She was a Group 2 winner of the Prix de Pomone (G2) and the Listed Prix Michel Houyvet (L), and is dam of two winners, including Kingmax, winner of the Fort Lauderdale Stakes (G2). (12:57)

"It is a very different set of emotion; I did get nervous and a bit tense!" laughed Cox of the experience of being on the breeding and selling side of sale ring transaction.

"I bought the colt's grand-dam Heliograph, and her daughter Autumn Magic was very promising in training but did not get to run as she picked up an injury. She is a good-bodied mare, a beautiful individual, and is clearly now producing good stock.

"Her first foal, this colt's full-sister Harry's Girl, did so well and was Listed placed. Jenny [Norris] has done a wonderful job producing this colt. His dam Autumn Magic boards with her, and it is a real thrill to have bred such a good-looking horse as he is, attractive and got plenty of attention for the buyers. I am thrilled for Harry Angel, and for all at Jenny's for doing such a great job."

Cox, of course, trained Harry's Angel to champion sprint honours with victory in the July Cup (G1) and the Sprint Cup (G1),

"Harry was a joy to train, a very talented horse, and he is producing good runners in both hemispheres," added Cox. "We did a tot up, and at the moment there are six stallions at stud in Europe, as well as Profitable, who is now at stud in Turkey, who were in training with us. It is quite something and we are very proud." (12:44)

The sire's form continues early in Book 2 today – this Rabbah Bloodstock-bred colt sold by Genesis Green Stud is bought by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for 350,000gns.

"He came to us a weanling," said Michael Swinburn of Genesis Green. "He has been a lovely colt, and was never in his box since he has been here, I think he had 70 shows yesterday. I thought he would make a bit, as we had a lot of people asking about him."

The colt is an own-brother to Electric Storm, winner of the Lansdown Stakes (L) and four-time placed in Group races. His grand-dam is the 1,000 Guineas winner Wince, dam of the Yorkshire Stakes (G1) winner and St Leger (G1) runner-up Quiff. (11:45)

"Blue Point, we were strong on him last week, he is a very good sire," said Jackson-Stops, racing manager for Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa's Victorious Racing. "This colt will be going to the Crisfords, they have had a lot of success for His Highness previously, and His Highness was particularly keen on this pedigree, Chindit was a cracking racehorse, and it is a top farm to buy from."

Out of Always A Dream (Oasis Dream) from the family of the champion Motivator, this colt was bred by J. C. Bloodstock and Rory Mahon. The now 12-year-old mare purchased at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale 2016 for 16,000gns, and Chindit was her first foal. (11:29)

Affability is an unraced daughter of Dalakhani and dam of five winners, including the two-time Listed-placed My Lord And Master and Aura Blue, who was third in the Height Of Fashion Stakes (L). (10:51)

The colt, bred by the Irish National Stud, Phoenix Of Spain's stallion farm, was a €66,000 pinhook. He is a half-brother to Sprit D'Or (Invincible Spirit), the winner of two races at two and placed fourth in the Prix de la Vallee d'Auge (L).

Phoenix Of Spain got his first Group 1 winner this month when the George Scott-trained Caballo De Mar won the Prix du Cadran (G1) at ParisLongchamp. (10:29)

Catalogued: 537 (449)

Offered: 474 (393)

Sold: 395 (345)

Turnover: 127,226,000gns (0%)

Median: 210,000gns (-16%)

Average: 322,091gns (-13%)

% Sold: 83% (88%)

Nos for 1,000,000gns+: 16

Nos for 500,000gns+: 70

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

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

Leading sires (by agg, cumulative): 1. Frankel, 2. Wootton Bassett, 3. Sea The Stars

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Frankel, 2. Dubawi, 3. Night Of Thunder

Lot 90: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Crystal Zvezda (GB) Ch.C. (GB) >> Longview Stud >> Godolphin >> 3,700,000gns

Lot 15: Frankel (GB) / Aljazzi (GB) B.C. (GB) >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Amo Racing >> 3,600,000gns

Lot 197: Frankel (GB) / Innevera (FR) B.C. (GB) Fittocks Stud >> Godolphin >> 2,200,000gns

Lot 247: Wootton Bassett (GB) / Luna Mare (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Marlhill House Stud, Ireland >> Amo Racing >> 2,200,000gns

