

She has had five foals (two 'Bungle' full-brothers to this yearling), five runners and four winners. The only one to have missed so far is this year's two-year-old Facoulty. She has, though, been placed twice finishing a length second last time out. She runs tomorrow in a 5f nursery at Newcastle, and is currently joint-favourite.

The quintet are rated 63, 93, 80, 84 and 100 – the highest-rated is the Bedford Fox, who has won six races, over £89,000 in prize-money and picked up a Listed fourth-place in the Listed Hever Sprint Stakes. (18:44)

Lot 1437: "I have been underbidder on a lot of horses over the last two weeks!" said Tom Goff, signing under Blandford Bloodstock, after successfully purchasing this February-born colt by Ghaiyyath for 75,000gns, the colt sold by Houghton Bloodstock.

Goff further outlined his thoughts on this year's Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

"There has been some extraordinary activity in this sale ring in the last two weeks," he said, adding: "It has just been really extraordinary. It has been the strongest sale I have been to since Keeneland 2006."

"But this week it shows just how remarkable the UK, Irish and European bloodstock industry is. Buying horses is all about buying a dream and this industry is very good about selling a dream."

Of this colt's purchase, he added: "He will be trained in Newmarket, he is a lovely staying horse, he is from a smashing Juddmonte family. I looked at 75 horses yesterday and I just thought he is a gorgeous horse." (17:47)

Lot 1392: the Inns Of Court half-brother to the Listed winner and Richmond Stakes (G2) runner-up Ballymount Boy is another Alex Elliott purchase, the agent going to 85,000gns for the Hillwood Stud-consigned February-born colt. The colt was pinhooked last autumn for €44,000.

Dam Kasala (Footstepsinthesand), who was covered by Good Guess, has had four winners from five runners and seven foals, and is a half-sister to Precious Boy, a Group 2 winner of the Mehl-Mulhens Rennen, the Grosse Europa Melle (G2), the Preis des Winterfavoriten (G3) and a runner-up in the Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen (G1). (17:03)

Lot 1390: another Havana Grey gets the buyers, especially the breeze up purchasers active and it is Norman Williamson who was successful at 90,000gns. The colt was consigned by Josh Cameron's Daymark Stud.

"I sold the Havana Grey filly at this year's Craven Sale with Katie [Arabian Dusk], the sire is doing fantastic, but this fella I thought is the best colt here today,"said Wiliamson. "He has a pedigree there that you would love, he has great balance and am very pleased to get him, let's hope he is lucky."

Of purchasing breeze-up prospects over the last two weeks, Williamson reviewed: "It has been very tough, but I have bought one in Book 1, one in Book 2 and now one in Book 3. It is great to see such good trade, there has been a great bunch of horses here." (16:02)

Loy 1362: Elliott steps back into the bidding arena again, this time buying a Gigginstown House Stud-bred Saxon Warrior colt from Plantation Stud for 78,000gns.

It is a family the buyer knows well – in 219 he bought the mare's Grade 3 winner Zoffarelli (Zoffany) for 60,000gns, the gelding initially trained by Ralph Beckett before transferring to the US and trainer Jeff Mullins.

Second dam is the Rock Of Gibraltar Grade 3-winning mare Genuine Devotion, a half-sister to Mastercraftsman, a European champion two-year-old in 2008, winner of the Phoenix Stakes (G1) and the National Stakes (G1) at two, and the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James Palace Stakes (G1) at three. (14:50)

Lot 1342: matches the record price in October Book 3 and becomes the record-priced filly sold in Book 3 when sold for 200,000gns to Alex Elliott and Amo Racing.

"She has been been bought for Amo Racing, George Boughey will train, she is an stand-out horse in Book 3. I know the breeze-up guys would be in, and Anthony Stroud who bought Arabian Dusk at the breeze-up, it is good to hear that at this same sale this filly a better filly than Arabian Dusk, it is bang on where I thought. She was the main target today,"said Elliott, who was buying his 67th yearling at this year's October Sale.

Arabian Dusk was bought at the Somerville Sale 2022 from Whitsbury Stud by Margaret O'Toole / Oak Tree Farm, and then at this year's Tattersalls Craven Sale by Stroud from Greenhills Farm for 525,000gns. The Havana Grey filly, trained by Simon and Ed Crisford won the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes (G2) in July and finished third last time out in the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1).

