Lot 353: the Frankel filly out of Prize Exhibit (Showcasing), the own-sister to Mohaather, becomes the 13th seven-figure lot sold at the October Book 1 Sale so far this week. Consigned by Barronstown Stud, she was bought by M V Magnier for 1,500,000gns.

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)

Lot 332: a new record price at Book 1 for a colt ... the Wootton Bassett colt from Lodge Park Stud makes 4,300,000gns and becomes the highest-priced colt ever sold at October Book 1. He was bought by Amo Racing, Coolmore was underbidder.

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)

Lot 325: Kildaragh Stud gets its own biggest result in the sale ring, selling this daughter of Sea The Stars, an own-sister to the Group 1 winner Sea Silk Road, for 1,600,000gns. She was bought by Godolphin.

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)

Lot 311: bids came in from all around the ring for the Wootton Bassett filly out of My Titania (Sea The Stars), with Richard Knight, Amo and William Haggas all involved but it was the last named, sat on the stairs by the press bench, who emerged victorious at 1,700,000gns.

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)

October Book 1, Day 2 Sale statistics: +/- compared to last year

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)

Lot 297: a late strike for Godolphin, Anthony Stroud going to 1,500,000gns for the January-born Dubawi colt out of Molly Malone (Lomitas) from Baroda Stud. He was bred by the Molly Malone Partnership and the penultimate lot through the ring today.

"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)

Lot 268: another first foal by Dubawi out of another talented Group 1-winning mare hits the heights... the colt out of the Prix de Royalieu winner Loving Dream, bred by Lordship Stud, sold by Watership Stud is bought online by Yulong.

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)

Lot 265: the St Mark's Basilica colt out of Longina from Newsells Park Stud Ltd is bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 950,000gns.

“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)

Lot 242: the first foal out of the Group 1 Nassau Stakes winner Lady Bowthorpe makes 2,000,000gns. The colt by Dubawi is bought by Anthony Stroud for Godolphin, Sheikh Mohammed's team out bidding the Amo huddle standing in the bidders. Kia Joorabchian's was once again standing with his back to the auctioneer, a fact hat Alastair Pim used to his advantage and to the amusement of the sales ring crowd. The last bid of 1,900,000gns given by agent Alex Elliott was quickly batted back by Godolphin, who was outside and near the bidding tower, resulting in the shrugging of shoulders inside the ring.

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)

Lot 236: the colt by Too Darn Hot and out of Knocknagree, consigned by Croom House Stud and bred by Epona Bloodstock is bought by Godolphin for 1,500,000gns.

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)

Lot 234: the Sea The Stars colt, bred by Sunderlands Holdings and consigned by The Castlebridge Consignment, makes 800,000gns, bought in a three-way split between Amo Racing, Al Shaqab Racing and Valmont.

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)

Lot 218: Brightwalton Stud is having the best week ever – after its homebred filly Makarova (Acclamation) won the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye at ParisLongchamp on Sunday, the five-0ear-old filly's swan song before before retiring to the paddocks, the farm sells this Lope De Vega colt for 750,000gns to Godolphin.

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)

Lot 201: Clare Manning of Boherguy Stud gets her biggest result to date with a yearling in the Tattersalls sale ring, selling the Mehmas half-brother to the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Mac Swiney for 800,000gns. The colt was bred her grand-father Jim Bolger, and bought by Anthony Stroud for Godolphin.

"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)

Lot 183: the full-sister to this year's dual Group 1 winner Charyn becomes the first seven-figure sale of Day 2, the daughter of Dark Angel bought by Godolphin for 2,900,000gns.

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)

Lot 163: the Churchill half-brother to the Richmond Stakes (G2) winner, the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) runner-up and the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) third-placed Royal Scotsman, is bought by Blandford Bloodstock for 750,000gns, Richard Brown in charge of bidding.

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)

October Book 1, Day 1 Sale statistics: +/- compared to last year

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)

Lot 92: "He is one of the nicest horses we have ever brought to a sale,"said John O'Connor of Ballylinch Stud after selling this colt by No Nay Never out of the Listed winner Bella Estrella (High Chaparral) for 2,200,000gns to Godolphin.

"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)

Lot 85: becomes a third seven-figure lot by Frankel and bought by Amo Racing – this colt out of the Oasis Dream mare Atone, dam of the Park Express Stakes (G3) runner-up Redressed (Le Havre).

Sold by Baroda Stud for 1,100,000gns, the colt is out of a winning own-sister to the champion older mare and six-time Grade 1 and Group 1 winner Midday, the dam of the black-type winners Midterm, Mori, Noon Star, and a half-sister to Sun Maiden, Hot Snap, and Midsummer Sun.

Under the third dam are the Group 1 winners Elmaamul, Reams Of Verse as well as the Group race winners Manifest, Modern Day, Modernise and High Walden.

The colt was bred by Yulong Investments, BBA Ireland having bought the mare from the Juddmonte draft at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale for 300,000gns in 2022. She was then the dam of two winners and yet to have a black-type performer.

