Lot 95: Simon Taplin of Norman Court Stud admitted that he "had always wanted a Sea The Stars colt" and the owner of Norman Court Stud fulfilled his goal when successfully purchasing this colt by the sire and out of Contemptuous (Danehill Dancer) for 120,000gns from Lynn Lodge Stud.

"I usually buy fillies, we have had a good year and we are looking to get the stud further forward, but he took my eye yesterday – my trainers are going to fight over him!" said Taplin. "We fancied having a colt and the plan is to run him and keep him away from the fillies."

As a grand-son of Hoity Toity, the dam of Lillie Langtry and the grand-dam of Minding, Tuesday, Empress Josephine and Kissed By Angels, the colt does have something of a pedigree, but stallion prospecting was not the main driver for Taplin's purchase.

"It would be the dream to have him become a stallion but he has not been bought with that in mind, we just want to run him and see what happens and have some fun. We do have Sixties Icon and Rumble Inthejungle on the farm; Sixties is 20 now and will cover next spring, " added Taplin.

Norman Court will have 23 in training next summer, split between trainers Jack Channon, Clive Cox, Eve Johnson-Houghton, Andrew Balding and Roger Teal and Michael Madgwick.

The Wiltshire-based farm has a broodmare band of around 40 mares of which around 12 are its own, the remainder being boarding mares. Last year's juvenile Mister Sketch was bred by Norman Court and, racing in the farm's colours, won an August Salisbury maiden for trainerJohnson-Houghton. The Territories colt was subsequently sold to Wathnan Racing for whom he finished second in the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes on his last start of the season. (14:55)

Lot 74: the Frankel colt out of the Prix du Gros-Chene (G2) winner Beauty Is Truth (Pivotal), the dam of the Group 1 winners Hydrangea, Hermosa, The United States and the Group 3 winner Fire Lily, makes 125,000gns, another purchase for Agrolexica International Trading. He was sold by tThe Castlebridge Consignment,

She is also grand-dam of Sounds Of Heaven, Group 3 placed in the Coronation Stakes at Ascot.

Second dam is the Group 3 winner Zelding, dam of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (G1) runner-up Glorious Sight, dam of Glycon, placed third in the Prix Royal-Oak (G1). (13:43)

Lot 49: the only yearling in today's sale by the Ashford Stud-based sire Justify, who has had such a good 2023 on the track and on both sides of the Atlantic, sells for 110,000gns, is signed for by Ananios Antoniadis on behalf of Agrolexica International Trading

The colt, sold by Barton Stud, is the first foal out of The Girl Herself (American Pharoah), a half-sister to Circular Quay (Thunder Gulch), winner of the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes, and out of the Circle Of Life (Belong To Me), winner of the Spinaway Stakes (G1). (13:16)

Lot 41: the only representative from War Of Will's first crop to sell in Europe makes 105,000gns, the filly bought by Patrick Cooper of BBA Ireland for trainer Jessie Harrington. She was sold by Rathbarry Stud.

"We wanted one more yearling," said Cooper. "She is a beautiful filly and should be an early-ish type. She is the only one by the sire that I have seen and he has done now wtong , he was a good race horse. The mare could run, too, let's hope we are lucky."

The European breeze-up graduate War Of Will (War Front) was a dual Grade 1 winner of the Maker's Mark Mile and the Preakness Stakes and three times placed at Grade 1 level and now stands at Claiborne Farm for $25,000.

The mare Stone Tornado was bought by BBA Ireland in the US in November 2021 for $210,000 carrying this filly. The mare had another filly this spring, this time by Rathbarry Stud's long-standing sire Acclamation. (12:33)

Lot 15: by Invincible Spirit and out of Pretty Face (Rainbow Quest) is sold by Keith Harte for 57,000gns to Blandford Bloodstock.

The colt is a half-brother to Jack Darcy (Gleneagles), winner of the Grand Prix de Paris (G2) and runner-up in the Prix Dollar (G2), the Glorious Stakes (G3) and the Listed Prix Nureyev.

The second dam Modena produced such luminaries as the Group 1 winner Elmaamul, Reams Of Verse, the champion two-year-old of 1996, as well as seven further black-type winners. She is also dam of the Lingfield Oaks Trial (L) runner-up Midsummer, the dam of Midday, a champion older mare of 2010, the winner of nine races and six-times successful at the highest level, once in the US when winner of the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Filly & mare Turf. (11:53)

Lot 9: sells for 150,000gns, the son of Sea The Stars bought by trainer James Tate on behalf of Rabbah Bloodstock. He was sold by WH Bloodstock

"He is a lovely, big horse, his dam was a good race mare, Sea The Stars needs no introduction, he is a lovely physical and I am delighted to get him," said Tate.

Dam is Pirouette (Pivotal) and was a winner of a Listed race in Germany and was placed ten times, including five times in Listed races and was also third in the Chartwell Fillies' Stakes (G3). She is a half-sister to Passified (Compton Place), a Grade 2 winner in the US. (11:38)