Ed Harper's Whitsbury Manor Stud, who bred and consigned this filly, and he said: "This is the last 'lower-priced' crop by Havana Grey so there are some mixed pedigrees out there, as you would expect, and we wanted to make sure he had a real proper one.

"We always liked her at home, but she is a late April foal and she has done so well, we did not expect her to do as well as she has and she did not look like a late-season foal. Alex and Amo and the team have been big supporters of the sire from early on – they just want to buy the best, and we brought her here hoping she was going to be the best in the sale." (14:37)

Lot 1300: the Time Test half-brother to this summer's Princess Margaret Stakes (G3) and Prix du Calvados (G2) winner, the Moyglare Stakes (G1) runner-up and Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) fourth-placed Simmering is bought bought by Najd Stud / Archdale Bloodstock for 110,000gns.

After purchase Nico Archdale said: "He is a half to a very smart horse this year in Simmering, by a sire who does very well in Saudi and he is a perfect physical. He goes to Saudi from here, and I am delighted to purchase him for Prince Faisal and Najd Stud."

Of other Najd Stud purchases made this week, Archdale updated: "We bought another by Time Test in Book 1 [Lot 150], and seven yearlings in Book 2 – they are going to Saudi, apart from the Sea The Stars [Lot 748] colt who goes to Roger Varian.

"Time Test is doing very well out in Saudi, he is flying out there and has had a top rated two-year-old. It has been a very strong market here over the two weeks, there have been some lovely horses here."

This colt is out of the Fastnet Rock mare Cashla Bay, the dam of two winners from three runners, bred by Lofts Hall Stud. Breeder Hugo Lascelles was at Tattersalls to see the sale, the colt consigned by WH Bloodstock, and he said: "Simmering has done us well this summer, she has been very well trained by Ollie Sangster. I am very pleased with that price, he is a very nice horse."

Grand-dam Rose Blossom, who was a Group 3 winner of the Summer Stakes, was bought by Hugo Lascelles Bloodstock at the December Mares' Sale in 2011 for 115,000gns.

Cashla Bay had a filly by Harry Angel this spring and was covered by Shaquille. (12:49)

Lot 1280: Newmarket-based trainer Stuart Williams goes to 70,000gns for the colt by first-season sire Without Parole, a son of Frankel, sold by Luke Cohen's Q-Cross Stables.

He is out of the Oasis Dream mare As Good As Gold, a half-sister to two Group 1 performers by Frankel – the Prix Guillaume d'Ornano (G2) winner and the dual-hemisphere Group 1-placed Eminent (Frankel) and King Frankel, a Listed winner and Group 1-placed in Australia.

As Good As Gold won twice, is a daughter of You'll Be Mine, third placed in the Fillies' Mile (G1) and a grand-daughter of Quarter Moon, a champion three-year-old in Ireland in 2001 and winner of the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1), and a Group 1 runner-up in the Oaks, the Irish Oaks, the Irish 1000 Guineas and third in the Nassau Stakes (G1). She is dam of Diamondsandrubies, winner of the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1). (12:30)

Lot 1273: Willie Browne, signing as JB Bloodstock, goes to 150,000gns for the Blue Point colt out of Anahita (Turtle Bowl), sold by New England Stud.

"It was all breeze-up money on this colt, but I think he is a good horse," said Browne. "The sire is very good, I have had a good price for one by the sire before. For me this is the best horse here today – you are just trying to buy a quick horse if you can and I think he looks quick."

Of trade over the past two weeks, Brown added: "It has been very tough to buy, this is the sixth I have managed to buy."

Wearing another hat, Brown was part of the Oaks Farm Stables syndicate that had pinhooked and sold Lot 993 yesterday – the colt by Territories who was sold for 750,000gns to Sumbe having been bought as a foal for 65,000gns at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.