David Cox of Baroda said: "He is a homebred for Yulong, he has always been a lovely horse and was a lovely foal, I am delighted to be able to bring him here.The lads have done a great job to prepare him for the sale, and Sam did a great job with him up here. He showed perfectly every day, he is a great mover, and is the image of his father. Coming here I was hoping he would make close to a million and it is great to go over that and to have Coolmore and Amo after him.

"It is a fantastic pedigree. Mr Zhang has been a great supporter, he is selling and buying here and this horse was always going to be offered. Yulong has a bunch of horses they are going to sell, a bunch to go into training, a bunch to go to Japan and some going to China, it is a worldwide operation and it is great to be involved." (15:50)

Lot 72: one of the expected stars of the day did not disappoint – the Frankel own-sister to the six-time Group 1 winner, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) winner and 2022 European champion older mare Alpinista sold for 2,500,000gns, also bought by Amo Racing.

"That pedigree, a sister to an Arc winner, that is not a lot to tell you that we don't all know!" laughed Elliott of the Staffordstown-consigned filly. "Kia has been in the game for a certain amount of years now, and to compete at the top table you have to have the best pedigrees – it is the only way to compete consistently.

"Amo has got to a level now that it is ready to try and do that, and that filly has just about the best pedigree in the book. It doesn't get any better than that. She is a fine big scopey filly, she worth a hell of a lot of money residually. We will see how she goes, we will take our time, it is very much a late developing family and she looks that physically, but we are up and running!"

He added: "We have obviously got some horses who will stand at stud, such as King Of Steel – I am not saying they will be for him, but if he proves himself good enough these mares could be ... we have got an awful lot of proving to do!

"But Kia is ready for the operation to prove itself at the next echelon and that is where we are trying to get to and that is why we need to get into these families. The fact that these horses are staying here is huge for British racing and we should all be huge cheerleaders for it."

Once he had finished dealing with well-wishers, Joorabchian said: "We need strong pedigreed fillies, and we have a lot of horses going to stud in the next year, such as Buccanero and King Of Steel, it will be this year or next year we will have to make a decision soon., and we have Persian Force already at stud. We need to back them, otherwise we are just going to get left behind – we have to back our stallions to have a chance of winning.

"It is very difficult to buy such mares because the likes of Juddmonte, Coolmores, Shadwells, all the big guys own all the big mares. So we have to come out here and hope that what we are buying in terms of pedigrees, will make us competitive.

"It is very hard to buy [such pedigrees] after yearling stage – once a filly has won a Group 1 you are in very high prices, so you have got to try and get them earlier and hope that they go on well."

Of Frankel he enthused: "Frankel has had huge success, and he just keeps on producing – the Matron Stakes was a real eye-opener, four of the field were by Frankels and one Too Darn Hot. You look at all the Frankels and what they are doing, these amazing mares and fillies, you just have to back him." (15:35)

Lot 68: becomes the second highest-priced lot ever sold at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale, the filly by Frankel and the second foal out of Aljazzi (Shamardal) making for 4,400,000gns.

Once the bidding topped the the two million guineas mark, it turned into a match between Mitsu Nakauchida, who was standing in the bidders' area by the rostrum and on the telephone, and bloodstock agent Alex Elliott who was with owner Kia Joorabchian in the bidders' area by the window.

It was the latter who stayed strong with the Elliott-Kia huddle confidently bidding the 4,400,000gns leaving Nakauchida just shaking his head.

Once Elliott had taken a breath, he said: "Phew! Kia and partners wanted the filly very badly – a Frankel filly from that family and with that physical, she was always going to be a collectors' item. It is a deep price tag and, though we had discussed her at length, obviously I did not see her making that – but we had very much honed in on her.

"But she is part of Team Amo now... wow! She is a spectacular filly, it is a spectacular price, a spectacular bunch of horses here. I'd like to say I was a cool customer when all that was taking place, but that would be a fib – I have never been in that rarified atmosphere before."

He added: "We have seen Ylang Ylang from the same farm and from the same cross, we just need history to repeat itself! The figure I had in mind was a good bit below that, but, as I keep saying to people, good horses will pay you back, now she has got a lot of paying back to do!

"It is great that she is staying here, it is great for British racing that these people are around to buy these horses as we all understand how difficult the product is to promote at the minute. To have two men to say they are going to keep her here, it is huge kudos to them. Kia knows you have got to buy them at the top level to compete at the top level."

Elliott continued: "All the teams select the best horse and it is who blinks first, and fair play to Kia he certainly did not blink, I think I did!

He concluded: "This filly has got through most of the hoops – she is by the right stallion, she is out of a good Shamardal mare, she is from a great farm, she has come to a sale, she has shown she is in the top echelon of horses, now she has got to keep going!"

Her dam Aljazzi was sold to Newsells Park Stud at the Autumn Horses In Training Sale 2018 for a record-breaking price of 1,000,000gns. She was sold by Marco Botti's Prestige Place Stables having been owned in training by breeders Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar.

She had won the Group 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes and was fourth-placed in the Prix Rothschild (G1).

Her great grand-dam Majestic Sakeena was bought by Tony Nerses at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2006 for 200,000gns.