Lot 349: Wootton Bassett (GB) / Qabala (USA) B.C. (FR) >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Amo Racing >> 2,200,000gns

Lot 477: Wootton Bassett (GB) / Time Tunnel (GB) B.C. (GB) >> Fittocks Stud >> Godolphin >> 1,900,000gns ()

“Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale consistently showcases the finest British, Irish, French and German-bred yearlings to a global audience, and this year’s renewal has been no exception. Longview Stud’s Sea The Stars colt out of Crystal Zvezda and Newsells Park Stud’s Frankel colt out of Aljazzi, which realised 3,700,000 guineas and 3,600,000 guineas respectively are the two highest-priced yearlings in the world this year.

“A remarkable 70 lots have sold for 500,000 guineas or more as we have welcomed buyers from throughout the world to Park Paddocks. As ever, the support from the Gulf region has been a feature as has the large number of American buyers who have purchased more than 40 yearlings.

“Last year’s renewal of Europe’s premier yearling sale was widely regarded as one of the more remarkable sales of recent years, bucking the trend of earlier yearling sales that autumn with wide margin increases in all the key metrics. Those results saw the bloodstock market take a significant upturn over the last 12 months and, whilst a drop in average and median were to be expected with the larger catalogue, it has been gratifying to return figures that are second only to last year’s record renewal.

“We now turn our attention to Books 2 and 3 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, which begins on Monday, 13th October.” ()

Catalogued: 179 (151)

Offered: 157 (132)

Sold: 136 (111)

Turnover: 39,589,000gns (-12%)

Median: 200,000gns (-13%)

Average: 290,801gns (-28%)

% Sold: 87% (84%) (19:10)

It is the the fifth seven-figures lot sold today, and the fifth over the three days for Night Of Thunder.

This chestnut colt is bought by Karl and Kelly Burke, and after purchase the trainer said: "He is a gorgeous colt, I had gone over budget, but luckily I checked my phone and a message to press on had come in from the client."

The colt was sold by Ballyhimikin Stud and is out of the Bated Breath-winning mare Wild Rye, a half-sister to Zambezi Sun, winner of the Grand Prix de Paris (G1) , Kalabar, winner of the Prix Guillaume D'Ornano (G2), and the Prix Petite Etoile (L) winner Zero Gravity, who is the dam of last year's champion three-year-old and Group 1 winner Kalpana.

It is the further family of the Group 1 winner Continent, as well as of the Group 3 and Listed race winners Short Pause and Cheyenne Dream.

Burke added: "He is a gorgeous colt, the Night Of Thunders are going well for me, with Zeus Olympios very exciting and really a horse for next year - the horses by Night Of Thunder do need a bit of time."

Wild Rye was bought by Blandford Bloodstock from the Juddmonte draft at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2019 for 300,000gns. (18:52)

Tom Harris said: "My father and I were coming up from the Solario Yard and she was with Jennie Norris and, as we crossed the bridge, we just saw this filly walking, and we both said, 'Wow what is that?' It was love at first sight.

"She was an expensive mare, but she has been a very easy mare to mate, she is a fantastic-looking mare, she is an exceptional mare, she is an unbelievable mover and this is a beautiful first foal. And she has been from day one - we have thought she was a star rigt from the start, and she continued to develop in that way all the way through."

Of thoughts since being on the sale ground, Harris added: "When we came up here, we were looking at the fillies and each evening we'd say to each other, 'Have we seen anything better?' and the answer was always 'No!' We are delighted she has gone to Juddmonte and it is a great start for the mare. She is back in foal to Frankel."

Rebecca Markland, stud groom at Lordship, said of the filly as a first foal out of the mare, "We never had those 'first foal' concerns about this filly, she has always been an eyebrow-raising first foal! The mare is a bit sassy, but in the right way; she knows she is good."

Lordship Stud has worked with Watership Down Stud for a long time, the farm's yearlings going to Watership for their prep in July, and Harris outlined: "We have been consigning with Watership Down for nearly two decades now, it is a long-standing relationship, and last year was the first year we got a million; it was for a Dubawi out of Loving Dream. To do this two years in a row, it is wonderful; it is down to the team there and the team at Lordship. We are really trying to focus on the quality."