"The Territories is a gorgeous horse, and it was a great result yesterday," reflected Brown. "That result was way above expectations – and the money has all been spent on this lad!" (11:51)

Lot 1242: "He has been bought for Jayne McGivern, who we bought Golden Horn," said Richard Brown from his bidding position top of the stairs after giving 55,000gns for the colt by Golden Horn, out of the Vale Of York mare Vetlana. "Jayne had seen the video of this horse before I had even seen him here, but he was bred by a client at Whatton Manor and so I have seen him all his life. He is a gorgeous colt, and very typical of the sire. I think Jayne is in a meeting so she does not know yet, so I think she will be thrilled when I phone as she was very keen to buy him. Jayne is a huge supporter of Golden Horn and a huge enthusiast for the sport."

Brown continued: "The mare was bought by us from client to go to Caturra, and she was bought carrying this colt. We have sold everything out of the package last year except him – I liked him so much as a foal. I thought he'd make up into a very nice yearling, which he has. He is not backward looking, but he will be a late summer two-year-old, Jayne is very patient so there is no pressure." (10:53)

Book 2 Sale Statistics: +/- compared to the previous year

Catalogued: 773 (820)

Offered: 697 (734)

Sold: 632 (626)

Turnover: 68,517,000gns (+27%) * record

Median: 70,000gns (+13%) *joint record

Average: 108,413gns (+26%) *record, first time over 100,000gns

% Sold: 91% (88%)

Top lot: Lot 1055, Kameko ex Potent Embrace, 1,000,000gns from Tweenhills Farm & Stud to Godolphin * record price for a colt

500,000gns+: 10

300,000gns+: 42

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Barton Stud, 2. Tally-Ho Stud, 3. Yeomanstown Stud

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

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Night Of Thunder, 2. Too Darn Hot, 3. Sea The Stars

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Night Of Thunder, 3. Kameko

Top five lots

Lot 1055: Kameko (USA) / Potent Embrace (USA) B.C. (GB) >>Tweenhills Farm & Stud >> Godolphin >>1,000,000gns

Lot 597: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Bighearted (GB) B.C. (GB) >> Staffordstown, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 875,000gns

Lot 993: Territories (IRE) / Never Change (IRE) B.C. (GB) >> Oaks Farm Stables >> Sumbe >> 750,000gns

Lot 551: St Mark's Basilica (FR) / Angelic Light (IRE) Ch.F. (IRE) >>Yeomanstown Stud, Ireland >> Al Shaqab / Amo Racing >> 600,000gns

Lot 898: Too Darn Hot (GB) / Lola Paige (IRE) B.F. (GB) >> Appletree Stud >> Al Shaqab / Amo Racing >> 600,000gns

Lot 963: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Monaawara (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Stauffenberg Bloodstock >> The Thoroughbred Racing Corporation >> 600,000gns (22:57)

Chairman's Statement ‎

“The results from Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last week were pretty remarkable and certainly instilled some confidence leading into Book 2, but yet again the level of trade has outstripped the most optimistic of pre-sale expectations.

“The extraordinary success of Book 1 has been well and truly replicated in Book 2 and again it is the outstanding quality of the yearlings and the sale’s reputation for consistently producing racehorses of the very highest calibre which has brought the buyers to Tattersalls in overwhelming numbers. Every year British and Irish breeders and consignors place enormous faith in the two weeks of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and the unrelenting demand throughout Book 2 shows that their confidence has been fully justified.

“Turnover and average have both reached new heights by considerable margins and the 1,000,000gns sale-topping KAMEKO yearling is the highest price ever for a colt at Book 2 of the October Yearling Sale, but it is the clearance rate above 90 per cent and the sheer volume of horses selling for 200,000gns or more that has been truly incredible.

"The demand for quality yearlings from buyers from throughout the world, most notably America, Australia, Hong Kong and throughout the Gulf region, has resulted in 93 yearlings selling for 200,000gns or more; a number far in excess of any other European yearling sale except October Book 1 and a huge increase on the previous October Book 2 record of 58.

"Also noteworthy has been the significant year-on-year rise in the median demonstrating a market with real depth, driven not only by overseas demand, but also by a strong showing from the domestic British and Irish buyers for whom Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale is always an unmissable event.

