The foal is out of Kykuit (Green Desert), a Group 3 winner in Italy and dam of two black-type performers and seven winners.

"He is for resale, and has been bought for an Irish partnership and stays in Ireland," reported Kent. "Ghaiyyath is a classy stallion, and this colt has a good black-type page." (15:03)

It was a wise move – he went onto finish second in the Prix Morny (G1) and followed up with the sam position in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (G1).

Now a five-year-old he stands at the Irish National Stud and his first crop are foals of this year.

McCartan went to €24,000 to buy the colt offered by Olive O'Connor Bloodstock out of Caterina Di Cesi (Cape Town). She is dam of six winners and her New Bay three-year-old Style Of Life has won again since the catalogue was published.

Caterina Di Cesi is a half-sister to the Molecomb Stakes (G3) and the Queen Mary Stakes (G2) winner, and the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) runner-up Risky. (14:33)

"She has been purchased for a client for resale," reported Harley. "She will stay in Ireland and hopefully will come back here next September. She is a really nice type and I like the Alkumaits that I have seen."

Winner of the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes, Alkumait, a Showcasing half-brother to the 2,000 Guineas (G1) winner Chaldean, stands at Capital Stud for €5,000.

This filly's dam Atlanteia(Duke Of Marmalade) is a half-sister to Ayaar, a Group 3 winner in Germany. It is the further family of the Superlative Stakes (G2) winner Hatta Fort, the St Leger (G1) runner-up Agent Murphy, and Miss Keller, winner of the E P Taylor Stakes (G1).

Atlanteia was bought at the Tattersalls July Sale by BBA Ireland for 15,000gns in 2016. (13:49)

Born in March, the filly is a half-sister to six winners, including Arabian Legend (Night Of Thunder), winner of the Premio Estate (L) at Milan.

Second dam is the Listed winner and Group 2-placed Approach, the dam of the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and Prix Jean Romanet winner Coronet, and the Group 1-placed Midas Touch. Third dam is Last Second, placed in the Coronation Stakes (G1) and dam of Aussie Rules, winner of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains and the Shadwell Turf Mile Stakes (G1). She is grand-dam of Galileo Chrome, a champion three-year-old European stayer of 2020, winner of the St Leger. (13:25)

Bungle Inthejungle is this morning's leading sire by average – his two sold have averaged €20,500. (13:09)

Murphy went to €28,000 for this colt by Bungle Inthejungle out of the three-year-old-winning Mayson mare Mordoree, sold by Rathasker Stud. Trainer Martin Wanless was the underbidder

"We have started off really well, and we wanted an early two-year-old type and we have had a bit of luck with a Bungle before," said Murphy, who has been a leading trainer in the Far East. "We gave a bit more than planned, I kept walking away but got drawn back in! This is a real two-year-old and he will be owned by Damian Moore, who asked me to buy him one." (12:30)

Third dam is the Prix Perth (G3) winner Danzigaway, dam of the Grade 2 winner Silent Name and the Group 3-placed Galiway, and grand-dam of the Group 3 winner Slalom, runner-up in the Grand Prix de Paris (G1).

It is the further family of the champion older miler of 1999, Gold Away.

Consigned by Castleboy Farm, Nolan signed his name alongside that of trainer Noel Meade. (12:17)

Elhaam is the dam of two winners from four runners, including the tough Tim Easterby-trained Glendown, a three-time winner and three-time runner-up this year.

The colt hails from Rathasker Stud's speedy family of the Listed winner and Group 3-placed sprinter Justineo, and Galeota, who was a runner-up in the Golden Jubilee Stakes (G1). (11:28)

The colt is a half-brother to three winners from four runners from the mare, who is a half-sister to the US stakes performer Montecito. Third dam is the Classic winner Danseuse Du Soir, dam of Scintillo, a champion juvenile in Italy in 2007, and Jumbalukiba, a four-time Group 3 winner in Ireland. (11:05)

Selling starts at 10.30am, and you can follow all the action here on sales day live. (09:06)

Placed once in a bumper for trainer Willie Mullins, she is an own-sister to the Grade 2 winner and Grade 1-placed Diamond Hill and the Listed winner Mt Leinster. She is a half-sister to Blackstairsmountain (Imperial Ballet), winner of the Punchestown Champion Novices Hurdle (G1) and the Christmas Novice Chase (G1).

