Lot 261: the Kingman half-sister to last weekend's Group 1 winner Place du Carrousel (Lope De Vega) is bought by Shadwell Estate Company for 1,050,000gns. She was bred by Ballylinch Stud & Alexis & Fan Adamian and sold today by Ballylinch.

Angus Gold, the successful buyer for Shadwell, said: "She had a very timely update, she is a very good filly and obviously won a Group 1 at the weekend. I thought she'd make 700,00gns to 800,000gns going into it yesterday, but watching here but everyone wanted her, so obviously we had to pay a bit more. Sheikha Hissa was very keen to buy her and really liked her the minute she saw her.

"We have not discussed training plans yet, we have not made plans for the homebreds yet, that will all come about in the fullness of time. We will have around 45 homebreds to go into training and, along with the few we have bought, there will be the guts of 50 yearlings."

Gold added:"Last year was pretty traumatic for everyone, selling all those half-nice horses and particularly the mares who had been there a long time, but we had to do what we had to do and obviously the family wanted to reduce things. Understandably, it was a big undertaking and Sheikh Hamdan had the knowledge, the understanding of it – for them it had to be a smaller operation.

"This year we have been blessed by Baeeed, but also be some of the other lesser horses have also come to the fore. It has been a joy this year, and for me, the real fun has been having Sheikha Hissa's input and seeing her enjoy it so much, and hopefully her family as well. Baaeed has been a real fillip, and particularly for the family – to have a horse as good as he is has given a lot of pleasure." (14:58)

Lot 238: Frankel action again.... the bay colt by the champion sire and out of Sweepstake (Acclamation), the dam of Broome, a champion older horse in Ireland in 2021, a Group 1 winner of the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, a multiple Group race winner and Group placed, and Point Lonsdale, winner of the Group 2 Futurity Stakes (G2) and runner-up in the National Stakes (G1), makes 2,400,000gns .

He is bought by MV Magnier, signing as M V Magnier & White Birch Farm, from Denis, Joan and Cathal Brosnan's Croom House Stud and bred by Epona Bloodstock.

He is the most expensive yearling sold by the farm at Tattersalls and its second millionaire lot to be sold at the October Sale.

Magnier, who also purchased Broome and Point Lonsdale at Tattersalls from Croom House, said: "It is a family we know well, Denis Brosnan is a very good breeder, we have had a lot of luck buying from him in the past, Frankel is doing very well and we had the two brothers before and they are two very good horse, let's hope this one is too!" said Magnier.

Joe Hartigan, general manager at Croom House, was understandably all smiles after the sale.

"We thought he'd make a million plus, he is a very nice horse and he had a heap of bids! It was absolutely amazing, I have never witnessed anything like it," smiled Hartigan.

Of his half-brothers, Hartigan compared: "The others have been a bit 'longer', typical Australias, this horse is shorter and more compact, more of a two-year-old type. He has a great attitude, the same attitude as his brothers."

He added: "This colt has really turned a corner since May, he was a little bit behind because of his date of birth [April 29th, 2021] but he has just improved and improved, particularly through his prep. I think he is in really good condition." (14:01)

Lot 221: the Frankel colt out of the Musidora Stakes (G3) winner and Group 1 Prix d'Opera (G1) third placed So Mi Dar (Dubawi) is the highest-priced yearling sold in the world this year, the Watership Down Stud-bred and offered bay colt selling for 2,800,000gns. He was bought by Godolphin, with underbidder Bill Farish of Lane's End Farm in the US shaking his head when offered by auctioneer Edmond Mahony to increase that valuation to 3,00,000gns.

"Obviously he has got a stallion's pedigree, by Frankel out of a very very good mare by Dubawi from Watership Down's best family. He was the jewel in the crown and is an extremely nice horse," said buyer Anthony Stroud, bidding on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed's organisation and standing through the bidding with the Sheikh outside the ring.

"The price was more than I had anticipated, but the Sheikh was keen for this horse and Watership does a great job. The underbidders were strong opposition – he is an outstanding horse and he will be a very valuable horse if he is a good racehorse."

So Mi Dar is a full-sister to the European two and three-year-old champion Too Darn Hot, the young son of Dubawi who stands at Godolphin's Dalham Hall Stud in a partnership with Watership. He has first-crop yearlings selling this year. She is also a full-sister to Lah Ti Dar, Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed, and a half-sister to the Group 3-placed De Treville (Oasis Dream).