“Above all, however, we can reflect on another Tattersalls yearling sale which has exceeded expectations at a time when confidence has sometimes understandably been in short supply. It has not all been plain sailing in recent years, but we work hard to bring as many buyers as possible to Tattersalls for the October Yearling Sale and as we move on to Books 3 and 4 we can look forward with a little more optimism and look back on another Tattersalls sale which has brought a collective smile to the face of the British and Irish thoroughbred breeding industry." (22:00)

Day 3 statistics: +/- compared to the previous year

Catalogued: 258 (274)

Offered: 231 (248)

Sold: 210 (211)

Turnover: 22,301,500gns (+28%)

Median: 70,000gns (+17%)

Average: 106,198gns (+29%)

% Sold: 91% (88%)

Top lot: Lot 1055, Kameko ex Potent Embrace, 1,000,000gns from Tweenhills Farm & Stud to Godolphin

Day 3, 300,000gns+: 12

Top five lots on Day 3

Lot 1055: Kameko (USA) / Potent Embrace (USA) B.C. (GB) >> weenhills Farm & Stud >> Godolphin >> 1,000,000gns

Lot 993: Territories (IRE) / Never Change (IRE) B.C. (GB) >> Oaks Farm Stables >> Sumbe >> 750,000gns

Lot 1133: Too Darn Hot (GB) / Ruzma (IRE) B.F. (GB) >> Folland-Bowen Bloodstock >> Stroud Coleman Bloodstock >> 460,000gns

Lot 1027: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Pappina (IRE) Ch.C. (IRE) >> Watership Down Stud >> Stroud Coleman Bloodstock >> 425,000gns

Lot 1202: Ardad (IRE) / Squash (GB) B/Br.F. (GB) >> Kirtlington Stud >> Amo Racing >> 420,000gns (20:48)

Lot 1202: is the most expensive yearling sold at Tattersalls by Ardad, the filly from Kirtlington Stud fetching 420,000gns, bought by Alex Elliott for Amo Racing.

The filly was bred by Kirtlington and Mrs Mary Taylor, and the 85-year-old Taylor has bred all the mares and nearly every horse on this page.

"The price tells you how good she is," said Elliott. "She is a very special filly and is for Amo. She is an exceptional filly. The mare has produced two good runners, and Ardad is a decent stallion, but this is a pedigree that goes all the way back to a deep Claiborne family.

"It is a lot of money for her, but I really believe in her – hopefully she will be a black-type filly, she will need to be at that price. But I was so confident on her that I was prepared to push. Kia is in New York, but he was happy for us to take control and he is over the moon. She goes to Richard Fahey, who has done really well with Ardad's stock."

Chris Budgett of Kirtlington Stud said: "She is a very special filly – as vendors we always say that our stock is above average, but really she is. She walks incredibly well and presented herself really well – really grew into the sale and I love to see that as it gives a good idea of temperament.

"Mary bred all the foundation mares in this pedigree, and she is someone who does not like to spend too much money on stallion nominations. Ardad, in all fairness to him did exceedingly well with his first cropm and the choice was hers, but I was very pleased because I had seen some of them run and liked what I saw. This is a very fast family so it all fitted in, it came together and this is a rather gorgeous filly.

"We had numerous people bidding on her and I am incredibly grateful to Alex ad Amo, and I am sure this is Mary's biggest result in the sale ring of late."

Budgett added: "I owned the mare in training and we actually ran her in the Irish 1,000 Guineas and the saddle slipped – and I was absolutely certain we'd have finished in the placings. Just imagine what that would have done to the pedigree, such are the fine margins that make or break a pedigree." (20:39)

Lot 1133: "It has been a very good Book 2, we don't want this sale to finish," laughed Matt Bowen after selling this Too Darn Hot filly for 460,000gns to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock.

It is another good sale for Folland-Bowen this week and follows hot on the heels of yesterday's sale of Lot 859, the Sea The Stars colt out of Kitcarina, who made 550,000gns and the Day 1 sale of a Zoustar colt for 130,000gns.

"This filly was bred by a fantastic client Elaine Chivers, who has supported us from the outset," said Natalie Folland. "The mare was bought for just €4,000, but she has produced a really good filly for Elaine in Mishal Star. The mare is at home with us and is the star broodmare on the farm."

Folland added: "Elaine has around 17 mares and she really deserves this. She could not get here today, we will be speaking to her very shortly. The decision to use Too Darn Hot was all Elaine's planning."