Consignor Julian Dollar of Newsells Park Stud said: "To be honest with you, I was hoping she would make a million and that would have been nice, but obviously some good players had her valued at twice that. We are obviously delighted.

"Mitsu [underbidder] is a great trainer and a lovely guy and he loved her, and obviously Kia, Amo and Alex loved her too... it is unbelievable .

"I said to Graham [Smith-Bernal] that there were two fillies that I'd like to keep, she was one and the other was the Dubawi filly. We also have a nice filly to sell on Thursday, the half-sister to Ylang Ylang.

"But I I always loved this filly and thought she was outstanding. I am thrilled with that price, it makes a big difference to a commercial operation like Newsells. It is great."

Of buying Aljazzi for that record price in 2018 he said: "We'd had a good yearling sale, and I went out and spent most of it at the Autumn Horses In Training Sale. She was a fish out of water at that sale and I said to Andreas Jacobs [former owner of Newsells Park Stud] that it might be an opportunity to buy a nice filly at a lower price than she would make at the December Sale. We were happy at the million, I know it sounds crazy but I think we thought we had a chance at that price.

"Her first foal by Galileo was very nice but sadly had a few problems and did not race – she is in-foal to Wootton Bassett. Aljazzi had a couple of barren years, then this filly. She has a nice Frankel colt to follow and she is in-foal to Too Darn Hot."

In 2018, prior to buying Aljazzi, the "good sale" referenced to by Dollar saw Newsells the leading consignor at October Book 1 Sale with aggregate sales of over 11 million guineas, the farm selling the Galileo colt out of Shastye for 3,400,000gns to MV Magnier. The colt was subsequently named Mogul and went on to win the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase and the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris. (14:57)

Lot 39: bloodstock agent Richard Knight, acting for Salhia Stud, spends 925,000gns on the Dubawi filly out of the Prix de Mallerret (G2) winner Waldied, sold by Newsells Park Stud and bred by Newsells Park Stud & Lordship Stud.

"She is a filly I absolutely adored when I saw her and Newsells has a fantastic draft of horses, they have been so well prepared," said Knight. "She is a Dubawi filly from the family of Waldgeist, and is just a beautiful physical, a lovely strong filly. We are looking to build a racing band whom we will breed from at the end of the day, and she looks like the type of broodmare we will love to have. We are all delighted to get her – I don't know who will train her yet, we will make that decision at a later date."

Salhia Stud has its first runners in Britain this year and Knight reports that the stud currently has ten in training, ten fillies and two colts, and has had three winners so far. Trainers on the list at present with William Haggas, Roger Varian, William Knight and Kevin Philippart de Foy.

"We are pleased with the race course results so far, many of them to have run are types really bought to come to themselves next year," said Knight, adding: "We ill be looking to develop a breeding operation in Britain." (13:01)

Chairman's statement ‎ ‎

At the conclusion of the 2024 Tattersalls Somerville Yearling Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony commented:

“This is the fifth edition of a sale that was introduced in 2020 as a response to the COVID-related delay to the Flat season and numerically the smallest, and whilst we may have been short of obvious stars, there has been solid trade throughout the day from both domestic buyers and those from further afield. International buyers always play a significant part at Tattersalls horses in training sales, particularly those from the Gulf, but there has also been a vibrant domestic market including plenty of interest from the National Hunt community.

“We now look forward to Books 1 to 4 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, whose graduates have enjoyed spectacular global success in recent months and we look forward to welcoming an international cast of buyers to Park Paddocks during the fortnight that begins with Europe’s Premier Yearling Sale.” (17:00)

September Sale statistics: ‎ ‎+/- compared to last year

Catalogued: 242 (354)

Offered: 165 (237)

Sold: 128 (189)

Median: 10,000gns (+25%)

Average: 14,824gns (-14%)

Aggregate (inc private sales): 1,887,200gns (-42%)

% Sold: 77% (80%)

Top lot: 80,000gns

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

Leading purchaser (by agg): 1. Clare Dolan, 2. Jamie Osborne, 3. Nayef Ibn Ghayam / Adam Burton Bloodstock

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Sea The Stars, 2. Kodiac, 3. Sioux Nation

Leading sires (by av, two or more sold): 1. Sioux Nation, 2. Muhaarar, 3. Dubawi

Top five lots

Lot 134: Debora's Dream (IRE) 2021 Br.C. >> Baroda Stud, Ireland >> Clare Dolan >> 80,000gns

Lot 71: God of Fire (IRE) 2020 B.G. >> Baroda Stud, Ireland >> O'Neill Racing / Dixon Bloodstock >> 70,000gns

Lot 169: Tourist (GB) 2021 B.G. >> The Castlebridge Consignment Robert Cowell >> 60,000gns

Lot 172: Rocking Tree (IRE) 2021 B.G. >> The Castlebridge Consignment >> Peter Harper Agent Sheikh Abdullah Alsabah >> 60,000gns

Lot 139: Remoji (IRE) 2021 B.F. >> Baroda Stud, Ireland >> Nayef Ibn Ghayam / Adam Burton Bloodstock >> 52,000gns (16:53)