Tara Murphy, who is stud manager, said: "We are thrilled, we knew coming here that he is a lovely colt, we were very excited about him, he scoped perfect, vetted perfect, and being a colt by Blue Point he was popular. It was brilliant we were confident coming but did not expect that much!

"Last week made us hopeful and we heard that a lot of buyers had not filled there books... I wish we had a yard full of them."

She added: "We used to consign under other people, but we headed out on our, hopefully onwards and upwards! The mare was bought a number of years again and everything we have bred out of her has won and we have bred two black-type horses out of her – hopefully another one is on the way! She has never let us down. We have used Blue Point three times and he is the first one to come to market." (14:17)

She is a half-sister to the Andrew Balding-trained Kalpana (Study Of Man), who won the 1m4f Group 3 September Stakes at Kempton at the beginning of September. She is entered in the Group 1 British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

Ed Player of Whatton Manor Stud said: "Richard helps us buy mares and he picked this one – at the time there was a very good half-sister in Dermot Weld's yard. Apparently, she had been working incredibly well and we bought her on the back of that. But she got injured and never ran so we thought we were in trouble.

"But thankfully Kalpana has come out and with the amazing update, so the mare has proved she can do it. Kalpana has got a very good chance on Saturday, but I think next year, when she strengthens up, she could be a very nice filly. It is a dream to get a nice update like this and it helps."

Of the cover of Too Darn Hot, he added: "We have always believed in Too Darn Hot and we believe in this mare. We always try and think big and use as good an option as we can on the mares.

"This is a lovely filly and delighted that it has worked out, it is great to have a good sale. The guys on the farm work so hard it is much for them as anyone else to be able to show the work that they are doing, it is amazing.

"At the moment it looks as though the strength from last week's trade is continuing. We have got some lovely horses this week and we are hoping for some more good sales." (13:01)

"I am a big fan of the stallion and he had a great weekend," said Brown. "He bought two fillies here last year and they have both ran on the same day at Haydock and won impressively. Saeed is here today and I showed him the filly out in the parade ring , and he fell in love with her. She is an outstanding individual and out of a Shamardal mare. We keen to buy a Night Of Thunder, I don't know who will train her. "

The filly is out of Zain Hana, winner of two races at two and three and the dam of one winner from one runner. (12:45)

Anthony Stroud was the underbidder on the Tally-HoStud-bred and sold colt.

"Roger O'Callaghan has been going on about the sire for long enough!" said Magnier. "You to have to listen to him! To be fair, this is a nice horse and the O'Callaghans they are very good breeders. He is out of a Frankel mare, let's hope he is a nice horse. He goes to Roger Varian."

Of last week's trade, he added: "It was an incredible sale, it was unnatural really. "

Of the recent announcements regarding the retirement to stud of City Of Troy and Auguste Rodin, he added: "We have got two very exciting horses to retire this year, exceptional. Aidan was talking about the two from early doors, they are so well-bred, they won Group 1s at two, they were both very precocious horses, it is exciting."

Of the decision to base City Of Troy in Ireland, he said: "The guys in Ashford were obviously very keen to get City Of Troy, we just feel that this market is so strong here [in Europe] that we felt it was the right thing."

Magnier added: "What last week's market also showed is that people want Classic horses – Classic racing is what it is all about and that is where the best prize-money is. The Guineas and the Derby are very special races and they always will be."

Back in the right-yard, the father-son double-act of Roger and Tony O'Callaghan of Tally-Ho Stud said: "This was a very good-looking horse with a good action, and two very clever men tried to buy him.

"We paid a fair price when we bought the mare Utile for 110,000gns, but she is by Frankel and was well-rated as a racehorse. We bought her because of Straight Answer [black-type winner in the second dam and by Kodiac] – we bought her to go to Kodiac, too, but he was out of action and so she went instead to Mehmas."

And it looks as though Mehmas, who has had 57 two-year-old winners this year, will take Kodiac's crown for the most juvenile winners (61) produced in a season.

"He is not far away now," said O'Callaghan the elder. "And we don't mind if he does! Life moves on."

And of the 23-year-old Tally-Ho stud stalwart Kodiac, O'Callaghan the younger updated: "He is in good form – there is certainly life in the old dog yet!" (12:12)

"It was tough to buy in Book 1, I think we got pieces of four horses," said McElroy, adding: "We are just trying to buy some fast types as we have in the past, horses who will be out early and hopefully make Royal Ascot, one of the marquee meets over here. She seemed to fit the bill º by Blue Point from a fast family, I think she is a fair price."

He added: "The Zoustar filly we bought earlier [Lot 454] had to stretch a bit on her – we got in early and I would imagine that the sale will pick up momentum as we got through today and the next few days, so hopefully will look like value.

