Book 3, Day 1 Statistics: +/- compared to the previous year

Catalogued: 311 (333)

Offered: 278 (303)

Sold: 245 (265)

Turnover: 6,451,000gns (-1%)

Median: 20,000gns (-5%)

Average: 26,331gns (+7%)

% Sold: 87% (87%)

Top lot: Lot 1342, Havana Grey ex Ealaan, 200,000gns *record price for a filly at Book 3

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Whitsbury Manor Stud, 2. Barton Stud, 3. New England Stud

Leading purchasers (by agg): 1. Blandford Bloodstock, 2. Amo Racing, 3. Hyde Park Stud

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Havana Grey, 2. Ardad, 3. Time Test

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Havana Grey, 2. New Bay, 3. Coulsty

Top five lots

Lot 1342: Havana Grey (GB) / Ealaan (USA) B.F. (GB) >> Whitsbury Manor Stud >> Amo Racing >> 200,000gns

Lot 1273: Blue Point (IRE) / Anahita (FR) B.C. (GB) >> New England Stud >> J B Bloodstock >> 150,000gns

Lot 1300: Time Test (GB) / Cashla Bay (GB) B.C. (GB) >> WH Bloodstock >> Najd Stud / Archdale Bloodstock >> 110,000gns

Lot 1390: Havana Grey (GB) / Kalfu (GB) B.C. (GB) >> Daymark Stud >> Oak Tree Farm >> 90,000gns

Lot 1392: Inns of Court (IRE) / Kasalla (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Hillwood Stud >> A C Elliott, Agent >> 85,000gns (21:00)

Lot 1497: the last lot to sell by the Tally-Ho Stud first-crop sire Starman at this year's Tattersalls October Yearling Sale is bought by Amanda Skiffington for 75,000gns

The filly, sold by Ballyshannon Stud, is out of Summmer Stakes (G3) winner Ridge Range, the dam of two winners from three runners and a half-sister to the King's Stand Stakes (G1) winner Profitable.

The son of Dutch Art has had 43 lots sell at Tattersalls yearling sales this autumn with a top price of 260,000gns given by Al Shaqab / Amo Racing for the colt out of Moment of Truth sold by Tally-Ho in Book 1. Twelve lots by the sire have fetched six-figure prices. (19:56)

Lot 1489: the New Bay colt out of winning mare Rapture, the Pivotal half-sister to the three-time Grade 1 winner and six-time Grade 1-placed Raging Bull (Dark Angel), is bought by Blandford Bloodstock and Tradewinds at 65,000gns.

Tradewinds has only been trading at scale at Tattersalls since 2018 (just one lot sold in 2017), and this colt is Shane and Alex Power's second-most expensive purchase at Park Paddocks.

However, wearing their consigning coats, the brothers have already sold 13 horses for six-figure prices across both yearling sales and breeze-up sales in both England and Ireland with a top price so far of 370,000gns. That was gained at last year's October Book 1 Yearling Sale when they sold a colt by Teofilo to Federico Barberini.

The colt was also the most expensive Tattersalls purchase so far for the boys costing them 68,000gns at the December Foal Sale. (19:37)

Lot 1461: Madeline and Maurice Burns watched this sale of their colt by Coulsty with smiles on their faces, the colt eventually selling for 60,000gns to Harrowgate Bloodstock and providing them with a fine return on their investment of €14,000 at last year's foal sales.

Madeline ducked the questions, and diverted to her father who said: "He is a nice colt. I bought him from a good client John Nicholson, he and his father before him have bred this whole family for years.

"John always sends me mares, and I went to look at this lad as a foal – he was very late in the sale which probably helped me buy him; all we have had to do is 'polish' him up really, and that is it. He is a proper horse and his half-brother Jer Batt [BHA rated 92, won over £88,000] is a decent horse with David Barron, who has bought this colt."

Coulsty stands at the Burns family's Rathasker Stud, and Burns said: "Coulsty is in good form. He started with small numbers, he has picked it up through his career, he has had some valuable race winners, and for a €5,000 investment he is paying a lot of people and he has a lot of happy breeders."

The farm also sold Lot 1453, a homebred colt by the stud's fellow stalwart stallion Bungle Inthejungle. The bay April-born colt fetched 50,000gns, was bought by Oliver St Lawrence and is out of the Shamardal mare Nafa, who is the model of consistency.

She has had five foals (two 'Bungle' full-brothers to this yearling), five runners and four winners. The only one to have missed so far is this year's two-year-old Facoulty. She has, though, been placed twice finishing a length second last time out. She runs tomorrow in a 5f nursery at Newcastle, and is currently joint-favourite.

The quintet are rated 63, 93, 80, 84 and 100 – the highest-rated is the Bedford Fox, who has won six races, over £89,000 in prize-money and picked up a Listed fourth-place in the Listed Hever Sprint Stakes. (18:44)

Lot 1437: "I have been underbidder on a lot of horses over the last two weeks!" said Tom Goff, signing under Blandford Bloodstock, after successfully purchasing this February-born colt by Ghaiyyath for 75,000gns, the colt sold by Houghton Bloodstock.

Goff further outlined his thoughts on this year's Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.

"There has been some extraordinary activity in this sale ring in the last two weeks," he said, adding: "It has just been really extraordinary. It has been the strongest sale I have been to since Keeneland 2006."

"But this week it shows just how remarkable the UK, Irish and European bloodstock industry is. Buying horses is all about buying a dream and this industry is very good about selling a dream."