All were bred by Watership Down and Simon Marsh, general manager of the farm, said: "It is an amazing family, it is an extraordinary thing when you have a horse like that and he fulfils everything you want. He has been an exceptional individual all his life, but these things don't happen by accident, there is an enormous amount of people involved in getting him here – stud manager Terry [Doherty], who has been with us for 30 years, Conor [Chapman], who led him up, and Donna [Vowles], who is our manager in Ireland; the feed people, the farriers, all these people have to come together to get the horse here today. For him to have done what he did was amazing. We are delighted, it is an incredible family and we are incredibly lucky."

Of the decision to send the mare to visit Frankel, Marsh outlined: "It was a no-brainer, but it took me two attempts! I sent her to Galileo and then Sea The Stars, but Frankel is the one and she has a lovely Frankel filly foal, too.

"We ran a 'Name the Foal' competition when we sponsored a race at Newbury racecourse. Andrew [Lloyd-Webber] picked the winner and she is called So Dar Licious. So Mi Dar is back in-foal to Frankel and Lah Ti Dr is in-foal to him, too. Dar Re Mi has a Kingman filly yearling and a Lope De Vega foal. We are going to send a full-sister Darlectable You to Gun Runner in the US; there is a lot going on in the family."

Marsh concluded: "We have been very lucky. It is just amazing when you get involved in a family like this."

A delighted Madeleine Lloyd-Webber said: "It is always a shame to sell the wonderful stock out of the Dar Re mI family but we just have to. He is a particularly beautiful colt, he looks so like his father Frankel, yet he has the Dar Re Me line and the beautiful head. He walked beautifully, I could not really fault him. We obviously loved him, we are delighted that Godolphin bought him and he is going to stay here and be trained brilliantly. We could not have hoped for anything better really."

Of the action in the ring, she said: "Bill has supported us before, would have been delighted for him as well – we just had the perfect duo going head to head and recognised this beautiful colt, I am sure he is going to be a champion on the track as well." (13:41)

Lot 201: today's first millionaire lot, the daughter of Frankel and the first foal out of the Listed-winning, Group 1-placed Shamardal mare Shambolic, the half-sister to the Hong Kong Champion Viva Pataca and two-time Grade 1 winner Laughing, is bought by MV Magnier for 1,500,000gns. The filly was signed for under the buying partnership of M V Magnier & White Birch Farm.

She was bred by Newsells Park Stud and Craig Bennett's Merry Fox Stud, the mare bought by Hadden Bloodstock, advisor to Merry Fox, for 800,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale 2019 from Highclere Stud, who consigned her then as part of the Floors Farm dispersal.

Underbidder was Richard Knight, while Simon Mockridge of Juddmonte Farms was involved through to 1,100,000gns.

"She is a very nice filly, Frankel is doing very well, Newsells has been very good breeders and a good filly like that deserves to make a good price. She has a lot of quality, and it is a great result for the breeders," said Magnier.

The cross of Frankel over Shamardal mares has produced two black-type winners, including the Australian Group 1 winner Converge. (12:17)

Lot 195: the amazing Round Hill Stud family of Rizeena, Zabeel Prince and Puissance De Lune, stretching to the US champion three-year-old Serena's Song, produces again the Night Of Thunder filly out of Serena's Storm the half-sister to the champion two-year-old Rizeena (Iffraaj), makes 650,000gns. She was bought by an online bid from SollisLitt / Monceaux.

It is a great result for the Donworth family of Round Hill, but the result is made even sweeter as the filly's new trainer will be Bobby and Honora's son Tim, who trains at Chantilly in France.

"I am delighted for them and all their hard work, it is a family that keeps giving every year," said Donworth Jnr. "I think she is going to come to be to be trained. She is bought for a partnership with LNJ Foxwood and Monceaux. I trained a filly for LNJ this year and might have a few more next year. She is definitely going to be so well looked after!"