She was bought by Temple Bloodstock and Aubrey McMahon said: "She has been bought to stay in Willie's. She is a sound racemare, she will race on and has been bought as a broodmare prospect, too – hopefully, she will do two jobs." (13:48)

From the extended family of Morley Street and Granville Again, the mare is carrying to Bleu Bresil on a March pregnancy and was bought by Boardsmill Stud (13:29)

Bonny Kate, sold for owner breeder Patricia Hunt, is an own-sister to Mala Beach, a dual Grade 2 winner over hurdles, winner of the Troytown Chase (G1) and placed in the Grade 1 Christmas Hurdle and the Thyestes Handicap Chase (G1).

She was bought by Maurice Sheehy and is in-foal to Jet Away. (13:13)

The February-born gelding is out of Mary Elise (Mastercraftsman), a half-sister to A Wave Of The Sea, winner of the Grade 1 Spring Juvenile Hurdle, a dual winner of the Grade 2 Sandyford Handicap Chase and runner-up in the Munster National (G1).

Sally was leading up the scopey gelding herself and said: "We have been in Ireland just over two months and we are near Gorey in Wexford, and just trying to set up a stud for ourselves.

"We foaled this gelding and he went to Folland-Bowen Bloodstock and they prepped him, they have done a great job with him. He is a fine big horse and was owned and bred by Elaine. The mare is in England and has had a Sea The Moon filly and is in-foal to Stradavarius."

Of today's sale she added: "We are delighted with that price, it is an amazing start and Elaine has bene a great supporter and has brought mares over here with us. We are so pleased for her." (12:56)

It is the top class family of the talented runners Mucklemeg, Native Endurance, Total Success and The Paparrazi Kid. (12:27)

"He is for resale and coming back here as three-year-olds and if I don't sell them then I will keep them myself and train them on," said Murray. "I like to buy a nice horse whom I think I can also train if needs be."

Of his purchases today, he added: "I like to buy the yearlings better than foals, obviously there is a year less to wait for them and you have a more of an idea of the individual. I like to buy the individual is most important, after that if the horse is not by a fashionable sire I like the dam to be by a fashionable sire and have at least one side ticking that box.

"But the individual for me is still the most important, I don't look at the catalogue until I have seen the horse first."

It is the further family of 16-time winner Remittance Man, winner of the Queen Mother Champion Chase and the Arkle Challenge Chase, and the 11-time winner Treble Bob, a Grade1 novice hurdle winner at Punchestown and third home in the Sun Alliance Chase (G1). (12:19)

"We will be reselling as a three-year-old, that is what I like to try and do," said Morris who is from near Pershore, Worcestershire in England. "I sell through Little Lodge as we are not a million miles from them.

"I always like Jet Aways, I really liked him as an individual, he has a bit of quality. The dam's half-brother Teahupoo is a strong prospect for this season's Stayer's Hurdle and I think the four-year-old half-brother La Haute Couture is well regarded, too. Peel Hall does a great job."

As Morris headed off to look at more yearlings prospects she added: "I bought a foal by Santiago [Lot 589] earlier this week, but I came really for the yearlings – I like to buy at that stage it is a bit quicker to turn around." (11:56)

She has bred two winners from three runners, including Investment Manager by Nathaniel, who is a four-time winner over hurdles and fences and has been placed twice over fences since the catalogue was published. (11:50)

Kevin added: "We have the four-year-old half-brother by Mount Nelson and we like him – he is broken and riding and will pointing next spring. They are quite different types of horses, but we like the older sibling. The sire speaks for himself and we have been very lucky with the broodmare sire Shantou."

Edmond Kent said: "I trained the dam and had the grand-dam, she was a very promising but got an injury; she had three runners and three winners. We raced Thanks For Tea and we had a lot of fun with her, she won some bonuses for us and picked up black-type. She was a hardy mare and we even raced her once three times in one week – she fell at the weekend, got beaten a short head in the week, and then on the Sunday ran in a Grade 3 and she flew home to get beaten a couple of lengths.