Of this colt's purchase, he added: "He will be trained in Newmarket, he is a lovely staying horse, he is from a smashing Juddmonte family. I looked at 75 horses yesterday and I just thought he is a gorgeous horse." (17:47)

Lot 1392: the Inns Of Court half-brother to the Listed winner and Richmond Stakes (G2) runner-up Ballymount Boy is another Alex Elliott purchase, the agent going to 85,000gns for the Hillwood Stud-consigned February-born colt. The colt was pinhooked last autumn for €44,000.

Dam Kasala (Footstepsinthesand), who was covered by Good Guess, has had four winners from five runners and seven foals, and is a half-sister to Precious Boy, a Group 2 winner of the Mehl-Mulhens Rennen, the Grosse Europa Melle (G2), the Preis des Winterfavoriten (G3) and a runner-up in the Grosser Dallmayr Bayerisches Zuchtrennen (G1). (17:03)

Lot 1390: another Havana Grey gets the buyers, especially the breeze up purchasers active and it is Norman Williamson who was successful at 90,000gns. The colt was consigned by Josh Cameron's Daymark Stud.

"I sold the Havana Grey filly at this year's Craven Sale with Katie [Arabian Dusk], the sire is doing fantastic, but this fella I thought is the best colt here today,"said Wiliamson. "He has a pedigree there that you would love, he has great balance and am very pleased to get him, let's hope he is lucky."

Of purchasing breeze-up prospects over the last two weeks, Williamson reviewed: "It has been very tough, but I have bought one in Book 1, one in Book 2 and now one in Book 3. It is great to see such good trade, there has been a great bunch of horses here." (16:02)

Loy 1362: Elliott steps back into the bidding arena again, this time buying a Gigginstown House Stud-bred Saxon Warrior colt from Plantation Stud for 78,000gns.

It is a family the buyer knows well – in 219 he bought the mare's Grade 3 winner Zoffarelli (Zoffany) for 60,000gns, the gelding initially trained by Ralph Beckett before transferring to the US and trainer Jeff Mullins.

Second dam is the Rock Of Gibraltar Grade 3-winning mare Genuine Devotion, a half-sister to Mastercraftsman, a European champion two-year-old in 2008, winner of the Phoenix Stakes (G1) and the National Stakes (G1) at two, and the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James Palace Stakes (G1) at three. (14:50)

Lot 1342: matches the record price in October Book 3 and becomes the record-priced filly sold in Book 3 when sold for 200,000gns to Alex Elliott and Amo Racing.

"She has been been bought for Amo Racing, George Boughey will train, she is an stand-out horse in Book 3. I know the breeze-up guys would be in, and Anthony Stroud who bought Arabian Dusk at the breeze-up, it is good to hear that at this same sale this filly a better filly than Arabian Dusk, it is bang on where I thought. She was the main target today,"said Elliott, who was buying his 67th yearling at this year's October Sale.

Arabian Dusk was bought at the Somerville Sale 2022 from Whitsbury Stud by Margaret O'Toole / Oak Tree Farm, and then at this year's Tattersalls Craven Sale by Stroud from Greenhills Farm for 525,000gns. The Havana Grey filly, trained by Simon and Ed Crisford won the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes (G2) in July and finished third last time out in the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1).

Ed Harper's Whitsbury Manor Stud, who bred and consigned this filly, and he said: "This is the last 'lower-priced' crop by Havana Grey so there are some mixed pedigrees out there, as you would expect, and we wanted to make sure he had a real proper one.

"We always liked her at home, but she is a late April foal and she has done so well, we did not expect her to do as well as she has and she did not look like a late-season foal. Alex and Amo and the team have been big supporters of the sire from early on – they just want to buy the best, and we brought her here hoping she was going to be the best in the sale." (14:37)

Lot 1300: the Time Test half-brother to this summer's Princess Margaret Stakes (G3) and Prix du Calvados (G2) winner, the Moyglare Stakes (G1) runner-up and Prix Marcel Boussac (G1) fourth-placed Simmering is bought bought by Najd Stud / Archdale Bloodstock for 110,000gns.

After purchase Nico Archdale said: "He is a half to a very smart horse this year in Simmering, by a sire who does very well in Saudi and he is a perfect physical. He goes to Saudi from here, and I am delighted to purchase him for Prince Faisal and Najd Stud."

Of other Najd Stud purchases made this week, Archdale updated: "We bought another by Time Test in Book 1 [Lot 150], and seven yearlings in Book 2 – they are going to Saudi, apart from the Sea The Stars [Lot 748] colt who goes to Roger Varian.

"Time Test is doing very well out in Saudi, he is flying out there and has had a top rated two-year-old. It has been a very strong market here over the two weeks, there have been some lovely horses here."

This colt is out of the Fastnet Rock mare Cashla Bay, the dam of two winners from three runners, bred by Lofts Hall Stud. Breeder Hugo Lascelles was at Tattersalls to see the sale, the colt consigned by WH Bloodstock, and he said: "Simmering has done us well this summer, she has been very well trained by Ollie Sangster. I am very pleased with that price, he is a very nice horse."

Grand-dam Rose Blossom, who was a Group 3 winner of the Summer Stakes, was bought by Hugo Lascelles Bloodstock at the December Mares' Sale in 2011 for 115,000gns.

Cashla Bay had a filly by Harry Angel this spring and was covered by Shaquille. (12:49)

Lot 1280: Newmarket-based trainer Stuart Williams goes to 70,000gns for the colt by first-season sire Without Parole, a son of Frankel, sold by Luke Cohen's Q-Cross Stables.

He is out of the Oasis Dream mare As Good As Gold, a half-sister to two Group 1 performers by Frankel – the Prix Guillaume d'Ornano (G2) winner and the dual-hemisphere Group 1-placed Eminent (Frankel) and King Frankel, a Listed winner and Group 1-placed in Australia.