He added: "It will be a big team effort, hopefully this time next year or the year after there will be a big black-type to the name." (12:04)

Day 1 statistics: (+/- compared to 2021)

Lots catalogued: 183 (168)

Lots offered: 162 (154)

Lots sold: 139 (120)

Aggregate: 31,993,000gns (+27%)

Median: 160,000gns (+5%)

Average: 230,165gns (+10%)

% sold: 86% (78%)

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Newsells Park Stud , 2. New England Stud, 3. Hazelwood Bloodstock

Leading purchasers (by agg): 1. Godolphin, 2. BBA Ireland, 3. Richard Knight Bloodstock Agent

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Dubawi, 2. Galileo, 3. Sea The Stars

Leading sires (average 2+ sold): 1. Dubawi, 2. Siyouni, 3. Galileo

Top Five Lots

1. Lot 167: Dubawi (IRE) / Ring The Bell (IRE) B. C. (GB) >> Hazelwood Bloodstock >> Godolphin >> 1,500,000gns

2. Lot 3: Dubawi (IRE) / Jazzi Top (GB) B.F. (GB) >>Meon Valley Stud >> Godolphin >> 1,300,000gns

3. Lot 127: Dubawi (IRE) / Persuasive (IRE) B.C. (GB) >> Cheveley Park Stud >>Godolphin >> 1,000,000gns

4. Lot 24: Siyouni (FR) / Lah Ti Dar (GB) B.F (GB) >> Watership Down Stud >> Shadwell Estate Company >> 880,000gns

5. Lot 77: No Nay Never (USA) / Multilingual (GB) B.F. (IRE) >> Camas Park Stud, Ireland >> Tina Rau Bloodstock / Gestut Schlenderhan 780,000gns (19:12)

Lot 167: A new top lot as Godolphin are pushed to 1.5m guineas to secure Hazelwood Bloodstock's Dubawi half-brother to the Listed Cairn Rouge Stakes third Voice Of Angels. Underbidder on the colt was leading Japanese trainer Mitsu Nakauchida.

He is bred on the same Dubawi-Galileo cross as leading sire Night Of Thunder and boasts an impeccable pedigree. His dam Ring The Bell is a full-sister to three Group 1 winners - Hydrangea, Hermosa and The United States - out of the Group 2 Prix du Grose-Chene winner Beauty Is Truth by Pivotal.

“He’s by Dubawi and comes from an excellent farm,” said Anthony Stroud. “It’s a cross that works and it’s a wonderful family. The boss is here and he’s choosing these horses. He’s just a wonderful specimen of a thoroughbred really.”

The 1.5m guineas buy brings Dubawi's Day 1 average to 771,429gns for seven sold. All three of the seven figure lots sold so far today have been by Darley's kingpin. (18:31)

Lot 136: The only yearling by Gleneagles in the sale has quite the pedigree and quite the reputation coming into the sale.

She is a half-sister to Alcohol Free whose four Group 1 wins over the last three seasons include this year's July Cup and the chestnut is just the second yearling purchased solely by M V Magnier today.

He earlier purchased Fittocks Stud's Starspangledbanner filly out of Listed winner Permission for 240,000gns and with Peter Brant's White Birch Farm bought the Siyouni colt out of Soldier Hollow's Group 3 Prix de Royaumont winner Pelligrina consigned by Newsells Park Stud for 300,000gns.

Out of the Hard Spun mare Plying, she brought the hammer down at 650,000gns.

It has been some adventure bringing life-changing sums of money for Martin Cooney and Elaine Shaw, who bought Plying for just €21,000 in November 2018. Since then, the mare has added Listed winner Alexander James by Camelot and Alcohol Free to her page and the couple has sold Plying in foal to Lope De Vega to Yulong Investments for €825,000 and now sold her Gleneagles daughter to M V Magnier for 650,000gns.

"Not a bad day's work," said Martin Cooney. "She is a lot like Plying and Alcohol Free in that she will let you know who is boss. We will probably reinvest some of the money in new stock for the farm." (17:18)

Lot 132: Newsells Park Stud's Sea The Stars filly with a broodmare's page becomes the most expensive by her sire, the champion Sea The Stars, to go through the ring today when making 600,000gns to Richard Knight.

A half-sister to recent debut maiden winner Paz by another of the Aga Khan Studs' brilliant sires in Siyouni, she is the second foal out of Pinkster who is an unraced daughter of Nathaniel. Pinkster is a half-sister to Platonic. the dam of Prudenzia. She is the dam of Group 1 winners Magic Wand and Chicquita.