"It is a small team at home, just four of us for 15 mares, we can be really intimate with the horses; we take our time with them," added Markland.

Of selling the first foal and being a filly, Harris said: "There was a temptation to keep her, it is always difficult to part with a filly like her, but we paid a lot for the mare and you have to make a commercial decision."

Purchaser Simon Mockridge said: "We went in there with a figure in mind and we’d reached that limit, but the family were happy to have one more go. It’s an outcross family, which is very important to Frankel. She’s a beautiful filly, a great action to her. Let’s hope she’s lucky.” (17:49)

Brightwalton's Jeffrey Hobby said: "It is the first millionaire for us and a filly, too, which is cool. We have been very lucky, we have been helped by some great people to get here, Matt Coleman bought the mare for us, the Barton team, the Brightwalton team – they all work hard to get the job done.

"It was a big decision to sell a filly, but we have a lot of fillies from the family and we have some nomination bills to pay and we need to sell some stock. We needed to have a shuffle around and I thought if we were going to sell one, she would be a good one; we would be well paid and it would keep the wheels on the bus.

"Night Of Thunder has been great this year, and we have Midnight Tango, who is out of a half-sister,and by him, too, and she who runs tomorrow in the Group 3."

Consignor Tom Blain of Barton Stud said: "It is amazing for the Hobbys and all the team at Brightwalton. It is emotional. Jeff has built that farm at Brightwalton from a ploughed field to 250 acres with some elite mares and to sell a yearling for a million is quite unbelievable. Everyone on the farm is part of it all, and he has been a huge help to me at Barton, it is a special day.

"This filly is typical of everything out of Vesnina. She is not too big, but she moves well, very strong, looks fast, looks the spite of Makarova. It is an amazing pedigree, every single filly has been bred to some of the best stallions in Europe." (17:26)

Simon Mockridge was underbidder, the stud manager giving a resigned shake of the head when asked to better 1,900,000gns.

"Wootton Bassett needs no introduction, and this colt is from a very good farm," said Anthony Stroud. "He was liked by our team and Sheikh Mohammed really liked him, and we think he was exceptional. Having Sheikh Mohammed here is so important; words can't really express how remarkable he is and how all of us who work for him feel about him, and so should everyone in this industry. Every year keeps coming here, and it is so vital. He really enjoys it, and we depend on him for his eye."

It is the fifth by the late Wootton Bassett (four colts) bought this week by Godolphin, and the only yearling by the sire purchased by Godolphin for over a million guineas.

Of Wootton Bassett, he said: "He is a huge loss, an unbelievable stallion, he was such a good outcross and it is a huge shame for the European bloodstock industry, it is hard to get stallions of that level, and he has come up from standing for relatively little to where he was at the end."

Fittocks Stud has had three seven-figure sales this week, and Luca Cumani said: "It has been a fantastic week, everything has come together very well, and the Fittocks staff has done an incredible job. We bought the mare and she has produced very good-looking stock."

Fittocks has sold four horses this week for an average price of 1,475,000gns and total sales of 5,900,000gns. The farm is leading the consignors' list by average. (16:45)

The filly is a half-sister to La Rioja, winner of the Dick Poole Stakes (G3), and fourth placed in the Commonwealth Cup (G1). She is also a half-sister to the fam of Liberty Beach, winner of the Group 2 Temple Stakes and third in hr King's Stand Stakes and the Prix de l'Abbaye .

It is the second by the sire bought by the team this week – Lot 138 from Yeomanstown Stud and out of the black-type mare Fairy Dust, also went their way for the same sum of 450,000gns. (16:18)

All of the Hellvelyn mare's foals have also been successful in the sale ring – Asymmetric was a 65,000gns yearling and a 150,000gns Guineas Breeze-Up horse, Mill Stream fetched 350,000gns as an October Book 2 yearling, while Tasalla, who sadly died as a three-year-old, was sold for 390,000gns at the October Book 1 Sale in 2023.

This filly by first-crop sire Minzaal has become the most expensive of the lot – bought by Amo Racing for 550,000gns. She is also the top-priced yearling by Shadwell Stud sire Minzaal. He stands at Derrinstown Stud, and this crop was conceived off a fee of €15,000. (15:45)

The colt is from a family particularly close to Godolphin connections – his third dam is the Group 2 winner Colorado Dancer, the dam of Dubai Millennium.