The best bred by Chivers so far is the Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner Isaac Shelby and the Folland-Bowen team is due to consign his dam Kentucky Belle, as well as his half-sister, at this year's Tattersalls December Mares Sale. (17:21)

Lot 1055: the son of Kameko becomes the highest-priced colt ever sold at the October Book 2 Sale, bought by Godolphin for 1,000,000gns. By just 50,000gns it is the second-highest ever price given at the sale.

The colt, sold by Tweenhills Farm & Stud, is an own-brother to the Andrew Balding-trained New Century, winner of the Grade 1 Summer Stakes last month and with a Breeders' Cup target ahead of him.

After the sale, David Redvers of Tweenhills said: "It is the old cliche, he was on everybody's list. I am sad to see him go, but thrilled that he has been bought by Godolphin. Anthony [Stroud] loved the horse from the first time he saw him. I am sad for Andrew that he won't get to train him, he has done such an outstanding job with the brother."

He added: "This colt has spent most of his life at Spring Lodge in Ireland, and only came to us in the spring, so it is credit to Peter Molony and the job he did. I am so pleased as this is the first year we are selling under our own name again and the Tweenhills team has done an absolutely stunning job – Ivo, Scott, Pieter, Tallulah and all of the them."

When asked if this colt was like his talented brother, Redvers said: "He is actually more like his Dad than his brother, his brother is strong and looks a proper two-year-old, and is a machine. I can see this horse being a 'scopier' sort than New Century.

"But the thing that is common with all of them by the sire is they have this incredible 'head' – it is why New Century was able to go across to Canada, and come back and go across to the US. When he got back from Canada, he was so fresh having taken it all so well that he nearly bucked off Maddy who was riding him. Both colts have got that good temperament in their favour."

And of the Qatar Racing-owned New Century he updated: "He is in great form and we are very excited!"

Kameko's average this week for four yearling sold is 273,000gns, the first-season sire currently behind only Sea The Stars by average at this year's October Book 2 Sale.

Buyer Anthony Stroud said: “I think he’s a very nice horse and he’s a full-brother to a Grade 1 winner. Kameko has had a very good start. This is a beautiful, quality horse and he’ll go to Moulton Paddocks. It’s great to have him, although the valuation was on the higher side of what we’d thought.” (14:15)

Lot 1027: the Watership Down Stud-consigned Night Of Thunder colt, a first foal out of Pappina, is added to the Stroud Coleman Bloodstock October Book 2 list of 31 purchases, Anthony Stroud going to 425,000gns for the February-born colt, who was bred by a group listed as J.Weatherby, Myriad, Naseby & New England.

Some of the quartet were at Tattersalls to see the colt go through the ring, and were all smiles in the sunshine at Park Paddocks after the successful sale of the first-born out of their Sea The Stars mare.

Simon Marsh, general manager of Watership Down Stud, said: "We bought the second dam Padmini in 2015 from Darley. When we bought her everyone wanted in and we got a good group involved, it has worked well now for a long time.

"We bred Pappina in a foal share, and bought her ourselves when she was a yearling. Sea The Stars is a brilliant broodmare sire and she is a lovely mare now. This is her first foal – we are very lucky as she also had a very nice Night Of Thunder filly foal this year and is in-foal to Blue Point."

Pappina raced for the Marsh, Weatherby, Naseby, Barton Syndicate, trained by Jessica Harrington. She won once at Galway as a three-year-old. (13:23)

Lot 993: the Territories own-brother to the multiple Group-placed performer Masseto, bought for just 65,000gns here as a foal in 2023, takes his valuation to 750,000gns, purchased today by Sumbe. He was sold by Oaks Farm Stables.

Sumbe's stud director Tony Fry, who bid from his usual position on the back right stairs, outwitted the expected media invasion and presented a choice of six multiple choice answers pre-written in the back of his catalogue – ticks all the boxes, stood out at the sale, an absolute queen / king, didn't miss a beat, comes from a good nursery and didn't want to go home without him.

Unfortunately for Fry his attempt to duck the questions did not work, particularly as he failed to pre-empt the question that the farm must be the biggest fans of stock by the Darley sire Territories – the farm's homebred colt Lazzat is by the stallion and was a Group 1 winner this summer when successful in the Prix Maurice De Gheest.