Second dam Puce won the Listed Harvest Stakes and is a Darshaan half-sister to Shouk, the dam of Group 1 winners Alexandrova and Magical Romance, who is the second dam of Nathaniel's Prix de Diane winning daughter Channel. (16:48)

Lot 127: Another Dubawi, another Godolphin purchase. Sheikh Mohammed's organisation has now bought four of the five yearlings offered so far today by his brilliant sire of Group 1 winners.

Offered by breeders Cheveley Park Stud, he becomes the second millionaire lot of the day, both by Dubawi and both signed for by Anthony Stroud on behalf of Godolphin.

"He is a very nice horse and Cheveley Park Stud do a fantastic job. He is out of a very good mare and by Dubawi so there's a lot to like. He will go back to Moulton Paddocks," Stroud commented.

It's a family that Charlie Appleby knows very well as the colt is a three-parts brother to last season's Group 1 British Champions Sprint winner Creative Force by Dubawi. The family has shone on British Champions Day - dam Persuasive earned her Group 1 victory in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes beating Ribchester and Churchill into second and third respectively.

"He is about twice the size of Creative Force," remarked Stroud in answer to queries about similarities between the two. "But if his heart is half as big as Creative Force's then we will be very happy." (16:40)

Lots 120 and 124: Successive Dubawi colts are snapped up by Godolphin for just shy of 1m guineas.

First into the ring is Newsells Park Stud's son of Peace In Motion, successful in the Group 3 Grosser Preis Der Landeshaupstadt. Bred and raced by Dr Christoph Berglar, the daughter of Hat Trick is a half-sister to the Listed winner Peace Society and out of the Group 3 Schwarzgold Rennen winner Peace Royale who is a half-sister to last season's Preis Der Diana winner Palmas.

The May-born colt is the second foal out of Peace In Motion, both by Dubawi. Her first, a filly named Fifth Harmonic made 400,000gns to Manor House Stud.

Four lots later came Highclere Stud's chestnut colt out of the Listed Maggie Dickson Stakes winner Pepita and he brought 400,000gns once more from Godolphin. He too is the second foal out of his dam and she is a Sir Prancealot half-sister to Listed Heron Stakes winner Redolent, who was third in the Group 1 Criterium International.

Further back in the family is Dubawi's brilliant stallion son Night Of Thunder. (16:23)

Lot 94: No Lippy has proven to be a bargain buy from the Tattersalls December Mares Sale for Tally Ho Stud. The Oasis Dream full-sister to Listed Hopeful Stakes winner Polybius and half-sister to Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Albigna was snapped up by the O'Callaghan family for just 20,000gns in 2018 and her first two foals have sold for almost 1m guineas.

Her yearling daughter of leading young sire Mehmas was bought by Richard Knight for 450,000gns, the highest price to date for a yearling by the sire of Group 1 winners Minzaal, Going Global and Supremacy.

That follows on from the sale of her first foal, a colt by Kodiac, for 525,000gns to David Loughnane and OMNI Horse at the Craven Breeze-Up Sale back in April. That colt turned out to be the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes second and Group 3 Molecomb Stakes third Walbank. The York maiden winner, who was second to subsequent Gimcrack Stakes winner Noble Style on debut, has made his dam and siblings valuable commodities. (15:04)

Lot 77: Renowned German farm Gestuet Schlenderhan won the battle for Camas Park Stud's beautiful daughter of leading two-year-old sire No Nay Never at 780,000gns.

Tina Rau and Merle Schmidt were doing the bidding on behalf of Philip Von Ullmann and when Alastair Pim accepted an opening bid of 200,000gns for the half-sister to Group 2 Summer Mile winner and Group 1 Prix d'isfahan second, it was clear something special was in the offing.

Rau and Schmidt held their nerve to bring the hammer down at 780,000gns and were relieved and a little surprised to secure the filly from one of Juddmonte's most iconic pedigrees.

"She is the queen of the sale," commented Rau. "We are so happy to secure her to bring back to Germany. She walks for fun and is beautifully well-balanced. She's the best filly in the sale. I am a little surprised that we did get her."

Schmidt concurred: "It was on the edge for us but we are delighted that we were able to buy her. We will decide on a trainer for her in due course."