We will take them back to the states and see how we go. She is the first we have bought by the sire, but we have been keen and bid on a few last week, he looks to be an top stallion who can get you a precocious horse and could work on both sides of the Atlantic." (11:36)

The recent Prix Jean Luc Lagardere (G1) winner Camille Pissarro was bred by and sold by the farm to MV Magnier for1,250,000gns in last year's Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale. Camille Pissarro is the third Group 1 winner, alongside Golden Horde and Dream Of Dreams, bred at the farm in County Kilkenny. (11:26)

Taraateel was bought by the filly's breeder Mascalls Stud for 230,000gns at the December Sale in 2021. Third dam Torrestrella was Classic winner of the Group 1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches. (10:23)

She is from the family of the champion two-year-old Shadayd and dam Tajamhor (Candy Ride) was bought here at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale by Peter and Ross Doyle for 42,000gns. (10:13)

Selling starts at 10am. (08:48)

Catalogued: 449 (532)

Offered: 393 (470)

Sold: 345 (391)

Turnover: 127,823,000gns (+12%) *record

Median: 250,000gns (+39%) *record

Average: 370,501gns (+52%) *record

% Sold: 88% (83%)

Top lot: Lot 68, Frankel ex Aljazzi, sold for 4,400,000gns to Amo Racing by Newsells Park Stud

1,000,000gns+: 16

500,000gns+: 69

Leading consignor (by agg): 1. Newsells Park Stud, 2. Baroda Stud, 3. The Castlebridge Consignment

Leading purchaser (by agg): 1. Godolphin, 2. Amo Racing, 3. Blandford Bloodstock

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

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

Top five

Lot 68: Frankel (GB) / Aljazzi (GB) B.F. (GB) Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Amo Racing >> 4,400,000gns

Lot 332: Wootton Bassett (GB) / Park Bloom (IRE) B/Br.C. (IRE) >> Lodge Park Stud, Ireland >> Amo Racing >> 4,300,000gns

Lot 407: Siyouni (FR) / Shambolic (IRE) B.F. (GB) >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd.>> Godolphin >> 3,700,000gns

Lot 183: Dark Angel (IRE) / Futoon (IRE) Gr.F. (IRE) >> Grangemore Stud, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 2,900,000gns

Lot 402: Camelot (GB) / Sense of Style (IRE) B.F. (IRE)>> Camas Park Stud, Ireland >> Amo Racing >> 2,900,000gns (18:20)

"The breeders and consignors consistently send the cream of the European yearling crop to Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and the outstanding quality of the yearlings they send to this very special sale year after year is the key to attracting so many of the world’s most successful and influential racehorse owners to Tattersalls. They come in confidence, knowing that they will find an elite collection of yearlings, more of which will go on to achieve great things on racecourses around the world than from any other European yearling sale.

“All in all it has been an extraordinary yearling sale. The statistics tell a remarkable story with massive year on year rises in average, median and turnover. The sale turnover has risen year on year by around 30 million guineas, the average price well in excess of 300,000 guineas is unprecedented, as is a median which has surpassed the previous record of 200,000 guineas by a very significant margin and all of this has been accomplished alongside an enviable clearance rate in excess of 85%.

"Newsells Park Stud’s 4.4 million guineas sale-topping FRANKEL filly out of ALJAZZI is the highest-priced yearling to be sold in the northern-hemisphere this year and Lodge Park Stud’s 4.3 million guineas WOOTTON BASSETT colt out of PARK BLOOM is not only the highest price for a yearling colt in the world this year, but also a new European record for a yearling colt.

"The very top of the market has been outlandish with an unprecedented eight yearlings selling for 2 million guineas or more, 16 selling for seven figure sums and almost 70 yearlings realising 500,000 guineas or more.

“The buyers who have made all of this possible have come from far and wide. The contribution from throughout the Gulf region has been such a feature of sales at Tattersalls for a very long time and their continued support should never be underestimated. This year they have been joined by an almost overwhelming number of overseas buyers with the large contingent of American buyers making a massive contribution alongside buyers from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan and throughout Europe, all of whom have been competing with strong domestic demand, most notably from Kia Joorabchian’s Amo Racing, which has become such a force on the global racing scene.

“There are so many people that can take an enormous amount of satisfaction from this sale and to see so many being so richly rewarded has been a huge boost to the British and Irish breeding industries. Every breeder, every consignor, every handler and all the teams back at the farms throughout Britain, Ireland and further afield who have raised these yearlings; they have all played their part and they should be proud of the collective achievement which is phenomenal.

“We will turn our attention very quickly to Books 2, 3 and 4 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, which starts on Monday 14th October, but in the meantime we can reflect on a week which has shone a bright light on a great industry.” (18:10)

Catalogued: 151 (177)

Offered: 132 (156)

Sold: 111 (133)

Turnover: 44,760,000gns (+54%)

Median: 230,000gns (+48%)

Average: 403,243gns (+84%) *record for a day's trade at the October Book 1 Sale

% Sold: 84% (85%)

Day 3 top five

Lot 332: Wootton Bassett (GB) / Park Bloom (IRE) B/Br.C. (IRE) >> Lodge Park Stud, Ireland >> Amo Racing >> 4,300,000gns

Lot 407: Siyouni (FR) / Shambolic (IRE) B.F. (GB) >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Godolphin >> 3,700,000gns

Lot 402: Camelot (GB) / Sense of Style (IRE) B.F. (IRE) >> Camas Park Stud, Ireland >> Amo Racing >> 2,900,000gns

Lot 311: Wootton Bassett (GB) / My Titania (IRE) B.F. (IRE) >> The Castlebridge Consignment >> William Haggas >> 1,700,000gns

Lot 325: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Oriental Magic (GER) B.F. (IRE) >> Kildaragh Stud, Ireland (Agent) >> Godolphin >> 1,600,000gns (18:28)

General manager Julian Dollar said: "It has been an amazing sale, I wish I had more horses to sell! I am not that long in the tooth, this is my 19th year doing the Newsells draft, I did Cheveley before I then went to America for a spin, and I have never known a market like this, I really have not.