"I took her to Cheltenham for a mares' race in April – she was in-foal, everything was right, the ground was to her liking. We were in the parade ring, tacked up and ready to go and they called the race off because it was too hot! We went to Wexford and she got a kick at the start and could not run. She ran in the Killarney National – I told the young lad riding not to take it up until after the last, he went to the front at the second last and Racheal Blackmore pinched it off her on the last stride. We had great sport with her."

Of this yearling, he said: "This was always a nice foal, he was born a bit late and I said I'd keep him until he was a yearling. She is back in-foal to Blue Bresil, she is due on January 12th – she looks very big at the minute and I will be watching her early and won't be taking any holidays in January!" (11:47)

"We really wanted one by the sire," said Ross. "We love the line, Old Persian is by Dubawi which we are keen on, and he was a tough campaigner who won nine races in three different continents. This is a lovely model, a good walking type and his half-brother looked promising when he won his maiden hurdle at Naas the other day. We had to push the boat out, but he is a lovely type. He stays in Ireland and will be for resale."

The half-brother is called Slade Steel (Telescope), is trained by Henry De Bromhead and holds a Grade 1 entry in the Royal Bond Novice Hurdle in December. (16:11)

He said: "He has great movement, and a fresh up-to-date pedigree, the mare is two from two and one has black-type and by an improving stallion. I just thought that he is a very nice horse, I loved him when he came up to the ring and loved him when he went through the ring. It was a bit more than I thought I'd have to give for him.

"It has been a good trade, a bit patchy, but I think on the whole horses have made what they should. When you take what is going on in the world we are lucky to all be doing this."

The mare La Scala Diva's two winners are both by Getaway and Pats Choice was a runner-up in the Greenogue Novice Handicap Chase (G2). (15:48)

The filly is out of the Alflora mare Floral Spinner, a half-sister to Sam Spinner, winner of the Long Walk Hurdle (G1) and runner-up in the World Hurdle (G1), and to the dam of Balbriggan, winner of the Troytown Handicap Chase (G2).

It is the further family of The Tsarevich, a ten-time winner over fences, victories including the Mildmay Of Flete Challenge Chase (L). (14:38)

Second dam Annie Go (Golan) was the winner of a bumper and placed over hurdles. It is the further family of Selkirk (Sharpen Up), the champion European miler of 1991 and 1992, winner of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1), and his half-sister Seebe (Danzig), winner of the Princess Margaret Stakes (G3) and runner-up in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (G1). Their dam Annie Edge was a multiple Group 2 winner and third in the Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1). (14:11)

The colt's dam Ask Hazel (Ask), a half-sister to the Grade 2 winner Abbey Lane, has had two runners and one winner Inch House, who is trained by Jonjo O'Neill. The six-year-old Ocovango gelding, a Tattersalls Ireland May Store Sale and Tattersalls Cheltenham Sale gradaute, won over hurdles last February and then over fences at Newbury last week, on just his second chase start. (13:50)

The mare is a half-sister to the Grade 2 horse On The Blind Side (Stowaway), and the pedigree was influential in Cashman's purchasing decision.

"He is a lovely horse," he reported. "I had a big association with On The Blind Side as we had him when he was pointing back in the day. This colt comes from a good home, he had a great prep and delighted to buy a nice horse from the farm. We'll be looking to come back here with him."

It is a first by Vadamos to join Cashman, and he said: "The stallion is doing nothing wrong, he had a nice bumper winner the other day. For a Monsun stallion he had plenty of speed, he is probably the fastest by the sire and was a champion miler in France, he has every chance."

It has been a good week for Cashman watching the strong demand all week for stock by the Rathbarry Stud sire Blue Bresil.

"It has been unbelievable, it is the stuff of dreams," he smiled. "He is a super sire to have and everyone who has one by him they say how well natured the horses are; he throws a lovely physical and they have great minds. We are lucky to have him," said Cashman.

This colt, a third foal out of the mare, was bred and sold by Emily Kilcoyne, daughter of the late Jean Corrigan who developed the family after buying Such A Set Up (Supreme Leader) for IRE£2,100 in 2000.