In time the April-born filly will make a wonderful addition to the Schlenderhan broodmare band. Her dam Multilingual is a Dansili sister to the Group 3 Tercentenary Stakes winner Remote and a half-sister to the champion, Classic and Group 1 winner and sire Kingman. Second dam Zenda won the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and is a Zamindar half-sister to Group 1 winner and sire Oasis Dream. Her third dam Hope was a Dancing Brave full-sister to Irish Oaks winner Wemyss Bight, dam of Beat Hollow, and it is the family of Reefscape and Martaline as well. (14:29)

Lot 24: The first filly to be offered at public auction by Watership Down Stud from the immediate family of Dar Re Mi makes an impact, selling to Shadwell Stud for 880,000gns.

The Siyouni filly is the first foal out of Lah Ti Dar, the Group 2 Middleton Stakes winner and St Leger runner-up who is a Dubawi full-sister to the European Champion Two-Year-Old Too Darn Hot. Lah Ti Dar is also a full-sister to Group 3 winner and Prix de l'Opera third So Mi Dar out of the brilliant Dar Re Mi.

Angus Gold explained that Sheikha Hissa is looking to add high-class fillies to the Shadwell broodmare band and they don't come with a better pedigree than this Siyouni.

"Sheikha Hissa is very excited to have bought a filly with such an outstanding pedigree. There are an awful lot of Group 1 horses under the second and third dams and this is a beautiful filly who has been excellently nurtured by the Watership Down team. "

"We are hoping to buy fillies with pedigrees for the future and this is one of the strongest pedigrees in the catalogue."

Sheikha Hissa is in attendance at Tattersalls, and today is her first time buying at the sale, an experience that is proving very positive for the Shadwell principal.

"Everyone has been so welcoming and kind to Sheikha Hissa, it's been really enjoyable for her," Gold added.

Simon Marsh of Watership Down Stud was thrilled that Sheikha Hissa's first purchase at Book 1 was the farm's homebred filly.

"We are delighted with the price and feel it is an excellent one. She is a very nice filly and we have an enormous amount of the family to breed from on the farm. We are thrilled that Angus Gold, Shadwell and Sheikha Hissa have purchased her. She is a fantastic filly for anyone breeding and we are incredibly lucky to have been breeding from this fantastic family for 25 years. We wish Sheikha Hissa the very best of luck with her." (12:23)

Lot 3: The second yearling into the ring at Book 1 sets off fireworks, selling for 1.3m guineas to Anthony Stroud on behalf of Godolphin. The daughter of Darley's outstanding sire Dubawi was consigned by breeders Meon Valley Stud and she is the third foal out of the Group 2 Prix de la Nonette winner and Group 1 Prix de l'Opera second Jazzi Top, a Danehill Dancer half-sister to the Group 1 winner Izzi Top. It is a family with which Sheikh Mohammed has enjoyed a long and successful association. "It's a good way to start the sale," remarked Anthony Stroud. "She is a very attractive filly from a very good farm and there is nothing more to be written about Dubawi is there? The boss picked her out and he has had a lot of success with the family going back to Opera House and Kayf Tara." Those Group 1 winning full-brothers by Sadler's Wells carried Sheikh Mohammed's maroon and white silks with distinction in the early to mid 1990s, winning races such as the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Gold Cup. (11:21)

Somerville Sale statistics (+/- compared to 2021)

Lots catalogued: 313 (292)

Lots offered: 290 (270)

Lots sold: 255 (232)

Aggregate: 7,746,200gns (+56%)

Median: 26,000gns (+60%)

Average: 30,377gns (+42%)

% sold: 88% (86%)

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Tally-Ho Stud, 2. Trickledown Stud, 3. Whitsbury Manor Stud

Leading purchasers (by agg): 1. Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock, 2. Peter & Ross Doyle, 3. Joe Foley

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Havana Grey, 2. Inns Of Court, 3. Showcasing

Leading sires (average, 2+ sold): 1. Zoustar, 2. Mehmas, 3. Showcasing

Top five lots

1. Lot 213: Zoustar (AUS) / Fast Lily (IRE) Ch.F. (GB) >> Plantation Stud >> Richard Hughes Racing >> 160,000gns

2. Lot 163: Mehmas (IRE) / Classic Image (GB) B.C. (IRE) >> Aughamore Stud, Ireland >> Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock / Aguiar Bloodstock >> 135,000gns