"I want to be the first to congratulate Tatts on the job the company has done bringing people to this sale this year.

"It is the premier European sale, and the company has a done a marvellous job bringing people in. Slightly reducing the size of the catalogue I think has been a good move. We will enjoy it, I am not sure I can really believe it, but we will enjoy it."

Dollar continued: "People like buying horses, and sometimes on a wet January or February night and you have a problem with a mare foaling and you think 'God, this is not much fun', But then you come and watch these lovely horses walking around the parade ring on a sunny afternoon and you think 'God, this is some job' and it is a pleasure to look at beautiful horses. It does not matter industry you are in the world, there is something about the horse that is magical – the dream of buying a top-class racehorse is alive and well in all of us." (18:00)

"The market for fillies has absolutely ballooned, when the market is up 100 per cent it is very difficult to anticipate what value these horses will make. All these top fillies were all beautifully bred and so well presented. I am surprised how buoyant the market is, but when you get all these organisations in, it propels the market to a different stratosphere. There has been a very good cross-section of horses here, and I also think the smaller catalogue was a positive move."

Leading buyer Godolphin has spent over 22,000,000gns, the organisation's second-highest spend at a Book 1 sale.

"It is a significant amount money to spend – what we want is two years' time is for that to be transferred to top results," added Stroud. (17:48)

Today's bidding all took place outside the ring, between Godolphin and Coolmore, the former the successful party with Sheikh Mohammed in attendance.

Joint breeders Graham Smith-Bernal (Newsells Park Stud) and Craig Bennett (Merry Fox Stud) answered press questions in tandem, jokingly calling themselves Morecombe and Wise, unsure quite who is "Wise" and who is "Morecombe".

"It is tremendous, Graham's team has done a brilliant job," said Bennett. "The dam just keeps on giving, and we are very lucky to have her. We are delighted with that result, it is onward and upward."

Smith-Bernal added: "It is hard to believe where this market is at, it is very strong. We knew she was very special, reflected by the fact that we had so many vettings and scopes, and the way she has conducted herself here. sShe is a beautiful, beautiful filly and we wish the new owners all the very best."

He continued: "We are very happy because we have a lovely Frankel filly foal on the ground, a full-sister to Ylang Ylang, and we will keep her and Shambolic is in-foal to Frankel.

" I also still retain a stake in the Kingman colt with John Gosden. He is called Kaizen – watch out for that name because the recent feed back from jockey Oisin Murphy [after a piece of work] was that he could be a special colt."

Shambolic (Shamardal) was bought for 800,000gns by Hadden Bloodstock from the Floors Farming dispersal in 2019 and Bennett added: "It is a hard game to make money at, but when you do, you can make it big. When we bought the mare she wasn't cheap, but she was quality and I remember the bidding as clear as day – we had another bid and managed to get her, thank god we did!" (16:33)

When Sangster was asked if he was tempted to keep the filly and race her, he said: "Very! And I have a young man who is training [Ollie Sangster], but we will look for hime next week.

"It is a strong market and she is a beautiful filly and when you get two to tango... I am just the lucky recipient! It is a lovely family, and mum has a filly foal by Camelot," said Ben Sangster. "I hope she goes to a good home and lives up to expectations. I am a bit gobsmacked, it is amazing.

"I think anyone coming here before this week started, everything that has happened this week has exceeded expectations. I have been lucky, and Camelot has had a great year and his daughter winning the Arc has just put him right up there." (15:55)

The colt is out of the mare Sagely (Frozen Power), who was bought by the farm for 42,000gns at the December Mares' Sale 2017, and she has subsequently bred Perfect Power, the winner of the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes, the Prix Morny (G1) and Norfolk Stakes (G2) and the Commonwealth Cup (G1).

Tony O'Callaghan, Tally-Ho Stud also standing the sire, said: "Sometimes you get a bit of luckily. The market is amazing, it is incredible, it is great to see, long may it last and it is good for everyone."

The colt is the second by Mehmas bought by Godolphin this week – the team having earlier spent 800,000gns on the half-brother to Mac Swiney from Boherguy (Lot 201). (15:23)

“Today’s top lot, a Wootton Bassett colt out of a Galileo mare, went to Kia for an eye-watering 4.3million Guineas and we go 66/1 for that horse to land any British Classic in 2026.”

Amo Racing to own British Classic winner in 2026: 14/1

Wootton Bassett x Park Bloom to win British Classic in 2026: 66/1 (14:47)

The average for today's session is running at an unprecedented 400,627gns, 83 per cent up on last year's Day 3's concluding 219,233gns, while the current median figure of 270,000gns is an 42 per cent improvement on last year's end-of-day Day 3 figure of 155,000gns.

The average and median for the whole sale are currently running at an improvement of 49 per cent and 39 per cent compared to 2023's final figure. (14:43)

Dam Prize Exhibit was bought by Barronstown for 775,000gns at the 2017 Tattersalls December Mares' Sale. She has bred the group 3 winner and Ribbldesdale Stakes (G2) third placed History, bought at this sale by Magnier for 2,800,000gns in 2018.