"Mum bred the dam Well Set Up and On The Blind Side out of Such A Set Up," said Kilcoyne, adding: "She passed away three years ago and we have kept the line going so this means a lot. The Cashmans bought On The Blind Side from Mum so it has gone full circle."

"I have just the one mare and a filly in training from a different family, and we are delighted with this result."

The colt was consigned under the Raheendaw Farm banner by Kilcoyne's cousin Leah Burgess and her partner Stephen Keogh.

"Jean was known amongst many in the industry and she encouraged us all to be involved," said Burgess. "Emily and her dad Des were lucky enough to race this mare while Jean was alive, and they have kept this family going. The mare has mare a very good go of it so far and she is back in-foal to Vadamos."

Of this colt, Keogh added:"He was a May foal and has always been a nice sort, a lovely attitude, a good way of going and always has right from when he was born." (12:39)

He is the second foal out of the Dylan Thomas-winning bumper mare Some Might Say, a half-sister to See U Bob, winner of Grade 2s over hurdles and fences.

Second dam Miss Gosling was a five-time winner and placed three times in Listed hurdles.

Jack Hobbs, whose first crop are four-year-olds of this year, stands at Overbury Stud. He has had six sell so far this week at an average price of €18,000. (11:52)

The stallion, a son of Sea The Stars, is currently averaging €18,175 for 20 lots sold. (11:34)

The pedigree is another to benefit from a recent update – Rock House, a five-year-old by Westerner and trained by Dan Skelton, picked up his first black-type when third in October's Grade 2 Persian War Novices Hurdle on just a second start over hurdles having won on his debut at Worcester in September. (11:30)

He is a second foal out of the dam and it is an active family as the second dam has enjoyed a number of updates from her descendants with a couple of point-to-point performances, while Watch House Cross has finished third in the Like a Butterfly Novice Chase (G3) and his half-brother Shakeyatailfeather, who is also by Workforce, has been placed once in a point-to-point as a four-year-old.

It is a second purchase this week by Butler. (11:20)

This colt is out of the Oscar mare Oi Oi, a half-sister to the Grade 3 winners Alfie Sherrin, Kimberlite Candy and Hawkes Point, and the Grade 2 runner-up Glenloe.

Moanmore Stables was the successful purchaser and Peter Vaughan said: "He will be for resale, he has a very good pedigree and is a very good mover."

This colt was consigned by Cloney Stud, also selling Lot 921 today. (10:12)

Catalogued: 259

Offered: 234

Sold: 173

Total: €4,283,500(+1%)

Median: €21,000 (+5%)

Average: €24,760 (0%)

% Sold: 74%

Leading sires (by agg): 1. Blue Bresil, 2. Walk In The Park, 3. Crystal Ocean

Leading sires (by average, 2+ sold): 1. Walk In The Park, 2. Blue Bresil, 3. Nirvana Du Berlais

Top 's top five

1. Lot 509: Walk In The Park (IRE) / Posh Trish (IRE) 2023 B.C. (IRE) >> Mr. Oliver Loughlin >> Gerry Aherne / Charles Shanahan >> €100,000

2. Lot 643: Kapgarde (FR) / Cushuish (GB) 2023 B.C. (IRE) >> Clonbonny Stud >> Jamie Codd >> €92,000

3. Lot 722: Nathaniel (IRE) / Limini (IRE) 2023 Ch.C. (GB) >> Peel Hall Stables >> NBB Racing / Joey Logan >> €90,000

4. Lot 663: Blue Bresil (FR) / Fairy Hill (IRE) 2023 B.C. (IRE) >> Yellowford & Drumlin >> Kevin Ross Bloodstock / Ben Case >> €88,000

5. Lot 618: Blue Bresil (FR) / Buck's Bee (FR) 2023 B.F. (IRE) >> Coolmara Stables Ltd >> NBB Racing >> €85,000 (23:56)

Will Kinsey was all smiles and said: "The full-brother to this colt made €75,000 here last year and this chap has made €90,000, she owes us nothing. Most importantly she looks like she is producing athletes like herself.