So far this week Godolphin has purchased 20 lots for a total spend of 16,850,000gns. (15:18)

The first two sold for 1,000,000gns and 320,000gns, while this last lot through the ring was bought by Ed Sackville for 625,000gns.

"He has been bought for TBT Racing and will be trained by Ed Walker," said Sackville, who bid from under the window and standing with Walker and owner Simon Sadler. "TBT is keen to buy into some foundation pedigrees and to have some Classic-type fillies – hopefully, this is what she will become. Breeding will be something of interest as TBT already owns the likes of Qilin Queen, as well as Ombudsman's full-sister, who was bought here last year."

This family has been so active this summer with three updates since the catalogue was published – this filly's juvenile half-sister Splish Splash was placed third on her racing debut in August, the dam's half-sister Skellet picked up a third placing in the Group 3 Atalanta Stakes, while under the third dam Consent won the Prix de Royallieu (G1).

Ombudsman's full-sister has yet to run, but has been named Synchronicity and is in training with Walker. She was a 900,000gns purchase at the October Yearling Sale last year from breeder Ballyhimikin Stud. (14:33)

He was sold by Haras D'Etreham, the farm having paid 500,000gns for the mare when she was sold as a two-year-old as part of the Waddesdon Stud dispersal held at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2020. (13:58)

His year younger full-sister is sold today for 480,000gns and bought by MV Magnier. She matches her brother feat and becomes the most expensive yearling filly by the Tally-Ho Stud-based sire sold in the Tattersalls sale ring. (13:37)

Night Of Thunder has been featuring as one of the sires of this week – here he fulfils the role of broodmare sire, this colt being the first foal out of Rumbles Of Thunder, a Group 3 winner of the Give Thanks Stakes and from the extended family of White Star Line, a three-time US Grade 1 winner. (12:31)

After the purchase, the second for the farm this week, both colts by Night Of Thunder, Simon Mockridge said: "It is a bit of a coincidence they are both by him, but at the end of the day, he has had a fantastic season with 13 Group winners. The quality of mares he has been covering over these last few years has got better and better, he is a sire on the rise and a sire we need to pay attention to."

He added: "This colt has a proper pedigree; and there are some very good horses on this page. He is also an incredibly good-looking horse, and was very well presented by Newsells. The horse bought earlier this week [Lot 134] we think will be a miler to a 10f horse, he has a very fast hind leg on him, and I would say this horse is the same."

Of adding to the Juddmonte string of racehorses, Mockridge said: "We buy a handful of horses at public auction; we are very specialised in what we look for– these two horses have got to come back and fit into the top 10 per cent of yearlings at home."

Of Lead Artist, the new stallion recently added to the Juddmonte sire ranks at Banstead Manor, he said: "He has settled in very well. We have had a lot of traffic this week, and I think people have been very happy to see him as he is a very good-looking horse."

At this week's sale so far, Night Of Thunder has had 15 lots sell for an average price of 620,333gns and a turnover of 9,305,000gns. He is the second top sire by average behind Frankel, and the fourth leading sire by gross sales.

He has had three horses sell for over a million and eight over 500,000gns, and has seven more lots catalogued to sell today. (12:06)

The filly is the second foal out of Quipara, a daughter of Soldier Hollow.

Peter Kavanagh said: "We bought the mare from Farhohf, who is a very good breeder and it is a super pedigree, I have had luck with German families over the years, and we mated her with Sea The Stars, who seems to have worked with Germany families too.

"She has great action, good on X-rays and scopes, and pleased a lot of people. There were a lot of end users interested in her as a broodmare prospect once she finishes racing.

"The pedigree is solid, there are three half-sisters who produced stakes winners last year so it is a happening family. The two-year-old is with George Boughey and he likes her so hopefully she will go out and win. The mare is in-foal to Camelot, and has a Pintabubo colt at foot."