Of this filly, he said: "She is a very nice filly, we have been very lucky with buying horses of David and Diane [Nagle] they are great breeders, they have bred very good horses in the past. We bought History here a couple of years ago, she is in-foal to Justify carrying a colt, Aidan liked her."

Reflecting on this sale, he said: "The sale has been incredible, Tattersalls has done a great job getting everyone here. You could feel a couple of days before the sale a great buzz around the place, and Tattersalls got the horses and the people here.

"It is incredible that Amo, the effort and money the team is spending, I wish them the best of luck."

Of Wootton Bassett, he added: "The sire is flying, he is another good winner last night for Juddmonte who could be going to the Group 1 Futurity Stakes [Detain].

"Wootton Bassett has had ten stakes-winning two-year-olds this season and he is the perfect outcross for the Galileo mares, he seems to work with anything. He has started to become an international horse and his juveniles in Australia are hitting, he is a very good stallion. The colt is a stunning horse and well done to the Burns family, we are very sorry not to get the horse, he made a lot of money and hope he is lucky for Kia and his crew." (14:07)

The overall record price for Book 1 was achieved in 2013 by a Galileo filly when she was sold for 5,000,000gns. She was out of Alluring Park, this colt's second dam, and was also bred and sold by Lodge Park – the Burns family and farm now responsible for the highest-priced colt and highest-priced filly ever sold in the Book 1.

After the sale Jamie Burns, who led up the colt himself and was surrounded by family, including his mum Patricia, said: "He is a beautiful horse and the family has always done us well, and, hopefully, he will be the next one to enhance the pedigree. I was not expecting that! I was not really thinking when it went over four million, emotion took over, it was surreal. I am coming down from the clouds a bit now and it was all pretty special."

He added: "He has been busy all week and has never turned a hair once. We have bred four generations on this colt's page, and we also had Park Appeal, who is Wootton Bassett's pedigree, too."

The mare is in-foal to Lope De Vega and did not have a foal this year.

Bloodstock agent Alex Elliott said: "If you were going to paint a racehorse, he is as close to perfection as you can get. From the top to the bottom, from the farm he came from – the amount of time and money and love that the Burns family has put into that page, it is just does not take any explaining to anyone.

"To get a physical like that, that is a lifetime achievement for anyone,. For us to be part of that, to buy into that is just phenomenal that Kia has done that, you don't really find people who can do that. I said to Kia when I first showed him the horse, it did not take a genius to find the horse, we all said that you can't get better than that.

"I said, 'Kia you have been second in two Derbys, this is the horse who could take you one place better.' He has got every right, if he can run how he looks to have spot in a stallion shed one day. It was always going to take that sort of bidding to buy that horse, Coolmore was never going to let that horse out of its sight, so to beat them... they are the best in the game. For what Kia is doing is just refreshing and it is huge, it feels new and has reinvigorated it again. No trainer has been decided yet.

"I am just very honoured to be a small part of the process, thankfully Kia has faith in his team, I just hope he gets rewarded fro what they are doing. We are just trying to find the best stock, that is our role and we are just doing our jobs at the end of the day – hopefully everyone is doing the right job."

Kia Joorabchian said: "We have a lot of stock, for us to get to the next level we have to target the best stock. We have targeted this sale and the US. Every member of my team when we saw this colt said we can't leave without him, and it was him and the two Frankel fillies – they were our three main targets and we have managed to get all three, so we are happy. "

He added: "To play at the top is very hard, we have run the stats and if you look at all the Group 1s over the last four years, they are either homebreds or extremely well-bred. Of course, you get the odd one come through, but really to get to the next level, the stallions and mares have got to be strong.

"We have not had the strength so this year our strategy has been to have the strength in pedigree. I like to follow our own strategy, we speak about, we at around every night, we have gone through the book and every member of the team has been involved, we have all given opinions, we have had a short list and going on." (13:15)

A visibly emotional Peter Kavanagh said: "We have sold horses for over a million before for clients, but never for ourselves. It is just amazing, it is the culmination of a lot of work by a very good team at home.

"This will probably only happen once in a lifetime. We bought Oriental Magic in training, we raced her ourselves and won a stakes race with her and we bred from her then.

"It is lovely to have access to a stallion such as Sea The Stars, who was such a champion and is becoming so important – he gets good colts and fillies and he is kicking in as a super broodmare sire, too. He is going to have an influence comparable to Galileo, they seem to have have such superb temperaments and are so easy to mate, he works with speed and stamina. We have to thank Mrs Tsui for letting us use him."

He added: "It is lovely, it is wonderful – it is a lot of work, so often things don't got right, but when it does it is wonderful."

Of buying Oriental Magic, he recalled: "She had class and is from a good German family and we have worked with German families all the way through, and they have been very good to us – they are sound, tough. She is back in-foal to Sea The Stars and did not have a foal this year, but if we can do that every second year it will be lovely!" (12:43)

Her dam is by Exceed And Excel and won twice at Grade 2 level at Turffontein , nd was also placed second in the Grade 1 Wilgerbosdrift South African Challenge at the same track. She is out of the Churchill Downs Grade 3 winner Decelerator (Dehere) and is a half-sister to the Group 3 Sha Tin winner Stolz.