"We have had a few by Nathaniel and absolutely love them - he is a commercial sire but from my point of view I love the ones we have had. We think he is a very good stallion and will continue to support him. Limini is now carrying to Golden Horn.

The colt was bought by Nicolas Bertran de Balanda's NBB Racing and Joey Logan, who reported: "He is going to Joey's initially but will then go to France and has been bought as a racing prospect – hopefully he will become a good juvenile. He is very racy and correct."

It was a deserved purchase for de Balanda – he tried to buy Limini at the mares' sale in 2019. (19:36)

She is a second foal out of Jane's Track (Jeremy), a half-sister to the 11-time winner Shattered Love (Yeats), winner of the Golden Miller Chase (G1) and the Fort Leney Chase (G1), and to the Grade 1 winner Irish Cavalier and the Grade 2 winner Make A Track. it is also the family of the Champion Hurdle winner Make A Stand.

Sholokhov is sire of five Grade 1 winners, including the outstanding Shiskin and the Gold Cup winner Don Cossack. (19:14)

The mare was bought in France and Berry recounts the story.

"I was friendly with the late David Powell, he rang me from France to say there was a really nice mare that we should have a go at," recalls Berry. "I told him that if he liked her to go ahead – she was still in training, but she had done enough for any one else to take her on.

"We brought her home and Jayne McGivern had a nomination to Nathaniel that she was not going to use and so I said that we'd take it for Hawai Tree. The mare was only in England for 24 days and came home in-foal. This colt cane be quite cheeky has been perfect here, he just gets on with life."

Berry gave credit to Richard Pugh, who auctioneered the colt, saying: "Of course, we had a great auctioneer! Richard always had great faith in this colt right from when he first saw him."

Of the reasons for selling as a foal, she said: "We have ten mares at home, we sell all of them as foals as we are not really geared to keep them as older horses so he was always coming to sale, and he was coming to be sold – we rarely take any home, we try and be as straightforward as possible."

The colt was bought by Ian Ferguson as a racing prospect, and Hawai Tree is now in in-foal to Blue Bresil. (18:14)

The stand-out performer on the page is the Motherway-bred Bellshill (King'sTheatre), who won 11 races, including the Champion INH Flat Race (G1), the War of Attrition Novice Hurdle (G1), the Slaney Novice Hurdle (G1), and the Punchestown Gold Cup Chase (G1) and the Irish Gold Cup Chase (G1). He was also placed multiple times in graded races, including when third in the RSA Novices' Chase (G1) at Cheltenham.

This colt's five-year-old half-brother Unionhill (Soldier Of Fortune) won his point to -point at Loughanmore in October on his racing debut. (17:32)

"I bought the mare last year and the foal has been beautiful from the get go," reported breeder Cathal Ennis of Quill Farm who sold the colt through Clonbonny Farm. "Every time I took the mare to be covered everyone always admired the foal.

"I prepped him but met the Clonbonny Stud team here. Denise [O'Brien], Peter and Katy Nolan have done a fantastic job with him – he is quite young and was only an April foal and is still filling his frame. I don't like consigning myself as I get a bit nervous and I like to use professionals who are doing it all the time and they have the staff; it is nice to sit back."

Ennis explained the thinking behind the Kapgarde covering for his three-time winning mare Cushuish, a daughter of My Petra (Midnight Legend), a Grade 2 chase winner, runner-up in the Grand Annual Chase (G2), and dam of My Drogo (Milan), winner of the Grade 1 Mersey Novices'Hurdle.

"I love Irish sires, but I like to send maiden or barren mares to France – I think Doctor Dino and No Risk At All and Kapgarde are three phenomenal sires – they have been so successful and there are never too many by them here for sale. And it was always going to be the plan to sell this chap as a foal."

The sale was a welcome fillip for Ennis whose farm has had endured a tough 12 months: "We have had a difficult year, we had an outbreak of Equine Virus Abortion and we lost some of our best pregnancies and it was a nightmare, I don't mind saying. It was a tough year and so get a result like this was badly needed, hopefully, this sale is part of a recovery."