3. Lot 147: Starspangledbanner (AUS) / Black Rodded (GB) Ch.C. (IRE) >> Ballyhimikin Stud, Ireland >> Richard Ryan >> 130,000gns

4. Lot 188: Shalaa (IRE) / Dream Dana (IRE) B.C. (GB) >> Plantation Stud >> Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock >> 120,000gns

5. Lot 189: Footstepsinthesand (GB) / Dubai (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Knockatrina House, Ireland >> B F Brookhouse / R S Brookhouse >> 90,000gns (21:15)

Chairman’s Statement At the conclusion of the 2022 Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said: “Last year’s inaugural Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale proved to be an immediate success and today’s second renewal has made further significant progress with wide margin gains in all the key indicators of average, median and turnover, as well as a new record top price for a Somerville yearling of 160,000 guineas.

“It was very apparent as we were inspecting yearlings in the Spring that there was genuine enthusiasm for our newest yearling sale from both British and Irish consignors and they have supported the fixture with exactly the profile of sharp, precocious, commercial yearlings which we were looking for.

"To see the average and median prices both rise by more than 40% and the sale turnover increase from under five million guineas to well in excess of seven million guineas demonstrates a sale of real vibrance from start to finish. Equally impressive has been a clearance rate nudging 90% and the number of yearlings selling for 50,000 guineas or more which has risen from 17 to 39 while six figure transactions have increased from one to four.

“The sheer number of buyers here at Park Paddocks over the past few days is also a reflection of the racecourse success enjoyed by so many graduates of last year’s sale, most notably the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Bradsell, and we look forward to similarly impressive results next year as well as to sustaining the momentum of today’s sale into Books 1 to 4 of the forthcoming Tattersalls October Yearling Sale." (21:04)

Lot 213: the good day for Plantation Stud continues, the farm selling its second six-figure lot at today's sale.

This time it is a chestnut Zoustar filly, who fetches the session's top price so far of 160,000gns.

The half-sister to the US Grade 2 fourth-placed Unanimous Consent (Alamanzor), the only runner so far out of the young mare Fast Lily (Fastnet Rock), is bought by trainer Richard Hughes. Unanimous Consent runs in today's Grade 3 New Kent County Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs.

Hughes said: "I loved her from the time I seen her, she will take a bit of time. We will see how the brother gets on tonight, if he wins she will be half-price! He is probably a 115 horse. This filly is very nice, good walker and has very good movement."

Plantation's stud manager James Berney said: "We are over the moon, she deserves to make that type of money, she is a beauty. She has improved greatly through the year, and her brother's form has helped as well.

"She has been A1 since she got her, she has been very busy, she has had a lot of vets on her and she has never turned a hair. We are delighted she is going to Richard Hughes and am pleased for the mare. She has got a Showcasing foal at foot and she is in-foal to Pinatubo."

Plantation brought two lots to the sale today and earlier sold its Shalaa colt (Lot 188) to Oliver St Lawrence for 120,000gns

Plantation Stud mainly sells its stock as foals, has just three yearlings left to offer this autumn, due to go through in Book 2 and Book 3.

Berney explained the decision regarding consigning these two lots at the Somerville Sale saying: "There has been a bit of motion with this sale and we thought we'd bring along horses who might stand out a bit."

Unanimous Consent was an 85,000gns foal sold to Jamie Railton in 2019 and his valuation increased to 150,000gns when bought by US agent Mike Ryan in the October Book 1 Sale 2020. He is now in training with Chad Brown and owned by Klaravich Stables. (18:04)

Lot 189: the Footstepsinthesand colt sold by Knockatrina House Stud goes to Ben Brookhouse, who signed as B F Brookhouse / R S Brookhouse. Ben Brookhouse is to start training in the near future and the colt cost the new connections 90,000gns.

“He’s a good walker with good scope, he’s not too big and not too small and has a lovely attitude,"aid Brookhouse. "I work with Ian Williams and we had Malakahna [under the first dam] and she’s a hardy mare. If he’s half as good as her he’ll be alright. He’ll get whatever he needs with me, either time or pressure, whatever he wants. He’s a nice horse and I really like him."