Nafaayes' first foal by Oasis Dream died as a yearling and her second by Mohaather is yet to race. He is named Motabaah and is a two-year-old of this year. She was bought for 78,000gns from the Shadwell Stud dispersal here at the December Mares Sale in 2022 by Twin Hills Stud. (12:19)

Amo was the resigned underbidder, Kia Joorabchian just left to shake his head when offered the chance to better the bid from the Newmarket trainer.

"She has been bought for Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy," said Haggas. "We have had lots of the family before and she is fairly typical of them."

The half-siblings My Oberon (Dubawi), a Haydock Group 3 winner who went on to enjoy Group 1 success in Australia, My Prospero (Iffraaj), winner of the Prix Eugene Adam (G2) and Group 1-placed, and My Astra, winner of the Listed Rothesay Stakes and Group 1 fourth-placed in the Prix de l'Opera, have all been trained by Haggas.

Under the second dam the King George Stakes (G2) winner Muthmir, also twice Group 1 third-placed, also raced from Somerville Lodge Stables.

Dam My Titania (Sea The Stars) was trained by John Oxx for breeder Sunderland Holdings, and she won the Group 3 Park Stakes and finished fourth in the Coronation Stakes (G1).

Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy own the Haggas-trained Lake Forest, who was a runner-up in the Commonwealth Cup (G1) at this year's Royal Ascot. (12:05)

"I did not expect to pay that much for her!" laughed Burke from his bidding spot under the window. "She is a very nice flly, a lovely filly nad obviously very popular. She is for an existing owner in the yard.

"She is a beautiful, scopey filly with a great walk, vetted well and very happy – the sire is going from strength to strength. He is on fire."

She was sold by Highclere Stud and the pedigree is a branch of the late Queen Elizabeth II's leading family of Highclere, her 1974 winner of the 1,000 Guineas and Prix de Diane (G1). (11:25)

Catalogued: 149 (178)

Offered: 131 (160)

Sold: 117 (134)

Turnover: 40,383,000gns (+12%)

Median: 240,000gns (+23%)

Average: 345,154gns (+30%)

% Sold: 89% (81%)

Day 2 top lot: Lot 183, the Dark Angel full-sister to Charyn, sold for 2,900,000gns to Godolphin by Grangemore Stud

Day 2 1,000,000gns+: 5

Leading consignor (by agg): 1. Newsells Park Stud, 2. Baroda Stud, 3. Ballylinch Stud

Leading purchaser (by agg): 1. Godolphin, 2. Amo Racing, 3. Blandford Bloodstock

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

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Dubawi, 2. Frankel, 3. Dark Angel

Day 2 top five

Lot 183: Dark Angel (IRE) / Futoon (IRE) Gr.F. (IRE) >> Grangemore Stud, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 2,900,000gns

Lot 242: Dubawi (IRE) / Lady Bowthorpe (GB) Ch.C. (GB) >> Fittocks Stud >> Godolphin >> 2,000,000gns

Lot 236: Too Darn Hot (GB) / Knocknagree (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Croom House Stud, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 1,500,000gns

Lot 297: Dubawi (IRE) / Molly Malone (FR) B.C. (GB) >> Baroda Stud, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 1,500,000gns

Lot 268: Dubawi (IRE) / Loving Dream (GB) B.C. (GB) >> Watership Down Stud >> Yulong >> 1,100,000gns (18:40)

"I am delighted, fair play to Tweenhills for using us to consign him, he is a lovely horse," said successful consignor David Cox of Baroda Stud. "Trade has been very strong, we've had two millionaires this week, we have homebreds off the farm selling very well for clients – everyone is very happy. I was not expecting trade to be as a strong as this, it has been bonzana really, hasn't it? All the things going on in the world – here we are and the only we are worried about is the rain!"

Dam Molly Malone, winner of the Prix Cadran and dam of the Group 2 winner Morgan Le Faye and the Listed winner Chalice, was bought in 2017 for €600,000 by David Redvers.

He is the ninth seven-figure yearling sold at the sale so far. (18:21)

After purchase Vin Cox, Yulong's new appointed general manager, said: "We were at our upper end of the bidding. We can make a plan now – 24 hours ago we did not own him! We will get him broken in and then decide what trainer to go to, but there are no plans as yet.

"He will stay in Europe in the medium term, if he wins some nice races here that would be fantastic and, if he is good enough to race in Australia as well, that would be great."

Of the two days so far for Yulong, he said: "We have been a vendor here, too, and we sold a Frankel colt yesterday for seven figures, which was fantastic and we are delighted.

"The quality horses here this week has been outstanding, beautiful horses everywhere you went. Competition has been justifiably strong on the quality that is here, all credit to Tatts for getting a wonderful bunch of horses here and a buying bench that is very competitive.

"The figures and stats say that it is a magnificent sale and going back to my Magic Millions days I would have loved to have been on the end of a market that has jumped as much as it has."

Of this individual, he added: "We think he is a lovely horse, he is by Dubawi who is one of the best stallions of all time. This colt is out of a Group 1 winner, and is a good-looking horse and we are happy to have him. Let's hope he is as good as we hope!"