As Good As Gold won twice, is a daughter of You'll Be Mine, third placed in the Fillies' Mile (G1) and a grand-daughter of Quarter Moon, a champion three-year-old in Ireland in 2001 and winner of the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1), and a Group 1 runner-up in the Oaks, the Irish Oaks, the Irish 1000 Guineas and third in the Nassau Stakes (G1). She is dam of Diamondsandrubies, winner of the Pretty Polly Stakes (G1). (12:30)

Lot 1273: Willie Browne, signing as JB Bloodstock, goes to 150,000gns for the Blue Point colt out of Anahita (Turtle Bowl), sold by New England Stud.

"It was all breeze-up money on this colt, but I think he is a good horse," said Browne. "The sire is very good, I have had a good price for one by the sire before. For me this is the best horse here today – you are just trying to buy a quick horse if you can and I think he looks quick."

Of trade over the past two weeks, Brown added: "It has been very tough to buy, this is the sixth I have managed to buy."

Wearing another hat, Brown was part of the Oaks Farm Stables syndicate that had pinhooked and sold Lot 993 yesterday – the colt by Territories who was sold for 750,000gns to Sumbe having been bought as a foal for 65,000gns at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale.

"The Territories is a gorgeous horse, and it was a great result yesterday," reflected Brown. "That result was way above expectations – and the money has all been spent on this lad!" (11:51)

Lot 1242: "He has been bought for Jayne McGivern, who we bought Golden Horn," said Richard Brown from his bidding position top of the stairs after giving 55,000gns for the colt by Golden Horn, out of the Vale Of York mare Vetlana. "Jayne had seen the video of this horse before I had even seen him here, but he was bred by a client at Whatton Manor and so I have seen him all his life. He is a gorgeous colt, and very typical of the sire. I think Jayne is in a meeting so she does not know yet, so I think she will be thrilled when I phone as she was very keen to buy him. Jayne is a huge supporter of Golden Horn and a huge enthusiast for the sport."

Brown continued: "The mare was bought by us from client to go to Caturra, and she was bought carrying this colt. We have sold everything out of the package last year except him – I liked him so much as a foal. I thought he'd make up into a very nice yearling, which he has. He is not backward looking, but he will be a late summer two-year-old, Jayne is very patient so there is no pressure." (10:53)

Book 2 Sale Statistics: +/- compared to the previous year

Catalogued: 773 (820)

Offered: 697 (734)

Sold: 632 (626)

Turnover: 68,517,000gns (+27%) * record

Median: 70,000gns (+13%) *joint record

Average: 108,413gns (+26%) *record, first time over 100,000gns

% Sold: 91% (88%)

Top lot: Lot 1055, Kameko ex Potent Embrace, 1,000,000gns from Tweenhills Farm & Stud to Godolphin * record price for a colt

500,000gns+: 10

300,000gns+: 42

Leading consignors (by agg): 1. Barton Stud, 2. Tally-Ho Stud, 3. Yeomanstown Stud

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

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Night Of Thunder, 2. Too Darn Hot, 3. Sea The Stars

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Night Of Thunder, 3. Kameko

Top five lots

Lot 1055: Kameko (USA) / Potent Embrace (USA) B.C. (GB) >>Tweenhills Farm & Stud >> Godolphin >>1,000,000gns

Lot 597: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Bighearted (GB) B.C. (GB) >> Staffordstown, Ireland >> Godolphin >> 875,000gns

Lot 993: Territories (IRE) / Never Change (IRE) B.C. (GB) >> Oaks Farm Stables >> Sumbe >> 750,000gns

Lot 551: St Mark's Basilica (FR) / Angelic Light (IRE) Ch.F. (IRE) >>Yeomanstown Stud, Ireland >> Al Shaqab / Amo Racing >> 600,000gns

Lot 898: Too Darn Hot (GB) / Lola Paige (IRE) B.F. (GB) >> Appletree Stud >> Al Shaqab / Amo Racing >> 600,000gns

Lot 963: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Monaawara (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Stauffenberg Bloodstock >> The Thoroughbred Racing Corporation >> 600,000gns (22:57)

Chairman's Statement ‎

“The results from Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last week were pretty remarkable and certainly instilled some confidence leading into Book 2, but yet again the level of trade has outstripped the most optimistic of pre-sale expectations.

“The extraordinary success of Book 1 has been well and truly replicated in Book 2 and again it is the outstanding quality of the yearlings and the sale’s reputation for consistently producing racehorses of the very highest calibre which has brought the buyers to Tattersalls in overwhelming numbers. Every year British and Irish breeders and consignors place enormous faith in the two weeks of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and the unrelenting demand throughout Book 2 shows that their confidence has been fully justified.

“Turnover and average have both reached new heights by considerable margins and the 1,000,000gns sale-topping KAMEKO yearling is the highest price ever for a colt at Book 2 of the October Yearling Sale, but it is the clearance rate above 90 per cent and the sheer volume of horses selling for 200,000gns or more that has been truly incredible.

"The demand for quality yearlings from buyers from throughout the world, most notably America, Australia, Hong Kong and throughout the Gulf region, has resulted in 93 yearlings selling for 200,000gns or more; a number far in excess of any other European yearling sale except October Book 1 and a huge increase on the previous October Book 2 record of 58.

"Also noteworthy has been the significant year-on-year rise in the median demonstrating a market with real depth, driven not only by overseas demand, but also by a strong showing from the domestic British and Irish buyers for whom Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale is always an unmissable event.