"Lazzat is in Australia now [ahead of the Golden Eagle]," updated Fry, adding: "This is a similar type of horse and whether lightening will strike twice, I don't know. He is a nice horse, and we can make a case for him, it is a lot of money, we should have bought him as a foal!

"It is nice that Nurlan [Bizakov] has put faith in us, I will imagine the colt will go into training with Jerome Reynier."

Bizakov, Fry and the Sumbe team has an exciting Saturday to look forward to with the Tattersalls October Book 2 graduate Charyn's outing in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, the Dark Angel colt looking to add a third Group 1 to his 2024 haul of two top level victories.

"I saw Charyn the other day and he looks fantastic. He is a versatile horse, I don't think softer ground will inconvenience him as much as some of the others,"reported Fry. "We will see how he is after the race, but it will possibly be on to Japan.

"In January, everyone can come to the farm and see him at the stallion parade through the Route D'Etalons weekend."

Oaks Farm Stables' Mark Dwyer, who is not at Tattersalls today, said on the phone: "We are thrilled, we have sold horses for clients who have fetched similar sums, but this is the biggest result for a pinhook that we own – and I have been doing this since I packed in riding in 1996! It is the stuff of dreams.

"Willie Browne and Jim McCartan also owned him, and the colt was at Jim's Gaybrooke Lodge Stud in Ireland until August when he came to me to prep. I have to thank all the staff at both farms, they have done a great job."

When asked just what stood out to the team of three about the colt as a foal but which perhaps others missed, he said: "We just liked what was in front of our eyes. He perhaps was not over big, but he is a good moving sort and with some class, we just try and buy quality. I suppose Territories was not on everyone list then, either. He came from Scarlett Knipe at Cobhall Court Stud."

He smiled: "Look, you pays your money and you take your chance, and, thankfully, it has worked out here." (12:25)

Lot 989: US trainer Kenny McPeek buys his fifth yearling, and the most expensive, in October Book 2 going to 230,000gns for this colt by Mehmas out of Natural Beauty (Oasis Dream).

The colt, sold buy Genesis Green Stud, is from the talented family of Lucayan Princess, the dam of Luso, Warrsan, Needle Gun and Cloud Castle, and is a half-brother to Bellum Justum, winner of the Blue Riband Trial (L) and placed in the Hampton Court Stakes (G3). Since the catalogue has been published the Sea The Stars colt, trained by Andrew Balding, has finished second in the Gordon Stakes (G3), but, importantly for McPeek, also proved his form in the US when winning a Grade 3 over 1m2f at Kentucky Downs.

McPeek reviewed his week at Book 2: "I have bought five yearlings this week, I have been very pleased with the horses I have seen here and what I have bought. I am sticking to what has worked for me, I have got a good base of middle-market clients, and taking some of the pedigrees back to the US will be good. I never worked Book 2 before, but I think it is perfect for us.

"There are good horses presented, and you have to pay for those, my clientele will suit the prices that we have paid for what we have bought. We avoided Book 1 both in the US and here, and I think that has been a good business plan."

Of this colt by Mehmas, he said: "This colt presented fantastically, he is pretty much everything you would want. He has a beautiful hind leg on him, he is balanced, he has presence, we are fortunate to have got him, and he is our biggest throw this week."

When asked if he has any further purchasing plans on this concluding day of Book 2, he said: "I am going to bid on one later, but I think I am going to do it on the aeroplane!" (11:54)

Lot 976: a first strike today for Anthony Stroud, the buyer, who signed under Stroud Coleman, going to 260,000gns for Daylesford Stud's New Bay colt, a first foal is out of the Frankel mare Mumbai. She is an unraced daughter of the Prix d'Aumale (G3) winner Middle Club (Fantastic Light) and from the extended family of the champion two-year-old Anna Paola, the ancestress of nine black-type winners.

Lady Bamford's Daylesford Stud is consigning at Tattersalls for the first time in a decade, and stud manager Chris Lock said: "This is a lovely horse, he has behaved impeccably since being here and has been very popular. We are delighted that he has been bought by such a good judge and we look forward to watching the colt's progress."

And of this year's move to consign under the stud's own banner, he added: "We are really pleased we made the decision, and how everything has gone over this week."