Quipara did not race, but she is daughter of Quetena, a Listed-placed runner, dam of four black-type winners, and grand-dam of five black-type winners. Third dam is the German champion two and three-year-old Quebrada. (11:43)

361,  396,  420,  425,  436,  438,  440,  458,  459,  466,  472,  473,  474,  485,  488,  493,  514,  531,  535 (10:54)

Over the two days so far, 11 yearlings have sold for seven-figure sums, turnover so far is 87,677,000gns. (10:53)

Catalogued: 179 (149)

Offered: 158 (131)

Sold: 134 (117)

Turnover: 47,258,000gns (+17%)

Median: 215,000gns (-10%)

Average: 352,672gns (+2%)

% Sold: 85% (80%)

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

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

Leading sires (by agg, cumulative): 1. Wootton Bassett, 2. Frankel, 3. Sea The Stars

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Frankel, 2. Dubawi, 3. Night Of Thunder

Lot 197: Frankel (GB) / Innevera (FR) B.C. (GB) >> Fittocks Stud >> Godolphin >> 2,200,000gns

Lot 247: Wootton Bassett (GB) / Luna Mare (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Marlhill House Stud, Ireland >> Amo Racing >> 2,200,000gns

Lot 349: Wootton Bassett (GB) / Qabala (USA) B.C. (FR) >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Amo Racing >> 2,200,000gns

Lot 266: No Nay Never (USA) / Millisle (IRE) Br.C. (IRE) >> Watership Down Stud >> M V Magnier & White Birch Farm 1,700,000gns

Lot 275: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Model Guest (GB) Ch.C. (IRE) >> Lynn Lodge Stud, Ireland >> Amo Racing >> 1,700,000gns

Lot 218: Dubawi (IRE) / Lady Bowthorpe (GB) Ch.C. (GB) >> Fittocks Stud >> M V Magnier & White Birch Farm >> 1,300,000gns

Lot 301: No Nay Never (USA) / Nictate (IRE) B.F. (IRE) >> Glenvale Stud, Ireland >> Jamie McCalmont Bloodstock >> 950,000gns

Lot 259: Frankel (GB) / Matauri Pearl (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Ballylinch Stud, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 900,000gns (19:13)

The sale is part of dispersal by the breeder and Julian Dollar of Newsells said: "We have sold for Al Shahania for a long time, and the farm is sadly dispersing the thoroughbred stock and is just planning on focusing on the Arabians. The farm has some lovely stock to come here in December, including Qabala and her Ace Impact foal.

"We have had a lovely association with the farm, Bertrand Le Metayer looks after things and is brilliant to deal with, and the farm has an exceptional manager in Arnault Leraitre."

Agent Alex Elliott said after the purchase: "It is a dispersal, and when the bidding started at zero, I thought we might get a chance – there were three parties out here and it was strong!

"But I think we have bought two serious Wootton Bassett colts today. Qabala's Persian King colt Raammee looks a bit of a freak, his performance at Kempton was pretty special, and then he won at Newcastle and was equally as smart.

"Wootton Bassett is an upgrade on most stallions; this goes back to a Juddmonte family, and this colt has the potential to be a very special horse."

Le Metayer said: "We went to Wootton Bassett because we wanted to have an outcross. He has proved to be exactly what we were hoping for, and it is rare when it works! He looks a proper miler, a Guineas horse, and, hopefully, the new owners will believe in him the same way we do." (19:00)

"Pronouncement has been incredible for us, her first foal Chicago Call was retained and belongs to Tony and Sam Mencoff, and he was fourth in the Richmond Stakes just done on the line and is rated 101.

"This Night Of Thunder colt has been a dream – he has been a gorgeous colt from day one and has turned into a beautiful yearling, has a great temperament and has been a farm favourite. I am almost speechless, I am delighted for the farm and for Tony, he puts a lot into the game. We are a very small team and everyone works so hard, and I pleased for them because they all deserve this.

"I was full of doubts this afternoon and we are blown away now; we did not expect that! Once we got to 400,000gns I was just really relieved and happy, I was in tears and still am!" (18:43)

Although it is the first time that the name Cotton House has appeared in a sale catalogue as a consignor, Brendan Hayes, formerly of Knocktoran Stud, is the man behind the banner.

Hayes and wife Ann-Marie sold Knocktoran at public auction in 2023, and relocated to a second farm in the same vicinity, are trading under the new name, and this the first horse sold under the banner.

He explained the name for the new venture.

