Day 1 statistics: (% +/- compared to last year):

Catalogue: 190

Offered: 143

Sold: 100

Total: 1,407,000gns (-38%)

Median: 7,000gns (+8%)

Average: 14,070gns (-12%)

% sold: 70%

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

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Blue Point, 3. Oasis Dream

Leading purchasers (by agg, accum): 1. Jill Lamb Bloodstock / Childwickbury Stud, 2. Hurworth Bloodstock, 3. SackvilleDonald

Leading consignors (by agg, accum): 1. Shadwell Estate Company, 2. Juddmonte, 3. Dullingham Park

Today's top five prices

1. Lot 107: Taqaareed (IRE) 2013 Ch.M. >> Shadwell Estate Company Ltd. >> Jill Lamb Bloodstock / Childwickbury Stud >> 200,000gns

2. Lot 129: Retort (IRE) 2021 B.C. >> Juddmonte >> SackvilleDonald >> 125,000gns

3. Lot 111: Lady Bullet (IRE) 2020 B.F. >> Alice Haynes Racing Ltd. Springwell Stud >> 62,000gns

4. Lot 146: Queen of Fairies (GB) 2020 Ch.F. >> Godolphin >> Tally-Ho Stud >> 57,000gns

5. Lot 109: Sabaaba (IRE) 2021 B.F. >> Shadwell Estate Company Ltd. >> Hurworth Bloodstock >> 47,000gns (17:12)

Lot 146: Queen Of Fairies is bought by Tally-Ho Stud as a broodmare prospect.

The daughter of Cracksman, a winner in the UK and in France, is out of the Group 3 Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial winner Bean Feasa (Dubawi). She is a half-sister to Teofilo, the champion juvenile of 2006, winner of the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and the National Stakes (G1), and to the Group 2 winner Poetic Charm.

Henry O'Callaghan is in Newmarket for the farm and said: "She will be one for our new stallion Good Guess."

The son of Kodiac retired to the farm for this spring, winner of the Prix Jean Prat (G1). He stands at a fee of €17,500. (16:24)

Lot 129: Retort, the dual-winning son of Frankel, is bought by SackvilleDonald for 125,000gns, Alastair Donald in the ring and buying on behalf of Highclere Australia. The three-year-old colt was bred by and sold today by Juddmonte, having been trained in France by Henri-Francois Devin. He won his maiden last November and picked up a mile conditions race at Chantilly in January, winning by two lengths.

Donald said: "We have had a bit of luck for Highclere – we bought the subsequent Group 1 winner Durstan for the team. Highclere has a nice horse at the moment in Australia called Naval College and he has won his last three.

"This is a neat bonny horse who goes on all ground. He is by Frankel, he is a proper horse, he is rated 90 and on the up. He probably would have made more money if he had been sold later in the year."

The colt is out of the unraced Oasis Dream mare Responsible, a half-sister to Banks Hill, Cacique, Champs Elysees, Intercontinental, Heat Haze and Dansili.

"He was not really on the radar until that last win, which I think it jumped him up a bit,"added Donald. "He has won from the back, he has won on all grounds and you need a versatile horse for Australia. He is an extremely sound and he vetted well. It is hard to buy them in that kind of price range for Australia.

"I think he will stay a little bit further, most of the family are milers but looking at his racing style he might get ten furlongs, and there is good money at every distance in Australia. He will be going to Annabel Neasham and I think Harry [Herbert] will have no problem selling the shares quite quickly, particularly after the success they have had of late." (16:01)

Lot 111: it is exciting times for the O'Mahony family having last autumn purchased the prestigious nursery Knocktoran Stud, a farm previously owned by Brendan and Anne-Marie Hayes who bred numerous top-class horses on the County Limerick property, including the Classic winners Precieuse and Tie Black.

The O'Mahonys are now looking to expand the broodmare band for the new farm, and in charge of bidding at Tattersalls today was James O'Mahony. he he went to 62,000gns to buy the Listed-placed Lady Bullet, by James Garfield and sold by Alice Haynes Racing.

She is out of Lil's Joy, a Group 3 runner-up and dam of the speedy Ever Given, a Listed winner and Group 3 placed.

"We will get her home and make plans then, but she has her black-type now and she will be retired to stud, "said O'Mahony. "We are usually trying to make fillies with black-type but sometimes you have to buy them!

"We will send her to a proven stallion, it is undecided who yet. She is a nice physical.