Mumbai, who had a filly by New Bay this spring, was purchased at the 2022 Tattersalls December Mares Sale by Charles Gordon-Watson for 210,000gns. (10:49)

October Book 2, Day 2 statistics: +/- compared with last year

Catalogued: 257 (272)

Offered: 234 (237)

Sold: 214 (205)

Turnover: 24,639,000gns (+36%)

Median: 75,000gns (+14%)

Average: 115,136gns (+31%)

% Sold: 91% (86%)

Top lot: Lot 898 , Lot 963, both sold for 600,000gns

Day 2, 500,000gns+: 6

Day 2, 300,000gns+: 17

Leading consignor (by agg): 1. Barton Stud, 2. Ballylinch Stud, 3. Yeomanstown Stud

Leading purchaser (by agg): 1. Stroud Coleman Bloodstock, 2. Godolphin, 3. AC Elliott

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Night Of Thunder, 3. Too Darn Hot

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Night Of Thunder, 3. Teofilo

Top five

Lot 898: Too Darn Hot (GB) / Lola Paige (IRE) B.F. (GB) >> Appletree Stud >> Al Shaqab / Amo Racing >> 600,000gns

Lot 963: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Monaawara (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Stauffenberg Bloodstock >> The Thoroughbred Racing Corporation >> 600,000gns

Lot 859: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Kitcarina (FR) B.C. (GB) >> Folland-Bowen Bloodstock >> Godolphin >> 550,000gns

Lot 927: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Makawee (IRE) B.F. (IRE) >> Harry Dutfield >> Jason Kelly Bloodstock >> 525,000gns

Lot 755: Camelot (GB) / Fort Del Oro (IRE) B.F. (IRE) >> Ballylinch Stud >> M V Magnier >> 500,000gns

Lot 959: Acclamation (GB) / Mohassan (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Rathbarry Stud >> JS Bloodstock / G Scott Racing >> 500,000gns

Lot 809: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Hertford Dancer (GB) Ch.C. (GB) >> Highclere Stud >> Highclere Agency >> 475,000gns (21:14)

Lot 963: the session's very last lot keeps the buyers alert... the filly by Sea The Stars is bought by The Thoroughbred Racing Corporation from Stauffenberg Bloodstock for 600,000gns.

Jane Mangan, in charge of bidding, said: "The stallion is alright isn't he? We have been trying to buy the right type of filly for the last two weeks and we got two last week. This filly stood out, I thought she is the best filly in this book. She comes from a great farm, she is just very easy on the eye, there is no mystery here! She is the first foal out of a Siyouni mare, and we are very happy to get her."

When expanding as to what is the "right" type of filly, Mangan said: "We want to win Classics, middle-distance Classics. She fits that bill. She is by the right horse, she has a great dam sire, she has got the scope to hopefully be good.

"I learned over the last two weeks that we all have a similar set of eyes, it doesn't matter what time of day a horse sells, people will go to the moon for the right horse.

"Of course, broodmare potential will depend on her merit on the track, but Sea The Stars they are like the Galileos, they are horses to have.

"As with all of them she will go to Lambourn to be broken in, and trainers will be allocated in the spring."

The filly is the first foal out of the two-year-old winning mare Monaawara (Siyouni), a grand-daughter of Joanna, a champion two-year-old filly in Italy in 2009. (21:00)

Lot 927: the Sea The Stars filly out of the Yorkshire Oaks (G2) runner-up Makawee gives a beaming consignor Harry Dutfield his biggest result in the sale ring, this filly bred by the Turnbull family's Elwick Stud and Sunderland Holdings sold for 525,000gns.

"Wow!" said Dutfield outside the ring, his smile visible despite the gathering gloom. "She had 200 shows, and she has been absolutely superb all the way through, she showed with the utmost grace and decorum, she is really feminine, really light on her feet, walked huge, and has a really sweet disposition."

He added: "I didn't expect that as I am used to 5,000gns pinhooks in Book 3, not Sea The Stars fillies in Book 2! Oh yeah, this is my biggest result by a country mile!

"I am so pleased to be working with a farm like Elwick. I can't lie – I am so glad it is over, talk to me tomorrow! It was a hectic few mins with the colt also selling [Lot 931], he made 150,000gns, I think."