"We were in Mystique, and there is a hotel there called Cotton House Hotel and we were very impressed by it," he recalled. "We came home to this farm and it did not really have a name, so we decided to call it Cotton House. It is as simple as that."

Of this horse, he said: "She is from our long-standing family, we have bred five generations, we go back further than the catalogue page. It has been with us for a long time, it has been very good to us, and taken us on a great ride."

Peut Etre, a daughter of Zur Alors and a half-sister to the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (G1) winner Precieuse, added her own black-type to the page when placed in the Group 3 Prix Fulle de l'Air.

"The mare has been a bit unfortunate as a breeder, and for a mare of her age she has not got a lot of stock on the ground," said Hayes, who now has 12 mares at home. "Her 2017 Lope De Vega colt Hypothetical was a good horse and was a Group 1 winner in Dubai, and he made 550,000gns here as a yearling."

In recent seasons the Hayes family has been racing horses in France under the ownership name Cotton House – and this year Eponine, who features on this pedigree page out of Porcelaine, a Kodiac half-sister to Precieuse, finished second in the Prix de Sandringham (G2). (18:08)

They are out of the unraced Teofilo filly Nictate, who had a colt by the same sire this spring. She was bought for €450,000 in 2022. (16:50)

The colt is the second highest-priced yearling by the Darley sire to sell in the auction ring.

"He is a fantastic-looking horse, great strength and movement, the full-sister can run, she is in the Fillies' Mile on Saturday," said Ben McElroy. "He is outstanding."

Of the stallion he said: "Night Of Thunder started at the bottom and has worked his way up, he has proved it year in and year out and goes from strength to strength, he is getting to that elite level."

Model Guest was bought by Mags O'Toole for 330,000gns at the December Mares Sale in 2021, in-foal to Kingman.

Eddie O'Leary said: "He is an absolutely beautiful horse, he has a great mind, the sire is very good, and I hope the two-year-old filly is very good. The mare has had a stunning filly and colt by Night Of Thunder."

Of expectations coming here, he added: "You are never confident, you hope everyone shows up, and I hope this horse is as good as I think he is. The team has done a great job.

"You could have brought him here in February, and he'd have looked like that. He is a stunning horse. We didn't prep him, we just brought him on here. It is a great day." (15:45)

Simon Marsh, general manager of Watership Down, said: "To get all the stars to align is very difficult, but he this is a lovely horse, and he was on a lot of lists. It is a wonderful price, but now we need him to be a good racehorse."

Of the choice of No Nay Never as a sire, he said, "I felt that MiIlisle being a Cheveley Park winner, we needed to keep the speed. He has had an exceptional year, and this colt was an exceptional horse. She has got a Siyouni colt foal, and we would love to get a filly out of the mare now."

Of his purchase Magnier said: "No Nay Never is having another great year with the likes of Charles Darwin, who’s very good, and True Love. The mare was very good."

He added: "Blackbeard is having a good sale, and there’s plenty of good word for the Little Big Bear foals. The best ones by Blackbeard that we have will be going to Ballydoyle.

"We bought the Blackbeard half-brother to Arizona Blaze earlier today. He is a very good horse. Flash always spoke very highly of him." (15:13)

The colt was sold by Marlhill House Stud and manager Brian McConnon said: "We bought the mare here three years ago and the plan was always to use Wootton Bassett and this is the first by the sire we have had out of the mare.

When explaining the reason for Luna Mare's purchase for 500,000gns at the December Mares Sale in 2022, he said: "She is by Galileo and we are always fond of that, Crypto Force had won the Beresford and so she was a young mare who could produce - she had a good young profile and would suit the stallion. She has a filly by the sire at foot and is not in-foal."

Of today's sale, "Coming to the ring we were hopeful, all the right people were on her, but until the hammer falls you never know. But to get a seven-figure sale is always very special; it is beyond our wildest dreams."

Kia Joorbachain said: "We have the half-brother, he has been a good horse, and won a Group 2 for us. We know the mare can produce a good horse, and so to have a Wootton Bassett out of her is a positive, a big up grade, too" (14:07)

The colt boasts one of the pedigree updates of the sale – his half-brother Arizona Blaze (Sergei Prokofiev) won his first Group 1 last month when successful in the Flying Five Stakes (G1), the victory adding to the colt's previous Group 2 and Group 3 victories and last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1) runner-up spot.