"She has been bought for Knocktoran. We have not done much with the farm yet, we are going to foal the mares at home and then move them over – the plan is to run Springwell as the farm, my brother Conor milks the cows, and the new farm as the stud. The two farms are only ten minutes apart, and it made a lot of sense – it is the best of land, a lot of good racehorses have been produced around there and it is 250 acres, places like that just don't come up very often, you could be a lifetime waiting for that sort of opportunity.

"For the time being and in the current circumstances we would like to keep to around 15 of our own mares, but who knows what the future will bring." (15:39)

Lot 107: Taqaareed, a winning Sea The Stars sister to the dual Group 1 winner Taghrooda, sold in-foal to Pinatubo and from the Shadwell draft makes 200,000gns. She was bought by Jill Lamb for Childwickbury Stud.

"She stood out really – she is a full-sister to a champion, she is a lovely model, she is in-foal to a champion whose yearlings were very well received and we tried very hard to buy a foal by him last year and we could not get one," explained Lamb. "This foal is closely related to Tafreej who was 90 rated, it is all quite encouraging. It was a bit more than we were planning to spend and that was definitely our last bid!"

When asked of ongoing plans, she added: "The plan is to have a meeting right now! But I guess we would like to try and find a Dubawi stallion for her."

The stud, which is owned by Paul and Sally Flatt, the latter accompanying Lamb in the ring, will now have six mares on the farm and Lamb added: "Sally and Paul want to build the stud back up to where it was when it was owned by Mr Jim Joel."

Stud manager Christian Williams was also in the ring and said: "We are looking to buy commercial mares and we will keep some nice fillies to add to the broodmare band, and sell the colts. We are delighted to buy this mare and it was a great opportunity." (15:11)

Lot 45: the Dullingham Park-offered Colour Code (Due Diligence), who was placed at two in 2023 and again in January as a three-year-old , is bought by Hurworth Bloodstock for 34,000gns.

She is a half-sister to two winners and from the Car Colston Hall Stud pedigree that features the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy winner Crowded House, yjr Grade 1 winner Ticker Tap, the Group 1-placed Brando and the champion two-year-old and three-year-old sprinter Reckless Abandon. (14:11)

Lot 35: agent Ryan Mahon and trainer Dan Skelton step in to buy Jo's Rainbow, a daughter of Nathaniel and sold by Spigot Lodge Stables.

She is the winner of one race over 1m2f as a three-year-old in 2023, and is out of the Bloomsbury Stud-bred Rainbow Dancing (Blushing Groom), who was a Listed winner and twice Group 3 placed. Her dam is Danceabout (Shareef Dancer), winner of the Sun Chariot Stakes (G2), the Oak Tree Stakes (L) and third in the Falmouth Stakes (G2).

It is the further family of Jupiter Island, Pushy and Precious. (13:20)

Lot 33: Highflyer Bloodstock spends 32,000gns on Moon Island consigned by Norris Bloodstock. She was sold in-foal to Ardad on an April 21 cover.

A 2019-born filly by Oasis Dream, she is the winner of two races, and is a half-sister to the Listed placed Singyoursong (Aqlaam) and the Listed-winning hurdler Rejaan.

Under the second dam is the Dick Hern Stakes (L) winner and Group 3 placed Annabelle's Charm, dam of Charming Thought, winner of the Middle Park Stakes (G1). It is the further family of the Group 1 winners Ballingarry, Starborough, the champion St Nicholas Abbey and Aristotle. (13:13)

Lot 31: Broadhurst Agency goes to 22,000gns for the once-placed Naturelle, a 2020 filly by Night Of Thunder.

She is a daughter of Nahoodh (Clodovil), winner of the Falmouth Stakes (G1) and the Lowther Stakes (G2) and twice placed at Group 1 level. She has bred six winners, including the Listed winner and juvenile Listed-placed Hawkesbury (Shamardal).

She was sold Linkslade Stables for Foursome Thoroughbreds. (13:05)

Lot 7: the 2021 Qatar-bred Madinat Bu Thaila by Kodiac is bought by JD Moore and Hamad Al Jehani for 31,000gns from RMM Bloodstock.

Unraced, the filly is the first foal out of the dual-winning Iffraaj filly Diamond Oasis, a daughter of the Listed-placed Belonging (Raven's Pass).

The pedigree features the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Desideratum, the Group 2 winner Poet Laureate, the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy winner Medaaly and the champion miler of 1996, Charnwood Forest, winner of the Queen Anne Stakes (G2) and the Challenge Stakes (G2), and a runner-up in the Sussex Stakes (G1), the Lockinge Stakes (G1) and the St James's Palace Stakes (G1). (12:17)