Simon Marsh, general manager of Watership Down Stud, said: "He is a first foal, and is a lovely, lovely horse, and I have known him all the way through since he was a foal. He was raised at Lordship Stud, they have done a fantastic job with him. We got him to prepare for the sale about three months ago, he has been a joy and has just thrived and done better and better. He has been very busy up here." (17:15)

“I thought he was an absolutely gorgeous colt and is out of a very good racemare by Monsun, who’s already produced a decent filly in Ottery," said Brown. "It’s a lovely back page, too. Obviously I was very keen on him, then Saeed Suhail saw him out here, and he was much braver than I would’ve been!

“There aren’t many owners out there who’ve owned two Derby winners, obviously he had Kris Kin and we bought Desert Crown here a few years ago now in Book 2. He likes mile plus horses, and this is certainly a horse who'll need a bit of time. He looks like he’s going to be a 1m2f or a 1m4f horse, but he’s a patient owner.

“Obviously Sir Michael is retiring. He had a tremendous relationship with Sir Michael over a number of years, they had two Derby winners together and a Guineas winner. There’s going to have to be a little bit of a restructure, which has already been discussed. At the moment he has horses in training with William Haggas and Andrew Balding, so it’ll be up to Saeed. We’ll have a chat at the end of the sales and work it out, but I’m sure any trainer would be happy to have this colt. I’m liking what I’m seeing from St Mark’s Basilica, who was an exceptional racehorse.” (17:00)

Breeder Emma Banks was at Tattersalls to watch the first-born foal sell.

"I love his Mum and I love him, and I will follow him and I am very happy he has gone to a great owner and a great establishment," she said. "It was surreal to watch, I am just so happy he is going to a great place. He is a special horse.

"It seems to have been quick to get to this point, but also has taken forever, and today has been quick and also taken forever. There are so many things going on in the world, and I have just sold a horse for two million!

"I am just so proud that Lady Bowthorpe, and everyone who is involved with her – she was bred at Fittocks and has gone back there, and she is loving her life as a broodmare and the fact that she has had such a gorgeous attractive and well put together horse makes me so proud.

"Martin and all the Fittocks staff have done such a beautiful job of looking after him. He has just been a superstar since the day he was born... I am very biased, you might not have noticed!"

Of the mare's next offspring she said: "He has a lovely full-brother – I might be able to afford to keep him now – and she is in-foal to Too Darn Hot. Lady Bowthorpe does not like to travel too much, she just nipped around the corner to visit him at Darley," added Banks, who also said that "I try to get to the stud as much as I can, without getting on everyone's nerves!"

Of today's experience and generally that in horseracing she enlarged: "I have had a lot of expectation managing people around me, pointing out that it could go horribly wrong. You have these dreams – every time you go racing, it does not matter if it is Goodwood or Wolverhampton, you go expecting to win, otherwise you would not do this. So you come here expecting to win, and I knew he was nice and people were telling me he is nice, but you need two people to want him to get a price like that."

Anthony Stroud said: "I think he is a lovely horse, beautifully produced by Fittocks and the dam raced so well for Emma Banks and she took the plunge and bred her to Dubawi and it is nice that she ended up with such a good-looking horse." (16:07)

He is a close relation to Idea Generation (Dubawi), winner of the Flower Bowl Stakes (G2) at Saratoga since the catalogue was published. She was bought by Mike Ryan at this sale in 2021 for 340,000gns.

"He is by a young stallion who has done very well in Australia and here and is on the upwards trend, and coming from Croom which is a great farm and we liked him a lot," said Stroud. "We are very happy to have him."

He added: "The market has been unbelievable, I am sure the sales rate is very high and impressive [86 per cent] and a lot of internationals here, and it makes such a difference when the principals are here, it is important."

It is Croom House Stud's leading family of Zoffany, Rostropovich, Spotlight and Berkshire Rocco.

Stud manager Joe Hartigan said: "We are absolutely over the moon, it is a great price and we are delighted. He has always been a belter of a colt, and when John O'Kelly came to see him in the spring he held him in high regard, but you never know what is going to happen in the ring.

"It is a family that keep on giving – Idea Generation won the Grade 2 recently and there was also the Group 1 win for Land Legend in the Metropolitan who is under the second dam. We did not sell the mare Knocknagree, and she is coming up with the goods now." (16:00)

Alex Elliott, who bought the own-brother to Al Aasy, winner of the Group 3 Glorious Stakes and the Geoffrey Freer Stakes (G3) since the catalogue was published, said: "It just makes sense and is something that happens a lot more in the US and Australia, people teaming up on big-money colts – you hope you can then buy enough for them, one hits and it pays for the lot. He is going to Ralph Beckett.

"He is a hell of a horse, he is huge, and he has a temperament to die for and is very light on his feet, let's just hope he wins the Derby."

They have very similar minds and trying to do the same thing, what is the point of competing? It limits the risk, especially when racing for less money. There are issues to consider, but if everyone can get on the same page, stay in the buggy it can work out." (15:43)

It is the best-ever sale ring price for the Berkshire-based farm.

The farm's Jeffrey Hobby, who is walking around Tattersalls with a beaming smile on his face, said: "We have had an amazing week, it has been too much! I need to go and lie down in a quiet corner. It is fantastic. I have always loved the horse, and hoped he would find his value, and he is an absolute rock star."