This colt is the most expensive yearling to date sold by Blackbeard, who was a joint-champion two-year-old in England in 2022, having also been the sire's second most expensive foal when bought by Glenvale from Fittocks Stud for 190,000gns last autumn. (13:48)

"He is a lovely horse, Lady Bowthorpe was a very good race mare, it is a great result for Emma Banks who is a very nice lady, so well done to her," said Magnier. "Dubawi is still going very well, and we have retired Delacroix this year – he is a complete outcross for us, and he is probably one of the most important horses we have retired for a good while. If this lad is any good, he will be the same."

Breeder Emma Banks said: "It is great, I am so lucky to have a mare who has produced two beautiful yearlings. Her foal by Too Darn Hot is lovely, he took weaning very well, and she is in-foal to Wootton Bassett."

The mare's first foal, also a colt, has been named Desert Knight, and is yet to race. He was bought here last year by Godolphin for 2,000,000gns, and Banks laughed: "There is one with each camp now! Both are getting the best possible chance, which is great, and are with trainers at the top of their game – and this gives me an excuse to descend on Ballydoyle next year! I am thrilled; it is not every day that you sell a horse for that sort of money."

The mare has produced colts so far, but there should be a filly on the way.

"If the vets are right, we have a Wootton Bassett filly in the oven, and I am thrilled with that," said the breeder. "She will be one to probably keep – I am very emotionally invested in Lady Bowthorpe and that first filly stays with me. But we have got to get her out first, and that is a long way down the line!" (13:23)

The trainer returns to the pedigree he knows so well to buy this filly by Sea The Stars, bred by Sunderland Holding Inc, from The Castlebridge Consignment.

The mare Kitcara has had a good couple of years in the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale ring – her colt Joulany, also by Sea The Stars and also bred by Sunderland Holding, made 800,000gns in 2024 and was bought by Al Shaqab. He is in training with Ralph Beckett, has run once and finished second, beaten just half a length, by a horse with previous racecourse experience. (12:43)

"We sold one for 2,000,000gns last year, which was exciting, and this is even better," said the former trainer. "He is such a lovely horse, he is great-looking Frankel horse out of a proven mare and we are delighted he is going to such a good home."

The colt, a close relation to the Gdolphin-owned and Charlie Appleby-trained Ottoman Fleet, who is a dual graded race winner in the US in 2023 and 2024, as well as a multiple group and graded race performer around the world, including at Group 1 level in Dubai and the US, was bred by a partnership of Scea Marmion Vauville, Fittocks and Newsells.

Cumani explained how the union came about – Innevera having been through the ring here at the December Mares Sale in 2022, consigned then by Fittocks and bought by Jill Lamb for 750,000gns.

"We offered the mare on behalf of the Marinopoulos family; they are friends of ours and also had horses in training with me for a long time," recounted Cumani. "They did want to stay in for some of the mare but needed to resolve a former partnership. Graham Smith-Bernal had previously said that he was interested in a mare with us – we knew her and thought it would be a good partnership, and it has worked out great. The stud team at home has done an amazing job."

Smith-Bernal added: "We loved this colt as a foal, he has the walk and the presence about him. He looked a real Frankel both physically and temperamentally – he has the Frankel look with the four white socks. All the right people were interested, and then it was just a case of them turning up in the ring. It is a great result all round."

The mare, who has a 2025 filly by Sea The Stars, is a half-sister to Keltos, a champion older miler in 2002 for Leonidas Marinopoulos. (12:23)

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Follow all the sale day action here at sale day live (09:07)

Catalogued: 179 (149)

Offered: 159 (130)

Sold: 125 (117)

Turnover: 40,419,000gns (-5%)

Median: 210,000gns (-19%)

Average: 323,352gns (-11%)

% Sold: 79% (90%)

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Newsells Park Stud, 2. Longview Stud, 3. Ballylinch Stud

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

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Frankel, 3. Lope De Vega

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Frankel, 2. Sea The Stars, 3. Dubawi

Lot 15: Frankel (GB) / Aljazzi (GB) B.C. (GB) >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Amo Racing >> 3,600,000gns *