And off he ran into the night to shepherd his yearlings back to their boxes, still smiling, having had the best sale result of his life. As he said, speak to him tomorrow.

Dutfield's previous best at Tattersalls was 92,000gns given by Federico Barberini for a colt by Dandy Man sold at last year's October Book 2 Sale (Lot 1274). Out of Mamma Morton, the colt was was subsequently called Arabie, won this year's Group 3 Prix du Bois, the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin and finished fourth in the Group 1 Prix Morny.

Tonight's filly was bought by Jason Kelly Bloodstock, and he said after purchase: "She goes to Ireland and to trainer Paddy Twomey, she is for an existing client of his. She is a beautiful filly, bred by the Turnbull family, who I have had a history with. They are fantastic breeders and I am delighted they have got a good price.

"I am delighted to have got her, she is a stunning filly with a lot of class. Sea The Stars speaks for himself, I know the broodmare – she was a tough racemare. He is a great broodmare sire so, for a filly, he makes a lot of sense. With the strong market we knew we would have to push."

The filly is a first foal out of the mare, who was homebred by the late Geoff Turnbull. Her dam Storming Sioux was bought at the 2015 Tattersalls February Sale from Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd. from Darley for 25,000gns. (19:45)

Lot 898: the sale of the Too Darn Hot filly out of Lola Paige for 600,000gns to Al Shaqab / Amo Racing reduced Robert "Chocolate" Thornton, stud manager at Paul Dunkley's Appletree Stud, to tears. It is the highest price achieved to date by the farm.

"Paul puts so much into the stud," said Thornton. "She is a Queen, I thought she'd get 200,000gns or so, and then thought maybe 400,000gns, but to do that... She has been a star all the way through, and of course we were tempted to keep her, but the boss has put a lot of money in he deserves to get some back.

"We have been with Too Darn Hot from the word go, and we have already produced a filly by him with another Galileo mare*, she is training with Roger [Varian] and has not run yet, but she is gorgeous. We sold a foal by him very well and the sire has done us well."

*That foal by Too Darn Hot and sold by the farm was out of Astonishing, bought by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for 270,000gns at the December Foal Sale in 2021.

Asked to expand a little further as to why this filly is so special, he added: "This filly always moved well and looked the part, she has taken everything so well. It is brilliant. The mare had another filly by the sire this year, and she is arguably stronger at the same stage, she will be one we keep!"

Buyer Alex Elliott said: "She has been split between Al Shaqab and Amo, a trainer yet to be decided, but we have a team of trainers who we are very happy with and she will go to one of those.

"Both sides gave her top marks, she is by Too Darn Hot, who is a global stallion now, and she is out of a Galileo mare. She was always going to cost a lot of money." (18:37)

Lot 892: arguably the result of the sale so far – Lily Beach (Sepoy) was bought at the 2020 Tattersalls December Mares Sale by Paragon Bloodstock for just 12,000gns, her first foal by Acclamation is sold today by Ballyvolane Stud to Henry Lascelles for 470,000gns.

John Foley of Ballyvolane said: "It is unbelievable! I have to give my sister Adelaide and her husband Padhraic Doran the credit – they bought the mare. This filly is a beauty and we were hoping she might make 80,000gns to 100,000gns, but she has been so popular. This is a result that doesn't happen very often.

"The mare has a very nice Blue Point foal on the ground, and he is a fine foal, he will be kept to sell as a yearling. The mare lives at Knocktartan House and when we wean the foal it comes to me."

It has been a great couple of days for Foley,.

Yesterday Ballyvolane sold a pinhooked Gleneagles colt to Amanda Skiffington for M V Magnier for 280,000gns for having paid just €28,000 for the colt as a foal (Lot 625), and today a colt by Churchill for 200,000gns to Rabbah Bloodstock.

"It has been great, it has been a dream day," said Foley.

“We waited all yesterday because she was our favourite filly in the whole of Book 2,” said purchaser Henry Lascelles. “She’ll stay in Britain but a trainer is still undecided. She’s a lovely individual though, she’s an amazing first foal and by a great stallion. She doesn’t look like a filly who’ll only be an early season two-year-old, hopefully she’ll go on and be a seven furlong filly or a miler. She’s been bought for an undisclosed client.” (18:30)