“Above all, however, we can reflect on another Tattersalls yearling sale which has exceeded expectations at a time when confidence has sometimes understandably been in short supply. It has not all been plain sailing in recent years, but we work hard to bring as many buyers as possible to Tattersalls for the October Yearling Sale and as we move on to Books 3 and 4 we can look forward with a little more optimism and look back on another Tattersalls sale which has brought a collective smile to the face of the British and Irish thoroughbred breeding industry." (22:00)

Day 3 statistics: +/- compared to the previous year

Catalogued: 258 (274)

Offered: 231 (248)

Sold: 210 (211)

Turnover: 22,301,500gns (+28%)

Median: 70,000gns (+17%)

Average: 106,198gns (+29%)

% Sold: 91% (88%)

Top lot: Lot 1055, Kameko ex Potent Embrace, 1,000,000gns from Tweenhills Farm & Stud to Godolphin

Day 3, 300,000gns+: 12

Top five lots on Day 3

Lot 1055: Kameko (USA) / Potent Embrace (USA) B.C. (GB) >> weenhills Farm & Stud >> Godolphin >> 1,000,000gns

Lot 993: Territories (IRE) / Never Change (IRE) B.C. (GB) >> Oaks Farm Stables >> Sumbe >> 750,000gns

Lot 1133: Too Darn Hot (GB) / Ruzma (IRE) B.F. (GB) >> Folland-Bowen Bloodstock >> Stroud Coleman Bloodstock >> 460,000gns

Lot 1027: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Pappina (IRE) Ch.C. (IRE) >> Watership Down Stud >> Stroud Coleman Bloodstock >> 425,000gns

Lot 1202: Ardad (IRE) / Squash (GB) B/Br.F. (GB) >> Kirtlington Stud >> Amo Racing >> 420,000gns (20:48)

Lot 1202: is the most expensive yearling sold at Tattersalls by Ardad, the filly from Kirtlington Stud fetching 420,000gns, bought by Alex Elliott for Amo Racing.

The filly was bred by Kirtlington and Mrs Mary Taylor, and the 85-year-old Taylor has bred all the mares and nearly every horse on this page.

"The price tells you how good she is," said Elliott. "She is a very special filly and is for Amo. She is an exceptional filly. The mare has produced two good runners, and Ardad is a decent stallion, but this is a pedigree that goes all the way back to a deep Claiborne family.

"It is a lot of money for her, but I really believe in her – hopefully she will be a black-type filly, she will need to be at that price. But I was so confident on her that I was prepared to push. Kia is in New York, but he was happy for us to take control and he is over the moon. She goes to Richard Fahey, who has done really well with Ardad's stock."

Chris Budgett of Kirtlington Stud said: "She is a very special filly – as vendors we always say that our stock is above average, but really she is. She walks incredibly well and presented herself really well – really grew into the sale and I love to see that as it gives a good idea of temperament.

"Mary bred all the foundation mares in this pedigree, and she is someone who does not like to spend too much money on stallion nominations. Ardad, in all fairness to him did exceedingly well with his first cropm and the choice was hers, but I was very pleased because I had seen some of them run and liked what I saw. This is a very fast family so it all fitted in, it came together and this is a rather gorgeous filly.

"We had numerous people bidding on her and I am incredibly grateful to Alex ad Amo, and I am sure this is Mary's biggest result in the sale ring of late."

Budgett added: "I owned the mare in training and we actually ran her in the Irish 1,000 Guineas and the saddle slipped – and I was absolutely certain we'd have finished in the placings. Just imagine what that would have done to the pedigree, such are the fine margins that make or break a pedigree." (20:39)

Lot 1133: "It has been a very good Book 2, we don't want this sale to finish," laughed Matt Bowen after selling this Too Darn Hot filly for 460,000gns to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock.

It is another good sale for Folland-Bowen this week and follows hot on the heels of yesterday's sale of Lot 859, the Sea The Stars colt out of Kitcarina, who made 550,000gns and the Day 1 sale of a Zoustar colt for 130,000gns.

"This filly was bred by a fantastic client Elaine Chivers, who has supported us from the outset," said Natalie Folland. "The mare was bought for just €4,000, but she has produced a really good filly for Elaine in Mishal Star. The mare is at home with us and is the star broodmare on the farm."

Folland added: "Elaine has around 17 mares and she really deserves this. She could not get here today, we will be speaking to her very shortly. The decision to use Too Darn Hot was all Elaine's planning."

The best bred by Chivers so far is the Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner Isaac Shelby and the Folland-Bowen team is due to consign his dam Kentucky Belle, as well as his half-sister, at this year's Tattersalls December Mares Sale. (17:21)

Lot 1055: the son of Kameko becomes the highest-priced colt ever sold at the October Book 2 Sale, bought by Godolphin for 1,000,000gns. By just 50,000gns it is the second-highest ever price given at the sale.

The colt, sold by Tweenhills Farm & Stud, is an own-brother to the Andrew Balding-trained New Century, winner of the Grade 1 Summer Stakes last month and with a Breeders' Cup target ahead of him.

After the sale, David Redvers of Tweenhills said: "It is the old cliche, he was on everybody's list. I am sad to see him go, but thrilled that he has been bought by Godolphin. Anthony [Stroud] loved the horse from the first time he saw him. I am sad for Andrew that he won't get to train him, he has done such an outstanding job with the brother."

He added: "This colt has spent most of his life at Spring Lodge in Ireland, and only came to us in the spring, so it is credit to Peter Molony and the job he did. I am so pleased as this is the first year we are selling under our own name again and the Tweenhills team has done an absolutely stunning job – Ivo, Scott, Pieter, Tallulah and all of the them."

When asked if this colt was like his talented brother, Redvers said: "He is actually more like his Dad than his brother, his brother is strong and looks a proper two-year-old, and is a machine. I can see this horse being a 'scopier' sort than New Century.