Buyer Jamie Codd said: We’ll get him home before we make a plan, but he has all options open to him. He could go racing, or he could even end up coming back here to the Derby Sale. We had to stretch to get him, but he’s a lovely horse and is the only one by the sire in the sale. We’re delighted to get him.” (16:42)

She was sold by Coolmara Stud, who swapped sides having been purchaser of a Blue Bresil colt (Lot 350) yesterday, the Day 2 session top lot when spending €97,000 on the Ballykineally Stables-consigned colt out of Beautiful War.

"She will race in France," said de Balanda. "She has been bought as a possible long term breeding prospect for a client. She is lovely, is by a very good stallion, with a very good pedigree – although it is a family well known in Britain and Ireland it is a very good French family, too, with some very good horses in the family. She is a very good individual." (15:39)

"He has been bought for resale and we just loved the individual and the pedigree as a half-brother to Impervious and I think the four-year-old It's A Breeze with Paul Nicholls is highly regarded," said Ross. "Hopefully he might improve the pedigree again before we come to sell again, but it is a lovely page anyway. He is a lovely moving type of colt and we have plenty of faith in the sire."

Consignor Tom O'Doherty said: "I rode out for 30 years and when I gave up riding I wanted to buy a mare. I came to Tattersalls for three years in a row and failed to buy until I bought Blodge carrying Impervious in 2016. I paid €16,000 for Blodge, and the rest is history.

"Impervious was the first foal and we got €4,000 for her. We got €40,000 for Morning Line (Shantou), It's A Breeze by Walk In The Park made €35,000 for us and then he made €120,000 at the Derby Sale.

"Blodge has done us proud, you could not write it. We do it all ourselves, my daughter Helena helps me and I just wanted a mare to do something with – but now she has done so well the pressure is on! We are thrilled. She is back in-foal to Blue Bresil."

Today's sale exceeded O'Doherty expectations: "I was not thinking of that, I was hoping for €40,000. We are delighted and I am delighted for Helena – she puts in all the work. She is 13, she is really interested and has skipped a day from school to be here... but I think this is the better education!"

Impervious of course has gone on to win eight races, including the Liberthine Mares' Chase (G2) at Cheltenham and a further two Grade 2 chases, as well as a Grade 3 hurdle and chase. (15:20)

He is out of Auntie Mary, who is a Scorpion half-sister to Conflated, who finished third in last weekend's Ladbroke Champion Chase (G1). (14:39)

The colt is out of the unraced You Chase (Masked Marvel), a daughter of Yosille (Blue Bresil), a Listed winner and Grade 3-placed hurdler in France.

Goliath Du Berlais was a seven-time jumps winner, whose victories included the Grade 1 Prix Ferdinand Dufaure. He stands at Haras de la Tuilerie in France at a fee of €7,500 (2023). His oldest crop are two-year-olds of this year. (14:01)

Toile d'Auteuil has bred a winner and a placed bumper runner so far and this foal by Poet's Word, offered by Ballincurrig House Stud, is sold today for €42,000 to Katrina Mackie.

The colt is the top-priced to date this week sold by the sire, who stands at Boardsmill Stud and whose first Irish-bred crop are two-year-olds of this year. (13:19)

Out of Russian Maze, an unraced daughter of Sholokhov and a own-sister to the star performer and six-time Grade 1 winner Shishkin, the filly was sold by Clonmult Farm.

It has been a good week for James Sheehan's with Blue Bresil – the consignor topped the Day 1 session with a son of the Rathbarry Stud-based sire bought by Timmy Hillman for €68,000. (12:03)

She is out of Regal Return (Geyaway), a half-sister to the Grade 1-winning hurdler Ballyadam, and sold by Graiguebeg Stud for Seamar Bloodstock

No Risk At All, a son of My Risk, stands at Haras de Montaigu and is sire of five Grade 1 jumps winners. (12:00)

She is a half-sister to Raffles Sainte (Saint Des Saints) winner of the Prix Andre Michel Hurdle (G3). The pair are out of the Sholokhov mare Loxlade, a seven-time winner with one Listed success in France to her name where she raced for Simon Munir. (11:44)