The colt was bred by Canice Farrell of Knockatrina and is out of the Listed-placed Galileo mare Dubai, dam of Alakhana, a Listed winner and Group 3 placed and dam of the aforementioned Malakahna. (17:10)

Lot 188: consigned by Plantation Stud and bought by Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock, this colt by Shalaa makes 120,000gns.

"He is a lovely individual," said St Lawrence. "He is for Fawzi and team and will probably end up in the red and white colours of Victorious Racing.

"The mare is two from two and are both rated up in the 90s. I think he will be going to Archie Watson."

The colt's second dam Lidanna was a dual Group 3 winner, dam of three black-type runners and grand-dam of Wizz Kid, winner of the Prix de l'Abbaye (G1).

Watson has already enjoyed great success with a Somerville Sale graduate owned by Victorious Racing – he trained Bradsell (Tasleet) to win Royal Ascot's Coventry Stakes (G2). The colt was purchased here last year by Highflyer Bloodstock and Harry Dunlop for 12,000gns. (17:02)

Lot 163: this colt by the ever-progressive stallion Mehmas caught the eyes of the buyers' in the sale ring and that attraction converted to a sale price of 135,000gns.

"He is a very nice colt and Robson [Aguiar], Richard [Hannon] and everyone thought so. Mehmas needs no introduction, the farm has done a great job prepping him, he looks fantastic. He is a good mover, and Mehmas has already been a very good friend to a lot of people," said Ross Doyle having signed the docket under Peter & Ross Doyle Bloodstock and Aguiar Bloodstock.

The colt was homebred by Laurence Gleeson of Aughamore Stud, who bought the mare Classic Image (Exceed And Excel) for just 6,5000gns as a three-year-old in 2015.

"It has worked well and Mehmas had Minzaal win his Group 1 recently, he is a superb stallion," said Gleeson. "We sent the mare as he was just about to have his first two-year-olds, we heard there was some good breezers. We took a punt and it has worked out.

"This colt has been a star here everyone was saying that he was a stand out, you don't want to get your hopes up too much but it has all worked out in the end." (15:59)

Lot 147: expected to be one of the highlights of the day's sale, the son of Starspangledbanner lives up to the pre-sale forecasts, fetching 130,000gns sold by Ballyhimikin Stud.

He was bought by agent and Teme Valley Racing's manager Richard Ryan, who was sat in the stairwell. Ryan, of course, knows the stallion very well through his involvement with the four-time Group and Grade 1 winner and recently retired State Of Rest.

"He was slightly unexpected horse to find this horse in this sale," said Ryan. "He was of a different ball game than the rest of the field, I thought – a good strong Starspangledbanner colt with a good backside on him. He is from a real speed family and will make a lovely two-year-old. He is for Teme Valley and will probably go into training in Ireland."

Of the sire, Ryan added: "Starspangledbanner is a super stallion, mates with all sorts of families and will help the female line. This horse had particular strength about him, and he has been very well prepared by the farm.

"He is a proper horse, and would be in any sale. He is pretty nice!"

James Hanly of Ballyhimikin explained the decision to sell the colt at this sale.

"They have been getting so many good winners out of this sale," he said. "It is a great venue and everyone is here. It is a very good format as a one-day sale – people can get in and have plenty of time to see them over the weekend.

"It is a strong market and I am very pleased with that price. The sire has had such a good year, there has been a big uplift in the stallion. Let's hope this colt goes on and wins lots of good races; it is a good way to start the yearling sale season." (15:29)

Lot 126: Ross Doyle buys the daughter of Kodiac for 70,000gns from Tally-Ho Stud.

"She is a very nice filly, and has a lot of characteristics to Tiggy Wiggy.

"Obviously the half-brother was a very talented horse, he was heading for black-type, but his career was cut short. We know the pedigree is working. The sire needs no introduction, and he has been very good to us.

"She has been bought to go to Richard Hannon for partnership of Honeycomb Stud in Australia and one of our clients will take half.

Honeycomb's Adrian Whittingham and son Darcy are at Park Paddocks today, on part of a trip to watch Verry Elleegant run at the weekend.

"They have had horses in Britain before in partnerships, and are very happy to be here. They are very impressed with Newmarket, have seen some nice horses."

Of future plans for the new acquisition, Doyle added: "They are happy to race here, but if they think the horses might be more effective Down Under they will ship. A broodmare pedigree is a big bonus down the line." (15:13)