"But the thing that is common with all of them by the sire is they have this incredible 'head' – it is why New Century was able to go across to Canada, and come back and go across to the US. When he got back from Canada, he was so fresh having taken it all so well that he nearly bucked off Maddy who was riding him. Both colts have got that good temperament in their favour."

And of the Qatar Racing-owned New Century he updated: "He is in great form and we are very excited!"

Kameko's average this week for four yearling sold is 273,000gns, the first-season sire currently behind only Sea The Stars by average at this year's October Book 2 Sale.

Buyer Anthony Stroud said: “I think he’s a very nice horse and he’s a full-brother to a Grade 1 winner. Kameko has had a very good start. This is a beautiful, quality horse and he’ll go to Moulton Paddocks. It’s great to have him, although the valuation was on the higher side of what we’d thought.” (14:15)

Lot 1027: the Watership Down Stud-consigned Night Of Thunder colt, a first foal out of Pappina, is added to the Stroud Coleman Bloodstock October Book 2 list of 31 purchases, Anthony Stroud going to 425,000gns for the February-born colt, who was bred by a group listed as J.Weatherby, Myriad, Naseby & New England.

Some of the quartet were at Tattersalls to see the colt go through the ring, and were all smiles in the sunshine at Park Paddocks after the successful sale of the first-born out of their Sea The Stars mare.

Simon Marsh, general manager of Watership Down Stud, said: "We bought the second dam Padmini in 2015 from Darley. When we bought her everyone wanted in and we got a good group involved, it has worked well now for a long time.

"We bred Pappina in a foal share, and bought her ourselves when she was a yearling. Sea The Stars is a brilliant broodmare sire and she is a lovely mare now. This is her first foal – we are very lucky as she also had a very nice Night Of Thunder filly foal this year and is in-foal to Blue Point."

Pappina raced for the Marsh, Weatherby, Naseby, Barton Syndicate, trained by Jessica Harrington. She won once at Galway as a three-year-old. (13:23)

Lot 993: the Territories own-brother to the multiple Group-placed performer Masseto, bought for just 65,000gns here as a foal in 2023, takes his valuation to 750,000gns, purchased today by Sumbe. He was sold by Oaks Farm Stables.

Sumbe's stud director Tony Fry, who bid from his usual position on the back right stairs, outwitted the expected media invasion and presented a choice of six multiple choice answers pre-written in the back of his catalogue – ticks all the boxes, stood out at the sale, an absolute queen / king, didn't miss a beat, comes from a good nursery and didn't want to go home without him.

Unfortunately for Fry his attempt to duck the questions did not work, particularly as he failed to pre-empt the question that the farm must be the biggest fans of stock by the Darley sire Territories – the farm's homebred colt Lazzat is by the stallion and was a Group 1 winner this summer when successful in the Prix Maurice De Gheest.

"Lazzat is in Australia now [ahead of the Golden Eagle]," updated Fry, adding: "This is a similar type of horse and whether lightening will strike twice, I don't know. He is a nice horse, and we can make a case for him, it is a lot of money, we should have bought him as a foal!

"It is nice that Nurlan [Bizakov] has put faith in us, I will imagine the colt will go into training with Jerome Reynier."

Bizakov, Fry and the Sumbe team has an exciting Saturday to look forward to with the Tattersalls October Book 2 graduate Charyn's outing in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, the Dark Angel colt looking to add a third Group 1 to his 2024 haul of two top level victories.

"I saw Charyn the other day and he looks fantastic. He is a versatile horse, I don't think softer ground will inconvenience him as much as some of the others,"reported Fry. "We will see how he is after the race, but it will possibly be on to Japan.

"In January, everyone can come to the farm and see him at the stallion parade through the Route D'Etalons weekend."

Oaks Farm Stables' Mark Dwyer, who is not at Tattersalls today, said on the phone: "We are thrilled, we have sold horses for clients who have fetched similar sums, but this is the biggest result for a pinhook that we own – and I have been doing this since I packed in riding in 1996! It is the stuff of dreams.

"Willie Browne and Jim McCartan also owned him, and the colt was at Jim's Gaybrooke Lodge Stud in Ireland until August when he came to me to prep. I have to thank all the staff at both farms, they have done a great job."

When asked just what stood out to the team of three about the colt as a foal but which perhaps others missed, he said: "We just liked what was in front of our eyes. He perhaps was not over big, but he is a good moving sort and with some class, we just try and buy quality. I suppose Territories was not on everyone list then, either. He came from Scarlett Knipe at Cobhall Court Stud."

He smiled: "Look, you pays your money and you take your chance, and, thankfully, it has worked out here." (12:25)

Lot 989: US trainer Kenny McPeek buys his fifth yearling, and the most expensive, in October Book 2 going to 230,000gns for this colt by Mehmas out of Natural Beauty (Oasis Dream).

The colt, sold buy Genesis Green Stud, is from the talented family of Lucayan Princess, the dam of Luso, Warrsan, Needle Gun and Cloud Castle, and is a half-brother to Bellum Justum, winner of the Blue Riband Trial (L) and placed in the Hampton Court Stakes (G3). Since the catalogue has been published the Sea The Stars colt, trained by Andrew Balding, has finished second in the Gordon Stakes (G3), but, importantly for McPeek, also proved his form in the US when winning a Grade 3 over 1m2f at Kentucky Downs.

McPeek reviewed his week at Book 2: "I have bought five yearlings this week, I have been very pleased with the horses I have seen here and what I have bought. I am sticking to what has worked for me, I have got a good base of middle-market clients, and taking some of the pedigrees back to the US will be good. I never worked Book 2 before, but I think it is perfect for us.