Hobby purchased the mare Isabella (Galileo) for 225,000gns here at Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2021 and he said: "I loved her, and we bought her from the Sir Robert Ogden dispersal. I did ask myself after we had bought her, why I had not instead purchased her full-sister went for about a third of the price [Pandora, 75,000gns]?

"Then I remembered that Isabella is such a lovely physical – we had to have quite a kick at the time to push to get her, but it has reaped dividends."

Of Sunday's race day and sales day, Hobby said: "Sunday was what it was about and another level, but this is another level for us, too – our previous best was 340,000gns for a foal."

Of onward plans he laughed: "The plan is to reinvest here in December – we go again, we get more mares! We have bought the farm next door, doubled the size of the stud and we need some mares to fill it... though my wife might disagree with me!

"But this is all down to a great team, we prep them at home and they do all the hard yards. Tom Blain and Barton Stud help me here and Stroud Coleman works with me to buy."

The final word needs to go to Makarova, and Hobby updated: "She will stay for a short while with Ed Walker, have some wind down time with him and then she will come hime – we have saved the paddock in front of the house for her!" (14:42)

"I am thrilled," said Manning. "I thought we are going well and to have Blandford and Godolphin get in a battle and the price get to 800,000gns. It is unbelievable. I have just been on the phone to 'granda' and he is delighted and over the moon. We are so pleased he has gone to a good home, we have had a good rapport over the years with Godolphin, so nice to see him go there. "

Of selling plans, it was always the plan for the colt yo be offered as a yearling.

"This was always the plan. We did not sell him as a foal and we sat down and talked about it in the early spring time and decided he was our one and then we just had to decide where we were going to sell – we felt he was good enough to come here and stand out."

Mehmas has certainly had a year of years on the track and the colt has been able to bathe in that reflected glory.

"It has just been a bonus," smiled Manning. "The year Mehmas is having, getting the National Stakes winner and then the filly in the Marcel Boussac, everything has just clicked into our favour."

She added:"And Tatts has done a serious job for this sale – the amount of international people here this week, you just have to look at the results, they have been phenomenal, I don't think anyone thought this was going to happen. It is great to be part of it, I will enjoy it for a while!

"It is my third year offering in Book 1 and, personally, I am delighted, but I am thrilled for granda and all the lads who bred him and reared him, it is a team effort. it is nice to see when you get a result like that."

Of the colt as an individual and comparisons with Mac Swiney she said: "He is a ranger horse, this lad is a true cross between 'Teo' and Mehmas, he is more compact. He is a May foal but he does not look like it, he is really strong. But it is his walk... if I counted the amount of times people commented on it, he just walked up and down for fun, he has the smoothest action, you could stand and watch him all day."

Manning is done for Book 1 and has a couple of lots to consign through next week's Book 2 sale – she is going to give herself a deserved day off tomorrow! (13:58)

Gale Force, who is a half-sister to the British Champions Mile winner Seal Of Approval, was bought by Charlie Gordon-Watson Bloodstock at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2019 for 300,000gns from the Normandie Stud partial dispersal. (13:50)

It was a sale of dreams for Guy O'Callaghan of Grangemore Stud – the farm's previous best at Tattersalls being 850,000gns given by Sumbe for her year-older full-sister at this sale last year.

Charyn's owner Sumbe were again involved, this time into seven figures, but Nurlan Bizakov's operation then dropped away and the bidding developed to a match between Anthony Stroud for Godolphin, standing outside with Sheikh Mohammed in attendance, and Amo Racing, the team of Alex Elliott and Kia Joorabchian positioned in the same spot as yesterday, in the bidders area by the window.

After the 2,500,000gns mark, Alex Elliott and Joorabchian's bidding started to slow, and eventually pulled stumps when there were asked to better 2,900,000gns mark.

"It is the stuff of dreams and as a breeder it is what you always hope this could happen, two buyers such as Amo and Godolphin going head to head, then it can go any where," smiled O'Callaghan. "She has been flat out since she got here, but she has never turned a hair and showed exactly the same every time – it takes a very special horse to do that."

Although very controlled when talking after the sale, he said: "Don't worry I am doing cart wheels inside! I was not at Royal Ascot when Charyn won as I could not get away from home, but it is so very difficult for a horse to win there, it takes a great performance and that was special day – and days like this can't happen without that first."

Of the 11-year-old mare Futoon, who was bought by Grangemore at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale for 100,000gns in 2017, he said: "Futoon is an amazing mare, her yearling of last year was special and sold well, she a Dark Angel colt at foot and is in-foal to Blue Point. He had really impressed me last year with his first crop and I booked her to him after Charyn won the Group 2 in April."

It has been announced that Charyn is to retire to Sumbe to Haras de Montfort and Preaux at the end of this season.However his next stop will be the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Qipco British Champions Day, before possible travel to either the Breeders' Cup meet at Del Mar or to Japan.

O'Callaghan said: "Charyn looks as though he will be champion miler this year and I will be definitely booking in some mares to him!"

Successful buyer Anthony Stroud said: "She is an extremely good looking filly, moved incredibly well, her pedigree speaks for itself. It is so difficult to buy these fillies, and she was one that we all liked very much. It was more than we had anticipated." (13:06)

He is also the most expensive out of the mare Folk Melody (Street Cry) sold so far in the sale ring.

Romantic Warrior has prize-money earnings over £15,000,0000 and has won eight Group 1 races in Hong Kong, Australia and Japan – the six-year-old won the Yasuda Kinen (G1) last time out in June.