Lot 67: Blue Point (IRE) / Boston Rocker (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Ballyhimikin Stud, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 1,000,000gns

Lot 95: Too Darn Hot (GB) / Dane Street (USA) B.C. (IRE) >> Airlie Stud, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 1,000,000gns

Lot 134: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Express Way (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Lodge Park Stud, Ireland >> Juddmonte >> 1,000,000gns

• The most expensive yearlings sold in the world this year (18:31)

The filly is a half-sister to Silver Knott, who won six Grade / Group 2 and 3 races in the US, Dubai and Britain. He also finished in the places five times at the highest level. (18:22)

Sumbe's owner Nurlan Bizakov is at Tattersalls and he said: "He is very similar to his brother, though a different colout, and he does remind me of Chryn at this stage. We were, of course, interested in the pedigree as soon as the catalogue came out – the mare has been a very good producer, it is not often that two brothers are of the same quality!

"From here he will go to Richard Morgan-Evans to be broken and then will join Roger Varian."

Of Charyn, Bizakov updated: "He is enjoying his second career, he had a book of 177 mares and has good fertility with 92 per cent of his mares in-foal. We sent him 25 mares of our own." (18:06)

He is the first foal out of Express Way (Dark Angel), who is a daughter of the Listed-placed Alluring Park (Green Desert), the dam of the Oaks (G1) winner Was and three further black-type winners, and a grand-daughter of the champion Park Express, the dam of the two-time champion New Approach.

It is a family that has matched its victories on the racecourse with success in the sale ring, too – Alluring Park was dam of the record-priced Galileo filly sold for 5,000,000gns in 2013, while Park Bloom, who is also out of Alluring Park, is dam of Poker, last year's record-priced yearling colt sold for 4,300,000gns to Amo Racing.

After today's sale, Jamie Burns said, "That has exceeded expectations greatly. He is a lovely moving horse, and he is going to a great home, he will get every opportunity there. We went to Night Of Thunder as we were trying to get Galileo back into the pedigree. We are trying to keep the generations going – it is up to us to keep it going."

Purchaser Simon Mockridge said: "He is just a super horse, a lovely horse and that is what you have to pay, it is very expensive in there [the sale ring]. He is a very good mover, easy going, and showed well all week. It is an amazing family, it is a wonderful page, and the stallion has been fantastic this year. We are delighted to buy him; he looks a fast horse."

Of immediate plans, he said: "From here the colt will go to Ireland and join Barry [Mahon] at Ferrans to be broken in. He will join the cohort already there and they will be distributed to trainers." (17:07)

"Dubawi has been one of the great stallions of this century, the cross works with Galileo, it is the magic cross, he comes from a smashing farm, everything you like to see in a Dubawi – although it is a long time since I bought one! He is just a lovely, very well-bred colt, a very good looking and hopefully we have a bit of luck."

Elizabethofaragon won twice, was placed in the Listed River Eden Stakes, and is an own-sister to Kingsbarns, winner of the Racing Post Trophy (G1) and third in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1). She is a half-sister to Sweeter Still, winner of the Senorita Stakes (G3) and dam of Kamkeo, winner of the 2,000 Guineas (G1) and the Vertem Futurity Stakes (G1).

The colt was bred by GSA Bloodstock, and Elizabethofaragon was bought by Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock for 650,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale 2022. (16:31)

"The mare has produced two good horses, and I love to see that. This colt stays in Britain."

Dam Dulkashe (Pivotal) is the dam of three winners, including Defoe, winner of the Coronation Cup (G1), the Hardwicke Stakes (G2), the Jockey Club Stakes (G2), the John Porter Stakes (G3), and the Geoffrey Freer Stakes (G3), and placed eight times, three times at the top level.

Her 2022 colt Jackknife is by Kameko, is the winner of one and has finished third in the Heron Stakes (L). (16:03)

Danilovna is by Danisli, winner of the Dahlia Stakes, a runner-up in a Grade 3 at Santa Anita, and a half-sister to the dual Group 1 winner Lillie Langtry, dam of the Group 1 winners Minding, Tuesday and Empress Josephine.

Danilovna is dam of two winners, including Roi De France, a Listed race runner-up and full-brother to this filly. (15:38)