"There are good horses presented, and you have to pay for those, my clientele will suit the prices that we have paid for what we have bought. We avoided Book 1 both in the US and here, and I think that has been a good business plan."

Of this colt by Mehmas, he said: "This colt presented fantastically, he is pretty much everything you would want. He has a beautiful hind leg on him, he is balanced, he has presence, we are fortunate to have got him, and he is our biggest throw this week."

When asked if he has any further purchasing plans on this concluding day of Book 2, he said: "I am going to bid on one later, but I think I am going to do it on the aeroplane!" (11:54)

Lot 976: a first strike today for Anthony Stroud, the buyer, who signed under Stroud Coleman, going to 260,000gns for Daylesford Stud's New Bay colt, a first foal is out of the Frankel mare Mumbai. She is an unraced daughter of the Prix d'Aumale (G3) winner Middle Club (Fantastic Light) and from the extended family of the champion two-year-old Anna Paola, the ancestress of nine black-type winners.

Lady Bamford's Daylesford Stud is consigning at Tattersalls for the first time in a decade, and stud manager Chris Lock said: "This is a lovely horse, he has behaved impeccably since being here and has been very popular. We are delighted that he has been bought by such a good judge and we look forward to watching the colt's progress."

And of this year's move to consign under the stud's own banner, he added: "We are really pleased we made the decision, and how everything has gone over this week."

Mumbai, who had a filly by New Bay this spring, was purchased at the 2022 Tattersalls December Mares Sale by Charles Gordon-Watson for 210,000gns. (10:49)

October Book 2, Day 2 statistics: +/- compared with last year

Catalogued: 257 (272)

Offered: 234 (237)

Sold: 214 (205)

Turnover: 24,639,000gns (+36%)

Median: 75,000gns (+14%)

Average: 115,136gns (+31%)

% Sold: 91% (86%)

Top lot: Lot 898 , Lot 963, both sold for 600,000gns

Day 2, 500,000gns+: 6

Day 2, 300,000gns+: 17

Leading consignor (by agg): 1. Barton Stud, 2. Ballylinch Stud, 3. Yeomanstown Stud

Leading purchaser (by agg): 1. Stroud Coleman Bloodstock, 2. Godolphin, 3. AC Elliott

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Night Of Thunder, 3. Too Darn Hot

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Night Of Thunder, 3. Teofilo

Top five

Lot 898: Too Darn Hot (GB) / Lola Paige (IRE) B.F. (GB) >> Appletree Stud >> Al Shaqab / Amo Racing >> 600,000gns

Lot 963: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Monaawara (GB) B.F. (GB) >> Stauffenberg Bloodstock >> The Thoroughbred Racing Corporation >> 600,000gns

Lot 859: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Kitcarina (FR) B.C. (GB) >> Folland-Bowen Bloodstock >> Godolphin >> 550,000gns

Lot 927: Sea The Stars (IRE) / Makawee (IRE) B.F. (IRE) >> Harry Dutfield >> Jason Kelly Bloodstock >> 525,000gns

Lot 755: Camelot (GB) / Fort Del Oro (IRE) B.F. (IRE) >> Ballylinch Stud >> M V Magnier >> 500,000gns

Lot 959: Acclamation (GB) / Mohassan (IRE) B.C. (IRE) >> Rathbarry Stud >> JS Bloodstock / G Scott Racing >> 500,000gns

Lot 809: Night of Thunder (IRE) / Hertford Dancer (GB) Ch.C. (GB) >> Highclere Stud >> Highclere Agency >> 475,000gns (21:14)

Lot 963: the session's very last lot keeps the buyers alert... the filly by Sea The Stars is bought by The Thoroughbred Racing Corporation from Stauffenberg Bloodstock for 600,000gns.

Jane Mangan, in charge of bidding, said: "The stallion is alright isn't he? We have been trying to buy the right type of filly for the last two weeks and we got two last week. This filly stood out, I thought she is the best filly in this book. She comes from a great farm, she is just very easy on the eye, there is no mystery here! She is the first foal out of a Siyouni mare, and we are very happy to get her."

When expanding as to what is the "right" type of filly, Mangan said: "We want to win Classics, middle-distance Classics. She fits that bill. She is by the right horse, she has a great dam sire, she has got the scope to hopefully be good.

"I learned over the last two weeks that we all have a similar set of eyes, it doesn't matter what time of day a horse sells, people will go to the moon for the right horse.

"Of course, broodmare potential will depend on her merit on the track, but Sea The Stars they are like the Galileos, they are horses to have.

"As with all of them she will go to Lambourn to be broken in, and trainers will be allocated in the spring."

The filly is the first foal out of the two-year-old winning mare Monaawara (Siyouni), a grand-daughter of Joanna, a champion two-year-old filly in Italy in 2009. (21:00)

Lot 927: the Sea The Stars filly out of the Yorkshire Oaks (G2) runner-up Makawee gives a beaming consignor Harry Dutfield his biggest result in the sale ring, this filly bred by the Turnbull family's Elwick Stud and Sunderland Holdings sold for 525,000gns.

"Wow!" said Dutfield outside the ring, his smile visible despite the gathering gloom. "She had 200 shows, and she has been absolutely superb all the way through, she showed with the utmost grace and decorum, she is really feminine, really light on her feet, walked huge, and has a really sweet disposition."

He added: "I didn't expect that as I am used to 5,000gns pinhooks in Book 3, not Sea The Stars fillies in Book 2! Oh yeah, this is my biggest result by a country mile!

"I am so pleased to be working with a farm like Elwick. I can't lie – I am so glad it is over, talk to me tomorrow! It was a hectic few mins with the colt also selling [Lot 931], he made 150,000gns, I think."