He put in a smart breeze at Happy Valley last Saturday and the Danny Shum-trained gelding's season may take in such races this season as the Group 1 Saudi Cup and Dubai World Cup. (12:30)

Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock, he was sold by Barton Stud.

"He is smashing colt, out of a Pivotal mare who is really done it with Royal Scotsman who is really talented horse and Churchill has sired a number of top performers. He comes from a very good hotel, and I think he is an outstanding individual," said Brown. "We had to stretch and, hopefully, he can do the job."

Of yesterday's trade, Brown said: "Extraordinary! It was amazing to see. Everyone bashes our [British] product but I can still tell you that the best racing is here, you can't beat it! You go to Royal Ascot and when you are standing there and your horse has won, there is no feeling like it. We have got the best product on earth and we should be proud of it. We should stick our chests out, but this is where everyone wants to compete – this is the Premiership here.

"I do think our racing and our bloodstock is the best in the world. I do think Jimmy George did a very good piece on Luck On Sunday talking about how good prize-money can be [with the Tattersalls Book 1 bonuses and the development races], it is not over yet!" (12:10)

Catalogued: 149 (177)

Offered: 130 (154)

Sold: 117 (124)

Turnover: 42,680,000gns (+39%)

Median: 260,000gns (+27%) *record median for a day at the October Book 1 Yearling Sale

Average: 364,786gns (+48%) *record average for a day at the October Book 1 Yearling Sale

% Sold: 90% (81%)

Top lot: 4,400,000gns

Leading consignor (by agg): 1. Newsells Park Stud, 2. Ballylinch Stud, 3. Staffordstown

Leading purchaser (by agg): 1. Amo Racing, 2. Godolphin, 3. Yulong

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Frankel, 2. Kingman, 3. No Nay Never

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Frankel, 2. Dubawi, 3. No Nay Never

Top five lots

Lot 68: Frankel (GB) / Aljazzi (GB) B.F. (GB) Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Amo Racing Ltd >> 4,400,000gns

Lot 72: Frankel (GB) / Alwilda (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Staffordstown, Ireland >> Amo Racing Ltd >> 2,500,000gns

Lot 92: No Nay Never (USA) / Bella Estrella (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Ballylinch Stud, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 2,200,000gns

Lot 85: Frankel (GB) / Atone (GB) B.C. (IRE) >> Baroda Stud, Ireland Amo Racing Ltd >> 1,100,000gns

Lot 39: Dubawi (IRE) / Waldlied (GB) Ch.F. (GB) >> Newsells Park Stud Ltd. >> Richard Knight / Salhia Stud >> 925,000gns (18:11)

The mare has had one winner from two runners and had a Wootton Bassett filly this year.

Detailed, from the family of the champion three-year-old miler Sendawar, was bought by Triermore Stud for 250,000gns at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2019. (17:57)

She is the dam of two winners from three runners and is an own-sister to the Falmouth Stakes (G1), the Matron Stakes (G1) and the Sun Chariot Stakes (G1) winner Alice Springs

Criteria had a colt by Lope De Vega this spring and was covered by Too Darn Hot. (17:49)

Amo is the leading purchaser by both spend and numbers of horses bought –Kia Joorabchian's organisation so far spending 10,420,000gns (average 1,157,778gns) on nine horses. It is over eight million more than the next best, which is Godolphin's purchase of the one colt from Ballylinch Stud for 2,200,000gns.

Eight buyers have already spent over a million in this first session. (16:16)

"And possibly the nicest horse – and we have sold quite a few Group 1 winners here, too. Ronan Wade, our yearling manager at Castlemartin, gave him the highest mark he has ever for a horse. We are delighted Sheikh Mohammed has bought the colt, we wish him every success."

Of the colt as an individual, he added: "He is just the perfect yearling, and I hope he will make the perfect racehorse. He has the most wonderful temperament, so consistent in how he shows, he has beautiful action, he is the perfect mover, he vetted very well. Most of those who you think could buy a very good horse, wanted to buy him.

"Sheikh Mohammed is having some success with our stallions, let's hope this horse goes on well, too."

Of the price he was expecting beforehand, he said: "I never jump the fences before I get there, but there was always a possibility that there would always be a clash between two significant buyers and at that point you never know what they are going to make. "

Of the family, he outlined: "This mare was very good, and it is an original pedigree from when the McCalmont family was based at Ballylinch. I bought Unchartered Haven here out of training at the December Sales, and most of that black-type on page has been bred by us – it is a very active family."

When discussing whether this colt was typical of the family, O'Connor said: "He is medium-sized, deep, very active, they are seldom very tall horses, they are generally strong bodies, and are good-walking sorts. They generally have good temperaments. She has worked really well with Lope De Vega before producing Iberian. Bodicus [1,100,000gns, Tattersalls October Book 1,2023] is with Andre Fabre and he likes him, he might run before the end of the season."

Buyer Anthony Stroud said: "He is a lovely horse, a very good-looking horse, we all really liked him a lot. He has a wonderful pedigree, is from a very good stud farm it and he was the one horse we really wanted today.

"It has been a blockbuster start to the sale with the two fillies' sales. There are a lot of people from around the world here, which is good to see." (15:58)