And off he ran into the night to shepherd his yearlings back to their boxes, still smiling, having had the best sale result of his life. As he said, speak to him tomorrow.

Dutfield's previous best at Tattersalls was 92,000gns given by Federico Barberini for a colt by Dandy Man sold at last year's October Book 2 Sale (Lot 1274). Out of Mamma Morton, the colt was was subsequently called Arabie, won this year's Group 3 Prix du Bois, the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin and finished fourth in the Group 1 Prix Morny.

Tonight's filly was bought by Jason Kelly Bloodstock, and he said after purchase: "She goes to Ireland and to trainer Paddy Twomey, she is for an existing client of his. She is a beautiful filly, bred by the Turnbull family, who I have had a history with. They are fantastic breeders and I am delighted they have got a good price.

"I am delighted to have got her, she is a stunning filly with a lot of class. Sea The Stars speaks for himself, I know the broodmare – she was a tough racemare. He is a great broodmare sire so, for a filly, he makes a lot of sense. With the strong market we knew we would have to push."

The filly is a first foal out of the mare, who was homebred by the late Geoff Turnbull. Her dam Storming Sioux was bought at the 2015 Tattersalls February Sale from Rabbah Bloodstock Ltd. from Darley for 25,000gns. (19:45)

Lot 898: the sale of the Too Darn Hot filly out of Lola Paige for 600,000gns to Al Shaqab / Amo Racing reduced Robert "Chocolate" Thornton, stud manager at Paul Dunkley's Appletree Stud, to tears. It is the highest price achieved to date by the farm.

"Paul puts so much into the stud," said Thornton. "She is a Queen, I thought she'd get 200,000gns or so, and then thought maybe 400,000gns, but to do that... She has been a star all the way through, and of course we were tempted to keep her, but the boss has put a lot of money in he deserves to get some back.

"We have been with Too Darn Hot from the word go, and we have already produced a filly by him with another Galileo mare*, she is training with Roger [Varian] and has not run yet, but she is gorgeous. We sold a foal by him very well and the sire has done us well."

*That foal by Too Darn Hot and sold by the farm was out of Astonishing, bought by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for 270,000gns at the December Foal Sale in 2021.

Asked to expand a little further as to why this filly is so special, he added: "This filly always moved well and looked the part, she has taken everything so well. It is brilliant. The mare had another filly by the sire this year, and she is arguably stronger at the same stage, she will be one we keep!"

Buyer Alex Elliott said: "She has been split between Al Shaqab and Amo, a trainer yet to be decided, but we have a team of trainers who we are very happy with and she will go to one of those.

"Both sides gave her top marks, she is by Too Darn Hot, who is a global stallion now, and she is out of a Galileo mare. She was always going to cost a lot of money." (18:37)

Lot 892: arguably the result of the sale so far – Lily Beach (Sepoy) was bought at the 2020 Tattersalls December Mares Sale by Paragon Bloodstock for just 12,000gns, her first foal by Acclamation is sold today by Ballyvolane Stud to Henry Lascelles for 470,000gns.

John Foley of Ballyvolane said: "It is unbelievable! I have to give my sister Adelaide and her husband Padhraic Doran the credit – they bought the mare. This filly is a beauty and we were hoping she might make 80,000gns to 100,000gns, but she has been so popular. This is a result that doesn't happen very often.

"The mare has a very nice Blue Point foal on the ground, and he is a fine foal, he will be kept to sell as a yearling. The mare lives at Knocktartan House and when we wean the foal it comes to me."

It has been a great couple of days for Foley,.

Yesterday Ballyvolane sold a pinhooked Gleneagles colt to Amanda Skiffington for M V Magnier for 280,000gns for having paid just €28,000 for the colt as a foal (Lot 625), and today a colt by Churchill for 200,000gns to Rabbah Bloodstock.

"It has been great, it has been a dream day," said Foley.

“We waited all yesterday because she was our favourite filly in the whole of Book 2,” said purchaser Henry Lascelles. “She’ll stay in Britain but a trainer is still undecided. She’s a lovely individual though, she’s an amazing first foal and by a great stallion. She doesn’t look like a filly who’ll only be an early season two-year-old, hopefully she’ll go on and be a seven furlong filly or a miler. She’s been bought for an undisclosed client.” (18:30)

Lot 880: the Havana Grey colt consigned Yeomanstown joins the October Sale Amo Racing purchases, Alex Elliott going to 300,000gns to secure the grey colt. The colt was a 90,000gns Tattersalls December Foal Sale purchase.

"He is a corker, he it is a very good pinhook for Yeomanstown and he is a very fast-looking colt," said Elliot. "He is going to trainer Raphael Freire in Lambourn – in September he won the Listed Flying Scotsman Stakes with Benevento and is doing a great job.

"This was the colt that Kia particularly wanted. We bought a lot of Classic horses last week, we need some speed horses, too, and, hopefully, he is one of them."

Elliot has also signed for a further four horses today, bought on behalf of Valmont.

"The whole market has gone up and we are finding it hard to buy for Valmont. I keep on playing second fiddle to Anthony Stroud, it is starting to annoy me! laughed the busy agent. (17:29)

Lot 859: Godolphin steps in to buy the Sea The Stars colt, Anthony Stroud going to 550,000gns for the colt out of the Shamardal mare Kitcarina. He was consigned by the Folland-Bowen Bloodstock and is easily the team's biggest result at Tattersalls.

The colt was bred by the Kitcarina Partnership and Sunderland Holdings, and breeder Fiona Marner was at Tattersalls to see the colt sell.

"I bought her in training from Andre Fabre and then sent her to Andrew Balding and she did win a race," reported Marner of Windmill Stud. "We sent her to Sea The Stars for her first cover, a foal share kindly arranged by the late John Clarke, and went back to the sire again and produced this colt.

"He foaled with me and spent his time with us until going to Natalie and Matt to prep, they are based at Fonthill Stud and it is such a lovely farm, beautiful land. This colt has always been just such a lovely person and individual, and I am so pleased for Natalie and Matt, it is so nice to see young people getting on."

The mare had a filly by Baaeed this spring and was covered by Showcasing.

Natalie Folland and Matt Bowen, speaking after the colt's wind test had been concluded and having packed up the draft for the evening, were still slightly shellshocked by the result.

"It is our biggest sale ring result, we sold a Showcasing for Lord Margadale last December for 170,000gns,"said Bowen. "It is still sinking in! I don't think he'd go to that sort of level, but as the week went on we thought we'd be ok.

"We are very thankful for Fiona sending him to us, we have had him for ten weeks and it is all credit to Fiona's team, we just had to finish him up."

Folland added: "We sold the Zoustar out of Frangipanni today to Steven Hillen so another gone to a good judge, so we are really pleased. We prepped 20 yearlings this year, our biggest draft, and we have ten foals, tens mares and three yearlings for December,.It is busy year, we are delighted with how things are going."

Anthony Stroud said: “Sea The Stars speaks for himself and this is a powerful, strong horse. He’s a very good mover, comes from a very good farm and the pedigree goes back very well. It’s so important to try and get these horses that can stay a mile and a half. We’ve bought a number of horses but we could do with more of that type, and he fitted that criteria. Sea The Stars was a top-class racehorse and is a top-class stallion.”

So far across the October Yearling Sale, Godolphin has purchased four yearlings by Sea The Stars, three colts and a filly, and she is the top-priced of the quartet having fetched 1,600,000gns for Kildaragh Stud (Lot 325). (16:51)

Lot 809: bred by Highclere Stud and Mrs Michelle Morris, the colt by Night Of Thunder is sold by Highclere Stud for 475,000gns.

The April-born colt is out of the Foxwedge mare Hertford Dancer, who won the Lingfield Oaks Trial (L) and was third in the Ribblesdale Stakes (G2). Third dam is Massarra, winner of the Prix Robert Papin (G2) and an own-sister to Kodiac and a half-sister to Invincible Spirit.

She is dam of 12 winners, including the champion juvenile Nayarra, the Superlative Stakes (G2) winner Gustav Klimt, the Group 3 winner Wonderfully, the Group 1 placed Mars, as well as the Listed winners Friendly, Blissful and Cuff. (15:18)

Lot 805: Deerpark Stud gets its second-best price, and best price for a filly, in the Tattersalls sale ring when this Dark Angel filly is bought by Oliver St Lawrence for 450,000gns.

Peter Fagan, who is at Tattersalls with his father John, said: "It is fantastic, it is great for the farm. Dark Angel is a wonderful sire, and a great broodmare sire, too, and the filly has not put a foot wrong here and behaved so well all week. I just breeze into Tattersalls for the sale, all the credit goes to the farm, to my father and mother Vourneen, farm manager Patrick Kirwan, and Rachel Harvey who has done a fantastic job this year."

He continued: "Suzanne Roberts bought the mare for us, she was a pricey mare but she was in-foal to Kingman at the time. It has been wonderful to see Place Of Safety [second foal] do so well this year. The Gosdens have done so well with her this year and she is an exciting prospect for next year. "

Those 2024 achievements for the three-year-old filly Place Of Safety (Night Of Thunder) include a Group 3 third-place in the Dubai Stakes at the end of September.

"I am so pleased that Oliver has put his faith in the farm," added Fagan. "That price exceeded our expectations, we had a lot of interest, a lot of the right people, but you never know what is going to happen.

"We paid 230,000gns when we bought Havre De Paix and we bought her from owner Clive Washbourn, I think she was the first stakes winner for trainer David Menuisier. Clive then bought into her first foal, Adela Of Champagne and raced her with me. She had a lot of ability and Clive kept her and she is in-foal to Baaeed.

"So far, Havre De Paix has only had fillies, she is in-foal to Gleneagles and we have yet to decide on next spring's cover – this will help!" (14:50)

Lot 792: breeders Mick and Fiona Denniff were all smiles after watching their Blue Point colt out of Granola (Makfi), consigned by Whatton Manor Stud, sell for 250,000gns.

Granola was bought by Denniff Farms for just 28,000gns at the 2014 Tattersalls December Mares from Tweenhills Stud and Qatar Racing, and Fiona Denniff said: "It was really the late trainer David Brown, who recommended her to us as he had trained her. He always said after that he felt part of Brunch [the mare's 2017 foal by Harbour Watch and winner of the Pomfret Stakes (L)].

"That is her best result in the ring, and considerably so. I loved this filly, if we weren't sellers, I would have loved to her kept her, but we need to be commercial."

of the decision to cover the Makfi mare with Blue Point, Denniff outlined: "Blue Point really stood out to me as a racehorse. I know a lot of people go way back into the five generations and so on, but I tend to go on whether or not I love a stallion. I don't often send a mare to Ireland, but I made an exception here. Granola did not have a foal this year, but she is in-foal to Havana Grey."

Granola is a half-sister to Know It All (Lord Kanaloa), winner of the Derrinstown Stud 1000 Guineas Trial, Astrophysical Jet (Dubawi), winner of the Flying Five Stakes (G3), and Coral Wave (Rock Of Gibraltar), winner of the Park Stakes (G3).

Third dam is Highbrow, the dam of the black-type winners Blueprint and Fairy Godmother, and ancestress of Kingdom Of Fife, Dubai Next and the two-time Group 1 winner, Ask. (13:54)